” He patted his adopted son’s shoulder again. “Now, let’s get to supper before we both get in trouble.”Yren took off his apron and went to h...ng it on the peg next to Ardt’s but held up short. He reached his finger out and rubbed it over the head of the thick metal pin. The head was slightly rusted, now, and the metal of the rest of the pin had gone slightly green and tarnished. Memories rose unbidden with Yren’s mind, thoughts of entering this house for the first time, of seeing the thick,. From underneath the bed I could see the mirror on the dresser. Not the best view but I could make out them going at it hard. She was very drunk and when she's like that nothing is going to stop her. I don't think she set out to cheat on me but now she was horny and past the point of no return. She said she needed to go to the bathroom and got up and left the room. I all of a sudden hear him talking low on his phone telling some one that he's about to pound this white girl he went school with. I. .. ?" Brad turned to find the counter clerk offering him a pen and the just-printed agreement. "Can you sign on the highlighted line, please, sir?" he asked Brad politely. Brad nodded and bent to his assigned task. Brad accepted the two plastic cards the clerk offered him in a nice envelope."The stairs are right over there," the clerk said and pointed.Brad turned around to see his wife and the old couple skirting a bank of elevators and walking down a hallway beyond."Ash?" he called quietly.. ” I swallowed nervously.“It’s Ms, actually, but please call me Cheryl. If you get this job, we’ll be working …closely together.”“Of course. Cheryl, it is.”She paused for a moment after I said her name and then nodded to herself. She held out her hand, and Liz gave her the clipboard with my forms.“Thanks, Liz. Will you wait over there?” She gestured at a couch against the frosted glass wall separating her office from the waiting room.I watched Liz saunter over to the couch and settle comfortably.