’ As he speaks to me, Peter is holding my hand and the warmth and the building distress in his voice have me hold it tight and stroke it to give him...some comfort and security. Part of me knows what he is going to say, and that I will have my own confessional, but I need to let him speak. Telling me this is essential to rebuilding between us. ‘Anna, A few weeks ago I drifted in the intimacy between us. I did not cheat on you physically, but I have flirted with another woman. I sent and received. ‘No, no he’s fine. He just had… other plans.’ Cassidy didn’t know what else to say and swore silently to herself, damning Mark again for not being with her. Manuel almost seemed to read her mind and continued to press forward. ‘Cassidy, I beg you. How long will you deny your life for a man who offers you so little. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself. A woman should be the center of her husbands’ world, not an inconvenience. Why do you resist your own happiness?’ He leaned forward. WHAT THE Fu__! ]Greg reacted even faster than me. “Holy shit! That’s more drugs than I could ever imagine!”We were looking at row after row of steel shelves, 10’ high and 100’ long, all packed with huge plastic wrapped bags that looked to contain heroin, cocaine, marijuana, pills, weapons, ammo and even explosives.Huge vertical refrigerators and ... four dead bodies! All of them appeared to be young girls. Hanging frozen on meat-hooks.I flashed, “That fat bastard is gonna pay.”Bob saw too and. How is he?”“How do you think?” I chuckled. “He’s going stir-crazy. He has a checkup today with Doctor Washington to be cleared to go back to work. I talked to Malik yesterday when I had my checkup, and he said he’s sure Al is fine.”“Talk about a scary situation.”“True. On the plus side, if you are going to have a heart attack, having the chief of cardiology ten feet away, along with a trauma surgeon and an internist, and having a couple of dozen other doctors nearby, that’s probably the time to.