I'm so sorry. Why would he do that? You love each other. I know that for sure." I thought so too, but I was wrong. This other woman ... she's younger,...sexier. I can't compete with that."I felt like a spectator and I was almost about to leave them, giving them some privacy. Dory must have sensed that."Mom ... is this about the parties? The swap club?"The look on her mother's face was one of complete shock."You know! How? How long have you known?" she said between sobs."A long time, Mom. Stevie. My truck was built here. I purchased a beat-up old hulk so I could have legitimate paperwork, but almost nothing on the vehicle is original. The engine is from a late-model Ford Mustang. The interior was adapted from a Mercedes SUV. A lot of the sheet metal was fabricated here, sometimes using re-purposed materials.’ ‘Do they do anything but build cars for sale?’ Jonathan asked. ‘The shop does restorations, engine swaps, and custom work on legitimately owned client cars at a handsome profit.. You and your mother are two of the worst culprits. You didn’t do anything overtly but he counted on you to stand up for him. When you refused it left him totally alone.“Your invitation to Mrs. Wyatt has done the same thing to him. I’m going to make sure he knows that someone is on his side and has his feelings and best interests at heart.”Mel showed up at Brock’s house shortly after 10 am He had planned on a quiet microwave Thanksgiving which he offered to share but Mel wouldn’t hear of. Apparently she had never seen a TV before.I waved her back and she jumped from the stand to the middle of the bed and sat beside me. I showed her the remote and pushed the up and down channel buttons, showing her that the picture on the TV changed every time I did it. I handed her the remote and watched as she pushed buttons then looked up to see what they did. She was startled when she held down the volume button and the sound quickly rose to a deafening level. I showed her the button to make.