After 15 min my friend came and joined us to booze.I introduced her to him and we started to chat.He had a couple of pegs and took her inside. They ca...e back in 30 min and I can clearly see he was not satisfied and she is also not happy. We boozed some time calmly and she Called me inside.I asked what happened and then she started to complain that he smells very bad and also forcing her to do what she didn’t like. I cannot comment on what happened between them but I consoled her and gave a. “I paid them off.” Naresh murmured, his voice still slurred from last night. He could feel several teeth loosened from their place. Broken, mottled blue veins shined through his cheeks, the color had drained from his face, replaced by bluish yellow blotches. He tried to avoid talking, his tongue was bitten and chewed up multiple times.“Thank god.” She grabbed his hand, “I thought they arrested you.”“There is no formal charge for our case, especially because you’re a fully grown woman. Only with. Wary? Concerned?Hell, I am sure mine did too. I had a bad feeling about this.“Okay. So, Pam is a ghost in the machine. And you are telling me this, why?” I asked slowly, knowing the answer but still hoping I was wrong.Alan looked over at Pam, obviously waiting for her to continue.“I didn’t do this out of any desire to invade your privacy, Jack, honest. Alan looks up to you and I think you are a really great guy, but you were always a bit of a mystery to everyone. I hate mysteries. So, I started. I took his word but I have no way to enforce the agreement. He is after all a minor.’ ‘Danny, how much did you agree to pay Mr. Stasson?’ ‘$500,000. The thief had already moved 6 million to the offshore account. Mom, we would have been hurt very badly by what’s-his-name. I think that 500,000 is fair.’ ‘Will you take a check, Mr. Stasson?’ The day ended well for Harold. The check was dropped in the night deposit box along with $250,000 from Judith’s client. The night he arrived with 2 bottles of.