Amidst all these thoughts, a face came to him. Cassie’s face. He tried to push it away. He knew that he should call her, but he couldn’t bring him...elf to. He was finding solace from his grief in his work, and talking to Cassie meant that he would have to face his father’s death. Talking to her meant that he would have to share his grief, open the wounds which he had managed to close with his work. He knew that he was going about it the wrong way, but it was what he had always done, and it was. She remembered that she had been a bit in shock right after she first married the Cavalry officer in a quick ceremony back east before heading out West into the frontier of Indian Territory. First, there was the confusion over the necessary bedroom exercises that every new bride was expected to perform to her husband's satisfaction or spend the remainder of her life regretting her decision to take him as her partner for life. Now that he was gone after being parted from his flowing hair that. "He stood, and noted she was almost as tall as hewas. "Please take a seat. I'll be with you in amoment." Mr. Cowley, I charge by the hour, and you aregoing to end up paying my bills. Perhaps you shouldspeak to me now." Speak." I'm here to go over your books for the last threeyears, prior to the formal discovery process toestablish the worth of your assets."Mike pressed a button to summon Brenda-Sue, hissecretary and book keeper. "I've agreed to alimonyand child support, even for the one. "I'll fucking make you!" Never!"He slapped her again, more force this time, then gripped her face."You fucking work for the cops, don't you?" he snarled at her."No way asshole!"He seized her necklace; some cheap string of gaudy beads she enjoyed wearing, then twisted his hand in it. Irate beyond words, Kyle hoped that it would break, and she would give in."Admit it bitch! You work for the fucking Feds, don't you?"He pulled tighter on the necklace, waiting for it to break. Her neck came off the.