“Please, Brad? I know how good a singer you are and now you can prove it to them too,” Abby encouraged.“Okay, I’ll do it!”“Thank you, my l...ve.” Abby’s right breast pressed against his arm as she leaned up to kiss him.“Can I borrow the keyboard? I didn’t plan on singing but I do have a song in mind I sang last year for a benefit show to promote organ transplant awareness.”“Of course you can,” Jake offered. Several of the Idol staff positioned the keyboard and chair on the wooden platform. Other. Over the next hill or around the next turn in the road he would find his personal El Dorado, his goldmine. And it would make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. His "wife," as he called her, took off one day with another man. She deserted him and their ten-year-old daughter, Samantha.He shortened his daughter's name to Sam and took her with him on his next quest and the next one afterward. For six years he dragged her from pillar to post as he played poker, shot pool and sought the gold mine of. We arranged the insurance, a sum of six million with payments of five thousand a month.“At this rate we will have to move in the next three months,” I said. “There is a panic at the firm because we only have enough money in cash to operate another six months. After that it’s bankruptcy and the end of it all…”“Then we should really get a plan together and decide how you are going to die!”“Abroad, on holiday? Perhaps if we go to Greece or somewhere that the police are not too efficient?”“So we. " He knows all of them. And they only keep you there for a short time – a week or so. After that, they have to kick you out to make room for the next person. "Besides, Michael would never let a woman's shelter stop him from getting at me."I could see her shaking and this was June in Phoenix, Arizona so it wasn't due to being cold. I had to believe her story. She sobbed. "Please mister, I had to run all the way here from my house when I heard he was coming home. I don't have any place else to.