I said ok and went through the books and files. His accounts were in area and his papers were lying all over the table and needed proper filing. I got...busy tidying his things. I saw he was watching me closely and made occasional comments to help me to search things.I had tea and snacks with him and we went on working. He was busy with his computer thumbing mails sending out inquiries and replying. Somebody brought supper in a tray and he asked me to finish the food. He went out for half an hour. Crystalturns her head so she doesn't have to see the look on her mothers face when shedoesn't come to her rescue. She cautiously walks up to her father and gentleytouches his arm "Not to interupt but may i wait for the rest of mypunishment in my room, as I can not stand the site of my mother at thismoment?" Her father looks at her "No!" he replies firmly. Hegrabs her mother and takes her out of ear shot. Crystal sighs and goes back toher place by the window the only solitude from her world. She. I hadn't been paying it much attention, but I jerked my head quickly around as soon as the name was mentioned."Channel Eight has learned that Ariel Shaughnessy has been hospitalized locally," the anchor was saying. "Ms. Shaughnessy, you may remember, had some brief notoriety when she was arrested last summer with well-known Senator Robert M. Golden in a hotel in Washington, D.C., while they were both, well, rather lightly dressed."Susan giggled at that one. "They can't say 'bare-assed' on. When she was cloned, her creators manufactured a deliberate genetic defect to make sure that she would never survive infancy."A primal rage boiled up inside Charles as his vision was blurred by tears. Shaking from the lethal anger that ravaged his soul he struggled to find any words. "Father Garret, would you take care of Cat, please, I need to..." and as soon as the priest had put a soothing arm around Charles' wife, he ran out of the room.-=/\=-Sovals nostrils were flaring as he found it.