As her gaze moves I slip away from my conversation and duck out though the kitchen onto the verandah. There are a few people but they are absorbed in ...heir own conversations and I wander casually observing the people and interactions. Kerrie is in the window still alone for now. I can see her starting to glance around quietly seeking. I grin to myself and move to lean against the window sill from the outside.No one about so I gently put my hand in the small of her back. She starts and glances. Within the hour, the cake was out and cooling and Pam joined me at the grill. The coals were ready and I gently placed three burgers over the hottest part of the fire. As they sizzled, we sat in lawn chairs, sipped beers and enjoyed the early evening fresh air."I love this place, Tom. The lake is beautiful and this cabin is perfect. It's a quiet haven from the world. Did your dad build it?" He bought it a year or two before I was born. I think it's about 50 years old. But he did many upgrades. Doyle can wreck him, too. He might not be a particular political genius, but he knows far too much to not be dangerous. And we just let him skulk away, never imagining him to be a real threat at all. As for Marwood, naming Jonah Ryan at this point will prove especially disastrous, given how corrupt that glorified man-child is. Doyle is a snowball rolling downhill, about to crush us all,” Bill Ericson asserted as well.“And what are you doing here?” Amy asked Candi now, “you helped to make that. .. and viewing.What I found out had aroused me more than anything I had seen in my life.The idea of fulfilling that promise, of being served by this man in the way Ihad always desired, but never even admitted to myself... No way was I going to let him out of this now.He would find out well and truly how accurate the phrase "silken trap"could be.I swirled the wine idly. "So you wouldn't really want to find out how theother half lives? Is it beneath you now, Timothy? Should I be insulted?" Ikept.