When I got to the events of today, he was impressed at the foresight of Bobby. That spoke volumes to me as Dad is not one to give compliments flippant...ly. He was intrigued by my plans for shock and awe with all the attorneys and investigators. He did mention that I should not cross the line about investigating everyone who was prosecuting the case beyond what was in the realm of public information, but walking on the edge of the knife in doing that was fine in his opinion.He handed off the phone. ”“I know him pretty well. He was in the Marines, not the Army. I know that he had the same girlfriend for nearly ten years. They only split up recently after he moved to work at my school. Last night when it first happened he was very concerned to check that I was okay about it.”It seemed that Maggie was keen to defend her new lover.“Just because he sounded concerned to check that you were okay doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have lots of casual sex with different people.”“Well, I’m pretty. Most of the time my sister was home as well but my parents always left early together for work and never came home during the day. My room is over our garage so I can see everyone come and go so there is little chance of me missing someone showing up. A few weeks went by and I had figured out what I wanted to do, so all I needed was for my sister to be gone.Finally, my sister told my parents that she was going to be gone from Thursday until Monday the next week. I made sure I did not screw. I didn’t bother staking out the movie complex. Even if a cutout hadn’t collected the cash, whoever did wouldn’t flash it.Pilar sought me out when Walker was out on some boy errand. We sat at our kitchen table and she said, “I’m sorry about that lifeguard, Winter. I wish I hadn’t done him.”Lifeguard. On that luxury yacht, The Globe. Pilar and her mother were guests for a week. Thanks to the generosity of my friend, and client at the time, Phillip Montgomery.I can still picture Pilar, that tiny.