" Gus was stumbling and grasping for a way out."I think you're afraid of me," she said, all the while continuing to eat her meal.Gus had almost stoppe...d eating as the conversation had progressed. Her last comment had him nodding his agreement."I guess I am." Why. I think we've found a way to work together. We enjoy the same things away from work. I find you to be a very nice guy when you allow yourself to just be yourself away from the office. You're quietly confident everywhere except around. We started the next morning, bumping down one rough dusty road after another. It went on again that way for the next day and the day after that. On the third day we had a stroke of luck, we spotted the dark blue sedan pulling out of a side road. We drove on past and he turned in the opposite direction. We drove until he was not longer in sight then doubled back to explore the little side road. We only drove for a few minutes before it dead ended at a security gate. Since Brad might have been. She wanted to escalate to stronger things and I had no interest in going beyond what she had already tried."I remembered Cyndi. My thoughts darkened. She was the most 'butch' of Beth's girlfriends and she hated me with a bloody passion from the moment she met me. She is also the only woman I had ever threatened with physical harm. The night Beth had broken it off with her, they'd had a major fight and Beth was sporting bruises on her arms and one shoulder. She had called me at three in the. I know from cop shows on TV that you can do this. If you let me know the cost, I’ll pay you back. I just wanted you to get the raw swab.Mom was Ann Tilden. She died a year ago in an auto accident. A drunk driver ran a red light and T-boned her car. I was old enough to remain on my own, but I had to sell our house and fold up everything that had been our way of life.Why do I think you might be my dad? Unbeknownst to me, Mom kept diaries when she was a teen, through when I was conceived and born,.