" Did you have to participate?" wondered Sheila with genuine horror."I was a child," said Petal. "I didn't know any different. But if I didn't, I'd ha...ve been purged much sooner than I was." So you were purged?" Yes, but as a young girl who was deemed to be marketable I was spared public execution and instead sold as a sex slave." A sex slave. How horrible! Surely you'd have preferred death." Not really," said Petal. "You really have no idea how cruel and obscene the public executions could be.. So he says to me ok we need someone just like you to help is out if your interested. So I being curious say ok sure thing name it. And he tells me to get in, I hopped in and I got driven to there home wich was not far from mine thankfully. His girlfriend was eye balling me and I thought it was kinda odd at first. Well she goes upstairs and he motions me into his living room and asks me if I want some shots before I help them out. I take three shots and he says sit down man make yourself. This is because of me, and I'll not let it rest."Maria stomped to Paul's chair and glowered over him. "One, Fidel is a Cuban military officer. He is not one of your people. Two, the only way this could be your fault is if Captain Adzes had been forced to try and kill you, but you have sworn that it was an accident. If you are changing your story, we have enough on the good Captain to put him in front of a firing squad. Are you changing your story?" No, I'm not. The good Captain was a guest on. “But I don’t know if my mother would allow that,” she responded.Molly smiled and said, “Would you kindly pick up the phone and dial your mother’s number?”“But...”“Just do as I say, dear,” Molly commanded, then, with a wink added, “Please?”When Mary Kate’s mother answered the phone Molly said, “Hello Mrs. Bennigan, this is Molly Mansfield calling. Mary Kate is right here beside me.”Mary Kate had told her mother all about Molly ... that she was the owner of La Mode and that she was terminally.