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all the way to her appointment. And she would not take him anywhere else. She just hoped he didn’t go into shock or anything while in her car. This was all she needed, a dead man riding around with her. Just her luck Schaller and Schaller would probably be the ones suing her for his family.
    “Where are you going now? I have a right to know where you are taking me. Are you going to answer me when I speak to you? Hey! Are you in there?”
    He had asked that four times now and she still had not said a word to him. It’s not that she didn’t speak, she did, but all to herself. Mostly it was to put her down or to comment on the wrong turn she’d taken but never anything directly to him.
    When she pulled up in front of the MacManus mansion gate, he started laughing. He was still laughing when she was trying to make herself heard over his laughter into the speaker at the gate.
    “Mr. Duncan, its Madi…its hummm…I have an appointment with Colin Larimore and Aaron MacManus. I don’t suppose you remember me from last week?”
    No way was she giving this guy her name. It was bad enough he’d gone through all her trash, making snide comments about the fact that she folded it nice and neatly, and did you do that for her house trash as well. As a matter of fact she did, but she didn’t tell him that. For all she knew he was some sort of mass murderer or a slasher or something equally hideous.
    “Oh yes, Miss Harm, we’ve been expecting you.” So much for keeping her name private she thought. She turned to glare at the man next to her when he began laughing in earnest again.
    “Did you think I wouldn’t get it? What business could you possibly have here? Aaron is a good friend and I won’t let you do anything to his reputation or his family.” He said this with a sneer and a grin. Who would have thought that was even possible?

    “Fucking dick head. All men should all be castrated and left to the wild animals to feast upon.” She had been talking to herself and had lowered her voice a great deal, but he had heard her she knew it.
    It was nearly full dark when she pulled up in front of the house. She hated driving at night, but this couldn’t be helped he’d told her he has a problem that prevented him from working with her during the day and she wanted to be as accommodating as possible for him.
    She wished now that she had called and rescheduled. She hurt worse now than before she’d hit this man, and she was dizzy too.
    As soon as the car stopped he was out and to the door. She was still struggling with her seatbelt when Mr. Duncan was leading the man in. “ Well, he must not have been lying when he said he knew the MacManus”. Mr. Duncan came out to help her gather her stuff, but she shooed him off saying she was used to lugging it around. Half way to the door she realized she should have taken his help, she wasn’t gonna make it. Stopping not six feet from the doorway, she just couldn’t go any further, her entire body was screaming in pain.
    “Master Kyle said that you had a slight accident and you may need my assistance. He said that you tried to run him down on an otherwise open highway. I do not believe that for a moment, and told him so.”
    He simply took her Wal-Mart bag from her in one hand and lead/dragged her inside with the other. It made her happy that someone believed her. But she couldn’t concentrate on that right now. Pain riddled her body like bullets being shot into her everywhere.
    They were just inside the open hallway when Duncan turned to take a good look at Maddy. She thought she must look really bad if the expression on his face was any indication.
    He nearly fell over in his haste to take the rest of her things from her and have her sit down in the large church pew right inside of the entrance hall. It was too much, within seconds of his kind words, she was sobbing.
    “Oh, Miss Harm, there, there, let me get you something to dry your eyes. Do not move. I will return