Gabriel wanted to leave as she began to describe the way his father looked. If he just walked away, it wasn't there.

Worked well so far with the other stuff he was trying to walk away from.

It was fear of causing a scene that kept him in his spot. "I don't..."

It was a trick! Of course that was it! She had gotten the information somewhere and now she was trying to trick him for money. Hadn't he recently heard stories about someone going around town trying something like that?

"My father is dead."