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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 35532" data-attributes="member: 130">Chris sits up in bed with Amanda and says, &quot;I better get going darling.&nbsp; Dinners at six sharp,&quot; while sliding out of bed.&nbsp; Mateo says to John Ross, who&#039;s cleaning out one of the horse stalls, &quot;Arliss Harrison, the daughter of late billionaire robotics manufacturer Dan Harrison.&quot;&quot;Late?&quot;&quot;Front cover over the Wall Street Journal yesterday.&quot;&quot;Yesterday?&nbsp; Her dad died and she cones down to Texas?&quot;&quot;The only child of Afton Cooper and Dan Fisher.&nbsp; Though he has three children from a prior marriage and one with his widow.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll be demanded.&nbsp; Was Afton married to her dad?&quot;&quot;No.&nbsp; She was married to Harrison VanBuren the third still.&nbsp;&nbsp; And Fisher was married to his first wife.&nbsp; Bit of a scandal.&nbsp; You really don&#039;t know any of this story.&nbsp; Made all the news.&quot;&quot;Do I look like I&#039;ve got time to watch that bullshit?&quot;Mateo laughs.&nbsp; &quot;Fisher ran for governor of Michigan and President of the United States.&nbsp; Pretty big deal when he died.&nbsp; Anyway, I&#039;ve got the right people digging. I&#039;ll get back to you with the details.&quot;&quot;You better get me something on my mother-in-law.&nbsp; Apparently I don&#039;t know enough about her.&quot;&quot;Will do.&nbsp; I&#039;m almost satisfied with the report on Juan DeLaVega.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll get it to you shortly.&nbsp; I do know this afternoon he&#039;s been in a meeting David Wendell and Sergei Vaino.&quot;&quot;Really?&nbsp;&nbsp; OK.&nbsp; Let&#039;s see what they&#039;ve got planned.&nbsp; And Chris meet with Amanda Welser just as you said.&nbsp; Went right to bed.&quot;&quot;He&#039;s predictable.&nbsp; At least Emily see&#039;s their marriage for what it is instead of expecting more out of it like my mother did.&quot;&quot;She seems to have her own little fun. That boy though seems to take things a bit more serious.&quot;&quot;Really?&nbsp; Keep on eye on him then.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want that cause problem.&quot;&quot;Already on top of it.&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t know what I&#039;d do without you Mateo.&quot;The family begins gathering in the living room for cocktails starting with Lucy and Arliss when John Ross walks in asking if they had a nice ride.&nbsp; &quot;Yes thank you.&nbsp; You have a beautiful place here.&quot;&quot;It belonged to my grandmother&#039;s family.&nbsp;&nbsp; The property&#039;s been added to over the years.&nbsp; Glad you enjoyed it.&nbsp; So what brings you for a visit?&quot; he asks while handing the two woman a glass. &quot;Just to visit family.&nbsp; My Uncle Mitch lives in Dallas.&nbsp; And of course my Aunt Lucy.&nbsp; And my sister.&quot;Lucy speaks up, &quot;John Ross lives under a rock.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t listen to any of the mainstream news.&nbsp; Her father died recently.&quot;&quot;Oh.&nbsp; I&#039;m very sorry.&quot;&quot;Thank you.&nbsp; My father and I weren&#039;t close, so I&#039;m still trying to process everything.&quot;Emily and Chris walk into the room next.&nbsp; Lucy makes the introductions.&nbsp; The door bell rings and John Ross excuses himself.&nbsp; They make small talk among themselves before John Ross interrupts, &quot;This is Amanda Welser.&nbsp; A business associate.&nbsp; She runs the Cattlemen&#039;s Bank.&nbsp; This is my cousin Lucy.&nbsp; My sister-in-law Arliss, my cousin Chris, and his wife Emily.&nbsp; my wife, Pamela should be home soon.&quot;&nbsp; The room engages in some more small talk before Pamela walks in with Liam.&nbsp; Lucy hugs him and says how glad she is he could come and that hated eating dinner without a handsome male escort.&nbsp; They quickly shuffle off to the dinning room.&nbsp; Pamela approaches Arliss, hugs her and says, &quot;I&#039;m sorry about your dad.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know if I should call or not.&quot;&nbsp; They then begin their walk into the dinning room.&nbsp; &quot;Your text was fine.&nbsp; Got me thinking, why not just go to Texas.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to go to the funeral anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp; I mean real, and spend the whole time introducing myself as his bastard.&nbsp; Or listening to people talk about me behind my back.&nbsp; No thank you.&quot;&quot;I suppose you have a point.&nbsp; But wouldn&#039;t going help you?&quot;&quot;I didn&#039;t know him all that well.&quot;The family gathers around the table.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lucy introduces Arliss to Liam, Emily&#039;s brother.&nbsp; John Ross and Amanda talk about his taking Pamela and the kids on a vacation to Germany.&nbsp; That evening everyone but Chris and Emily walk over to the rec house.&nbsp;&nbsp; Chris makes his excuses about having more work to do and Emily says she has a water aerobics class.&nbsp; Off the back of a condo in Dallas, Emily slides into a hot tub and into Philip&#039;s arms.&nbsp; The hunky young man kisses her while removing her bikini top.&nbsp; Lucy looses at pool to Liam, the undisputed champion.&nbsp; Arliss gives him a kiss on the cheek.&nbsp; Amanda makes her excuses, that she really must be going.&nbsp; Chris lies on top of a beautiful woman and after kissing her says, &quot;So, Isabella, where is that husband of yours tonight?&quot;&quot;Juan&#039;s been working all day.&nbsp; Some deal with Trident and then trying to steal from DLV.&quot; &quot;You do know how appreciative I am for all the information you give me.&quot;&nbsp; Smiling she says, &quot;I do, but why don&#039;t you show me again.&quot; They go back to kissing.&nbsp; John Ross and Pamela change for bed.&nbsp; Pamela says, &quot;Are you sure my sister was cut out of her father&#039;s will?&quot;&quot;Mateo said so.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s terrible.&nbsp; How could he do that?&nbsp; How could the rest of her family be ok with that?&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I thought you could have her talk to the company lawyers, see what they can do.&quot;&quot;What&#039;ll I say, my husband&#039;s spies said you were cut out of your dad&#039;s will?&quot;&quot;Something like that.&quot;Chris welcomes Long Dia to his office.&nbsp; &quot;After all the nastiness between you and my family it&#039;s nice we can move on.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how you ended up with John Ross&#039;s full support but good for you.&quot;&quot;What are you getting at Chris?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m just astonished my cousin includes you in his meetings out at South Fork.&nbsp; But then he&#039;s got a Ramos and a Wendell at those meetings too.&quot;&quot;I notice you&#039;re not there.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s because I don&#039;t work for John Ross, let&#039;s be clear about that.&nbsp; He reduced your family&#039;s business to rubble and now he&#039;s got you working for him.&nbsp; Just as he did with Liam.&nbsp; Not that, that idiot father of his didn&#039;t have it coming.&nbsp; And Mateo.&nbsp; Look into it.&nbsp; His mother put that money they blackmailed my father out of into one stupid investment after another.&nbsp; They done lost it all.&nbsp; And I bet you John Ross was behind it.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s how he collects you guys apparently.&quot;&quot;You asked to meet to discuss your cousin?&quot;&quot;I heard he even got your US citizenship green-lined and then arranged a full presidential pardon for you and your wife not paying all the taxes you should.&nbsp; And she&#039;s not been in the country for how long?&nbsp; You two still married?&quot;Standing up Dia says, &quot;I&#039;m done with this.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;He know about this guy?&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chris slides a folder across his desk.&nbsp; Dia takes it.&nbsp; Looks it over. Chris comes walking up from the driveway to the back of South Fork when he hears John Ross say to him, &quot;What did you meet with Long Dia about today?&quot;Chris notices him by the pool so he walks over and says, &quot;Maracaibo oil.&nbsp; Why?&quot;John Ross stands.&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;m going to give you one chance to tell me the truth on your own.&quot;&quot;I told you the truth.&nbsp; Maracaibo oil.&nbsp; He&#039;s running Trident now.&nbsp; Remember?&nbsp; We had some details to iron out.&quot;&quot;That&#039;s what you want to leave this at?&nbsp; You called my man into your office and proceeded to make a case against him.&quot;&quot;What the hell are you talking about.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You think I don&#039;t know Dia knew about the explosives in the Rec. House?&nbsp; You think by bringing it up to him you can blackmail him?&nbsp; You can only tear down a man if he lets you.&nbsp; Today ain&#039;t your day.&quot;&quot;So you&#039;re doing business with a man who nearly got us all killed!&nbsp; And that&#039;s OK?&nbsp; How about we go in there and tell everyone that fact.&nbsp; See what Pamela has to say.&nbsp; I&#039;ll stand on my record of honesty.&nbsp; Can you?&quot;&quot;You done?&quot;&quot;Until we go in and talk to the family.&quot;John Ross punches Chris first in the face and then in the gut. He shoves him over and backwards into the pool.&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;You want to intimidate somebody you&#039;d better move out of that glass house you&#039;re living in.&nbsp; You&#039;re daddy ain&#039;t her to protect you this time.&nbsp; I&#039;ll beat the shit out of you and ain&#039;t nobody here to stop me.&quot;Lucy walks out of the back of the house yelling, &quot;What the hell&#039;s going on?&quot;Pamela walks up from the driveway.Chris pulls himself out of the pool saying, &quot;I just found out Long Dia was in on the explosion that neatly killed us all and John Ross has been in business with him.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;I know Long Dia knew about it.&nbsp; He also helped us deal with the people behind it,&quot; Lucy says. &quot;You knew?&quot;&quot;And if you&#039;d have asked john Ross would have told you too.&nbsp; Instead you try using it to blackmail Dia.&nbsp; Dia ain&#039;t perfect.&nbsp; Lot has happened to him.&nbsp; But he&#039;s been there for us.&nbsp; So what are you now gonna play at now, you gonna do business like JR?&nbsp; Going behind people&#039;s backs.&nbsp; Blackmailing people.&nbsp; Not carrying who you hurt.&nbsp; Lies. Deceptions.&nbsp; You&#039;d better watch yourself Chris.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t a game.&nbsp; This is people&#039;s lives.&quot;&quot;I was in that hospital.&nbsp; I&#039;m well aware about it being people&#039;s lives.&nbsp; You remember?&quot;&quot;I remember and I also remember how frightening I was to know someone was trying to kill us.&nbsp; Your father-in-law knew too.&nbsp; What are you doing about him?&quot;&quot;I&#039;m working on him, believe me.&quot;&quot;Good.&nbsp; But you better think before you go after someone in this family.&nbsp; Dia work for John Ross and were no going there, tearing each other apart.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been through that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now go get dried off.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; She turns and walks back in the house.&nbsp; &quot;I&#039;ve told you before, we&#039;re in this together.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got to be able to trust you.&nbsp; Only one reason for you to go after Long Dia.&nbsp; That&#039;s so you can go around me.&quot;&quot;What makes you the boss everything revolves around?&nbsp; I don&#039;t answer to you or Lucy or anyone.&nbsp; I wanted control of Long Dia so when I&#039;m dealing with Trident Ewing Oil benefits.&nbsp; Don&#039;t pretend you don&#039;t use some of JR&#039;s plays when you need to.&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep doing what I&#039;ve got to do.&nbsp; And if you want attack me when you think I over stepped my place, well next time I&#039;ll be prepared.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll right.&nbsp; I&#039;ll make a deal with you.&nbsp; You stay off family and Liam and Dia, and we got no problems.&nbsp; You run Ewing Oil as you see fit.&quot;&quot;You forgot Mateo.&quot;&quot;No I didn&#039;t.&nbsp; You play that shit with him and I&#039;d make peace with your maker.&nbsp; Now if you want to have a conversation about handling David Wendell, go dry off.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 35532, member: 130"] Chris sits up in bed with Amanda and says, "I better get going darling. Dinners at six sharp," while sliding out of bed. Mateo says to John Ross, who's cleaning out one of the horse stalls, "Arliss Harrison, the daughter of late billionaire robotics manufacturer Dan Harrison." "Late?" "Front cover over the Wall Street Journal yesterday." "Yesterday? Her dad died and she cones down to Texas?" "The only child of Afton Cooper and Dan Fisher. Though he has three children from a prior marriage and one with his widow." "I'll be demanded. Was Afton married to her dad?" "No. She was married to Harrison VanBuren the third still. And Fisher was married to his first wife. Bit of a scandal. You really don't know any of this story. Made all the news." "Do I look like I've got time to watch that bullshit?" Mateo laughs. "Fisher ran for governor of Michigan and President of the United States. Pretty big deal when he died. Anyway, I've got the right people digging. I'll get back to you with the details." "You better get me something on my mother-in-law. Apparently I don't know enough about her." "Will do. I'm almost satisfied with the report on Juan DeLaVega. I'll get it to you shortly. I do know this afternoon he's been in a meeting David Wendell and Sergei Vaino." "Really? OK. Let's see what they've got planned. And Chris meet with Amanda Welser just as you said. Went right to bed." "He's predictable. At least Emily see's their marriage for what it is instead of expecting more out of it like my mother did." "She seems to have her own little fun. That boy though seems to take things a bit more serious." "Really? Keep on eye on him then. I don't want that cause problem." "Already on top of it." "I don't know what I'd do without you Mateo." The family begins gathering in the living room for cocktails starting with Lucy and Arliss when John Ross walks in asking if they had a nice ride. "Yes thank you. You have a beautiful place here." "It belonged to my grandmother's family. The property's been added to over the years. Glad you enjoyed it. So what brings you for a visit?" he asks while handing the two woman a glass. "Just to visit family. My Uncle Mitch lives in Dallas. And of course my Aunt Lucy. And my sister." Lucy speaks up, "John Ross lives under a rock. He doesn't listen to any of the mainstream news. Her father died recently." "Oh. I'm very sorry." "Thank you. My father and I weren't close, so I'm still trying to process everything." Emily and Chris walk into the room next. Lucy makes the introductions. The door bell rings and John Ross excuses himself. They make small talk among themselves before John Ross interrupts, "This is Amanda Welser. A business associate. She runs the Cattlemen's Bank. This is my cousin Lucy. My sister-in-law Arliss, my cousin Chris, and his wife Emily. my wife, Pamela should be home soon." The room engages in some more small talk before Pamela walks in with Liam. Lucy hugs him and says how glad she is he could come and that hated eating dinner without a handsome male escort. They quickly shuffle off to the dinning room. Pamela approaches Arliss, hugs her and says, "I'm sorry about your dad. I didn't know if I should call or not." They then begin their walk into the dinning room. "Your text was fine. Got me thinking, why not just go to Texas. I don't want to go to the funeral anyway. I mean real, and spend the whole time introducing myself as his bastard. Or listening to people talk about me behind my back. No thank you." "I suppose you have a point. But wouldn't going help you?" "I didn't know him all that well." The family gathers around the table. Lucy introduces Arliss to Liam, Emily's brother. John Ross and Amanda talk about his taking Pamela and the kids on a vacation to Germany. That evening everyone but Chris and Emily walk over to the rec house. Chris makes his excuses about having more work to do and Emily says she has a water aerobics class. Off the back of a condo in Dallas, Emily slides into a hot tub and into Philip's arms. The hunky young man kisses her while removing her bikini top. Lucy looses at pool to Liam, the undisputed champion. Arliss gives him a kiss on the cheek. Amanda makes her excuses, that she really must be going. Chris lies on top of a beautiful woman and after kissing her says, "So, Isabella, where is that husband of yours tonight?" "Juan's been working all day. Some deal with Trident and then trying to steal from DLV." "You do know how appreciative I am for all the information you give me." Smiling she says, "I do, but why don't you show me again." They go back to kissing. John Ross and Pamela change for bed. Pamela says, "Are you sure my sister was cut out of her father's will?" "Mateo said so." "That's terrible. How could he do that? How could the rest of her family be ok with that?" "I don't know. I thought you could have her talk to the company lawyers, see what they can do." "What'll I say, my husband's spies said you were cut out of your dad's will?" "Something like that." Chris welcomes Long Dia to his office. "After all the nastiness between you and my family it's nice we can move on. I'm not sure how you ended up with John Ross's full support but good for you." "What are you getting at Chris?" "I'm just astonished my cousin includes you in his meetings out at South Fork. But then he's got a Ramos and a Wendell at those meetings too." "I notice you're not there." "That's because I don't work for John Ross, let's be clear about that. He reduced your family's business to rubble and now he's got you working for him. Just as he did with Liam. Not that, that idiot father of his didn't have it coming. And Mateo. Look into it. His mother put that money they blackmailed my father out of into one stupid investment after another. They done lost it all. And I bet you John Ross was behind it. That's how he collects you guys apparently." "You asked to meet to discuss your cousin?" "I heard he even got your US citizenship green-lined and then arranged a full presidential pardon for you and your wife not paying all the taxes you should. And she's not been in the country for how long? You two still married?" Standing up Dia says, "I'm done with this." "He know about this guy?" Chris slides a folder across his desk. Dia takes it. Looks it over. Chris comes walking up from the driveway to the back of South Fork when he hears John Ross say to him, "What did you meet with Long Dia about today?" Chris notices him by the pool so he walks over and says, "Maracaibo oil. Why?" John Ross stands. "I'm going to give you one chance to tell me the truth on your own." "I told you the truth. Maracaibo oil. He's running Trident now. Remember? We had some details to iron out." "That's what you want to leave this at? You called my man into your office and proceeded to make a case against him." "What the hell are you talking about." "You think I don't know Dia knew about the explosives in the Rec. House? You think by bringing it up to him you can blackmail him? You can only tear down a man if he lets you. Today ain't your day." "So you're doing business with a man who nearly got us all killed! And that's OK? How about we go in there and tell everyone that fact. See what Pamela has to say. I'll stand on my record of honesty. Can you?" "You done?" "Until we go in and talk to the family." John Ross punches Chris first in the face and then in the gut. He shoves him over and backwards into the pool. "You want to intimidate somebody you'd better move out of that glass house you're living in. You're daddy ain't her to protect you this time. I'll beat the shit out of you and ain't nobody here to stop me." Lucy walks out of the back of the house yelling, "What the hell's going on?" Pamela walks up from the driveway. Chris pulls himself out of the pool saying, "I just found out Long Dia was in on the explosion that neatly killed us all and John Ross has been in business with him." "I know Long Dia knew about it. He also helped us deal with the people behind it," Lucy says. "You knew?" "And if you'd have asked john Ross would have told you too. Instead you try using it to blackmail Dia. Dia ain't perfect. Lot has happened to him. But he's been there for us. So what are you now gonna play at now, you gonna do business like JR? Going behind people's backs. Blackmailing people. Not carrying who you hurt. Lies. Deceptions. You'd better watch yourself Chris. This isn't a game. This is people's lives." "I was in that hospital. I'm well aware about it being people's lives. You remember?" "I remember and I also remember how frightening I was to know someone was trying to kill us. Your father-in-law knew too. What are you doing about him?" "I'm working on him, believe me." "Good. But you better think before you go after someone in this family. Dia work for John Ross and were no going there, tearing each other apart. I've been through that. Now go get dried off." She turns and walks back in the house. "I've told you before, we're in this together. I've got to be able to trust you. Only one reason for you to go after Long Dia. That's so you can go around me." "What makes you the boss everything revolves around? I don't answer to you or Lucy or anyone. I wanted control of Long Dia so when I'm dealing with Trident Ewing Oil benefits. Don't pretend you don't use some of JR's plays when you need to. I'll keep doing what I've got to do. And if you want attack me when you think I over stepped my place, well next time I'll be prepared." "I'll right. I'll make a deal with you. You stay off family and Liam and Dia, and we got no problems. You run Ewing Oil as you see fit." "You forgot Mateo." "No I didn't. You play that shit with him and I'd make peace with your maker. Now if you want to have a conversation about handling David Wendell, go dry off." [/QUOTE]

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