The next day I informed Samuel of Mr. Novell’s visit and that I had accepted the ‘group’ apology he gave me, but I still wanted no direct contact with any of them especially Adam. He contacted Claude to pass on the message only to be told that Claude was in town and his clients’ were requesting a face to face meeting with me as soon as humanly possible, now that Grandpa Novell saw how ill this pregnancy was making me. We set it up for a time for 3 days after his visit, but I wasn’t going to let all of them come at me at the same time so I chose 3 people to represent the whole group, Grandpa, Andrew, and Amanda. Of the entire family, I felt they were the ones who hadn’t directly betrayed me and would be good at playing the role of Switzerland, who always remains neutral. I was told at t
