Dante
Elliott stays a week later than his father in Paris. When I pick him up at the international airport I ask why he stayed longer than Eric. He tells me that he was amassing support from the overseas family. He has allies in high and low places; he wanted to stay even longer but he didn't want to raise his father's suspicions. There was no reason for him to stay an extra week as it was. Eric wasn't impressed that a business trip ended as a vacation for Elliott. Elliott could care less what his father thinks, so long as he doesn't intuit the conspiracy taking place behind his back. I hope Elliott has been intelligent about this.
"Who did you connect with while you were down there?" I ask.
"I connected with some cousins, and some uncles who I thought were cousins because they looke
