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"You haven't told me who that is?" Stephanie asked when they were back in the living room.

"Who?"

"The man who walked in before me," Stephanie said to him.

"Oh him, that's my business partner, we have some kind of meeting," Allen informed her.

"Just the two of you?" Stephanie's curiosity was piqued as she shot her eyes open at Allen wondering how he had gotten to the stage where he was now business partners they even breezed in and out of the house like they were housemates but she knew that was not the fact.

As she waited for Allen to respond to her question, she tried to remember what the man had looked like. She couldn't exactly place a finger on his facial features but she remembered that the man had worn a very stern look the moment he got out of the car. The look on his face had scared her to the marrow.

"No, me and a few other people," Allen said in a way that made Stephanie look at him suspiciously.

She moved closer to him, hoping that the others around wouldn't hear wh