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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 104955" data-attributes="member: 130">Charlotte meets with Huda while looking over fabrics in a Dallas dress shop.  “I heard you’re on the board with your brother, Peter, and Kathryn Wentworth.”Charlotte answers, “Yes we’re a block of votes. We hope we can count on your brothers support.  Amy Anderson, Mateo Ramos and Juan Carlos DelSol are a block of votes for the Ewing’s.”“That Anderson girl’s just a child. What could Jack and Lucy be thinking?” Huda asks.  Charlotte laughs. “I’m about to stick that little girl right in my pocket.”“I’m certain you can count on my brother.  He hates the Ewing’s.  Almost as much as I do.”  John Ross gets off s private plan and walks up to shake the hand of a handsome man in his late thirties.  “Mr. Ewing.”  “Duke.”“Please call me Alex.”“Alex then.  And I’m John Ross.”“How’s my mother, John Ross?”“Interfering with my company.”“Ah.  Well I hear she has a lot of good reasons to hate your family.”“My father maybe but I don’t know the woman other than she’s the sister of the batshit crazy man who killed my father.”“I see.  Well sometimes we pay for our parents sins.” “And sometimes we profit off of them, right?”“That’s true.”   “Your mother’s game of revenge has her dealing with people you might want to reconsider the association.”“I assure you we are very capable of handling who ever we choose to associate with.  I hear my cousin Pamela has a personal grudge against you as well.”“I wouldn’t expect your mother to be on Pamela’s friends and family list.”Alex chuckles, “You know family.  We can hate each other one minute.”“Yeah well the Barnes weren’t ever all that cohesive.”“Oh don’t worry about the Wentworths.  We’ll take care of ourselves.”  Charlotte has lunch with Amy in a bright and sunny Dallas restaurant.  “Well since were on the board of Trident together I thought we should get to know each other.”“I got that from the invite.  You getting to know everyone on the board?”“No.  It’s just you’re so young.  Everyone else has a long career behind them that speaks for them. People like you, your fiancé.  They’re unproven quantities.  Do you know what I mean.”  “I do.”“Take your soon to be brother-in-law.  He’s running Ewing Alternatives.  He keeps surprising everyone.  Methane extraction. Nuclear power.   But he’s just an awkward kid.  The world eats up guys like that.  You know what I mean.”“I do.  I’m not so awkward.”“No.  Maybe not.”  Charlotte hands her a large envelope.  Amy looks though it, pictures.  “What are these for some perverted collection of yours?”Charlotte laughs.  “You like men.  Don’t we all.  But you’ll notice very clearly that hulking engagement ring on your finger.  One wonders how long you’ll stay in the good graces of the Ewing’s going around doing those sorts of things.”“So I do what you tell me, you keep my secret.”“You’re a very smart young woman.”Amy stands up and leaves the table.  In the back of a limousine Amy tosses the folder to Jack.  “For now I’ll go along with her.  Until the ejection is over.”“Then it won’t matter.  I’ll talk to my father.”“I’m sorry.  I didn’t know . . .”“Why would you.  From now on we’ll just need to be more careful.”</blockquote>

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