He wanted to head to the second floor dance floor but since Max grabbed his arm he stayed to listen. As he listened to Max talked he realized that this guy seemed to really care about Kate from the way he was talking about her. When Billy had first realized who Max was, he assumed that Max was just hired muscle who did anything his boss said. The truth seemed to go deeper than that. Max was friends with Kate or so it seemed.<br/><br/>Grace had not really bothered to tell Billy about the suspensions so those were news to him. And it only further added to the responsibilities he was going to have to take on when they weren't in the club. He needed to keep her out of trouble in two ways: both at home and from Jeffrey. Billy could already tell now that he was going to have his hands full.<br/><br/>He could tell that she was suffering. All of this darkness in her life had to equal up to something. He had no idea what was the cause but he knew that something was. There had been a turning point somewhere in the few years he had been missing from her life, where something had gone utterly wrong. Billy was going to have find out what that was as well. Another job he had to complete. Billy was soon going to be composing a list of all the things he would need to do with Kate to help her. If he had a pen at the moment he would have started right then but he didn’t, all he was doing for the moment was listening to Max.<br/><br/>Billy had known that Kate was smart. But he never really thought of her as a genius. But thanks to what Max was telling him, he could see all the signs. There had been times where she had stopped and just seemed to space out, only coming back with some kind of brilliant revelation. He never really thought of it as a sign of genius. He just thought she was a deep thinker.<br/><br/>And as if on cue, Jeffrey had to rear his ugly head. Of course the first words out of his mouth had to do with the deal. The deal that Billy had no intention of taking. Jeffrey then said exactly what Billy had expected him to say. Jeffrey could sell her too. And to that Billy had planned a serious eloquent reply but Max stopped him. “I am glad someone finally did.” Billy said it low enough so that only he could hear it. Billy hoped that one day Jeffrey would be on the other side of his punishments, or even just a straight up beat down. Billy knew at the moment he was not the one who could provide this little beat down. But he hoped that someday. Someone would be able to.<br/><br/>“Max, I don't really feel like drinking. Knowing what he is going to do to Angel is good enough to make me sick to my stomach.” Billy said seriously. His eyes followed Jeffrey up the stairs. Once he disappeared, then Billy turned away from the staircase and looked out into the crowd. Most of them were either drunk or high and they were dancing like there was no tomorrow. Billy wished he did not care like them. But sadly he did care. And he was not going to bury his sorrows with alcohol. The only way to truly make them go away was to face them head on. Billy took a deep breath and faced the stairs. It was time to see how much control he was actually able to maintain when he saw Jeffrey with Kate.