"You don't have to talk to anyone that you don't want to," Gabriel said, smiling down at Noah. He could understand how it could be uncomfortable to try and talk to someone that you really didn't want to. His dad's friends had always been...well, the ones that came around were mostly the type of people that he didn't want anything to do with. "If you don't want anything to do with him, you don't have to have anything to do with him."
It wasn't quite as simple as that, but Gabriel didn't want to have to complicate things anymore than they'd already been complicated. "His wife, Sandra, isn't too happy with me. But she's an all right person."