“I thought you know me so well, you should know.”
“Have you?” she asks more intensely. I know I am driving her crazy, which makes it so fun.
“If I had, you were the last person I’d tell about it.”
She breathes out heavily and takes another spoonful of her risotto. She loathes it when I don’t answer her questions directly. I let her sit with it.
We eat in silence.
She is annoyed.
I have the time of my life.
I hand Antonio my black Amex when we are done and notice her gaze very well as she tries to read the name on it.
“Won’t bring you anywhere,” I tell her. “It’s registered to a trust that sits in a shell corp that is managed by people that don’t exist.”
I can’t keep myself from smirking. Her emotions show so raw on her face, first and foremost, her annoyance.
“I hate people like you,” she says.
“I know,” I say and get up. “Something I can live with. And if you wouldn’t suck government dick every day and broaden yourhorizon, you’d understand the players aren’t the problem; the game makers are. And those are the ones that deep throat you every day. Don’t hate on me for choosing the freedom pussy over government dick.”
She stares at me as if I have told her Santa isn’t real. As she should. She needs clear words.
I lean in on her.
“And no, I haven’t stabbed anyone’s carotid yet,” I tell her in a whisper. “But I would, without hesitation.”
Like I said, so much fun.
8
REID
PLAYLIST: TROUBLE IN MIND – LARKIN POE
Isit at my office desk and stare at the wall, the clock ticking relentlessly, elbows digging into the hard surface as I bring my hands together in a praying position.
Not that I pray to any form of God, I am the biggest atheist existing, but I am praying for my own sanity.
I haven’t slept in two days.
My mind is wide awake and completely exhausted at the same time. I don’t know how I ended up here, but the day has been the most illuminating nightmare I've ever had.
That woman.
She knows too much.
She is arrogant and entitled.
Overstepping and already bending the rules in ways that keep me up at night.
And I got caught right in the middle of it.
A knock on my door.
Rachel.