" I'm sorry." Lilly took a deep breath. "You're right, I shouldn't have been rude. No matter what I'm going through, there's always time for kindness.... Another moral her daughter had failed to pick up. She had Lilly's short temper, but none of the regret. "What is it that can you do?"The man sat back and grinned. A chill ran down Lilly's spine. "I can give you control." What do you mean?"Reaching forward, her companion took her coffee and drank a sip. "That's gotten quite cold."Lilly leaned. When his phone began to ring he was almostgrateful to be interrupted halfway through the latest listicle. A glanceat the call display gave the caller ID as UNKNOWN which seemed strange toMarvin but he was paid to answer the phones after all."Hello, this is Morgan Mech Annex, Marvin speaking," he rattled off, doinghis best to give a phoney cheerfulness to his cadence after some bitch hadreamed him out the other day for "sounding sleepy and disinterested." Heheard no response for a moment, and. I didn’t share these shortcuts with my company, of course. As far as my coworkers knew, I was an average website designer capable of setting up 1-2 small websites per 8-hour day. In reality, I only had to work about 2 hours a day to meet my quotas. Video calls were pretty rare, so I usually spent the rest of my workday gaming or surfing the web.After a couple of hours of work, I finished my daily quotas and decided to lie down for a nap. When I woke up, I logged back on to the forum and looked. “If that had been a full thirteen in that time, it would have been great. We need to cut it to under seven minutes a mile to be competitive. Six minutes to be on the podium. How much time do we have before a half?”“You’re running it, too,” I said. “Labor Day in Noblesville. The high school competition will be at the same time as everyone else.”“Three and a half weeks. Yeah. We can do this.”I wasn’t quite sure what it was she thought we could do but I agreed. Sure, we can do this.Practice that.