As far as I’m concerned, you had a choice to make between your job and your school work.” They sat in a tense silence for a while. Why did God ins...st on blessing an absolute boar like Alexander Colonomos with such good looks? Telling him just what she thought of him was on the very tip of her tongue, but she bit it as hard as she could, something she was never very good at. “Nothing to say?” he taunted. What the fuck was he? A mind reader? “Well, Sir, quite honestly, I don’t know what to tell. ?? I pocketed it and got up to leave as he pulled out seven pages of typewritten, double-spaced paper; it was an account of what we had done to his ex-wife, in detail.? The pictures were merely a supplement.As I walked out, feeling a hell of a lot richer, I thought back to how I had first met the guy.? I had just gotten out of prison; my girlfriend didn't like me beating on her.? Since I had been in and out of jail and prison since as long as I can remember, they threw the damned book at me.? I. And he was a witch boy. If I let him come again to mow the lawn, I’d have him again here in the bedroom—if that’s what he wanted. Or in the woods behind the house, on the picnic table. It wasn’t the money. I paid more than that for a college kid. He was just fourteen. The college semester was over. I could go away for a week. Now I would. When I came back it would all be gone. It will be like it never happened.But it did happen. I turned and fled to the bathroom, closing and locking the door. "Thanks," she mouthed while she listened to the caller. Brett smiled andheaded back to his usual seat on an office chair where he observed howthe office ran. He had already decided to model his main character onMaria. She would be an older version of Maria whose optimism had beentested by life.Maria finished up on the phone and said, "Thanks again, Brett." No problem," Brett said as he stood up. Maria stood up herself andcarried the files into Nina's office. Brett walked over to Maria's deskand.