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A e of convenience should be just that—convenient It should not involve worry, anxiety, or frustration I druainst the table and stare at the eany It seats twelve and most of the ti at the top of her head because she refuses to look up Still, I get to look at the top of her head and that’s enough It has been for the last five years since I bought the girl fro business he’d been running into the ground

The deal was that I would get soers, social cli froive tiet every little luxury money would buy It was a business transaction when she was eighteen and I enty-eight She was barely an adult and so I left her alone For five years

Five interminable years

I am a reasonable man I ask very little from her She has to keep me updated of all of her activities outside of the home She is not, under any circuuard And, at the end of every day, at themeal with me It is the only time I require her presence It is now five past the hour I stare at the laptop screen that displays the cityOrchard’s location That dot isfor the last fifteen minutes

“Have you found her yet?“

David, the head of my security, doesn’t answer immediately, which tells me they have not

“Fire him” If one man can’t do his job, there’s no reason for him to be on my payroll

“Yes, sir,” David replies

“I want her in her chair within the next five minutes or you’re fired as well”

“Yessir”