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The police? What did they think I did? Was so? Oh God, I’ to be sick! I put the car into reverse and nearly drove right over big and ugly’s foot before he jumped back out of the way I went backwards all the way to the ot there, I had to put it in park, get out and vo, but being considered some kind of criminal was entirely another I wiped ly uniforer apparently Before I got back in the car, I threw a gesture at big and ugly at the gate His expression still didn’t change, but it made me feel a little better nonetheless

CHAPTER EIGHT

ALEXANDER

I stood in ates on the security monitors I could see the stricken look on Vicki’s face and God help me all I wanted to do was call down there and tell her there had been a terrible h Like a coward, I watched a stranger tell her that she was not only fired, but banned from the estate Then I watched her drive backwards… and somewhat recklessly back to the main road I took out a pair of binoculars that I used for horse racing and went over to theShe stopped at the road and got out of the car She barelyup I felt like a weight was sitting on my chest all of a sudden and I could hardly breathe I did pick up the phone then and I called down to the gates

“Yes sir?”

“Michael, she’s sick Go help her”

“She just flipped ot back into the car, sir”

I laughed “She flipped you off?”

“Yes sir”

I laughed again “Sorry about that”

“I’ve been flipped off before sir” I’ll bet that he had Michael was my most humorless, almost robotic employee The attorneys had purposely handpicked hi

“Okay then Thanks” I hung up and stood looking around the massive suite I now stood in, alone I was always alone I went into the bathroom and looked at that stick that was norapped in a Ziploc baggie The lawyers wanted it, but I told theht think I was being ridiculous The fact was that when I’d first discovered it, I was thrilled I’ve alanted a fa one Cassandra told e I discovered she was using birth control We had a big fight and she tolda bunch of brats Her “perfect” body was “perfect” because I bought and paid for it She’d asked me when she enty-five, a year after ere ed I didn’t see any harot addicted after that and I lost count of the procedures she’d had After a while it was like touching a Barbie doll… she was plastic

I thought about the day Vicki and I made love in the baseet enough of her I had to force o for a run to keep froain Just the sone I’d been disappointed and hurt that she hadn’t at the very least leftWhen she careen eyes, I saw anxiety there, laced with the same warmth as before I realized she was probably eh God knew there was no reason for her to be That day was the first day in a very long time that I’d felt needed and loved I wanted it to last forever I had decided that it wasn’t fair to start so over my head but I intended to, as soon as Cassandra was finally out of my life