Page 41 of Her Gluttony
She’s in a building at the corner of 5th and 94th.
I groan as I pinch the bridge of my nose and close my eyes.
She did not.
“You didn’t,” I say.
“You told me to look into it,” she says, whispering.
“I meant the files!” I shout as I let go of my nose and open my eyes. “Not to break into his house!”
“You should be clearer in your orders, then.”
I breathe out heavily, and then I explode.
“You know very well what I meant! You simply try to conceal your desire to steal behind it. What is it he has that you want, huh? I know you’re going after something, and this way no one can charge you for it.”
“Gotten anywhere with the search of your apartment yet?” she asks me. How dare she?
HOW DARE SHE!?
I am going to have her head for this.
I press the red button with force as I hang up, grab my jacket, and run down the stairs to my car.
There, I hit the switch on the Suburban’s dash for the grille lights and race all the way back to Manhattan with the red and blue light strobing through the darkness of the night.
When I bring the car to a halt in front of the house with screeching tires, she leans casually at a street light, apparently waiting for me. The warm light falls onto her as she stands there completely undisturbed.
I get out of the car.
“That was fast,” she says casually, glancing at her watch.
“You!” I shout as I walk up to her.
She smirks.
“You what?”
“You are arrested for breaking the deal,” I say darkly. “Turn around and hands on your back.”
“But what for?” she asks like an angel. She is playing me, and I can’t wait to get her in front of a judge.
“You moved out of your radius,” I say coldly.
“Technically, I didn’t,” she says playfully. It states a five-mile radius. This here is exactly five miles and three-tenths. Everything up to nine-tenths is technically still five miles. And I am willing to argue that in court with the best lawyers there are.”
“You know that’s not true. It is set to a perimeter, and that’s fixed.”
“Then the perimeter was set wrong,” she says. “Also, you told me to look into him. The deal clearly states in clause 15.2 that I am allowed to leave the radius when I am either with you or do so on your orders.”
I hate her.
She is making me aggressive on a level I have yet to know.
“You broke into a house!”
“Prove it,” she says and pushes herself off the street light and closes the gap between us. “Come on, try it. Give it your best shot. But you very well know the GPS isn’t completely accurate, and it will never hold in court.”
