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《《Unpopular Review Time》》

《《Unpopular Review Time》》

"I was only supposed to use the “CEO credit card” for Mr. Leighton’s coffee and meals, but since he’d been increasingly mean to me over the past few months, I’d been using it on whatever came to mind.”

Subject: What I need Today.
Coffee. Stephen King's new book. Reports for the two o'clock meeting. Your signature on the employment extension contract.
You're welcome.
Michael Leighton
CEO, Leighton Pulbishing.

“Tell me that you don’t want to fuck me,” he said. “That you don’t want me to bury my cock deep inside of you right now.”

“And the Latin quote across your heart? What does it mean?” “Lie about one thing, lie about it all...”

“So, you don’t love me anymore?”

“I don’t answer rhetorical questions,” I said. “And I’m not a geography expert, but I know damn well that North Carolina is outside of New York and a direct violation of your parole. What do you think will happen when they find out you’re here? Do you think they’ll make you serve out the sentence that you more than f**king deserve?”

She gasped. “You would snitch on me?”

“I would run my car over you.”

“And I shall take from you these lives, a thousandfold.”

“And I shall take from you these lives, a thousandfold.”

The fear he’d felt before was nothing now. Nothing compared to the horror of certainty.

All this death. All this destruction.

My fault ...

“Look around you, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. Look around you with the eyes of a man, not the heart of a boy.” It was spoken so softly. Not an admonition, but a plea. Jalal moved closer. “Is it not for the better?”