There was a pause. Eporner It made me wonder if that’s how she saw me – as nothing more than an asset. Marduke alone took stories five through seven, but aside from Marduke, my building also housed insurance firms, lawyers, investors, and a few boutiques. Had I not been serviced by Bobbi after my alarm went off, I’d have been seriously tempted to send everyone else away and take her to my office for a private meeting. How much did he know? The other thing was how she referred to them as assets. Was her life really that bad that she had no one she could call to come get her? “Where am I supposed to go?”
“Home? They’re competent assets to be valued. Combined with the ruined makeup and the large love bite I’d left on her neck, she looked a little rough. The one sitting nearest to me was Caucasian, but her complexion gave me
