"Who the fuck is that?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDm1dPH2vJB
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This comes from Rochester as he watches Shemarré, a man with perhaps the most ridiculous and pretentious name that I have ever heard, walk towards where I am currently standing, surrounded by his family members.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiofmgqXDjl
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI8zh9SxLr
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He chuckles deep in his throat.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbC5z1QG5Xq
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlezB1C9HM
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I have to hold back my chuckle, because I can hear the anger in his voice. This man does not like to be overruled. He enjoys getting his own way.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnK2a193KKw
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Well, so do I.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0K1AihbRH4
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"David," I say, emphasising his first name just to piss him off, "you gave me a job, and I'm simply doing it. If you have certain... quirks, you should have had the decency to sit down and discuss them with me, rather than bulldozing me with demands the way you did."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCos5ZT5Sf
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I walk off, and leave Rochester with his jaw ticking and his hand shaking around his glass. I keep walking until I'm face to face with Martin.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbS9VDQ2DCJ
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65gRPVQSMq
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9XwkVWrX1
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyodvj32t4
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZbG26C6KZ
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWKOatfe0F
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP63Z9SUP0a
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"At events like these, the ratio of candids to posed photographs should be approximately ten to one. That should be your aim."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1nU0l9PE3
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnU2Y2UCBme
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHKWTHFy5H
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"Yes?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8Hr5Fy9zz
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"Um... Why?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYaGk7tbjiH
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2zvdSmZQw
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"Huh?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOp3V3LvkZ
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6fgENa4sK
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"I saw one of your photographs at a show two years ago. It was called 'Wheels'; a photograph of two children, playing in a meadow. One on a bicycle—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wbnoRMIPJ
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWKvMgKU39
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"Yes," he says with a smile. "They looked so... happy. I loved how... it was just not what you would expect. Wheelchairs and joy... And I knew that I had to meet you. So when your agent called..."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFuqAVWYye
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTIDovS7U0
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"Shit! Kelly—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJAgzdJKHs
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"Go," I say, as he walk-runs to his car, in a desperate attempt to not miss his child's recital.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7e8BgM4NoJ
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I let out a shaky breath, all too aware that David Rochester has been stabbing me with his eyeballs for the past five hours, and I now have no one to protect me.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDEyp2oEZr
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Since Shem, drove off approximately three minutes ago, David has been giving me this "you're mine now" look, with a fucking smirk, which, if I'm going to be honest, is starting to creep me the fuck out. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzt0wBkR1TQ
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1SNVZQmi3
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpauXF3vHj
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As soon as I get the chance I sprint to my car, and throw my camera bag onto the passenger seat as soon as I sit. I let out a breath that I didn't know that I was holding, and then go to close the door, which is pulled back.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLJ1iSsLsz
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkneS00RBba
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDIQAGl45J
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6ApgbR6p1
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"I think... it would be more... polite to speak to me outside of the car. Wouldn't you agree, Ms Anderson?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFNyAEiK91
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I gulp. "I have to go—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡft5RZRGFcT
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoa9AkPX4yk
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My face heats up.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSx7LafFzPN
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"I am not."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysKj1ybp9E
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbMoy9WYrA
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"Prove it."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOowZACtDJq
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpMBff8F3m
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q1UoxO38y
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJ44mBr0bD
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjTorfeII8
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"Awe, I never knew that Little Ms Anderson was a potty mouth," he says, caging me in against the car making me feel so... small. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCgQe1advn
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"Now let me explain something to you," he says dangerously low, his lips against my ear, "when I give instructions, I want them followed. I don't strangers showing up at my events—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnBTyNGRc0
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"I was doing my job—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvg0D57xXWs
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"And I get to say who can—"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbHurCfSuH
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"Then don't ask me to do shit for you again! You're so fucking demanding! You can't even wait until the next morning for an answer, and I can't bring anyone along? Fuck you!"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkruGShzrhI
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I push his right arm out of the way and jump into my car. He's still standing there when I drive off.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCg7KNy5Mf3
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***574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVdmuWsdjO
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Dear Leah,574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHd7FsqQh8
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I sincerely apologise for my prick-ish behaviour towards you over the period of time which I have known you. I can't promise that I will behave, but I can promise that I will try.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUOKLXSZXz
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I have your cheque prepared — I will be home all day today, so just come by and pick it up. If you want to have nothing to do with me, I completely understand.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP38l93dWQI
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Sincerely,574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vj26Zu9sA
David.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemplnsBI7W
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Please note that this is a textmessage that I received from David Rochester at 3:57 a.m. this morning, a text that woke me the fuck up, and the only reason why I am going to his apartment at 9 a.m. on this lovely Saturday is because he has my money.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FipdplU23
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Briefly, I wonder what the hell his new job would be. No amount of money, however, would see me working with that asshole again.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsg94v7l9A1
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The door opens before I can knock. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3A8mBIFRk
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"Good morning, Leah." 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uvTda8eWC
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"David."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtMofbqCk4
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4oslWfwia
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"Beer?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfErNYZOfb
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"Yeah."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwSyTFaCwb
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And he gives it to me this time.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDKqC511Xg
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He flops down in the chair perpendicular to mine, and fiddles with a piece of paper, that looks suspiciously like a cheque.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbbyUOHDgQ
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxQHJIkp2Z
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ2aMxwerv
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He sighs, then looks up at me.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbv0Me6JUnk
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"Leah, my behaviour was unacceptable. I can be an asshole and sometimes, I don't realise it, but that's no excuse."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi84Llpa4s3
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcNcrobJ59
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"I... I accept your apology David."574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeCIgVKbts
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His eyes light up.574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2GOK4crUy
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"Really? So we're friends now?"574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWf0T507gp
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?574Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeYq9BNl1p
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"Not even close."
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