"Who the fuck is that?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKqZbqYFMy
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBwW3a9GM3
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gsNQI5Ero
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He chuckles deep in his throat.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9Ar59cG5u
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmZLPSYtul
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwmmTRvRXr
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Well, so do I.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpchzQzSG6X
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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."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXT8CDOl8b
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZx4jMHADR
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ076gdjjTFv
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUikG6z0vrA
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8dCD4Ekam
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwFs75Ogxx
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs28TTUiIqp
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19k2DgiX2s
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDrxaD5vf1
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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."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNM0sbURI4I
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKppLVsXRf
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyHC4hpYRX
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"Yes?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8Xt9XKSrU
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"Um... Why?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRYyAVDkxW
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPi9RtqgTv
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"Huh?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmy8fp16aw
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaZwTarKGl
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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—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4XU3j31Vi
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1L60w8v1B
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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..."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzCa7aQ8t6
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyoBghdbuK
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"Shit! Kelly—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfLhRrimoU
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8JBBMB9Rb
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxHoWmq1sA
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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. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiUabhUi1S
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyFRl9Np5H
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjPL6I3TWD
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0BnE9038x
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZafL6yvXiy
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx4CXqQMuI
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLcAdJGtDO
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBpVzvONzC
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZZdClrcgn
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCp3VggTNw0
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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?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYpDVNAeLp
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I gulp. "I have to go—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGF7uUa9QUC
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sQko6tQnJ
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMPxmxfIYr
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My face heats up.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDsQ1bEXPb
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"I am not."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyzvxVjHJj
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBShN3ksFKj
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHSp24TdwY
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQunWBZ4GN
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"Prove it."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3VPFAYBsD
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1zdczwAO6
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0M7OoxiBsR
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUG7QgS9PT
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpaMD0XkeE
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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. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyTqqjOKd5
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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—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmQx95SsCO
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"I was doing my job—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHK8A3WmKd
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"And I get to say who can—"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7io9kysTtp
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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!"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iZhq5Xqid
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvtZ77G1hm
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***592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rj9SQcfag
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Dear Leah,592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv65QCW1VBD
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJQkvCMV63
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpqZ5QROLr
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIeIAbbARk
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Sincerely,592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CxSxsdBP1
David.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGas1KrBUj7
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdj2WeZtYc
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKIMdnpicu
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The door opens before I can knock. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OkiTiCLA3
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"Good morning, Leah." 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7V8354XgOh
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"David."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHEkv8yJwU
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQvJiyk3QX
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtvc48Pf8G
I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezbl0y9lFa
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3J17n9hU9A
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"Beer?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxh2mAFB4Y4
592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoYPatUeTI
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"Yeah."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcf21TceKdd
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And he gives it to me this time.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxFKMwI8xT
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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.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JSODBGGaK
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoPguZoUVm
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJ0msr4FvK
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He sighs, then looks up at me.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQgLA1GZ16
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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."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnidX82OVt
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhw2K9IUFz
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"I... I accept your apology David."592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGKy1A5mjV
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His eyes light up.592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxljs8JP8y
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"Really? So we're friends now?"592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHESKJ4k1Lm
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?592Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkOVqLMp8m
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"Not even close."
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