"Who the fuck is that?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMGOAKn4d2
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTDOjLoRf1
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZp64l1zzZc
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He chuckles deep in his throat.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MpwoKoKmZ
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuhJ7fCuZ7
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDdm00lJeM
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Well, so do I.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9oVpGprPD
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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."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mQ2sNyTjA
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuHTZc6hTj
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaGFsj44ZU
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt5zkNrx9r
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoxiD8mkZu
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyat7KQfrQ
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbEduTHPgM
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptHUTiqSqd
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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."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlrqswlBFH
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkN6weRmQW6
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3JgPGCFG7
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"Yes?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3AO2vvNuO
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"Um... Why?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIaBn4HIKL
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXgcZR5lt5
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"Huh?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNW0WDbtIhh
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdSQWmEELP
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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—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9KOldP3Zf
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Or758qMm0
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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..."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPvNfLS9ma
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8E5nvxqOd
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"Shit! Kelly—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4rqFSgRn6
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskfEHvo0Nb
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUdtfzpCGk
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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. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ke0Y7c8mQ
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojjj9fe82K
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1y0EMOIrQ
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixNWun63I7
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlUkSBvyGZ
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNly8rpQD6l
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtgm7vUSPF
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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?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXf1tY5ofzg
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I gulp. "I have to go—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3VDKYMR7l
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9TmunJeHh
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My face heats up.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25YG9W35Z4
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"I am not."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPxRI4TUNK
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOg4fBv4SNZ
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"Prove it."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YPiRmfeVJ
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf50OaGJylk
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zFnuHQC7x
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWspSwUaXsM
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXm9F1ZMwNz
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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. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSfdDAWIhq
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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—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYOcK1WEOW
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"I was doing my job—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvFwBNXV6m
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"And I get to say who can—"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFwnLcgYCH
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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!"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERdctinYpE
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYQEP8cNwf
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Dear Leah,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd44rkhAhYd
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDiVkPAhaZ
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2xqGkpYbb
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Sincerely,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CHJVjENeW
David.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkaFyeb3IQ
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeToZqaPLh
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuFxz9jehK
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The door opens before I can knock. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCns6Z3CQ5
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"Good morning, Leah." 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJLj2LUcM6
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"David."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FgPYd7hn0
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3EkZpN1eX
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"Beer?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPAmnumBr3
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"Yeah."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡottZIYiNoi
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And he gives it to me this time.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdipbv2itG0
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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.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamfj52XMhS
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6KJmZOQmi
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Q80wlfjJy
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He sighs, then looks up at me.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7QsM9nVoH
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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."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRhXQW07sM
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuGCVH9qLR
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"I... I accept your apology David."523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajzP90rg1n
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His eyes light up.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNA081nHGh
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"Really? So we're friends now?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqAYNiBc46
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZFELQAXhb
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"Not even close."
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