Steve maintained a low profile over the next few months. He managed to exploit his research assistants and publish several more academic articles in leading journals. But beneath his success, there was an urge welling up inside of him. Steve needed to feed his rage. He often called it feeding the demon inside him. He was addicted to anger, and with every perceived slight, he wanted revenge. For this reason, he decided to travel to Fort Lauderdale to pay a visit to Alison Green, the obnoxious mother of one of his former classmates.
Alison Green was a retired physician who studied medicine at Stanford and trained at Harvard. She moved to South Florida and her daughter, Elizabeth, and Steve went to middle school and high school together. Alison and Elizabeth also lived down the street from S
