CorbinLong after the meeting ended, I stayed in the office room, nursing my tangled thoughts. Everyone else had left, but I had a full packet of cigarettes laid out beside me and a bottle of Jack I knew was stored in the filing cabinet to my left, so I was ready for the long haul.
I lit one, sucked deeply, and watched the flame-tipped end flare.
None of this makes any sense! I thought. What the f**k is going on?
I looked back on the meeting and Faria’s strange behavior. She barely seemed upset at all. In fact, she seemed overjoyed! Did she really hate her aunt that much? Not to mention her wanting to ‘leave the whorehouse to rot.’ From what the rumors said, Faria had worked hard with Venus Michaels to build that place up into the respectable, money-making machine that it was. Why did sh
