"Who the fuck is that?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNjul2LTqQ
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpx7L3Yt2mS
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"Another photographer," I say as nonchalantly as I can.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhIYmGH9SX
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He chuckles deep in his throat.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxTy9UtIb5
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"Ms Anderson, did I say that I wanted anyone else to come to this... gathering?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7IrpNTEf4
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2pdXApPhi
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Well, so do I.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYqzvjf7cL
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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."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnudWSSv9W
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94tMGFNOqC
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"Hello, Leah," he says, shaking my hand with poorly concealed enthusiasm.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVLfCSfkMy
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"Shemarré Martin. It's a pleasure to meet you."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwrbzuKuCM
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His smile broadens. "Please. Call me Shem."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhW5IU3uOq
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As I circle the family reunion several times, taking photographs, Shem passed on whatever he felt necessary to me.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYiuEuT8yC
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"Stay in the background. Make them forget you're even there."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpqMKK4Fp8
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"Candids are always better; they speak the truth."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxlpNw7sKv
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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."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg77g3FAfdt
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Now, everyone is packing up, and Shem has to leave for his daughter's cello recital. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IOfp4VlW8
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"Um... Shem?" I say, unsure of how to phrase the question that I want to ask.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgkEYyhuDH
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"Yes?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPCFppodBw
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"Um... Why?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFg5EgmfZUS
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He looks at me as if I'm stupid for a few seconds.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsxObrmnH7
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"Huh?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmqQrS2Oot
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"Why did you do it? Help me? You're so busy, but you went out of your wa—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLk6wYWtX8
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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—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXka5A9P3X
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"—and one in a wheelchair," I finish.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7JKsuM7z6
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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..."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmj5W80Nn1
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He shrugs, and then looks at his watch. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN86E1wdPB1
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"Shit! Kelly—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5nctT7M9o
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalaM5eb50v
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPixAqikBk
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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. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESx5jz6kFu
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For the first time, I actually feel intimidated by him.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLncOABpOTH
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Which means that I have to leave. Now.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DBG0fZFIJ
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWwXp72f3N
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I don't have to look up to know who it is.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsWNCoUQ4u
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"I wasn't done speaking to you."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXfjy1tGJ9
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"Well, I was." With a shaking hand, I try again to close the door — and he pulls it back. Again.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFo7yVTFBa
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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?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWp4TDrofkB
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I gulp. "I have to go—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1O8mdQr6R
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"I don't think you have to do shit. I think you're scared of me."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOEqOwxrM5
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My face heats up.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7y27C09EL7
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"I am not."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6AjNYop3b
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He smirks. He knows he just got me.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuivRQNb4u
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"Prove it."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPu3qZJzSS
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With a shaking hand, I push the door open and step out, sealing my fate.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWDmhj5pYR
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"Much better," he says, with a look of approval.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwciSmPO87
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"Fuck you," I growl, my irritation with this man getting the better of me.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgdEt7TUB0
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He just smiles at me as if I just said the most beautiful word in the world.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoinqxrrSSH
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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. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSseM1qEjwM
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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—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOwOSCD4W7
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"I was doing my job—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmosfe9RHas
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"And I get to say who can—"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cFnm84rnG
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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!"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZyKgOMZRe
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g4WvV6xm2
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Dear Leah,526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTVKKlsxlW
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4A28vBJxEs
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjZdSxfGnb
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Sincerely,526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrc2gxnHpu
David.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1bN2egtkA
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBT8AjtJMPz
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiPYkiy1kT
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The door opens before I can knock. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzv5gflmCd6
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"Good morning, Leah." 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaa4TMTsLxA
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"David."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SLGLF6ziG
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I take the liberty to sit down on the couch, noting that my photograph now hangs beside the television. 526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwbwWgoZMI
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"Beer?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPo4DytZNXv
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"Yeah."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDoruMs28G
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And he gives it to me this time.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxjIEKNwRn
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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.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIoowrXFZY
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"I... I just want to apologise. Again."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK23900Jva
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"David, I really don't give a shit anymore."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTi1kEfcnIt
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He sighs, then looks up at me.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdkgwMnCNG
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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."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7VCLlqsXm
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I'm actually surprised by the sincerity in his voice and eyes. He actually has some degree of decency. Wow.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjDVpd18PS
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"I... I accept your apology David."526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiCWTMFVLK
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His eyes light up.526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vnTwdJfnB
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"Really? So we're friends now?"526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymZyo83QkH
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I have to laugh humourlessly at that. Really? Friends?526Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyiSAp1jqL
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"Not even close."
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