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"Why bother? I just want to go back to sleep So let’s get this over with"

"Yes, sir," he says, handing me a phone "Just press send"

I press the tab and the phone starts ringing She picks up on the third ring sounding incoherent "Hello?"

The bitch has the audacity to be asleep? "Carey Keefe? I hope I’ you"

She clears her throat "Mr Asher Why"--she chuckles sleepily--"I had assuotten about ood for you?"

"Now My house My security ive you directions"

I don’t wait for an answer, just hand the phone to Ray He rattles off the street and tells her twenty minutes I’ I’m up in the hills But who cares I’ll be here if she’s late

After Ray hangs up he leaves to go wait it out We have a path that goes down to the street below I own four lots on the street just below my home Most people don’t know that I’m a paranoid fucker when it comes toStalkers on et stalkers often, photographers hanging out by the end of ate when I lived in Trousdale, but ever since I s have settled down

Part of that was irlfriends Only dates And dates were business deals Negotiated with contracts and signatures

The sex came from other places The subs But they had contracts too I tried to leave them satisfied, if unhappy Money does that

When Felicity and I first ate Mostly it was the Buzz assholes But I never did anything interesting I never brought girls horew up the son of Adaht me well

Keep your head down and work That should be our fauidance and power behind the on behind the scenes--hell, I saw it at the release parties froe But every time a star fucked up, et what they deserve You want to party, Vaughn? he’d askyou do is private

That was the lesson drilled into ot into any trouble as a teen But like et that first taste of real freedom Couple that with the ret

But , but it fixes o back up to the main backyard and walk over to the pool, then wade in up to ht it was an extravagant luxury to put in the river and spend so h we technically met in a bar, we met properly on that lazy river in Saint Tho about that dayher dirty words back in her face All I wanted at that

But even then I had this feeling about her Like she was different Denying my drink offer in the bar I shakeMr Buttinski, she called h as I picture her back then So carefree and happy So sure of herself So feisty