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doesn't tell you,
then you're dead, and all that’s left is for your heart to stop
beating.”
    Rikki sighed.
He did not want to consider what Jared was saying - to him he was
wrong - no matter how sensible he was. Jared was wrong no matter what!
    “ Jared, if you
aint gonna catch my drift, then we too different. I can't have my
manager going in the opposite direction. I can't have a manager going
against.” He closed his eyes and lowered his head at an attempt of
sorrow. “Jared,” he continued “I can't. You pullin me
back ,” he said with as doleful a voice as
he could act out.
    The secretary
tried to hide her pleasure but with the
pouting of her lips and a cough it escape.
    In front of
her. Jared thought. No, Rikki, you’re not sorrowful, it's a mask. Not even the
decency to send her out.
    “ Abigail, see
to it about his money and,” he stopped and
looked at Jared, the fake sorrow gone from his face,
“ w e'll tell 'em that you resigned, that
you are tired- we'll think of something.” It was shocking to Jared
how relieve d Rikki actually seemed about dismissing him and
so he decided not to argue or to correct but simply to let go and
he stood up not looking at Rikki or the secretary and walked to the
door and opened it. He stood in the open doorway
with his back to Rikki.
    “ Best of luck
to your album. You won't see me again. And if I see you, I won’t
know you ,” Jared said his disappointment
audible in his throat. He walked out and closed the door behind
him.
    It was the last time Rikki saw
him.
    After an
interval of silence, Abigail, with an exulting sigh, stood up and
went to the window and stood next to Rikki.
    “ At last.
Thought he wouldn't leave us.”
    “ Strip down
and go lay on the bed ,” Rikki commanded
her.
    “ Yes
sir ,” s he replied
seductively and went to the bedroom.

Chapter 3: One of the victims.

    A person who believes that
there is nothing more to life than just work, money and sex is a
useless person. A person not only useless to himself but to
society. If such a person is in sufficient power, his influence
reproduces and spreads throughout the weak minded and unfortunately
the weak minded outnumbers the others dramatically. Disappointed he
will be when the wilful take over and bring destruction to him,
for, there is a force, a universal force within the living that
brings goodness home.
    Seven months
elapsed since Rikki's dismissal of Jared. The first three of those months his son was born.
    “ I am not
after his money ,” Chantel said to the
social worker. “I just want to be able to raise my son, Ms.
Clarke.”
    “ I understand,
ma’am. And you say he refuses to take the test ?” The social worker, Ms. Clarke, looked over glasses rested
on her squat nose.
    “ He told me
that he knew it wasn't his. I tried to plead with him, tried to
remind him how much I loved him, but he's …, ” she paused and looked up to keep the tears from coming out
of her eyes. She swallowed hard and said “He is just too stubborn,
he was not always like this.”
    “They all always were
not... Chantel, I'll ask you this once,” she said
taking off her spectacles and resting her hands on the desk. “This
scenario you are in, it's all too familiar to me darling, and I’ve
dealt with many a case as shallow as yours. So,” She stopped, as if
to stretch the connection between
what she was going to ask and what she had been saying ,
“ a re you positively sure that you have
made no mistake and that the child is his?”
    Chantel did
not hesitate. Answering the question, she showed no nervousness but
a bit of an indignant tone , “The child is
his ma’am.”
    Ms. Clarke sighed and thought
about the number of times innocent looking young girls had come to
her for assistance only to find out they were lying after all her
work in assisting them. She did not believe this girl. To her, the
long un-obscene dress Chantel wore and her neatly done hair, were
probably just a false impression worn to