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pissing me off. I hate my job enough as it is, I don’t need to go in already riled up,” he said as he turned and got into the car.
         Halfway to work he stopped to get gas. As he pumped the gas, he noticed a pretty Hispanic girl using the pump across from him. She looked up and smiled as she continued pumping her own gas. He glanced across the street when he saw him. Looking back quickly, the man he’d seen watching him the day before was there again. This time he was standing on the street corner across from the gas station. Still wearing the black fedora and coat.
         “Hey!” Tony said as he walked toward the road. “Who are you?” He started to cross the road but a semi zipped by. When it had passed, the man was gone again.
         “What the hell?” Tony said to no one in particular as he walked back to his car. When he arrived at the pump, the Hispanic girl was looking at him with concern.
         “You ok mister?” She asked.
         “Uh. Yeah. Sorry. I’m fine. I’m fine.” He said as he replaced the gas pump and climbed back into the car. The rest of the commute was uneventful.  H When he reached his job, he walked inside and arrived to find his boss, Teresa hovering by his cubicle, glaring at him.
         “What’s wrong? I’m early ,” he said.
         “Come by my desk after your first break. We need to talk.”
         “Talk? About what?”
         “After your break I said! You’ll find out soon enough ,” She said as she stormed back to her desk. Tony wondered if that woman ever smiled a real smile. He’d seen her smiling and laughing around work, but it was always some fake, contrived laugh. Though in his experience there weren’t many real people in the corporate world. Everyone had multiple faces. Teresa thought she was such hot shit, but, if for some reason the company decided to get rid of her, she’d be a broke nobody like everyone else. That’s what drove him nuts about the corporate mindset and there wasn’t much he could do about it.
         Time went rather quickly until his first break. He headed to the bathroom for his first stop. As he washed his hands, the man in the fedora appeared behind him in the mirror. Tony jumped and spun around.
         “Holy shit!” He screamed. This time the man didn’t disappear. He was standing just a few feet from Tony. Tony was surprised the man was shorter than he looked from a distance. The man was Hispanic with a gray mustache.
         “Hello, Anthony,” the man said.
         “Who are you?”
         “My name is Domingo. I’ve been watching you for a long time.”
         “So I’ve noticed. Why have you been following me? What do you want?”
         “I want to make you a business proposition. Something much more lucrative than this place, and you can be your own boss.”
         “Why would I do business with some weirdo like you?” Tony asked.
         Domingo reached into his jacket and took out a stack of hundred dollar bills.
         “This is for you. You just need to complete a simple task, but half of this is yours right now if you say yes.”
     

Chapter 4
     
         Slade Schrader stepped out of the house and into his car. As he drove off, he took a big sigh of relief. His meeting with the boss had gone much better than expected. The boss had seen what he did with Spider and thought it was funny. He was upset about the money, but gave Slade two weeks to double the shipment. It would take some doing to round up that many girls, but it could be done.
         He had men out looking for new drivers and prospects. He’d have it covered for sure. As he sat at a light, his phone rang. It was Domingo.
         “Yeah,” Slade said.
         “Yes sir. He went for it, just like I knew he would.”
         “Good. He know what he’s driving?”
         “Nope, no idea. I told him it wasn’t his concern. Better that way. He won’t be acting all