Rich and Poor by Jacob Wren

Author:Jacob Wren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BookThug
Published: 2016-04-08T19:46:55+00:00

Part 2

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I had hired a detective to trace his history, find out who he was and why he had attacked me. It was then I learned that Emmett had also hired a detective, from the same agency, the agency we most often use. We had both hired practically the same detective to find out about the same man, only Emmett had done so two years before me. How did they know each other? How does a concert pianist turned under-the-table dishwasher possibly meet an Ivy League operator like Emmett? I still have no fucking idea.

At first I spoke openly about the attack, laughed it off, said it reminded me of my days fighting other kids on the block, that I missed those days, was still up for a good rumble when the opportunity arose. But when I joked the reactions were rarely jovial. I realized there must be rumours. Who would want to attack me and why? Other companies looking to gain an edge? People I’d fucked over, former employees? My suspicion was this: as they speculated on where the attack originated, they simultaneously realized just how many people in the world had reason to desire my injury or death. Then it was no longer funny. It was as if there must be something wrong with me if I had so many enemies, had pissed off so many different kinds of people. I was tainted. If, off the top of your head, an endless list of possible avengers leap to mind, does that still leave me as a valid option? What evidence is there that I’m the one who should keep running the show? So I stopped mentioning the attack and no one else mentioned it either. And yet I could feel it was still in the air, worried I was becoming paranoid or, worse, that something had actually changed.

I still haven’t told anyone about the connection between the attack and Emmett. Everyone liked Emmett, and if they had to choose between me and him, who knows. Even I liked Emmett. For years after he left, I barely thought of him; it was as if I had thrown him out of my mind, and now I find myself thinking about him constantly, every day. What is the connection?

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