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Date Posted: 14:56:41 01/14/08 Mon
Author: Mary
Author Host/IP: cpe-72-224-142-55.maine.res.rr.com / 72.224.142.55
Subject: Characters & Shadows - Chapter 31
In reply to: Mary 's message, "Characters & Shadows - Cont." on 20:44:05 01/09/08 Wed

Note: This chaper is a little short - I'm sorry about that. It's just how it came out. But I will have more soon. Thank you to all those that are reading!!


Chapter 31

“I had to take the job so I would have enough money to stay in my apartment.”

Michael was stunned by those words, “But you have the role in the company…”

She slightly shook her head, “Not enough. I have no savings, nothing else. The contract set minimal salary until I proved myself with this show.”

Michael had no idea how they had decided to pay her, he had just assumed a full salary which was a very generous amount, but that was the norm for the role she was playing, “That isn’t how things are done. I didn’t know.”

“I know you didn’t.” she tried to reassure him.

“You should have told me.” He said to her gently.

He was just such a kind man, how she had taken advantage of him in this situation was just cruel in her mind, “No need, I can take care of myself, I always have.”

“But part of having a relationship is letting others help you.” It was so vatally important to him that she begin to understand this. He didn’t know what relationships she had been in prior to meeting him but obviously they were not the kind that Micheal would have wanted her to have.

“I’m just really tired now. Sorry.” Her eyes were starting to close and Michael was furious at himself for tiring her so when she was so ill.

He would continue to mentally thrash himself for his indifference to her needs later, for now he whispered, “Sh. Don’t be sorry. Just sleep. I’ll take care of everything else.”

And he would be taking care of everything else. How dare they not pay her as she should be paid. She had to take a second job as a waitress to be able to pay her rent. His anger was palpable as he stood trying to take deep breaths and calm down. The most important thing was making sure Nikita was tken care of now. The rest would wait, but he would get answers.

****

Madeline was growing more impatient with Paul by the second, “I need to know what is going on with the company.”

But he brushed aside her words like they were an annoying gnat to him with a sweep of his hand, “I own it, I tell you and everyone else what you all need to know. Nothing more.”

Now she was getting angry and frustrated, “What is wrong with you? You haven’t been the same no matter what I do, I can’t seem to get through to you.”

“Maybe you just need to understand that our relationship isn’t the same anymore.”

“And just what does that mean?”

“It means that as long as I continue to have needs you will maintain our sexual relationship. But that is the only thing that we have. Business is separate from that.”

“So I can be your whore whenever you want, but I am to keep quiet and do what I am told?” she spat at him with venom in her tone.

“Essentially yes, that would be quite nice.” He told her using a polite condescending tone.

She could not believe this, “We have run this company for years. I have been your partner and done your dirty work and now you want me to just be your sex toy for whenever you feel an itch?”

“That is exactly what I want. And let me remind you that you were highly compensated for doing – as you call it – my ‘dirty work’. So don’t get any ideas that you were used in any way. In essence you may actually have been more like a nicely paid call girl.”

“How dare you!”

She raised her hand to slap him but he caught it at her wrist and squeezed tightly not letting go, “Oh I dare all I want Madeline. You are nothing without me. Nothing. I own you, I have from the first time that you spread your legs for me. You thought you had such control, you had nothing. This company is mine and you work for me and that is all there is.”

He then let her go and turned sitting behind the desk with a smug look on his face, “At least until I can get rid of Corrine, then all this money, the house, the cars, stocks, all of it…it will be mine. I won’t need anybody or anything. The theater can then go fuck itself for all I care. I will have everything that I want.”

“You are such a bastard.”

“Maybe. But you are stuck with me., I can make sure that you don’t work for anyone else and you know it. So here is how it is going to be, you will do exactly what I tell you to do and you will continue to be paid well and your reputation stays intact. If you try even once to leave – I will ruin you so that you never work again. Take your pick.”

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