“Watching You: Part 2”

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Money leaves a trail. I’ve known that since before I had any of my own worth tracking.  It doesn’t matter how many accounts you route it through or how many names you put on the paperwork –  eventually it touches something public, a filing, a registration, a name attached to an address, and once it’s…

I took the long way home. I needed the extra fifteen minutes to think, or I told myself that’s what I needed them for. My phone buzzed somewhere around the second turn. Janet. Wanna come over. I didn’t give it a second thought. Made a U-turn at the next light and drove the other direction…

I was still in the office when it got dark outside. Rain against the windows, the kind that starts thin and forgets to stop. Everyone else had left hours earlier.  I don’t remember when exactly the floor had emptied – I’d stopped tracking it somewhere after seven, the way you stop tracking a sound that’s…