“You better call back whoever that was. It sounded important.” I close the door behind me before he has a chance to reply. The music is thumping a...s I walk down the steps. I’m dying of thirst and so ready to get my drink on. I maneuver to the bar, where Jason is working. He doesn’t even ask me what I want, he quickly makes me my drink. I thank him and begin to scan the room of party people. I spot a group of guys kind of at the side of the dance floor. They’re all talking to each other, but. Back then, people still bought VHSs, VCDs and DVDs. Video was rarely downloaded, and internet porn was mostly thumbnail galleries. It meant the price of a video was much higher and far more videos were sold.As I heaped on the praise, she became more and more mousey. She didn’t want to be reminded of all the ways she compromised herself, especially since she did it to herself. My reminding her was deliberate. I wanted her to run a field of emotions before the meeting started. I changed tack,. A male assistant came into the room. “This way,” he said looking back at me. I nodded at all of them as I exited the room. My back felt like it was on fire, I twisted and stretched as I walked. Most of the assistants were looking at me as we walked by them. “Why are they staring?” I asked. “None of the other Partners have ever been called to his office,” the man said as we walked down a narrow hallway. Our CEO was a private man. Not many people had met him in person. The man stopped at a solid. He woke up, startled. It was Alexandra screaming. He quickly got up and flew downstairs, thinking of the worst possible situations that could possibly be occurring less than 20 feet away. By the time he reached his bedroom door, he had already conjured up the idea that Alex was being tied up and kidnapped and would soon be shipped out for human-trafficking. That would be the over-protective mind of an older brother speaking, of course. He finally got downstairs and threw open the sliding glass.