Chapter 14 I Miss You

The knife hit the floor. "Grant, murder is illegal," I said calmly. took a step back, straightened my collar, and put on that practiced smile again. "Besides, if you die, who's going to pay my final balance?" "Final balance?" Grant looked stunned. "Yeah." I pulled out an invoice I'd had ready for a while. "The contract may have expired, but the past few days came with extra fees. There was the companion talk fee, the emotional damages fee, and the fright compensation fee from just now. Please settle it. "It's five million dollars total. Transfer or check?" Grant stared at the invoice. Then, he looked at my face, the one that apparently screamed greedy in his eyes. Something in him broke for good. He finally understood that no matter what he did, even if he died, it would only register as a number to be cashed out in my world. He'd lost so completely there wasn't even dignity left to salvage. "Get out…" he said quietly, closing his eyes. "Take the money… and get out." "Alrigh