This Devil Bargains

I sat alone for a while, unaware of the time or of what was going on in the outside world.

I stood, paced, and sat back down, repeating the cycle every time I felt energized to start it up again.

I thought and thought and the more I did the more nothing seemed to make sense.

Nothing about everything made sense, if you caught my drift.

Questions jumped into my head one after another, piling up as answers were only given to one or two.

For example, the question that still thought I would have a normal life.

Yeah, that one was answered quickly as Jacob's head replayed in my head.

So far, he had called me a property and an asset, I wondered what was going to be up next.

Fuck, I was envisioning the questions in my head as living things now.

I searched around the room on my second round of the stand, pace and sit cycle, looking for signs of my phone or any phone at all. I needed to know what was going.

And I'm sure you're wondering why I was pacing instead of trying to leave, I had tried t