It had been a busy day. As I watched the sunset, Caesar called me.Based on our different time zones, I knew it was midnight where he was.I wanted to decline the call, but I picked it up out of habit.There was no choice for me but to speak to him.No one said anything on the other end of the call. The background was noisy. I could tell he was at a bar.I called out to him twice, then frowned impatiently. "If you have nothing to say, I'm hanging up."Caesar was drunk. He slurred while speaking, sounding very upset. "Eva, you were always worried when I drank. You know I get rashes every time I have something to drink. Why won't you show concern for me anymore?"I know I went overboard with the plan to take Rosetta down."She rejected the luxury cars I gave her in the beginning, and I made fun of her for being pretentious, but when she started accepting my gifts, I felt happy, for some reason. It was like seeing a wild, homeless cat finally willing to take some food from my hand
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