Fuel For Obsession: A Race
I pushed the door slowly, every muscle coiled, ready for an intruder, a reporter, someone with a camera and a death wish.
What I found was worse.
Atticus Vale sat in my living room, in the dark, in my favorite chair, a glass of my scotch in his hand. He was Fifty- six, silver-haired, sharp-featured, dressed in a suit that cost more than most people's cars. He didn't look up when I entered. He never did.
"You missed the investor meeting," he said, his voice smooth and cold as a blade on ice.
"I was at a board meeting."