The Price Of Time の小説・ストーリー

I type a text to the driver, even though I’m sitting right behind him. I'll give you a $50 tip if you get me there by 4:55. He reads it at a red light, nods, and cuts across two lanes of traffic, running the next yellow. Fifty dollars. That’s groceries for a week. That’s laundry for a month. But right now, it’s the price of a miracle. We screech to the curb at 4:52 PM. The pawn shop. The metal gates are pulled down. The "CLOSED" sign hangs crooked in the window.

“That’s cute.” My blood runs cold. “You took your sweet time,” he continues. “And time, Michael, is money.” I straighten. “What does that mean?” “It means the price has gone up now.” I close my eyes slowly. “How much up?” “Seven hundred and fifty thousand,” Abel says without hesitation. “Cash. In the next twenty four hours or you find your beloved wife's body.” “That wasn’t the deal,” I snap. Abel scoffs. “There was never a deal. There was an opportunity and you should have taken it when you still had the chance. You missed it.”

"Good morning, boss." "You're late!" Now, that was what I was avoiding. "How many minutes?" "A minute." He furrowed his brows at me, and I recoiled, "At least before you sent me out again to knock." "You should know that we're talking about the minutes you entered fully." "Ten minutes_" "And_" "57 seconds." "How much is a minute?" "One dollar." "How much are you owning the company?" "Approximately, eleven bucks," I spoke with a voice under my nose.

Seeing how Calvin had succeeded, the other trainees also tried to follow in his footsteps. As Larissa was leaving the company, all of them rushed toward her and requested to buy a minute of her time. Larissa revealed a sly smile and said, "Due to inflation, one minute of my time now costs five million. Are you guys still interested in buying?" The trainees were baffled. Larissa was such a swindler. Her price had gone up ridiculously fast. If it were one million dollars, they might have still been able to manage it. But five million dollars…

"Like Thunder Shoes, starting price, 50,000 Low Grade Spirit Stone, each increase in price is not less than five thousand!" This master is quite cunning, although he did not have a high position of presiding over the auction of practice Pill Master before, it is even more suitable for this auction, taking out a few precious objects for auction first, taking out a relatively small mascot, so that everyone has a time shock absorber, but the others consume a lot of resources, it is also possible to borrow a little more time than this. Behind the auction, the influence was too great, and he was really good at calculating.

Elijah said. “What? That’s too much! Who is this person anyways? What does he want with the machine?” Seth said, looking very worried. Who would want the time machine so badly that he would bid at twenty million dollars? There was no way Seth was going to beat that, it was way too much and beyond his budget too. “He’s someone. A dignified personality. I’m sure he has great plans for my time machine, although I feel like they are not all good plans.” Elijah said.

“Thank you, love.” Maddison's call came in and Clara added her to the call. “Hi babies. Were you guys enjoying any gist behind my back? That’s $10 from each of you.” They all burst into laughter. Maddison had that rule set in high school, they weren’t allowed to have juicy gists without the third person present, whoever it was. If anyone did, they had to pay a fine to the third person, whoever it might be. Fortunately for Maddison she was always late on gists so she ripped them alone. It was her scamming scheme.

We are still silent and still as CJ continues talking. "And I've said this before... Time is really expensive. Fuck! Time is expensive. Even a billionaire can't afford time let alone buy it. Money... You can lose ten billion dollars and find a way to recover it but time... When an hour is gone, it's gone. You can't get that back! " He's talking a lot of sense and it's funny how he's not angry at me after all the lies they told him I said. "If this happens again... " CJ pauses. "If you come to my office to waste my time, I will fire each one of you without a second thought. "

Sara said as she looked at him, “ I can’t imagine living like that.” “On borrowed money?” He asked. “No on all those dead bodies,” Sara said. She knew of everything, and as soon as the place was completely cleared, she put the whole thing on the market. It seemed a collector of weird properties wanted it and drove the price up in a bidding war with a local farmer that just wanted the land. Garett nearly laughed that they wanted to pay that much for something because his stepmother and stepsisters killed so many men. As soon as she could, she sold it to the man and wiped her hands of it all.

“I am Nathen. I believe your first name is Kate?” “Kit. My name is Kit.” She said. Somehow it was like meeting an old friend again. All three seemed vaguely familiar, but she still couldn’t place it. Every time she tried to think of where she knew them from a sliver of that dream popped into her head. She knew the dream would come back and haunt her today of all days. “This buying of the company, I didn’t even know it was up for sale.” “It wasn’t. I decided two months ago it was time to get into this market after seeing your speech in Kyoto. That was the deciding factor. I wanted to help you usher in the scientific revolution so to speak.” Nathan replied casually.