Much To Her Annoyance
#WritcoStoryPrompt43
The scandal could ring the death of his career. The naked woman in his bed lay with unseeing eyes staring at him. He stood over her with a knife in his hand and no memory of who she was or why he had killed her...
This had all started somewhere out in the desert, just north of Raton. The deserts there ware never forgiving and often fatal but people often lived long and fruitful lives without ever encountering death. Since this had all begun he just couldn't seem to stay away from it but he could half understand that with all the karma he had amassed through the evil he had done throughout his life, hanging heavy and incalculable in it's weighty reckoning over his life.
The whole thing began; as many often do, with a deal that could not be passed up. The buy-in had been a low figure with a sure and lucrative pay off but then it had quickly escalated, as most of these scams do.
His entire life he had heard about real estate scams and how easily it was to be suckered in but he had thought that if he paid close enough attention that he could...
The scandal could ring the death of his career. The naked woman in his bed lay with unseeing eyes staring at him. He stood over her with a knife in his hand and no memory of who she was or why he had killed her...
This had all started somewhere out in the desert, just north of Raton. The deserts there ware never forgiving and often fatal but people often lived long and fruitful lives without ever encountering death. Since this had all begun he just couldn't seem to stay away from it but he could half understand that with all the karma he had amassed through the evil he had done throughout his life, hanging heavy and incalculable in it's weighty reckoning over his life.
The whole thing began; as many often do, with a deal that could not be passed up. The buy-in had been a low figure with a sure and lucrative pay off but then it had quickly escalated, as most of these scams do.
His entire life he had heard about real estate scams and how easily it was to be suckered in but he had thought that if he paid close enough attention that he could...