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grabbed his
shirt in my hand. I was ready to spread his nose into his
eye-sockets but Vicky grabbed my arm.
    "Don’t waste time Vincent." She shouted at
me. "He's not worth it. He deserves it, but he's sure not worth it.
Just tell him, in short words, what the deal is and why he's going
to do exactly what we tell him to do."
    I jerked him back into his seat. She was
right of course. Assaulting him wouldn't make things any easier and
would only detract from what we were about to do to him.
    "You're a pussy Medici." He sneered at me.
"Just like I knew you were."
    This was going to be sweet.
    "Listen carefully William, my legal team is
always very clear on full disclosure prior to entering into any
agreement, particularly one as lucrative as this. You did not
provide full disclosure and therefore we will be suing aggressively
to have our fifty thousand dollars returned, plus damages, plus
legal costs."
    "Bring it on Manhattan." He sat back and
smiled - small change trying to act like big bucks.
    "The case could drag on for years, but trust
me, I won't lose any sleep over it because I know that win or lose,
I won’t have anything to do with the process other than the
briefest of court appearances, if even that. And as for the money?
Well frankly, it's petty cash. You on the other hand, will be
intimately involved in everything that takes place and by the time
you have exhausted all legal avenues, gone flat broke, more than
likely lost this dive you call a business and become accustomed to
sleeping in your car, I will have long since moved on to other
projects that will continue to make me and my corporation billions
in profits."
    I was deadly serious. He tried to keep on
smiling but he knew I meant every word of it. The pathetic veneer
of bravado wouldn’t last much longer.
    "Victoria meanwhile, will have developed
dozens of other patents by then, all of them bigger, better, more
advanced and more profitable than her Life Defender."
    The sneer was still pinned on his face but it
was hanging by a thread.
    "Are you beginning to understand me
Will?"
    He took a hard swallow and at last nodded his
head. I was almost disappointed. He had chosen the smart option but
either way I would have come out on top. I learned a long time ago
that only money could do that for you and it was one of the reasons
I enjoyed having so much of it.
    I took out my Mont Blanc ballpoint and handed
it to him.
    "I take it you're ready to sign." I said.
    "Sign what?"
    Victoria bristled visibly.
    "Sign my patent back over to me and renounce
all claim to it you knucklehead."
    She was obviously enjoying this part. She
deserved to.
    "What about the fifty thousand bucks?" He
said nervously.
    "Consider it a gift." I said. "In return for
neither of us ever having to see your weasely little face
again."
    He took the pen.
    "Hell, why didn’t you say so Vic? I'd have
signed it back to you without all the threats if you had only asked
. Jeez almighty."
    "And call Jeb." Victoria added. "Drop the
charges against Vincent or spend the next five to ten years in
court fighting to keep yourself out of jail for fraud and
intellectual property theft."
    "Of course I will Vic, I was only ever
blowing smoke up this rich guy's ass. I wouldn’t send anyone to the
slammer for borrowing my car."
    "Of course not." I said and pushed the
documents over to him. "Now sign."
    He poised the pen over the dotted line.
    "So I sign here and all this goes away,
right?"
    He looked like such an idiot I found it hard
not to grab the pen out of his hand and tell him it was just joke
after all, that in fact we would prefer to go the legal route and
exhaust him financially before crushing him legally.
    The idiot was lucky his ex-girlfriend had a
heart of gold.
     
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    We spent another night together, one I'll
never forget - our first night of freedom and still far away from
everyone we knew in New York City. Who would have thought that
Shillington, Ohio could be the perfect escape