Personal Services
Date: 6/22/2016,
Categories:
Fetish,
Taboo
Author: robd1
... his chair, his steely eyes studying her face. Finally he spoke. "I built this company with my own two hands," he rumbled. His voice rose as he continued. "I put in hundred hour weeks, gave up on having a f****y, fought off take-overs and ruthless competitors. I put my own bl**d and sweat into it for the last thirty years!" He was nearly shouting, red in the face with anger as Mary quailed before him. He took a deep breath, settling back as he calmed himself. "That's why," he continued in a more subdued tone, "I take it personally when one of my people steals from me." With a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach, she asked in a small voice, "What are you going to do?" "I could turn this over to the police," Beck said, pointing at the folder Feinberg held. "A call to my golfing buddy the D.A. and old Walt there goes away for ten-to-twenty." Walter appeared as if he would be sick any moment now. "We take away the company cars you both drive, foreclose on the mortgage the company holds on your home, and, since it seems he doesn't have any of the money left, we'd put a lien against your personal belongings to recoup some of our loss." Mary's hands were shaking so badly she had to set the coffee cup on Beck's desk lest she spill it. "Of course, without Walt's income, you would have to get a job. In today's market, with your lack of job skills, you might get on as a maid somewhere. If not, there's always ...
... welfare. You'd certainly have to pull your k**s out of that fancy private school they go to, send them to public school with the gangs and dope pushers. College is out of the question. You've got one nearing college age, don't you?" Head spinning, Mary murmurred, "Susan. She's 17." "Ah, yes. Susan," Beck said, smiling. "And your son John is how old, 16? And little Nikki is 14?" Mary nodded blindly. "Well, maybe they could get jobs to help make ends meet. At any rate, your life will be very much changed." He fell silent, letting the reality of the situation sink in for a long moment. "Or..." he said finally. Mary looked up hopefully. "You could work off your husbands debt." Mary was taken aback. She had no job skills, he'd said so himself. What could she do? "W-work?" she stammered. "You mean for the company?" Beck snapped his fingers at Feinberg, who whipped another document out of his folder. "This is a personal services contract," Feinberg explained, handing the several-page document to Mary, "between yourself and Mr. Beck for a term of 5 years. Your annual salary would be $64,000, which would revert back to B.I.I. against the amount of Mr. Conley's debt." Mary studied the contract, but all her reeling brain could pick out was a bunch of "party of the first part" and "wherefore" and "thereas" legalese. "What would I be doing?" she asked. "Just what it says," ...