The $100k Bonus and the $800k Bill
Language: en
My year-end bonus was a solid hundred thousand, and my girlfriend, Valerie, insisted I treat her to a grand dinner. The bill, though, came to eight hundred thousand. My jaw dropped. This was daylight robbery! I refused to pay. The restaurant owner, a formidable woman, didn’t bat an eye. Instead, she had her crew seize me, snarling that if I didn’t come up with the cash, they’d make me disappear. I finally got a good look at her, and a surge of anger coursed through me. Wasn't this Ramona Flowers, one of my mother, Astrid Vance’s, former associates? My mom, for all her ruthless reputation…