Tessa immediately understood, Faye was teaching him that if you can solve something with money, don't get your own hands dirty.
Using money to deal with people is an art.
A high-level art.
This kind of art isn't something everyone can enjoy, even if you can enjoy it, it's not something you can play with.
Tessa felt that she, like many people, probably still lived in a time of raging war, where using shells to hit people felt satisfying, albeit just for a moment, while ignoring that using money to crush people felt satisfying for a longer time.
She muttered to herself, how it sounded just like making love.
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Tessa quit her job to have more time and to take better care of her father.
She went to the hospital every day just to chat more with her father, to tell more stories, just to get her father to wake up sooner.
Occasionally, Winnie Barnett would come to help.
