10| Selfish Lust

LACY

With Uncle B, Aunt Coral and Macy

gone to work it left me alone in this small house. Being alone made the house seem so much bigger. I was undeniably bored.

Uncle B phoned during the course of the day to check up on me. Actually, I wasn't sure if he phoned too check up on me or if he phoned to check if his house hadn't been burnt down yet due to my pathetic cooking skills.

He wasn't too far from home anyway. He worked in a near by precinct as a homicide detective. He had seen some pretty wicked stuff over the years of working as an officer of the law. The things people did never ceased to amaze me and for what? Petty things like money?

Okay! So money isn't so petty but I wouldn't kill for it. I had seen first hand what money could do to a person. My father's inflated ego was a good example of what money could do to a person. My father thought that there was no one in this world