Chapter 63. Features

VULTORIAN

Now I had to watch my back. Sometimes it made me paranoid. I became the King on a corrupt Chess Board and every wicked force in existence was out to stale mate my ass. But not before I Check Mate a bitch.

Those demons were constant reminders of mistakes and bad decisions I made in the past, before my dealings with the Devil...

That deal gave me untimely wealth, prestige and celebrity. Now it was time for payment. I yawned, stretching from my chair. I smacked my lips, rubbed sleep out my eyes and looked at the wall clock. I checked a few messages.

They sounded like dissonancy, so I shut it off. It was a quarter past three p.m. I worked too much. Well, that wasn't quite accurate. I hardly worked. 

I hired people that did all the work for me and I sat back and took all the credit. The 48 Laws of Power was a book I lived by, a book I have read a hundred times (yes, that many times, it's not an exaggeration) and I lived by its principles more