Tiger’s Curse Extended Scene-Epilogue
February 1, 2014
This is the original epilogue from Tiger’s Curse the self-published version.
Epilogue
Shadow
The immaculately dressed man stood at his penthouse office window. He gazed upon the city lights far below and clenched his fist. How do you find one small person in a city of millions, let alone a world of billions? He sneered. He lived in a city of twenty-nine million people, the most densely populated city in the world.
His office was in the most expensive, tallest building in the city, as far away from the general populace as possible. It wasn’t that he had a phobia of the unwashed masses. He employed many of them, in fact. They served their purpose, but they were inconsequential. The generations rose and fell like so many waves upon the beach, and he stood alone, a rocky, unmovable sentinel, letting the waves of humanity pass him by, hardly noticing them at all.
If money and power were all it took, finding the girl would not be a problem. He was the most powerful and the richest man on the Asian continent. Most people weren’t aware of that, of course. He preferred to regulate his affairs from a distance and used several pseudonyms, as well as many different company names. Not even his underlings knew his real name. He never kept his minions around that long anyway.
There were some, a very few, who suspected that a few of his businesses were tied together somehow, but no one had come close to tracking all of his investments. He smiled malevolently. Besides, if anyone had made a connection, he would immediately have them dispatched. It usually wasn’t necessary though. He was good enough at covering his tracks to keep everyone in the dark. He should be. He’d been playing this game for centuries.
But, sadly, money and power weren’t enough in this case. He just didn’t have enough information. He rarely lost his temper. It was a waste of energy. When a person retained this much power, a simple flick of the finger removed whatever or whoever was annoying
him. But, now, his power meant nothing. He hadn’t felt this surge of black rage in a long, long time.
A quiet chime announced his returning assistant. He’d rather not see him now. This particular assistant was better than average. It would be a shame to kill him just because he felt this uncharacteristic irritation.
The man sighed and made a visible effort to control himself, then sat behind his opulent desk.
“Enter.”
The assistant entered and bowed, showing his submissiveness, and yet there was a confident gleam in his eye. He stood and said only three words—the words his employer had been longing to hear for months.
“We found her.”
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