threeAn older, somewhat wiser Kim watched the runway rise up beneath the wheels of the plane. She wasn’t sure exactly what had dredged up those old memories. She wasn’t afraid of Daniel Leland anymore and hadn’t been for years. It was true that he made her nervous at times – she knew what people like him were capable of. But she was pretty sure she made him somewhat nervous at times, too – he knew what people like her were capable of.
That had to be it. Those other people like her, the ones who had g******e on the brain. g******e and world domination, because the common thread between all megalomaniacs of that sort seemed to be that they thought they knew what was best for everyone else and were completely ready to prove it.
Her grandfather’s most recent estimate topped out at a thousand
