Chapter 20: Horace
He was supposed to have his head in the game. This was his first day at work, and though it was something he had done before, he really needed to pay attention, not think about hot breaths and beers and Russian lips.
Nico hovered around him. He still did much of the work, but he begrudgingly surrendered more and more duties to Horace as the hours passed. By the end of the shift, the boss looked confused, conflicted, but relaxed.
He got to know the employees. They were good in general. He only needed to mind one, George. He was fine in general but he tended to do things his own way and it messed up the entire system. He wasn’t wrong, it was always some productivity change that could help long-term but when in the thick of it, you needed to keep to the system, no matter
