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it so easy though.
    “Who was the loan officer you spoke to?”
    “Wilson. I don’t know his full name.”
    “I will talk to him.” I chose my words very
carefully, making sure not to make any promises I couldn’t keep. Or didn’t want
to keep, more like.
    Her face visibly changed colors and her eyes
widened. “You can do that?”
    “What did I say about owning the company?”
    She jumped and for a second it looked like she was
going to hug me but changed her mind.
    “Oh my god, thank you so so much! You can get him to approve the loan!”
    “That’s not what I said.” I spoke slowly. “I said I
would talk to him.”
    Her face fell. “Oh, of course – I am sorry I didn’t
mean to-”
    “It’s okay. Try to cheer up. I’m sure we can work
something out.”
    I walked back to my desk and called the loan office.
“Wilson, please.”
    “Mr. Sinclair! To what do I owe the pleasure?” The
guy sounded absolutely thrilled to be getting a call from the CEO of the
company. This could be so very easy if I wanted it to be. But a very different
idea was forming in my head altogether. I would rather this be fun than easy.
    “Why did you turn down Aria Roberts’ loan request?”
    There was a short pause. “I’m sorry, sir, it’s
classified-”
    “Do you like your job, Wilson?” I spat. “Do you
enjoy having somewhere to go to every day and getting a nice fat paycheck at
the end of the month?”
    “Yes, of course! I am sorry, sir. The situation was
completely out of my hand. As you know, we run all loan requests through a
software that processes applications and calculates risks. Aria Roberts’ risk
was almost a 100 percent. She has no savings, spends all her money from the job
paying for college and even though her credit is pretty good for her age, she
simply does not have any assets or any kind of solid foundation. Not 60,000
worth anyway.”
    “I see.”
    “However,” he said a little too quickly, “ultimately
I call the shots, and I can change the shots I called if you want.”
    Is that what I wanted? No. I wanted this to be fun.
This was going to be too much fun. Aria Roberts had no idea how much fun we
were going to have together.
    “What I need you to do is to send Aria an email
letting her know you heard from me today, and that you explained to me why her
loan could not go through.   Make it very
clear that I tried to get you to change your mind, but the system simply did
not allow for it, so you were personally writing to apologize to her for the
inconvenience. Copy me in the email.”
    “But, sir-“
    “You said you liked your job. Is that right?”
    “Of course. Would you like me to add anything to the
email?”
    “That will be all for today. Thank you.”
    ---
    I finished drafting up the document and briefly
considered running it by my lawyer, but decided against it, more for Aria’s
sake than my own. If she was going to agree to this deal, I might as well have
her feel comfortable about it. I looked at the bouquet of red roses that had
been returned to my office that morning and grinned. One down, twenty-nine to
go. After today it probably wouldn’t take twenty-nine days before I got to
screw her. After printing the document, I removed a rose from the bunch and
placed it over the pile of papers on my desk.
    I picked up the phone to call Aria. It was game
time. I watched her answer the phone, looking somber.
    “South National Bank, how may I help you?”
    “Come into my office. Mrs. Brian seems to be doing
quite well by herself over there.”
    “Did you get a chance to talk to Wil -”
    “Come into my office,” I repeated and hung up.
    The nervous look on her face as she tentatively
walked towards my office worried me a bit. What if she didn’t take the deal?
What else could she do, though? I had made it all but impossible for her to get
a loan at this bank, and could repeat the process for every other bank within a
thousand mile radius.
    She would have to take the deal.
    As she