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help me, just like the helped me before. That judge you say I convinced? Who’s to say I couldn’t convince the bitch again?”
    “Watch your language around my girl.” Brad barked calmly.
    “Or what? Ol’ Brad gonna fight me for the little cunt ?”
    What happened next must have been in the span of five or ten seconds. Maybe less, maybe more. It was a daze and it happened fast , that’s all I know. Brad and Dan seemed to lunge toward one another at the same time, and Brad cocked Dan clean in the jaw which sent him spiraling downwards. He twisted in mid-air and then plopped right down on his face which dug into the sand. When he came to a few seconds later he shook his head and turned around slightly, his profile covered in dripping blood from his nose. He snarled at Brad and then ran his fingers through his greasy hair.
    “You piece of shit. You always thought you were better than me. I’m going to take the company from you. No, I’m going to do something even better, and you won’t be able to prove a damn thing. I’m going to hurt you in a bad , bad way, Brad.”
    “What are you talking about?” Brad rasped.
    “You’ll see, bastard.” Dan pulled himself up out of the muck and tried to wipe the wet sand from his face, failed, and then limped off down the beach.
    “Sorry you had to meet him. I actually forgot he brought property down here around the same time as me. It’s been so long since I’ve really come here for a pure vacation. When I come for business I usually stay in Honolulu. That son of a bitch…” His voice shook with rage, but his body remained unusually calm under the significant amount of tension and sudden outburst.
    “Are you okay?”
    His eyes shifted to me and he smiled, “Me? I think he’s the one that might not be okay. I hooked him pretty good.”
    “You’re a tough guy. But I don’t like what he said about taking something from you. The way he said it, the way his face looked. It creeped me out pretty bad, Brad. Has he always been like that, or what?” My voice trailed off and I looked back down the beach toward the direction he’d walked. He was nowhere in sight.
    Brad sighed, and looked at me with a heavyhearted expression, “Let’s go inside in a few minutes. I’ll give you a little background on why Dan and I split up as business partners. But  first, let’s do what we came out here to do. Enjoy the morning sunrise.” He spanked my butt and I giggled loudly and ran forward a few steps, and then I spanked his. We wrestled in the tide and laughed and smiled and everything was good again, for a while.
    When we got indoors we sat down and each of us had a big glass of water with lemon. Brad sipped his thoughtfully for a few minutes before finally opening his mouth to speak, but the words didn’t come for a few more minutes. He tapped his glass grumpily on the wooden table and shook his head.
    “It’s hard to put it in words, I guess. Knowing that you failed at trusting someone, knowing that you fucked up big time as far as finding a business partner goes. I just didn’t know how far down the drain his brain was going.”
    “The Daniel guy?”
    “Yeah. He went haywire, started doing cocaine and fried his brain. The thing that I feel guilty about, is that I never noticed until he’d gone off the deep end. I didn’t even know he was using drugs and snorting uppers along with the coke.”
    “Pills?” I asked.
    “All kinds. Created a monster. By the time I realized he was on something he’d already sued me. He tried to take literally everything from me, and succeeded for the most part. But I built myself back up from the ground up and now I’m worth billions rather than a few million. Funny how karma works, if you believe in that sort of thing.”
    “I do.”
    “Anyway, that’s the story. It’s a pretty short and simple one. He got on drugs, went haywire, and now it appears that if he’s not on drugs then his brain is fried, or maybe he’s simply still on