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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously, in our tale… no, today’s Six introduces the character of Cyrus St. Loreto to wit , Read this excerpt from ‘Home and Heart’ (A Sister Margaret Ryan Mystery)

Prompt word:

FIRE

“I want it back,” Cyrus St. Loreto, owner of the Bernebau Company, stood at the window wall of his penthouse office in the Santa Cristo Building staring down at the financial heart of Miami, he felt no need to turn around.

Genevieve Novak halfway, somewhere halfway between where her boss and her single-desk reception area that welcomed anyone riding the only elevator to the penthouse; the nature and character of her working relationship with the CEO of Bernebau Company was to the thousands of employees improbably resistant to credible definition, a testament to the Owner’s imprinting on corporate culture.

The sole receptionist on the 36th floor remained as quiet as a nun in a confessional awaiting counsel and penance; still and focused on her boss as a snake charmer on a woven-reed basket.

“What is standing in the way?”

“There are a number of people who are working in the belief they will be able to take possession of the component presently en route to Chicago.”

Cyrus turned from the view down Brickell Ave with an expression that manifested the provocative idiom, ‘to fight fire with fire’, even as Genevieve continued,

“A niece of Lou Caesare, the mob boss with whom we recently concluded unsuccessful negotiations, by the name of Rosetta Storm, her companion of no account, a nun accompanied by a guide of questionable character and, …Anya Claireaux.”