Thomas Highsmith. He looked powerless kneeling on the floor at Rae’s feet, which was exactly how she wanted him to feel. It’s what he paid her a lot of money to do. During the day, Thomas was an executive accountant for one of the big oil and gas companies, the kind that supposedly kept Oklahoma City at the forefront of growth and opportunity even as the prisons filled with people convicted of minor drug offenses and public schools crumbled and closed from lack of funding.
