Chapter 11
Wednesday Afternoon Tea
Less than a week after the Lone Star Incorporated Bank approved a $6 million loan to The Foundation, Carmel and Hector lunched at the Grand Hotel to discuss the details of the first three 'adult entertainment venues' to be opened in Austin, Houston and Dallas. The meal of turtle soup, roast duck and peach trifle was delicious, but Hector glanced at his watch and passed up the chance for a brandy.
"I have to entertain some very respectable ladies on the seventh floor. Well, not me. One of my male acts, Ramon, is ... performing. Do you remember him?"
"Ramon?" Carmel was careful not to look up from her plate, but she could not avoid raising her voice as she asked the question. "Yes, I think I do recall him."
Carmel had diligently collected titles from Ramon's video portfolio for the past four months. The quality of the camerawork was appalling, the dialogue, even in Spanish, was stilted, but Carmel could not avoid sitting by her computer every night to watch him mount a succession of Latina girls after they fellated his magnificent erection. She also gathered 117 pictures of Ramon, meticulously arranging them in order of preference. Carmel was captivated, but she also knew that a senior executive did not pursue a porn star, especially a convicted drug dealer who also served as prostitute. So, her nights spent gazing at the computer screen with her knickers around her ankles would remain no more than her dirty little secret.
"I'm on my way for the conclusion of his performance. Would you like to see him in action? I have yet to meet a woman who has not enjoyed 'Wednesday Afternoon Tea' with Ramon." Carmel pretended to check her watch and ponder her options. "It will be over soon. The matrons of Houston should be watching Betty licking the whipped cream from his weapon by now."
"Well, I'm not due back until two thirty, and he does have a magnificent cock."
As Carmel and Hector walked into the hotel suite Ramon was standing before an audience of about two dozen women, wearing only cuffs at the wrists. He was, naturally, fully erect, his member glistening in the pale afternoon sun. Carmel noticed a prison guard by the window, nursing his shotgun.
"Unloaded," Hector said. "He's actually off duty. The guns, the guard and the shackles increase the allure for our respectable ladies."
"I thought a handsome man with a seventeen inch dick would be alluring enough."
"True, but Ramon must play his part. You find him handsome?"
"Well ... I think most women would say that ... well, he is good looking."