Given the morning's dreamlike beginning, the exposition's chaos and frenetic energy comes as little surprise. It occurs to you that Minister Jun's erratic behavior might be explained by an overindulgence in substance dependency, perhaps one that he
especially
enjoyed here in the American South where the powder flowed through Miami, leaving a trail of damaged septums and swollen bank accounts. His questions were like broken, coke-dusted glass scattered perilously across linoleum floor; the whole goal here was to, of course, convince him to borrow specifically from your institution to finance a "ferociously lucrative bridge project" in his province, and he constantly interrupted your patient explanation with further, tangential questions.
His coterie of functionaries and attaches, translators and flunkies looked like they were running on fumes, frustration and fear - his wrath comes down on a stick-thin girl with bags under her eyes who was unable to open some online state funds-transfer account (he couldn't remember his password); you watch with the emotional distance of a bystander witnessing spousal abuse as he castigates her publicly, meaty fists flailing at his sides. She hunches beneath the weight of his berating, silently absorbing his fury, speckling her glasses with his spittle for a good five minutes that are dilated in your mind to eternity.
Her broken soul, staring hollow from her eyes after he finishes screaming at her, haunts you and is likely to invade your dreams; the rest of Jun's coterie shuns the poor girl for the rest of the morning, as if she'd been marked for excommunication. You could never tolerate such treatment...right?
Lunchtime brings further evolution and extension of your chores - for fuck's
sakes
you're a financial specialist, not a goddamn
helot
- as you are sent down to the server room to deliver a personal summons to Mahmud, who (as usual) was not answering on Slack. Understandable at this hour since he was, after all, on
break
and not at the beck and call of management to attend to Minister Jun's sudden, rabid curiosity about server security.
Finally...you have some alone time. Despite the grumbling of your empty stomach the thought of eating seems like further work and expense since you don't have time to cook, and it was so much easier to just stay down here in this dimly illuminated grotto of humming, purple-rimmed mainframes, blinking with rhythmic lights like emeralds and topazes in a smooth vein...like a quieter, isolated version of the subway car in some ways.
Your thoughts eagerly unchain themselves from babysitting your dusty-nosed visitor and his cringing entourage, and curl like smoke around the image of Aram in the dimly lit subway car with you. You recall the lurid details, since those were your favorites.
The attentive tenderness of his thin, curved lips against your own, kissing you like you were beautiful. Special. Someone he actually liked...
That beautiful, fulsome crown of his, sticky with his precum and your arousal, clefting roughly against the node of your desire and sending you into shaky paroxysms of euphoria...
His forceful ejaculation with its masculine velocity, splashing against the train car wall; how would that feel inside of you? The risk-taking, impulsive part of your brain pictures it, his hands on your hips and holding you against him as he fills you with his heat...
"Ohhh man...okay, breathe..." You work to take note of objects in your environment - a coping mechanism in the otherwise violent neighborhoods of your home city, where a powerful filter was all that stood between mental stability and trauma. Ever the perceptive one (another survival trait) when you weren't completely and utterly sunk beneath the weight of your thoughts (a survival deficit), you notice a slip of cheerful blue poking out from underneath a mainframe panel. On closer inspection, you realize it's an ID lanyard, and with a click of your heels against the hard, sterile floor you bend down and snatch it out.
"Well now." The words purr from your lips with feline intrigue, easily recognizing the regal face of that man from the elevator...the
other
one whose cock you'd groped in a risky, public space. Even now as the good Samaritan in you immediately thinks to return it, the smooth-talking devil on your shoulder simply suggests:
why not use it?
You:
For what?
As if you have to ask...
Devil:
Oh darling...you know for what. You know what you want from him - daresay he wants it too, don't you think?
You:
...I literally just got invited to do something after work with a nice guy -
Devil:
But you're horny. He's handsome, and he's got a nice penis. Admit it, you're not satisfied with a dry-hump and jerk on a train.
You:
Are you suggesting I what, call him down to -