Life in the Elysium, Ch. 17
The poison pill is set, and Jack's ladies go dress shopping
This is my first time writing erotic fiction. I hope you enjoy it, as these scenarios have been floating around in my head for a while. Be aware, this series will include a variety of adult situations, including bisexuality, interracial sex, incest, group sex and other taboo subjects that not everybody may be into. If any of these subjects bother you, there's an entire site here filled with things you may prefer more. In any event, thanks for reading.
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Monday night was one of the best nights of my life. My dance with Avery was still in my head, and I could smell her perfume, the same perfume that was on the note she'd sent. I may have slept alone on Monday night, but in my dreams, the dance was still going, and that kiss at the end, that glorious kiss, wasn't the end of the night, but the beginning.
Across town, the next part in our quest to find out who was targeting the Elysium, and my family was playing out, and I was none the wiser.
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Chet Biggs lived in a nice, relatively new home on Pecos River Avenue in Henderson, Nevada. The largest suburb of Las Vegas, it was also the second largest city in Nevada. Southwest of Las Vegas proper, and just a few miles from the Strip, it was a nice place to get away from the tourists and the bustle, but boasted enough nightlife and things to do that you didn't have to end up going into the City all the time to have a good time. It had its own police department, the HPD, which was separate from LVMPD, so Biggs was happy he wouldn't have to deal with any of this former colleagues out here.
It was around seven on Tuesday morning. Biggs didn't have to be at work until four that afternoon, so he planned on spending the day with his wife, who also had Tuesday off. Monica was a speech therapist, who worked with kids in the local school system. Her job was steady and helped pay the bills, which tended to stack up, especially when Chet's "hobby," as she called it, threatened their economic stability. But they'd been fine for a while now, more than a year, and she had decided to keep her job. It made her happy to have something to do, and Chet didn't mind sharing her. They didn't have kids, weren't sure if they wanted any, and while they were both mid-thirties and still had time, Chet knew in the back of his mind that she was worried about her cancer, what would happen if it came back, and if it was hereditary.
"Come on, Scout, let's get you out." Biggs said, rising from bed. His big black Labrador Retriever, Scout, laid at the foot of their bed. Monica was still asleep, and he let her lay there. He could have woken her up for a nice morning round under the sheets, but he let her sleep. He had something to do this morning.
He threw on a Las Vegas Raiders sweatshirt and a pair of gray sweatpants, put on a pair of loafers, and got up to take the dog on his morning walk. Scout jumped up happily, tail wagging as Biggs fit the lead to his collar, and then stopped by his front closet. There was a piece of chalk on the top shelf of the closet, hidden in plain sight in a dish filled with change, old buttons and the like where they threw random objects they didn't have an immediate use for. He took the chalk from the shelf, and then reached into the pocket of his jacket he'd worn home from work Monday night. There was a thumb drive in it, and he retrieved that as well, stuffing both the chalk and the thumb drive in the pocket on his sweatshirt.
He opened and closed the door to the house, led Scout out and down the driveway, and readied the piece of chalk in his pocket. He went to his mailbox, opened it, as if checking to see if he'd forgotten to get the mail last night, and confirming it was empty. As he closed the mailbox, he casually swiped a line of chalk down the side. It was long enough that it could be seen from the street, but if anybody asked, it just looked like a line of bird shit or some other random dirt. Biggs closed the mailbox, turned left and made his way down the street towards Boulder Creek Park.
There was a gray SUV, parked a few houses down from Chet's home. Its windows weren't heavily tinted, but the sun was bright and the light reflecting off the windshield kept anybody from being able to see in. Lionel sat in the driver's seat, wearing a similar outfit to Biggs - sweatshirt and sweatpants, although he had a P229 concealed under his sweats. Next to him, wearing sweatpants, a tight sports bra and a thin running jacket, topped with a Vegas Knights hat with her black hair flowing out the snap back in a loose ponytail, was Gabby. If the two got out of the car, Lionel would look like every other random person out on a Tuesday morning, and Gabby was your average jogger, with headphones, her iPhone 22 in a fanny pack around her waist that also held a concealed P229.
"Right on time," Lionel noted, looking at his watch.
"Did you see how he marked the mailbox? Chet's got some moves," she noted. "He must have been doing this a long time. That's some genuine spy level tradecraft right there," she snorted. "Fucking bastard."
"Learned from the best," Lionel said. "I trained him myself," he added.
"And where did you learn this stuff?" Gabby asked him, eyebrow raised. She thought Lionel was an ex-cop like her. They'd worked together for a while, but Lionel was an intensely private guy, and she hadn't had that many conversations with him. Her role was supposed to be more undercover, which was why she got tasked with the Biggs surveillance. She wasn't sure why Lionel was here. He was just a bodyguard.
"I'm ex-FBI," he said. "I spent fifteen years in counterintelligence, doing shit like this, watching really poorly trained Chinese spies fumble fuck around. I met Sol Sinclair during the investigation into his wife's accident. That accident killed a US Senator, and we thought for a while that maybe the Chinese had been behind it. We couldn't find any evidence of it, any evidence of anything at all, honestly. But that's where I met Mister Sinclair. When I told him I was tired of the Bureau, he offered me this job and I've been here ever since," Lionel explained.
It was the longest bit of exposition Gabby could ever remember from him. She was intrigued.
"No shit, you were FBI? I had no idea. I thought you were another washed up beat cop like me," she laughed.
Lionel grunted. Biggs was far down the street by now, headed for the park, with his dog.