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.
Boulder Creek Park was a stone's throw from his front door, and featured, among other things, a dog park, a playground for kids, and a basketball court. He was a frequent visitor, there almost every day, taking Scout to do his business and to have a little fun with the neighbor dogs. They got to the park, and Biggs stopped to let Scout off his leash. There was a large rock on the ground, right at the edge of the dog park, one among many, that formed a barrier to keep the dogs from running out into the street. It was loose, and when Biggs leaned over to take Scout's lead from his collar, his hand slipped under the rock and dropped the thumb drive beneath it. There was a slight indentation under the rock, and the thumb drive fit easily. The indentation was large enough that a very full envelope containing ten grand would magically appear there later in the day.
Biggs let Scout do his business, which he bagged and held in his hand. Scout got to run and frolic for about half an hour. Biggs called him over, reattached the lead and walked back to the house.
"What's that in his hand," Gabby asked, as Biggs came closer into view of the car.
"Dogshit," Lionel responded.
"Gross," Gabby said, making a disgusting sound.
"Gotta scoop the poop," Lionel said. "At least Biggs isn't the kind of asshole that just leaves it there."
"So, transfer's made," Gabby said, sitting back in her seat. "You know what's on the thumb drive?"
"Sort of. Mr. Sinclair and Mrs. Fisher spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening working on a bunch of misinformation they want to feed to whoever is behind this. They had some financials doctored, indicating the protesters were causing a much larger disruption to the Hotel than they were, and that the Hotel was back in the red again. After we came back from the protest and Jack told them about that Avery Locke cunt, they added something saying they were hiring her to be the new spokeswoman for the Sinclair Group," he snorted. "As if. I have no idea what Jack sees in that woman," he said.
"I'll tell you what he sees - he sees a fucking hot as hell Indian girl, with gorgeous hair, nice lips, tits that rival Lucy's and a body that won't quit. I'd hop into bed with her in ten seconds, and I'm not even that into girls," Gabby said, laughing.
Lionel didn't laugh. "That boy's going to get us into trouble if he keeps thinking with his dick and not his brain. I like him, but he's got an impulsive streak a mile wide," Lionel said.
"Don't underestimate Jack," Gabby said. "He's pretty smart, and he's got balls. Pretty good lay too," she noted, raising her eyebrow.