He was standing in the elevator, watching the doors close to the 35
th
floor. He pressed the button for "Lobby", the largest, spacebar-type button at the bottom of the panel. Lance wasn't sure of much with his employer these days. He
had
been sure that he had total autonomy at his club, then they appointed a transformed woman, of all people, to manage it. She seemed to be exceptionally rare in that she retained nearly all of her intelligence, or maybe even gained some. Lance had not known her prior to her experience at the resort. That said, he didn't appreciate the intrusion into "his" space.
He
had
been sure that this was going to be a lucrative job that'd let him and his wife quickly get ahead of their debts and start to save towards something. They always wanted a beach house in Brigantine -- looking over the water, and across from them they'd be able to see the casinos illuminated at night. He was right about lucrative, but the money was pointless and his wife and their shared dreams were gone.
He
had
believed the Director when he was spouting all that pre-hire nonsense about taking care of one another, family, and a team that stuck together and worked in harmony. Lance wasn't one for impressions, first or otherwise, but the Director had been an earnest, friendly figure that he took a liking to immediately. Just another in a series of disappointments at the
Atlantisea
resorts.
Well, Tom should be happy with our auditor upstairs. I think I might've taken it too far actually, but that definitely answers my question about whether it's a physical substance. Something in the shots. She was mostly gone when I got there, but after that last round, she was fucking drooling. Jesus.
But they told me not to touch
anything
in the room, I think. So does that mean the surfaces are fucked up too? Why did I even go in there? What time is it? A little before 4AM...I'll make it to Mallory on time. Better have some sort of story ready, I guess. Who the fuck am I kidding, I don't even know what the story would be about.
The elevator stopped at the 21
st
floor and Lance wanted to punch out the elevator panel. A raven-haired beauty in her late 20s wearing an evening dress cut to mid-thigh stepped on the elevator. Her eyes were a bright green, almost as green as the Director's. She had three inch heels and ample cleavage on display from D-cup breasts. An emerald necklace fell just to the start of those mounds, enchanting in combination with her eyes.
Lance sighed. The woman was Caitlyn "Cait" McDermott, his boss. Sultry, vulgar, and affected just enough by the resort to be a little promiscuous, but otherwise intact. The Director had either taken a liking to her, her relative immunity to their ways, or both. That's how she got the job.
"Wow, you're really slumming nowadays in this tower, Cait. No high-rollers here, they're all over in East." Lance shrugged to indicate it was just a passive observation.
"You're one to fucking talk." She smirked. "Occasionally, one of the front desk teens makes an
error
, Lance. Imagine that out of a high schooler. And when they
accidentally
put my clients in this shit tower, I need to work extra hard on their fetishes to make things right. Fucking exhausting. I didn't even come." She looked down in her purse, rifling through it for something. "So why are you here, Mr. Barfly?"
"Hard. Good choice of word there McDermott." He smiled. She hated that whole last name thing. "I'm doing Tom's bidding. And taking out some serious frustration while I'm at it."