"I'm no man's play toy." Hannah finished the last of her latte, standing to go.
The headhunter, Zach, grabbed her wrist and she frowned at him. "Listen to me—you'll regret it."
She shook loose, slinging her purse over her shoulder and picking up her empty latte cup. "Not interested. I don't make coffee, I order it."
"Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year," he said in a low voice as she walked by.
She stopped, turning, and put her trembling cup back on the table. "Don't fuck with me."
Zach shrugged. "Colin Harper has more money than God."
"He pays a quarter mil a year?" Hannah sat back down in her chair. She felt like if she didn't she was going to fall over. "What do his employees have to do? Give him daily blowjobs?"
He didn't respond from behind his coffee cup, but his eyes met hers over the rim and she suddenly felt cold.
"He's eccentric," Zach said, glancing toward the door and then at his watch. "You'll be one in about two hundred with a shot at the job."
She contemplated him for a moment, imagining the possibilities. For a quarter of a million dollars a year, she suddenly didn't care what she might have to do.
"What's the number?"
*****
Zach's figures had been off. Way off. She was one in two thousand women interviewing for the job, according to the man who did her physical exam. She had already been through a battery of tests, and not just those in office skills. An intelligence quotient test and five different psychological and personality tests had been part of the initial process, along with a strength training and physical endurance test.
If the number $250,000 hadn't kept flashing in her mind, she would have given up halfway through the process, and apparently a lot of women did. They had whittled it down to a thousand by now, the doctor told her—at least, he said he was a doctor, his nametag read Ralph Schultz, M.D.—and they would probably lose several hundred more after the physical.
"Why?" Hannah asked, fidgeting on the examining table in her little paper dress as he snapped his rubber gloves on.
He had already checked the basics—heart, lungs, ears, nose, throat, tummy sounds. Now it was on to the "female" part of the exam, and she was dreading it.
"Please lie down, Miss McLean," he instructed, pulling the stirrups out.
She'd already had an annual pap, just six months ago, but the company insisted on a complete physical by their personal physician. Putting her feet up in the stirrups, she assumed the usual "pap smear position," scooting down as far as she could.
"Very good, Miss McLean," the doctor said, draping a sheet over her legs. "To address your question, he has particular physical specifications. Let your knees fall open, please."
Hannah did as she was told, looking up at the ceiling at the "If you can dream it, you can be it" poster up there. She wondered why there wasn't a nurse in the room. Didn't they have to have a nurse there, just for liabilities' sake?
"My fingers are going to enter you, now," he said and she felt him probing between her lips, sliding two fingers inside of her. "Your history form said you've never been pregnant, correct, Miss McLean?"
"No," she replied, feeling his fingers sliding further inside of her, pressing the walls of her vagina open, first to the sides, then front and back. "I've never had children."
"Excellent vaginal muscle tone and response," he murmured. "Clearly a natural redhead."
She flushed, surprised at the observation. "Yes."
This wasn't going to be a normal physical exam, she realized, a little too late, as she felt him parting her lips with both hands.
"Clitoris slightly larger than average," he remarked, nudging it with his finger and making her jump. She stared, wide-eyed, up at the ceiling, holding her breath. "Vulva is aesthetically pleasing, quite full for such a slender build."
Hannah bit her lip as she felt his gloved fingers pulling at the inner lips of her vagina, spreading them open. "Labia minora are thick, a little distended, and have a healthy pink color."
She couldn't believe what she was hearing, that this was really happening. What had started as a routine physical exam was turning into some sort of genital inspection?
"Fine healthy anal opening, good color and shape," he noted, brushing the puckered hole with his finger, making Hannah's eyes go even wider. She clutched the sheet at her sides, her hands making fists. "You'll feel a little pressure now."
She gasped as a slippery, gloved finger slid into her rectum, twisting as it went.