Leveling Up : Chapters 57-62
My Wife's Infernal Sodomy Adventure
57. The Ruby Red Lounge - Hollywood
A series of high-pitched, staccato beeps and whirs sound as the receipt sputters out of the old and marker defaced taxi cab printer. Outside with a door slam my wife smells car exhaust and hears the sound of traffic. Typical of Los Angeles but there was something odd about this street corner. Wendy tilts her head and looks around. This block. It's strangely clean. No homeless people are here. All the tents she had passed coming over here. None are in sight. She approaches the three story brick building bordering several others. Standing outside the door, two tall and muscular men in suits converse but as she approaches they abruptly end the conversation and stare at her with smirks on their faces.
"I-is this the Ruby Red Lounge?" my wife asks, looks down, rotates her wrist, and swallows.
One of the men raises his eyebrow at her, grins knowingly, and responds in an unusually deep voice, "Ma'am, you're name, please."
"M-my... name?" Wendy asks, tilts her head and scratches at her chin. "It's Wendy. Wendy Tagliacozzi."
The other man swipes at his smart phone before nodding. "Uh huh, she's on the list," he confirms in his own deep sounding voice.
"Wait a minute, how could I be on the list?" my wife asks before the door creeks open before her.
"Enjoy your experience at the Ruby Red Lounge, Ma'am," the first man says with a snicker before grabbing my wife's backside and gently shoving her inside. "The place where your fantasies become realities!"
The door slams shut and my wife is in a very red room. From the scarlet carpet twisted into strange inconsistent geometrical shapes, to the ruby leather couches, and cerise walls. Even the crackling candles lighting the room seem to have a carmine glow to them. The only thing not red in the room are the marble white table tops with slim streaks of black in them. The sole customers in the large lobby are a group of middle aged men in business suits seated surrounding a whiskey bottle with each of their glasses poured with booze. They speak loud and drunkenly using financial and banking jargon she is unfamiliar with.
A tall and elaborately curled mustachioed host approaches wearing a white tuxedo, black bow tie, and with a fresh sliced rose resting snugly in his jacket pocket. He grabs my wife's right hand, lifts it up, kisses it, and stares straight into her eyes. "Ma'am, you just look so confused," he says in a gravely tone as his right eyebrow raises. "What brings you to the lounge on a night like tonight?"
"H-Heath, Heath Halverson," my wife mutters, bites her lip and blushes. "You know, the movie star. He told me this was a place. Somewhere you could... sign a contract that will change your life. I'm going to be a mom soon and I need to make things right between my husband and I. It's something I always promised myself. Not to be like my mom. Our son deserves both of his parents to be around him all the time. I don't want to raise him alone."
"Uh huh, I see," the host replies, nods his head, puffs out his chest, and grins knowingly. "You wouldn't happen to have... an appointment would you?" He leans towards my wife and gently bites down on his lip.
My wife swallows, looks away, scratches at her arm, and shakes her head in the negative.
The host frowns and wrinkles his brow. "Ma'am, this sort of thing usually requires an appointment," he scolds. "Let me see though. Maybe he'll make an exception."
After the host departs he returns and tells Wendy to wait in the lounge before asking the bartender to offer her a martini on the house. As she sits, several suited men pass her quickly closely assembled together. My wife sips gin and vermouth for a short time before the host retrieves her. Up a pair of stairs and into a second story office, they enter a room very similar in aesthetic to the first floor lounge. A large bespectacled man, even taller and more muscular than the others, sits behind a white computer desk wearing a pinstriped dark blue suit over an unbuttoned tie-less white dress shirt. A thick gold watch wraps around his wrist and his fingers are covered in golden rings studded with diamonds. His beard is long, black, narrow, and pointy.
"Take a seat, Wendy," the man behind the desk offers, grins knowingly, puffs out his chest, and gestures to the host to leave the two alone.
The door slams shut behind Wendy. "H-how do you all know my name?" she asks, blinks, and bites down on her lower lip as she takes a seat in one of the red leather chairs.
The man chuckles, leans forward, raises his chin, and stares at my wife with gleaming eyes. "Clients, they love to gossip you know," he answers without elaboration.