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clean, bright and looked
expensive. I walked up to one of the two elevators present and
pressed the button, waiting for it to come down. My heart was
racing when the doors opened and I stepped inside.
    I pressed the button, number twenty nine,
the highest level. The wait was long and tedious and I was almost
skipping about on my wobbly legs. When the doors opened I faced
only one door, once again, just like at the casino.
    Walking up to it, I couldn’t help notice
my hands shaking as I reached for the door. It opened when I was about to knock.
Dominic looked at me with a confident smile. He was wearing a
tight, black suit, accompanied by a red tie. When I looked at him
all I saw was what I wanted.
    “Welcome. Come on in,” he said and he made
some room for me and pointed at his loft. I stepped inside and
looked around. It was a beautiful loft with on one side a natural
stone wall and staircase and on the other side a gigantic bookcase
going from the floor all the way to the ceiling, with a balcony
somewhere midway and a few steps leading up to it. I marveled at
expensive looking white couches and seats, the magnificent view
from the window, the golden chandeliers hanging above me.
    Dominic closed the door behind me and the
thump shook me out of my daydreams about this loft. I turned around
and gasped. He was right in front of me, only a few inches away.
His lips were so close to mine I could almost taste them.
    “Since you’re here, I assume you’ve completed
the test?” he asked.
    Holy shit, that’s
straightforward. I
flushed and nodded.
    He smiled. “Good. I hope you enjoyed
yourself. Have you brought the agreement?”
    I took the envelope from my bag and gave it
to him.
    “ Great,” he said and he held out his hand.
“Let’s sit down for a few minutes.”
    He walked me to his seating area and I sat
down on the comfy couch while he poured in some water for me.
“Thanks,” I said when he
handed it to me. He sat down across from me and opened the envelope
to take out the papers.
    “I see you’ve signed it. Good. Now, before we
start anything, I do want to go over it with you again, just to
make sure we both know what we’re getting into.”
    “ Okay,” I muttered, taking a sip from my
water.
    He listed all the things that were on the
paper, everything I needed to agree to, and everything he would do
in return. He said that
this night would be a test and that we’d see how it goes from
there.
    “Do you have any questions, Julie?”
    “ Ah … yes,” I said, still unsure if I would
ask it or not. “Why did you try to find someone through a newspaper
ad? I mean, there must’ve been an easier way.”
    He chuckled. “Well, if I’d known how these
things work, then yes, I might’ve searched for someone through a
different channel.”
    I almost choked on my drink. “What do you
mean ‘if
you’d known how these things work’ ? I thought this was normal to you?”
    “The lifestyle is. Searching for a new
partner isn’t.” He looked down at the carpet and avoided my
eyes.
    “Oh … I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked,” I
said, noticing the uncomfortable silence.
    “ It’s okay. I shouldn’t linger on the past.
I’ve found you now and I can’t wait to get started.”
    He stood up and suddenly his demeanor had
changed. His face had gone rigid and his posture was more imposing.
He walked over to me and held out his hand. “Come.”
    I was mesmerized by his bright, blue eyes
that were coaxing me to come with him. I took his warm, strong hand
and he guided me up the stairs. We passed his bedroom, which was
quite different, because the bed was suspended in the air, floating
above the floor. He opened a door to the left. I was shocked by
what I saw.
    There were benches with straps and something that looked like
a guillotine without the blade. There was a table with metal cuffs
and a hammock with holes in it, suspended in the air. There was a
chair with clasps on it, a large, red sheeted bed with