The man never spoke, but it was nice for the first words I heard him say to be a compliment about my new attire. I walked into the building for like I... belonged there for the first time since I was hired and got second glances from every person who was loitering around the lobby. ‘It feels nice doesn’t it?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being noticed. You play it like you like being in the background, but you my dear were born to be the center of attention.’ I almost tripped over my $1200 shoes. James had just. And then what?Was I even still alive? Unfortunately, I felt alive. In fact, I felt alive enough that I realized I needed to pee. I lay there a minute longer, putting off the inevitable. And then I remembered more: someone grabbing me and holding me, a car, crying and pain, and ... nothing else.Maybe I was, like, at a psych ward or something. Maybe Harborview? But it didn't look like hospital. Nor a jail, not like I'd ever actually been in one. Motel? Didn't seem right, with just one twin bed.. However, whenever he appeared, a spark of electricity would shoot up her spine and she could feel the colour vanish from her cheeks. Most of her time was occupied in the minutiae of organising correspondence and filling up the Director's diary with all the duties he was expected to perform. Some of the Director's tasks took him out of the Brothel for days on end and involved meeting illustrious members of the government or civil service. Often his work kept him in other parts of the building. She unhooked my bra and threw it on the chair next to her bed. She then stepped back and said to me”I hope your ready for this and that you can handle it”. She then turns around so I can unzip her sexy red sparkled dress. Claudia stepped out of her dress and threw it on the chair with my bra. “Claudia I need to call Mark really quick to let him know I am okay and that I went to your house just to have a few drinks” I say tell her. I left her bedroom and called Mark to tell him I went to.