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Offering What You Desire. A Limited Time Sale!
Date: 7/22/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: botbot, Rating: 0, Source: LushStories
Right now Oliver’s bitter surprise is leaving him short of breath as he slowly leans up against a rusted, green lamp pole. Despite shaking his head and asking himself if this is really happening. there was Jane, his young wife, stands hand in hand with her lover, their lips touching and searching one another before locking as if in anticipation for a big encore. When they finish the two walked through the Nellington Hotel’s gold revolving door as a doorman in red and white greets them with a slight tip of his polished, plastic brim. He trails them into the hotel, careful not to be noticed but working out a plan in his head if he is. If confronted he will simply lash out with cold, haunting eyes letting the guilt devour her whole. But who was he kidding? He will scream, yell and swing at the stranger in the gray overcoat causing a huge scene. A public disturbance is a guarantee but how far will this catastrophe bury him before it’s over? He feels the dense metal revolver inside his coat pocket as perspiration forms at his temples. Watching them sign in and enter the stainless steel elevator with large green numbers above it, he approaches the balding desk clerk dressed in all black, who is clicking away on a black keyboard. Oliver recites a scene from an old black and white film he once saw in which the protagonist found himself in a similar state, hopeful it will work. “Excuse me.” The marching of clicks ends abruptly as the clerk addresses Oliver. “Yes sir, how may I help ...