The Voyos Reunion by Aubrey Parker
Author:Aubrey Parker [Parker, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
CHAPTER SIX
Sixty years.
Either Slava had heard Alexa wrong — or, increasingly unsure and with her paranoia re-firing, it was even possible that she’d heard Slava wrong.
She’d sat with Slava for another few minutes after that, then finally left. The conversation hadn’t been over; Chloe just couldn’t take any more. Slava had watched her walk out, still naked as befitting any proper Voyos guide, and done nothing to stop her.
It had felt logical. But now, alone in her old home, Chloe wondered if it had been a sort of fugue. Maybe a breakdown.
So yes, she might have heard Slava wrong.
Imagined nuances that weren’t there, imbuing their conversation with sinister undertones even though it had only been a chat.
Barring that, Slava was mistaken.
Or barring that, Alexa had misspoken.
Or been talking about something entirely different.
Slava had read the situation wrong, because although Chloe had felt observed these last few months and was now feeling like eyes might have been on her for years before (paranoid though that still seemed), there was one glaring problem with what Slava had said: Chloe wasn’t sixty years old. Her mother wasn’t even sixty years old.
Chloe paced the house while her mom was out, finally remembering to put on some clothes after a few nude minutes of disorientation, before calling the spa to report that she suddenly and inexplicably felt too ill for work.
The spa suggested a trip to the clinic; O had a way of patching up talent just enough to make it still workable in the way injured athletes were shot with steroids and repair nanos and then told to keep playing.
Chloe said no and dared the manager to challenge her. Then after putting her on hold for fifteen long minutes to check something, he’d simply let her go.
What had he been doing during those fifteen minutes?
What had Alexa really wanted from Slava, aside from the confusing, and possibly misheard, exclamation at the end?
Chloe’s relationship with Andrew was Chloe and Andrew’s business. No one else’s. She didn’t even know where to start arguing against Alexa’s intrusion. For one, it was none of her damn concern. For two, what possible angle would Alexa think she’d have to interfere?
Chloe wouldn’t listen if Alexa gave her advice about Andrew; she was a grown woman and able to manage her own affairs.
And Andrew? Nobody at O even knew who he was or had him on their radar … or at least that’s what Chloe had thought.
But the final thing was the most insulting. Even if Chloe and Andrew’s relationship was within their purview and line of sight (which it shouldn’t have been), many escorts carried on with personal affairs while working.
But even the girls who never bothered with formal compartmentalization always developed a casual form of the same thing. Ever since the original Pretty Woman, the idea of the prostitute who’d only kiss her true man on the lips had been standard behavior. You kept work on one side and your private life on the other.
Who the fuck was Alexa
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