The Maiden Voyage -- Part 1 by Badger Therese & Lena White

Author:Badger Therese & Lena White [Therese, Badger & White, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

9 - Beachy Considers a Deal

“This should look pretty familiar to you,” Morrow said to Beachy as the elevator doors slid open. “We couldn’t make it look just like the movie, given our space constraints and all. But I think they did a great job of recreating the feel of the Beaumont Processing Facility.”

Beachy exited the elevator and looked around in awe. A full complement of cages, all empty for now, lined the deck in rows and columns, just like on the movie set of Slave of the New Confederacy a few months ago. These were the cages where, according to Morrow’s unlikely story, paying female guests would spend their days and nights, collared and manacled, subsisting on bread and water, and using buckets to relieve themselves.

“People have signed up for this?” she asked without bothering to hide her disbelief.

“We’re sold out for this cruise and the waiting list is as long as your arm,” he said with a broad grin. “With the success of the movie, this deck is a big hit.”

“That makes no sense at all, Rodney. I’ve never been on a cruise but I’m pretty sure people book them to lounge in the sun and eat themselves silly at buffets that never close. You’re going to keep your guests in cages instead of staterooms and feed them those horrible little biscuits and make them shit in a bucket in their cages?” She stared at him. “Are you fucking kidding me?”

His eyes darkened briefly before he regained control and forced a smile. “You ever hear how I got my start in the real estate business, Beachy?”

She shook her head. “I guess not, but what does that have to do with…?”

He cut her off with a wave. “Hear me out. Long before I built my first hotel I used to give people what they wanted - sexually, just to be clear. Everything I’ve done over the course of my career has been built on the idea that people are fucking degenerates if you let them be. Offer them what they want and they’ll pay you a fucking fortune to get it.”

Beachy stared at him for a moment, then asked, “What the hell are you talking about, Rodney?”

He smiled at her. “Back in 2008, when the world was falling apart, I saw my opportunity to change the venue I operated without really changing the nature of my service, because I knew that however lucrative it was to get a cut of every transaction, owning the venue where the transactions took place would be much more profitable. But doing your first deal in commercial real estate is always the hardest one to pull off because no one trusts you to be able to do it. So when the financial crisis killed the financing for a new hotel in Atlanta that was 98% built, I swooped in and took it over for pennies on the dollar.

“Now, I know what you’re thinking–what’s that got to do with cruise ships? I bought that first hotel knowing that the market would be there for me because I had something no one else had.

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