The Promotion: A psychological thriller with a killer twist by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Published: 2021-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

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The first thing I see inside this mysterious place is my own reflection in the wall of mirrors directly opposite me. But I don’t see anybody else down here in this dark corridor, so I get moving along it, keeping my wits about me in case I should encounter somebody else I need to get past.

I can hear a deep baseline pulsing through this venue, and the music only gets louder the further I go down the corridor. This is obviously some kind of club, but what kind remains to be seen. Surely Michael is too old to be hanging out with people half his age drinking and dancing, and it isn’t even that late in the evening for a nightclub to be busy. That makes me think this isn’t a typical club, and the secretive location of it only adds to that suspicion as I reach the end of the corridor and look around the corner.

To my surprise, this place is very busy, and I see several waitresses walking around with drinks trays, serving several tables full of businessmen, who are all watching the scantily clad women performing on poles up on the stage.

It’s a strip club. How original. I shouldn’t be shocked that Michael would frequent a place like this, and I’m not. This has him written all over it. But where is he?

I scan the busy and low-lit room for any sign of my boss, but I can’t spot him anywhere. But I know he is in here somewhere, so I will keep looking. Or at least I intend to until somebody taps me on the shoulder.

I spin around, terrified that I have been rumbled and that Michael is once again going to laugh at me and tell me that he has won, but it’s not him.

It’s a young woman in a sequin dress.

She says something to me, but while I can see her lipstick red lips moving, I can’t hear a word of it. The music is too loud for conversation, and my hearing is not as sharp as it once was back when I used to frequent noisy venues in my teens and twenties. The woman realises I can’t hear her, so she leans in closer towards me and tries again.

‘Are you okay? You look lost!’

Just like the man on the door, this employee is trying to be helpful, and I’m glad of that because I would have thought it was obvious that I didn’t belong in a place like this, and they could just tell me to get lost.

I do my best to come up with a plausible reason as to why I am standing here and remember what the security guard said about the interview.

‘I’ve just been for an interview, and I’m having a look around before I leave,’ I tell the waitress, having to strain my voice to make myself heard over the sounds coming from the speakers in every dark corner of this underground club.

‘Cool! Well, remember the golden rule. Look

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