There Must Be A Mistake Ch. 27

William said, "Where is my gun, you never smile unless you're going to kill someone."

"No sir, my mission in Montpelier was accomplished much more easily than I had anticipated thanks to the use of your name. It never would have happened that way without it. I would like to present to you this check for $500 million, in appreciation for your help."

"Lucius, I need more money, like I need a mistress to mess up my life. Why don't you use it wisely, because after December 25 and a lot of people will be unemployed, unless they want to stick around, and help with Holden's new project, which could take 10 or 15 years to get off the ground. I won't be here, but Junior will be. I am going to recall him for December 1, and have him put an administrator in charge of our Shanghai operation. If there is any fall off, I will have him sell the operation, and that will be the end of it. What is happening here is much more important. I have to show him how important it is, and transfer almost everything to him. Patrick will inherit a great deal also when he comes of age, and I hope the both of them will join together and become a force greater than the parts of what they own. You have enough money, I have seen to that. I don't want you to get any part of this. Divide it in equal measure from the bottom up. The secretaries will need it more than the highly paid scientists will. Patricia can do the breakdown for you in the matter of minutes, and she also can keep her mouth shut."

"How many times have I told you in my life that you are the smartest man I have ever known? You are also the most philanthropic man I have ever known. General Morgan will never know how grateful I was that he kicked me out of the service at the exact time you were looking for close body protection. It was the most fortuitous moment of my life. I gained a lifelong friend, and a man I would do anything for."

"You have proved that to me time and time again Lucius. Even through some of the ugliness of life, you never wavered when I needed you."

"I must admit sir there was the funniest thing that ever happened also. There was the day we scared the vice president of the United States to shit in his pants."

"Yes, that was fun, even though he continued to annoy us for a while, that was fun."

"I will speak to your daughter, and have her breakdown the amounts for each person on our payroll. I know she won't take any money, and neither will Mrs. Luck."

"What are you going to do with the rest of the money you collected?"

"I was going to donate a large part of it to make an addition to the hospital here in Temple that is named after my mentor and his wife. Then I was going to spread it around to the people that work here as they became unemployed from the bottom up. I thought it would make a soft landing for them."

"Where would you get such a ludicrous idea Lucius?"

"My friend, the smartest man I have ever known, taught me very well sir."

"Get out of here before we both start crying. I will sic Jemma on you if you do that to me."

"Oh no anything but that sir. I have seen Jemma in action, and I want no part of her wrath. Have a great day William."

"You too Lucius."

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130. Notifying the Winners

On October 15, every employee's name, who had requested a chance to go on the trip into space, was put into a blank envelope and thrown into a garbage can. A similar garbage can was taped top to top together, and then shaken for 30 seconds. This was done for scientific accuracy.

The garbage cans were untapped, and the envelopes poured onto the floor. Stephano was blindfolded, and in front of him, he had a list of all the secretaries in the building. They spun his chair around moved the pages out of order, and told him to begin. He now had to call 20 names to pick out the 20 winning employees that would join the crew of the Best Luck. He started and pointed to the first secretary's name, and his aid called out, "Kathleen Moses."

A cheer went out as if she won the lottery, but she was only going to pick up an envelope.

Stephano continued through the next 19, and each secretary received the same response.

They picked five alternates, and marked them as A1 thru A5. Stephano removed the blindfold, took a black pouch, and asked the secretaries to put their envelopes inside it. He asked that the remaining envelopes not be destroyed, but kept in the boxes provided.

Everything was completed just after 2 PM Friday afternoon, and the secretaries headed back towards their desks.

Stephano asked, "Where are you going? You have the rest of the day off."

There was a loud cheer, and several women started charging at him to say thank you.

He ran to his office, closed, and locked his door for safety.

The hard part was over, now came the easy part, opening the envelopes to see who won, checked the computer to make sure they met the qualifications, and notify them. It took him an hour to do it, and he was amazed 14 of the 20 winners were women. Seven of them were technical analysts, four worked on the interior framing, two were secretaries, and one helped install the elevators. This was an eclectic group, and would be very helpful if things turn sideways in space.

You couldn't have chosen six better men if you wanted too. A frame inspector, two men who helped to install the exterior panels of walls number one and two, an electrician, and a computer technician."

As he looked at the list of winners again, it looked like they were handpicked. Then, he realized that the talent level of this phenomenal undertaking was so high, you could arrange them in a circle, throw a ball in there, and have a highly qualified person catch it.

He and the computer fill out the names and addresses of the winners on the Golden envelopes, place them in next day mail envelopes, and put them in his outbox. The instructions were simple enough:

Congratulations, you have won a trip to the stars on the Spacecraft 'The Best Luck'. Upon receipt of this letter, you have 10 business days to respond, In Person, to Mister Stephano Valentino for further instructions. If you do not appear, your space will be given to the next person in line.

The following Tuesday there was a line down the hall from Stephano's office. I walked into his office and asked him if he killed my daughter."

"I should be so lucky, but she's the one with the gun, and knows how to use it. These are the winners of the spacecraft contest, and not one of them is going to be a waste of space on the trip. Look at their qualifications dad, for the luck of the draw, it was amazing."

As I perused the list, I couldn't believe it. "These people are all fantastic. I know them all, including the two secretaries. One of them is Williams', she will be dancing on the ceiling today. Let me call her name, and see where she is in line."

I walked into the hallway and asked for quiet. It became like a morgue instantly.

"Is there a loser out here by this name of Sagan Child's?"

Her scream could have broken every light bulb in the building as she charged down towards me.

She wrapped her arms around me, and said, "Doctor Luck, I'll do anything you want on that ship. I am so excited to be going."

"That's what I needed to talk to you about Sagan. Mister Zabo said he wouldn't know what to do without you, so you can't go."

"I'll kill that bastard first. I'll be right back."

"I'm just joking with you. Everything is fine."

"Doctor Luck, you just found a good way to die."

"I just wanted to make sure you really wanted to go. Your application was just a little iffy."

"How do you apply for a position to go into space? There are no qualifications, except that you are breathing. I'm breathing, and I want to go."

"That's good enough for me. Ladies, gentlemen, why don't we reassemble in the cafeteria, so Mister Valentino can do this once and get it over with quickly."

"I hate you Even, I didn't think about that. I was going to do it one at a time."

"That's what you get for going to Penn. You should've gone to a good school."

"I think I'll take the rest of the day off. If this is what it's going to be like at 9:30 AM, I don't want to be here at noon."

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As she snuggled up against Adams' back, Laura asked, "What did you learn today?"

"I learned I should have been born with blinders on, and never looked up into the sky and seen the stars. I never would have wondered what goes on up there, and I would have been much better for it."

"Come on Adam, it can't be all that bad."

"Baby, shit is supposed to go downhill not uphill. I've been working in plumbing since I was 17 years old, and now everything I've ever learned is working in reverse, because gravity is not there. Let me change that. Two walls away, there is gravity, but where the plumbing lines are, there is no gravity. Through some magical means, everything that collects in the plumbing lines goes to the top of the ship, not to the bottom. When it gets there, it doesn't want to come out of the pipe, it wants to stay there. You have to check how much waste is in each side of the pipe connectors. You have to put a larger plastic bag on the valve opening, and seal the bag around it. Then you return to where the waste ends, and seal the next valve below it. You cross over to the other side of the ship and do the same thing. You open a low-pressure valve and blow all of the waste into the plastic bag, leaving the low-pressure valve on, so the waste doesn't flow back into the pipes. You heat seal the plastic bag, close the valve, and hurry back to turn off the low-pressure valve. If you don't do it quickly, the pipe will explode, as it did to me today. Then you go back and open the two valves allowing the waste to flow normally again. You are finished, except now you have to get rid of the waste, which you have to bring to a tube, which is two levels down. You mustn't forget you are in an area of the ship that has no gravity. So the waste can go one way, when you wanted to float another way. You also don't want the bag to puncture and leave a stream of waste floating around the interior of the ship. After you have successfully transited down the two levels, you open the hatch, which looks like a torpedo tube, you put the waste in the tube, heat-sealed end first, and close the door. You open the exterior hatch, push a button and a high-pressure burst of air pushes the bag out into space. The waste instantly freezes and becomes a meteorite.

However, if you forget, and put the waste into the tube, with the heat seal side facing the ship, you'll be cleaning that tube out for about six hours. I've done that too."

Laura kissed his neck, his jaw, and his cheek.

"Are you tired baby?"

"I could sleep for a week."

"Do you want to make love?"

Adam turned over, newly revived.

"Hell yes Laura I want you desperately."

"December 26 isn't that far away. Keep trying Adam I'm still here. I've never been this close to a man in my life."

Adam grabbed her, and kissed her hard.

"That wasn't fair Laura. That was cheating and you know it."

"I'm just trying to give you the will to succeed Adam. I've never wanted a man. I never thought I would be interested in a man, and I don't know why. Why I went you with you that day I will never know. Normally, I would have screamed, but there was something about you that was totally different. If you want me to leave and go back to my mother while you work on this problem, I will. You will sleep alone, and have a cold breakfast. Tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it."

"Please don't leave me. You are the only thing that's keeping me going. I don't mind working hard. I've worked hard all my life. It's just everything is backwards, and I can't get that out of my head."

"Adam close your eyes, and put your hands under your ass. I can't trust you with this, because it's going to be too tempting for you. I want you to think about us making love. Where would you start making love to me?"

"I would start by kissing your face, your lovely face."

"Now think the opposite, because you know the most erogenous zone on my body is my feet. You can get me hotter than a tropical rainforest by playing with my feet Adam, play with my feet, and suck on my toes. I am the reverse of any woman you've ever met. They want their breasts played with. I want you to play with the heels and the insteps of my feet. I want the inside of my calves tortured by your teeth and tongue. I want to explode as you reach my knees. When you bite the outside of my thighs, my panties leak because I have exploded more times than you can count. You have me where you want me, but you are going to torment me more before you give me what I want and need. You bite the soft flesh of the inside of my thigh and work your way up to where my sodden panties would fall apart with just one bite. I beg you, but you proceed down my thigh, bringing me higher and higher as I explode so many times in succession I can't think. I'm finding it hard to breathe. You love that my body is the reverse of every other woman you've ever been with, because I am a challenge to you. My legs are my top, and my head is my bottom, when you make love to me. We are a perfect match, a duo made in heaven. You reach for my foot as I am in the throes of an orgasm that rocks my body to its very core. You destroy my panties. You lift my legs and kiss each calf as you work your way up towards my knees to torture me even more. You bite me, kiss me, as I writhe on the bed. You proceed up my thighs, looking at your target, and this time you and I will not be denied.

You dive in as a man who has not eaten in a year. You dine on my flesh, but you know your real target is higher, and you must get there. You abandon me as I am screaming, and work your way up to my breasts, which are excited and pointy. Without your previous help, they would have been lying flat against my breasts, waiting to be titillated for hours, before becoming excited.

Finally, you arrive at my face, which is in neutral. You can't figure out why I am not excited. Then you remember, I am unlike any other woman you have ever had sex with before. Do their feet ever look excited? I don't believe so. So the spaceship you love, and the woman you love are backwards Adam. The top is the bottom, and the bottom is the top. The top is the bottom Adam. The bottom is the top. You have to get to the bottom of everything, just as in Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but the bottom is at the top, and the top is at the bottom. "

Adam was so engrossed in her story, he never felt her take hold of him, and begin moving his enlarged penis up and back slowly. She did it in cadence with her story never for one second missing a beat, speeding up or slowing down. She had never touched a man before, or seen a pornographic movie. The only information she had was from her sister Anna, and she hoped she was doing it right.

As she was ending her story, Adam's back arched. His hands came out from under his ass and grabbed hers.

He screamed, "Harder, faster, faster and a few seconds later, Adam screamed, and squirted semen everywhere."

Laura screamed, "Holy shit," and did the wrong thing. She ducked, when she should've back peddled. She wound up with ribbons of semen in her hair, and on her face.

All Adam could do was laugh.

"Thank you Laura, I needed that desperately."

"Look at me, I'm a mess."

"When you play with fire, you are going to get burned."

"This is not funny. I had no idea there would be so much stuff coming out of you. Look at you. You are a mess too. The bed is a mess. I am a mess. It's 2 o'clock in the morning, and you have to get up at 5 o'clock. Go take a shower, I'll change the bed."

"You never slept in a bed with cum on it before?"

Laura glared at him.

"I guess not. Let me help you with the bed. You can shower; I'll clean up, and get a few hours' sleep."

After they finished changing the bed, Adam said, "Laura, why did you do that for me?"

"There is a good possibility Mister Schiff that I love you. I am a good storyteller, and I want to help you. I told you that story to help you think in reverse. The other may have happened accidentally or not. I've been looking at you, and wanting to touch you since we decided to sleep together. I didn't know how to do it properly. My only frame of reference was my sister and her interaction with her boyfriend. I was afraid I'd hurt you, I am happy I didn't. When my mother saw you, with your pants around your ankles, she said I was going to have a very happy marriage. I didn't want to do anything to destroy it."

"Trust me Laura, you didn't, you made it better."

"Does it always come out like that?"

"No, but just wait until I try to get you pregnant. You will gain 10 pounds that night."

"Braggart!"

"We're going to have dinner first right?"

"Yes."

"I'll just make sure you drink a lot of water."

"Adam go take a shower."

"Come with me."

"Adam, you will become too tempted, and I'd have to kill you."

"I promise Laura, no funny stuff. I'll even wash your hair."

"No funny stuff or I will hurt you badly."

"Hurry up I have to leave for work at 5:20 AM, and I don't want to walk with a limp."

"You won't walk with a limp; you'll walk away holding your balls."

"You're mean."

"Please remember that while were in the shower."

"Please remember I'm human, and I love you."

"How human?"

"I'll let you know in the shower."

"You get one chance at this, and one chance only."

"I'll take it."

"I was hoping you'd say that."

"You are the most confusing woman I have ever known."

"You are the only man I have ever been in bed with."

"I guess that makes us even. Madame shower, now."

"Does that mean I have to take off my clothes?"

"Are we going to talk until 5:20 AM?"

"That's what I was aiming for."

"You have 20 seconds to get into the bathroom. After that I'm carrying you there."

"Adam, you already know you can't win."

"Yes, but I could always try."

"I like a man who takes a hard fall for a woman, gets up, and is ready to take another one."

"My neck only hurts a little from the first one. If you hit me again, try the shoulder or the arm this time."

"Come on Adam, let's go to the bathroom. I can hurt you just as easily in there as I can in here."

"How about your clothes?"

"You are desperate aren't you?"

"I didn't get any toys for Christmas."

"Turn around."

"What is the sense in my turning around?"

"I've never undressed in front of a man before."

"Let me undress you."

"God, Adam you are looking for a slow lingering death."

Adam walked over to Laura and before she could blink, unbuttoned the first two buttons of her blouse.

"May I continue?"

"Yes."

He pulled her blouse from underneath her skirt and unbuttoned it completely. He turned her around and took it off her shoulders. He placed it over the chair in their room and walked up behind her. He put his arms around her middle, and kissed her neck.

"May I do your skirt?"

"Adam, right now I wish I was at the ranch, that's how nervous I am."

"I promise nothing is going to happen that you don't want to happen. You say stop I stop. If I feel you tensing up, I stop. I am not playing around with some girl I will never see again, I'm with the woman I want to spend my life with, and I hope she feels the same way about me. If it's too soon, I'll take a shower, and you will take a shower after me. We will meet in bed."

"Adam, I like that idea."

"Okay, I'll see you in a few minutes."

"I love you Adam."

"I love you Laura."