LitShark
Predator
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Evan Turner parked his Koenigsegg One in the parking space labeled with his name and title, the powerful engine of his imported sports car groaning like a wounded jungle cat as he parked and cut off the engine. He confidently climbed out of the driver’s seat and used a small remote to lock and set the alarm with two high beeps in sequence. He whistled merrily as he made his way to the executive elevator where he could easily bypass the first fifty floors of the Walker & Turner Consultation Firm’s eighty floor high-rise.
It seemed almost impossible—garish even, that one company should occupy thirty whole floors of a skyscraper and rent the other floors for a profit, but such was the advantage of old money in pre-slavery capitalist society. Evan wasn’t sorry. It never even occurred to him that he owed his success to anything other than hard work and rarified breeding.
Ever since he was old enough to smile, Evan had been classified as a heart-breaker and he’d thought of it as a personal challenge. To entice girls and women to commit their hearts to him, while he viewed them all as just another conquest. His combination of looks and money made it easy to lay them all down before him, like rails in the path of a train.
Evan’s whole life had been like that.
Things that were supposed to be difficult for everyone else were just easy for him. Some people were scared of police—police were scared of Evan and his last name. Some had trouble getting into college—Ivy league schools competed for Evan’s intent to register. Some poor fools had trouble finding love—Evan fucked a new girl every night. It was like the whole world was tilted in his favor. And Evan still wasn’t sorry.
As the elevator reached the 79th floor, he adjusted his tie and strode confidently toward his office, one of only four on this floor. Only his father and Oscar Walker’s father occupied the floor above them, their offices like palaces that sprawled onto the lavish rooftop that boasted a hot tub, sauna and greenhouse.
“Yo, Ozzy! How you feeling, you sick son-of-a-bitch?” Evan taunted, leaning into Oscar’s black marble, lined office, paying no attention to his secretary Tina, in spite of her objections, “Ready to turn and burn, or what?”
Oscar had been out drinking hard since about two hours ago and had been sleeping behind his Gucci sunglasses until Evan startled him awake behind his $35k rosewood desk.
“Aw, you fucking dick!” Ozzy shouted as his headache was reawakened with a vengeance, “I’ll get you back for that.”
“Watch it, otherwise I’ll finally take your mom up on her offer to fuck her in the ass,” Evan bantered back.
“At least I don’t take it in the ass like your dad does.”
“You’ve got it backwards, my dad is the pitcher, your dad is the catcher.”
“Just get out of here, you shitbird!”
“Don’t you want to check in with Middle-Management-Bobby?”
“It’s too early, check in with me at lunch.”
“Your loss, I’m going to double down on Bob-bashing today,” Evan smirked, it was a kind of sport between the upper-management elites, to single out struggling salarymen and see who could be most imaginative in making them suffer, “maybe I’ll make him loan me five-hundred bucks again…”
“Who cares? Get OUT!” Ozzy countered, throwing a stapler at the door but only making it halfway, he’d consumed a full bottle of Scotch the night before.
Evan was still chuckling as he crossed the elaborate lobby that separated the 4 offices of the 79th floor. He greeted his secretary, taking his stack of mail and depositing the papers on his lighted, glass desk. He thought, briefly, about doing real work before moving to the general staff’s elevator. He told his secretary, Olga, to take any messages that came for him as he rode the elevator down to the fifty-sixth floor, where Bob Cross worked.
When he arrived at Bob’s desk, at 9:05 AM, the ill-fated salaryman was not there. Evan feigned incredulity as he interrogated Bob’s neighbors.
“Where the fuck is Bob Cross this morning?!?”
Bob Cross was incredibly nervous as he waited for the elevator in the immense lobby of Walker & Turner Plaza. His palm was sweating against his daughter’s, he’d had to sign them both in with security. His beautiful and intelligent Sanna was his whole world, while his job at W&T was just a means to an end—even though it had been six years without a raise or a promotion.
“Are you excited to see where I work?” Bob asked his lovely daughter as the elevator arrived, “my bosses don’t like me much, so I need you to be on your best behavior, okay Pumpkin?”
Bob continued to hold her hand as he led her onto the elevator and keyed in his floor. He ought to have pressed the “Door Close” button, but that seemed rude to him, and before long, several dozen other working men crowded into the elevator and he was separated from his daughter. He couldn’t tell what was happening in the press, but several of the men had smirked at him as they exited on their floors.
When he arrived on his own floor, he felt out his daughter’s hand, pulling her through the crowd into the maze of cubicles that comprised his work life.
“Bob! Where the fuck have you been?” His boss, Mr. Turner shouted at him, looking sarcastically at his platinum Rolex, “you’re fifteen minutes late!”
“I—I just—” Bob stammered, his palm sweating heavier against his beloved daughter’s hand, “it—it’s bring your daughter to work day. I brought my daughter, Sanna.”
“Is that right?” Evan balked, spotting the nubile beauty at Bob’s side, “maybe I’ll let you off the hook, this time, Bob. Bring her over here, let me get a look at her.”
It seemed almost impossible—garish even, that one company should occupy thirty whole floors of a skyscraper and rent the other floors for a profit, but such was the advantage of old money in pre-slavery capitalist society. Evan wasn’t sorry. It never even occurred to him that he owed his success to anything other than hard work and rarified breeding.
Ever since he was old enough to smile, Evan had been classified as a heart-breaker and he’d thought of it as a personal challenge. To entice girls and women to commit their hearts to him, while he viewed them all as just another conquest. His combination of looks and money made it easy to lay them all down before him, like rails in the path of a train.
Evan’s whole life had been like that.
Things that were supposed to be difficult for everyone else were just easy for him. Some people were scared of police—police were scared of Evan and his last name. Some had trouble getting into college—Ivy league schools competed for Evan’s intent to register. Some poor fools had trouble finding love—Evan fucked a new girl every night. It was like the whole world was tilted in his favor. And Evan still wasn’t sorry.
As the elevator reached the 79th floor, he adjusted his tie and strode confidently toward his office, one of only four on this floor. Only his father and Oscar Walker’s father occupied the floor above them, their offices like palaces that sprawled onto the lavish rooftop that boasted a hot tub, sauna and greenhouse.
“Yo, Ozzy! How you feeling, you sick son-of-a-bitch?” Evan taunted, leaning into Oscar’s black marble, lined office, paying no attention to his secretary Tina, in spite of her objections, “Ready to turn and burn, or what?”
Oscar had been out drinking hard since about two hours ago and had been sleeping behind his Gucci sunglasses until Evan startled him awake behind his $35k rosewood desk.
“Aw, you fucking dick!” Ozzy shouted as his headache was reawakened with a vengeance, “I’ll get you back for that.”
“Watch it, otherwise I’ll finally take your mom up on her offer to fuck her in the ass,” Evan bantered back.
“At least I don’t take it in the ass like your dad does.”
“You’ve got it backwards, my dad is the pitcher, your dad is the catcher.”
“Just get out of here, you shitbird!”
“Don’t you want to check in with Middle-Management-Bobby?”
“It’s too early, check in with me at lunch.”
“Your loss, I’m going to double down on Bob-bashing today,” Evan smirked, it was a kind of sport between the upper-management elites, to single out struggling salarymen and see who could be most imaginative in making them suffer, “maybe I’ll make him loan me five-hundred bucks again…”
“Who cares? Get OUT!” Ozzy countered, throwing a stapler at the door but only making it halfway, he’d consumed a full bottle of Scotch the night before.
Evan was still chuckling as he crossed the elaborate lobby that separated the 4 offices of the 79th floor. He greeted his secretary, taking his stack of mail and depositing the papers on his lighted, glass desk. He thought, briefly, about doing real work before moving to the general staff’s elevator. He told his secretary, Olga, to take any messages that came for him as he rode the elevator down to the fifty-sixth floor, where Bob Cross worked.
When he arrived at Bob’s desk, at 9:05 AM, the ill-fated salaryman was not there. Evan feigned incredulity as he interrogated Bob’s neighbors.
“Where the fuck is Bob Cross this morning?!?”
*-*-*
Bob Cross was incredibly nervous as he waited for the elevator in the immense lobby of Walker & Turner Plaza. His palm was sweating against his daughter’s, he’d had to sign them both in with security. His beautiful and intelligent Sanna was his whole world, while his job at W&T was just a means to an end—even though it had been six years without a raise or a promotion.
“Are you excited to see where I work?” Bob asked his lovely daughter as the elevator arrived, “my bosses don’t like me much, so I need you to be on your best behavior, okay Pumpkin?”
Bob continued to hold her hand as he led her onto the elevator and keyed in his floor. He ought to have pressed the “Door Close” button, but that seemed rude to him, and before long, several dozen other working men crowded into the elevator and he was separated from his daughter. He couldn’t tell what was happening in the press, but several of the men had smirked at him as they exited on their floors.
When he arrived on his own floor, he felt out his daughter’s hand, pulling her through the crowd into the maze of cubicles that comprised his work life.
“Bob! Where the fuck have you been?” His boss, Mr. Turner shouted at him, looking sarcastically at his platinum Rolex, “you’re fifteen minutes late!”
“I—I just—” Bob stammered, his palm sweating heavier against his beloved daughter’s hand, “it—it’s bring your daughter to work day. I brought my daughter, Sanna.”
“Is that right?” Evan balked, spotting the nubile beauty at Bob’s side, “maybe I’ll let you off the hook, this time, Bob. Bring her over here, let me get a look at her.”