writewithme2013
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"Oh my god," Anna responded, pleasing Joseph, who had feared the possibility of instead hearing Who the fuck are you to do this to my career? or some other exclamation of dissatisfaction. "I... I don't know what to say. Thank you so much. I've dreamed about this since I was a child. Thank you Joseph."
"No need to dream anymore, Anna," Joseph replied, pausing for a moment as an older woman emerged seemingly from no where to pour the open champagne into their flutes and remove the stainless steel covers from over their plates. Joseph told the Server that that would be all and he and Anna were not to be disturbed further, then turned back to the dancer and said, "One of the nice things about being a man like myself is being able to do things for people who deserve it."
He sipped at the bubbling fluid, then set it aside, telling her in a reassuring voice, "And Anna, I want you to believe that you do deserve this. Please ... never think of this as a short cut in your career. I believe that left to your own devices, you would have eventually reached the lead role in your company on your own."
He didn't believe this, of course, but his tone and his ability to manufacture charisma when in the presence of mere humans would surely convince Anna of his statement. It wasn't that she wasn't a good dancer; she was, and the room full of people down stairs still gushing about her were proof of that.
The fact was that no matter how good you were at something, there was always someone better at it. That was Anna's hell right there; simply put, there were too many skilled dancers and not enough productions to satisfy them. It didn't hurt, of course, to be fucking the Managing Director either, which -- likely unknown to Anna -- her current nemesis in the troop had been doing for almost two years now.
"Please, tell me something about yourself, Anna," Joseph said, beginning to pick at the food before him. Despite not being able to survive without feeding on humans, he still had to eat regular food to satisfy the nutritional requirements that blood didn't fulfill. He laughed, remembering his faux pas on the stage. "And please ... remind me of your surname as well."
"No need to dream anymore, Anna," Joseph replied, pausing for a moment as an older woman emerged seemingly from no where to pour the open champagne into their flutes and remove the stainless steel covers from over their plates. Joseph told the Server that that would be all and he and Anna were not to be disturbed further, then turned back to the dancer and said, "One of the nice things about being a man like myself is being able to do things for people who deserve it."
He sipped at the bubbling fluid, then set it aside, telling her in a reassuring voice, "And Anna, I want you to believe that you do deserve this. Please ... never think of this as a short cut in your career. I believe that left to your own devices, you would have eventually reached the lead role in your company on your own."
He didn't believe this, of course, but his tone and his ability to manufacture charisma when in the presence of mere humans would surely convince Anna of his statement. It wasn't that she wasn't a good dancer; she was, and the room full of people down stairs still gushing about her were proof of that.
The fact was that no matter how good you were at something, there was always someone better at it. That was Anna's hell right there; simply put, there were too many skilled dancers and not enough productions to satisfy them. It didn't hurt, of course, to be fucking the Managing Director either, which -- likely unknown to Anna -- her current nemesis in the troop had been doing for almost two years now.
"Please, tell me something about yourself, Anna," Joseph said, beginning to pick at the food before him. Despite not being able to survive without feeding on humans, he still had to eat regular food to satisfy the nutritional requirements that blood didn't fulfill. He laughed, remembering his faux pas on the stage. "And please ... remind me of your surname as well."