Chapter 3-In times of despair
That night was particularly busy. Letty was on the verge of sleeping on herself if not for the music and the drunks at bar. Her feet pained in the high heels that they were a requirement of the uniform along with an almost degrading black mini skirt if not for the pleats that hid the seductive slit now and then. Letty struggled to maneuver through the thick crowd as she felt a strong arm embrace her around the bare skin of her waist and pulled her on his lap.
Some drunken bastard had decided he wanted to get friendly.
"Hey man, what the f*'k" Letty spat out while looking at the man in disgust.
"Such a filthy mouth on such a sexy body, just how I like it". The man replied and gave Letty a sleezy wink.
"Oh Yeah... Well you should know a lot about filthy...like your hands for instance. The same hands that you need to remove before it's the last thing they ever touch." She scolded.
The man laughed and ignored Letty's warning and pulled her into a kiss.
Letty's blood grew hot as she let the glasses on the tray she was holding fall to the floor.
Letty forced her lips away from his. He was instantly introduced to the firm metal tray to his right jaw. He fell off his chair with Letty on top of him. The slit in the pleated skirt made it easy for her to spread her legs across his chest and deliver another blow, this time to his forehead. The man was now seeing stars.
"If you ever put your filthy hands on me again, it'll be the last thing you ever do" She threatened as she held him by hair.
People were cheering at her and taking pictures of what was taking place.
Letty was furious at what happened, but more so for making herself noticed. Surely somebody is going to post this online and her face will be there for Braga to find her.
"Damn it... F*'king dick...damn it, damn it..." cried Letty as she slammed her back against the toilet stall door. Letty slid down to the floor and hugged her knees as she bent her head into her forearms and gave a brief sob of frustration and weariness. She the managed to take some deep, short breaths, stood up, washed her face in the closest face basin and gathered her composure to make it through the night.
"That's the last of the glasses, can you pass them to Richard in the kitchen," Letty tiredly asked one of her co-workers.
The club was now closed and they were clearing the way for the cleaners.
"Hell of a night hey Let?"
"No Shit man, I need a vacation in the Bahamas to recover." Letty laughed with her comment knowing that Mr. Del Rio would faster replace her than give her time off.
"Guys, I'm breaking this joint, see you later" Letty hailed to her co-workers.
"Scene, remember...6 o'clock.. Let." Richard yelled.
"Ha ha... How could I forget?" she said sarcastically.
"Letty ...in my office please" Mr Del Rio heavy voice came echoing through the empty club.
"Oh Shit Let what did you do now?" Richard snickered.
"Oh man, he must be mad about the fight" she whispered to her co-workers.
Letty slowly opened the office door and stuck her head in first like a SWAT officer before scoping out his area.
"Come in Ortiz"
"Sir, he was asking for it, I wasn't on the menu, his was being a dick...damn it...I ..."
"Ortiz, stop, Jesus do you always play out a situation before it even happens?"
"Kinda,..Sometimes,... Yes" Letty replied obviously nervous.
"Relax, here" he said, not even looking at Letty as he handed her an envelope.
"It was a busy night, you did well. Oh I have two clients dropping off their vehicles for a tune up Saturday morning so I need you there at 8am instead of 9am. So take your day off today, ok, we'll do a new roster next week." still his down focusing on his paper work.
Letty opened the envelope; it was over 300.00 in it. She stood there in shock.
"Is that going to be a problem?" he asked, this time taking off his reading glasses to stare at Letty, realizing she was still standing in his doorway.
"No... She quickly replied."
"Good" he replied again focusing on his paper work. "Tell Alonzo to secure the front and join Jesse in the back; don't want some punk sneaking up on me to take my money."
"Sure, no problem Sir."Letty said as she proceeded to leave the office. Somehow she knew that deep down Mr. Del Rio understood what she was going through. And while he wasn't a man of emotions he obviously cared for her and he now proved to be someone she could trust.