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I'm not making any money for the use of Janet's characters, but if I could pimp Lester out I'd be rich! Carla is my character.
Chapter 10
"How the hell do you think you'll slip out past Ranger?" Tank asked glaring at me.
"Fire escape" I said triumphantly.
"There are camera's on the fire escape, there are fucking camera's everywhere. He'll see you" Tank replied with exasperation.
"Not if we get someone to distract him" Steph joined in. "I promise we'll have sobered up by the time we get there. We'll stick to juice in the club" she smiled sweetly at Tank and batted her eyelashes before slouching back on the couch.
Tank stood there for a long moment obviously trying to figure out in his head if was possible to sneak past Ranger. I had a suspicion that he had never managed to carry out this feat. He looked at us back and forth a few times before shaking his head and digging out his cell phone.
"Yo" he said to the call recipient. "You got Ranger with you?" he asked. He listened for a second before continuing "Hal we have a situation here, you need to scramble the camera's in the stair well, the 5th floor and the garage, and keep Ranger distracted in his office for five minutes" he listened some more while Hal was probably asking how the hell he was going to manage that. "You'll think of something, you'll need to do this now. Text me when the camera's are done" he barked and hung up.
"Right you two get ready to go" he ordered as he pressed another speed dial on his phone. "Yo Les meet me in the garage now, have a car ready. Don't tell Ranger just get down there. We gotta get the girls out before he sees them" he hung up before giving Lester any more explanation.
Tank motioned us over to the door and stood watching his phone. As soon as the text came through we were off heading for the fire escape. I was managing just fine on my heels now but Steph kept stumbling so Tank picked her up and flung her over his shoulder.
"Hey" she shouted. "What the fuck!"
"Shut it Bombshell" Tank shouted at her. "Its for your own good".
We ran down the five flights of stairs and entered the garage running. Lester was standing leaning against a SUV but soon stood to attention when he saw us coming. I couldn't help but stare at him. He was still in the usual all black but was wearing a pair of black jeans and a tight fitting black button down shirt. He looked good enough to eat! Tank put Steph down and headed for the drivers side. "Get them in" he shouted to Lester obviously he'd had enough of us for one night.
Les looked us up and down and gave us a 1000 watt smile. "Ladies" he said opening the door for us. Steph went first "Looking good Beautiful" he said to her as he helped her up into the vehicle. A stab of something, it could have been jealousy, hit me but I swallowed it back. I knew Steph wasn't interested in Lester. Neither was I told myself.
I stepped forward determined to get in the car without his help but he grabbed my arm anyway with a wicked grin on his face. "Evening Sweetness" he said as I struggled to release my arm and climb up into the car. I only succeeded in banging my head on the way in. I heard Lester laughing as he shut the door and ran round to the front passenger side. How did she get to be Beautiful and I didn't!
Tank gunned the engine and we raced out of the garage at some speed. He was going all out to avoid Ranger. As we sped along I kept noticing Tank looking at Steph and myself in the rear view mirror. Lester kept looking round and looking us up and down too. I should have felt uncomfortable but I didn't. Maybe it was just the effects of the alcohol but I felt damn sexy. Unconsiously I cross my legs, more for the fact that I was needing to pee, but this got another wolfish grin from Lester.
"Look at the road boys not the cleavage" I shouted to the two men in the front.
"Yeah" Steph joined in. "Lula would hit you upside the head if she knew where your eyes have been straying Tank".
"Oh boy Tank" Les said. "Tonight might be fucked but it's gonna be entertaining".
I turned to Steph who just raised her eyebrows and shrugged her shoulders as if to say "I told so you".
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We arrived at Club Ice Blue fifteen minutes later. I gasped when I saw the line of people all down the block.
"Don't worry Sweetness we go in the back way" Lester explained.
We all piled out the car and crossed the street where a tall girl stood talking to a huge muscle man who looked suspiciously like a Merry Man.
My suspicions were confirmed when Lester and Tank greeted the man with one of those complicated handshake things. I was then introduced to Ram and Sasha. Ram looked to me like a clone of Hal's and I wasn't sure whether I would be able to distinguish between the two if I met them separately back at Rangeman. He gave me a lovely smile though and his handshake was suprisingly gentle. I decided I would maybe prefer to bump into Ram rather that Hal any day.
Sasha gave me a big smile and I instantly liked her. She was simply stunning. I was sure standing next to her I must look like an ugly duckling. She looked like Beyonce without the hips. In fact she looked like a super model. She was tall, slim, toned with tiny perky little breasts that were being hugged by a sheer gold coloured dress that set off her skin tone. She must have been around 6 foot tall but in her heels she stood half a head higher than me. The one thing that struck me was that most girls who looked that good would probably turn their nose up at the likes of me and Steph, but her demeanour was incredibly warm.
I went to shake hands with Sasha but she just grabbed me and gave me a big hug.
"Its lovely to meet you Carla, Ram has just been telling me all about you" Sasha then moved over to give Steph and big hug too. "Hey girlfriend, you looking a bit unsteady tonight, you not well or something?" she asked concern written all over her pretty face.
"She's drunk" Tank announced. "Carla decided a girlie get together was needed beforehand and this is the result" he said motioning with his thumb to the two of us.
"Dang, I'm sorry I missed that" Sasha laughed. "Sounded like fun".
Tank just stood and shook his head.
"C'mon girls" Sasha said linking an arm with Steph and myself "Lets get to work" . With that we sauntered off towards an alley heading down the rear of the club, leaving Tank, Lester and Hal to follow in our wake.
"Will we let Sasha in on our plan tonight?" I asked Steph.
"What plan is that then?" Sasha asked.
"We are having a man free night" Steph giggled "apart from our target of course".
"Sounds good to me" Sasha agreed "I'm not interested in any man apart from my Bobby anyway, I can't wait to see him tomorrow".
"Oh my God" Steph suddenly whispered. "I forgot to show Carla the file, she doesn't know what this guy looks like, or anything about him".
"Ram showed me a picture but I know no more than that. If I see him I'm to let you know Steph so you can do your stuff" Sasha said.
"We have another problem" I added still whispering. "Neither have us picked up our bags, we've no money with us".
"I've got some with me, but not enough to keep us all in drinks all night" Sasha said.
"We shouldn't be drinking any more tonight anyway" Steph said.
"Look girls here's what we're going to do" I said pulling to a stop "We've fucked up, I'll admit that but lets not tonight go to waste. We'll get drinks bought no problem from any guy we want, but we don't dance with them. Its still a no man night. We might aswell forget the target and enjoy ourselves. We'll take the consequences later".
"Has she not met Ranger yet?" Sasha asked Steph. "You gotta death wish or something Carla?"
"What you girls whispering about?" Lester asked catching up with us.
"Oh we were just arguing over who got to dance with you first Les" Steph said fluttering her eyelashes at him. She took his arm and let him lead her through the fire exit. "You can buy us a drink first while we discuss it between ourselves".
This girl was good I thought to myself as we followed into the club.
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An hour later and Steph had certainly not sobered up as she had promised Tank. In fact she was absolutely legless!
We had so far managed to avoid any real contact with Ranger and his Merry Men, or indeed any other man for that matter, but had managed to obtain quite a lot of alcohol using our womanly charms. The few sightings I had seen of Rangers had been quite frightening. The man was furious.
The club was really smart, all cool decor and cooler people. There was a large sunken dancefloor surrounded by chrome rails and seating ranging from round high tables with standing room only to comfortable booths. There was a large modern bar running along one wall and steps up to a viewing gallery with big chill out seating arrangements. Currently the male Rangemen employees where scattered around the club in strategic positions. The female employees on the other hand, were giving it some on the dance floor.
I love dancing but haven't really been out clubbing much to get the opportunity to do it in public recently. I had however been attending a few exercise and dance classes so had learnt some moves that I probably wouldn't try back home. However the change of environment and of course the JD had made me lose my inhibitions and I was grinding away with the best of them. Steph in particular really looked like she was letting herself go. She looked so relaxed and beautiful. So different to the strained expression she had earlier in the day.
We were dancing away to Kelly Rowland's "When Love Takes Over" when a man approached me to dance so I did a little side shuffle that we had perfected to avoid such an approach, and Steph grabbed my hands so we could let the man know I wasn't interested in his advances. He shook his head and walked away.
The song finished so we headed over to the table Sasha was sitting with some friends she had met. Before we could get there though Ram stepped out of nowhere and went to speak to Sasha. Then from behind me an arm grabbed my waist and pushed me towards the fire exit. I shoved the arm away and turned to find a very pissed off looking Lester. He grabbed my arm again and reached over to hook Steph's arm too and pulled us again to an equally pissed off looking Tank who was waiting at the open fire exit door.
"Time to go" Tank said barely keeping his temper under control.
"Why" asked Steph as she held on to me for support. Now that she wasn't dancing she could hardly keep herself up.
"The target has left the building" Tank growled at us.
"Oh sorry we didn't see him" I said.
"He just asked you to dance Carla, and you turned him down" Tank said shaking his head.
"Oh" as all I could say before Steph and I both collapsed into each other laughing our heads off.
"Fuck this" Tank said angrily "I don't get paid enough for this shit". With that he picked Steph up, flung her over his shoulder again and marched out towards the waiting car.
I turned around to see Lester advancing on me with an evil glint in his eye.
"Oh no you don't" I said backing away from him towards the door. "I'm perfectly capable of walking out of here myself.
"I know, but this way is more fun" Lester laughed as he lunged for me. "Payback for the shit we'll get from Ranger for letting you out in this state" He then easily picked me up and threw me over this shoulder.
"My dress" I screamed trying to reach round and pull my dress back down over my behind.
"Don't worry I've got it covered" Lester said putting his hands over my thonged ass.
"You pervert" I screamed but Lester just laughed again.
We got over to the car where Tank had already dumped Steph in a heap in the back seat. Lester went round to the other side and slowly let me slide down his body until he had me pinned against the car. I tried to pull my dress down but he wouldn't let go of my arms. He kept me pinned in place with his hips while he tried to open the door.
"I can stand myself you know" I protested to his chest.
"Probably Sweetness, but again, this way is much more fun" he said into my hair.
"This is sexual harrassment" I shouted in his face.
"Yeah, but you seem to be enjoying it" he said glancing down my cleavage. I looked down and felt mortified at my nipples which were peaking out through the thin fabric of my bra. Lester ran his hands down the side of my body to my waist where he pulled the fabric of my dress back down over my hips. A shot of desire shot through me and I shuddered at his touch.
"Cold" Lester whispered. I looked up into his eyes which were two pools of pure lust. Oh boy.
"Yes I am" I replied curtly. I wasn't going to let him know how I really felt. He reached behind me into the car and pulled out a grey sweatshirt from under the seat.
"Here put this on then, you can return it to me later" he said helping me into the sweatshirt.
He finally lifted me up into the seat and pulled my seatbelt round me. I looked round at Steph to see if she had witnessed any of this embarrassing scene but she was already passed out in a heap. Two minutes later I had passed out myself!