The Shady Job Offer

This is part of a Choose Your Own Adventure story, ‘Vacation Roulette.’ Go back to the first chapter here. Or return to the previous chapter. Here is the chapter guide.

After a long while, with the warm shower still pounding your bare skin, you nod. “All right, I accept your offer.”

The man in front of you widens his grin. “Perfect. I knew you would agree. You can call me Rutherford.” In your irreverent mind, you call him Rut. “Now come out of the shower and dry off your pretty body. We need to discuss more details.”

As you towel yourself off, Rut eyes you without shame, the lust clear in his gaze. To your surprise, he doesn’t try to touch you.

“I need clothes too,” you quip while fluttering your eyelashes to tease him.

He smirks. “You can wear your own clothes.” Rutherford nods towards a big bulge right outside the bathroom. It’s your bag! And your luggage. Rut adds, “The security guard just hid your stuff under his bed.” He laughs.

Well, you could have just swiped your belongings without going through the ick of having sex with the security guard, then. But hell, the man’s already dead, shot by Rutherford here.

You feel much better back in your clothes, though Rut’s eyes still rove over your form. He talks in a calm tone while he hands over some documents for you to sign.

From that day on, you vow to leave your current life behind, including any family. Rut doesn’t explicitly mention your partner, but the way he says family suggests to you that your significant other is included. You don’t dare endanger your partner by mentioning them anyway.

Rutherford has been thorough with his preparation, and got you out of Vacation Roulette before Sandra knew what hit her.

True to his word, Rutherford lets you choose the assignments you want to do, and the money is substantial.

Yes, with your seductive skills, you have to sleep with more than a few unsavory, even dangerous men. But you’re so well trained that none of them can truly harm you.

Despite his obvious attraction, Rutherford never once makes any advances towards you. Since he’s your boss and rather handsome, you probably wouldn’t have said no if he asked.

While you miss your partner, you’re not so stupid as to try to contact them. Even if Rut won’t harm them, your line of work would put their life in danger.

You have to make peace with this fact, no matter how lonely you feel. Your loneliness gets especially bad at night, when you lie in the arms of a horny stranger who doesn’t care about you.

One day, you take a chance to use a burner account to check your partner’s Instagram. To your dismay, you see that after losing you, they have remarried a drop dead gorgeous redhead.

Jealousy burns you, but your rival truly is beautiful. Regardless, it’s too late to do anything now.

The End

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