After Jane said she was on it and disconnected the BioJack link, Antonio cleared his throat and said, "I've helped manage the place. The old man originally looked into grooming me as a successor until he heard from Brona that she wanted to buy him out. I can't compete with that, but I never wished Brona ill. And even though she was only here a month, I adored her. We all did." Some of them, including him, had even had sex with her, although it was more of a method of stress relief between coworkers than anything else. "So unless anyone feels they can run the place better, do I have your trust to rename this place Brona's and manage it?"
As all the employees of what used to be Prime Eight enthusiastically nodded their assent, Darya blushed, but gave an awkward thumbs up to consent to being a stand-in for Brona. She wasn't a very popular stripper because she didn't fit the body type or genitalia requirements of many of the pickier clients, so she'd do this for Brona, as the fellow stripper had slept with her when everyone else treated her as their dorky sister. However, she was also honored someone as hot (rumored to be well endowed) as Yasmine Legato wanted to fuck her, as Yasmine had been her celebrity crush for many years. She had hoped it wouldn't be because of Brona dying, but Darya figured Brona would be cheering her on from the grave.
*****
Three months after Connor's death
Plenty of people, as it turned out, lusted for Yasmine in the same way, but the only person who got a dicking from her in the two months after Prime Eight was rebuilt as Brona's had been Jane. Darya had wanted to, but was busy managing Domna Despina after Yasmine bought it from the Romanian mafia as a peace offering. Erika had also been hankering after Yasmine, it was true; but she also didn't want to rush into anything, until the wounds Yasmine had inflicted on her and Shiloh as well as the loss of Michael had scarred over her heart.
Tonight, if things went well on this date, then everything would change, Erika hoped. She was now waiting at a table at an adventurer restaurant (meaning a restaurant with samplings of food from all around the world, since most specialized restaurants that weren't dirt cheap had folded due to the tight availability of fresh ingredients, and adventurer restaurants filled the gap by allowing one to sample different cuisines at a premium, usually as an eight course
prix fixe menu) called
Tanase for Yasmine to arrive.
Erika figured she would be there, since she owned the building, but after seeing Yasmine help Brona's successfully relaunch, as well as place Brona's
and Domna Despina under Prime Eight Entertainment as a small but profitable subsidiary of Legato Enterprises, Erika had also encouraged her to throw herself into a new project: developing the parking lot behind Legato Tower and
Polar Commons (the mall next to the Tower) into Gaia Park, the third pillar of the newly reorganized
Legato Campus. Yasmine had wanted to call it Legato Resort, but the Council vetoed it on grounds of trademark confusion, since the land rested on the North Atlantic IceBurgh
Resort. And according to their UN charter, they held the exclusive rights to call anything a resort on an IceBurgh. As revenge, the Council held up her regulatory approval in a mile of red tape until she caved. Once it had been approved, Yasmine decided it would be focused on
rides and shops themed after various world landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Great Wall of China, but also a
nature preserve for all sorts of life.
This would take approximately two years to build at a projected cost of three billion dollars, and employ thousands of occupation deficient people as well as thousands of new refugees who would pay for food, housing, clothing, etc. And so IRC-
the Resort Corporation, that ultimately was the house in this situation and stood to benefit from everything, criminal or not, that took place in its walls because it was quickly becoming the safest place on a fraying world- had not really wanted to put a stop to Legato's plans, because nearly all development (even the container ships full of people that were being assimilated as
Container District) was good development for them. They had just wanted to make sure she remembered her place in the larger ecosystem they controlled, then give her her little fiefdom.
This meant it was certainly possible that Yasmine could run late, or have to reschedule entirely.
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