Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 257: About to be completely drained
Delia Keyes' assistant Van Kane was sitting on the sofa in the living room of the Four Seasons Hotel's luxurious sea view suite, watching the couple enjoying a high-end therapeutic massage without any privacy from two VIP masseuses in a private massage room with the door wide open in the distance, which broke his heart and the hearts of the two poor masseuses.
If there was a Scumbag Grand Prix in America, Van Kane swore that he felt Delia would definitely be the runner-up, and the champion would be none other than that bastard named Tommy Hawke.
When he and Delia rushed over, Tommy was enjoying a massage alone, while he and Delia were sitting at the tea table in the massage room and talking to him. As a result, before Tommy's SPA massage was over, this guy stood up and rolled together with Delia. He could only drag the frightened masseur out of the massage room and help them close the door.
As a result, as soon as he closed the damn door, Delia opened it and stuck her head out, asking him to go to the brand store to help buy a pair of stockings and a women's shirt of the same brand as hers because they were torn by Tommy. Tommy then appeared behind Delia and continued to tell him to call the suite's private butler and ask him to send up a box of Florida local citrus flavored Trojan immediately.
Ten minutes ago, the two guys finally finished their intercourse. Then the first thing Tommy said was to continue the unfinished massage and let Delia try it. So the masseur who was frightened by the previous scene was brought back, and another masseur was brought in. The two masseurs first cleaned up the messy massage room, and then began to give Tommy and Delia private massages.
Tommy also said that he left the damn door open in order to take care of his own emotions and prevent Van Kane from feeling isolated and alienated.
After the massage was over, the masseuses received generous tips from Van Kane and personally sent them out. When Van Kane came back, he suspected that he was hallucinating, because Tommy was lying on the massage bed with a bath towel on his back, asking Delia seriously where he should choose to propose to his girlfriend, and talking about what plans he had prepared . Delia did not feel guilty at all for having slept with a young man who was about to get engaged. She gave him serious advice on what small details could make Ottilia feel more surprised.
If I didn't know what happened before, I would have thought that this couple with very serious expressions were just getting a massage together.
Van Kane thought maliciously through the door, what surprise could be more shocking to Otilia than her boyfriend in his twenties having sex with a 42-year-old female lawyer, and asking her, a legal assistant, to run out and help buy stockings, shirts, and Florida citrus-flavored Trojans?
This made Van Kane very unhappy. He didn't think that as the assistant of Delia Case, the senior partner of Davis Polk Law Firm, his status was very noble and he shouldn't be asked to do errands. He had done a lot of errands for Delia before. It was so exaggerated that Delia's period suddenly came early, and he had to run to buy sanitary products and underwear for Delia and then take them to the women's bathroom.
He just felt that Tommy's brain was not normal and there were signs that it was transmitted to Delia.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Delia asked Tommy why he was helping a Democratic plumber run for Congress in Miami, and also asked her to contact a top lawyer in the firm's Miami office, a die-hard Republican, to represent the two elderly people in the entire case. This kind of intra-party election should be resolved within the party. Tommy's operation could easily cause Jeff to lose the support of the Democratic Party. By using Republican opponents to eliminate opponents from the same party, no politician would be willing to support Jeff in the future.
The information revealed by Delia's question alone was enough to make Van Kane's brain freeze. Helping the Democrats campaign, hiring Republican lawyers to help the elderly with the lawsuit, and forcing the two most likely parties to fight a bloody battle before the party primaries even started?
This is not a tactic a politician should use at all. Van Kane has been with Delia and has seen many dirty tricks used by politicians, but the ultimate core of all tricks is compromise and deal. Tommy's move completely disregards the losses of both sides. It can be summed up in one word: go for it. As for whether the opponent being defeated is a member of the same party or not, and whether his side will be the one being defeated when the smoke clears, it is not important.
Because even if Tommy lets the two sides fight to the point of bloodshed, the candidate he supports, Jeff, will suffer serious losses, the worst of which is the loss of trust within the party.
This incident will make the Democratic Party extremely dissatisfied with Jeff. After all, as a Democrat, he needs to consider the party. Jeff handed the two old men over to the Republican lawyers. The Democrats can guess that the two old men will be guided by the lawyers to make many remarks unfavorable to Rosario Kennedy and help Ileana Letty of the Republican Party to attack his competitors. Even the local Democratic office may hold a secret meeting at this moment to seriously discuss whether Jeff is an undercover sent by the Republicans to infiltrate the Democratic Party.
From now on, don’t even mention supporting Jeff. If there is any disturbance within the party, people might even avoid Jeff.
How did Tommy answer Delia's question? He said that it was just a coincidence, a little game he played when he was bored. He didn't care whether Jeff could be elected or not. The biggest gain from this game might be to advertise the consulting company of his driver, Martin, a black man, so that his company could become famous in Florida. Then, while the company was well-known, he would wait for those large consulting companies to come and acquire or invest in it to make a fortune, and give it as a cash reward to Martin, who had been working hard and earning 250 weekly wages by his side for a long time.
He played with the candidates in all eighteen constituencies. It was just a little game he played to kill time because he was bored during the holidays. This is not something a sane person would say.
Delia got off the massage bed and walked back to the living room with Tommy. She sat on the sofa, picked up the cigarette box on the table, took out a slender lady's cigarette from it, put it in her mouth, and motioned Tommy to light it for her: "You told me that running a TV station was a small game, and letting Susan set up an agency was a small game. It made me unable to continue to mix in the computer industry and run back to the firm to continue focusing on women's issues. It was still a small game. Tommy, why don't you tell me, how is your big game going?"
"You're not my brother, ma'am. I don't have to tell you everything." Tommy came over and picked up the lighter. He leaned over to light the flame, handed it to Delia's lips to help her light the cigarette, and said with a smile: "But if you are willing to change your sex and go back to college, I can help you write a letter of recommendation for the fraternity."
Delia took a puff of her cigarette, slightly raised her neck which had just been massaged and was becoming smoother and whiter, pointed her chin at Tommy who was leaning over her, and blew a puff of smoke into his face. Then she raised her red lips and laughed, "That sounds good. I met a lot of young guys in the past forty years. Now that I'm going to college after my sex change, I can meet some young girls."
"Right, this is simply a genius idea. Besides, a real man in his forties or fifties may have a somewhat useless golf club, but you don't need to worry that the implanted prosthesis will become as weak as theirs. As long as you have the physical strength to support it, you can accept any girl who comes." Tommy stood up with a smile, put on his clothes neatly, and then walked towards the door. When he passed by Van Kane, he patted his shoulder:
"Mr. Kane, Trojan, send the room fee, as well as the bill for Delia's stockings and shirts that I just tore to pieces, to Martin's company and he will pay you. This expense will be a consulting fee, so if the tax officer calls you to find out, remember not to make the mistake."
"Of course, Mr. Hawke." Van Kane nodded silently, and waited until Tommy had passed him and walked a few steps before he responded.
"Hey, are you just leaving like that?" Delia got up lazily, walked to the bar, grabbed a bottle of wine, threw away the cork and poured herself half a glass, raised it up and asked Tommy while drinking.
Tommy turned his head and said weakly, "Otilia is flying to Miami this afternoon. In order to make sure that I am willing to talk to him about why I gave the Cuban girl he supports a blow, Bill Clinton not only came to Miami to participate in the Democratic Party event, but his wife even wanted to get Otilia drunk to make sure that Otilia and the couple flew to Miami together. So, mom, please allow me to save some energy. Since my physical and mental strength are about to be completely drained, please let me go, OK?"
Tommy didn't lie. He had a lot of fun playing the election game, but Bill Clinton had a headache because he had been flying back and forth between various states in the United States during this period, visiting the powerful people of the Democratic Party in various states and trying to integrate forces. As soon as the Rosario Kennedy incident happened, Bill received the news. Rosario Kennedy's side postponed the cocktail party, but Bill did not postpone his trip. Moreover, he learned from Stephen that Tommy Hawke, the financial sponsor who had always supported the couple in a low-key manner, was also in Miami, and that all these things were done by him. After that, he even arranged for a private small cocktail party to be held in Miami two days later in his private name.
Bill also called Tommy personally to invite him to attend, and promised that after he landed in Miami, he would write a handwritten invitation and have someone deliver it to Tommy.
Tommy was not interested in the politicians' cocktail party. In fact, he had already made it clear to Bill on the phone that it was just a game. But Bill, like Van Kane, did not believe it after his death. Tommy met the plumber Jeff while making forged certificates in a printing shop, and helped the other party's campaign out of boredom and the desire to make some money to improve his living standards.
Bill insisted on inviting him to attend, simply because he wanted to find out how Rosario had offended him. If possible, could he use him to resolve the conflict between the two parties? The problem was that Tommy and the woman named Rosario had no conflict at all, so how could it be resolved?
And if it was resolved, what would Jeff do? If Jeff wasn't elected as a congressman, how could he show off his achievements to Jason and Suzie, that couple, and to that idiot from the Order of the Phoenix, Belter?
So Tommy never thought about attending the small cocktail party hosted by Bill, but this guy has a vicious wife. In order to force Tommy to show up, she coaxed Ottilia to Miami to reunite with Tommy. In order to ensure that Tommy would definitely come, this damn unscrupulous female lawyer coaxed Ottilia to fly with her and invited Ottilia to attend their couple's cocktail party. She also asked Ottilia to act coquettishly to Tommy on the phone. If Tommy didn't accompany her, he would see his beautiful girlfriend holding other men's arms as a male companion at the cocktail party.
It has to be said that this woman's method of using Otilia to persuade him is obviously more successful than Clinton's method of handwriting invitations. Otilia hasn't seen Tommy for a while, so how could she miss the opportunity to meet Tommy? Besides, Tommy couldn't tolerate others appearing in public with his girlfriend on their arm.
So Tommy became annoyed when he thought about having to fight with Ottilia tonight, and having to fabricate a conflict for nosy Bill to mediate at the cocktail party, to ensure that Jeff was not affected, but also to ensure that Bill's mediation was effective. Because these two things combined would not only require a lot of his physical strength, but also a lot of his mental strength, which would really drain him dry.
"If you want, let Kane have another round with you, or you can go to the beach. There are many Cuban young men with eight-pack abs who do the flesh trade with old female tourists. You can find a good Cuban young man for 80 bucks." Thinking that Otilia would appear in Miami in the afternoon, Tommy's tone immediately became righteous. Just by listening to his voice, you can tell that he is a good man who is not interested in women.
"So, when we're in bed, I'm your queen, and when we're out of bed, I'm just an old woman in the eyes of a lovelorn man like you." Delia smiled and looked at Tommy:
"You're such a bastard, Tommy. But I'm not talking about the bed. I mean, you haven't given me an answer yet. How can I explain to my colleagues why good luck has come to Ileana Letty? What does Jeff want, or what do you want? Just tell me something, whether it's true or false, at least let me give the other party an answer. You know, the other party is waiting for you to give them an explanation. Politicians trust equal transactions more than good luck that can be gained without any effort."
"The truth is, I was just playing a game. Stephen can testify to that, because I helped him record that shitty variety show. I didn't need anything. It was just a game. What else? Under normal circumstances, why would I help a fool run for election?" Tommy turned and looked at Delia: "If you think the truth sounds too perfunctory, I'll give you a fake reason that sounds more like the truth. Why did I find a fool to make trouble in the Florida Democratic Party? This is a good question, because..."
Tommy thought for more than ten seconds before his eyes lit up. "Because if I remember correctly, when I needed help the most in my life, when countless poor people in the United States needed help the most, a group of stupid Democratic congressmen in Florida hit me hard in the balls and stopped broadcasting the live sales advertisement of Actor's OSS software in the whole of Florida on the pretext that it was not reviewed by the fucking police. How about that reason?"
"That sounds more truthful than what you said." Delia nodded. "I think that's a good excuse. You hate the Democratic Party in Florida, so you deliberately find a fool to torture it. You feel that the pleasure is not enough, so you hope that the Republicans will add fuel to the fire, which will make them think that the deal can be made."
"Then use this excuse. I'm not interested in finding out which congressmen messed with my business back then. That's not important, not at all. What's important is that I remember that guy was wearing the title of the Democratic Party. I think this party is terrible. They know nothing about software and need fresh blood. For example, idiots like Jeff who like to help others like me are the most scarce talents in the Democratic Party." Tommy said, and opened the door, but then stopped and turned to look at Delia:
"Speaking of deals, where did you go to law school, Delia?"
"Harvard," Delia answered casually, shaking the glass in her hand.
Tommy pointed at Delia and smiled. "I thought of a deal . When my vacation is over and you help Susan's girls get out of their nightmares, I'll talk to you about it. I promise you'll like it."
After saying that, he disappeared into the private elevator room outside the door.
"It looks like it might take a long time before I can get back the money I paid in advance. Also, what did Tommy mean by his last sentence?" Van Ste let out a breath, looked at his boss Delia, and asked curiously.
Delia drank the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp. "Maybe it's his angel girlfriend. After being a female social activist for so long, Tommy is considering giving her a second layer of holy clothes. At the same time, he wants to make her even busier, so that she won't have time to invite him to attend boring cocktail parties."
