by Amy Brent
What’s it like being Denny Chambers, America?
It is mother fucking great.
Chapter 3: Serena Diaz
“I wish you didn’t have to work so much, baby girl.”
I smiled across the dinner table at my father, who had made short work of the platter or tamales and nachos I had prepared for dinner. The look of love and concern on his weathered face made my cheeks flush, even though we had replayed this exact scene every week for months now, always with the same outcome. I came to his house for an early dinner every Friday evening before heading off to my second job for the weekend. It was the fact that I worked a second job to pay for school that bother Papa so. It hurt his pride and made him sad. Which made me sad, but not sad enough to change my plans.
Papa was old fashioned. He thought a college education was for rich people who were too lazy to work with their hands. People like us, first and second-generation Mexican-Americans, worked for a living. We didn’t go to school for years just to sit behind a desk to get fat and lazy. The men worked with their hands and their backs, and the women pumped out babies and cleaned houses and hotel rooms for extra money. It was a stereotype that I had faced my entire life, one promoted by my own people who had never done any better.
Cleaning other people’s houses and changing scummy hotel bed sheets and squeezing out babies was not the life for me. Papa just couldn’t seem to accept that, hence the weekly Friday afternoon guilt trip.
“I don’t mind working, Papa,” I said, putting on a happy face so he wouldn’t feel so bad about not being able to help with my university expenses. Not that I needed his help. I made plenty of money. Several times more a year than he had ever made doing construction.
In fact, if he knew how much money I made he’d flip his lid and demand to know what I was doing for a living because girls like me didn’t make that kind of money unless it was on our backs. For all he knew, I was working two jobs just to get by when the opposite was actually true.
He thought I lived in a ratty little apartment in Bingham Heights with my girlfriend, Angela, and drove a twenty-year-old Camry that was passed down from my older brothers. The truth was, I lived alone in a very nice apartment downtown and drove a brand-new BMW. I never drove the Beamer to Papa’s house and never let him visit my apartment, so he was clueless when it came to my finances. Ask him and he’d tell you his baby girl was living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to get by. That’s how it had to be.
I ate the last nacho on my plate and kept smiling as I chewed. “Besides, I don’t work that hard, really. It’s not like I’m doing construction out in the heat with you and the boys.”
“That doesn’t make it right,” he said, his sunbaked forehead cutting into a frown. He waved his big hands in the air. “You should be going out and having fun on the weekends. You should meet a nice young man and start a family. Give me grandchildren, like your brothers.”
“Papa, you have enough grandchildren,” I said, rolling my eyes. “And I enjoy what I do. I make more than enough to pay for my school and all my expenses. So stop worrying about it and finish your dinner. I have to leave soon and I want to get these dishes done.”
“A man can never have enough grandchildren,” he grumbled as he picked up the last bite of tortilla and wiped the sauce from his plate with it. Carlos Diaz was a proud man. He did not like the fact that his youngest child and only daughter had to work so hard to pay for the college education that he could not afford.
College was expensive, but I easily covered the cost. I was six months away from getting my Masters in Physics, with a Minor in Microbiology, from San Jose State. I wanted to be a cancer researcher because my mama had died of the horrible disease when I was just six-years-old. I barely remembered her now, even though Papa said I could see her every time I looked in the mirror.
I was the youngest of seven kids and the only one to go to college. My six brothers all worked with Papa hanging sheet rock and doing masonry work in the valley. It was hard, sweaty, backbreaking work, but they all had families to support and were grateful for what they had. I could see every year of the hard labor in my father’s eyes and the scars on his hands. I wished that I could help him monetarily, but if he knew I had money… well… I just couldn’t go down that road. At least not yet.
Papa was under the impression that I worked part-time as the personal assistant to Amy Rossetti, the super successful cybersecurity consultant and now, after hooking her up with Isaac, the love of her life, one of my best friends. The truth was I worked at Amy Rossetti & Associates four hours a day, four days a week, then spent the weekends working at a ritzy country club in the mountains north of the city. Well, Papa thought it was a country club. If he and my six brothers knew what really went on there he’d shit a brick and kill me with it.
The place was called Club Votre Désire. Club D, for short. It was this super-exclusive, private club located on this massive estate in the hills north of the city where rich men went to do unwind and get their rocks off with gorgeous women far from the public eye.
Like a resort, Club D was continually open from Friday night at midnight till Sunday night at ten. It was so secret the owners bused in the employees like me. I’d worked there for almost two years now and couldn’t begin to tell you how to find the place. The cool thing was they had a huge guest house where the girls could stay during the weekend. I pulled two ten-hour shifts as a waitress, then had the rest of the time to enjoy the place. There was an Olympic-sized indoor pool, tennis courts, a spa and salon, a restaurant and room service, all available to the girls for free.
The real moneymakers, the girls who worked as Escorts and Specialists, all had rooms in the main house, where they sold their goodies for tens of thousands of dollars to men who considered that pocket change. The Escorts were all gorgeous women who offered the members straight sex, anal, and blowjobs. The Specialists were Escorts who could do really freaky things with their bodies, like deep throat a twelve-inch dildo (or cock) or take on multiple guys at once or bend double to lick their own cooches.
The more unique, the more the Specialist could charge. They were probably the highest paid sex workers on the planet. Mr. Lemon, the concierge and director of client services, had offered me an escort spot several times, but that kind of work wasn’t for me. Although, the money was tempting, but it would have killed my father to discover that his baby girl had turned out to be a high-end whore, which the judgmental Catholic girl in me branded the Escorts and Specialists to be.
A redheaded Russian beauty named Carina was the top earner. I won’t even tell you what she could do because it was just gross. Still, word was she pulled down over a million dollars last year doing it.
Good for her.
I was just fine making six figures as a waitress.
Don’t get me wrong, I was not opposed to sex, free or paid. In fact, I loved sex and had been quite the little slut in high school. I still slept with a number of guys and probably thought more about sex than I should have. I wasn’t a nympho, but sometimes I could fuck all night without stopping to catch my breath. It depended on the guy, of course. I had a certain type. Handsome, smart, funny, independent, not interested in anything serious. If that package came with a killer body and a big cock, more the better.
So there, I wasn’t a prude and I didn’t see the harm in letting girls sell—or rent out—the goodies that God gave them, but for me, sex was a deeply personal thing, something done out of passion and love, not purchased by the hour or billed by the orgasm.
“You see this joker on TV this morning?” Papa was asking. I blinked at the sound of his voice and let my eyes follow the direction in which his finger was pointing. Papa was a TV-holic. He had a TV in every room, even in the kitchen, sitting on the counter next to the toaster. My mouth hung open when I saw a familiar face frozen on the screen.
The caption below the image read: Billionaire Puts Foot In Mouth On National TV.
“Uh… what happened?” I asked, frow
ning at the TV, trying to pretend that I didn’t recognize the smirk on Denny Chambers’ handsome face. Few people knew it, but Denny, the famous tech billionaire from Silicon Valley, was one of the founders of Club D. I knew him because he was there every weekend, fucking his way through the stable of girls like a stud bull on a Texas cattle ranch.
“He’s some internet billionaire or something,” Papa said, grimacing as he said the words as if they had left a bad taste in his mouth. He picked up the remote from the table and aimed it at the TV, then jacked the volume up a few notches. “They’ve been replaying this all afternoon. It’s hilarious!”
A blonde with big boobs and a plastic smile was asking, “So, Denny, what’s the best part about being you?”
Denny didn’t skip a beat. He just looked at her and smiled.
And said, “The pussy. Duh.”
They bleeped out the word “pussy”, but it was clear what he had said. You could tell by the way his lips moved and the way the blonde’s mouth fell open when she heard the word.
I nearly choked on my iced tea. Papa chuckled and shook his head as he turned the volume back down. “Can you believe this guy? Got more money than Trump and says the best thing about being him is the pussy!”
“Papa! Watch your mouth.”
Papa grinned at me. “What? The billionaire can say pussy on TV but I can’t say it in my own house?” He huffed and shook his head. “Okay, fine. But you know what I mean.” He pointed the remote at the television. “It’s guys like him that don’t know what hard work is. Got more money than he can ever spend, but he spends his time whoring and drinking like a common thug.” He leaned back and crossed his arms over his belly. “Don’t ever bring a guy like that home, baby girl. Your brothers would skin him alive.”
“Don’t worry,” I said, getting up to gather up our dishes. “Guys like that don’t even know I’m alive.”
“You’re better off,” Papa said with a heavy sigh. “Guys like that are after one thing and one thing only. And you know what that is.”
“I know, Papa,” I said, moving the dishes to the sink. Under my breath, I whispered the words we were both thinking. “The pussy. Duh.”
Chapter 4: Serena
I left Papa sitting in his recliner with a cold beer in one hand and the TV remote in the other, and rushed home to get ready for work. I did my hair and makeup, packed a bag for the weekend, and drove the Beamer north out of the city.
It took nearly two hours to arrive at the indoor parking garage where I’d leave my car for the weekend. All Club D employees—all drop-dead gorgeous women (including me ;o)—had to leave their cars at the garage and board buses with blackout windows for the thirty-minute ride to the estate high in the mountains north of San Jose.
Club D’s exact location was a closely-guarded secret for obvious reasons, as was its ownership and membership roster.
And getting a job there was a little like joining the CIA.
You had to be invited just to apply to work there in any capacity, then agree to monthly drug testing to keep the job. One strike, and you were out. You had to pass a background check, have no criminal record, and no history of bad habits that could be used to make you reveal Club D’s secrets.
There was random psychologic testing, polygraph testing, and monthly performance reviews with the director, Mr. Lemon, and his senior staff, to make sure things were cool.
You would never find Club D jobs listed on some public job board. Mr. Lemon spotted me working in a cocktail dive bar two years ago and offered me the chance to apply. To work there, you had to sign a legal document that basically said the Devil would get your soul and Club D’s lawyers would take the rest if you ever breathed a word about the club’s existence. No girl had ever broken that pledge that I knew of because it would be liked killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Well, I sort of broke it when I told Amy Rossetti about Club D and brought her along as my guest one weekend. I might have been fired, but luckily Amy caught the eye of Denny’s partner, Isaac Hanson, and they were now living happily ever after. Mr. Lemon was going to send me into the pits of hell for that one, but Isaac intervened.
In exchange for our undying loyalty and discretion, Club D paid very well. Waitresses like me typically raked in six figures a year. The working girls, the ones who took the members upstairs, could make ten times that.
Mr. Lemon had a sign in his office that read: The 5 Things Required To Keep Any Secret: Loyalty. Trust. Discretion. Greed. Ignorance.
Part of that ignorance was not knowing exactly where Club D was located, hence the blackout windows in the bus. The ride to Club D was a little creepy at first, not knowing where you were going and not seeing outside until you got there, but I had gotten used to it. I spent the time doing my nails or listening to music or chatting with the other girls. Working at Club D was a little like going away to a ritzy camp every weekend, except for the rich guys who sometimes thought it was okay to grab your ass, which could get them ejected no matter how much money they had.
I had to give Denny and the other founders credit: they went above and beyond to protect the girls who worked at Club D. Not just the high-end Escorts and Specialists, but the waitresses, servers, hostess, chefs, cleaning crew, dancers, and bartenders. There was a strict “hands off” policy in place, enforced by Mr. Lemon and his staff of very large, very intimidating security guards; all male, all former football buddies of founder Sammy Branniff, and all sworn to secrecy, and all loyal to a fault. They were like the Unsullied on Game of Thrones, only bigger and badder, if you could imagine that.
If a member got a little fresh with a waitress or tried to grope a dancer, he was quickly corrected like a little kid who’d broken a rule in Sunday School. Mr. Lemon, who dressed and acted like some dude from The Sopranos was always quick to step in. And if he couldn’t handle the situation, there were several hulks behind him who could. Not surprisingly, such occurrences were rare. The men knew the rules. They were not construction workers and thugs getting drunk and trolling for easy pussy.
They were all unbelievably rich, mostly older, and very well-behaved.
Besides, they could have anything they wanted once they were upstairs with a girl.
All they had to do was ask, agree to the price, and the world was their oyster. At least for a little while.
* * *
“Did you see Denny Chambers on TV this morning?” another waitress named Rosalie asked as the bus started up the winding drive to the main house. We couldn’t see outside, but after taking this ride every weekend for two years, I could tell where we were. We had just turned into the front gates and were pulling up the drive. In a couple of minutes, the bus would pull around to the back of the main house and let us all out at the guest house where we could dump our stuff and get ready for our shift, which started at midnight.
“I saw it.” I smiled at the dreamy look on her face. “He looks good on TV, doesn’t he?”
She bit her bottom lip and let her eyes go soft. “He’s so fucking hot.”
“Well, he is obviously a big fan of pussy,” I said, smirking at her. “Why don’t you introduce him to yours?”
“Trust me, I’ve tried,” she said, huffing. “He’s too busy with the working girls to pay much attention to me.”
“You’re probably better off,” I said. “He’s kind of a pig.”
“He’s a hot pig,” she said. “I’ve heard that he’s amazing in bed.” She lowered her voice and leaned in. “Carina told me she would fuck Denny for free, he was that good.”
“I’m not sure how good a character reference Carina is,” I said with a sour face. “She’s pretty much a sperm repository. Every time she looks my way I feel like I need a shower.”
“Don’t be so judgmental, Serena,” she said, giving me a scolding eye. “She’s just like us, working her ass off to support her family.”
“She has a family?” I felt the heat of shame wash over my cheeks. “I didn’t know.”
“She supports her parents back in Russia, her brothers and sisters, grandparents. And I think she even has a couple of kids of her own.”
“Wow, now I feel like a douche,” I said. “Still, I could not do what she does, no matter how badly I needed the money.”
“Would you fuck him?” Rosalie asked as the bus slowed to a halt and the airbrakes hissed. I frowned at her.
“What?”
“Denny Chambers.” Rosalie flexed her perfect eyebrows. “He’s asked me about you.”
I narrowed my eyes at her, looking for any hint of a lie. I saw none. “He asked you about me?”
“Yep, a few weeks ago. You were serving a big table of dudes and Denny was at the bar and he asked me your name.”
“You’re lying.”
“Swear to God,” she said, holding up her right hand.
“What did you tell him?”
She grinned. “I told him you were a lesbian and that you hated men. Especially rich ones with big cocks.”
“You’re awful,” I said, bumping her with my elbow.
The door at the front of the bus opened and the thirty or so girls onboard slid out of the seats and started pulling their bags from the overhead compartments.
Rosalie pulled down her bag, slid the strap over her shoulder, and paused to give me one more smile before starting up the aisle. She said, “Seriously, I told him your name was Serena. And he asked if you were single and I said I thought you were.”
