Lilah is curious

"Now you've got me, you fucker," says Lilah after we've settled down at a table on the patio outside the cafe and put in our drink orders. "What is it you really want?"

Well, I knew this wasn't going to be easy. "I guess...maybe you tell me a little about yourself. Your life."

"Why? You think there's the slightest chance it'll be relevant to you?" She sighs. "I'm twenty-four years old. Got my bachelor's in communications last year. Now I'm an HR temp, living in a cramped apartment with my friends, Amber and Tracey, and a couple of cats."

"No boyfriend?"

"No. Wish I did though. I bet he'd murder the shit out of you for doing this."

I hold my hands up. "Do you have to be so hostile?"

"Do you have to be such a sad-sack waste of oxygen?" Even when she snarls, it's cute--with her freckles and wrinkling nose. My cock twitches beneath my khakis. "Apparently, I have to sexually satisfy you or I get arrested, as insane as that sounds. Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it... Why the hell did it have to be me, anyway?"

"You're hot...and you were there," I answer truthfully.

"Of course." She rolls her eyes. "Can I see that 'writ' or whatever it was again?" I pull the card from my wallet and hold it out for her, still keeping a tight grip on it. Her eyes scan the text. "Where do you get something like this anyway?"

"I got it at the Bureau of Sexual Services. After my assessment. Do you know where--?"

"Yeah, I know the place." She laughs mirthlessly. "I was actually thinking of going there myself."

"You? Really?" My eyes roam over her perfect body. "But...you're..."

"What? Hot? Sexy? Is that really how you see the world? Divided between attractive people who can get some whenever they want and loser incels like yourself who can't?" She shakes her head. "I shouldn't be surprised... Anyway, I thought these BoSS fantasies only happened inside their building. If this 'free use' card of yours was meant to be that kind of fantasy, why does it work on me?"

I shrug my shoulders. "I was surprised, too. And so were they."

"They?"

"The...assessors. Or whoever is running the place. I don't know. There was a young woman there and an older one."

"If they're the ones in charge, why would they be surprised?"

"The woman did mention something about a machine."

Lilah bites her lip. "The two of us should go there. After we eat. Try to learn more about this card."

"They aren't going to be open. They have weird hours. I think it's a state agency thing."

"So?"

"You...want to break in? To a government building?"

Her eyes sparkle. "It'll be an adventure. And if we're caught, you can use your card. Tell them it's necessary for you to get your sexual satisfaction from me." Her fingers lightly touch my bare forearm, and suddenly I'm feeling dizzy. "Come on. What do you say?"