The Escort

The Escort Chapter 10

Koji once again found himself walking behind the seductively swaying Ebony as he was escorted into Black Heaven. He found it ironic that he had never seen anything other than Takumura's office, despite being a member of the elite club. He had never attended any of the invitations for events or even come to mingle and meet some of the escorts of the club. All of his contact with Black Heaven had been over the phone and most of it had been done by his secretary. He couldn help but feel amazed that despite that, he had met Shinta, a man that had completely captivated him and now owned his heart.

"Enter," Ebony said softly as the antique wooden door to Takumura office opened.

Koji entered the lavish office to see a gorgeous blonde man that looked vaguely familiar. It took him a moment to realize that it wasn't that he knew the man, it was that he looked very similar to Shinta. The same athletic yet slim body with alabaster skin, and beautiful blonde hair that was a great deal longer than Shinta reaching the man shapely ass. It was obvious the man was an escort simply by his striking beauty, but also the light blue, flowing silk pants that he wore and nothing else. Sky blue eyes stared at him for a moment before the man walked towards him slowly.

"Takumura is running behind and has left me to entertain you, my name is Aiden," the man light tenor voice drifted through the silence, waking Koji up.

"Ah, could I have a cup of coffee then?" Koji asked, hoping to get rid of the tempting man in front of him but at the same time not wanting to be rude. It was quite obvious what the man had in mind for entertainment, although the thought of being with anyone other than Shinta, even one as sexy as Aiden, was completely out of the question.

"Coffee?" Aiden asked dryly his, winged brows arching.

"Yes, please."

"Of course," Aiden said politely, turning back to the desk and pressing a series of buttons on the terminal embedded in the fine mahogany desk.

"Snow will bring it," Aiden said as he moved to sit on a corner of the desk, looking appraisingly at Koji.

Koji could feel his face warm under such scrutiny, feeling himself being undressed by the man gaze. Clearing his thoughts he went to a chair opposite Takumura's desk, hoping to hide his embarrassment.

"Takumura is going to be a while, is there something you would like me to do for you?" Aiden asked suggestively, moving off the desk.

"No, thank you. I'm already taken," Koji replied, shaking his head.

"So are most people that come here," Aiden said with a shrug.

Koji didn know exactly what to say to that. He knew without a doubt that the man was correct, but for him it meant something. Although Aiden was extremely beautiful and alluring, Koji found that he wasn't tempted by the man. The only person Koji wanted was Shinta, and even if Aiden looked somewhat like him there was no way he was. It wasn't a matter of sex, it was a matter of love. Without it Koji found that thoughts of sex were not enough.

"Too bad, your blush is quiet charming," Aiden murmured, looking regretful.

"I'm sorry," Koji said as he pulled out a thin, palm-sized pad that contained all the information concerning the recent events.

The door opened after a moment, and a graceful man that Koji instantly recognized as yet another elite sex android from his company entered the room bearing a delicate porcelain cup. Koji watched as the silver haired man with pearl white skin glided over to the desk, sitting the cup down. He turned, bowing to Koji, his exotic violet eyes resting on him for a moment before he headed towards the door.

Koji stifled a laugh, finding it very amusing that the finest sex androids that he and Ito had slaved over to make as real as possible were, at least at Black Heaven, nothing more than servants. He guessed that Takumura must feel as he did that a lifeless android could never compare to a human. He felt his smile fade a little as he thought of Shinta, who was neither yet both.

"I am an escort of Black Heaven. There is considerably more to us than just sex. Perhaps there is some other form of entertainment that you might find enjoyable?" Aiden asked after a few minutes.

"Could you tell me, is there an auction here at Black Heaven?" Koji asked after a moment, deciding to use the opportunity to find out why Shinta had suggested it.

"You don't know? As a new member you surely were invited to one. There are two types, one for new members and one for new escorts. New members are invited to bid on experienced escorts, and have their complete attentions for a night here at the main house. This way, new members can be observed, to make sure they fully understand the meaning of the contracts they sign. You would be surprised at how often they think just because we sell our bodies that they are entitled to do anything they want to us. "

"The other auction is where newly joined escorts are auctioned off to the highest bidder, to enjoy the newest escorts for a weekend. Of course, only long time members that will know how to treat the newbies are allow to those auctions," Aiden explained.

Suddenly everything clicked in Koji mind and he realized why Shinta had suggested an auction. He quickly pulled up Black Heaven contract and began looking through it. He wasn sure if he could convince Takumura, but if he could he just found a way to get every member of the committee together at one time.

"Are you interested in attending an auction?" Aiden asked curiously.

"Yes," Koji said simply, not looking up from the pad of information.

He could feel Aiden eyes on him for a while before he heard a sigh as the man walked over to the large, black leather sofa off to the side of the desk and sat down. Glad that the man had gotten the hint, Koji began to piece together a plan, including an auction at Black Heaven.

It was almost an hour later when Takumura entered the room. Koji watched the man take in the scene of the pouting escort and Koji sitting in the chair. Aiden rose from his curled up position on the sofa and headed for the door without saying a word to either man. Takumura shook his head as he headed over to the desk, looking curiously at Koji.

"I must apologize for being so extremely late," Takumura said as he seated himself.

"No, I asked for this appointment at the last minute," Koji said, shaking his head.

"Still, I am confused. If you hadn't found Shinta, from prior experience I know that you wouldn't have made an appointment but just barged into my office," Takumura said wryly, looking directly at Koji, who blushed.

"Yet from the look on Aiden's face I would say that you refused his lovely assets. Too bad, since he is adorable when he pouts. So why have you asked for a meeting?" Takumura asked.

"I want you to hold an auction," Koji said simply.

"There must be more to it than that," Takumura said shrewdly as his eyes became more focused on Koji.

"Two weeks ago a man named Seji Tahinbana happened across an attempted rape and murder. Being the upstanding salary man that he was he tried to stop it. With the rapist dead and a bullethole through his shoulder he was successful, except for the fact that he wasn bleeding just blood, but also organic oil, and the bullet, instead of shattering his collarbone, was embedded into his bio-metallic frame."

"The government panicked. It was an election year and an android, bio-android or not, had just killed a human. They quietly rounded up every bio-android, including Shinta, for dismantling or deportation," Koji said.

"You don't mean Shinta is . . . ? You can be serious!" Takumura asked, shock and denial warring on his face.

"Yes, I am," Koji said firmly.

"Why an auction? What will that accomplish unless you are looking for a new escort?" Takumura asked.

"I only want Shinta safe. The head of the committee in charge of the bio-android situation is Kamiya, and he wants them deported or dismantled. Dismantled, preferably. I can't blackmail him, he clean, but the rest of the committee is another matter entirely. This is a list of their names," Koji said, sliding his pad to the middle of the desk with the file of the committee members open.

"I will not set up members to be blackmailed," Takumura said, shaking his head, frowning and ignoring the list.

"That is not what I asking for. I just want a reason to gather them all together in one place without looking suspicious. Each one of those members have been in government for over a decade, believe me I don't need their sexual indiscretions to blackmail them with, after all that is rather a flimsy scandal anymore. I am a member of Black Heaven. Would it be so strange for me to attend an auction?" Koji asked, leaning forward a little.

"Impossible, do you think I would allow other members to see that?" Takumura asked disapprovingly.

"Very well, this would work out better. You need an accumulative worth of twenty million credits to become a member of Black Heaven correct?" Koji asked intently.

"There is more to it than that. Extensive background checks are done, as well personality, looks, among other things, are taken into consideration. Fat old men are rarely accepted and cruel spoiled rich boys aren't either. Our goal has always been to make dreams a reality, but not at the expense of our employees," Takumura answered.

"Very well, I will give you a list of fifty of my employees. Make your choice based on the criteria you have. Thirty people along with the committee members should do, and I will make sure that my people also outbid each committee member," Koji explained, wincing a little inside thinking what this would cost him.

"I will not forge records in Black Heaven," Takumura said.

"You won't have to, I will give each of those people twenty million credits, they will qualify financially. As for the committee members, I will make it clear their withdrawal from Black Heaven and their complete and total silence on the matter is part of the agreement. I will also entrust all the blackmail information that I have on them to you, and make it clear that I will be doing it. They will remain quiet," Koji answered.

"Sakamoto will kill me," Takumura murmured as he picked up the pad from the table, scanning through it.

"Excuse me?" Koji asked, confused.

"Sakomoto is my co-partner. He deals mostly with the financial and legal side of the business. He isn’t good at dealing with people, only data, although he could pair a couple just on the data he gets from them, he’s that good," Takumura answered as he looked at the display screen on his desk with a frown.

"Only two of these people are members of Black Heaven, although the rest of them have applied over the years, some repeatedly," Takumura murmured with a frown.

"Will you do it? Please, I need your help," Koji pleaded.

"You really do love him don’t you?" Takumura asked, looking up at Koji.

"Yes," Koji said simply, putting all of his feeling in that one word.

"Sakamoto is definitely going to kill me. I'm always a sucker for the members that win the hearts of our escorts. Very well, let’s talk details," Takumura said with a smile.

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The loud, rhythmic tribal beats echoed through the semi-dark room as four scantily clad escorts danced on the platform while the newly made members of Black Heaven arrived for the upcoming auction. Koji noted that most of his people had arrived and only two committee members were not there yet.

Koji watched from his table situated in the back of the room as Snow, Ebony, Aiden, and three other escorts Koji didn’t know led people to their respective tables. Each committee member was conveniently seated at single tables scattered throughout the room away from each other. It had taken a considerable amount of time to figure a way to seat each one of the committee members so they wouldn’t see their fellow members, but they had eventually figured out a plan. As long as they didn’t realize that every one of their fellow committee members was attending the same auction, Koji was confidant they wouldn’t know what was about to happen to them.

Koji had to admit that a Black Heaven auction was impressive. The large octagon room held a polished wooden stage in its very center that soon would be filled with some of the most beautiful people Koji had ever seen. Two white and black carpeted walkways led from each door that the escorts would soon enter from. The hardwood floors and intricately carved tables and chairs made of the finest of woods conveyed wealth without being gaudy. If nothing else he had to admit Black Heaven had the air of aristocracy even if they were a glorified brothel.

Rich, lavish wine was being served along with the finest of hard liquors by sex androids dressed in nothing more than g-strings and elaborate makeup that was obviously done by an exceptional artist, with rich designs covering the backs and even the fronts of some of the hosts. The attention to detail and expense that went into the auction still amazed Koji, and he somewhat regretted ignoring the invitation to the auction he had received when he had first become a member. Although he had to wonder if the former Koji, before Shinta, would have appreciate it as much as he did now.

Looking at his watch he wondered how the other end of the operation was going. Even as he blackmailed the unsuspecting committee members Yamagata, leading a force of hired mercenaries, was going to free the bio-androids. As promised, Dr. Ito not only had gained access to the androids guarding the bio-androids but the whole security system for the Observatory. Yamagata had suggested using mercenaries, something that still shocked Koji. He didn’t even know such men existed, let alone could be hired. Although these private little international armies were technically illegal, Koji didn’t hesitate to hire them.

After tonight, one way or another it would be over. Koji closed his eyes briefly, praying that everything would succeed. The cost of everything had dug very deep into his wallet, using up all his liquid assets and forcing him to sell more than a few stocks and properties. It would take years to recuperate from all of the money that he had spent to make this one night possible, and he had no idea what he was going to do if it didn’t succeed.

"The auction is about to start," Aiden said over the roar of the music.

Koji nodded, looking at Aiden, whose body was decorated with an array of butterflies on his naked alabaster skin. The escort was one of the few people that did know what was really going on, as were the other two host escorts that had led people to their respective tables. Koji had been shocked to learn Aiden was a close friend of Shinta. Although he had been rather serious about his attempts to seduce Koji, being a highly sexually driven man, he had been pleased as well that Shinta’s man had refused him.


"Here," Koji said, handing the man his phone.

"Expecting a lot of calls?" Aiden asked sarcastically.

"Yes, Yamagata will call when he has Shinta, or if anything goes wrong," Koji replied.

"Ok, who’s first?" Aiden asked as the music died off and the first escort was led out to the stage.

"Mr. Toda," Koji replied as he got up and followed Aiden to the huge balding man who had embezzled millions from his former company to gain the funds for his campaign.

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Koji threw himself back into the chair in one of the corners of the room with a sigh. It was over; he had by some miracle received every single signature that he needed with surprisingly little fight. As he suspected, all of the committee members had readily agreed to sign a document freeing the bio-androids, not caring one way or another about the subject. It seemed Kamiya was the only one that truly believed that the bio-androids posed that great of a threat. The audience around them had kept the vocal outrage and heated protests at being blackmailed to a minimum. Most were relieved that all Koji wanted was their signatures on freedom for the bio-androids, and most were more upset by the fact they were not actually going to be members of Black Heaven.

"Well?" Aiden asked expectantly.

"I got them all," Koji said wearily, the tension of each encounter, along with the lack of news about Shinta, taking its toll on him.

"Good, but the phone still hasn’t rang. Do you think something could have happened?" Aiden asked, voicing Koji’s own fear as he stared vacantly at the lithe male twin escorts being auctioned off on the stage in front of him.

"I hope not," Koji worried as he felt yet another headache descending on him.

They both remained quiet as the auction continued, many of the committee members trying desperately to win the remaining escorts in hope of least salvaging something from the evening. The auction was winding down when the phone rang. Koji looked at it for a second before answering as anxiety coursed through him.

"We have them."