my dress. What the fuck, what am I going to do now?
The only decent shoes I had were high pointed heels. I’d only bought those because they looked so cute in the showroom. I just loved them, but I’d never had guts to wear them. I knew I would fall off them easily. But it looked like the single logical choice for me. All the others were either weathered or didn’t suit my dress. How would you wear brown work shoes with the dark blue pencil skirt? God, I have to find time for shopping now.
***
I stopped my cab at of the given address. But when I looked at the property, my mouth hung an inch lower. I’d expected a nice house, maybe a big house. It might be a huge house. But there was nothing to see—a big stone wall surrounded the whole property. It was huge; I suspected the whole property was built on few hundred acres of property. I couldn’t even see the house from outside, I could only see one of the tower pointed high in the sky. Goddamn, I’d never seen such a big property. A ton of pressure sat on my chest.
The wall was built like a castle wall—pointed stones, a ten feet steel grill above the eight feet wall. Who the hell was going to climb over the eight foot wall and then ten foot steel grill?
“Forty-five bucks, ma’am.” The driver spoke as I was busy inspecting the mansion. I couldn’t even see the end of the wall.
I was snapped out of my thoughts. “Forty-five, for such a small distance?”
“It’s ten miles out of the city, ma’am” His eyebrows cocked.
“Jerk,” I muttered making sure he didn’t hear it.
“I can hear you, lady. One more thing—you’re not going to get a cab out of here in the late evening unless you have someone dropping you to the city.” The driver spoke while turning the cab around.
My eyes shot to him in anger. He was a jerk after all.
I walked to the gate. The security guard was standing there with a long gun in his hand. It looked like a gun from the movies. My eyes studied the features of that gun curiously.
“It’s real. Before you ask.” The guard cocked out a grin.
“I’m here to meet Evelyn Swan.” I grinned at him and turned my attention to the guard in the guard shack.
“Let me check your appointment, ma’am.” He looked at his screen and then looked at my face. “Your ID, please.”
I handed my driver’s license and company’s ID card to him.”
“Thank you, ma’am. You can collect your driver’s license when you leave in the evening.”
“But…” How could he take my driver’s license? Am I still living in America? The country of free will?
“It’s the policy. Even if you were First Lady, we would have done that. It’s the security policy of this place.” His hand pushed a button and two lady security guards came to escort me inside.
But before I could put my food on the green grass covering the long way inside, I was thoroughly scanned by those lady guards. I felt weird. I was not liking the way the guards were making me feel. The place was secured a little tightly. Who would want to come and hit someone in the beautiful mansion?
“Please wait here, ma’am. A car will come to pick you.” One of the lady guards told me.
I nodded my head and looked further. Goddamn, now I could see the mansion that was built on the huge property. It wasn’t a big house or something; it was actually a huge mansion. It looked like a castle of complete stones.
“Is it built with stones?” I asked the guard.
“Yes, it was built in the 18th century by the Swan family head.”
Though I was inside the wall, I couldn’t see the castle completely because it was surrounded by another round of walls. “It happens with everyone visiting this place for the first time.” The lady guard smiled me.
I could hardly hide the surprise on my face. “I see why...”
I waited there for five minutes before