America 1982

Delia Case's assistant Van Kane was sitting on the sofa in the living room of the luxurious sea view suite at the Four Seasons Hotel, watching the couple enjoying themselves in the private massage room with the door open in the distance, without any privacy. The high-end physical therapy massages given by two hotel VIP masseurs broke his and the two poor masseurs' little hearts.

If there were any Scumbag Grand Prix in the United States, Van Kane swore that he felt that 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 in front of the tea seat in the massage room talking to him. As a result, before Tommy's SPA massage was over, this guy stood up and said Delia rolled together, and she could only drag the frightened masseur out of the massage room, and then help them close the door.

As a result, as soon as she closed the damn door, Delia opened the door and stuck her head out, asking him to go to the famous store to help buy a pair of stockings and a women's shirt of the same brand she was wearing, because Tommy had torn them. Tommy then appeared behind Delia and continued to add to him, asking him to call the suite's personal butler and ask him to send a box of Florida's local citrus-flavored Trojan immediately.

Ten minutes ago, the intercourse between these two guys finally ended. The first thing Tommy said was to continue the unfinished massage and asked Delia to give it a try. So the massage was shocked by the previous scene. The therapist 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 a private massage.

And Tommy also said that in order to take care of his own emotions and prevent Van Kane from feeling isolated and alienated, he kept the damn door open.

After the massage was over, the masseurs got generous tips from him, Van Kane, and sent them out personally. Then when they came back, Van Kane suspected that he was hallucinating because Tommy was lying on the bed at this time. On the massage bed, with a bath towel on his back, he was seriously asking Delia where he should choose the place if he proposed to his girlfriend, and talked about what plans he had prepared, but Delia didn't care at all. Feeling guilty for having slept with a young man who was about to get engaged, she gave him serious advice on what small details would make Otilia feel more surprised.

If I hadn't known what happened before, I would have thought that the couple, who looked very serious at this time, were just having a massage together.

Van Kane looked through the door and thought maliciously, what other surprise could there be than having sex with a 20-year-old boyfriend and a forty-two-year-old female lawyer, and letting himself, a paralegal, go there temporarily? Helping buy stockings, shirts and Florida citrus-flavored Trojans shocked Otilia even more?

This made Van Kane very unhappy. It was not that he felt that he was the assistant to Delia Case, a senior partner at Davis Polk Law Firm. His status was very noble and he should not be asked to do such errands. , he had done a lot of errands for Delia before, exaggerating to the point that once Delia's menstrual period suddenly came early, he had to rush to help Delia buy sanitary products and underwear, and then send them to the women's bathroom.

He just felt that Tommy's brain was not normal, and there were signs of it being passed on to Delia.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Delia asked Tommy why he was in Miami helping a Democratic plumber run for the House of Representatives and put her in touch with a top lawyer in the firm's Miami office, a die-hard Republican. He helped two old men represent the entire case. This kind of intra-party campaign should be resolved within the party. Tommy's operation can easily cause Jeff to lose the support of the Democratic Party and use Republican opponents to eliminate those from the same party. Opponent, no politician will be willing to support Jeff in the future.

The information revealed by Delia's question alone caused Van Kane's brain to shut down. He helped the Democrats campaign, hired Republican lawyers to help the old man with the lawsuit, and forced the two most promising Cuban-Americans, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, to be elected. When the candidates haven't even started the party's primaries, they have to fight with each other at the first sight of the bayonet?

This is not a method that politicians should use at all. Van Kane has followed Delia and has seen many dirty methods of politicians, but the ultimate core of all methods is compromise and transaction. Tommy's move is completely reckless. The losses between the enemy and ourselves can be summed up in one word, "Fight." It doesn't matter whether the opponent is a member of the same party or not. When the smoke clears, it doesn't matter whether one's own side will be the one to be defeated.

Because even if Tommy allows both sides to fight to the death, the candidate he supports, Jeff, will suffer very serious losses. The most serious thing is losing trust within the party.

This incident will make the Democratic Party extremely dissatisfied with Jeff. After all, as a Democrat, you need to consider the party. Jeff handed the two old people to the Republican lawyer. The Democrats can guess with their buttocks that the two old people must Lawyers will lead him to make many remarks that are unfavorable to Rosario Kennedy and help Republican Ileana Letty attack his competitors. Even the local Democratic Party office may hold a secret meeting at this moment to seriously discuss whether Jeff is An undercover agent sent by the Republican Party to infiltrate the Democratic Party.

Don't say you support Jeff in the future. If there is any trouble within the party, you may avoid Jeff.

And how did Tommy answer Delia's question? He said that all this was just accidental, a little game he played when he was bored. He didn't care whether Jeff could be elected. The biggest gain from this game might be to advertise the consulting company of his driver, the black man Martin, so that his company could be more popular. Florida became famous, and then took advantage of its high reputation to wait for those large consulting companies to come over to acquire or invest in shares to make a fortune, and then used it as a cash reward for Martin, who had been with him for a long time and received a weekly salary of 250, and worked hard.

He played with all the candidates in the 18th district. It was just a boring game to pass the time on vacation. This is not what a person with a right mind should say.

Delia got off the massage table, walked back to the living room with Tommy, sat on the sofa, picked up the cigarette case on the table, took out a slender women's cigarette from it, held it in her mouth, and signaled Tommy to help her Lit.com: "Starting a TV station, you said it was a small game to me. Let Susan set up a brokerage company. A small game, so that I can no longer be involved in the computer industry. I ran back to the office to continue focusing on women's issues. It is still a small game. Tommy, why not Tell me, how’s your big game going?”

"You're not my brother, ma'am, I don't have to tell you everything I know." Tommy walked over and picked up the lighter, lit the flame, handed it to Delia's lips, helped her light the cigarette, and said with a smile: "But if you are willing to go back to college after transitioning, I can help you write a letter of recommendation from the fraternity."

Delia took a puff of the cigarette, slightly raised her neck, which had just been massaged and maintained, and became smoother and whiter. She aimed her chin at Tommy who was leaning in front of her, blew out a puff of smoke into his face, and then raised her red lips. He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "It sounds good. I met a lot of young guys in the first forty years. Now that I've changed my gender and gone to university to study, I can get to know some young girls."

"Right, this is simply a genius idea, and for a real man in his forties or fifties, his clubs may have become somewhat useless, but you don't need to worry about the implanted prosthesis being as weak as them, as long as If you have enough strength, no matter how many girls come, Tommy will welcome them." Tommy stood up with a smile, put on his clothes neatly, and then walked towards the door, patting Van Kane on the shoulder when he passed him :

"Mr. Kane, Trojan, room charges, and the bills for Delia's stockings and shirts that I tore just now, send them to Martin's company, and he will pay you. This expense will be the consulting fee. , so if the taxman calls you to find out, remember not to make a mistake.”

"Of course, Mr. Hawke." Van Kane nodded wordlessly, and waited until Tommy had passed him and taken a few steps before he responded.

"Hey, are you just leaving?" Delia lazily stood up, walked to the bar, grabbed a bottle of wine, threw away the cork and poured half a glass for herself, raised it and asked Tommy while drinking.

Tommy turned his head and said in a weak tone: "Otilia will fly to Miami in the afternoon. In order to ensure that I am willing to talk to him about why he gave the Cuban girl he supported a slap in the face, Bill Clinton not only came by himself When attending a Democratic Party event in Miami, his wife would make Otilia fly to Miami with the couple even if she got him drunk. So, mom, please allow me to save some energy. For the sake of my physical and mental strength, Since we are about to be completely drained, let me go, okay?"

What Tommy said was not a lie. He had a lot of fun playing the election game, but Bill Clinton had a bit of a headache because he had been flying around almost every state in the United States during this period, visiting the Democratic Party's powerful factions in each state, trying to integrate Strength, as soon as the Rosario Kennedy incident happened, Bill received the news. Rosario Kennedy's party postponed the reception, but Bill did not postpone the trip, and he knew from Stephen's mouth that Tommy Hawke A financial sponsor who had been supporting the couple in a low-key manner was also in Miami, and after he was responsible for all these things, he even asked someone to hold a private small cocktail party in Miami two days later in a private name.

And Bill personally called Tommy, inviting him to attend, and promised that after he landed in Miami, he would write a handwritten invitation and have it delivered to Tommy.

Tommy was not interested in politicians' drinking parties. In fact, he had made it clear to Bill on the phone that it was just a game. But Bill, like Van Kane, did not believe that Tommy was lying in a printing shop after his death. When I met Jeff the plumber, I helped him campaign for the election out of boredom and to make some money to improve his living standards.

Bill must invite him to attend, simply because he wants to find out where Rosario offended him, and if possible, whether he can resolve the conflict between the two parties through him. The problem is that Tommy and the woman named Rosario have no relationship at all. If there is no conflict, how can we resolve it?

And it’s really resolved, what should Jeff do? If Jeff is not elected to the House of Representatives, how can he show off his achievements to Jason Soucy's couple of losers and Belt's idiot from the Order of the Phoenix?

So Tommy never thought about going to the small cocktail party held by Bill, but this guy had a vicious wife. In order to force Tommy to show up, she coaxed Otilia to come to Miami to reunite with Tommy. In order to ensure that Tommy Mi will definitely appreciate it. This damn unscrupulous female lawyer coaxed Otilia to fly with her, invited Otilia to attend the couple's cocktail party, and also asked Otilia to act coquettishly to Tommy on the phone. If If Tommy didn't accompany her, then he would see his beautiful girlfriend holding the arm of another man and acting as the best man at the 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 has not seen Tommy for a while, how could he miss meeting Tommy? opportunity, and Tommy can't tolerate others appearing in public with their girlfriends on their arms.

So when he thought about having to fight Otilia tonight, and also fabricate a conflict for the nosy Bill to mediate at the cocktail party, to ensure that Jeff would not be affected, but also to ensure that Bill's mediation was effective, Tommy It was very irritating, because these two things combined would not only consume a lot of his physical energy, but also consume a lot of mental energy, really draining him dry.

"If you want, let Kane play another round with you, or go to the beach. There are many young Cubans with eight-pack abs working in the flesh business of old women and tourists. You can find a good young Cuban for eighty bucks. "Thinking that Otilia would appear in Miami in the afternoon, Tommy's tone immediately became righteous. Just by listening to his voice, you could tell that he was a good man who was not close to women.

"So, when you go to bed, I am your queen, and when you get out of bed, I am the old woman in the eyes of this infatuated man." Delia looked at Tommy with a smile:

"You're such an asshole, Tommy, but I'm not talking about the bed thing. I'm saying, you haven't given me the answer yet. How should I explain to my colleagues why good luck happened to Illyana Leti?" On my head, what does Jeff want, or what do you want, just say something to me, whether it’s true or false, at least let me give the other person an answer, you know, the other person is waiting for you to speak to them now. One explanation is that politicians trust peer-to-peer transactions more than good luck that can be reaped without any effort.”

"The truth is, I was just playing a fucking game. Stephen can testify, because I helped him record that shit variety show. I didn't need anything. It was just a game. Otherwise? Why do you think I would do it under normal circumstances?" Helping a fool to campaign?" Tommy turned to look at Delia: "If you think the truth sounds too perfunctory, I will give you a false reason that sounds more like the truth. Why would I find a fool to cause trouble in Florida? Democrats, that’s a damn good question because…”

Tommy thought for more than ten seconds before his eyes lit up: "Because if I remember correctly, at the moment 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 Democrats in Florida... *Congressman, give me a punch in the balls for using a fucking unreviewed excuse to stop livestreaming of Actor’s OSS software sales ads throughout Florida. How about that?”

"This sounds truer than your truth." Delia nodded: "I think this is a good reason. You hate the Florida Democratic Party, so you deliberately found a fool to torture it. You feel that the pleasure is not enough. I hope the Republican Party will add more. Put the fire on, it will make them think the deal can work."

"Then use this reason. I'm not interested in finding out which congressmen were involved in my business. That's not important. It's not important at all. What's important is that I remember that guy was wearing the title of Democratic Party. I I feel that this party is too bad. They know nothing about software and need fresh blood. For example, fools like Jeff who like to help others like me, I think are the most scarce talents in the Democratic Party." Tommy finished, He opened the door, but then stopped and turned to look at Delia:

"Speaking of trading, where did you go to law school, Delia?"

"Harvard." Delia shook the wine glass in her hand and replied in a casual voice.

Tommy pointed at Delia with his finger and smiled: "I thought of a possible deal between you and Otilia. When my vacation is over and you help Susan's girls get out of the nightmare, I will work with you. Talk about it and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.”

After saying that, he disappeared into the private elevator outside the door.

"It seems that it may take a long time for me to get back the money I advanced. Also, what does that last sentence of Tommy's guy mean?" Van Steet exhaled, looked at his boss Delia, and asked curiously road.

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 has considered giving her a second layer of holy garments to make her busier. I’m too busy to ask him to attend a boring drinking party with me.”