After accepting the Underworlds job offer I packed all of my belongings in a medium case and dressed in a white crop top, ripped skinny jeans on top of newer fishnet tights (all of the holes the right size), my black leather jacket and my boots.
"How do I look?" I asked the Underworlder in the suit.
He simply nodded and we left my room. Outside was a black sedan. I gawped.
A car? I had not seen a working car or any vehicle since the Collapse. Only burnt husks. These Eastern Quarter Underworlders meant business.
I entered the car with my case and satchel and the man in the suit drove me to Marble's headquarters. During the journey I stared out of the window at what remained of the city I lived in, the jagged skyline an eyesore against the morning sky.
We arrived and my driver pulled up the car outside one of the few intact buildings in the Eastern Quarter. He opened my passenger door and lead me to the nearest lift to entrance. Working lifts too? It's like the Collapse never hit these people. He pressed the second highest level and the lift creaked as it rose up the building. The doors opened to reveal a dimly lit room. There was a desk on the far side from the door and 2 men. One looked like another crony like the one who escorted me here. The other I assumed to be John Marble, kingpin of the Eastern Quarter.
"Good morning, please enter." Marble greeted and we followed his instruction, entering the room. The man who brought me here stood behind me to the right while the one who was already there was to my left. I stood ten feet in front of the desk.
"So you're who I've heard so much about?" Marble asked.
I looked at the Underworld Boss, he was only in his late 20s, a stocky muscular build with a square stubbly chin and black hair cropped not short but in no way long, his eyes were grey and cold. He wore a white shirt with the top 2 buttons undone partially revealing a smooth chest.
"Yes I am." I smirked confidently.
"You're definitely attractive." He replied. "But as Collins told you I wanted a bodyguard as well."
"I think I can handle myself." I shot back.