DId You Get It?

Big Daddy was having his dinner in the Cosmos Club in Soi Cowboy in Bangkok, Thailand. Big Daddy, an ex-football star with the University of Arkansas and the Dallas Cowboys, was a retired CIA operative who ran the club but still did contract work with the agency from time to time. He was also a money launderer, drug smuggler, and human trafficker. He had contacts in both high and low places all over the world.

He had met the mysterious Maria Lee, the rumored mistress of the North Korean leader who had come to him to launder stolen money and he had a one-night stand with her but he knew that it was time to end the affair before he got in too deep with her. When
they met, it was love at first sight and as the Koreans put it,

“Sparks sparked from heart to heart.

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이심종 심

She came by the bar that night and they had a drink. She asked him,

“Did you get it?

“Yes,” and handed over an envelope containing information on the Cayman Islands account he had created for her.

He then told her that it was time to end their affair. She laughed and said,

“Never. You are now mine and I am yours, don’t you get it, Big Daddy?”

Sam Adams smiled at her and told her.

‘well, in that case, time to have another drink, my love.”

They drank until dawn, then stepped outside to howl at the strawberry full moon over the Chao Praya river.

Prompt for 6/18

Write a story that includes the line: “Did you get it?”