Nadine Book 7

29. Spa

I sit down at my conference table and make my list of stuff I want to include in the spa. About 10 minutes later, I hear someone knocking lightly on the wall.

Tobias smiles and his eyes go dark for a second, but he fixes them. "What are you working on?"

"Spa. Writing down the stuff I want to include. I like these salt scrubs."

He sits beside me and picks up a pamphlet. "I could see that for girls."

"What do the boys want then?"

He looks at my legs and his eyes go dark again. He rubs my knee lightly. Tingles shoot up my leg. "Massage sounds nice." Then he smirks. "I can make those dark eyes go away for you."

I put an eyebrow up. I'm pretty sure I threatened to stab anyone who messed with me.

"OPEN WINDOW FOR DEPARTURE." Elroy yells from the hallway.

Elek grabs Tobias from behind and throws him out the window. It barely got open in time.

"Window close. I would have stabbed him eventually."

"It didn't seem like you were thinking about it yet."

"I was starting to."

Tye runs in first. Elek's eyes are still red. Tye's eyes go red. Then the other boys run in. Dipak looks around. "What the hell happened?"

"Elek threw Tobias out the window."

"Why is Tye pissed?"

"Maybe he wanted to throw Tobias out the window instead."

Marcus rubs his eyes. "What did Tobias do?"

"He touched my knee and offered to get rid of the dark eyes. I was going to stab him eventually."

"WOMAN."

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. I SAT HERE READING MY PAMPHLET. I TOLD EVERYONE DON'T MESS WITH ME. HE CAME IN AND SAT DOWN. THEN HE TOUCHED MY KNEE. I WAS GOING TO GET TO STABBING HIM EVENTUALLY. BUT THE SWORD WAS WAY OVER THERE." I throw down the pamphlet. "I WANT TO WORK ON THE SPA. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP ME WITH THE SPA, GET THE f**k OUT." I slam myself down and pick the pamphlet up. "I am going to include these salt scrubs. I want 1."

Dipak nods. "Tye?"

"I didn't see Tobias. The window was closing when I got here. I didn't know what the hell was going on. Her eyes were black and his were red. I had no idea what to think."

Dipak looks at Elek.

"I was walking by with Elroy. He was touching her leg. He said something. Then Elroy yelled. I don't know, I threw him out the window." He rubs his eyes.

Dipak looks at Elroy and smiles.

Elroy laughs. "I yelled for the window to open. Elek was going to break that i***t's neck on it if I didn't."

I nod at Elroy. "Yea, they really don't break."

"Alright, he's banned from the 6th level."

I shake my head.

"WOMAN."

"Dipak, he's really helpful with the inns, and I'm not going to do anything with him. I mean think about it. I have 6 mates on this level currently and no door. He's... I don't know what the f**k he was thinking. Even after I threatened to stab everyone. He's not a bad guy just..."

Tre nods. "It's her black eyes. They're f*****g with him. Did he ever come on to you like that before?"

"Never."

Marcus shakes his head. "Bullshit."

"He's never said anything like that to me. He's never touched my leg even."

"No, but he does try to get you alone. And don't even try to say you haven't kissed him."

I put my hands up. "I give up. Do whatever you're going to do. I want to work on the spa. After that, I'm going to eat dinner and go to bed. You can all leave me alone for the night."

"Angel, I didn't mean..."

"NO. Just go. I want to work on the spa. Do whatever you want in someone else's office and fix my door."

I sit sideways on the chair and put my feet on the chair beside me. I list out the types of massages I want. Then the salt scrubs.

Elek sits with a chair between us. I glare at him.

"I figure I got at least 5 minutes. The swords still way over there."

"Yea, I'll get to it eventually."

"Swedish, deep tissue, salt scrub, mask, and aromatherapy. I want deep tissue. What's the salt scrub massage?"

"You get oil put on your back and arms. Then they put big salt pieces on you and rub them around a bit. After that gets rinsed off, it's a half hour massage with my oil. They're like 45 minutes. The salt part takes 15 minutes of that 1."

"The mask massage?"

"30 minute massage. Then 30 minutes with a mask on your back and arms. It's 15 more minutes, but most of it is just waiting for the mask to dry. I don't think aromatherapy is a massage, it's more of an add-on. I figure people could pick the scent of my oil they use, if they pick that. Maybe charge like an extra 10g or something. They could pick their own scent instead of sticking with the basic scent. Does that make sense?"

"Yea, that makes sense." He gets out a paper. "So 4 types of back and arm massage. Swedish, deep tissue, salt, and mask. Now all 4 can be done as couple massages too?"

I nod.

"Add-ons so far are picking your own oil scent. The masks. You have a face mask. Add the body mask on there."

"Oh yea, that would work. But body mask would have to end in a shower."

"Set 1 of the rooms up with a drain in the floor. You could dump water on people or just wash it off with warm water."

I nod fast. "Write that down. Now the face mask is the same thing but just the face."

"Ok I got that. Hand or foot massage now."

"Wash them with a salt scrub. Then rub in some oil. Then dry them off. Could add on painted nails for the girls. They could pick the color."

"Nice. So that's the end of the massages, right?"

"Yes."

"What's the difference between Swedish and deep tissue?"

"Swedish is lighter pressure. Really it wouldn't matter. It would give the person giving the massage an idea of how much pressure they would want. But someone could always say more or less pressure."

He looks at me weird.

"I'll show you." I step behind him, and he lays his head on his arms on the conference table. "This would be like a Swedish massage. This would be deep tissue." I push hard on his muscles and really get into them.

"Oh fuck."

"See though. If someone didn't like this, they could always say less pressure." I keep rubbing him.

"I don't understand yet."

"How long is it going to take you to understand?"

"At least another 20 minutes."

Dipak laughs and Tye yells, "WHAT THE HELL NOW?"

I jump and give Tye a dirty look.

Elek don't move.

"Did you kill him, woman?"

"I don't think so. I was showing him the differences in the massages."

Elek sits up. "I volunteer for anything you need tested for the spa. Anything at all. Test on me."

"I'm doing waxing."

Dipak and Tye lose it.

"What's that?"

"I would put warm melted wax on you. Then it gets hard, and I peel it off nice and slow... or fast. Whichever you like."

Tye rubs his eyes. "On your balls even."

Elek shakes his head. "You can not rub warm melted wax on men's balls."

The 3 of us laugh.

"It wouldn't be me doing it, I won't work there. I could test it on you, make sure I get the wax right." I wink at him.

Marcus walks in. "What's going on?"

Dipak looks at him. "Elek volunteered for all testing for the spa. The woman said she's doing waxing. We're going to let her wax his balls for fun."

Marcus loses it. "Waxing is hair removal. She will dump hot wax all over your balls. Then rip it off and all the hair comes with it."

"OH HELL NO. Stay the hell away from my balls."

I nearly fall over. "You're the 1 who wants to volunteer."

Nikolas comes in. "I was walking by and all I heard was Elek say to stay the hell away from his balls. I figured I had better check the situation. I see you're all here though... I wouldn't want you all playing with my balls either."

The boys all about die laughing.

I have to sit down and put my head down on the conference table.

"So these are the massages?"

"Yes. That's all I've got done. I still have so much to do."

"This is a good start, angel. What else do you want to do?"

"Something with hair. It would be separate."

"That's alright. What do you want the hair place to do?"

"Wash, dry, style, or cut."

"So people would have options, about which of those to do?"

"Yes."

"We could have some pictures of different styles for girls. They could pick 1 and pay the price for it." I nod. "What kind of style?"

"Curly, half curly, straight. We do it up in a fancy bun. Or half up." I pull half my hair up and show them what I mean.

Marcus smiles. "You're so pretty. But I wrote those down. That's good for style. Cuts are kind of different. You could do a hair trim for like 40g. It's not like the future. No one really does the style cuts now."

"Yea, trim sounds good."

"What do you want in the spa?"

"I need a facial room. A body mask room with a drain in the floor. A room for massages would have to hold at least 2 for the couples massage. A room for hand and foot massages. A hot bath with lots of salt and oils in it. A steam room. The aromatherapy stone room. Mud baths. Float pools with salt."

"Would you serve food or drinks there?"

"Hot tea or lemon water."

"Good. Now say I want to use the steam room. Do I have to rent time out?"

"The massage rooms would be off limits to anyone not getting a massage. But the other rooms would be the spa the people see. Maybe rent time or get time to have it private. I wouldn't want to put too many people in it, or it wouldn't be relaxing."

"There's a lot going on. Hot bath, steam room, stone room, mud bath, and float pools."

Dipak nods. "You would have to limit the traffic. Sell hour passes to it, but only sell so many for each hour. They could use whatever they wanted while they were in it."

"This is a good start. What are these vacation packages?" Elek picks up another paper.