Monday, Jane answered the ad. Tuesday, she got an email that she had been selected for an interview. The Lilly Cummins Institute for Reproductive Health would like to meet with you to discuss the opening it has for an assistant fertility coordinator.
It sounded like she'd be some kind of counselor, or maybe a public-facing representative, or someone in marketing? Public relations? Because while Jane, 53, did have a background in the pharmaceutical industry, she didn't have any medical training. The speed of the application process, and the fact they asked for a current headshot, kind of set off alarm bells in a too-good-to-be-true way. Why would they be so interested in me? she wondered.
It had been four months since she was laid off from her job, and the severance they gave her had almost run out. And besides, it’s a sperm donor clinic. Sounds … kinda fun! Jane thought, taking another long sip of chardonnay. When the wine hit her bloodstream, she decided what the fuck. Go for it..
The next morning she showed up to the clinic, a nondescript, postmodern, run-of-the-mill commercial real estate office park out by the freeway, that actually had no signage out front, to interview for this position. A receptionist at the intake desk noted her arrival and motioned Jane to sit in the waiting room, where they had a coffee machine. As she watched a house-flipping show on the waiting room TV, she was suddenly aware of a man's muffled cries beyond the thin drywall of the cheap and shabbily arranged office.
“Oh God, oh yes, just like that! Fuck!" he gasped. It sounded like he was being tortured. "Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!! Ohhhhhhh God yes!”
The sound of male orgasm made Jane flush red, purse her lips, cross her legs and then pick up a fashion magazine off the waiting room table to pretend to be interested in its gossip. Well, someone’s having a good time, she thought. Then the receptionist stepped out from behind her desk, clipboard in hand, and said — so cheerfully, as if she was deliberately oblivious to the sex sounds coming from the back of the clinic — “Mr. Owen will see you now.”
Mister. Jane thought, suspiciously. Not doctor.
She opened the door to usher Jane into the back of the dark, windowless facility, where she was immediately met with an asphyxiating aroma of lube, sweat, and cum. It didn't make Jane gag; rather it made her nostrils flare. It was like being hit in the face with a cloud of sex pheromones. There was a row of what basically looked like dressing room stalls along the right side of the clinic. Two nurses were at a central desk, talking on the phone and tippity-tapping on their computer keyboards. Except they were not dressed like real nurses, in blue scrubs. They were wearing what looks like the kind of sexy nurse costume you'd find from one of those spice-up-your marriage lingerie catalogs. Further, their makeup and hair was so provocative to the point of unprofessional.
They looked like strippers in nurse costumes, in other words.
The clinic director, was standing opposite the desk with the door to his office open. At first Jane thought he was wearing a doctor's white lab coat. After a double-take, she realized it was actually a linen mid-thigh bathrobe; the stethoscope around his neck was just a prop worn for effect.
“Jane?” he said solicitously, offering an insincere handshake. “You’re Jane, right? Welcome, we’ve heard so much about you.”
Well, now that doesn't scan, Jane thought, because she'd had no contact with this clinic before yesterday when she answered the job ad online.
Frankly, none of it felt safe. But the intrigue was too intense. She had to know more. What the fuck is this place is really about?
As Jane tried to walk professionally over to Owen's office, she caught a glimpse out of the corner of her right eye of a nude, hairy, but very fit and toned college-age boy, shuddering and walking out of one of the stalls. He had his back to her, but for a brief instant she saw the tip of his dangling, limp cock drooling out the remnants of some kind of post-orgasm mixture of lube and cum. A nurse was walking with him, her hand placed very tenderly on his back, ushering him to what looked like the shower area at Jane's fitness center, where he was probably going to clean up and recover from his donation session.
Jane's mind was now almost at war with itself.
Get the FUCK out of here.
NO, YOU HAVE TO SEE MORE.
This is a goddamn brothel, Jane, not a medical clinic.
I KNOW, AND THAT’S SO FUCKING HOT.
“Please,” Owen said, gesturing to his door, again cheerfully oblivious to what was taking place in the back of the clinic. Almost robotically, Jane walked over to him to extend a courteous handshake, passing by the central nurse desk as she did so. On the corner of the desk was one of those aromatherapy diffusers belching an aggressive fragrance into the sweaty, cum-filled air of the clinic. The smell of peppermint and cheap stripper perfume mixed with pubic sweat and musky body hair hit her again. It smelled like a guy had jizzed into the bottom of her aunt's pocketbook. Hell, the whole place smelled like the set of an X-rated fuck movie.
Owen closed the office door behind Jane and motioned her to a brown naugahyde couch opposite his cheap particle board desk. Behind it, however, was a bank of black and white monitors, like something out of Scarface. Except on those monitors Jane could see what was going on in every one of the donor rooms.
Some guys were jerking off to a porn magazine. One guy was simply dozing on a gurney, hands folded across his chest. And then in Stall 4, there was just no pretense about what was going on. Seen from the overhead corner of the room, the security camera showed a nurse just straight-up fucking the patient, riding him cowgirl-style, one of her hands interlaced into his as she ground her ass and pussy along his waist, while the other held on to her little stripper-costume nurse bonnet with almost comical effect.
“May I make you a drink?” Owen said. Jane was so stunned by what she had seen that only now did she realize this sleazebag actually has a fucking wet bar in his office. The counter was lined with glass handles of top shelf liquor, but it even had an old-fashioned seltzer bottle next to an ice bucket with tongs.
“Vodka tonic,” Jane mumbled cautiously. Owen mixed the drink. Before walking over to Jane, he turned to her and looked her in the eye as he held a small pink pill over the glass, nodding as if to ask for her consent to add it to her cocktail. “This is something our in-house pharmacy compounds," he said. "It’s just a mood enhancer.”