Chapter Ten
The next day, Chubby Caddy brought along Flower to the island of Anegada and Flower brought Clarity as Sugar Baby clothing advisor for the day and as potential Sugar Baby for Oleanne. Chubby Caddy hinted that he wanted to see both Clarity and Flower naked together, and Clarity had objected, thinking that only the uncle of Bartleby, Clive, was mature enough to be a genuine Sugar Daddy for her. Paying her rent back in Malibu and some bills certainly would be first on Clarity´s list of items to be paid by Clive as her Sugar Daddy. Flower was not so certain to dislike Chubby Caddy´s proposition, for she saw a certain charm and cultural value in seeing her friend naked.
"You´ve never seen me naked?" said Clarity.
"Rarely," said Flower.
They walked with Bartleby by their side for an hour East of the lagoons in the island to an abandoned house made of stone. Inside, Chubby Caddy reached for sophisticated radio and computer equipment left by Oleanne´s correspondent, which included all the information on the payment of operation-sort-of-flying-seagull, payment from bar owners, resorts and retailers for the alcohol that was being delivered by him from the powerboats. Every amount was being transferred via wire transfer to a bank in the British Virgin Islands. Bartleby checked seventy three amounts, corresponding to those sent by the customers of their high quality liquor coming from the supertanker.
"Ten million dollars, we have the full amount."
Chubby Caddy went through the allocation with Bartleby. Three million for himself, one for Telval, five million for the Shawab and one million dollars in commission as arranger for Bartleby, transferred to his offshore account in the British Virgin Islands. Bartleby breathed more freely after the transfers reached their recipients. He was now an official Sugar Daddy with a cool million dollars in cash. Flower´s interest in Bartleby rose and Bartleby was riding high on his new found feeling of being rich. He wanted Flower back as his own Sugar Baby.
"I´ll give you a bottle the very rare original blue grass whisky," said Bartleby, turning to Chubby Caddy.
"That´s my own alcohol," said Chubby Caddy.
"I know, but she likes me." Chubby Caddy turned to Flower.
"Do you like him?"
"As Sugar Daddies, you both have credentials, but Mr. Bartleby and I made the original arrangement."
"Fine, I´ll ask Sandy or Belina or Virgy to be my Sugar Baby then."
Chubby Caddy saw his alcohol distribution territory in danger, and with it, all of his credential as Sugar Daddy. With a single phone call to the call center of Oleanne, he tracked the name Optesia, and found out that the lady who was lured as initiate by the Shawab, had filmed an earlier Telval film, 'Call center initiation'. After that, said the Oleanne woman corresponding with him, Optesia was being sent as pussy liner on a yacht with a wealthy client, near the island of Mosquito. He knew that Bartleby would throw a party on the 'Lady Moura' to celebrate the transaction the following day.
"Bring this woman, yes this woman named Optesia, to the 'Lady Moura'," said Chubby Caddy, "tell the client she has to go. Yes, I want her with me," said Chubby Caddy, "I´m not getting a good response from my current Sugar Baby." The call center connection knew that Chubby Caddy was bringing a large amount of money to the Shawab and other shareholders of Oleanne by distributing liquor. She accepted Chubby Caddy´s plea, and the liquor wholesaler gave the coordinates of Bartleby´s boat.
"Yes, tomorrow night, the boat´s anchored south of the island of Anegada. Good bye."
Clarity heard a knock on the door. A second group reached them, Anton, Tiffany and Ribalaigua. Bartleby took Tiffany aside telling her that he was rich, rich enough to be a genuine Sugar Daddy for her. She took out a warped bottle of Hendrick´s gin from her backback, a bottle wrapped in a bag, filled with gold coins, rare gold coins depicting Lady Fortuna.
"Where did you find these?" asked Bartleby. He was intrigued. There was a rumor that the gold coins of Lady Fortuna hid a secret and that the Shawab knew that secret, something which allowed him to be with several women in a joint relationship with him.
"I´ve met her Sam," said Tiffany, "Lady Fortuna is not just a gold minted bar or a bunch of gold coins, it is a real woman."
Bartleby tilted his head, he stared at the gold coins shaking the warped bottle, and lifted his eyes, meeting those of Tiffany.
"There is a woman who represents Lady Fortuna today, Sam, she is real and she initiated me into the mysteries. She goes by the name of Thesmophoria, and I´d like you to share her knowledge with me."
Bartleby looked away from Tiffany, sending his memory a year earlier. Tiffany was the only woman he´d met at a party in Virgin Gorda, who´d first agreed to be a Sugar Baby, then had told her about her spiritual inclinations and that she was looking for the person who performed these 'initiations', a woman, living somewhere in one of the British Virgin Islands, according to a rumor. Then, he discovered that Tiffany worked with Cobbler and that he was being set up as informant by Cobbler on Tambrera alcohol production sites. But on the personal front, Tiffany liked and admired him, admired his competence as executive, and now, the woman working for Cobbler wanted him as mate for life, as spiritual mate even, and the extent of the commitment scared Bartleby. In exchange, Tiffany wanted Bartleby to share some of the alcohol distribution market away from the Shawab to Cobbler.
"How did you meet this woman?" asked Bartleby.
"A money changer named Mista Jack led me to her, he is the one who arranged the registration of Cobbler's boat under the jurisdiction of British West Florida and got the flag for his ship. He gave me the coins as as long as I agreed to bring more women interested in initiation to him, preferably good looking, preferably naked or willing to be, in front of him. Each of the women I send has to have a gold coin in order to meet him. Then, he decides who will see Thesmophoria."
Bartleby glanced at Chubby Caddy. The corpulent man was aware of the alcohol business awarded to Cobbler and could very well talk to the Shawab, putting in question his services as arranger of this and future transactions. And of course, he couldn´t tell Tiffany he was unemployed or close to being so.
Firmly, Bartleby told Tiffany to tell Cobbler that he was not accepting her as her mate, or girlfriend, or initiate girlfriend, because he didn´t want to be a 'neophyte' like Tiffany. Instead of getting closer to marriage or a committed relationship, he chose to be a Sugar Daddy, and he announced to Flower to get ready for a Sugar Baby night the following night, to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the transaction. One hundred thousand dollars, he said, would be transfered to Flower, as long as she accepted to go with Chubby Caddy and deliver some of the alcohol to Mosquito island.
"I´d like to sleep with you in your bedroom cabin after that," said Flower. Clarity stepped closer to her friend and hushed to her.
"I thought you agreed not to sleep with him," said Clarity.
"I want to know where he keeps the one million dollars," said Flower, "I need to get closer to him."
"No one sleeps in my bedroom suite but me," said Bartleby. His bedroom and his cabin were closed to everyone and were meant for him, to recover from Sugar Baby nights.
Bartleby was thinking about the payment from the clients of Cobbler. They all wanted to pay Cobbler through Bitcoin, because the payment system was anonymous and the payment left no trace. Bartleby was not familiar with Bitcoin and he used Oleanne´s computerized payment database to search for one of the Bitcoin repositories which approved all transactions. It all started with ownership of a single bitcoin, held in a computer wallet.
After nearly an hour, Bartleby became frustrated. The Bitcoin request process was not going through. Clarity turned around and walked a few feet away. She checked her decryptor and found that Evans was blocking all attempts to buy a bitcoin by a surrounding wi-fi signal, because it was sensing electronic equipment antagonistic to 'proper ethics'. Where was the decryptor getting the intuition for ethics? She searched its database and found out it was the offshore nature of the previous wire t
ransfers which had alerted Evans of the forbidden or illegal nature of the transaction carried out. Good intuition on that, thought Clarity. She kept the decryptor in 'sleeping' mode, and Chubby Caddy told Bartleby that it was time to go, leaving Cobbler without his share of the transaction, about one hundred thousand dollars.
For the next few days, Flower and Clarity boarded one of the powerboats with Chubby Caddy, delivering hundreds of boxes of alcohol to yachts, bars and resorts in Virgin Gorda, Anguilla, Mosquito, St. Martin, and St. Kitts and Nevis. The name of Flower appeared on the invoice of the boxes of liquor being delivered, and it caught the attention of several bar owners, owners who were looking for their allocated Sugar Baby, who knew about the arrangement with the Shawab. Flower wanted to stay with a bar owner in Mosquito island, in order to meet the celebrities who went on holiday there, but Clarity convinced her otherwise, letting her know that she would have to be a pussy liner permanently working for Oleanne. After hearing the word work, Flower declined the proposal to be the bar owner´s Sugar Baby.
"I already have a Sugar Daddy, I don´t deal with the business side of Oleanne." Clarity tapped the shoulder of Flower.
"You don´t deal with any side of Oleanne," said Clarity.
"I know, but maybe I´ll know more about it if I say that," said Flower.
Bartleby welcomed them back in the 'Lady Moura' a few days later. He took some photographs of Flower boarding the 'Lady Moura', and smiled profusely at her, giving her the 'believe me it´s big shopping bag' requested to Oleanne from Tortola. The bag was a large trolley, and it could fit clothes for up to a week´s travel.
"This is proof that he knows about Oleanne," said Flower.
"We both knew that in Tortola," said Clarity.
"My Sugar Baby is back, let´s get this party ready for tonight now," said Bartleby.