I was right: Ada Foster is a member of the Upper Circle. The last one reaching the top of the tower, actually, and this is why her colleagues ask her to do the hardest work like planning parties and meetings. Although she outsources and hires other planners like Harry, the guy who left a mess behind to go on vacation, or I myself, and we're the ones dealing with the catering company, suppliers, hotel managers to book rooms, etc. It's not easy to coordinate them all and plan a BDSM theme party because, apart from food and drinks and decorate the main room, I have to make sure that everything is sane, safe and discreet, far away from the eyes of journalists.
At least, Ada was willing to help me with the food and drink stuff since she's in the business. She opened her first restaurant 20 years ago, with lot of money borrowed from the bank and her grandma's southern recipes, risking bankruptcy. Luckily for her, it was a success. With lot of effort and elbowing her rivals away, if it was necessary, she managed to build a restaurant chain all over USA and she's just opened one in South Korea, I've been told. She's a self-made woman and is aware of how easy it would be to fall down again, I think she's not really interested in BDSM and doesn't even have a permanent sub, but this world allows her to meet important people that can invest in her business and she also enjoys privileges she always dreamed of having.
Anyway, I believe I've made a good impression helping her to plan this party and I'm sure she can get me a VIP access pass or can put in a good word for me at the upper circle, some members will be here tonight. At the moment, I only have a temporary card as a member of the staff and this is why, tonight, I decided to go all-in. I spent the afternoon making sure that the decoration was perfect: there're lot of couches and comfortable armchairs with colourful upholstery scattered all over the ground floor where most members will enjoy the show the exhibitionist ones will put on and the well-stocked bar, all of them illuminated by big chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There're white fresh flowers in crystal vases, soft carpets to be able to walk barefoot and the girls from the open buffet will wear white underwear trimmed with French lace.
There're hundreds of bottles of champagne getting cold in the kitchen, delicious canapes and chocolates and the bedrooms upstairs are ready for the members of the upper circle to stay away from the crowd, although they can watch the room from the balcony at the end of the main staircase. Taking advantage of the fact that I'm the party planner, I booked the smallest bedroom for me, the closer one to the service staircase through which the maids carry clean towels up and down, I knew none of them would want that one but this brings me closer to my goal.
Anyway, I shouldn't be overconfident. It's pretty obvious that Ada likes me and I've done a good job with this party, this scores points in my private scoreboard, but I'm not a permanent member yet. In addition to this, I know someone is watching me, the upper circle privileged people are cautious by nature and I'm sure they've checked my background again. This is the reason why I wasn't surprised when Miss Foster told me that she herself was going to hire the security company for this event. I bet they've hidden surveillance cameras all over the place, even in the bedrooms, without me noticing it. No one can keep a club like the Black Orchid working for more than 20 years without covering their backs in case something goes terribly wrong and it's pretty obvious that watching the members, or blackmailing them with the footage later, is the easiest way to keep control.
Luckily, my colleague was not in the castle this weekend, he doesn't know what kind of party I'm holding for my new friends and this is why I got a discount from him when I asked him to rent me his stables, he has allowed me to stay in a guest room in his home tonight too. I didn't have to go back to Paris to change my clothes and spend two hours driving to get here or jump into one of the buses available for the guests. I only have to walk across the garden and make my big entrance since I'm a little late and the party has already started, although most club members still have their clothes on, I hope.
