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    The Man in the Elevator
    The Man in the Elevator
    The Man in the Elevator
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    The Man in the Elevator

    By Roxana Nastase

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    Dan is an easy-going fellow with a penchant for women. His motto is simple enough: the more, the better. Life is a game for him, and he grabs everything he can without remorse or excuses. Imagine his surprise when he becomes a body on the floor of an elevator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScarlet Leaf
    Release dateDec 24, 2018
    ISBN9780463841549
    The Man in the Elevator
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    Roxana Nastase

    Roxana Nastase has been teaching English for over seventeen years, ranging in level from kindergarten to college. She specializes in English Grammar and has had several books issued throughout the years. Her books were used with much success in schools in Eastern Europe for teaching English as a second language.

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      The Man in the Elevator - Roxana Nastase

      THE

      MAN

      IN THE ELEVATOR

      ROXANA NASTASE

      Scarlet Leaf

      2018

      © 2018 by ROXANA NASTASE

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers, with the exception of a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal.

      All characters in this book are fictive, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

      Scarlet Leaf Publishing House has allowed this work to remain exactly as the author intended.

      PUBLISHED BY SCARLET LEAF

      Toronto, Canada

      TO MIRCEA, A FUNNY, JOLLY MAN

      CHAPTER ZERO

      His hands stuffed in the pants pockets, Dan entered the elevator, whistling softly. The man felt good. He had just picked up the new girl who started working on the fourth floor a week ago. Now, he already had a date lined up.

      'Great rack,' the man thought and arched his left eyebrow admiringly. 'And those pouting lips,' he shook his head and swallowed hard.

      The young woman embodied everything he enjoyed most in a female, and he couldn't wait to score.

      He didn't do that just to add a new notch over his bed. He genuinely loved women, regardless the color of their hair or eyes. His standards were high only when it came to the size of their bust and lips.

      The doors slid silently and closed. Then, the elevator started the slow trip up to the seventh floor.

      'You can count on just a few things in this lifetime,' the man shook his head in dismay and brushed his fingers through his dark hair with anxious gestures. 'Taxes, death and slow elevators. Damn, I'll be late again, and they'll have my head soon enough if I keep coming late from my break,' he reflected with a frown and shoved his hands into the pockets again.

      His last meeting with the supervisor hadn't gone to well. He had him sign a formal notice. If he was late again, Dan would have lost an hour from his pay, and every penny counted when he had to wine and dine beautiful women.

      The elevator slowed down when it reached the third floor, and the doors slid open with a quiet woof. Dan grimaced for a second, but then the man plastered a smile on his lips.

      'You never know who you might encounter,' he thought sagely. It wouldn't do to get on someone's wrong side merely because the elevator annoyed him.

      A few seconds later, Dan's smile froze on his lips, and his hands clenched in tight fists.

      CHAPTER ONE

      Come on, Liza, you must be joking, girl, Ana-Maria replied loudly, bursting into laughter, and eyeing her friend askance. I can't believe that Dan really did that. What the heck? Is he out of his mind?

      Ana-Maria balanced the paper coffee cup and the sandwich she was holding in one hand and pushed the elevator button with the other. A lock of light-brown hair teased her face, and she brushed it nervously behind her ears. Her hazel eyes sparkled with curiosity and measured Liza again. Her colleague was well-known for her talent to embellish things, after all.

      I'm serious, really, Liza nodded. I mean I wasn't there or anything like that, but Dana was, and she swears that she spoke the truth, the redhead said in earnest, and her green eyes glanced at the elevator lights again.

      Exhausted from carrying all those snacks in her hand, Liza leaned on the wall by the elevator. 'What the heck made me offer to go and buy snacks for five other people?' the young woman scolded herself.

      I can't believe it, Ana-Maria shook her head in bewilderment. I knew that he was a bit crazy, but that's way over the top. Really? Did he actually take off his clothes in the middle of the club?

      Yep, he did. Of course, he was dancing on a table right then, Liza nodded and looked at the elevators around to see if any would come.

      'If I counted the minutes I’ve spent before these closed elevator doors, I would probably discover that at least ten percent of my life has been wasted just looking at these blasted lights,' she sighed inwardly.

      But I can't believe that the club enforcers didn't react to something like that at all, Ana-Maria shook her head, laughing.

      They did, all right, Liza replied. You see, this time, Dan went way too far, and they banned him from the club. For good.

      That's the fourth one by now, I think, Ana-Maria tilted her head inquiringly.

      I can’t say I have kept count, Liza shrugged. It's not like I care too much about what happens to him, you know, she said in a hard tone of voice.

      'You care all right,' Ana-Maria thought with malice.

      She knew that Liza had been in love with Dan for quite a while. The two of them dated for some time, but the man didn't seem to think about her anymore.

      In fact, Dan liked diversity. Ana-Maria had been working together with him in the same place for about three years now. Until then, she had seen him with another woman at least every other month.

      Liza had made a mistake getting involved with him. But then, she had nurtured the hope that the man would change.

      'Frequent mistake among women, from what I could see,' Ana-Maria reflected with an inward shrug. She had done it herself in the past and hoped to have learned her lesson.

      Finally, it's coming, Liza noticed with a sigh of relief when the light of the elevator blinked.

      The doors opened, and the young woman started forward. Her eyes fell on the body on the floor and practically popped out of their sockets. An ear-splitting scream burst out of her throat, and Ana-Maria stepped back, scared of her friend's behavior. Still, she tilted her head to look past Liza. A second later, she leaned on the wall. Her legs shook, and the blood left her face.

      The young woman watched her coffee cup spill on the hallway floor, followed by the sandwich. She hadn't even realized that she had dropped everything she had in her hands. But then, she didn't feel her fingers anymore.

      Liza continued screaming the building down, and both of the security men from the front desk ran toward them to see what the matter was. The older one passed by Ana-Maria, and his eyes swept over her in a split second. The younger followed him, on the edge, ready to react. First, their eyes fell on Liza, who continued screaming like a banshee.

      ‘She’s got good lungs on her, this one,’ the older security guard thought and shook his head.

      When he looked past her, and his eyes fell on the man on the floor, his jaw twitched, and his eyes turned hard. ‘Yep, this workday isn’t getting any better,’ he thought morosely.

      Come with me, the man said gently, grabbing Liza’s arm and steering her out of the elevator. Call the police, he threw over the shoulder toward his younger colleague. I’ll take the ladies to the lounge. Block this elevator and don’t let anyone get too close for a look, he warned the man in a confident tone of voice.

      ‘As if I had had more experience than he does,’ the old man scoffed inwardly and shook his head again.

      He had been working as a security guard for over fifteen years. That was true. But then, that was his first encounter with a crime scene. He sincerely hoped it would be the last.

      ‘’Thank God for all those crime show series," he reflected, showing the two shocked young women toward

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