We got out after the blades stopped. Even if I was perfectly used to traveling this way, I couldn’t help but feel the special sense of occasion for Lola. She was laughing hard, taking deep breaths, and I stepped towards her and felt a warm rush of desire for her.
She was having an amazing time so far, but the rest was yet to come.
We stepped down from the helipad and through a door. There, we descended a metal staircase.
“I can’t believe it,” she kept saying. “We’re on a real skyscraper.”
“You know I live on one of these?” I said.
“Crazy,” she said. “How do you manage? I’m not sure I’d be good with being up so high all the time.”
“The main problem is keeping your feet on the ground,” I said, as I rang the bell and called for the elevator.
We dropped down two floors, and when it open
