// open starter //
Bennett swung his briefcase against his side gently as he moved down the flight of stairs that had previously carried him up to his office. He needed to step in for only a moment to grab some paperwork he had left on his desk the day before, not thinking he would have needed it, even though it turned out he did. It was two seconds of his life that he figured he didn’t need to take through the hassle of going through the parkade underneath his work building.
He nodded at the security guard as she let him through and his feet carried him quickly through the lobby and into the warm streets of sunny Santa Cielo. His car was parked only a few minutes away and given that he was still driving the car he had used to pick up his date on Valentine’s Day, it wasn’t hard to miss it amongst the mishmash of other cars. Though as he moved over to his car, a vintage Shelby Cobra in a striking red color, he noticed someone looking a little too intently at it.
“Hey, you lost or something?” He asked as he approached, eyeing the person who was eyeing his vehicle.