The Ultimate Con by Kris P. Kreme
When a con man named Pete thinks he’s found the ultimate con, one paying out over a million dollars, it might just be him getting conned.
An advertising rep searching the country for a fresh faced young girl to award a million dollar contract is definitely interested in the girl Pete calls a daughter, Dani. His company Collective Wishes Advertising is only more interested when Pete lies and says Dani can control the size of her chest.
But when they get roped into a three-day interview to prove such unlikely talents, will the artificial intelligence relayed through a laptop give Dani what she needs… or is it merely making her what CWA and their list of seedy clients need her to be?
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Pete Nochio is more than a man with an unusual name, he’s the most dedicated professional con man there ever was, at least in his own mind. If there’s one thing the smooth-talking slick man has always been good at it, it’s the con game… but will the ultimate con come at the ultimate cost of everything real Pete has left?
Conning has always been a game of layers for Pete, one lie begetting another and another, and the lies may have paid off at times but they also cost him plenty over the years. His wife left him years ago for a life where bailing him out of jail or paying legal fees wasn’t a constant concern. And even though she wasn’t his daughter, Dani was all that remained of that marriage, a girl who saw Pete as much as a father as he saw her as his baby girl.
And over the years Dani got used to helping Pete out on cons, at least when she had to. But at eighteen she is looking forward to heading off to college, making something of herself to hopefully one day save Pete the trouble of a life as a con man, to make him finally go straight and clean.
Of course since Pete is always plotting and planning his next con, he may just throw a wrench in Dani’s plans when he overhears a rich looking guy ranting on the phone to his boss at a gas station one day.
A broken-down Bentley is the kind of car never seen around Pete’s neck of the woods, so he is already plotting to give the guy some smooth-talking slick play of words that will have the guy paying three times over for a simple one-time fix to whatever the car trouble is. But when he overhears the man saying something about a million dollar advertising contract, and needing a fresh faced beautiful young girl for it, Pete Nochio has just the girl in mind.
Striking up a conversation with the man after his phone call, Pete learns that he represents the largest advertising agency in LA, a place he’s never heard of called the Collective Wishes Advertising. And he has been scouring the country looking for a new girl to be spokesmodel for television spots, billboards, and more.
Naturally selling the man on the beauty of his daughter, Dani, is nothing of a challenge for Pete. Dani is certainly beautiful and young, a fresh face worthy of being a star in all kinds of advertising. But when the man points out that Dani might not have the build today’s advertising markets go for, that is when Pete lets the lies layer a bit too high.
He spins a crazy con about how Dani has only recently discovered a unique talent, one that is so unbelievably impressive the man can’t help but be interested. As Pete puts it, Dani can control the size of her chest. As astounding and beyond belief as such a claim is, it does the job and gets Dani and in-person interview at Collective Wishes Advertising.
On the day they arrive, Dani only knowing this is another of Pete’s cons, but figuring it can’t be that bad, the truth happens to slip out on an elevator ride high up in the fancy tower. But Pete assures his daughter that once they see her, once they meet her, her natural beauty will surely be enough to have them forgetting the con that got her in the door.
But the Bentley man’s boss Mr. Kensington is not about to forget the claims he has heard about, and at the very suspicion of Pete Nochio lying just to get an interview he is throwing out all sorts of legal threats. And that is when Dani boldly speaks up, falling right in line with the ridiculous con her father figure Pete asserted.
With everything calmed, maybe there is a way out of this, but that way out seems lost when Dani is told she will be provided a room in the CWA building, a place to stay overnight for three nights, during which she will demonstrate her unnatural talents.
With Pete taken to a nearby hotel, Dani is on her own in a con that clearly has grown out of control. With a million dollar contract on the line, there’s no doubt the Collective Wishes Advertising agency will hold Pete accountable, and her college future can be flushed down the drain before it even starts. Frustrated and sealed into a lavish modern room with plenty of fancy amenities, Dani is just about to give up when the laptop provided to her in the room catches her attention.
This laptop apparently has no internet connection but does have a connection to something calling itself the CWA artificial intelligence and interactive interface. As Dani expresses her frustrations, messages appear on screen offering her answers to any problems she might have. But can a computer AI possibly solve the ultimate problem facing her that first night, to somehow enhance her chest to be a very full C-cup by morning?
According to the AI when she admits the problem, plotting to con her way out of the room when the problem proves unsolvable, Dani is surprised to hear a solution offered instead. According to the CWA AI, it controls the water from a nearby sink and can mix certain compounds into that water to bring about the changes Dani desires.
But there are mild side effects, and Dani doesn’t really have a choice but to try it, with the agreement that the AI will unlock the door and let her out to escape the building if nothing happens.
Of course what if Pete Nochio and Dani aren’t the ones doing the ultimate con at all; what if Collective Wishes Advertising targeted them the entire time? And what if Dani can in fact change the size of her chest each night, causing more and more side effects that forever corrupt the innocence from her?
CWA has a lengthy list of clients, from Trance-tory to S.M.U.T. and even a certain gaming company, and if they are going to satisfy clients like those with their advertising services, it will take a truly talented young woman… one with little hesitation to do what it takes, even if it takes her last bit of innocence.
The Ultimate Con can grow out of control… and as Pete will discover, so can a sweet girl like Dani.
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