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Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t hurting for cash, I made an outstanding living. My home was paid for, I never had to juggle bills, but where I was doing good, Landry was doing great.
“Is this what you meant when you said you wanted to open up my world?”
He shook his head. “Not in the slightest. Why don’t you follow me.” He swallowed the rest of his drink and placed the tumbler on a nearby table, so I did the same.
I followed him up an extravagant spiral staircase to the second floor. We passed a media room and what I assumed was a sitting room and maybe a bedroom. He stopped right in front of a set of doors.
“Behind these doors is my favorite room, and it’s also behind these doors I will share with you a secret I’ve never dared tell another living soul.”
“And you’re going to tell me, a person who is not really your biggest fan, this deep dark secret?”
The side of his mouth curled. “I’ll explain afterward why it had to be you I shared it with, come on.”
The doors slid open and it was truly like stepping into a whole new world.
CHAPTER SIX
At first Ithought I was stepping foot into the largest greenhouse ever, but quickly realized this was some sort of habitat.
“Oh my god, you do have alligators.”
He chuckled and stepped beside me. “No.”
“This is…how many square feet is this?”
“Well, the entire apartment is upwards of twenty thousand square feet so?—”
“Holy shit!”
Landry snorted. “Most of this floor is for all you see here.”
“But why?” I faced him “This is like a habitat, right?”
Landry’s smile started small and grew. “You’re a smart man, Jay.” He shoved his hands in his pockets. “I’d like to tell you a story if you’d allow.”
I shrugged. “If it explains all of this then I’d be very happy to know it.”
“It will.” He gestured forward. “Walk with me.”
The air was thick and sweat began dripping down my back and beaded across my forehead, but I followed Landry, all the while taking in the remarkable lush vegetation.
“This story starts over one hundred and fifty-seven million years ago.”
“Wow.” I chuckled nervously, watching as Landry began unbuttoning his shirt.
“Yes, wow. Some would later refer to it as the Jurassic period.”
“Like dinosaurs?”
He nodded. “Exactly.” He stopped by a small boulder and sat. “Dinosaurs were the rulers of Earth, not for money or anything that Earth stands for now.”
“Yeah, then an asteroid hit and boom, right?”
He huffed and appeared relaxed. “Something like that. But you know what no one ever knew?”
“What?”
“Not all dinosaurs died that day. What if I told you the stories scientists, teachers, people in general told you about dinosaurs wasn’t all true?”
