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THE USUAL WARNINGS:

This is a work of fiction by a twisted mind. If you

are offended by graphic descriptions of natural and/or

unnatural sexual acts, if you are underage, or if this

type of material is illegal where you are, don't read

any further.

This is a fantasy. You will have to loosen your clench

on reality a little when you read it. This is a tale in

which physical acts and human responses are not limited

to, nor necessarily based in, reality. Some of the

actions and responses in this story may be physically

impossible and/or physiologically improbable.

Also, as is the case with most of the stories in this

newsgroup, all the women in this story are beautiful -

gorgeous, even. Gravity has not caused breasts to

droop nor have wrinkles creased unblemished faces. The

men (the leading men, at least) are hung like bulls.

They can get it up and keep it up often and at will.

In this special little fantasyland, there are no STDs,

morals, or unwanted pregnancies. Guilt is a four-

letter word. Most important of all, neither strength

of character, courage of convictions, nor moral belief

stand a chance against even the slightest erotic

stimulus. This can be as benign as an accidental

glimpse of a bared ankle or as stimulating as a

whipping on the genitals.

This story is intended for the salacious entertainment

of consenting adults. Do not try to do any of the

things described in this story. You could injure

yourself or your partner, be arrested, or shot by her

father....

For those who didn't understand the preceding

statements, GO AWAY!

If you are under 18 years of age, GO AWAY! This story
will burn your eyeballs and fry your brain.

If material of a strong sexual nature is prohibited

where you are, GO AWAY!

By continuing to read this story, the reader accepts

all responsibility for any disgust, revulsion, jail

sentence, or pleasure that results from reading it. If

you don't, GO AWAY!

You have been warned!

If you enjoy this story and feel the irresistible urge

to post it on a <free> site, at least give me

(NightShade) credit for it.

So, stick your tongue firmly in your cheek and enjoy

the story! <g>

NightShade











Petunia

by NightShade

September, 2002

Chapter 1

Mrs. Alex Wilson wasn't a stupid woman, but right now

she was having serious doubts about the exact level of

her intelligence. She had been walking down this trash-

strewn deserted street in a rundown part of the city

for more than 20 minutes and the building numbers just

weren't changing very fast. What she had assumed was

only going to be a walk of a block or two had been four

blocks so far and now looked like it would be another

four or five blocks at least before she found the

specific number she was seeking. The longer she

walked, the further she was getting from the relative

safety and security of the main thoroughfare. She

hadn't had much of a chance to start any closer,

however, as the city buses stuck to the main roads.

It was a testament to her determination that she kept

on walking, despite her misgivings and growing

uneasiness. It was 10:00 on a weekday morning and Alex

stuck out like a sore thumb in this seedier industrial

part of town. She was wearing her Sunday best, not

knowing exactly who she was going to meet, if anybody.

Her silky print dress, the bright one with the tiny

little blue and yellow "Forget-Me-Not" flowers on a

white field reflected the bright sunlight. The

reflecting light gave her an angelic glow as she walked

down the gloomy street, though she seemed unaware of

her striking appearance. Her sensible shoes, her

nicest flats, clicked loudly on the concrete, echoing

off the solid stone walls of the buildings that lined

the sidewalks. Twice so far she had turned around to

see if anyone was following her as she heard her own

echo. She had not seen anyone behind her, in fact, she

had seen no one at all, but Alex couldn't shake the

growing feeling she was being watched.

White cloth gloves with a lace ruffle clutched her

white leatherette purse to her chest. It wasn't

clutched to her in fear, but in embarrassment, sort of.

She had decided, at the last minute, to wear her

combination slip and bra with the dress, rather than

her usual sturdier undergarment. She hadn't worn this

slip since her honeymoon, and it really did look better

under the dress. It didn't support her like her other

heavier bras did and the subtle bouncing of her breasts
embarrassed her to no end. Only Harold had ever seen

her breasts bounce around and that was when he had her

do a `hootchie' dance for him one night last month.

Secretly she had been pleased he had gotten so excited

watching her boobies bounce, but their unrestrained

motion still bothered her. This morning her nipples

were clearly visible, too, and that was another reason

she was carrying her purse like a shield. Her other

bras were thick enough to prevent them from showing so

obviously, but what she was wearing now just wasn't up

to the task.

A white pill-box hat with a blue rim set at jaunty

angle completed her outfit. The white hat set off her

red hair nicely, though it wasn't really necessary.

Her lustrous hair was her best feature, she thought,

and she spent hours every day brushing it. It wasn't

Lucile Ball red, that orangey color that looked like it

came from a bottle. It wasn't a dark red or brunette
with red highlights, either, but somewhere in between.

It was definitely red but not the hue typically

associated with a hot temper. Hot sex, maybe, though

that suggestion would have made Alex blush fiercely.

She still wasn't used to all the attention the men in

this new city gave her. Those men lucky enough to have

caught a glimpse of her wouldn't have disagreed that

her hair was a nice feature. But her best one? To a

man they would have said it was her body. When

pressed, however, there would have not been any

agreement on specifically why they thought that. There

wasn't any one part of her body that was more

outstanding than the others, but none of them were

anything to sneeze at. Her breasts were normal sized

or maybe a bit larger and very firm, but nothing

outstanding, like the whoppers on the women had that

Harold was always staring at in his magazines. For the

casual observer, it was hard to tell what their shape

and size truly was, as Alex tended to "dress down" to

de-emphasize that part of her body.

Her ass was well rounded and pert, but again, nothing

to draw attention away from anything else. Those boys
from her high school who had seen her in a bathing suit

would have argued perfection or nearly so, but Alex

avoided tight-fitting clothes so not many people had a

chance to see for themselves. Like a fine wine, Alex

had improved with age.

Her legs were long and shapely, but not exaggerated.

Her waist was thin and her tummy flat, but still, just

about what you would expect. All in all, she was very

well put together, but seemed neither ashamed nor aware

of her attributes.

To her family and the few friends she had, her bright

green eyes captivated your attention, drawing you to

her with dancing amusement. Her intelligence and

curiosity were evident in those expressive eyes. She

always seemed to be laughing inside, too, and when she

wasn't hiding her mouth and nose with her hand, you

could see a persistent smile, sometimes impishly

teasing the corners of her lips. Her face was usually

devoid of makeup, part of the reason the women in her

new neighborhood tended to be jealous of her. She had

a naturally striking beauty without any artificial

coloring or enhancements.

Alisson `Alex' Wilson had been married for only 9

months. Her husband, Harold - not Harry! - was an

accountant for a local Accounting firm and was several

years older than she was. Actually, he wasn't

certified yet, so most of his jobs were more

bookkeeping than accounting, but Alex knew that one day

he would make it. It was just a matter of finishing

his degree -- well, actually, he had to start first,

but that was going to happen as soon as he could get

his next promotion -- and then he could get certified.

Which Harold said was almost automatic. Harold had

such big plans!

She had graduated from the county high school last

June, ranked third in a class of 27 when Harold had

come into her little town. She had dated a little in

high school, but most of the guys there were more like

her brothers or cousins and it didn't feel right.

Besides, with all of the chores everybody had after

school and during the summer, there wasn't much time

for socializing. These days, the survival of their

farms and their families depended on everybody pitching

in and working hard. Alex had not been looking for an

escape from her life, but what with graduation and

falling madly in love with a mysterious older man,

Harold, her life had been turned upside down.

Harold had proposed to her on their third date and they

were married in a small ceremony before the local

Justice of the Peace. Only her mother and two of her

best friends had been able to attend. Everyone else

had had to help with the first harvest, but they sent

their best wishes. Alex wasn't disappointed, but

Harold was surprised at all the produce they received

for wedding gifts. It was as if he had expected money

or something. Folks in these parts had big farms and

were considered millionaires because of the property

values, but money was always tight.

Alex had been a virgin on her wedding night, a fact

that Harold had not expected nor appreciated. Alex had

known what to expect as her mother and aunt had

prepared her, but even then she was disappointed. It

was over so fast and really, she couldn't see now what

all the fuss was about. Harold had got on, grunted,

rolled over and snored. Big deal. She didn't let her

disappointment show, however.

Daddy was thrilled when Harold agreed to help on the

farm. There was sort of a mix-up, because Harold had

thought he would just handle Daddy's money. He wasn't

prepared to handle the pitchfork Daddy handed him.

Harold didn't last an hour.

Harold was also surprised to learn that the farm wasn't

going to be broken up between Alex and her older
brother. Farmers had learned that lesson the hard way

a long time ago. The land stayed intact and in the

family. Alex' brother, away at college getting his Ag

Degree, was getting the farm. Alex wasn't getting

anything and didn't expect it.

Two weeks later Harold had decided to get 'a real job,'

as he put it and moved his new family out of state to a

small apartment in a big city. There was no question

that Alex would move with him, even though she was

needed on the farm, as wives were supposed to support

their husbands. Since the move, Alex had been trying

to make the small two room apartment a home for them,

but time was beginning to weigh heavily on her hands.

She was not used to having so much idle time and Harold

didn't want her to work.

In his newest job, the third new job since they had

moved, Harold traveled across a 5 county area doing the

books and payroll for several small businesses. His

travels kept him away from home four nights a week, two

nights to the north, home on Wednesdays, then two

nights to the south and home for the weekend. In a

way, his schedule was what brought Alex to this part of

town. She was looking for one of businesses Harold

visited on Wednesdays when he was in town.

Blushing even now as she thought about why she was

here, Alex couldn't suppress a soft sigh. She knew she

was not experienced sexually, having had no experience

prior to Harold but watching the animals on the farm.

Watching barnyard copulation was different than

actually doing it herself and she had been a bit

disappointed in the experience. However, she had

noticed that recently, about once a month, Harold would

come home on Wednesday evening and, well, the best way

she could describe it was that he `ravished' her.

He would be more forceful and demanding than usual,

asking her to do new and, for her, imaginative things.

He had even had her touch and stroke him with her hand

one time. She had felt so naughty and tingly doing it

that she wasn't even that disappointed when he rolled

over after he had messed in her hand and started

snoring softly. Alex had lain there for a long time

that night rolling the sticky residue between the tips

of her fingers, reveling in its texture and smell. It

never crossed her mind to taste it.

The anomaly of her new husband's Wednesday night

behavior had been quickly apparent the following

Saturday night. It was back to normal with Harold and

when it came to sex, Harold was clearly uninventive,

unimaginative and uncaring in his love making. Not

that Alex would ever dream of complaining or of

discussing anything so personal with anyone for

comparison -- not ever her mother! -- but even as

inexperienced as Alex was, she could tell that Harold

was, well, pretty dull in the bedroom. Downright

boring, in fact. He was so predictable, that with only

a couple months' experience Alex had noticed the

pattern of the odd Wednesday nights.

Alex had been raised since birth to please her husband

to the point of suppressing her own needs and desires.

She had come to assume that that meant sexually, too,

as it never seemed there was anything for her when he

was pounding away on top of her. She didn't mind when

he was forceful. In fact, that was what had drawn her

to him in the first place. He had been so forceful on

their first date, touching her titties and stroking her

behind. She hadn't been as shocked as she had

pretended and when she went to bed that night, she

found her panties were still soaked.

She had no idea if her mother was ever satisfied by her

father, but hearing them in their bedroom late at night

or on Sunday afternoons hadn't been difficult. Her

mother had, from the sound of it enjoyed it more than

Alex was, but apparently, it wasn't important enough to

discuss with her daughter. Her mother's upbringing had

been terribly old fashioned, she knew, so it was hard

for her to talk about breeding cows, much less human

sexuality.

Even Alex, raised in the '90s, but in a rural area,

often felt at odds with the often prurient topics of

discussion when she watched tv talk shows or when she

talked with the other married women in her apartment

complex. So she kept the tv off most the time and kept

to herself rather than gossiping with the neighborhood

women. It was how she had been raised.

What was important to her was to please Harold. This

was becoming her sole objective and so far, she felt

she was failing. They were still newlyweds and he was

losing interest in her. And she wasn't pregnant yet,

either, a fact that her mother had not failed to

mention. Alex was willing to try anything to please

Harold, and besides, except for the first time when he

frightened her with his aggressiveness and those

strange demands, she found she liked being `ravished.'

It made her feel tingly, almost like it was leading to

something bigger, but never quite got there.

Not being stupid, Alex had soon realized that ravishing

her was clearly out of character for Harold. So she

began keeping track of where Harold went, trying to

discover what was prompting him to act in this

aggressive manner. In the back of her mind was the

unconscious idea to see if she couldn't somehow find a

way to encourage this behavior. It obviously pleased

him, so, in her mind, she was justified in her actions.

That she liked him to be forceful was just an extra

benefit.

In typical female fashion she didn't ask him what she

wanted to know directly. No, that would make him too

suspicious. Instead, she questioned him everyday about

how work went, pretending more interest than she felt

in what he was doing. She wanted to know what happened

in the offices he was in, what he had for lunch, where

he ate, who he talked to, and so on. Two months of sly

investigation had given her a lot of information, but

not the answers she was looking for.

That called for more drastic measures, so Alex began

snooping. Each evening he was home, Harold would

shower immediately after walking in the door, recently,

even before he kissed her. Every night, like

clockwork, he would drop his overnighter for her to re-

pack, drop his coat, pants, shirt, socks and dirty

underwear for her to pick up and headed for the shower.

So each evening, while Harold was in the shower, Alex

would go through his pockets. She had to pick up his

pants anyway. When that failed to yield anything but

lint, she turned to his briefcase.

The second week of snooping she got her first big

break. It was in the bottom of his briefcase that she

found a corner of a matchbook cover. There was a name

"George" scribbled in pencil on the back. And on the

front were the letters "DUNGE." The rest of the

letters were torn off.

That night, Harold had ravished her. Twice. The next

week as she did her snooping, the torn matchbook cover

was gone. It was her only clue. Those five letters,

the name "George" and the place where Harold had said

he had had lunch that day. He said he had eaten lunch

in a dilapidated old diner, a greasy spoon. It was the

kind of place Harold seemed to favor, and it was

located down on Main Street, about a block from the bus

stop where she had just gotten off.

Searching the telephone directory for that part of town

yielded only one business with the letters "DUNGE." in

their name. Only one business that would have a

matchbook cover, too. But Harold had never mentioned

to her that he was doing any work for a nightclub. It

was his complete silence on the subject that convinced

her she was on the right track. Why wouldn't he have

told her about working at The Dungeon unless he was

secretly excited about what he saw while he was working

there? Especially if he was secretly ashamed of being

excited about it, too.

So, undaunted in the midmorning sunshine, Alex walked

on until she reached the nondescript door of the club.

There wasn't even a lighted sign to advertise the

business, just a small bronze plaque above a bell. She

tried the door and found it locked. Chagrined, she

suddenly realized that it was a nightclub and probably

closed during the day. After mentally kicking herself

for missing something so obvious, she almost headed

home.

But first, what the Hell, she pushed the buzzer. She

had come this far and it was a long walk back. With a

solid click, the electronic lock of the door buzzed.

Giddy with her surprising success, she pulled open the

heavy door.

The cool stale air assaulted her senses, confusing

odors of smoke, incense, sweat, beer and something else

captivated her, luring her onward to the second door.

It was a heady, seductive aroma to the na‹ve country

girl. This second door was an elegant door, shining

darkly in the dim interior. It was covered in black

leather with polished brass fittings, very ornate.

There seemed to be a lot more fittings than were

necessary, so Alex assumed they were for show, as well.

Overall, it gave the door a rather medieval look,

somehow befitting the name of the place, The Dungeon,

without being blatant.

A small but powerful halogen light overhead created a

small spot of light on the wall, highlighting an

electronic keypad. Alex had only seen one like it

before and that was on the vault at the local bank back

home. She was impressed and depressed at the same

time. Without an entry code, she had no hope of

getting inside. Then her hopes soared. The cleaning

crew must have been expecting someone to come in later

as the door was propped open with the deadbolt

extended.

She frowned. The extended bolt was marring the perfect

finish of the doorframe. It was a careless act, but it

would explain the buzzing of the lock on the outside

door, if they were trying to get someone inside.

Regardless, she had come this far. Alex dug her

fingernails into the edge of the door and pried it

open, opening the door to a new world

Chapter 2

"Hello?" she called out. "Hello? Is anyone here?"

Her light soprano voice seemed to disappear into the

cavernous space before her. In the dimness she could

make out tables with chairs stacked on top of them,

like they did at the pool hall back home when they put

down fresh sawdust. Over on the left was a bar with a

single glowing neon sign advertising the product of an

upscale local brewery. In the light of that sign she

could see the diamond-like reflections of hundred of

glasses of all shapes and sizes. Row upon row of them,

shining and spotless.

Alex had taken about three steps into the darkened room

when she was stopped short.

"May I help you?"

Even before she whirled around, surprised by the sudden

sound of his deep voice, Alex knew what the owner of

that voice would look like. He would be tall. He

would be young and dark. And he would be handsome.

Very handsome. Turning, she gasped audibly as she

realized she had been both right and wrong in her

prescience.

The man standing before was dark. Wuthering Heights

dark. Heathcliff in the flesh. Wet your panties dark

and handsome. He was young, too, she saw. She

estimated by the lack of grey and the smooth unlined

skin on his face that he was only a couple of years

older than she was, but he could have been older, too.

What took her aback, what surprised her was just how

tall he was. He was well over six feet tall, maybe

even two inches over. Alex had thought Harold was big

at five feet, seven inches, as tall as Daddy. But now,

Alex had to tip her head back to just to look at this

man's face. His beautiful face. His gorgeous face,

looking at her with a curious expression, as if waiting

for an answer..

Alex jerked herself out of her reverie, blushing as she

felt the unfamiliar moistness between her thighs.

"George?" she queried, hopefully.

"I prefer Mr. Smith," he replied.

Alex nodded, trying to place his accent. Or maybe it

was just his pronunciation of the word `mister.' It

had almost sounded like he had said `Master Smith.'

She shook that thought from her mind and, having found

what she assumed was her quarry, launched into a

complete explanation, minus the ravishing, of course,

of how she had come to be here. She didn't notice in

her rush to get out her explanation just how

comfortable he made her feel. Nor did she find it

strange that she was telling him much more about her

life than she had intended. All she knew was that when

she looked in his eyes, she felt like she belonged

here. She wanted to belong here.

The man's name was not George. Or Mr. Smith. His name

was Damon Arquette, though few, if any people in this

country were aware of his real name. He answered to

`Mr. Smith.' He had no idea who George was, nor did he

care beyond the fact that there was no one named George

who worked here. That made him suspicious of the

pretty woman standing in front of him.

Damon was, by nature and by necessity, suspicious. It

was how he had survived in this business and how he had

been as successful as he was. His immediate reaction

upon seeing this pretty young woman standing in his

club was that the Feds had sent in yet another

undercover agent. True, he had been expecting a new

dancer this morning, but this innocent young thing in

front of him was obviously not her. No makeup, no

attitude, no piercings, no leather, no whip marks or

scars. This was definitely not a girl from one of the

other clubs owned by the syndicate. And the dancer he

was expecting, was, by the way, two hours overdue, and

therefore, was not coming. She had probably not

survived her last dance. It wasn't unusual, in this

business.

Damon kept a pleasant smile on his face, nodding

occasionally at the babbling woman, pretending to

listen. He could listen to the tape later, if he had

to learn anything from the story she was telling. She

was good, he had to admit. But was she Narcotics, ATF,

IRS or from some RICO-type committee? He had found the

best way to find out what the bastards were after was

to let them think he was cooperating. But not quite

fully. He had learned the hard way, as several dead

agents could have told you, that if he kept them

thinking that if they only looked a little harder or

let him get a little closer, the evidence they needed

would be found. By digging more than they intended,

they inevitably tipped their hand and let him know what

they were after, and, thus, what to hide. None had

survived.

Damon ran a straight club. On the surface. No drugs,

no minors, no prostitution. That still left a lot of

opportunities to profit from the weaknesses in others.

It was his club, by its very existence, however, that

grated most often on the moral self-image of the

community. Sanctimonious hypocrites. No one wanted to

admit out loud that there was a market for his kind of

club, the kind of club that let men and even some women

explore their darker sides. The self-righteous bitches

that squeezed their legs shut after the honeymoon and

one kid couldn't stand the fact that it was their

husbands' money that kept him in business. And highly

profitable.

Hell, he just provided a service. They provided the

demand. Supply and demand, that was true market forces

at work. Somehow, in the tiny little minds of those

frigid bitches, because he supplied the services they

wouldn't or couldn't, that made him the `bad guy.'

Well, they weren't far off, but it wasn't for any of

those reasons.

The woman, 'Alex' she said her name was, was still

yapping away. He wondered what 'Alex' was short for,

but he suspected it wasn't for brevity. It didn't look

like she was winding up anytime soon, either. Damon

allowed himself an assessing glance of her body, taking

a calculated risk that her eyes would still be held by

his when he looked back. He effected some women that

way, and she seemed to be susceptible.

His eyes drifted down over her chest, noting the

generous swells capped by the obvious protrusions of

her nipples. Her waist was slender, her hips flared

nicely. What he could see of her legs showed a shapely

calf and ankle, even with the flat shoes. Already

Damon was imaging her legs in stiletto heels and the

wonderful effect they would have on the shape of her

legs and buttocks.

Looking back at her green eyes, Damon was surprised to

see the flush of pleased embarrassment that colored her

neck and cheeks. She had noticed him checking her out

and it pleased her. Odd. He gave her his most

disarming smile, as if was only natural for him to

inspect her bodily attributes. He gave no sign of

noticing her subtle shift in posture, as she moved her

cheap purse behind her back and thrust her breasts out

at him, as if in invitation for a greater inspection.

Had it not been for the unconscious blush, that move

would have convinced she was an agent. As it was, he

wasn't sure what he thought she was.

"So. How can I help you, Alex?" he asked her when she

finally wound down her lengthy explanation.

She looked up at him in dismay. She couldn't just come

out and ask this stranger that she needed to know what

made her husband horny and how to turn him on.

"I -- I -- Uh, I guess I want to learn, to know...."

she stumbled badly and ended weakly. This part of the

conversation had gone so much easier when she had had

it in her mind. George, Mr. Smith, was supposed to

know what she needed.

"You want to learn what? How to tend bar? How to

serve drinks?"

Alex shook her head. She felt hot. She knew she was

blushing and it wasn't all from embarrassment. She was

strongly attracted to this man. It must have been the

long walk to get here, she rationalized.

"What? Do you want to learn what we do here?"

The look of relief on her face as she nodded almost

made him laugh. That, however, would have been a

mistake, and Damon didn't make many of those. Not when

it came to women.

Damon pursed his lips, thinking. For the Feds, this

was a novel approach, but he wouldn't put it past them.

Still, the girl's reactions seemed to be genuine. She

looked to be too young to be that good of an actress,

but even that wasn't outside the realm of possibility.

It had been a while since he had had the opportunity to

break in a new girl, and he had never tried to train

one that was this na‹ve. It might be fun. The thought

of having total control over this diminutive redhead

was extremely tempting to him, and that set the hairs

on the back of his neck on end.

"Well, I think I can give you an idea of what goes on

here. But tell me this, Alex: Are you interested in

learning about it or experiencing it for yourself?"

She looked up at him, her green eyes dancing in

excitement. "Is there a difference?" she asked him.

Damon gave a short laugh. Na‹ve and beautiful. This

girl, agent or not, had just delivered herself into his

hands. At least until he could find out who she worked

for. Regardless, he was sure he could turn this into a

profit somehow. It was an opportunity he couldn't

resist.

Taking the girl gently by the arm he led her from the

bar area down a long dark hallway to his office. The

soundproofed door closed behind them and he led Alex

over to a large wooden chair. He turned it so that it

faced a bank of nine tv screens set in the wall.

Normally, these screens were set up for viewing

security and the observation of all key points in the

club. It wasn't unheard of that the occasional

blackmail tape was produced here, as well. But with

the club now empty, this would make a good educational

center until he could get the other room set up with

the special 'training' equipment he had designed. It

hadn't been used for a while, but it wouldn't take

much.

"OK, Alex. If you would please sit here."

Alex sat in the chair. She was obviously nervous but

she was unaccountably excited, too.

"I don't know what your level of experience is and I'm

not going to be able to sit and watch you while you

watch these tapes. In addition, some of the things you

see or hear may disturb you. If they didn't, though,

you wouldn't learn anything, would you?"

Alex shook her head silently. She had been captivated

by this man, his actions, his voice. She was trying

hard to get a hold of her feelings, to control her

heart rate. It felt as if it was fluttering and racing

in her chest. Her breathing was erratic, as well, and

she didn't trust herself to speak. So she dumbly

nodded her assent.

"Not only that, but this is my private office. I have

things in here that I wouldn't want any stranger to

look through, contracts and things, you understand.

So, we're going to play a little game." He produced a

roll of masking tape. "Place your arms on the arms of

the chair if you would, please."

He said it so nicely, she didn't object. She laid her

arms, palms down, on the arms of the chair. She

watched silently as he took a length of the masking

tape and wrapped it around her wrist. Another went

just below her elbow. The other arm was taped in the

same manner. Each loop was just a single band, easily

broken.

She giggled a little when he did her ankles and knees,

taping them to the front legs of the chair, as the tape

tickled her. Damon grinned up at her conspiratorially

and gave her a friendly wink. He could smell her

arousal and it amused him. Her dress, normally below

her knees, had ridden up above them. Her upper legs,

however, were still modestly covered, so she wasn't

threatened by this minor exposure.

Damon pulled off a long strip of tape and centered it

across her chest above her breasts. A second long

strip was centered across her stomach below those

swells. With delicate firmness, Damon slipped the ends

of the two lengths of tape under her arms and taped

them to the back of the chair. He did this without

copping a feel, and Alex was almost disappointed. It

was getting more difficult for him to keep a straight

face, she was so obvious.

"There. That should do it. If at any time you wish to

stop watching the tapes, all you have to do is stand up

and walk out. However, if I come back in and any of

the tapes are broken, you must leave and not come back.

Do you understand? This is, of course, only to protect

myself and my business. Do you have any questions?"

He had spoken with authority, forcefully.

Her heart was racing. She could feel the pulse

pounding in her throat. Alex shook her head. She had

a thousand questions, but couldn't ask them. She could

barely manage a nod.

Damon went to his desk and began setting knobs and

punching buttons. It was a simple multi-media

presentation he was setting up, a mixture of still

photos and video clips. He had some difficulty

filtering out the harder core folders. On the off

chance this girl was genuine, he didn't want to scare

her away by exposing her to too much the first time

out. As it was, he had a feeling she would be shocked

by what she would see.

The center screen came to life. The images that

changed every 5 seconds or so showed a beautiful young
girl smiling at the camera, lying by a pristine

swimming pool. There were a series of poses, gradually

more daring as she removed her bikini top, coyly

covering her naked breasts with her hands. Damon liked

this model because she exuded a joyfulness and

impishness that came across on film.

The next model was posing in a kitchen with an apron

and heels and little else. Again, her playfulness was

obvious and even after the apron had disappeared, there

was nothing of her nudity to see. The pictures were

risqu‚, but not pornographic.

The first video showed the first model dancing. The

music was haunting and there was no playfulness in the

dance. It was, however, sensuous and sexual. The

girl's hands slowly caressed her body as she writhed in

time to the strong beat of the music. Damon watched

the video closely and as she began removing her dress,

he moved to another set of still pictures.

Having set a bookmark in the digital video, Damon

created a loop of the dancing model up to the point of

her shedding the top part of the slinky dress she was

wearing. He put that video loop in one of the other

monitors and let the loop play continuously. The

sensuality of the music added to the 'educational'

value of the total experience.

From the first glimmer of light on the screen, Alex had

sat as if paralyzed, her eyes riveted to the screen.

She had never seen such beautiful women before. It was

obvious to her they enjoyed what they were doing, and

that they were comfortable with removing their clothing

for the camera. Their bodies were perfect, they were

young and beautiful. Why shouldn't they take off their

clothes and let someone else appreciate their beauty?

Her breath caught in her throat when the video started.

The girl moved so gracefully, so easily. She imagined

herself moving like that for Harold and what his

reaction would be and began, within the limits imposed

by the weak tape, to move her body in harmony with the

dancing girl. She noticed the first shoulder strap

slip off of that smooth shoulder and felt a pang of

disappointment when the video was interrupted at that

point. When the dancing appeared in another screen,

she was torn between watching the swaying graceful

movements and the vivid images in the center screen.

After setting up the first couple of loops for the

mesmerized girl, Damon sat back and observed the effect

of the images on the girl. She was flushed and

aroused. The tape strips above and below her breasts
had pulled the fabric of the dress tight against her

undergarments. There was now no doubt that her nipples

were standing erect. Already he could see the track of

sweat as it trickled down between her heaving tits.

Her breathing was erratic, especially when she focused

on the videos of the girls dancing. She was

rhythmically squirming her bottom on the hard seat of

the chair, as if she were clenching and unclenching her

thighs and groin. He worried about the weak tape and

hoped she wouldn't squirm too much and break it. But

she appeared to be in control of herself, for now,

anyway.

Damon smiled, remembering. The first dancer had been

one of his favorite pupils. She had come to him not

much more experienced than Alex and had been an eager

and willing student. It was only later, when she had

acquired a jaded edge that she had betrayed him. She

was gone now. Only her pictures remained.

He quickly set up other picture series, some in

sequence of the photo sessions with one or two pretty

models gradually disrobing and showing tasteful nudity.

For later, he prepared some individual random photos to

be interspersed with the others of a mildly sexual

nature. Mostly these were pictures of two women

together, touching, kissing, fondling each other.

Then, for near the end, some random pictures of a

stronger sexual nature. Sapphic erotic poses, with and

without sexual appliances.

There was an audio track that he pulled up, mostly

groaning and grunting of exuberant sexual acts, but

also some narration of some of the pictures, the models

describing exactly what they were doing to one another.

There were a pair of small speakers directly behind the

girl's head and the volume was set low. She would have

to strain to hear it. He could also talk to her

through a microphone, but he would see how it went. It

was a crude system, but in the short time he had it was

the best he could do. He hoped it was enough.

The random shots were sprinkled throughout the

presentation, hopefully just enough to titillate and

tease, to whet the appetite for more but not enough to

scare the tender young girl away.

She remained enraptured, absorbing the images like a

dry sponge soaking up water. He waited until the first

couple of racy random images had been screened. Seeing

her total concentration on the screens, Damon silently

slipped out a hidden door into the next room where he

could monitor her education unobserved while carefully

reviewing the tape he had made of their initial

meeting. The girl would either leave soon or would be

there for hours.

Alex presented him with an interesting situation. He

hadn't had a sub in a long time and the need for that

special release was building. That she was married was

not a problem to him, but an opportunity. He could

think of several scenarios that would resolve the

situation, all profitable. It depended to a large

degree on the husband. What he needed now was

information. Most important, was she for real or was

she a government agent?

He picked up the telephone and after a moment's

thought, dialed a number. The scrambler device was

activated and he gave his lengthy instructions to the

silent person on the other end of the connection.

Having set the wheels in motion, he took the

opportunity to considered the irresistibility of Alex'

offer. It frightened him more than a little to think

that someone out there might know him well enough to

bait him with this girl. It was the most damning

evidence against her and, if not for the genuineness of

her reactions, would have been immediately fatal for

her. To his mind, however, her reactions couldn't have

been faked. He would have to watch this girl closely.

Chapter 3

Alex hardly remembered the walk back to the bus stop

that evening. It had not seemed possible that she had

sat for seven hours without breaking the tape. Not one

strand had been broken. Mr. Smith had seemed surprised

and, she thought, somehow pleased with her. Alex

couldn't explain the rush of pride and those other

strange emotions that that thought caused her to have.

It was almost sexual.

She had seen so much today! The dresses those girls
wore seemed to be designed to show off more than they

covered up. They were so beautiful, too. And happy.

What she really liked, however, were those other

pictures, the ones that popped up so suddenly and then

disappeared. The ones that showed the women together,

or alone and touching themselves. She had never done

that, or even thought about doing it by herself or with

a girlfriend, but it looked so natural.

Her head was buzzing with new words and ideas. Words

like 'cunt' and 'fuck' and 'pussy'. What was that

thing they used on each other? Oh, yeah, a dildo. It

had been enormous, eight inches long, at least! She

couldn't believe that such a thing existed much less

that it would fit up inside a woman. Sure, Daddy's

stud bull was bigger, but that plastic thing had been

so much bigger than Harold. The women had enjoyed it,

even when one of them wore it strapped around their

waist and fucked the other one. Alex blushed crimson

as that naughty word came effortlessly to her mind.

The best word though, the best thing that she had seen

was cunt-licking. She had completely soiled the back

of her dress with her fluids when that had popped up.

She had never been so wet, so excited, so unfulfilled.

It was like she was striving for something, needing

something, stretching, yearning to get some release,

but couldn't quite reach it.

It was going to be another day before Harold came home.

A very long day and it wasn't time for him to ravish

her. She wished there was some way she could excite

him to make him take her more forcefully.

Her mind on other things, Alex didn't notice the quiet

little man who followed her at a distance from the club

to the bus stop, then copied her transfer at the

downtown station and got off with her at her stop. It

would have been odd for her to notice him, as he made

his living by going unnoticed. Even the neighbors he

talked to over the next three days wouldn't remember

him. If they did, no two would be able to give the

same description of him, should anyone have asked. No

one would ask, however, as nothing had happened. Yet.

Harold was surprised when he came in the door late

Saturday morning. His wife had taken one of his old
undershirts and slit it up the sides almost to her

armpits. When he came out of the shower, she was

standing there wearing that and a big smile. He

supposed she was trying to be sexy, but all he could

see was straw coming out of her ears. Not really, but

her fucking family were just a bunch of ignorant hicks.

But, if she wanted to try to be sexy, he was willing to

let her jump around.

She had found a radio station that had some dancy-type

music and she was swishing around. It was pretty bad

and Harold had a flashback to the stripper he has

fucked last night. Shit, the bazoombas on that bitch

had been fucking huge, and could she shake them. Not

like Alex. Oh, they were jiggling around, but he liked

them to flop around, slapping him in the face. You'd

need a vice to titty-fuck Alex and that was just too

much fucking work. He laughed out loud at his own pun

Still, she seemed to get the hang of it a bit, and

Harold felt that familiar urge. Standing up suddenly,

he ripped the fragment of cloth from her body, leaving

her barefoot and naked. She squealed in pleasure,

smiling up at him, inviting him to do more. He did,

and ten seconds later he, rolled off her and started

snoring.

The buildup and planning for her dance had been

exciting for Alex. More than the actual event, but

still, he had responded to it. They had never fucked

in the morning and never on the living room floor. The

tingling between her legs, though not as intense as

when she had been with Mr. Smith, lingered for a long

time.

Later that evening, Alex had danced for her husband

again, only this time, she stripped off his old shirt
more quickly. It had been ripped that morning and she

had simply tied it together in back. With a hard tug,

it had come off in her hand. She had been so excited,

as had Harold, at her dancing around naked, that she

had touched herself. That seemed to excite him,

especially seeing her pinch and pull on her nipples.

When she did it hard, it took her breath away, a

feeling she didn't understand but loved.

Harold had pitched her over the end of the couch in the

middle of her dance and pumped her for a long time.

Well, a long time for Harold. Ten, fifteen strokes, at

least. Then he grunted, as if he was in pain, and

headed for the bedroom.

As she lay in bed next to her snoring spouse later that

night, Alex allowed her hand to steal down to that

aching place between her thighs. She was still sticky

from Harold's cum, another word she had learned, and

the slippery fluid aided her fumbling fingers. She had

never done this before, had never thought of it until

she had seen those pictures, and just touching it

lightly felt so good. There was another reason for the

dampness, though, and the secret she had discovered

about herself tonight had extended her pleasure far

longer than the pain in her nipples had lasted. It

wasn't Harold's face she was thinking of as she

tenderly massaged her vaginal lips and squeezed her

breasts.

Touching herself as she had seen those other women

touch themselves and each other, Alex felt the tensions

within her body building. If something didn't happen

soon, she would snap. Gently at first, then with

increasing urgency she struggled towards that void in

her mind, her fingers stroking and plunging, torturing

the newly discovered nubbin of sensitive flesh that had

been throbbing non-stop for the past two days. Pushing

it back and forth, pinching it, trapping and rolling it

between her thumb and forefinger.

Not to be ignored, her other hand joined the first,

abandoning her chest, burying first one then two

fingers in her throbbing cunt. Her thumbnail grazed

across the sensitive area around her anus and she

moaned in frustration. It was almost enough, but for

what?

Faster and faster her fingers moved. She was lying on

next to her husband doing what her mother had always

taught her was dirty, naughty and nasty. She didn't

care. She needed this. She needed something.

Alex was never sure if she reached her decision

immediately before she discovered what all the fuss was

about, or immediately after. Either way, whether the

thought of going back to the club and seeing the

mysterious Mr. Smith sent her over the edge, or whether

the thundering experience of her very first orgasm

convinced her to go back, it didn't matter. All that

mattered right then was how she felt. Like she had

never felt.

Later, sitting alone on the tattered sofa in the living

area of the tiny apartment, Alex thought what Mr. Smith

had told her, those delicious words he whispered in her

ear as she had watched those beautiful women. He had

told her what she was supposed to wear the next time.

He had instructed her to practice those moves of the

dance she had watched over and over. She grinned to

herself as she thought how proud he would be that she

had done that. She was even more thrilled that he

wanted her to come back. He said he would teach her.

He said he would train her to please him. Of course,

he had meant to say to please Harold. She was married.

Alex didn't like to admit it, even to herself, but that

had been when she had really soiled her dress. The

thought of pleasing him made her really wet down there.

When she thought of him she tingled. If anything, Alex

was a practical girl. She knew she was attracted to

Mr. Smith, but it was just sexual. She was married to

Harold, and that meant a commitment. They were a team.

She was only trying to please him, her husband.

Harold watched football all day Sunday starting as soon

as they came back from Mass. Uncharacteristically he

splurged on a six-pack on the way home from the

neighborhood church and got a little drunk. Alex was

disappointed. Sunday afternoon was always such a

special time for her parents. During the two weeks

they had lived with her parents, Harold had even

commented, if somewhat crudely, on the amorous sounds

coming from her parent's bedroom on Sunday afternoon.

Nothing she did that day, however, could pry his

interest from the ball games. He didn't even look

twice when she served his beer topless. Or bottomless.

She finally felt silly throwing herself at him like

that, so she just went to bed. He came to bed late and

was gone by the time she got up.

Monday and Tuesday dragged by for Alex. She found if

she spent time practicing for Mr. Smith she would

become so aroused that she would have to touch herself.

If she thought about Harold, she would usually end up

sad and cry uncontrollably. She knew she was avoiding

the truth about her marriage, even with the interest he

had shown in her on Saturday. She was just not

pleasing him as she ought to. It had to be her fault.

Wednesday Harold didn't touch her. In fact, she

smelled a strange perfume on his shirt when she picked

it up off the floor. There was a smudge of red, too.

Despite the hole in her stomach, Alex tried to excite

him. She had fashioned a new outfit, two pieces that

didn't hide hardly anything, but Harold wasn't buying.

Worse, he wouldn't even talk to her.

Not one to be so easily discouraged, Alex decided she

would simply have to learn more from Mr. Smith about

how to be exciting for Harold. Thursday morning,

bright and early she prepared for her next visit to the

club, to the handsome Mr. Smith. She reviewed what he

had told her to wear when she came back. She didn't

have many clothes, but the ones he had requested she

did have. A simple white blouse and a pleated skirt.

They were clean and pressed to a fault. The white

blouse she had was old and a little tight through the

bustline, but it buttoned down the front like he

wanted.

She didn't have to wonder why he had requested those

items of clothing. She didn't have to imagine because

he had told her what he was going to do to her. In

lascivious detail, whispering in her ear, describing

the touching, the stroking, the pain and pleasure he

would give her if she returned. The whisper had stayed

with her all week, teasing her, arousing her in her

dreams, making her toss and turn all night in restless

slumber.

She had been driven to masturbation several more times

since that first time. Her hunger for gratification

was increasing, becoming an obsession. She was

constantly wet between her thighs, her clit proudly and

prominently erect. At times, the slightest pressure on

that sensitive tissue would set her off, the electric

shocks coursing from her groin to her boobs to her

brain, overwhelming her senses.

With giddy schoolgirl excitement she boarded the cross-

town bus to the central terminal, then waited

impatiently for the next departure on the Main Street

bus. After an interminable delay to change a tire, she

was headed for the industrial part of town and the

club. Alex couldn't recall ever being so happy or

excited in her young life. She arrived at the club and

was buzzed in.

The second door was locked this time, but Mr. Smith had

given her a special code. As she punched in the

numbers she blushed. He was teasing her with the code,

making fun of her innocence. She suddenly understood

why he had said it was an easy one to remember. "6-9-6-

9" she entered and the door popped open like magic.

Alex gave a little squeal of delight and went in.

Damon was not displeased to see Alex' code show up on

the security alert. After the reports he had gotten

back about Harold's activities of the last week, he was

a little surprised she had shown up, but not totally.

Damon knew a lot more about Mrs. Alisson Wilson and her

deadbeat husband now. He knew about her family and

that Harold didn't have any living relatives. He knew

Harold was on his last chance at his job, having cost

the company more money than he could hope to repay.

And, if things went as planned, he also knew Harold's

luck was going to turn for the better. For a while,

anyway. He knew Alex had stripped for Harold and that

he had fucked her. He knew she had masturbated

afterwards and then several times after that. He even

knew what brand of beer Harold had had and the name of

the stripper he had screwed on Wednesday. The same one

he screwed every Wednesday before he came home to his

little wife.

In fact, there was very little of significance that

Damon didn't know about these two or their families.

He wondered what Alex would say if she knew there had

been four other Mrs. Wilsons before her, all destitute

now and all glad to be rid of the SOB, even without the

alimony. 'Life was too short to live it with a big

prick with a little dick,' one of them had told his

agent.

"Come in," he answered to the soft knocking at his

office door.

Alex barely opened the door enough to slip through,

then closed it quietly behind her. Following Mr.

Smith's pointing finger that directed her to his side,

she shyly stood, waiting for him.

He started inspecting her from the top down. His first

touch was on her cheek, turning her head to see the

unblemished purity of her face into the glaring light

of his desk lamp. She wore no make up and he was

surprised at her ability to arouse him. Normally he

like painted ladies, tastefully and artfully made up.

It was something about the artificiality that attracted

him, he supposed. This girl, beguiling as she was,

would be devastating when she learned the cosmetic

arts.

Apparently satisfied she was pretty, he continued his

inspection. At least, that's what if felt like to her.

"I see you're wearing the blouse and the skirt I

suggested," he stated.

"Yes." She didn't know what else to say.

"And you're wearing pantyhose and a brassiere?" he

continued.

"Yes." Somehow, it seemed she should be saying

something more.

"And just exactly what was it I suggested you wear

today?" he asked, his voice suddenly menacing.

"A- a blouse that buttoned down the front and a pleated

skirt," Alex responded.

"Did I say anything about pantyhose and a bra?" he

queried her.

"No. But I thought --"

His hand moved so fast she didn't even have time to

flinch. After a couple of seconds she wondered why she

hadn't felt the pain from his slap. Or heard the sound

of it echoing off the walls of the spacious room. Then

she realized that his hand had stopped so that just the

barest touch of his fingertips on her lips halted her

words. Just that barest touch excited her, yet she

wasn't embarrassed.

"I don't' need you to think, my Pet. You are here to

learn, right?"

Not trusting herself to speak, she simply nodded.

"You may take them off."

"Here?" she asked. "But I'd be naked and you'd see

me."

"Does the thought of me seeing you naked bother you,

Alex?"

"No. I mean, Yes. Oh, No. Yes. I don't know!" she

answered.

Grinning at her obvious discomfort, Damon pushed button

on the bottom of his desk and a door in the wall hissed

open. Behind it was a bathroom. "You may change in

there, Alex, if you wish to stay."

Grateful for the privacy, Alex slipped off her heavy

duty bra and her new pantyhose. She had been saving

this pair for a special occasion and now Mr. Smith was

upset with her. It seemed nothing was going right for

her today. Carrying her clothing she stepped back into

the room barefoot. He hadn't said anything about

shoes, either, and she just wanted to be safe.

Damon noticed the shoes in her hands. A very good

sign. He hadn't told her to wear them, but she looked

good barefoot. Primitive and innocent. Unspoiled.

Well, that was about to change.

He was pretty sure this young woman was what she

claimed to be. Either that or the Feds had gotten a

lot better very fast. Still, he liked the challenge

Alex Wilson presented him. She was intelligent and

able to think, even when she thought he was upset with

her. Which he wasn't. In fact, he was extremely

pleased with her at the moment, but she would probably

never know that. He had found that it was best to keep

them guessing. That way he could stay in control. And

control was what it was all about.

He took the clothing she had removed and her shoes and,

folding the clothes neatly, placed them in a drawer in

his desk. The shoes were on the bottom, thoughtfully

placed there so as not to get the other cloths dirty.

Alex watched him handle her undergarments, still warm

from her body heat. He didn't show any of the usual

male phobias for touching the delicate garments, like

her father and Harold did. Like most men she knew, in

fact.

When he stood up and moved to her, her breath caught in

her throat. With only the slightest touch on her

elbow, he guided her over to the chair in front of the

screens.

"Dance for me, my Pet. Show me what you have learned."

This was what Alex had been dreading and hoping for all

at the same time. He had told her, whispering in her

ear, to watch the videos carefully and to practice them

at home. He had told her to stand in front of the

mirror, naked, and to move a sexily as she could, as

she would for him.

Her first awkward attempts in front of the bathroom

mirror had ended in tears. Her arms didn't move right

and her hips wouldn't wiggle that way. Besides, the

jiggling and bouncing of the other parts of her anatomy

aroused her too much and she usually ended up jerking

off on the cold tiles. But the dance for Harold had

been OK. At first, anyway, then he had lost interest.

Now Mr. Smith was waiting. Waiting to see her move.

Waiting for her sexy dance. Closing her eyes she tried

to imagine the girls in the videos. She managed to get

one hand motion sort of, but the other just flopped

around on the end of her arm. It wasn't a bad attempt,

but nothing like what she could see in her mind. Even

with all her practicing she felt clumsy

Suddenly, she felt him behind her, guiding her

movements. A touch here, a tug there and her arms and

hips were moving in a semi-coordinated manner. He was

whispering naughty things in her ear and she was wet

between her thighs.

When he moved away, she continued to dance for several

minutes, gently swaying with her eyes closed. She

could still smell his scent, hear his whisper, feel his

touch. Her heart pounding, she slowed and stopped

dancing, sweat beading up on her skin. When he had her

sit down, he made her lift her skirt up and sit bare-

assed on the hard chair. It was uncomfortable only in

that if felt funny, but she was glad he had suggested

it. She couldn't afford to dry clean her good dress

yet, much less this skirt, too.

This time he didn't use masking tape to tie her to the

chair. He used a light twine, almost a string. He had

her test it first to show her she could break it, but

again reminded her that if any of them broke she would

have to leave and not come back. He was doing this

protect himself and his business, he said.

Alex nodded her agreement, even though she didn't

follow his logic. She was impatient for the pictures

and the videos. She wanted to see more, to learn more.

She wasn't disappointed.

Damon had spent the last week preparing for her

continued education. Last week had been a slapdash

affair, thrown together at a moment's notice. He was

surprised at how effective that presentation apparently

had been, judging from her eagerness today. But from

now on, nothing would be left to chance. Every slide

had been reviewed and the insidiously progressive level

of debauchery was so gradual as to not be noticed. The

videos had been prepared, each step of the intricate

striptease dance routine presented in segments, easy to

learn, easy to practice on her own.

Alex didn't notice the room lights dimming,

accentuating the contrast of the screens. She couldn't

look away now. Her eyes were riveted to the glowing

images on the screen, one after another after another.

They were different this time, hardly in sequence at

all. Beautiful girls, hundreds of them, possibly.

The pictures of them touching each other came earlier

this time. There were more of them, too. And the

costumes they were wearing were more exotic. More

leather and shiny latex. More chrome chains and

buckles. More dildos and penetrations, once or twice

of the anus. It was just a tease. There were corseted

ladies and even a gag or two. Ropes and whips were

introduced towards the end, but just as a playful hint.

The first penis made its appearance in this session,

too. Damon grinned as he heard the audible gasp coming

from his mesmerized pupil as she viewed the model's

proud and hard cock. She would see many erections in

the coming weeks, all of them sizable, particularly

when compared with her husband's equipment. Soon she

would come to think of anything less than ten inches as

small. Harold's four inches would seem totally

inadequate.

The videos played continuously to one side, constantly

coaching her, teaching her. The dancing seemed simpler

this time, the movement clearer, the theme more erotic.

She could see now where one movement would flow into

the next or a different move could be inserted. The

help Mr. Smith had given her earlier had gotten her

started and she imagined in her mind the subtle and

graceful movement of her body. She could be sexy.

The videos now were not just dancing. Couples were in

them and doing things she had never imagined possible.

Nor had Harold suggested them. Exciting things,

arousing her. Soon she wasn't concerned with Harold

anymore, but only with the building need within her

loins.

Helping to boost her confidence and undermine any

resistance she might have later, Damon had carefully

planted hidden messages. It was not just the

progressive nature of the photos and videos, but he

used subliminal messages as well. He had found that

simple commands worked best, mostly to obey her master,

but also commands defining her view of herself in a

subservient role, playing off the theme in an

increasing number of the pictures and videos. He had

picked up on her need to please her man. He was simply

instructing her that she was there to please him, a

message not far from the way she had been raised. It

just needed to be twisted a little. It wasn't hard.

At the end of six hours, Alex sat with glazed eyes,

watching a blank screen. Her mind still re-played the

vivid and exciting images she had seen. The chair was

soaked, even some of it running along her thighs and

dripping onto the floor. She was puzzled later that

she hadn't been more embarrassed with the mess she had

made.

The quiet little man followed her home again, though

this time he stayed a little closer to her. Before, he

had been there to gather information. This time, he

was there to watch out for her, to make sure she got

home unmolested. She was rather vulnerable after these

sessions and would be until she had an identifiable

Master. She never noticed the quiet man, even though

he sat beside her twice.

Chapter 4

The next week was agony for Alex. All night Thursday

and all day Friday and Friday evening she had practiced

the moves she had learned. Over and over, stopping

only to frig herself off, which was happening with

increasing frequency. It was harder for her to make

herself come, too, as if she was building up a

tolerance to the feelings. She was still horny as

Hell, her nipples and clit sticking out even in sleep.

It amused her, sort of, but it was distracting.

Still, she worked hard. For Harold. Shit, who was she

kidding? She was only working this hard because of Mr.

Smith. She would have quit days ago if it was just

Harold.

When Harold came out of the shower Saturday morning, he

found he had no clothes to wear. She had taken them

all and hidden them. Playfully, she sat him in one of

the kitchen table chairs and proceeded to give him what

she had learned was called a 'lap dance.' With her on

top, a first for her, and Harold, too, apparently, she

was more in control and he lasted for several minutes

before spraying his goo all over the inside of her

thighs. As he was still semi-erect, Alex tried to re-

insert him, but Harold pushed her off of him, dumping

her unceremoniously on the floor. Almost. She had

almost managed to come. She was elated. She was on

the right track.

Harold went out early Sunday morning, foregoing the

early Mass they had been attending together at the

neighborhood church. He didn't come back for Sunday

lunch and Alex carefully wrapped the expensive roast

she had prepared. When he came in he threw down some

betting slips and cursed her, as if it were her fault.

He had gone to the race track and had lost heavily.

The rent was due this week and Harold left Monday

morning without leaving any money for that or for

groceries.

Harold was in a piss poor mood when he came home on

Wednesday night. He had been passed over for the new

position. In fact, Jeremy Hobbs, the son-of-a-bitch,

had managed to take away his best clients as well as

snatching the job he had wanted. He was either going

to have to find more clients on his own for this

fucking company or go on part-time. The Goddamn

fucking ass-holes. Then, to top it off, Jeremy fucking

Hobbs had shown up in his favorite bar to celebrate, so

the bartender knew Harold hadn't gotten the new job he

had been bragging about. The jerk couldn't even find

his own bar, but had to take that away from him, too.

Then the fucking bartender had made him settle up his

tab, taking most of his fucking paycheck.

The final straw was his fucking wife, wanting to

fucking do it. Again. Well, he had showed her. He

had slapped the bitch a couple of times to shut her up,

then ripped off her fucking granny panties and thrown

her over the back of the couch. He was so drunk he was

going to last a long time tonight, he knew it.

Her sopping cunt was so loose and sloppy he couldn't

get a good grip. spying her tiny asshole winking up at

him he pulled out and positioned his mighty cudgel at

the virgin entrance. It only took a thrust or two in

her dried orifice and he was finished, leaving her

sobbing on the hardwood floor. Best fuck he'd had out

of her yet. More than the bitch deserved. She hadn't

even made him his fucking dinner on time.

Alex had lain on the floor until she heard Harold

snoring. He had come home two hours late and drunk.

She had tried to keep his dinner warm, but had finally

given up. Excited to finally see him, she had been

playful, hoping to excite him. He had rebuffed her

advances at first, then had suddenly struck out and

slapped her. Hard, across the face.

On the one hand it had hurt, terribly, and the bruises

on her face would show for weeks. Mostly she had been

surprised by his violent reaction. On the other hand,

his roughness had sent a thrill through her, at first.

Even after he hit her and tossed her carelessly over

the couch, it hadn't been that bad. The anal intrusion

had burned a little, but when he had emptied himself in

her bowels she had cum with him. For the first time,

ever, with him. It hurt that it was in anger.

What had hurt more had been the words he had tossed at

her this morning. When he was sober. He didn't love

her. She was a burden to him. He was going to leave

her. In one ugly moment, her beautiful dreams of the

life she thought they were making together were

shattered. There could be no more delusions. There

was also no money on the table. The rent was due

tomorrow.

She lay there weeping after he had gone. It was as if

that part of her life was over. Dead. Just like Aunt

Shirley's and Uncle Roger's marriage. mom said they

only stayed together because no one else would fight

with them. It was a loveless relationship and painful

to watch, especially at Thanksgiving. It filled her

with dread to imagine her life like that.

It never entered her mind not to go to the club today.

To go to Mr. Smith. She would not have understood if

someone would have tried to explain to her that she was

simply replacing one man for another. All she knew was

that she needed to see him. Mr. Smith.

Alex dressed in her blouse and skirt and went to the

club. The reassuring click of the ornate door as it

opened to welcome her almost made her cry. She

belonged here. She had her own code.

Silently she walked down the hall to the office. The

building was empty, but his deep voice called her into

his presence. She closed the door behind her. She was

trembling.

Damon wasn't surprise to see Alex show up. He would

have bet money on it and he hated to lose a bet. He

had a complete report from last night's activities. He

should have. He had arranged the whole thing, except

what happened in their shabby apartment. And thanks to

Harold, that had been predictable, as well.

It didn't surprise him that she was trembling. If he

wanted, he knew could fuck her right now. That wasn't

what he wanted. No, he wanted to control her, totally,

with her consent, then squeeze the life out of her, one

day at time, to use her up. Then toss away the empty

carcass. It wasn't anything personal. It was what

drove him, his internal demon. Some men got off on

cars, or skydiving, or other thrills. He got off on

control. Life and death control.

He pushed the button to the bathroom and Alex went in

without being told and removed her undergarments and

shoes. She brought them back to him and he again took

obvious pleasure in touching her still warm clothing.

She didn't know it, but she was surrendering herself,

her will to him. Even her body heat and the fresh

moisture on her panties. Bit by bit, he would take

control from her.

She stood before him, her head bowed. Touching a

finger to her chin, he tilted her face to the harsh

light from his desk lamp as he had before. This time

her face wasn't perfect. The swelling had gone down a

bit, but the discoloration had started. Without makeup

the bruises were very visible. Harold had backhanded

her across the cheekbone and most of the damage was

from that. Damon was sorry she had been hurt, but it

had been one of the risks he had to take to break her

emotional bond with her husband.

He had learned a lot about this woman. Divorce didn't

seem to be an option in her family. He couldn't find

one dissolved marriage ever, and he had looked a long

way back. Loveless marriages, yes, but no divorces.

So she was used to total and irrevocable commitment in

relationships, exactly the kind of commitment he wanted

from her, but in a slightly different type of

relationship.

What would surprise him would be if Alex asked him for

money today. He knew about the rent being due and that

Harold didn't leave any money. Harold didn't have any

money to leave and was already borrowing at the race

track. Yes, he had learned a lot about this intriguing

woman in the last few weeks. Other women would have

prostituted themselves for the money in a heartbeat,

but he didn't think she would even have considered it.

When she danced for him today, he stood close behind

her and let her feel his excitement. She cried as he

pressed himself against her moving buttocks, but she

kept up the dance. She was doing much better and in

the next couple of weeks would proceed to actually

removing her clothing. Damon found he was looking

forward to that.

He tied her into the chair this time with wide Velco

straps. There was no pretense of her getting loose on

her own. The game was now serious and they both knew

it. When he tightened the last strap around her chest

she looked up and him.

"Thank you," she said simply, a final tear falling down

her cheek.

Nodding understandingly he took a small rubber ball

from his pocket.

"Open your mouth please, Alex."

She did. He pressed the ball behind her teeth. It was

not a tight fit, but it was large enough so that she

would not be in danger of swallowing the ball. It was

also large enough to show the material of the ball

between her teeth and the bright red color leapt out at

him.

"You look pretty tied up and gagged, Alex. Do you

enjoy it as much as I do?" he asked her. He had knelt

down beside her.

Her green eyes were shining brightly as she vigorously

nodded her assent. He leaned over to her and she

tilted her head towards him. He kissed her forehead

and felt the tremors passing through the bound girl.

"If you wish to quit today, simply spit out the ball.

I know you are in pain, but I would really like you to

get through this for me." God, he was good. She

wouldn't leave now if he pulled out her fingernails.

He knew. He'd done that once.

The pictures started, and with no fear of breaking the

bonds, Alex let herself go. She worked her butt on the

chair as much as she could and forced her nipples up

and down against the rough cloth of her blouse,

straining for even the slightest amount of stimulation.

She grunted and groaned, the sweat soon soaking her

blouse and making it transparent.

Damon sat where she could see him, perched on the edge

of the console. Her attention was riveted to the

screens for the most part, but when her breathing would

turn ragged and her body would shudder, she would focus

on him.

She was progressing nicely, he thought.

Alex found the envelope on her kitchen table when she

got home that evening. The rent money was inside and

even a little extra. Harold must have felt guilty,

come back and left if for her. She felt a twinge of

guilt, too, about visiting the club today, but not

enough to change her mind about going back again. And

again.

Harold had made his decision, too. Alex could still

see the evidence of it every time she looked in the

mirror.

Being called into the boss's office on a Friday night

had never been a happy experience for Harold. He

already had his cubicle cleaned out and packed into

boxes, the stolen office supplies hidden at the bottom

of the cartons, before he stepped into the fucking

asshole's office at five minutes before 5:00. He

walked out two minutes later in a daze.

A promotion! A temporary transfer to a sister company

and in another state. But a Goddamn, shit-eating

promotion. Finally, those fucking assholes had

recognized his talent, if not his genius.

Harold celebrated heavily before arriving home that

night. Alex sat quietly at the dinner table waiting

for him to come back out from the bedroom and his

shower, but Harold had fallen asleep cross-wise on the

bed not leaving any room for her. Alex slept on the

couch.

The next two days were a whirlwind of packing and

buying new clothes for Harold on credit. Credit they

didn't have, as near as Alex could tell. Harold kept

referring to a new promotion or something, so Alex

finally quit asking. She didn't quit worrying. Sunday

night Harold packed all his belongings into the back of

his Chevy and left for his temporary assignment. He

would be gone a month, then he would be back for a

brief meeting, then he would be gone another month.

He never made arrangements to send her any money.

Worse, he seemed to have forgotten about their

anniversary coming up. Their first.

In the silence of their now half-empty apartment, the

only sounds were those of tears falling onto the

cracked linoleum floor. Alex wept bitterly at the loss

of her hopes and her dreams. She had been abandoned.

But she was not alone nor was she defeated.

Tuesday morning, Alex dried her tears and never looked

back. Harold was gone. She had to survive. She

needed money. She needed a job.

In a very organized and systematic fashion Alex began

to canvas the local merchants. First in the immediate

neighborhood, then in increasingly greater distances

from her apartment. Amazingly, she found nothing. She

would probably have not been so amazed if she had

noticed the quiet little man who followed her into each

store and had a few quiet words with the management.

No one called her with a job.

Two weeks later, on a Friday afternoon, exhausted from

her fruitless job search, she discovered an envelope

shoved under the door of her apartment on her return.

There was no postage on the envelope and no return

address. Just her name. Inside was a wad of cash with

a note from a stranger to the effect that this was

Harold's per diem money that he had forgotten to pick

up. It was enough to pay the rent for several months

and to pay off all the credit charges Harold had run

up. First, she cried. The she went out and

immediately paid off all the stores where they owed

money. She felt no need to tell Harold about the

money.

Back in her apartment, freed from the immediate

necessity to earn money, Alex realized she had not gone

to the club for a long time. She had not seen Mr.

Smith this week or last and she felt a pang of regret.

More than that. She felt a pang lower down, between

her thighs. With a sudden start, it dawned on her that

thinking of the mysterious Mr. Smith made her horny and

happy! She laughed for the first time in two weeks.

It felt good. Better, she decided to go to the club.

She needed to see him. Desperately.

Without stopping to plan what she was going to do, she

grabbed her coat and headed for the bus stop. She

caught the bus, transferred downtown and in the

gathering gloom of twilight arrived at the deserted

doorway of the club.

Damon had set the security system to notify him

whenever Alex' code was entered. The pager went off

just as he was finishing a telephone call. He was very

satisfied with the way things were working out, and

Alex' arrival couldn't have been timed more perfectly.

She entered his office at his brusque command.

"I missed you this last two weeks, Alex," he stated.

"Were you too busy for me?"

"Yes. Uhm, no."

"Alex?"

"Yes?"

"Say 'Sir.' You should always address me as 'Sir.' Do

you understand?"

She looked at him, her eyes wide, brimming with tears.

"Yes. Uh, Sir."

"Does that upset you, Alex?"

"Oh, no, Sir!"

"Then why the tears?"

"I'm so happy, Sir. And a little afraid, too, I guess.

Sir."

"That's good, my Pet. You should always be a little

afraid," he said with a sad smile. He looked at her

clothing. She had not thought about coming here for a

session, only to be with him, but she was still wearing

the blouse and skirt. And undergarments.

"You may change in the bathroom, Alex," he said

dismissively. He pressed the button under his desk and

the door hissed open.

"But --," she began, then stopped as he looked up at

her sharply, daring her to continue. She headed for

the bathroom.

"And Alex?"

She turned just at the door. "Yes, Sir?"

"You may leave your blouse unbuttoned when you return."

He turned to some papers on his desk, leaving the wide-

eyed girl to make her own decision.

It was several minutes later when a trembling figure

stood beside his desk, her head down. She was

frightened, but there were no tears. Damon finished

reading the memo, signed the appropriate line on a

contract, signed off his computer and cleaned up his

desk, putting all the sensitive material in a locked

drawer. Standing, he perched himself on one butt cheek

on the edge of his desk in front of the silent girl.

Silently he took the clothing and shoes from her hands

and went through the ritual they had established in the

sessions prior. The neatly folded garments were put

away in the drawer. The silence weighed heavily in the

room.

"I missed you, Alex."

"Yather." Her head was so far down she was mumbling.

Damon took a finger and placed it under her chin and

raised it up until her eyes met his. She hadn't

flinched when he touched her. Her bruises were faded

now, a memory. She didn't look away now.

"What did you say?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Were you busy?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Too busy to see me?" He let a note of exasperation

creep into his voice. Actually, he was very pleased

she had not rushed to him, begging for money or a job.

And he enjoyed making her squirm. She did it so

nicely.

"I was looking for work, Sir."

"Oh." He was silent for several seconds, as if he was

thinking. "Did you find a job?"

"No, Sir."

"So, is that why you're here? You need work? Money?"

He threw the accusation at her, knowing it was false.

A horrified look crossed Alex' face. "Oh, NO, Sir!"

She looked at him, pleading with her eyes for him to

understand that that was never her intention. Her near

nudity was forgotten. "I should go, Sir," she said

finally.

He let her get almost to the door.

"How will you get home?"

"Sir?" she asked, turning back to him.

"The last bus left ten minutes ago. There won't be

another one until 5:30 tomorrow morning."

It didn't surprise her that he knew she took the bus.

She just stood there, defeated. It wasn't too far to

walk. She had grown up in the country and had walked

farther than that many times. But not through a

dangerous dark city. Not a pretty young girl alone.

"Should I call you a taxi, Alex?" His hand was on the

telephone.

"No, Sir. I can't afford a taxi. Sir." She didn't

even think of asking him for cab fare. Damon smiled.

"Well, then. I guess I could take you home after work

if you like. You did want to see what we did here,

right?" Tonight a special group had reserved the club.

It would be an eye-opener for the innocent girl as well

as establish some other precedents. "What do you say

to that?"

Alex' eyes were wide with excitement. Her feelings

were reeling from the emotional whiplash Mr. Smith had

just put her through, but right now she was elated.

"Oh, yes, Sir. That would be wonderful. Sir."

"Well, then. Let's get you ready, shall we?" He

pulled the questioning girl into the bathroom. With

practiced skill he gathered her luxurious hair into

several bundles behind her head. In short order, he

had plaited her hair into an attractive braid that

fell, perfectly centered down the back of her neck.

After the first moments of uncertainty, Alex relaxed as

she felt his knowing hands working on her hair. More

than anything that had happened between them before,

this quiet moment cemented her trust in this strange

and wonderful man. This man who was perfectly

comfortable with women's undergarments and had the

skill of a hairdresser. Yet there was no doubt at all

in Alex' mind that this man was all man, especially if

that was what she thought it was pressing into her

back.

She shifted slightly, edging back into Mr. Smith and

watched him smile briefly at her in the mirror.

Blushing, she saw she had been caught. But she didn't

pull away. Neither did he.

"Tonight is a special party," he said as he finished

her hair. "There will be some women there, but it

wouldn't be safe for you to be out there on your own.

Sometimes the people at these parties get a little

carried away and it gets a little rough. So, what

we'll do is make sure that everyone knows you are

spoken for, OK?"

Alex nodded. She hadn't moved from her spot in front

of him, her back was pressed against his abdomen. She

could feel his swelling. It took her breath away. Mr.

Smith let her stand there until she began to grind her

hips against his groin. He pulled back just a bit and

she let out an unintended moan.

Taking both her shoulders in his strong hands he guided

her back into the office. From a drawer in his desk he

took several items and laid them out for her

inspections. She tentatively reached out her hand and

traced their gleaming surfaces with the tips of her

fingers.

"For me, Sir?" she asked him.

"Yes. Do they frighten you?"

"Will you be with me while I am wearing them, Sir?"

"Yes."

"It will please you for me to wear them, Sir?"

"Yes."

"Then I will wear them. But, Sir?

"Yes?"

"They do frighten me. Sir."

Damon laughed a deep booming laugh. He enjoyed this

woman. She surprised him and pleased him. That was

rare. He saw her looking up at him, a worried look on

her face. "Don't be alarmed, my Pet. You will never

leave my side tonight. You will be perfectly safe."

Taking the heavy steel handcuffs off the desk he

stepped behind Alex. She gave him her hands without

hesitation.

"Are they too tight?" he asked.

Alex stood there, working her shoulders and arms,

testing the strength of her bonds. She wasn't

struggling, trying to escape, but simply pulling her

arms this way and that. Her face was a study in

concentration. He watched her for a while.

"Alex? Are they too tight?"

The expression on her face was priceless as she looked

up at him.

"I - uh, I'm - " She started, then stopped. She just

looked perplexed.

"Are they too tight? Do they hurt?" Damon was

beginning to get worried and stepped behind her to

check.

"No, Sir," she answered. "They don't hurt. But I

don't know if they are too tight. I'm sorry, Sir, but

I have never worn them before. I don't know how they

are supposed to fit. But, no, they don't hurt."

He gave a short guffaw, followed by a longer laugh. He

laughed so hard that he had to sit down in his chair.

"Did I say something wrong, Sir?"

Drying his eyes with his fingers he looked up at her

and gave her a warm smile. "No, my Pet. But thank you

for reminding me just how much I have to take care of

you. I will try to explain everything that happens

tonight so that you will know what is going on. Some

things that I take for granted will seem very strange

to you. I don't want you to be frightened."

He picked up a thick collar. Stepping behind her he

fastened it snuggly behind her neck. It locked on and

he pocketed the key. He attached a chrome leash to the

D-ring in the front and let it hang down between her

breasts. The cold metal raised goose bumps on the bare

flesh.

That left one piece of equipment left on the table. He

picked it up and held it for her to see.

"Do you know what this is?"

She looked at it closely. "Do you whip me with it?"

He grinned. "No. But if you forget to call me 'Sir'

again, I will whip you, Alex."

"Yes, Sir. No, Sir. I don't know what it is for."

He stood up and held it up to her mouth. "The ball

goes in your mouth. The straps are tied behind your

head to keep it in. At some point tonight you will

wear it."

"Yes, Sir." Alex continued to look at the ballgag.

"It is very large, Sir. Why must I wear it? Have I

displeased you, Sir?"

Damon smiled down at his nubile pupil affectionately.

"You will wear it because it pleases me to see you

wearing it. You are beautiful when you are bound and

gagged, remember? Do you need another reason?"

"Oh, no, Sir! Would you like me to wear it now?

Please, Sir?"

"No, not now. Don't be too eager, my Pet. There will

be a certain discomfort involved. It is a big ball."

He slipped the ballgag into his jacket pocket.

He stood looking at her. She met his gaze, not

wavering from his eyes even as his hands reached

towards her and opened her unbuttoned blouse. The

spread halves of the shirt exposed her naked breasts to

his gaze for the first time. Tearing his eyes from her

sparkling green ones he allowed his dark ones to feast

on the unblemished vista. Alex closed her eyes, her

breathing rapid and shallow.

She moaned and shook with a small climax as his thumbs

lightly caressed her twin nipples.

"Perfect," he said to no one in particular.

Then, with just that simple caress, he took the tails

of her shirt and knotted them firmly under her tits.

The cut of her shirt with her arms bound behind her and

the adequate size and firmness of her breasts made the

opening gap widely, leaving ready visual access to her

charms.

He stood and studied her for a moment.

"I like it," he said. "It's a good look for you."

"You'll get a good look, too, Sir, as will everyone

else," she quipped back. She had to look down her nose

to see what everyone else would be able to see.

"Does that bother you, Alex?"

"No, Sir. The question is, Does it bother you, Sir?"

He laughed happily this time at her remark and, in

answer, picked up her leash and slipped it over his

wrist.

With a gentle tug he led her out into the club.

Chapter 5

The first person Alex saw when they entered the club

was a huge man standing by the door. True, there were

only the various staff people in the bar areas getting

ready for the evening shift, but this man would have

stood out in a crowded room. He almost seven feet tall

and stood solidly on his feet as if he was a part of

the building, yet Alex got the impression he was

capable of explosive and lethal speed. As they got

closer to him, she could see the reflections of the

various spotlights in the smooth and shiny skin that

covered his head. His upper arms were the size of

trees, thicker than Alex' thighs. He seemed to be

naked, but she realized that his skin color was so

black that in the dim light of the bar, she could only

make out the transition between the black leather

clothing he was wearing and his bare skin when she was

almost standing right next to him. He was wearing a

black leather vest and black leather pants that seemed

to be painted on his lower extremities. His broad

chest was smooth, hairless and gleaming in the dim

light.

Mr. Smith was leading her directly toward this mountain

of Nubian muscle. The man solemnly observed their

progress across the club, his eyes flicking between the

two of them and the various activities around the club.

There was a hands-free communications device in his ear

and he spoke softly in to the mike as they approached.

Alex' eyes widened continuously as they neared, her

head tilting further and further back to be able to

look into his handsome face.

"Alvin, I'd like to introduce Alex to you. She will be

with me this evening. I want you to keep an eye out

for her. Alex, Alvin," said Mr. Smith, completing the

brief introduction.

"Hello, Alvin," said Alex, grinning up at the face

towering above her.

"Hello," came a deep growl in return. He flashed her

an ear-to-ear grin, his white teeth dazzling against

his dark skin.

Alex gave a spontaneous and hearty laugh when she saw

his smile. Alvin had a gleaming gold front tooth. A

sudden flash of brilliant rainbow colors indicated that

he had a diamond set in the gold. It stuck her that

this huge bouncer had done that as a joke, something so

clich‚ as to be beyond stereotypical. His laughing

eyes caught her own and a look of silent understanding

passed between them. They had said three words to each

other, yet there was a connection.

Mr. Smith frowned at her, stifling her sudden outburst,

and began going over the myriad details necessary to

run a successful bar. It was soon obvious to Alex that

Alvin was more than a bouncer who watched the door. He

controlled the whole club for Mr. Smith. The

professional respect they had for each was obvious.

Alex didn't understand very much of what they were

saying, but she could follow the tenor of the

conversation. She thought it was interesting that they

respected each other, but didn't seem to like each

other very much.

As they parted, Alex looked up at him and said, "It was

nice to meet you, Alvin."

"The pleasure was mine, Miss Alex," rumbled from the

smiling man.

Turning to follow Mr. Smith, who had tugged gently on

her leash to remind her of it, she waved 'Good-bye'

with her hands that were cuffed behind her back. A

quick smile over shoulder and she followed Mr. Smith

into the bowels of the club. She didn't see the smile

fade on Alvin's face to be replaced by a look of

thoughtful refection. It was a dangerous look on

someone as potentially menacing as Alvin was. The

first of the guests began arriving and the big man
turned to his tasks.

Mr. Smith led her around the club. It was bigger than

she had imagined at first, with several areas that

could be closed off for smaller private affairs.

Tonight, they were all open, each area with its own bar

and staff. In the main part of the bar was a dance

floor. The edge of a stage was visible behind a heavy

black curtain, closed for the evening. A four-foot

wide section in the center could be extended out into

the crowd area creating a short runway. A dancer at

the end of the extended runway would be in the center

of the bar area, surrounded by the crowd.

There were smaller stages in most of the other sections

of the club and odd looking equipment being assembled

on them. Mr. Smith explained what each piece of

equipment did and demonstrated some of them for her.

She put her head in the neck hole of a set of stocks

and he lowered the top bar. She was totally restrained

by the device and a thrilling shiver ran through her

body.

Next Mr. Smith showed her a simple hook hanging from

the ceiling. He slipped the hook over the short link

of her handcuffs and pressed a button on the floor with

his foot. The hook rose up slowly, forcing her arms up

and her body down. He left her dancing on her bare

feet, walking around her wiggling form. She followed

him with her eyes, watching his face as he looked at

her in this awkward position. His obvious satisfaction

with her sent yet another thrill through her body.

Mr. Smith uncuffed her and introduced her to the St.

Andrew's cross, the Swedish horse and several other

mind-boggling devices of restraint. Mr. Smith strapped

her onto a large wheel and spun her around a couple of

times. They laughed as her boobs fell out of her wide

open blouse that had come untied as she whirled around.

Although she was not handcuffed when he released her

from the wheel, she didn't try to cover herself. Mr.

Smith replaced her handcuffs first, then re-tied the

blouse. Each new device sent shivers of excitement

through Alex until she was literally quivering. Had

Mr. Smith touched her in the slightest, she knew she

would have swooned. After screaming in a tremendous

sexual climax.

There were other devices, not so much for restraining,

but for inflicting pain. Mr. Smith seemed to take

particular pleasure in detailing the effects of each of

these implements. There were large needles he said

were used not only for piercing holes for jewelry, but

also for inserting into various parts of the body, such

as breasts, cheeks, lips (both upper and lower), the

penis and large muscles. There was a generous supply

of disinfectant, and the needles were all gleaming and

new.

Another section had a sturdy wooden device and a

brazier that was glowing with red hot coals. Mr. Smith

leaned Alex backwards over the wooden bars and used two

thick leather straps across her stomach and chest to

hold her down tight. Two more straps at her widely

spread feet completed her restraint. He explained that

this was where slaves were branded, where they received

their Master's marks. It wasn't allowed to disfigure

the slave, at least, here in the club. He told her

that several slaves had consented to be marked tonight.

With her still strapped to the wooden trellis, he stood

there looking at her silently, the only noise in the

room the white-hot hiss of the coals. Alex' breath

caught in her throat and a series of shudders convulsed

through her. A low moan escaped her throat. Mr.

Smith, watching her, smiled.

"Did you like Alvin, my Pet?" he asked her innocently.

Even in the aroused state she was in, Alex knew a

loaded question when she heard one. She decided the

only answer was the truth.

"Yes, Sir. He is very big."

"Why did you laugh?"

He didn't need to tell her what he was referring to.

He had noticed the instant bond between them and it had

bothered him. She stuck with the truth.

"He has a gold tooth with a diamond. It makes him look

evil. But he's not. Sir"

Damon had moved up between her wide spread legs. She

was breathing hard through her nose, her eyes wide. He

ran a finger up under her skirt and touched her thick
patch of pubic hair.

"You got all that, did you? Well, I suppose woman's

intuition can be wrong on occasion. I happen to know

Alvin is a very bad man. You will do everything he

tells you, do you understand? Or you could be hurt
very badly."

"Yes, Sir."

He let his finger slip down along her moist furrow.

"You're married, aren't you Alex?" he asked, suddenly

changing the subject.

She groaned from his touch. She squirmed in the

bondage, trying to make more contact with his roaming

finger.

"Yyyyeesss, Ssssir," she hissed.

"So I suppose you're not a virgin here anymore, right?"

His finger slipped in to the second knuckle and she

shrieked and shuddered in a hard and fast orgasm.

"N-n-nnnno, Sir ---- OH God!" she shouted, as his slick

finger slid down and probed her nether hole.

"What about here, Alex?"

"N-n-no, Sir. Oh, please don't take it out, Sir."

"So your husband managed to take you ass, yes?"

"Ooooohhh, Yes, Sir. Once. Only once. Oh, more,

please. Sir!"

"And you liked it when he butt-fucked you?"

"Uhhhhhh. No, Sir. It hurt me a lot. Sir."

"I think you did like it, Pet. Tell me, did you cum
when he was in your ass?"

Lost in the wonderful feelings of his huge finger in

her ass, and shamed beyond answering as she remembered

that fateful day, she was silent.

"Alex?" Damon jammed the finger completely up inside

her ass. She grunted, but didn't cry out.

"Yyess, Sir. I came. Sir.

"So, you have no more virginities to give to me,

right?"

"Yes, Sir. I mean, No, Sir."

"Well, which is it?"

"My mouth, Sir. He never used my mouth."

Damon's eyebrows rose in sudden interest. Now this was

news.

"But, surely, your boyfriends in high school...?"

"No, Sir. Never, Sir."

Pulling his finger from her rectum, he held it up to

her mouth. Without hesitation she opened her mouth and

sucked in his stinking finger, cleaning her fluids and

her feces from his finger.

"Well, then. I want your mouth first, Alex," he said

quietly, more to himself than to her.

He took the ballgag out of his pocket and held it up to

her mouth. She opened it and accepted the large ball.

It forced her mouth wide open and then kept it there.

He tied the two ends behind her neck. Screaming into

the gag, she orgasmed.

Alex didn't remember much of the rest of the tour. She

walked obediently behind him on her leash through the

growing crowd as he continued to demonstrate to her

some of the implements of torture and pain throughout

the rest of the extensive labyrinth. Each device that

was strapped on her head, fitted to her bared breasts,

or otherwise demonstrated simply increased the

throbbing need she was feeling. Being this close to

this powerful man, being teased by the handcuffs and

the leash and teased even more by the carefully

orchestrated demonstrations was like torturing a

starving man with the odor of fresh-baked bread.

Everything she saw, everything Mr. Smith did aroused

her as she had never been aroused before. At some

point she stopped being aware of anything but her body

and its sexual needs.

As the rooms started filling up with more and more

people, Damon withdrew to a quiet section of the club.

From here he could observe the crowd of outlandishly

dressed people. Some he recognized as regulars. Some

were even serious about the bondage scene and were

known to him not only by name and sight, but by their

level of skill. These were all Doms. He didn't waste

his time getting to know Subs. They didn't last long

enough, as a general rule.

Those who knew him smiled knowingly and nodded to him

as they saw Alex kneeling next to him. They recognized

the hyper-aroused state she was in, a novice

overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and feelings of the

scene. No one who saw the state she was in would

approach him, not if they wanted to live. They knew

the sensitive nature of training a new sub, and this

one was obviously brand new. They also knew the club

owner as vicious and ruthless when crossed. His hand

caressing the neck of this sub was an obvious sign of

his possession of the sub. Discretion being the better

part of valor, they stayed away tonight.

One of the bar staff approached his table and quietly

whispered in Damon's ear. A telephone call for him.

Urgent. He had left instructions.

Cursing to himself, Damon urged the girl to her feet.

She had been rocking back and forth, shudders passing

through her body continuously. She wouldn't notice his

short absence, and he could park her over in the

holding area where Alvin could keep an eye on her.

Alex stumbled after him on rubbery legs. It felt good

to get up off her knees, but the fluids running from

her core were now dripping down below the level of her

skirt. Mr. Smith took her over to a better lighted

area near the entrance. At eye-level in the wall there

were several hooks spaced about every three feet where

Doms could safely park their Subs and get a drink or go

to the restrooms or whatever. It was a safe area, well

lit and everyone knew that if it wasn't yours you

didn't take it.

He looped her leash through one of them of the hooks.

He allowed enough slack for her to get back on her

knees. He whispered in her ear that he would be right

back and that Alvin would watch her until he returned.

He wasn't sure she had understood him. He spoke to

Alvin, who had seen him coming, and hurried to his

office.

Alvin saw the state Alex was in and smiled. It wasn't

a sad or sadistic smile, but one of recognition of what

she was feeling. He had seen it before. As he watched

her kneeing and rocking, he moved the other slaves

parked there away from her. It was a sign of his

respect and admiration of her ability to feel achieve

this level of arousal and he didn't want anything to

infringe upon her experience.

The telephone call lasted longer than expected and soon

Alex was kneeling alone in the holding pen. She was

still oblivious to most of what was going on around

her.

A sudden beep in the earpiece Alvin was wearing,

followed by a terse message alerted him to an over-

riding danger to the club and its patrons. A slave had

broken free in the marking room and accidentally kicked

over the brazier with the hot coals. Without a second

thought, Alvin was racing towards the area, a fire

extinguisher and First Aid kit in his mammoth hands.

The crisis over, he returned to his post a few minutes

later. No damage to the club and only a few minor

burns. The bartender was handing out free drinks for

the next ten minutes. Everything should be fine.

A glance at the telephone showed the line for the

boss's office was still lit. He was still on that

important call. Alvin turned to check on the holding

pen and froze. It was empty.

Miss Alex was gone!

Chapter 6

Lewis was having a bad day. Hell, he was having a bad

life. First that bitch had threatened him with Assault

and Battery charges unless he paid for her medical

care. Fucking bitch! It wasn't his fault. Sure he

had knocked her around a little -- she liked it rough -

- they all did, but it was her fucking jaw that got

broke, not his. The fractures on her arms where he had

dropped the barbells on her weren't that serious,

either. Now the fucking bitch wanted fucking nurses to

fucking care for her for the next fucking three months

until the fucking casts came off. Shit, she only had

to fucking drink through a fucking straw. How much

fucking trouble could that be?

Yesterday the fucking bank had repossessed his Beemer,

his Baby. He'd only missed five payments. How was he

supposed to pay for the car when that damn bitch

demanded so much of his money? He had to fucking pay

the bitch first, didn't they understand? That fucking

'three strikes' law had been implemented in this

fucking state and he was already down for two A&B

strikes. So now he was driving this fucking lame Ford

piece of shit. Like this was going to help him get

fucking laid tonight.

Then he had had to go clear across fucking town to get

his STD certification so he could get into the club

tonight. Like fucking Hell they were discrete. He had

had to almost fucking tear down the fucking window to

get at that fucking smirking bitch. She wouldn't give

him his card and said he had to wait his turn. Well,

he showed her. Fucking bitch would think twice before

making him wait again. Just wait until she tried to

drive on three flat tires. Fucking bitch.

Lewis popped the cap off of the vial of pills he kept

hidden under the seat of his car. He'd managed to at

least salvage that before the fucking RePo asshole had

driven off with his Baby. He shook two different

colored pills into the palm of his hand, then

reconsidered and shook out two more. He wanted to fly

tonight.

He swallowed the pills as he approached the desolate

door. He couldn't take them too soon, or that fucking

black bastard wouldn't let him in the club. No drugs,

my ass. There were always ways around the fucking

rules.

He started to sweat when no one answered the buzzer to

let him in. That black asshole was probably off

fucking a waitress instead of doing his job watching

the door. In another couple of minutes the shit would

kick in and his pupils would fixate, giving away his

drugged condition.

Suddenly the outside door to the club burst open and

two leather-clad men came out carrying a limp female

figure between them. Lucky bastards. Lewis briefly

considered following them and possibly getting their

leftovers, but almost immediately decided to go in. He

managed to get in the first door and then the second

before it closed. Shit, if he'd have known it was

going to be that easy, he could have saved himself the

two grand on the STD card. Fucking waste of money,

anyway.

The big fucker was nowhere to be seen. Lewis couldn't

believe his luck. Not only was the big guy not around,

there was a fresh piece of meat just sitting there.

Without a second thought, Lewis pulled a blindfold from

his back pocket. He slipped it over the young girl's

eyes and grabbed the leash tied to the hook over her

head. Some bastard had thoughtfully gagged her

already.

"Come on. Your Master wants you. I'll take you to

him," he whispered in her ear.

Urging the compliant bitch to her feet, Lewis led her

down the steps and into the dark interior of the club.

The speed was kicking in and his thoughts were racing.

As he pushed her ahead of him into the crowed and dark

labyrinth of rooms, he studied his prey. young and

pretty. Fresh, too, just the way he liked them. Nice

white skin that would show bruises for weeks, reminding

the bitch and all who saw her who the boss was.

He reached around her and opened her blouse, pulling it

back off her shoulders and hanging from her cuffed

hands behind her. It exposed her bra-less tits to the

crowd. Not as much flesh as he liked, but they

responded well. He squeezed them hard, then twisted

the prominent nipples. The stupid bitch screamed

behind her gag and dropped to her knees. Right, as if

anyone could hear her in this crowd. He jerked the

leash and got her back on her feet.

He turned into an empty area and looked around.

Perfect. He led the bitch over to the hanging hook and

slipped it though her handcuffs.

"He'll be here soon. He wanted me to get you ready for

him," he whispered in her ear.

The cunt nodded eagerly. God, what a stupid bitch!

He kneeled down beside her and grabbed one of her bare

ankles with his hand. There were shackles bolted to

the floor and he snapped one around her ankles. The

other shackle was a stretch for the small girl. The

last slave here had apparently been a male. He didn't

have time to reset them. Her legs were spread

painfully wide. Her groaning complaints were making

him hard. But it would take a lot more pain than that

before he could get stiff enough to give her what she

wanted. What all the fucking bitches wanted. Take,

take, take. That's all they did.

"He said you were a bad little bitch. He wanted me to

warm you up for him," he taunted her, mauling her

sensitive tits hanging down below her.

The panting girl groaned and shuddered. Lewis was

disgusted. She was enjoying this too much.

Lewis stepped on the pedal and raised her hands.

Higher and higher. She was screaming into the gag now,

the pain intense.

"What, bitch, did you think your fucking Master was

really coming?" he shouted at her now. He wanted her

to know there was no help coming. He wanted her

terrified. He wanted her to piss on the floor. He

gave a really crazed laugh. He sounded, and probably

was demented.

It started to draw a crowd. This jaded group could

sense something special was about to happen, something

unstaged, unplanned, maybe even non-consensual. There

was an electricity building around the pair in the

spotlights.

Standing up behind her, he brought his heavy crop down

as hard as he could across the bitch's jutting ass.

Look at her, waving it around like that, just asking

for it. The fucking skirt had hindered his swing and

he could barely hear the sound of the leather striking.

It was in the fucking way. He reached down and lifted

the hem of the skirt up.

Fuck this shit. Lewis pulled out his switchblade knife

and cut the fabric from waist to hem. The skirt fell

to the floor, useless. Even high on speed he

recognized a near perfect work of art. He gazed at the

tender globes, forgetting for a moment his anger. The

glittering blade in his hand reflected the bright spot

lights overhead, making patterns on her unblemished

ass. Someone, someone not quite caught up in the

moment as the rest of the crowd, reached out and took

the blade from Lewis' hand. It clattered to the floor,

forgotten for the moment.

Lewis kneeled behind the sobbing, swaying figure. He

touched the tip of his crop first to the dripping lips

hanging swollen and exposed between her glistening

thighs, probing and poking at them. A sadistic image

passed through his addled brain and he reversed his

grip on the crop. The large phallic-shaped handle was

aimed right at her gaping cunt.

With the narrow shaft in his hand, Lewis whipped the

heavy handle rapidly up and down. There wasn't much

force to it, but when he moved his arm forward, the

handle slapped loudly against the bitch's cunt. Ten,

fifteen times it splattered in there, faster and

faster, harder and harder. The mewling sounds from the

cunt infuriated him. The fucking bitch was enjoying

this, too!

Another sadistic gleam and the handle was pulled back,

the slick handle grasped in his hand. With his free

hand, he yanked her blouse up her arms and around the

chain from the ceiling, out of the way. Moving around

her as Damon had earlier in the evening her swatted at

her now bare chest and back, landing blow after blow on

her back, her stomach and her hanging tits.

She squealed when he hit those and focused his attack

on them. He was still too spaced out to hit really

hard, but it didn't take much force to cause real pain

there. She was screaming constantly by now, dancing

from foot to foot as best she could.

He was finally getting hard. He would have to remember

this for the next slut he got a hold of.

He stopped behind her and fumbled with the lacings on

his leathers. Fucking things cost enough, you'd think

they'd make them easier to get out of in a hurry.

Finally getting them pulled down and one leg free, he

moved up behind the bitch, his respectable erection

brushing her striped ass.

Just before he fucked the cunt's ass, he wanted to give

her something to remember him by, something to think

about while he plowed into that fuckable ass. Grabbing

his crop once more, he took an underhanded swipe at the

defenseless girl standing in front of him. The crop

slashed upward, the flat leather tip splatting loudly

against her navel. The braided leather stalk laid

itself perfectly between the girl's labia, smashing

against her extended clitoris and leaving perfect

impressions of the woven pattern in the swollen mucus

tissues.

Shocked out of her lethargy by the extreme pain, Alex

reared up as far as she could without dislocating her

shoulders. The pain coursed through her, blazing away

the cobwebs of arousal that had been accumulating all

evening. Accumulating for the past two weeks. For her

entire life. It was like a bolt of lightning burning

everything away, searing in its intensity. Then came

the thunder, and Alex was suddenly very confused. And

frightened.

She screamed, the noise increasing in pitch until it

went beyond the capability of the human ear. She began

convulsing violently in her bondage, inadequate volumes

of air whistling into her lungs through her nose. The

rubber ball wedged in her mouth prevented her from

biting her tongue as a result of the tremendous blow to

her genitals. Alex fought the urge to vomit, then

realized she was just dizzy. Very dizzy and very

relaxed.

Just before she passed out she heard a surprised yell

and a crash, like something heavy falling over. Then

there was lot of shouting, but she didn't care anymore.

***

Harold thought he had died and gone to heaven. This

new company was paying him a shitload of money to do

nothing. No fucking shit! No meetings, no memos, no

reports, no fucking sales calls, no lame-ass traveling.

Seriously! Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. He did

nothing all fucking day long. Except fuck his big-

titted secretary, Marcy. God, did that girl love to

fuck! And suck, and fuck again. A certifiable

nymphomaniac.

Every morning at 9:00 sharp he would get to work.

Marcy would meet him at the door to his office with his

coffee. As she closed the door behind her, he would

hear it lock. Within minutes she would be naked and

dancing around while he finished his coffee, watching

her. Then she would suck him until he was hard,

something his bitch wife had never done. Following

that they would fuck. All day. Over and over. She

even let him do her in the ass, something else Miss

Icecube had never let him do. Until he forced her.

By five o'clock they would drag their clothes on and

wobble out to the parking lot. She never let him touch

her outside of the office, barely acknowledging his

existence when they parted. Except once.

She had invited him to a party once just after he had

started the new job. Sort of way for him to get to

know some people. He thought it was odd that she was

acting cool towards him at the party after having

invited him and all. He was beginning to think about

leaving when he started up a conversation with this

guy. He was a fast-talking insurance salesman, and

Harold let the guy know in no uncertain terms that he

didn't need any more fucking insurance. The guy had

laughed, slapped Harold on the back and thanked him for

speaking so plainly. It was refreshing, he said, to be

able to hang out with someone who didn't want something

from him. He was really tired of making all those

fucking rich assholes even richer. Harold liked him

right away.

The conversation went on from there and by the end of

the evening and a fifth or two of Jack Daniels, they

had hatched 'The Plan.' Nobody could know about it.

It was ingenious, brilliant, if Harold did say so

himself. The insurance salesman had been stupefied at

Harold's brilliance as the plan had developed. It was

as if they were two minds totally in concert with one

another. Of course, being Harold's plan and with him

now being an executive, Harold had insisted that he get

the lion's share. It took some arguing, but the guy

finally agreed on an 80/20 split. After all, it was

only fair.

They had met a couple of more times in the following

week, each time starting sober but not ending that way,

to hammer out the details. They had finally agreed

that there needed to be a third party between them so

that no one would be able to discover a connection

between them other than the huge insurance policy. A

cut-out, the guy called it. The insurance policy would

be explainable because the guy sold a lot of insurance

policies to the executives in Harold's company. The

next day, they arranged for one of Harold's colleagues

to casually introduce them over a beer in a trendy

Yuppie bar. Marcy, who knew them both, could act as an

intermediary for any communications that needed to go

back and forth.

That left the third party, the cut-out. This was going

to take a lot of cash to bankroll, what with the huge

initial premium and then the living expenses on the

island and so on. The third guy had to have some ready

cash. Harold could put up a lot of it for the premium,

but he was tapped out after that.

Harold was at a loss, despairing. His beautiful plan

could die before it was even born. He didn't know

anybody with that kind of dough. Fortunately, the

insurance guy knew a lot of guys with money. He had

one in particular in mind.

Tonight they had called him, this guy named Smith. He

was a tough bastard, but Harold had held firm and had

gotten every single thing he wanted.

The plan was simple. Harold, due to his new executive-

level position, would obviously want to secure his

family's future with an insurance policy. A lot of

guys did and the insurance company would eat this up.

Even better, because Harold was older and his family
was young and expected to grow soon (Harold and the

insurance guy had a good laugh at that one), the policy

was rather large. Five million large. More than

enough to take care of the survivors for life.

The plan called for Harold to continue in his job as if

nothing had changed. Then, when everything was ready,

on one of his trips back to his lovely wife, he would

disappear. Mr. Smith had a plane and a condo in the

British Virgin Islands. Harold would be met on the

road near a private airstrip, spirited to Miami-Dade

Airport, board a yacht and sail to the islands.

Mr. Smith had a friend in the morgue. He said it

wouldn't be difficult to get a hold of a body matching

Harold's body. When it showed up the plan would go

into effect immediately. Harold's identification, car

and charred remains would be found along a deserted

stretch of road, the sad result of a happily married
man anxious to get home to a loving wife. He had

pushed too hard and fallen asleep at the wheel. Sad,

sad, sad. All the while, Harold would be living it up

in the islands. Marcy had even hinted she would give

anything to go with him to help pass the time.

Of course, there were a couple of things Harold had to

do first to finish setting up the plan. The primary

one being to get his wife, his beneficiary, to sign the

policy without getting her suspicious. Harold wasn't

worried. He could get her to do anything, he boasted.

He also needed her to sign some signature cards that

would open up an offshore bank account where the

insurance company would deposit the money from the

settlement. With his own name, he would be a second,

silent signatory on the account and would empty it out

as soon as the insurance company put the money in. The

BVI bank wouldn't check the death certificates in the

US. It was absolutely foolproof!

So, as soon as the insurance company had reviewed and

approved the policy, the clock would start ticking on

the plan. Then all they needed was a body. And Alex'

signature.

Harold was smug on the way home that night. Finally,

all those years of being passed over, getting the shit

jobs, doing all the hard work. Finally, it was going

to pay off.

He had thought about this from every conceivable angle.

He couldn't lose.

Chapter 7

Alvin didn't panic. Miss Alex couldn't have

disappeared into thin air. She had either been taken

outside or was still inside the club. He immediately

barred the door, then stepped into the tiny security

office and rewound the surveillance tapes for the past

10 minutes. He only ran the one for the door and that

at high speed.

As he suspected, only one exit was made during the time

he was away from the door. The two homosexual Doms

were escorting their sub out the door. Fucking

assholes had refused to tie down her legs while they

branded her. They were intending to brand their names,

Bruce and Martin, up one side of her pussy and down the

other. On the third letter, she had reconsidered and

kicked Martin into the hot coals. Bruce, going over to

help his lover, fucking stood on the hot coals and

burned his feet through his fucking expensive boots.

Alvin shook his head remembering the look of surprised

indignity on the asshole's face when he felt the heat

through his expensive kickass boots.

The three of them together could hold each other up,

barely, and had rushed out of the club. Just as he was

about to fast forward again, Alvin saw a blur on the

screen. Someone had entered as they were leaving. He

wouldn't have thought much of it but it placed the

person at the right time and in the right place. With

a cold knot twisting in his stomach, Alvin slowed the

tape down and replayed it. He almost got sick when he

saw it was that little shit, Lewis.

Lewis was on Alvin's black list. He couldn't prove

anything, but a couple of months ago they had found a

waitress badly beaten, raped and tortured. Broken

bones, teeth knocked out and bleeding vaginally and

anally from a brutal sexual assault. She was also

bleeding from being whipped within an inch of her life.

One eye was useless, the lens dislocated from a direct

hit with the tip of a crop. The only reason it didn't

explode from the impact was that she was wearing a

blindfold.

Alvin had asked several of the people in the club if

they had seen anything that night. Obviously, the

private parties like this one frowned on tapes of what

went on inside the club and regardless of his

recommendation, Mr. D made him turn off the cameras.

The little shit wouldn't have got in at all if Mr. D

had sprung for the triple door security checkpoint. He

had demonstrated to the boss just how easy someone

could get in unchecked with just two doors. Just like

now. But he had demurred.

The BDSM Club members reluctantly agreed to security

tapes of the outside entrance, but the tapes and

cameras had been off during the party that night, like

they were tonight. In his investigation, Alvin had

narrowed it down to a couple of unlikely possibles and

one very probable culprit. Lewis. The guy had had the

opportunity and was a mean little shit. Loco. Crazy.

Nuts.

Quickly determining that Miss Alex was still in the

building, Alvin set out to find her. He systematically

scanned through the public areas nearest the door,

examining and eliminating every female regardless of

clothing, hair, skin or build. She wasn't in the

public areas close to the door.

Next on his list were the closest less-public areas.

He barged into the women's restroom, then the men's,

checking every stall and every trash can for evidence.

Hair dye, discarded clothing, large chunks of beautiful

reddish hair. He found nothing.

He went back to the starting point, the front door. He

was beginning to get a bad feeling about this. Too

much time was passing. Mr. D was off the phone now and

was walking towards him. He had just looked to see

Miss Alex missing and saw the look on Alvin's face. To

his credit, the cold bastard had blanched white as a

sheet when he saw she wasn't where she should have

been.

Just then, there was a noise from out in the club. Why

it caught his ear, he didn't know, but he knew it was

Miss Alex.

Alvin was flying through the crowd, knocking people

over, hurdling the Subs crawling on hands and knees.

He reached the room with the hanging hook and saw her,

Miss Alex. She had been strung up tighter than he

would have believed possible, her feet shackled tightly

to the floor.

Alvin lowered his shoulder and put his whole being into

getting into that room. A crowd had gathered around.

The macabre always attracted a crowd. The unsuspecting

spectators gave with a groan. One huge black hand

swept low off the ground and came thundering up,

catching the shit with the flat of his hand on his

chest. The fucker lifted off the ground, sailed over

the ducking onlookers and crashed solidly into the

wall, his erection a fading memory. The crowd, not

wanting to be witnesses, dissolved into the hubbub of

the party.

Alvin hit the emergency release and the strain came off

Miss Alex' screaming muscles. Her legs were too widely

spread to allow her to sink down and she just hunched

there, moaning softly behind the gag. Alvin fumbled

with the shackles, then finally just ripped them from

their anchors. Miss Alex collapsed into his arms and

he was cradling her protectively when Mr. D finally

made his way into the room, pushing past the dispersing

spectators.

Two legs were flopping in spastic panic over against

the wall. One leg was bare and hairy, the other had a

pair of cheap leather leggings around the ankle. The

rest of the body was deep in the shadows of the room

Damon saw the big man holding Alex, one hand covering

her lower nudity in a manner so chaste, he almost

laughed. Covering her but not touching. The look in

his bouncer's eyes told him not to try to take her from

him. It wasn't romantic. It had been his job to watch

out for her and right now it looked like the man had

fucked up royally. That wasn't like him at all. Damon

decided to wait and hear what he had to say. Then he

would kill him. Or someone. But someone was going to

pay, that much he knew.

Alvin motioned with his head at the legs on the floor.

The man's dick was glistening, droplets of fluid

refracting the harsh spotlights even from the side of

the room. Damon went cold. Someone had touched Alex,

his Pet. Effortlessly, he began the process of picking

up the struggling man. Finally upright, the light in

the room revealed a hopped up prick he had seen a few

times before. Bad news. No one liked the little

fucker. He smelled, too, and Damon looked down at what

he was standing in.

While the little shit got his pants on and laced up,

Damon used a piece of discarded cloth on the floor to

wipe up the puddle of urine the guy had been laying in.

It took him a minute to comprehend that it was the

shithead who had pissed himself, not Alex. Somehow

that made him feel better. Not much, but a little.

A firm grasp on his arm propelled the man out the door,

down the hallway, and into his office. A forceful hand

in the chest had flattened the jerk into a chair in the

center of the room.

"Stay there!" There was no misunderstanding the order,

on drugs or not.

Damon went next door. He suspected Alvin had already

taken Alex in there. Knocking twice, he waited. Alvin

opened the door and stepped outside.

"She's alive and appears to be in one piece. The guy

in your office is named Lewis something or other. Give

me a couple minutes and I'll come in and give you a

report." Seeing the look on Damon's face, he added, "A

full report." He knew Damon would want to know who,

what, why and how this had happened. He also knew his

boss wouldn't like the report.

The bouncer slipped back into the dimly lit room.

Damon turned and went slowly back to his office. He

had known Alvin for several years and the man had never

lied to him once. There was no reason to believe he

would start now. If anything, Damon and he had had

some heated disagreements about the security

arrangements for the club. They had discussed this

very thing happening. Even after the incident with the

waitress, Damon hadn't relented.

Now it was personal and close to home. He had an

uneasy feeling he wasn't going to like the full report

Alvin had promised him, especially as Alvin hadn't

seemed worried. Damon knew he was getting constant

updates over his wireless. No doubt he had made

several inquiries about the little shit in his office.

Alvin didn't usually hesitate to state what he felt was

the truth and to name names. Even when the name was

his own or Damon's. Odd, he reflected, it was that

very trait of integrity that made the bastard so

fucking indispensable.

What he couldn't let Alvin know was that the first

thing that had gone through his mind was not about Alex

being OK, but that if anything happened to her now, the

whole scheme of the insurance scam built around her

would be fucked up. A delay was almost as bad. The

bitch Marcy could only put up with that prick Wilson

for so long. It was going to cost a bundle to keep her

on the team, and, after talking to that asswipe of a

husband on the phone for nearly an hour, he couldn't

really blame her. What a jerk. Cute trick, though,

putting Viagra in his morning coffee.

Alvin slipped into the room and held his finger up to

his lip, signaling for silence. Two glittering points

of light across the room followed his every move. Alex

had regained consciousness in his arms on the walk down

the hall. She had not tried to cry out or struggle

against his huge hands holding her. He had noticed the

change in her breathing and sensed more than anything

that she was awake. Looking down he had seen her clear

green eyes gazing calmly up at him. She had seemed

more ashamed and confused than frightened and Alvin

suspected he knew the cause. The same bright eyes were

watching him now from the cot on the far side of the

room.

He stood silently by the door of the room, listening to

the faint footsteps outside. They were so faint he had

to will himself to hear them, going towards the main

office. Then the office door opened and they could see

Damon enter his office through the one-way mirror. His

boss headed for the well-equipped bar in his office.

Good move. Give yourself time to think.

Alvin flipped up a switch on the wall underneath the

mirror. She noticed he had flipped it the wrong way,

up instead of down, where the 'On' marking was. The

clink of ice tumbling into a crystal glass filled the

room. Alex looked at him with a bemused smile.

"I swapped out the switch." He shrugged, grinning

mischievously, then grew serious. "Miss Alex, I have

to examine you. I'll be as gentle as I can, but it may

be uncomfortable." He had already removed the

handcuffs and the ballgag. She had removed the

tattered remains of her blouse herself. All she was

wearing was the collar and the leash. It was locked on

and Damon had the key.

Alex lay back on the cot when he pressed her down. She

looked up at him without fear as he began to examine

her body, looking for bruises, swellings and sudden

pains which might indicate internal bleeding or other

soft tissue damage.

Gently he spread her legs. "Did he penetrate you, Miss

Alex?"

"No. I don't think so."

"Here?" He touched her swollen labia. The fluids

still seeping from her were thick and sticky, much like

semen would be. He smelled his finger. It wasn't male

and now he was sure what had happened.

"I don't know. Maybe." She turned her head to the

side, biting her lip.

"I'm sorry, Miss Alex." He moved his finger down.

"How about here?"

"No, I don't think so. I don't remember," she said and

stifled a sob.

"It's OK to cry, Miss Alex. It wasn't your fault."

"I know. But I don't have any clothes to wear. He cut

my skirt. And I... I..." She didn't say anything

more. She just sat there hugging herself.

Alvin never ceased to be amazed by the tiny details the

human mind would grasp onto in a crisis. Silly little

minutia that would later seem odd, but he knew that

those were the things that helped people hold onto

their sanity. He shrugged off his vest and draped it

over her shoulders. She looked like she could

disappear under it, but she was covered.

"I have to go out for a minute, Miss Alex. I'll be

right back."

"OK." She called out as he reached the door, "Can they

hear us, too?"

He grinned back at her, his gold tooth flashing, "That

wouldn't be any fun now, would it, Miss Alex?"

Her light laugh followed him into the hallway.

He stepped into the office without knocking. He

delivered his report to Damon, knowing Miss Alex could

hear him. "About twenty minutes after you left Miss

Alex in the holding area, I got a call from the marking

area. The brass holder with the hot coals (I told you

not to use. Soldering irons work just as well.) had

been kicked over by two imbeciles doing an arts and

crafts project on a runaway with what turns out to have

been a fake ID. Probably underage.

"The bartender reacted quickly and properly, (trained

by myself for just this situation) contacting me first,

then quietly clearing the room of everyone not involved

or injured. By the time I got there the coals had been

neutralized with the water cannon (which I had brought

in since we had to turn off the sprinklers to use the

fucking coals) and the three main parties treated.

They were leaving as I got there (leaving Miss Alex

alone and unprotected as it is your own fucking rule

that puts the club first and everything else second).

"I helped treat a couple of the injured bystanders,

calmed one or two persons, then came back. Total time

off station was no more than seven minutes.

"I immediately noticed Miss Alex was missing. As you

were still on the phone I had to assume someone else

had taken her from the holding area. I barred the exit

and reviewed the security tapes. The only persons

exiting the building were the three individuals from

the marking room. On their leaving, however, both

doors were open at the same time, (just like I fucking

showed you) allowing Lewis, here, to enter without

being checked.

"I searched the club, starting with the public areas

nearest the door. There was no sign of Miss Alex. I

then searched the restrooms, looking for evidence of

any altering of her appearance. I didn't find any.

"I was going to head down into the club when I heard a

noise that sounded odd, out of place. You know what

happened next."

Alvin took a deep breath. There was a lot he could

have said, wanted to say, but parenthetically, he just

added it to his report in his mind. They could assess

the blame later. It wouldn't be his.

He continued, "I have checked Miss Alex. She is still

out, probably sleeping as a result of the excitement of

the party and then the brutality of the attack on her.

She was not penetrated vaginally or anally, but she was

badly beaten and with even less skill." Holding up

Lewis' crop, he said, "I imagine that he used this.

It's certainly cheap enough." He tossed the crop to

Damon.

Damon's face was death. He continued. "There is

evidence of a severe whipping and at least two serious

blows landed, one across the buttocks which broke the

skin, the other a vicious cut to the genital area. Her

breasts were a favorite target of Lewis and she will

have marks on them for several weeks. The blow to the

genitals will mean Miss Alex will be unable to walk for

a week and will be sore for another week. There is no

evidence of internal injuries or of permanent injuries

or marking, but a visit to a clinic would probably tell

you better if anything occult was damaged. Finally,

there is no DNA evidence of penetration or of the

attack and I could find no witnesses who would be

willing to testify."

As he said this last his eyes met Damon's. No DNA

evidence and no witnesses meant that they couldn't

report this to the authorities and hope for any

satisfaction. Alex had been blindfolded and couldn't

identify her attacker. A good lawyer would make the

case that Lewis was the Good Samaritan and was in the

process of saving the poor girl when he was set upon by

Alvin and Damon. No, if this was going to be handled,

it would be done quietly without the authorities.

Damon suddenly realized that Alvin knew what he was

doing. He was delivering this schmuck, for whatever

reason, to Damon gift wrapped for execution. Alvin had

never, ever involved himself in the dirty side of the

business before. He was a good club manager, excellent

even, but he drew the line at getting his hands bloody.

He probably knew what happened, any good manager does,

but always before he had given himself an out, an

excuse to be away when the dirty deed was done.

He had made sure it was Damon's decision to punish or

forgive and to adjudicate any judgments, usually

terminally. This time it was different. Alvin, by

specifically telling Damon there was no physical

evidence against this bastard, had just signed Lewis'

death warrant. He smiled to himself. There was hope

for the black SOB yet!

It didn't surprise him when Alvin bowed himself out of

the room and indicated he would be in the next room

with Alex. Damon's eyes flicked towards the tiny

telltale he had had concealed in the ceiling. The

indicator light was off. Good, they wouldn't hear what

he was saying.

Chapter 8

"I can walk, Alvin. Why did you say I couldn't? I'm a

little sore, but I'm fine, really!"

Alvin came over and sat beside the girl. He was silent

for a long while, then picked up her hand in his giant

paw. He held it as if it were a piece of fragile glass

that would shatter if held too tightly.

"I've seen a lot of bad shit working for Mr. D, Miss

Alex. I don't think you belong here. I just wanted to

give you a couple of weeks to think about what happened

tonight before they could pressure you any more."

"I'm not afraid of him, Alvin," she said quietly.

"I am. He's a bad man, Miss Alex. You should be

afraid of him, too."

"Well, I don't love him, if you're worried about that."

She wasn't defensive, but wondered what made her say

that to him.

The big man guffawed. "He doesn't and won't ever love

you, either, Miss Alex. Make no mistake. Mr. D is

only out for Mr. D."

Alex was silent. "But Alvin, I liked what happened

tonight. I was excited when that man took me. He said

he was taking me to Mr. Smith. He called him my

'master' and I was so thrilled. I knew it wasn't right

but it felt so good. The he tied me down and said I

was bad and that I was going to be punished."

She looked up at him. "I was so excited, Alvin. I had

never felt so alive. Then he hit me. A lot. And cut

off my skirt. That's when I knew Mr. Smith wasn't

coming. That's when I got scared, but I was too

excited by then and then he hit me down there and I...

I..."

"I know, Miss Alex. Some crazy fucker takes a whip to

your privates and you have the best fucking orgasm of

your life."

Alex buried her face in his broad chest. He knew. She

was so confused, but Alvin knew. It was going to be

OK. He put his hand up to stroke her hair

instinctively.

"How could you tell? Does everyone else know?"

"I don't know how I know, Miss Alex. Something about

your scream, maybe. And I was holding you right after,

no one else knows. I could tell you weren't scared

anymore. You just seemed happy." He hesitated. "You

sang to me, too," he said softly.

"You heard that?" Alex blushed. She had sensed it was

Alvin carrying her after she was released and that she

was safe. From out of nowhere - no, from out of her

heart she had sung a song just for him. She was gagged

and handcuffed, but safe and relaxed in his strong

arms. It just seemed right. It just came out,

somehow. There were no words, just soul to soul. And

he had heard it.

"Miss Alex, please be careful. Think about what you're

getting into here. I know it's exciting. But use the

time to think."

He paused for a moment, considering something. Then he

continued. "I can't tell you how I know, but something

is going on with your husband, some big scam or

something. That's what the phone call was about

tonight. Mr. D wouldn't have left you if it wasn't

important, and the only thing that is important to him

is money. Lots of money. I don't know what or how

your husband is involved yet, but I'll let you know as

soon as I can."

"Oh, Harold is always trying to get into some scam or

another," Alex giggled. "He's harmless."

"Maybe, but Mr. D isn't. Just be careful." He got up.

"I have to go check on the club. Think about taking a

couple of weeks off, Miss Alex."

Alex watched the big man leave, her face thoughtful.

Maybe she would take his advice and give herself a

chance to cool down. But it had been so exciting

tonight and there was so much more she had to learn

still. It was too tempting.

***

Damon had had two drinks while waiting for the little

shit to stop crying. God, he hated wimps. The sobbing

slowly abated and finally he could get some answers.

He heard the door to the next room shut and the light

tread of the big man going back to check on the party.

That meant at least that Alex was resting quietly, if

not comfortably.

"So, Lewis, you've had a rough day, no?" he started

gently.

"FUCKING BITCH, THE FUCKING BITCH! I should have

FUCKING killed her..."

Damon started toward the cowering fool in a murderous

rage. Then he stopped, visibly controlling himself.

Too many people had seen the little shit hauled in

here.

"... and now I've got all those FUCKING medical bills."

Oh-ho! A gift. A bloody gift.

"And the fucking bank. My baby. They took my baby and

I have to drive a fucking ass Ford. My baby. They

took my baby."

The shit was fading fast and starting to babble, but

with a little luck, well maybe...

"Lewis, I know it's hard for you right now. You've had

a tough night, you're angry, you're confused, you're

upset and everything is going wrong. Am I right? Of

course I am." He had placed a sympathetic hand on the

quaking shoulder and was patting him gently. He had to

act quick, the bastard was going to fall over soon.

"You know what I like to do to feel better, Lewis? I

like to write all my problems down. Then I burn the

paper, and 'Poof', the problems are gone. Like magic!"

The dip wad was stoned enough to actually buy that line

of psycho-crap. He was nodding and sniffling, the snot

glistening as it streamed down into his mouth. Damon

took out a stack of paper copier paper, then removed

the top sheet. The one with his fingerprints on it.

"Tell you what, why don't you try it. Why don't you

write 'Fuck the bitch' on the paper?" he said. "Here,

use my pen." He handed him an everyday BIC pen. It

would be untraceable.

He watched while the fucker wrote it out. It was

laborious, but it was in his own handwriting.

"Now, how about 'Fuck the bank'? They took your car,

right?"

Lewis dutifully wrote it out. Then looked up,

expectantly. This nice man was going to help him.

Maybe he could get his car back for him. He looked

like he was rich enough.

"Any other problems, Lewis? Your job? Your family?

Kids?"

Lewis shook his head 'No' to each suggestion.

"Well, then, son, let's have a drink to celebrate the

end of all your problems."

Damon went over to the bar and fixed another glass of

scotch. With his back turned to the young man, he

reached to the back of the bar and lifted off the top

of a bottle of Cognac. The bottle looked full and

sealed, but with the top off you could see it was

hollow. It was a hidey-hole of some sort.

With practiced easy, Damon took out a small glass

syringe and a vial of clear liquid. He pulled out the

plunger, inserted the needle into the rubber stopper,

injected air into the bottle and withdrew some of the

fluid. The vial was back in the fake bottle and the

bottle closed. The whole sequence had taken less than

5 seconds.

Damon held the syringe behind his back as he walked

towards the trembling man. He handed him the glass,

picked up his own and said, "Cheers."

The crystal glasses clinked together and Lewis gulped

the strong single-malt scotch whiskey. He choked. He

wasn't used to such a smoky or strong flavor. He

preferred those colored drinks with fruit in them. He

coughed as a little of the burning fluid went into his

lungs.

Damon stepped behind him, slapping him on the back to

help him. To the casual observer, you would not have

seen the syringe palmed in his hand that plunged into

Lewis' neck. Even Lewis didn't notice the tiny

pinprick.

Suddenly Lewis stopped choking and gave a funny little

twitch, his arms and legs fluttering briefly. His eyes

rolled up into the top of his head and then slowly

drifted back down, glazed and unfocused. He sort of

slumped down in the chair, like he was asleep. The

empty glass thumped on the thick carpet, unbroken.

Damon dropped to one knee in front of the unnaturally

still man. He slapped him once, hard. The man didn't

react or flinch. The man's breathing was very, very

slow and shallow. A sadistic grin spread slowly across

Damon's face.

"Listen, you little piece of shit. That bitch you beat

up tonight was mine and you touched her. Nobody

touches my Pet until I'm ready to let them. I know you

can hear me, so let me tell you what is going to

happen. You're going to leave the party tonight very

drunk and very depressed. Some friends are going to

take you home. Then you're going to sit in your garage

with the motor running, and you're going to die.

Nobody fucks with me, asshole." He said all of this so

quietly, than he wasn't sure if the man had heard. But

he was sure he had. He would know until the last

breath.

But caution had made him say it quietly, almost in the

guy's ear. A statement like that could get him put

away. But he was so fucking mad. Anyway, only the

best microphones would have been able to pick up that

volume. And those mikes weren't in this room.

Damon went to the telephone and dialed a four-digit

extension. An internal call.

"Hello, Vinnie? Yeah, it's me. I need you and Max to

do a job for me. Yes, now, dammit. Well, tell him to

wipe his ass and get up here. Now!"

He slammed down the phone. Surprisingly, within a

couple of minutes two burly men rushed into the room,

the larger of the two doing the 'wedgie-walk' and

buckling his belt. The smaller one, Vinnie, was

putting on a pair of rubber gloves. He would be

driving Lewis' car home.

The note Lewis had written was now held between two

other sheets of paper. Lewis' prints would be the only

fingerprints on it. Using a gloved hand Vinnie fished

the car keys out of his pocket and the two men escorted

him out of the office. Mr. D had given them their

instructions as they were hoisting the guy up between

them. They would make sure that several party goers

would see him leaving alive. Very drunk, very sad, but

alive. That was all that mattered.

When they had gone, Damon sat at his desk. He was

furious. That dip shit had cost him several thousands

of dollars. He was going to be delayed at least

another two weeks before that fucker Wilson could get

Alex to sign the papers. He couldn't let him near her

until she was healed and back to normal. Fuck, Fuck,

Fuck!

The hooker, Marcy, was going to cost him a bundle more,

too. She had already been making noises about bailing

out. Maybe she should join Harold in the islands. The

CFO of that company would need to be paid off for

another month or two to keep the vacant office

available. He was getting a good cut so that shouldn't

be a problem, but sooner or later someone was going to

realize that Harold and Marcy weren't in that office

auditing the books. Or that they weren't real

employees, either.

It could be done, though. Marcy was the key. He had

to get her cooperation. He looked at his Rolodex and

dialed a number.

"Hello, Marcy? Yes, it's me, Mr. Smith. ... Fine,

just fine. Say, we had a little problem here

tonight... ... No, everything is still on, it's just

going to be a little delayed. ... Oh, about two

weeks, maybe a little more. ... No, Marcy, I know he's

got a little prick... ... I understand... ... I

understand... ... Listen, Marcy, I really need your

help with this. ... I know... ... I know. ...

Just name your price, whatever it takes. ...Ouch! You

sure know how to make a guy dig deep. ... No, no,

it's a deal, if that's what you want. I tell you what.

I'll even pay for your time to go with him to the

Condo. .... Yes, the same rate for more three months

lying in the sun on the islands. Just keep him quiet.

... Yes, I'll get you some more Viagra. ... Listen,

Marcy, I have to go. I owe you for this. Big time.

... Yeah, me, too. Say 'Hi' to your mom for me. ...

You, too. ... Right. Bye, now."

He hung up the phone. "Fucking Bitch!"

Alex had a bad feeling. Oh, she had thought everything

was going to be fine until she saw the needle. It

wasn't that she was squeamish, but it had suddenly

brought back unbidden a vague, unhappy memory.

Mr. Smith was helping the man work out his problems.

Alex had never heard of therapy like that, but if it

worked for Mr. Smith, why not give it a try, no? She

had thought the needle was a sedative for the man. He

was obviously distraught and upset. Mr. Smith's

sympathy for the man that had attacked her was

touching.

She had caught the quick injection with the palmed

needle. That's what triggered the memory. Mr. Smith

did it just like Daddy had done, only Daddy did it on

the cows and pigs. Just before they were slaughtered

and bled out. The animals gave that funny little

twitch, too, just like Lewis had.

But it was the man's eyes that brought all those bad

memories flooding back, as clearly as if they had

happened yesterday. She had been five years old.

Bright, happy, smart as a whip. Two years earlier,

just three and barely able to get around the farm by

herself, she had been helping Daddy in the barn. She

had heard a plaintive squeal from an empty stall and,

investigating, had come out lugging a very large

piglet. Well, large for a three year old. The piglet

had been abandoned by the mother, being the runt of a

very large litter. Alex had promptly adopted the runt

and named her Petunia. Pet for short.

Pet and Alex had been inseparable for the next two

years and both had grown. Pet a lot more than Alex.

When Pet got too big to sleep in Alex' bed, Alex slept

in Pet's new pen. In the summer, anyway. But Pet was

a piglet and they grow into hogs and then into great

big hogs. Soon Pet was inadvertently destructive. She

couldn't help it. One time that Alex family still

laughed about was when her older brother, Benny, was

teasing her and Alex had started screaming. They were

in the family room at the time. Pet, frantic to help

her owner, came running straight for the pair.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a door or window in that

wall. Until then. Daddy had had to put in a door to

fill the hole. A double wide French door.

After coming through the wall, Pet had buried her snout

in Benny's crotch, his family jewels in her mouth, and

she holding him up, pinned against the wall, his feet

dangling off the ground. She held him there until Alex

was able to sooth her and she lowered him and let him

go.

Benny never bothered her much after that. But that was

the beginning of the end for Pet. Soon after that Alex

was bribed with goldfish, turtles, a dog and a cat, but

she always preferred Pet.

When school started Daddy had suggested putting Pet in

with the other hogs. She was bigger than all of the

rest of them now. Alex had been proud when her Petunia

had taken first prize at the county fair. Her runt was

now the best of all. She felt guilty leaving her

friend, but she was in first grade now, and there was

so much to learn and new friends and everything.

Each day when Alex would get off the school bus and

walk by the big pig pen, Pet would squeal and make that

funny sound she made whenever she saw Alex. Alex would

stop and rub her snout, but she had her good clothes on

and couldn't roll around with her like they used to.

On Saturdays, because she was a big girl now, she had

other chores and couldn't spend time with her old
friend. Daddy mentioned one night that Pet had started

to lose weight.

It happened late in the Fall. She remembered because

it was cold outside but not freezing, and the leaves

were so pretty on the tree outside her bedroom window.

It was dark out, too early even for Daddy to be up.

Something was wrong with Pet. It was just a feeling,

but to a five-year-old, such a certainty can be

terrifying. She had gotten dressed and slipped out of

the house to check on Pet.

Petunia hadn't been in her private stall. The door was

wide open. Alex knew she had closed it last night,

just after she had kissed Pet good night. Daddy had

let Pet eat all her favorite foods and as much of them

as she wanted, too. Benny had mumbled something about

a 'last meal' but mommy had shushed him real quick.

Alex was just glad Daddy had finally let Pet back into

her own private stall. Maybe he'd even forgiven her

for making the new door in the side of the house.

The light was on in another part of the barn and Alex

had moved toward the light. Daddy would be really mad

if someone left on the lights and wasted electricity.

That cost money. She was just about to turn them off,

when she had heard Daddy talking. He was using his

soothing voice, the one he used when he slaughtered the

cows. He didn't like to scare them. Daddy was always

so nice.

From the shadows, Alex watched her father prepare the

needle. She had seen him use it before. He always hid

the needle in the palm of his big hands so the animals
wouldn't see it and get scared. He didn't like to hurt
them.

Daddy moved away from the table and, still talking

soothingly, knelt down on his knee. Alex moved closer

to see around the big workbench that held all of the

medicines and the knives and saws for skinning and

butchering. She saw Daddy's hand dart down and hear a

familiar squeal.

"PETUNIA!" she had screamed, but it was too late. Too

late.

Pet had shuddered, her body twitching. Then her legs

had collapsed and she had crashed to the ground. Daddy

had shouted at her and grabbed her just before Pet had

collapsed. If Alex had been any closer, she would have

been crushed under her pet. Alex watched Pet's eyes,

always so expressive, so alive as they disappeared,

then rolled back down. They didn't look right anymore,

like Petunia wasn't in there. Slowly she moved to

where Pet could see her, cradling her bristly head in

her child's arms.

Daddy had said a very bad word, the first and only time

Alex had heard him use the 'S' word. He had looped the

short chain around Pet's hind feet. Using a block and

tackle, Daddy had hoisted the unmoving hog up, until

Pet was dangling over the big drain in the floor. He

didn't say anything to Alex, but didn't make her move

away, even when he cut the large blood vessels in the

hanging hog's neck. The warm tangy blood flowed over

Alex' arm and dripped down into the darkness of the

drain, making tiny splashing noises far below.

Alex had seen a pig bled out before and had even been

allowed to help. Everybody helped on a farm. But

before, it hadn't been her Pet hanging there. That

made it different somehow. Alex stayed by her

cherished childhood friend until the light went out of

her eyes.

Daddy had explained before that it didn't hurt the

animals, that the stuff in the needle made them not

feel anything and not able to move and jump around, but

that it let their hearts keep beating so all the blood

could be pumped out and the meat would taste better.

You can't sell tainted meat and you can't eat it

yourself.

After Pet, Alex had known better, that Daddy was wrong.

They could feel things. She had watched Pet's eyes.

She knew Pet had felt everything that had happened to

her from the loss of the use of her legs, the chain

around her feet, the rush of blood to her head as she

hung upside down to the sharp knife slashing her

throat. She knew Pet could even feel the warm blood

dripping off her snout, draining the life from her with

each belabored beat of her heart. Alex knew. She had

seen her eyes.

She had never cried for Pet, not then and not in the

weeks that followed. Alex was raised on a farm. She

understood that Petunia was a pig, and pigs get

slaughtered. She understood she was a just a pet and

when you don't need them anymore or they're used up,

they get flushed down the toilet like Benny's goldfish

or buried in the backyard like Bowser and Meow.

It had been a long time since Alex had thought about

the death of her childhood pet and she found herself

crying uncontrollably on the cot. Damon saw her

weeping when he looked in on her a little later and

quickly backed out of the room, misunderstanding her

tears completely.

Hearing the door close, Alex stumbled over to the one-

way mirror and flipped the jimmied switch back to the

'Off' position. She didn't know why she was protecting

Alvin. Maybe it was because she knew she was going to

need a friend, and he was nice to her. But she wasn't

sure of him. He seemed to be tricky as Mr. Smith,

because he had replaced that switch and didn't want Mr.

Smith to know.

Alvin had not only replaced the switch, but he had

replaced the microphone as well. Alex, unfortunately,

had heard every word Mr. Smith had said in there.

Chapter 9

Alex took Alvin's advice and spent the week in bed.

Thinking. And being pampered. It was funny to watch

Mr. Smith. Sure, he could do some things really well,

and he wasn't afraid to try to do anything. But it was

obvious he had never taken care of a sick or injured

person before. He was a disaster. It was hard not to

laugh, because he was trying so hard, but finally,

after he had fallen into the bathtub while trying to

lift her out, she couldn't help herself. It was hard

to call him 'Sir' and laugh hysterically at the same

time but she had tried, and then got the hiccups.

He finally saw the humor and started to chuckle, too.

For a moment, she had thought he was going to be mad at

her, but she guessed he was so pleased to hear her

feeling better that he decided against it. After that,

however, he had Alvin take care of her.

Since she supposedly couldn't walk, she had moved in

downstairs in the club. She didn't even know the

basement was there, but Alvin said there were still two

more floors below this one. Vinnie and Max lived on

the next one down and Alvin had a room down there when

he wanted it. Mr. Smith had his personal apartment

here and there were a couple of other rooms for

'guests' Alvin said. The rooms were all very

sumptuous. There were a lot of closed doors in the

hallway and, since she couldn't get around, she just

had to wonder what was behind them.

She got used to seeing Alvin everyday. As opposed to

Mr. Smith, Alvin had had some training. She didn't

feel like she'd just come through a car wash when Alvin

bathed her. Oh, yes, she was pampered and made him do

everything for her. After all, it was his idea, no?

Between the Alvin and Mr. Smith, they would have held

her spoon and fork for her at meals if she would have

let them.

She got a perverse thrill of having those big strong

hands bathing her, kneading her muscles, patting her

dry and the powdering her. She stayed naked almost the

whole time and, after a while, it felt good. She

teased him with little jokes at first, but he had

warned her off with his eyes. He was afraid of

something. Still, it had been his idea, so he could

just put up with it. She noticed that he never touched

her in any way that was inappropriate, even when

cleaning her privates. He was almost clinical.

Finally the day came when she could get out of bed.

And not a day too soon for her. She was going stir-

crazy. In the bathroom that day, while he was filling

the bathtub for her, Alvin had quietly warned her to

move slow and hunched over sort of, to look like she

was in pain. After watching her the first day, he said

she was a pretty good actress, just don't expect an

Oscar anytime soon. He had made a joke!

Mr. Smith was thrilled to see her up and about. He

questioned Alvin closely about what activities she

could engage in. With a straight face he had suggested

that walking, shopping and light housework were fine,

but she probably shouldn't see Harold for another

couple of days. Alex thought that that was just a

polite way of telling Mr. Smith that he couldn't have

sex with her. She kicked Alvin under the table. She

was getting very horny. Even Harold was beginning to

appeal to her again.

Mr. Smith let her borrow a T-shirt and they found a

pair of running shorts somewhere that weren't too big.

The neck of the shirt came almost down to her naval and

if she wasn't careful, one or both of her titties would

pop out for anyone to see. Mr. Smith gave her a quick

inspection and nodded. Then he took her shopping.

Alex came back from shopping subdued and thoughtful.

It had been an experience like she hadn't dreamed

possible. She had been thoroughly seduced by this

man's charm, his style, his commanding presence and his

authority. She had come back with a selection of

clothes she would never have purchased on her own, yet

each garment was perfect.

Mr. Smith had taken her in his private limo to the most

expensive boutiques in the city. Some were private, by

appointment only and they were always treated as if

they were special customers. Everyone knew Mr. Smith.

She had tried on tiny wisps of lace, sheer silk

stockings that clasped her thigh, all right in front of

him. He enjoyed looking at her and she enjoyed him

looking. It was a tease for both of them.

High heeled shoes, higher than anything she had ever

seen were placed on her feet. She walked back and

forth, a bit unsteady at first, but she had strong

ankles and soon she was doing much better. Then he

made her walk just wearing her new panties and her

thigh-high hosiery and then come and stand in front of

him. He had run his hands down the back of her legs

and back up over her ass cheeks, showing her in the

mirror how it made her ass stick out and how it defined

the muscles in her legs. Together they had watched his

hands in the mirror as he caressed her legs and ass

intimately for several moments. She had shivered and

had to bite her lip to keep quiet.

That was early on in the day and he kept touching her

often after that, always telling her how beautiful and

sexy she was. And she was. She could see it herself

in the mirrors that surrounded her as she tried on the

beautiful clothes and lingerie. She was turned on,

too, throbbing with unfulfilled needs.

Mr. Smith had made all the choices for her. Two pair

of high heeled shoes, one pair black and one red. She

had two new blouses to replace the one that was torn

and a new pleated skirt. It didn't really replace her

other one, as this one was so short she couldn't bend

over without showing her butt. But Mr. Smith liked it,

and secretly, so did she. With her new underwear that

was barely there, she felt naked walking out of the

store.

But the best part was the dress. It was light and it

fit her so perfectly, like a glove. The bright blue

material was so thin she could only wear her new skimpy

sexy thong panties under it. Even those showed a

little bit of a line. She was supposed to wear the

silk stockings that snugged her thigh so tightly, too.

She didn't dare sit down in it that day as she was so

wet she would have left a stain.

She recognized the dress and the other clothes from the

videos. They were the same as the girls wore in the

videos. Beautiful, sexy clothes that slid with your

body as it swayed. This dress made her feel like

dancing. A sexy dance, a dance that would inflame her

lover, one that would make him take her and ravage her.

Alex could imagine herself dancing in this dress and

making Mr. Smith want her. She knew he would want her

then.

She had cried when he gave her the necklace. It was a

simple gold chain with a pendent that hung down between

her breasts, tickling them with her every breath. The

pendent was a pair of gold handcuffs. It was in the

last store, one of the private boutiques. They had

kissed when he put it around her neck. Then he had

captured both her hands in one of his behind her back.

He took his tie off and tied them there, keeping them

there the whole way home, only releasing them to re-tie

his tie as they arrived back at the club. She had

knelt on the floor of the car on the ride back, resting

her head in his lap while he had stoked her hair. She

had worn it loose that day.

Alvin carried in the packages from the limo when they

returned and carried them to one of the rooms on Mr.

Smith's floor. Into Mr. Smith's bedroom! Alex hadn't

been forbidden to snoop during her recovery, but

somehow she knew she was being watched. It was just a

feeling. As a result, she didn't know what any of the

rooms were except the room she stayed in and the next

one where Mr. Smith slept. Alvin had taken all her new

clothes in there. She was torn between hope and fear.

All the while Alvin took care of her, he was very

careful with what he said to her, being very polite and

respectful. She returned his cautious behavior, with a

few notable exceptions, not saying anything about their

conversation of that night of the party. In fact,

until Alvin gave her a questioning look with a raised

eyebrow on the way in from the car, looking at all the

packages and back at her, and then having Mr. Smith

tell him to put them away in his room, he hadn't made

one reference to that night.

Alex gave him a smug look in return to his questioning

look and pranced into the club ahead of him, swishing

her cute butt in the tiny skirt. She knew she looked

hot. Of course, it would have been better if she

hadn't caught the heel of one of her new shoes on the

threshold and nearly had a catastrophic pratfall.

Alvin was laughing silently as he helped her regain her

balance. So much for being sophisticated.

When Alex came in to breakfast two days later, there

was a package where her plate usually was. It was

wrapped with a fancy covering and a huge bow. Since

they had returned from shopping, she had not seen

Alvin. She missed him.

"For me, Sir?" she squealed. It was like being a

little girl again.

"Of course! Alvin said you could do some light

housework, so I got you some work clothes."

"Oh, Sir," she faux pouted, "You spoiled the surprise."

He just grinned like the cat that ate the canary.

"Just open the damn box, Alex," he said, still

grinning.

Opening up the box was a simple affair. The top came

right off. When the two layers of tissue were opened,

he saw the puzzlement on her face, and then her eyes

went wide.

Alvin had let him know not to have intercourse with

her, but that didn't mean he couldn't fuck with her

mind. What was in the box would keep her stirred up

quite nicely until he could get her back in front of

the screens. He had been going slow with training this

new pet and now he had had to chafe for two weeks

because of the fucking creep. He had expected to be

fucking Alex by now and having her well under control.

His need was building and time was running out. He

didn't like delays.

He watched Alex pick up the shiny garments. One of the

boutiques did specialty latex garments. Since they had

her measurements, he had had a bra and panty set

specially made. As she would soon find out, they were

very special.

She had already noticed the thick and heavy crotch and

the extra weight in the ends of the bra cups. The

inner surfaces of both were knobby where they would do

the most good. There was one larger knob that would

nestle up and tease her cute little anus.

Her eyes wide, she slipped off the terrycloth robe she

had worn in from her shower. As usual, she was naked

underneath. Damon felt a stirring that he just barely

managed to get under control. This innocent child was

getting to him.

Slowly she stepped into the latex panties and pulled

them up her shapely legs. Higher and higher they

climbed. He realized with a jolt that she had turned

slightly to show her wiggling ass to best effect. She

was enjoying teasing him. The thick crotch piece

fitted between her legs and she tugged the sides up

firmly on her hips, seating the knurled surface tightly

against her own sensitive tissues.

The bra came next and it was tight by design. The

shape of the cups forced her breasts up and together,

and mashed her constantly erect nipples against the

thickened ends. She moved around experimentally and

grinned at him.

"Oh, Thank You, Sir!"

He thought she was going to run over and jump on his

lap, an act he wouldn't have minded at all. But she

restrained herself, but remained bouncing on the balls

of her feet.

"Come here," he said pointing to a spot in front of his

chair.

She came over to him, clasping her hands behind her

back, her head bowed. She was shaking with excitement.

He took his hand and ran it between her legs, stopping

to move the anal knob around until the sweat broke out

on her upper lip.

"Is it in the right place, Alex?"

"If you mean, is it sticking up my butt, then Yes,

Sir."

"Are you being smart with me?"

She hesitated. Then, in a more serious tone, "No, Sir.

Just very appreciative. Thank you very much, Sir."

"We'll see just how appreciative you are tonight," he

said ominously.

Raising his hand to her breasts, he ran his fingers

firmly over the tightly held globes. There was hardly

any movement between her natural firmness and the tight

latex binding them. Taking his thumb and forefinger of

each hand, he grasp the edges of the thicken ends of

the cups and squeezed. A hole, like a pupil in an

iris, opened in the center of the thickening. He

manipulated the openings around until he captured first

one, then the other of her constrained nipples.

Satisfied, he released his grasp on the clamps and they

tightened gently on the sensitive buds.

Alex' eyes flew open at that new sensation and her

knees buckled.

"OH! Sir! My... They... Thank You, Sir!"

He grinned at the aroused girl. He wondered how she

would make it through the day if that was all it took

to push her over the edge. He decided to give her a

demonstration of just how special this suit was.

"Alex? Walk over to that table and get me the orange

juice, please."

She headed for the juice bar with a happy smile and a

sexy wiggle in her latex cover hips. She never made

it. With a groan and a gasp she slid to the floor, an

orgasmic pile of flesh.

"Oh, my! Did I forget to mention the electrodes and

vibrators?" he said teasingly when she could finally

open her eyes and look up at him with a semblance of

coherence. "I'm sorry. I should have said something.

Anyway, there are tiny sensors scattered all around

this floor. They activate the suit when you are close

to them, like that one did. I want you to find them

all and tell me tonight at dinner. If you don't find

them all, then I will have to punish you."

He grinned down at her with a mischievous grin. He was

enjoying this.

"Since you're going to be in all the rooms on this

floor anyway, you might as well dust and vacuum while

you're at it. You should be able to find everything

you need if you look."

He paused. "And Alex? Don't leave this floor. If

there is an emergency, Alvin will come and get you.

Otherwise, stay here." It was an order and a threat.

It made her tingle and shiver at the same time.

He leaned down and kissed her sweaty forehead. "I'll

see you tonight, Pet. Oh, and one more thing. Put

your hair into that braid like I showed you. I like it

like that."

Bit by bit, he was taking control.

Chapter 10

It took Alex a short time to find the vacuum sweeper

and the feather duster. She figured she'd get that out

of the way first, then search for the sensors, then do

her hair. It seemed a simple enough plan.

By her third shattering orgasm, Alex was having severe

doubts as to the simplicity of her plan. Sure, she had

found the utility closet but after that, it was a blur.

As soon as she started sweeping, the rubbery suit had

started to vibrate and shock her. Tiny little shocks

that swept though her and numbed her reasoning powers.

Soon it was all she could do to drag the machine

around. After her third climax left her gasping on the

floor, it dawned on her. Mr. Smith had put one of the

sensors in the handle of the vacuum sweeper.

Armed with this theory, she rushed to the kitchen to

find something to take apart the handle. She found the

junk drawer and extracted a 6-in-one tool. Every

kitchen should have one! She wasn't daunted by the

task of taking the appliance apart. If she could fix a

tractor, she could disassemble a puny sweeper.

She lowered the handle of the sweeper so that it lay

flat on the floor. Then, lying on the floor herself

and extending her body away from the handle she pulled

it toward her. She found she could reach the screws

without activating the panties, although her boobies

were getting a workout. But she could live with it.

Carefully extracting the plastic switch from the

handle, she saw a small transistor taped to the switch.

She assumed it was feeding off the power cord and could

be so small, yet so powerful. She loosened the tape

and experimentally moved the tiny chip towards her

waist. At about three feet the electrodes and

vibrators in the panties kicked in. Oh, well. So much

for needing a power cord.

Because she was expecting it this time, the shock and

vibrations were less effective. Make no mistake, they

were still a thrill, but now she knew what to look for

and what the range of those little sucker was. Now it

was a game and she was back in control. Mr. Smith

would be so proud of her.

Methodically Alex swept the living quarters and the

other rooms on that floor, just like Mr. Smith has

asked. Every inch of it. She found 25 of the little

transmitters, though one of them had been really

tricky. Satisfied she had them all, she was positive

Mr. Smith would be very pleased with her.

She finished vacuuming and dusting the apartment. Then

she showered and braided her hair like he liked. It

was hard, as she wasn't used to doing it that way but

after a couple of tries, the thick braid lay perfectly

down the nape of her neck.

As she knelt in the dining room awaiting his return,

Alex had time to reflect on what she had seen today.

In one of the rooms next to Mr. Smith's, the one on the

other side from the room she had been using the last

two weeks, she had found her new clothes carefully

folded or hung. Because of that, she paid particular

attention to room.

The first thing she noticed was that it was small,

being more the size of a large closet. Or a cage. She

tried to push that thought from her mind, but it was

there, and kept coming back, nagging her. It felt like

a cage.

There was no knob on the inside of the door and the

lock was on the outside. The only door opened into Mr.

Smith's room. Fortunately Alex had seen that just

before the door shut behind her and she was able to jam

the tool she was carrying into the crack and stop it.

She briefly considered hiding the tool in the small

room for later, just in case, but quickly decided

against it. It might make things worse, rather than

better if Mr. Smith found it. And he could be watching

her even now. She hadn't seen any cameras, but she

really didn't know what to look for, either.

There were two shelves on which were folded her new

panties and bras and the hosiery. A short pole held

the dress, the blouses and the tiny skirt hanging

neatly on plastic hangers. There were three pairs of

shoes on the floor. Two were her new spike heels that

made her legs look so sexy. The third was a new pair

of running shoes in her size that he must have gotten

later.

The rest of the room was taken up by the bed. More

correctly, it was a sleeping pad. A thin, cloth

covered mat just longer than she was tall and flat on

the floor. It was only about three feet wide. At each

corner was a shackle set into the floor, two for her

wrists, two for her ankles. She would have very little

movement when she was locked in them, but, trying it

out, it didn't seem that uncomfortable. She would have

to get used to sleeping on her back.

What caused her to reflect as she knelt waiting for Mr.

Smith to come home was what she had seen while laying

down. From the corner of her eye, she saw something

that seemed out of place. Unless you were lying down

and twisted your head back and up, you wouldn't see it.

Certainly no one standing or kneeling would see it.

Alex scooted over and looked at the bottom of the

lowest shelf, about nine inches off the floor. There

were a list of names and dates. All women's names.

Gouged with fingernails in the soft pinewood of the

shelf. The oldest were dark, tinged with dirt and

dust, darkened by the oils left by fingers as they

traced over the impressions in the wood. As Alex'

fingers were. It was automatic. She touched each name

lightly, trying to bond with the ones who had stayed

here before her. Alex had no doubt she would be

staying here.

The dates were in rough columns and there were at most

two dates by each name. Two names only had one date in

the first column. The first column was titled "1st

dan." The second was headed by the cryptic word

"owned." The last date entered had been over a year

and a half ago.

Alex had lain there reading the names, memorizing them.

The ones with only one date tantalized her. The first

was almost eight years ago. The last one with a single

date was the last one on the list. She wondered what

had happed to those two women.

It finally occurred to her as she waited for Mr. Smith

that the girls who had come before had felt the need to

hide the list. Why did they need to hide their names?

From whom? She was no closer to an answer when he came

home. A shiver ran up her spine. Home. This was home

now.

Alex looked up at him smiling. He seemed surprised to

see her kneeling there, calm and clean, hair perfect,

the apartment spotless. No, not surprised.

Disappointed. Confused. Even a bit flustered.

He was even more flabbergasted to see, carefully lined

up at his place at the table, a neat row of tiny

transistors stuck to a piece of tape laying face

upwards. Unbelievable.

"Well, Alex. I see you have had an interesting day.

Your hair looks lovely."

"Thank you, Sir. Uh, it was fun, Sir. I enjoyed it a

lot, Sir."

You weren't supposed to fucking enjoy it, you stupid

bitch. You were supposed to be a quivering mass of

throbbing cunt by now. "Really? So. How many of the

sensors did you find?"

"Twenty-five, Sir. They're all there on the table.

Sir."

Damon froze. It couldn't be.

"How many?" he asked carefully.

"Twenty-five, Sir."

"Please count them again, Alex."

"Yes, Sir. But, Sir?"

"Yes?"

"I, uh, it would be really helpful if you didn't talk

while I was counting. If you could, Sir? Please?"

"Just go count them, Alex. Now!" He didn't know if

she was being insolent or what, but he was getting

pissed.

"Yes, Sir." She got up off her knees and move

cautiously to the table. She was carefully moving her

finger over one after another, silently counting. When

she was done, she stood up to move away from the table.

Damon had walked up beside her. "Well, how many?"

A look of terror crossed over the girl's face as she

heard his voice and she sank to the plush carpet and

started flopping around. Pain was etched across her

face.

"Sshhh, Sir. Please," she whispered to him as he

kneeled over her, alarm showing on his face.

Not liking to be commanded by a Sub to be quiet, he at

least had the sense to be silent. Alex rolled over on

her stomach and slithered in visible agony away from

the table. When she was about fifteen feet away, she

quit shaking and relaxed, relief written in her eyes.

"Twenty-five, Sir. I counted them. Was that all of

them, Sir? Are you going to punish me?" She sounded

hopeful. He wasn't sure if she was hoping for a

punishment or not, but right now that wasn't his main

concern.

Right now he was wondering where the Hell the extra

transmitter had come from.

Turning away from Alex he moved to the table. He

counted them himself. Twenty-five. Shit! He looked

at them again. They were so damn small. Wait! That

one. There was a tiny red band on it, so thin he

almost missed it. He picked it off the tape and went

back over to the girl.

"This one, Alex, where did you find this one?"

As he neared the girl, her eyes widened, then slammed

shut. Still holding the transmitter, he knelt down

beside her. Alex screamed and fainted, but the shaking

of her body continued, the electrodes buried in the

latex panties and bra still firing and stimulating her

insensate tissues.

Kicking himself, Damon tossed the transistor back on

the table. Lifting up the unconscious girl he took to

the room she had been using for the last few weeks.

The one with a bed. He had no doubt she had found her

new room. Two of the transmitters had been in there so

he knew she had had a chance to look at it well. He

was a little surprised she hadn't been trapped inside.

Maybe the door wasn't swinging shut fast enough. He'd

have to check.

He got a damp cloth from the bathroom and stroked it

over her forehead. She had been watching him for

several moments before he saw her eyes were open.

She smiled up at him. "That feel's nice, Sir. Thank

you."

He gazed down at the calm girl. He had a feeling he

may have misjudged her. But that was for later. Right

now he had to find out where the extra transmitter had

come from.

"Alex, I am very proud of you. You found all the

sensors I had hidden."

She was beaming up at him. "Thank you, Sir. That last

one, that was a mean trick you played on me, Sir."

"Which one was that, Alex?"

"You know, the one that only transmits when you talk,

Sir."

"Oh," he said easily. His blood, however, ran cold. A

voice-activated burst transmitter. Almost impossible

to detect in an electronic sweep. He was starting to

sweat.

"Uh, remind me where I hid that one. Was it hard to

find?"

"You bet, Sir. Would you like me to show you, Sir? I

found it in the storage closet where you keep all the

old furniture and stuff. Come on, Sir."

She grabbed his hand and started down the hall to the

storage room. It was huge, and there were a few things

in here he hoped she hadn't seen or looked through too

closely. But if there had been a bug in here, then

where else might they have been planted?

Damon grinned as he noticed she gave a very wide berth

to the table with the transistors. He grinned wider as

he realized the reason for it; she was still wearing

the latex suit. Maybe there was still hope.

Alex pulled open the door to the storage room and stood

aside for him to enter after flicking on the light

switch. She was proud of her afternoon's work, even if

she hadn't completely finished. A couple of more days

and the room would be completely organized. But

already it was spotless.

Damon stopped, stunned. He turned slowly to the girl,

his face a mask of anger.

"What have you done, you silly twit?"

"Sir?"

"What were you doing in here?"

"Sir? You... you said to clean and dust, Sir. It was

filthy in here. I cleaned it up. I can move the

furniture back like it was if you like, Sir. I was

just trying to make it neat and organized, Sir. For

you, Sir...." The girl's hopes of pleasing him dashed,

she was nearly in tears.

He stood, speechless. How could she be so stupid?

Nobody cleaned up a storage room. But, on the other

hand, she had found the bug. And the boxes with the

documents, those were untouched. He was safe. She

didn't know anything, and if she did, it wouldn't

matter in a couple of weeks. Keep in control.

Control, control.

"So Alex," he continued, getting a grip on his panic,

"Where did you find the sensor? You've moved

everything around and I've forgotten where it was."

Beaming once again, Alex moved over to a tall floor

lamp. It had been in his office in the club for

several years. Until just recently, in fact, when he

went with the more modern halogen lamps. Alex was

disassembling the lamp and pointing, showing him where

the transmitter had been. He felt sick.

He took the girl and led her back into the dining area.

She held back as she neared the table.

"Please, Sir?"

He looked at her dumbly, then realized she didn't want

to get within range. "That one is stronger, isn't it?"

"Oh, yes, Sir, and it hurts when it's real close."

"Hurts?"

"Yes, Sir. Like big shocks, only tiny. But lots of

them. It's a lot stronger than the others and it only

makes the shocks, not the vibrations. I'm sorry if

that's not clear, Sir."

"No, no. I'll take it back and talk to the

manufacturer." He pulled her closer. She came

reluctantly.

He started to say something and she blanched. He

withdrew to a safe distance with her.

"Why didn't you just take those clothes off?" he asked

her, exasperated.

"May I, Sir?" she answered, the bra already up over her

head, the nipples extracting from the iris clamps with

a slight sucking sound. The latex panties followed

immediately. She picked them up and folded them

neatly.

"Thank you, Sir. I enjoyed it, mostly. Sir." She

beamed up at him, like a small puppy awaiting her pat

on the head.

He gave her a warm smile he didn't feel like parting

with and, with a pat on the ass, told her to fix a

light supper for them. He watched as she fucking

skipped into the kitchen, her domestic instincts taking

over and keeping her fully occupied. Simple cunt. He

had other problems to worry about now.

After a light dinner he took her into the small room

next to his bedroom. The room where he kept his pets.

He put a hand on her shoulder and pushed down slightly.

Alex dropped to her knees readily and looked up

hopefully. She was moving her hands towards his belt

and zipper when he realized what she was expecting to

happen. What she was willing and eager to give him.

Her last virginity.

It wasn't time. Not yet. And he didn't want her to

give it. He wanted to take it. On his terms. Soon.

"Soon, Alex. Soon," he echoed his thoughts. He leaned

down and urged her to her back on the sleeping mat. He

fastened one wrist, then the other in the shackles by

her head. Her ankles followed.

Large tears welled up in her eyes. "Have I displeased

you, Sir?"

He looked down at the confused girl. He walked away

without answering her question.

He didn't know the answer.

Chapter 11

When the door closed, Alex cried for a while, then got

a grip and forced herself to stop feeling sorry for

herself. She wondered if those other girls had cried

here. Of course they had. But she would not cry over

such a silly thing. She would just have to try harder

to please Mr. Smith. She wasn't sure what had gone

wrong tonight, but she would try hard not to do it

again. Whatever it was.

She had some thinking to do, anyway. Those boxes in

the storage room, the ones with the documents. She

hadn't thought anything of them at first, but the names

of the girls had haunted her and drawn her to look

through them with more care. Each file had contracts,

releases and other legal papers as well as notarized

Powers of Attorney. She knew what those were. Her

best friend in high school and she had worked in the

office of the town clerk. Actually, her friend had the

job and got paid. Alex just shared it with her and

took her place for a couple of months when her friend

had to leave town for a while to have her baby. That

way she had the job when she came back. Alex was glad

to help.

But these were the same kinds of documents they handled

there. Estate stuff. Guardianship and Wills. She had

been fascinated by them, especially after a big local

scandal involving a race horse had been in all the

papers. She had asked a thousand questions to anyone

who would stop by her desk to flirt with her. At first

the lawyers and judges had been amused and given her

short answers. But she kept asking and the questions

got harder and soon, one or two of them had taken her

seriously. They had spent time with her and she had

learned and asked even more questions. If she hadn't

gotten married right after high school, she had wanted

to go on to the community college and then Law School.

But Harold had changed all that.

Still, she knew what a lot of those papers were. And

in the back of each file were the personal ID cards.

Driver's License, Social Security Cards. Some had

passports and credit cards. Thinking about it, she

wondered why Mr. Smith had them. Didn't the girls need

them anymore? She couldn't think of any reason she

would give up her Driver's License. It puzzled her for

a long time and she fell asleep, her first night as a

pet.

She awoke in a cold sweat. She knew why. If she

hadn't been shackled to the floor she probably would

have bolted out the door of the club and never looked

back. But the list of names on the bottom of the shelf

stared at her. Daring her. Challenging her. She wept

for those names.

As the long night passed into morning, she found she

had resolved to play the game to the end. It would be

dangerous. She would probably end up like them. But

with her marriage over she had nothing to look forward

to from Harold. In the last few months, she had seen

too much to ever just go back to the farm. She didn't

mind the work. That was fun.

But now she had seen a different side of herself. She

liked how she felt with Mr. Smith. She knew she needed

it. She needed to feel like she had that night, to be

so overcome with emotions that even a brutal whipping

on her pussy by a maniac would send her into the abyss.

Most of all, Alex knew she needed to be owned by him.

To be allowed to call him 'Master.'

It wasn't just for those selfish reasons, though. Alex

knew that Mr. Smith was probably going to mess with her

head, and selfish reasons weren't going to be strong

enough to keep her on course. But they could. She

could do it for them. For the names on the bottom of

the shelf. And for Petunia.

Alvin came and freed her in the morning. His eyes

searched hers as he worked on her wrists, rubbing them

and then her arms to stimulate the circulation. She

almost said something to him, but his brusque manner

made her hesitate. She liked him but she didn't know

which side he was on. He had been nice to her, but so

had Mr. Smith, for the most part.

Alex started to stand up, but he shook his head and got

her to her hands and knees. He fastened and locked on

her collar and leash and led her to the breakfast area.

Her bowl was ready. On the floor.

She looked up at him and gave him a wry grin. For an

instant, he grinned back, then went deadpan. She

started to reach for the bowl to pick it up but he

slapped her hands away and handcuffed them behind her

back. So that's the way it was going to be. Well,

they hadn't had a pet pig named Petunia to have pig
eating contests with.

She ate her breakfast with gusto, her face in the bowl.

She belched loudly as she sat back up, her face a

schmeer of eggs, jam and mush. She tried licking as

much as she could, but her tongue wasn't designed for

that.

"Alex! What do you think you are doing?" Mr. Smith

had come in while she was finishing her breakfast.

"Belching, Sir. And trying to clean my face, Sir."

"Don't get smart with me. I don't want to hear it

again."

She didn't see Alvin pleading silently to keep quiet.

She probably would have ignored him even if she had.

"Then don't feed me like a pig, Sir. Pigs belch

because they eat from a trough. Have you ever heard a

hog let one loose, Sir? You can--"

"ENOUGH, bitch! You are NOT an animal and you aren't

on your precious farm anymore. I expect you to act

appropriately!" Mr. Smith was out of his chair and

towering over her, his fists and teeth clenched. Alex

had no time to react, he moved so fast. Thundering

over her, he turned without touching her, tossed his

napkin, still tucked in his belt, on the table and

stormed out, grabbing his coffee and a piece of toast

as he left.

Alex grinned stupidly over at Alvin, who stood there

petrified, trembling at Mr. D's anger, his large eyes

two white circles in a mask of black fear. If Mr. D

had struck at her just now, Alvin would not have

stopped him. He couldn't have. Not yet. He had seen

him in just such a rage, about 18 months ago. The girl
had made a mistake, spilled his coffee or something,

then made a joke. Mr. D had flipped out. Alvin had

left as Mr. D was beating her with his fists. He

couldn't stop him and he couldn't watch. She had been

cuffed, just like Miss Alex. He had never seen the

girl again and Mr. D had never mentioned it.

Alex, watching as Alvin laboriously got his breathing

back under control, slowly grasped that she might have

made a serious misjudgment in sassing back to Mr. Smith

right then. She would have to watch herself. She was

making too many mistakes.

Without a word Alvin spread a damp towel on the floor

for her to wipe her face on. She did so with relish,

refusing to be humiliated by the beastly act. It

wasn't until he had had her crawl into the bathroom on

just her knees that he had said anything to her. She

wasn't sure she had heard correctly, but if she had,

she was lucky Mr. Smith had stormed out instead of

beating her up.

He had made her pee and poop in front of him. With her

arms bound behind her, she couldn't clean herself. The

giant lifted her up, gently, and set her down on a

bidet. While the toilet flushed and the water was

gurgling up cleansing her privates, Alvin had leaned

next to her ear, trying to reach the knobs behind her.

"Please be careful, Miss Alex. He beat his last pet to

death for sassing him. Watch what you say. To him and

to me, too. He's listening and he's watching us," he

had whispered quickly. At least, that's what she

thought she heard him say. He did seem honestly

frightened. So she went along with him.

Alvin had her crawl to the elevator on her knees and

took her up to the club level. It was the first time

she had been off the apartment level since Mr. Smith

had taken her shopping. That seemed like such a long

time ago.

Just before the doors opened onto the club level, Alvin

let her stand up and uncuffed her. Stepping off the

elevator, Mr. Smith was waiting for them. He was

holding her latex panties and bra. He handed them to

her.

Grinning widely at him, she fitted the thick crotch

piece in place, making sure he saw her contented sigh

as the knob settled against her asshole. She also

fitted her nipples into the iris clamps. Then she

presented herself for his inspection.

Mr. Smith just rolled his eyes at her, but he did give

a grudging smile. At even that small sign of

recognition, Alex giggled and hugged him like a little

schoolgirl. She felt his hands slowly go around her

and give her an answering hug. She let loose

reluctantly as those wonderful hands pried her off of

him. On impulse, she took one and kissed his palm as

she sank to her knees obediently by his feet.

Her head bowed, she couldn't see Damon's face. Or the

total disbelief on Alvin's. Damon stared down at her

for a long moment, then at his palm. He needed to get

back into control. This silly little farm girl never

let him get his balance. What she had just done meant

nothing. Nothing. Everything.

He had to get away, get back in control. Of her and of

himself. All she had done was find a bug that had gone

undetected for years and innocently told him. All she

had done was everything he had asked of her. And then

some. He had yelled at her. He had almost struck her.

Yes, that's what pets were for, but she wasn't ready

yet. The plan wasn't in place yet. Not yet, but she

was already so much more than any of the others had

been. He needed to get away from this bewitching

vixen, catch his breath.

Patting her on the head, then leaning down and kissing

her softly on the cheek he told her he would see her in

a couple of days. Alvin would work with her, but she

was to stay in her old apartment. He would call her

when to come back.

She beamed up at him and wished him a successful trip

and a speedy return. She rubbed her cheek suggestively

over his crotch, letting him know wordlessly that she

would be waiting for him when he returned. He broke

out in a sweat thinking of her soft mouth -- Stop!

She stayed where she was as Damon and Alvin walked to

the front of the club. He gave his club manager his

list of strange instructions, but didn't tell him why.

Let the SOB figure it out on his own. He had no doubt

that if there had been one bug planted, there were

others. He thought about the painful effect the

transmissions had on Alex. He was almost sorry for

her. Almost.

The limo was waiting to take him to the airport. He

had been called to give an account of The Dungeon's P&L

statement to the Board. His expenditures had been a

bit higher than normal this last quarter. So had his

profits, but to this Board that was never a

justification to spend more than necessary. He tried

not to think about Harold's and Marcy's accumulating

expenses that were already fucking up this quarter. If

that insurance money didn't come in within the next 90

days or so, he was going to have to hide those costs in

the operating expenses, and he hated to do that. It

screwed up the averages.

He wasn't going to tell the Board about the insurance

scam until the money was in his hands. It was safer

that way. Better for them to be surprised and pleased

when it came in than disappointed and pissed if it

didn't. Not that it wasn't a sure thing. He didn't

deal with anything else.

Still, he wasn't worried about the meeting tomorrow.

He ran the top club in the syndicate and he had for

years. He had earned a little latitude. He wondered

how he was going to get them to spring for the added

security measures he was going to install. He was now

convinced they were necessary, but how could he explain

his sudden about-face without admitting the security of

his own club had been breached. Then again, the

bastards probably already knew.

He'd suspected for a long time that Alvin was reporting

to them. He didn't have proof, and it was actually a

sign of their respect for him that they spied on him.

Either that, or it was a competing club wanting to

steal his secrets. Thank God his telephone line was

scrambled and secure. Regardless, they'd let him

squirm, but he'd get the security.

***

"Shit, Miss Alex, what's wrong with you?" boomed the

deep voice above her.

They had been walking around the bar for three hours,

just like Mr. D had told him to. Taking a break they

were sitting silent at the bar, sipping Cokes, when he

had said something and she had collapsed, flopping

around on the floor. Alvin was now crouched over the

thrashing figure, concern in his voice and his posture.

He just needed to know which way to strike out and he

would try to save her from her torment.

"Quiet. Please," she whispered.

"No, it's OK, here. He can't hear us here," he said in

normal voice.

Alex continued to thrash around and finally managed to

put her finger over his lips. He seemed to understand

she needed silence and slowly she was able to get

herself under control. She crawled away from the bar

area until she was a good twenty feet away. This

little bugger was even stronger.

Alex stripped off the latex panties to Alvin's amused

gaze. She stuck her tongue out at him. It wasn't as

if he hadn't seen it all before. He'd just have to

deal with it. The pain on her inflamed and unfulfilled

cunt was just too intense to keep them on. She would

leave the bra on and grit her teeth while they found

this new transmitter.

Walking back to Alvin bare-assed she giggled at his

expression. Maybe she ought to let him wear the

panties and see how he reacted when she shouted in the

transmitter. That made her giggle louder and she

detected the first stinging pains on her breasts that

indicated the chip was active.

Using the same technique she had worked out yesterday

in the storeroom, she sang a nonsensical nursery rhyme

as she quartered the bar, triangulating the source of

the stimulus. What she did was mark the floor with a

match torn from a matchbook, laid down by her toes

where she first felt the tingles. Then she would move

away and try from a different approach. It was simple,

once you figured it out.

Alvin sat silent, watching her with interest. He

didn't know what she was doing, but he recognized a

triangulation search pattern when he saw one. After

watching her mark three spots, he had already figured

out where the point of focus was. Miss Alex did two

more. She was either new at this or very careful.

Alex reached for a glass from the bar and carefully

placed it in the estimated center of the five points

she had marked. Her chest throbbed with pain, but she

fought through it. She looked puzzled. There was

nothing there where something was supposed to be.

Underneath, the bar was empty. She ran her hand over

the bottom of the solid wood. It was smooth and

natural. She looked at Alvin.

An enlightened smile flashed across her face as she

continued to look up, past his face, and up the hanging

shelf above the bar. There were recessed lamps in the

bottom, one directly above the glass. With as squeal

of triumph she hopped up on the bar and pulled the

fixture loose from the hole it was set into. Grinning

proudly, she plucked the tiny transmitter from where it

was taped and laid it on the bar. She replaced the

fixture and looked expectantly at Alvin.

She didn't know what to expect from him, but horror

wouldn't have been high on the list. He just sat

there, staring at the little silicon chip. Thankfully,

he was silent.

Making a snap decision, Alvin reached past her and

grabbed one of the bar aprons. He quickly bundled it

around Miss Alex, covering her nakedness, though she

was still showing a lot of leg. He headed for the door

of the club and hustled her outside and down to a small

neighborhood diner a block further down past the club.

She hadn't even known it was there.

Alvin was silent, thinking furiously. He was trying to

recall all of the conversations he had had within fifty

feet of that light fixture. He had swept the place

himself several times and had never found it. It was

one of the few places inside the club he had thought

Mr. D couldn't hear. The bug wasn't the latest

technology, so he had to assume that it had been there

for a long time. It would be too easy to make the

mistake that someone had bought it cheap and recently.

The people he dealt with didn't buy cheap. Neither did

he.

Then, the more he thought about it, the more he guessed

Mr. D didn't know about the bug, either. Maybe, just

maybe this would save his neck. If Mr. D thought there

was a rogue third party or even the Feds, just maybe he

could get out of this alive. He eyed the girl across

the table from him. He had a sudden hunch.

"Miss Alex, I'm sorry about grabbing you so hard."

"That's OK. What's for lunch? I'm starved!"

She grinned up at him. Being an interracial couple,

and her practically naked besides, they were causing

quite a stir in the little diner. She didn't think he

even noticed the stares of the blue collar men
surrounding them.

"Huh? Oh." He turned to the man behind the counter.

"Hey, Louie! Two specials and two strawberry shakes,"

he called out.

"Comin' up," came the answer.

Knowing Louie was apparently the key here, as the lunch

crowd turned back to their sports pages and lotto

picks, leaving the new pair alone.

"Miss Alex," he started.

"What's the special, Alvin?"

He glared at her. "How the Hell should I know? I've

never been in here before."

"Well, then. How do you know Louie?"

Rolling his eyes, he pointed at a spot above his heart

and waggled his finger back and forth. Looking as the

man behind the counter and squinting, she could just

make out his nametag, which proclaimed him "Louie."

"Oh."

"May I talk now?"

"Are you going to ask me what happened yesterday and

last night with Mr. Smith and me?"

"Should I? I'd hate to pry."

"Yes." She ignored his sarcasm.

He growled at her in exasperation and she giggled.

"Miss Alex, what happened last night? Please tell me

the whole story. I promise not to interrupt." He gave

her a sweeping gesture, as if she now held the floor.

He ended by cupping his chin in his hand, the picture
of rapt attention.

She stuck her tongue out at him for being a spoilsport.

She was having fun teasing him. Then, in a

surprisingly concise manner, she summarized the events

of the previous day, only leaving out the part about

the names and the documents in the box. He listened

intently, keeping his promise not to break in with

questions. When she was done, he just stared at her.

She realized they were both in the same predicament.

Could they trust the other? She hadn't really told him

anything he wouldn't have figured out eventually. But

she didn't know which side he was on. He was probably

wondering what the Hell she was up to, as well. Even

she wasn't sure of that herself half the time.

They were still eyeing each other speculatively when

Louie dropped the huge plates with the specials in

front of them. It turned out the special was the most

expensive item on the menu, a private joke among the

regulars. Regardless of the practical joke, the food

was not laughing matter. The thick steaks were tender

and cooked to perfection. The piles of hash browns and

heaps of tender buttered corn were also tasty. They

attacked the mounds of food with gusto. He finished

off what she couldn't eat, spearing her meat from her

plate without asking. In retaliation, she stole the

rest of his double-thick shake just as he was reaching

for it. He paid, and they left.

Now knowing what to look for, they searched the rest of

the club level. They found two more bugs planted in

the public areas, both near the satellite bars.

Whoever had placed them wanted to hear what was said at

the bars. It didn't make sense.

On a whim, Alvin took her into a large storage area in

the back. Two more bugs were found in some fixtures

they hadn't had a chance to throw out. But that table

and lamp set had been the one where Mr. D always sat

and watched the crowd. His private table. Alvin

didn't say but she saw the shiny brass "Private" sign

fastened to the edge of the table and suspected that

was what it was.

Mr. D's new table was clean, at least as far as this

type of transmitter was concerned. Undaunted, the pair

meticulously disassembled and inspected the entire

area. It was Alex' tiny fingers that discovered a tiny

ultra-modern chip in the leg of the table. She showed

it to Alvin, who just grinned. Now he knew who it was.

She was surprised when he made her put it back exactly

where she had found it, but she did it. They

reassembled the table and went to finish searching in

the office area. As they walked down the hallway,

Alvin leaned over and whispered in her ear, "If you

find one in here, can you pretend there isn't one? If

the answer is 'yes', trip on the carpet going in the

room."

Alex squealed as she tripped going into Mr. Smith's

office. Alvin barked at her to pick up her sorry ass

and get to work. She quartered the office, mentally

cursing him every time her tits throbbed. She had

found three. One in his desk lamp, one near the bar

and one in the chair Lewis had sat in the night Mr.

Smith injected him. Whoever was listening had heard

Mr. Smith threaten Lewis.

Alex used a series of obnoxious delays and gestures to

let Alvin know where the bugs were. They got pretty

good at 'yes' and 'no' by rolling their eyes. He was

smiling at her when they were finished, but they both

knew it was now a deadly serious game they were in.

Chapter 12

Harold came back to his old apartment frustrated and

pissed off. He looked around at the dump she lived in

and he couldn't believe how he had managed to survive

all those years living like this. Or how that bitch

who called herself Mrs. Wilson could call this 'home.'

The place was a fucking disaster. A squalid, vermin-

infested sty.

They had laughed at him today. At Suzie's Whorehouse,

out on Route 117. When he was living here, he'd been

going there every fucking Wednesday for almost a year

before he came home to his cold wife. He'd never been

laughed at before. It was humiliating.

He couldn't figure it out. For more than a month now

he'd been putting the wood to Marcy like John Henry

drove railroad spikes. All fucking day long, day after

day. He felt like he had been reborn, come into his

own, his virility greater than when he had been a

pimply-faced teenager. Then today, when he went in and

slapped down his new Gold Card, he had taken three of

the most expensive whores upstairs, booking them for

two hours. They had fucking fallen asleep waiting for

inspiration to strike him, but only after they made

sure the whole establishment had heard of his flop.

Inadequate, they had called him and then made him sign

the charge slip, including a huge tip.

To add insult to injury, he couldn't even get a twitch

in the vertical direction for his loving wife, the cold

bitch. It didn't even help to remember her bending

over the couch like last time, her tight little asshole

squeezing him dry as he humped her ass. There was

nothing. Nada. Zip.

He had to be so fucking sweet to her tonight, too. He

had hoped to get her in a good mode by balling her.

Then he could have gotten her to do anything. Sweet

talk the cunts and fuck them good. Then they'd do

anything for you.

He'd managed the sweet talk but she seemed cool,

distant somehow. Oh, she was very polite and smiled at

him, but she seemed sad, somehow. Probably that time

of the fucking month. Just his luck. There was no way

was he going to stick his dick in that smelly swamp of

a pussy, so maybe it was just as well to give his pride

and joy a well-deserved rest.

He had to get her to sign those papers. He shuffled

them in with a lot of health insurance forms, and

general information stuff from the company. There

wasn't a ghost of a chance she would even notice it was

there. Marcy had marked all the places for her to sign

with and "X" and highlighted it in a neon pink color.

He watched her as she waded though the forms. She was

fucking reading them! What did she expect to do,

understand Corporate America? She was from fucking

Hicksville, Minnesota, for Chrissakes!

He had to think of something else. He had to keep

cool. He-- they needed her cooperation for the plan to

get put into effect. Oh, God! She was reading the

life insurance policy and was checking the fucking

actuarial tables. He was an accountant and he had

trouble with those fucking things. ... Oh Shit! ...

No, thank God! It looked for a second like she was

going to ask a stupid ass question. ... There! One

signature. ... Oh, for fucking shit. Just sign the

damn things. .. Oh, Christ! Don't look back at what

you've already done. We'll be here all fucking night

and this place in giving me the creeps. What a rat-

infested shit-hole.

Alex finished signing the stack of forms and placed

them in a neat pile. They were an interesting

assortment of nonsense, almost enough to make her want

breeze through them without reading them. But Daddy

had taught her to never sign anything without

understanding it.

"Should I take these to the post office and mail them

for you, Harold?" she asked. "I think I have enough

money for stamps."

"Oh, no. Don't bother. I'll have Marcy drop them in

the outgoing mail when I get back. As an executive, I

get free postage from the company. It's one of the

special perqs." Fucking bitch just wanted more money.

Well, now that she had signed the forms, he was done

with her. She had gotten the last dime she was getting

from him. She could get a job and make her own money,

like he did.

Alex heard the name 'Marcy' and her heart broke in two.

She died a little, even though it had been over between

them for a long time. She had known, since she had

overheard the telephone call. True, Mr. Smith had not

used Harold's name, but she knew. A woman knows.

Hearing him speak the name of the 'other woman' so

easily in her presence was the hardest thing she had

ever heard. Yet she didn't cry. They still had to

spend the night together. He wondered if he would be

able to tell the difference in her, her increased

sensuality and her increased sexuality. She was still

his wife and she was ready and willing to give him

whatever he demanded. She hoped and prayed he wouldn't

take her mouth, but she would sacrifice even that for

her husband if that was what he wanted. In her heart,

she hoped he wouldn't, and she wasn't going to offer,

either. She was saving that for, for, well, she didn't

know what to call him.

Yes she did. She wanted to call him 'Master.' With

all her heart and soul, that was what she wanted. It

shook her to as that came to her, yet it calmed her.

Grinning wryly, she now understood her first

misunderstanding of what he said he preferred to be

called. He had told her, from the very first time they

had met. "Master Smith." He had known then and had

been so patient with her.

Unbelievably, Harold didn't want sex from her. He

didn't even undress before he went to bed. He acted

like the sheets were dirty or that there were bugs or

rodents crawling around the apartment. But soon he was

snoring and Alex was able to get back up and re-examine

those insurance papers.

She found them very interesting and vaguely familiar.

If she was reading all the paperwork correctly, what

Harold was involved in was a variation on a huge scam a

race horse owner had pulled back in Wisconsin. The

only difference was that in this case, Harold was the

horse. Back home, the guy had used a trumped up,

worthless old nag with a false, but documentable track

record. An altered ID tattoo here, a few charred

remains in a barn fire there, and the insurance company

was paying out a couple of hundred thousand bucks for

what amounted to a pile of overcooked dog food.

The insurance policy was too big. That's what made her

suspicious. That and the off-shore bank account. Why

did they need one of those? She thought long and hard

about telling Harold of her suspicions. She had

started to say something when she first saw the policy

stuck in among all the other crap. But she hadn't. He

wouldn't listened to her, anyway. He was too excited

about this, too involved.

She wondered how they had suckered him into doing this.

She figured they had made it seem like his idea, his

scheme. Now, he thought that this was his big break.

She was his wife and he needed her help to pull it off.

That made her an accomplice to it, plus she was the

named beneficiary. That explained the off-shore

account. They wouldn't be likely to check if he were

really dead. It was a risk and he was putting them

both in danger, but if he was willing to take it, she

would support him.

She did, however, make a couple of changes to the

policy. Minor checkboxes that wouldn't add much to the

premium, but added tons to the benefits as well as

splitting the deposit accounts. Just in case someone

else could get access to the account. Like Marcy. She

doubted he would notice.

What kept nagging at her was Mr. Smith's involvement in

the scam. She had already witnessed his ruthlessness.

Alvin even said he was involved with something to do

with Harold. But maybe Alvin was just saying that to

confuse her. He had tried to scare her by telling her

Mr. Smith had beaten a girl to death. She didn't think

he could, but, well, maybe. He had been very angry.

She was confused, pulled by her longings one way and

her gut the other. She so wanted to believe in Mr.

Smith, wanted him to be the Master she was longing for

that it was hard for her to believe anything bad about

him. She was even beginning to doubt he had really

killed Lewis. Maybe he was just scaring him. There

hadn't been any police asking questions or anything.

Harold left at first light. She had his coffee waiting

for him, made just like he liked it. He had tossed it

out, said it tasted funny. Marcy's was better.

She didn't say anything to him about the scam. Now,

she didn't care.

Alex waited for Damon's call for three days. She

wasn't idle. She borrowed one of her nicer neighbor's

sewing machines and made some alterations in the few

clothes she had. If she had learned anything from the

past couple of weeks, it was how to look sexy and how

to make clothes look as sexy as possible.

With quick and sure stitches and snips, she altered her

one remaining blouse, modified Harold's silk shirt and

then completely redid her Sunday dress. The white one

with the little flowers. When she was done, she stood

in front of the cracked mirror on the closet. She'd

probably best not wear this to church anymore, she

giggled to herself. She could see clear through it and

it fit a lot tighter now. She brushed her thumbs over

her protruding nipples and watched as they stiffened to

their full height. They were always aroused now, and

it made her feel sexy.

The slits up the side of the skirt had gone a little

higher than she had intended, but with the high

waistline the long skirt bound her thighs too much.

She could have cut the bottom off and hemmed it up, but

she rather liked the sexy effect of the slits. When

she twirled around the material flew up and you could

see her dark hair between her thighs. Oh, she felt

wicked. Wonderfully wicked.

Damon came back from his meeting late and furious. It

had not been the meeting he had been prepared for.

Someone was feeding them all the wrong information. He

was convinced now it was Alvin, and that made the

bastard expendable. He had just the thing, too. He

had picked it up from an untraceable source, but it was

delicious revenge. It was un-fucking-believable. Give

the guy a break, help him make something of himself,

and how does he repay you? Fucking stabs you in the

fucking back, that's how!

As soon as he had got to the resort he had sensed

something was wrong. First, the bitch was there with

her sniveling toadies. She never came to these low-

level business meetings. What was she doing here?

How a female had gotten on the Board was a topic of

much discussion, but Damon leaned towards the

inheritance theory. He had heard that she got on after

her husband died, leaving all the blackmail evidence he

had accumulated on everyone else in her fucking little

hands. Others said she fucked her way onto the board,

but even 50 years younger she would have been ugly.

Damon didn't buy that one. The most ridiculous theory,

however, held that she had fucking outperformed every

other director the company had ever had. Like that was

possible!

She had not avoided Damon right from the first

reception, as she usually did when they met. She had

several male 'secretaries' and attendants to care for

her needs and she wasn't really his type. Too wrinkled

and ugly, though he had only expressed that opinion in

his office. Privately.

Waggling her finger at him, she motioned him over to

her. Smiling and silently cursing her and her fucking

mother who gave birth to her, he made his way

gracefully over into her sphere of influence, edging

out some of the lesser toadies. She made him stand by

her, smiling and laughing. The directors were

constantly judged by their grasp of social graces, and

this bitch was the one board member you didn't say 'No'

to. Not if you wanted to keep your job, much less your

head.

By the end of the reception, an interminable length of

three hours, she had maneuvered him so that he was

somehow kneeling at the foot of her chair. Like a

fucking slave! Impossible, but she had done it.

Everyone there saw him kneeling, smiling and laughing

up at her. sucking up. They had to have seen, as she

had made several general announcements from her chair,

her fucking throne, her sharp nail digging into the

soft tissue of his carotid artery. If he stood he

would be committing suicide. In more ways than one.

No one but her sycophantic secretary could see her

lethal grip and that cocksucking bastard just giggled

until he peed his pants.

His public humiliation could have been mitigated at the

business meeting, but he hadn't been there. A junior

flunky he had never heard of from headquarters gave his

report and was promoted on the spot. The bastard had

been one of the bitch's toadies and had gotten the new

club in South Beach. It wasn't that Damon wanted to

move down there with all that money and beautiful

women, it was the principle of the thing.

He hadn't been at the meeting because he had been tied

up at the time. Literally. For the first time ever.

Elizabeth fucking Farnsworth had commanded --

Commanded! -- him back to her room. For a quick little

private chat.

She had roofied him. The date-rape drug of choice.

When he came to, he was naked, sore and confused, with

several days growth on his face. He couldn't move.

There was a slide show running on the hotel tv channel

complete with sounds, flashing through the pictures one

by one by one. A hundred or so. All of him. Over and

over, it just kept playing. Everyone in the resort

would see them and he was sure they would have been e-

mailed or posted on a web site also. He would have.

There were pictures of him sucking the bitch's cunt,

white semen running out of it and over his tongue and

down his chin. Others were of him kissing her wrinkled

ass, his tongue stuck way up inside it. One series

showed her pissing on his face, flabby thighs

straddling his head, his mouth open and a chunk of

brown shit on the tip of his nose.

Those kinds of pictures he could have lived down. And

live with. Given enough time. The photos with the

faggot secretary he couldn't. How could he explain

having an erection while sucking the guy's cock? And

those groans of passion, obviously in his own voice,

urging the fat cock deeper into his own ass, all while

pictures of him being sodomized by the little fucker,

who, incidentally, wasn't so little, were being flashed

on the screen for all to see and hear.

He had been bound with wire hangers and left for the

cleaning crew to find. They found him wearing a pink

lacy padded cross-dresser's bra and pantyhose with

enough lipstick and mascara to paint a small house. He

wondered where the pictures of him like this would show

up.

He had been thoroughly humiliated. By the time he was

freed, everyone had left the resort and his chartered

jet had been sent home. At least he hadn't had to face

them. There had been a ticket in coach class on a no-

name airline waiting for him at the desk, along with a

huge room-service tab. He knew better than to change

the reservation or upgrade. He would take it, take all

the shit she could throw at him. He had seen others.

The directors were tested. He'd never seen a test

quite like this one, but he was sure it was a test.

There was a note waiting for him, too. A warning. The

bitch wanted a five million dollar increase this

quarter or the local police would get a tape that would

make them reconsider a recent suicide in his little

town. Make it happen or else. His blood ran cold when

he saw the amount she was demanding.

She knew everything, even to the exact amount of the

insurance scam. And only one person could have helped

her.

Alvin met him just inside the club. He had obviously

been waiting for him in the small security office by

the front entrance. He'd probably been viewing his

copy of the pictures from the meeting. He wondered if

he had copies of the cross-dressing session.

The big man took his arm, gently, but firmly and

ushered him back outside the club and down to a rundown

diner a block down the street. The place was deserted

and no wonder. It was a fucking dive.

What his club manager told him stunned him. The place

was bugged and had been for years. Years! He had

thought they'd find maybe one or two, but almost ten

devices had been found. He was even more stunned when

Alvin told him about the ultra-modern devices only

recently out of R&D from the spy shops. very trendy,

very powerful and almost impossible to detect. He

didn't need to mention Alex' help in the search.

He reconsidered his previous assessment of Alvin's

loyalty. He had expected there to be a bug in his

office and that he would tell him about it. He had had

no reason to tell him of all three or of the newest

ones at his reserved table. He could tell Alvin was

worried, too. He probably had some things to hide, as

well. Any good club manager did a little business on

the side. The question was; Who was Alvin afraid of?

The obvious answer was the Feds. He didn't like

obvious answers usually, but this time he was going to

go with.

The reason he did was that Damon knew the bugs weren't

the Feds, so that meant Alvin wasn't working for them.

Convoluted logic, but it fit. The big guy was ethical,

had integrity and couldn't stand the sight of blood.

He was just a little dirty on the side. Damon could

live with that. He could work with that, too, and make

it work to his advantage. He filed that information

away for future use.

He felt better than he had in days. Much better. He

felt even better when he got his phone messages and

heard that the life insurance policy on Harold had been

filed. The agent had already received a favorable

reading from the company, too.

Alex answered his call on the first ring and was in his

office with a small overnight bag within the hour. He

had asked her if she wanted to continue her training --

he had used that word specifically -- and she had

readily agreed. He said he wanted her to stay with him

at the club until she was ready. He didn't say for

what or how long she would be here and she didn't ask.

He noticed she was more subdued than when he had left.

He wondered what had happened, but didn't pry. It was

a move in the right direction. He would just keep her

moving along that path.

He kept her standing in her new white blouse, sexy

short skirt and bare feet for about 30 minutes. He

wasn't busy and she knew it. He just wanted her to

wait. He was pleased to see she did so without

fidgeting or complaint. Things were coming together.

She seemed to be back under control, and right now she

was the key to her future. He'd show that bitch

Farnsworth, then shove his humiliation down her throat.

Then rip out her heart.

Alex sensed a change in Mr. Smith, too. He had no

humor about him now, no sense of joy. He was still

very polite, but he was cold, like he was dead. Her

heart ached for him, and she vowed to please him as

best she could.

She looked carefully around the room. Several things

had been changed, including the chair she had been

using for her education. Her training. The chair was

missing and the monitors had been moved. The security

cameras were active in each of the separate screens,

showing the various views of the club. They were empty

and still, except for the ones that captured Alvin

moving about the club. He was using something that

looked like a metal detector and was working

methodically around all the floors, walls and ceiling

of the club. Every once in a while he would put a

small mark on a large floor plan of the club. He would

look at it and shake his head.

She saw Mr. Smith watching her watch the screens. He

smiled nice, like he meant it and it set her heart

racing. She chided herself for reacting like a

schoolgirl then let her feelings go. It was what she

wanted, to please him. He was happy, and that made her

happy.

"I have you to thank for that, Alex. Thank you."

"Sir?" She didn't know what he was referring to.

He seemed puzzled that she didn't know what he was

talking about. Then it struck him. She didn't know

what a bug was, or had never seen one. He remembered

her reaction to the latex training clothes. She had

thought it was a game, a contest.

"Never mind. Are you ready to continue your training?"

"Yes, Sir!" she said eagerly.

He took a collar from his drawer, the same one she had

worn before, and fastened it around her neck. He

attached the chrome leash.

Without a word, he tugged on it and led her out of the

office. She followed obediently.

Chapter 13

They took the elevator down to the third level. It was

cooler down here and she could hear the thrumming of

big machines in some of the rooms they passed. The

doors were labeled for maintenance, furnace, HVAC, and

a huge freezer. There were also some huge vats of

water with pumps and filters running. They looked like

huge aquariums as there was some sand and plants in

them. She didn't see any fish, but she assumed they

kept the live lobsters for the special banquets in

them. The tanks were big enough to swim in.

Mr. Smith turned into a room about in the middle of the

building. There were only a couple more rooms further

down and then the hall opened up into a big space. It

was dark but she saw some equipment scattered around

the darkened space. The darkness seemed to draw her to

it, calling to her. It was such a brief feeling, then

Mr. Smith had unlocked the door and tugged her out of

the open hallway. She wasn't sure that she had felt

it. She shook her head. She didn't believe in such

nonsense and superstition. It was just her excitement

affecting her.

The training room was Spartan but spacious. Two large

screens, a locked cabinet, and an apparatus made from

steel tubing, mostly. There were some rings set into

the floor and some wires hanging from the ceiling with

hooks on them. The sight of them made her shiver in

anticipation. There were wires running from the

cabinet to the apparatus.

That was what drew her attention. It was fashioned

from tubular steel and was set firmly into floor. The

body of the frame was a single tube in an 'L' shape

about two feet tall and one foot long across the base.

From the top of the 'L' extended a centered crossbar

about two feet wide. A post from the center of the

base was embedded firmly into the cement of the floor.

There were two protrusions sticking up at different

angles from the base, angled slightly towards each

other. Alex had an ominous feeling where those were

supposed to go.

Below the base, attached to the base were two

extensions pointing forward and out. They reminded her

of the stirrups in the OB-GYN office. All of the parts

were adjustable, polished and gleaming in the bright

spot lights focused on it.

"How do you like the chair?" he asked.

He called it a 'chair.' Now she knew why those knobby

things had filled her with dread. No, not dread.

Uneasy anticipation.

"It looks uncomfortable, Sir."

"HA!" he burst out, as if that was the least of his

concerns. When she thought about, she supposed it was.

It pleased her that he wasn't concerned with her

comfort, in a perverse way. She wanted to experience,

to feel to the fullest whatever it was he had prepared

for her.

Unsnapping her leash, he directed her over to an open

area. He opened the cabinet and she could see an

assortment of electrical equipment. He pushed a button

and music flooded the room. Music with a strong

seductive beat, music that went straight to her pussy
and tickled her. It was the same music that she had

heard on the videos. The videos with the girls
dancing. Beautiful, sensuous dancing.

He watched her as she moved to the music. Her

programming was already taking effect and she didn't

know it. Her moves were much improved from just a

month ago. He found it hard to believe that that

awkward housewife was the same person as the sexy vixen

in front of him now.

After a while he moved behind her and let her feel his

arousal. Soon he would satisfy his lusts, but first

she had to be his and his alone. He moved his hands to

the top button on her blouse. It came undone.

He could feel her shudder as the cool air brushed

across the slight opening in the blouse. He moved his

hands to the second button and her hands interrupted

his. Turning to face him she slowly and sexily

unbuttoned the entire blouse. Teasing him a little,

she turned away and bared one shoulder, pulling the

blouse off that one side.

Damon smiled at her playfulness, encouraging her. Soon

she bared the other shoulder and turned to face him.

She was holding the blouse to her chest, but not to

hide from him. She was teasing him with the

infuriatingly slow descent of her hands.

One nipple popped into sight and for a long agonizing

moment stood alone. It was joined by its twin

eventually and the blouse fluttered to the cold

concrete.

If anything, the sensuality of her movements increased

as she danced topless. She caressed her body without

touching it, teasing both of them with the promise of

pleasure withheld. Her hips moved on their own accord,

the short skirt flipping up, flashing her charms at

him.

Damon looked pointedly at her skirt. Her fingers

fumbled from excitement as she worked with the closing

button. She finally opened it and slid the zipper

down. She made no pretext of teasing him this time.

She had dreamed of this moment from the first time she

had seen the video. She had wanted to dance naked for

him, to arouse him, to please him. She hadn't been

conscious of her longings, but now she knew. This was

what she wanted.

Damon let her dance, and was pleased. He took a black

silk cord from his pocket, smooth, soft and very strong

and handed it to the writhing girl. The four foot

length wasn't short, but wasn't overly long. It was

the final piece of the dance.

Alex accepted the cord without breaking her movements.

The cord hung motionless, trailing on the cold floor.

Then it moved with her, to her, caressing her as if it

had a life of its own. First it wrapped itself around

her left leg, curling slowly from the thigh down to her

ankle. She stopped momentarily, as if surprised at its

soft embrace. Then in a trance, she pulled the end in

her hand upwards, letting the length of the cord rub

against her aroused center.

She repeated the move with the right leg and then

pulled it up so that it rubbed her inflamed clit. She

was moaning and sweating now, fully aroused. She was

aware Mr. Smith was in the room, but she was dancing

for the love of the dance now, totally immersed in the

sensuality of her body.

The cord found its way between her thighs, held by one

hand in front and another behind her body. Back and

forth it sang, making music like a bow on a violin.

Faster and faster, grunting with the effort.

The music stopped. She hung there, on the edge.

"Stop!"

The command came like a slap in the face. Wild-eyed

she looked up at the man who controlled her,

manipulated her. Her breathing ragged, her senses

dulled for everything but fulfillment not achieved.

Aching, she turned to him, her controller, moving to

him as he directed her.

Damon took the silken cord from the trembling figure

and drew her hands behind her back. Starting with her

wrists, he bound them tightly, winding the cord up

higher and higher on her forearms, pulling them

together until her elbows touched. The girl groaned

but did not complain. The pain kept her on the edge

and, as she had sought pleasure, she now embraced the

pain she was feeling.

It wasn't enough to push her over, however, though he

would have allowed it without punishing her. This

time, at least. He wanted her to experience as much

pleasure as possible during this phase. In fact, he

wanted to drive her crazy with lust. From this moment

on, his little project would never be without some sort

of insidious stimulus. In two weeks, she would be

putty in his hands. Totally.

Damon led her over to the apparatus and backed her up

to the center bar, her legs straddling the base. He

lifted her bound arms over the crossbar at her back and

urged her gently to sit down. She knew without looking

where the knobs were aimed and, in her present

condition, was looking forward to them invading her.

Perhaps they would provide her with the relief she so

desperately sought.

She screamed as they impaled her, front and rear. They

weren't long but they were much thicker than Harold

was. Unbelievably, he was still all she had to compare

anything to, although she had seen pictures. And she

had felt the hugeness of Mr. Smith. Alex moved her

hips back and forth, forcing the thick knobs to touch

each part of her throbbing tissues. She came again and

then again, finally slowing in her frantic motions.

The crossbar lay comfortably between her upper arms and

her back. Well, almost comfortably, but Alex relished

the awkwardness of it. Mr. Smith seemed fascinated

with the effects this position had on her breasts,

making them rise and protrude. She had done something

similar with Cathy, her best friend from high school.

They were vamping at a sleep-over, pretending to be

sexy models or something.. Then, she was exploring all

the aspects of her newly developed boobies, and the

feelings she had then were nothing what was coursing

though her body now.

Her legs fit naturally into the stirrups below the

chair, her knees splayed outward. thick leather straps

just below the knee and around the ankle kept them

firmly in place. The chair was actually much more

comfortable than she had imagined when she first saw

it, but then, she was hornier now than then.

Damon moved to the cabinet and pushed a button. The

training chair was already programmed. Four sessions

in it and she would be a mindless automaton, seeking

pleasure, pain or oblivion, at his command. He watched

for a while then left the room as the deeply imbedded

vibrating and throbbing probes sent the first shocks

through her lower body. In later session he would add

the electrodes for her nipples, navel, toes and tongue.

The shocks today would build through pleasurable levels

to painful ones, increasing in strength until she lost

consciousness. When the chair sensed her collapse, the

program would pause automatically as she recovered,

then start in again at a lower, more tolerable level.

It would build again, forcing her to accept greater and

greater stimuli, until that line between pain and

pleasure were forever blurred in her mind.

The visual and audio cues were designed to complement

the physical feelings of vibration and electrical

shock. He had spent thousands of dollars developing

this training machine and the programming for it. It

had paid for itself many times over. He used it not

just to train his pets, but practically every dancer

that came through the club spent time on it. After

being trained, there was never any problem getting them

to do those lucrative private parties.

Lots of dancers wouldn't do those private gigs. Word

got around. It wasn't all uncommon at these orgies

that the dancer would be 'accidentally' snuffed in the

drug-induced debauchery, if not permanently scarred or

disfigured, but they were easily replaced.

Pets were another matter. They fed his need for total

control. They would be pampered, coddled, used, and

abused, at his beck and call, totally subservient.

When he was sated, he would share them, with only a

select few at first, then with any who could pay the

price. It was a very high price, as his pets were

always the best of the best. There were many who would

willingly pay the price, however, and the pets would

rush to do his bidding, begging for more. When they

were of no more use to him, he would put them down,

gently and with care, as a good master should.

Damon knew this pet would be different, though. He had

to get as much out of her as he could, while he could.

He resisted the nagging tug he felt at his heart as he

thought of the exuberant and free spirit she offered so

willingly to him. He shut out the faint nudge that

said this one was special. That she was the one.

In a rage, Damon envisioned Elizabeth Farnsworth's

wrinkled cunt hanging over his face, her piss running

into his eyes and mouth. He shoved any thoughts of

reprieve for the girl in the chair out of his mind.

Pets were replaceable and cheap. He had a deadline

approaching and five million dollars to make. It was

her tough luck she was in his way.

Alex was lost in a sea of emotions. She was cleaning

the bar in the afternoon, naked, after her first

training session. Everything she touched, saw, heard

or smelled reminded her of a hard cock or a steamy

cunt. She had cravings she had never felt before. She

wanted to lick a woman and suck up her juices. She

wanted a cock up her ass. Not just any cock. A big,

hard one.

She had had trouble getting out of the bathroom.

Urinating tickled her clit. Shitting was so

pleasurable she screamed in orgasm. The bidet made her

shudder several times over before Alvin had found her,

her genitals looking like wrinkled prunes.

She had seen the dance for the first time. The whole

dance. She knew what he wanted, now. It didn't

surprise her that it was what she wanted, too. With

her whole being, it was what she desperately wanted.

The girls in the tapes had danced. Oh, they had

danced. Moving, touching, flirting, their clothing

dissolving into the darkness. They moved in a

brilliance of light, on a stage, a man on a stool in

the shadows, watching. Not a man. Their master.

They danced for him. Only for him. She could hear the

shouts, the whistles of the others, but there was only

one man for whom they danced. The shoulders would

bare, then the beautiful breasts. The shouting would

increase as the dress would tease its way over the

grinding hips. Then the wisp of lace, so fragile, so

futile in its attempts to cover or protect.

The girls would dance in their hosiery and their heels,

the only thing left from their apparel would be a black

cord. Her cord. She knew it was the same one. She

could sense it, feel their sensuality flooding through

her bound arms. She watched as they let the cord touch

them, caress them, binding it around their breasts,

spanking the ends teasingly on their throbbing nipples.

Then winding it around their bodies, twining it in

their hair, teasing the master, begging him, seducing

him. The cord would wrap around their neck, sensuously

sliding, tightening, frightening in its grip, willing

to give even this to the master, their very breath,

then slowly relaxing, shuddering in climax the cord

would sink, lower and lower, touching the private area,

the master's garden.

At a sign from the master, the dancer would move to the

shadows, swaying, pleading for his touch. The hands

would move, touching, caressing, reassuring the girl.

The cord would once again wind around her body, this

time at the control of the master. Binding her wrists

behind the back, elbows touching. It was what he

wanted. His soft lips on her nipples, possessing her

soul, then urging her back to the stage.

Looking back at the master, the dancer would dance once

more, seeking his permission. She needed release and

on the floor was a pillar of flesh, an erection, a tool

for her to use. Lower her hips would sway, lower and

lower, balancing on her high heels until she would

scream, impaling herself completely on the phallic

organ. Looking always at the man in the shadows.

Seeking to do his pleasure.

Another man, then another would join her on stage,

filling her cunt, fulfilling her needs as she looked at

the man in the shadows. She was pleasing him, dancing

for him, fucking for him. man after man, in her cunt,

in her ass, in her mouth. Alex was jealous of the

dancers who could take a man between their breasts,

tittie fucking them. She felt inadequate, somehow,

incomplete.

When the dance was done, the master would be gone. The

shadows dark, the stool empty. The lights faded and

the dancers slept in a pool of fluids, sated.

Over and over the videos had run that day. Over and

over the probes had driven her slowly insane, filling

her with strange desires and cravings.

It was hard work cleaning the bar. When she didn't do

it right, Mr. Smith or Alvin would lean her over a

table and whip her. Never in the same place, so she

never knew where she would be whipped. The lashes

across her bare feet hurt as she limped back to the

bar. Mr. Smith had done those. Strange, the lashes

from Alvin didn't hurt as much. But he was very eager

to punish her until finally Mr. Smith was able to

leave, knowing Alvin would do a good job whipping her.

Alvin sighed a deep sigh of relief when Mr. D finally

left. Miss Alex was in bad shape, dazed and totally

pliable. Those blows the bastard had landed on her

feet hadn't fazed her loyalty to him one bit, but they

would hurt for days.

He knew the program she was going through and had

participated in it before with others, dancers. Never

at this level, and never with one of Mr. D's pets, but

since the business meeting, Mr. D had been different.

Friendly, almost, and that scared the shit out of him.

That man was an explosively dangerous mix of psychotic

and genius. But keeping close to him meant keeping

close to Alex and right now, he was all the friends she

had.

Alex presented herself to Alvin, the bar sparkling. He

inspected it carefully. He would punish her for any

infraction. He had to, if he wanted to keep Mr. D from

doing it. Finding none, he leaned her against the bar

and whipped the backs of her thighs. Not surprisingly,

she accepted the beating and didn't complain.

He knew Mr. D was in his office. "Go down and clean

the apartment."

"The whole floor, Mr. Alvin?" she asked him innocently.

Something in her question struck her as not quite so

innocent.

"Of course, Miss Alex."

The look she flashed at him for the barest of instances

made him wonder what she was doing, but if was

obviously the answer she had wanted. He hoped she

wouldn't get them both killed.

Alex went downstairs and immediately got out the

sweeper and the feather duster. The apartment was

still pretty clean from the last time she was down

here. Mr. D came down once and slapped her tits,

making her ears ring. She was beginning to like the

pain when he gave it to her and she didn't mind.

Then Alvin came down and would give her more

reasonable, if unwarranted punishments. Keeping an eye

on the clock, she timed his visits. As soon as he had

left for the third time, she made a bee line for the

storage room.

It hadn't changed since she had been in here with Mr.

Smith. Going directly to the boxes she rifled through

them and pulled one item from each of them. It only

took her two minutes and another two to secrete the

items where she can get them.

Alvin came back down and she was sitting on a chair

playing with her pussy, fingering herself towards what

appeared to be a tremendous climax. That is, until he

saw her eyes watching him. She was acting.

He stormed over to her, and taking his lead from the

nod on her head threw her against a buffet table. He

saw her hand snake out and grab something behind the

center piece, but only because he was looking for it.

Playing his part, he beat her severely, until she fell

to the ground, grabbing his feet and kissing them,

begging for mercy.

Her last words, as she collapsed were "Why? Tell me

why?" She wasn't acting.

Mr. D met him as he came off the elevator. With a nod,

he simply said, "Good." As he had suspected, he had

been watching. He stood there as the doors closed,

watching Mr. D. He was afraid to move. Whatever it

was Miss Alex had shoved inside his instep on his shoe

was coming out.

Bending down and retying his shoe, he palmed the stack

of plastic cards in his big hands and went to the front

door. He called down to the apartment and told Mr. D

he was going home, and what time did he want him in the

morning? Getting an early hour, he said 'Good Night'

and left.

Damon nudged the faintly striped figure on the floor

with his foot. He had watched every encounter between

the two and was pleased. The black man was almost as

ruthless as he, but the marks would fade in a few

hours. Alvin could take over this part of the

training, the constant breaking down of self-esteem and

infliction of pain. That would mean he would have his

afternoons free for the next three days to do his own

investigations on the source of the bugs. Well, not

the source. But who was listening. And who had

planted them. With Alvin cleared, he was fresh out of

suspects.

Leaving Alex on the floor, he remembered something he

had meant to do earlier. Since she was going to have

free rein of the club and the apartment for the next

few days he would need to lock that storage room. He

took a key out of his pocket and went to the room at

the end of the hall. On an impulse he opened the door

and peeked inside.

Everything was as it should be. He shook his head. He

really shouldn't keep that stuff. Oh, he was probably

safe, as the pets had never been reported as missing or

shown up dead. These were the mementos he kept of

them, of their time together, as a boy with a dog might

keep a treasured photo of the two together at the

beach. Or the nametag on the collar. Well, he had his

videos and his pictures. And he had their papers,

their identities that they had surrendered to him.

Those were his mementos, in those boxes.

He stepped back out and locked the room. He pocketed

the key.

Chapter 14

Alex realized Mr. Smith had not been idle while she was

working in the bar. It was, if she had to admit, quite

clever. Diabolically clever. It was, she decided,

driving her insane. Sweetly and pleasurably insane.

She watched the big armature stop and the end of its

long arc, then slowly gather speed. Gritting her teeth

to keep from screaming again, Alex watched the pendulum

sweep towards her crotch, then lift just as it was

about to touch her and lift away, decelerating.

Alex had woken to the dripping of cold water on her

heated and inflamed skin. Mr. Smith was standing above

her holding an ice cube. The melting icy drips were

creating small shock waves within her, striking with as

much effect as the crop had earlier.

Immediately she had rolled over on her knees, head to

the ground and groveled, begging, pleading for mercy.

He had laughed at her pleading and nudged a bowl at

her. It was slop, but she was starving. She placed

her hands behind her back and bowed to the bowl. As

daintily and lady-like as she could, she ate the

contents. It was watery and weak. Near starvation was

one of the keys to a successful brainwashing. He held

life and death in his hands, not just pain and

pleasure.

She tried to crawl, but collapsed. Weeping from her

inadequacies, she used her arms to crawl into his

bedroom. He had pushed her a little too hard the first

day, and she wasn't done yet. He waited for her by the

cage door while she used the bathroom and crawled to

his feet.

He helped her put on the latex panties and the latex

bra. She watched as he had unplugged them from the

charging unit next to his bed. She was to make sure

they were charging when she wasn't wearing them, he

told her.

Then he let her lay down and shackled her to the

sleeping mat. Looking up at him and then past him, she

was something from and Edger Allen Poe story. Only no

big blade. Just a pendulum.

She was wishing it was a blade. Mr. Smith had taped

one of the sensors to the end of the armature. As it

swung towards her, the shocks and vibrations would

strengthen. As it moved away, they would weaken and

then stop. Then start again. And again. And again.

With her last sane thought, she looked to the bottom of

the shelf and promised them that she would help them.

She wasn't sure if she slept, but morning came.

Finally. Mr. Smith released her and let her use the

bathroom. Then he took her into the kitchen and, while

he ate a breakfast of bacon and eggs, toast and coffee,

she sipped the water that was in her bowl. She didn't

complain.

Finishing his meal he tossed her a crumb of toast. She

snatched in mid-air and kissed his hand. He seemed

pleased with himself.

Again, they took the elevator to the third level and

went to the room. Alex heard the voices stronger this

time. She shook her head. She was going crazy.

She danced for him. He made her dress first, then take

them off. She didn't mind. She saw his eyes looking

at her. He wanted her. She wanted him to and moved

and lewdly and wantonly as she could. She caught the

smiles he gave her and she floated in ecstasy.

He bound her again with her black cord. She rubbed her

breasts on his chest and he stopped to appreciate their

firmness. She mewled and purred to him. Gently he

lowered her into the chair. The probes were larger

today and filled her uncomfortably.

Mr. Smith retrieved a small stainless steel bowl and a

towel from the cabinet. He laid the towel over her

leg. In a small jar, he whisked a frothy foam with a

stiff brush. He took an ivory handled razor from his

pocket. It was an expensive tool, extremely sharp,

just like Daddy's straight razor.

Daddy had had a strop hanging on the back porch. Alex

would love to watch him caress the gleaming blade up

and down the thick leather strap, the hiss of the blade

the only sound in the cool morning air. With a foamy

grin at his favorite daughter, he would start the

process of scraping the follicles from his face.

Just like Mr. Smith was scraping her bare. Trying to

remain still as the razor caressed her mound, cleaning,

baring her. She screamed, the tensions and feelings

culminating in an orgasm approaching the best ever.

Drained, she watched him finish, skillfully cleaning

her, leaving only a narrow wedge of pubic hair, just a

hint of her womanhood. She hadn't been a hairy woman

down there, but now she felt salacious, free and

delightfully wicked.

When Mr. Smith lowered his head to her privates, she

squealed her joy, over and over. Cunt-licking was

every bit as wonderful as she had imagined. Again and

again he brought her up to and over the edge of sanity,

pushing her harder and harder into the fathomless abyss

of mindless pleasure. He was deliberately cruel in his

manipulation of her, teasing when she needed to be

fulfilled and she craved more stimulation and then

tonguing her relentlessly as she fought for her breath.

Finally, she relinquished her body to him and was swept

away into oblivion.

Sensing her complete surrender to his tongue, Damon's

eyes coldly assessed the convulsing figure. She was

easier to control now, easier than he had expected. No

matter, she would still get the full training, if

somewhat accelerated. He still had to try to make some

profit from this investment, and, if all went according

to plan, she would have a rather short profitable

period. And he needed to slake his desires, too. His

needs were building.

Just before he turned on the chair for the day's

programming, he attached electrodes to her clitoris and

her nipples. He pushed the button and dimmed the

lights. She would be alone with her nightmares for the

next four hours.

Alex fought to keep sane. She was tired and the

experience of being shaved had thrilled her beyond

anything she had imagined. And he had touched her. It

was the first sexual touch her had given her. Her body

craved for more and more and was demanding, insistent.

She fought for a few minutes. She had to remember.

Today there were photos. She didn't recognize all of

them, but some of the models now had names. From the

drivers licenses she had taken from the storage area.

She had just about pissed on the rug when Mr. Smith had

gone in there. It was now locked. She had studied the

small plastic cards in secret, memorizing the names.

She recognized all of them. Now, as they flashed on

the screens, happy, gay and beautiful, she talked to

them.

She heard their voices, dubbed over the photos that

showed them being whipped or fucked with dildos by a

big leather-clad woman, begging for more and more. She

knew how they felt. They just wanted to please their

master.

Alex wondered if he was their master yet, when the

pictures were taken. They didn't use that word, or at

least not all of them. Maybe some of them held out,

maybe some--- Ahhh!

The electrodes on her clit and nipples, sensing her

lack of a proper response to the other stimuli, got her

attention back. The machine, designed to break any and

all resistance, whipsawed the bound girl between agony

and ecstasy for the rest of the morning. It was easier

not to fight the machine and Alex surrendered to the

demands made of her body and spasmed her way to

oblivion.

Mr. D left Alvin in charge of his project, saying he

would be back by 5:00. Alvin knew the routine. But he

broke it. As soon as the door closed he curled Miss

Alex around his feet in the small security room and

told her to sleep. She was out before he stood up.

He had seen the devastating results of the same methods

of brainwashing used on his comrades in 'Nam. Sleep

deprivation coupled with starvation, beatings, loss of

identity and humiliation. He knew about that machine

in the basement, too, and had no doubt it was many more

times more effective when the victim was totally

helpless to resist any suggestion or demand. He was

worried about this innocent little farm girl at his

feet.

Alvin had gone home last night and spread out the worn

and expired driver's licenses on his kitchen table. He

had known three of them in his time at the club.

Another he had known in another life. A knife went

through his heart. Again. He thought he was over her

by now. It had been almost ten years. Ten years

since...

Miss Alex had given these to him. Why? She had

risked, had begged for a severe beating to pass them to

him unobserved. Why? That was the question she had

asked. Why? Why?

He was asleep when it hit him. Why, indeed? Why did

Mr. D have them and not the girls? Why, unless they

didn't need them anymore?

What the Hell had Miss Alex found?

Alex woke up screaming, in another part of the bar, a

glass of juice next to her on the floor. Alvin was

standing above her, bellowing at her to clean up that

juice. The whip that had woken her slashed down once

more, landing solidly on the floor by her hand. He

missed her completely. Throwing him a quick smile, she

gulped down the juice. She could taste the raw eggs

mixed in it. Not her favorite, but it was nourishing

and full of vitamins.

Alvin beat her soundly after she had finished the

drink, making her body look as if she had been thrashed

regularly all afternoon long. She even rolled over on

her back to let him have easy access to the front of

her naked body. She held her hands by her side,

defenseless. Their eyes met and his hand with the whip

faltered. She willed him to continue with her eyes.

They both knew the risks he had taken by letting her

sleep and feeding her. He didn't look away as he

lashed her repeatedly.

She glanced down at his crotch as he stood.

Interesting, she thought to herself. He enjoys it, but

not this way. His consternation touched her and she

realized she had made the right decision. The other

pets would be safe with him.

That night after the watery gruel, the pendulum swung

and Alex screamed until she was hoarse. She looked at

the shelf of names and they laughed at her courage.

Damon opened the soundproofed door to his pet's room to

a nicely deranged cunt. He didn't like to hear them

screaming, so he took the risk of not bugging that

room.

Today she would start the next phase. He would begin

to ask her to sign the papers giving him control over

her. Up until now all of his pets but one had given

him ownership by the end of the third day. The pet

that had hesitated had come screaming to him on the

fourth. He had made her pay dearly for that delay.

After a breakfast of water and another tossed scrap of

toast, Damon led Alex back downstairs.

It was a repeat of the prior day. She dressed, she

danced, she stripped. He bound her and tied her to her

chair.

"Pet, I want to this to be special between us. I want

to make this permanent, what we have."

"Sir, I would like that, too, but I am married. I

can't until I am free from my marriage vows, Sir."

"Don't be ridiculous, Pet. No one takes those vows

seriously anymore."

"But, Sir, if I don't take them seriously, how will you

ever trust me to take my commitment to you seriously?"

"Pet, I don't want to be your husband. I want to be

your Master."

"M- master?"

"Yes. You'd like that, wouldn't you? To call me

'Master'?"

"Oh, yes, Sir! With all my heart, Sir!"

"Then sign the papers, Pet. Then you could call me

'Master'."

Alex wept bitterly and Damon knew he would have to work

on her more, to soften her up. Oh, well, it had been

worth a shot.

As if forgiving her her intransigence, Damon leaned

toward the bound figure and kissed her forehead softly.

He dried her tears with his fingers and whispered in

her ear.

"That's OK, Pet. Maybe later."

He walked over to the cabinet and took out a small

leather packet. He always enjoyed this part. He had

always considered this the beginning. From here on,

there was no backing out. Smiling contentedly, he went

back to the waiting girl.

He laid the leather packet on her thigh and unrolled it

slowly. He could sense the dread as the gleaming

needles, hooks, blades and pliers were gradually

revealed. He took a sharp blade and drew it softly

across her breasts. Even that light touch left a

bright red line in its wake, occasionally spotted with

a droplet of blood. He licked the droplets and kissed

Alex on the mouth. She eagerly accepted his tongue,

tasting the sharpness of her own blood. She sucked
hungrily for more and he broke away, laughing

cynically.

He took out a large needle and she whimpered in

excitement. She had no fear. She didn't trust this

man, but she had given him control over her. It was an

odd disconnect when she had time to think about it, but

she was finding she was less able to focus lately. It

always seemed that her senses were being assaulted

constantly, even in her dreams, or was she dreaming

now. She was becoming less sure, able only to give

into to the constant demands of her body. For

pleasure, for pain, for anything this man would take

from her.

Damon traced the needle over the smooth surfaces of her

breasts. They weren't as large as he preferred, and,

if he had intended to keep this on for long, would have

had her fixed already. But still, they were amazing in

their firmness and perfection. The point of the needle

rested against the nipple and he pushed gently.

A low sound escaped from the girl. Damon let loose of

the needle and it hung there, pointing cockeyed at the

ceiling, wavering with each breath she took. Another

needle joined the first, just slightly inserted through

the first layers of skin. He didn't want to do deep

tissue damage. At least, not yet.

When one breast looked like a porcupine, he started on

the other. The girl's eyes were glazed, but never

wavering from watching each and every move he made.

She didn't protest once.

With the last needle, a curved one used for stitching

wounds, he lowered his aim. Placing the sharp tip

against the dainty flap of skin, he force the needle

through and left it protruding, an obscenely gleaming

crescent in a field of human flesh. The pain from the

penetration brought a mournful wail from the girl, but

no protest.

Slowly and painfully he removed the needle, and while

the wound was still fresh, he inserted a small

stainless steel loop. The soldering iron had been

preheating and it was a simple and practiced task to

seal the loop permanently with silver solder. The

smell of singed flesh filled his nostrils and he

shifted his huge erection to a more comfortable

position. The girl had climaxed from the pain and

passed out. Good. Right on schedule. The belly-

button ring was his first mark of ownership.

The girl still needed to be wooed, so he lowered his

head to her cunt and licked gently until she regained

consciousness. Had he left her alone, she would have

fallen into a deep sleep, something he couldn't afford

at this point. But she responded to the demands of her

body and, within the confines of her bondage, urged her

hips forward as much as she could to meet his wonderful

tongue.

Today he teased her, bringing her to the edge, then

twisting and wiggling one of the needles. At first the

pain broke the flow of the feelings of pleasure from

his tongue, but after a while they combined. The

feelings were different, but complimentary in her mind.

Both were from him, the man she wanted to please, the

man she had to please.

She was screaming, begging for release, for more as he

attached the electrodes. Today she got them all.

Toes, nipples, clit, and tongue. He liked the one for

the tongue. When it was stimulated, the airways

clamped shut, making it impossible for her to breathe.

He would control her very breathing from now on. She

was almost his. He could feel it.

Before he left, he gave her one more chance to sign.

She refused, politely. Fuck her. He pushed the

button. She would not enjoy the session today. Today

she would learn what control was.

Alvin gave her a glass of juice with several eggs when

she first came up that afternoon and again when she

woke up several hours later. He didn't whip her today.

Mr. D had given him instructions not to mark her at

all. Verbal abuse only.

Alvin said several things after Mr. D had left, but

under his breath and none directed at the soundly

sleeping girl at his feet. He was worried about her.

Her look today had been furtive. The sparkle was

leaving her eyes.

He had made some careful inquiries about the missing

girls. He was waiting for word back. He wished at

times he could just go into a police station and get

their attention. But he couldn't. So he had to work

carefully, through a 'friend of a friend' and wait

while these things went through the back channels. He

hoped Alex would last. She had one more day.

Damon was persistent the next day, cajoling her,

bullying and demanding that she sign. She refused. He

refused to let her call him 'Master'. It was only

right, she was just a slut.

She danced for him, putting her whole being into

pleasing him, but he refused to be mollified. Her

energy at an end, she collapsed naked on the floor at

the end of her dance. She had nothing left to give

him.

Alex awoke to a new sensation. Her shoulders were on

fire, her head hanging forward on her chest. She

jerked up her head to see a girl in the screens.

Hanging spread-eagled from the ceiling hooks, her feet

bound by ropes tied to the rings on the floor. The

girl's body was taut as a bowstring.

Alex saw Mr. Smith on the screen moving behind the

girl, then in front, just as he came into her own

vision. He was holding a glowing rod with a wooden

handle. Alex had seen them on the farm, only bigger.

Branding irons.

Without another word, Mr. Smith knelt in front of her

and pressed the incandescent brand into her flesh, just

above and to the right of her vaginal slit. The pain

was so intense, so brutal she screamed, the pitch

rising as the pain lingered, burning. Then the pain

changed and she struggled, her brain refusing to accept

what her body was doing. Copious fluid flowed from her

center, her breast swelled and ached, her nipples were

painfully hard. Her cunt flowered, blossoming with the

influx of blood. Her clitoris snapped to attention

with an almost audible sound.

Alex was in agony. She was aroused as never before in

her life. From the pain. She was ashamed. She was

ashamed because she knew she loved it and would seek

this out, regardless of the consequences.

The man she called Mr. Smith, the man she longed to

call 'Master' didn't realize it, but he made his first

critical error in judgment in the process of totally

subjugating Mrs. Alisson Wilson. He didn't ask her to

sign after the branding. He was too angry with the

stubborn bitch.

Mr. Smith whipped her lightly as she watched the girl
in the videos get whipped. Her body was so sensitive

that even the light blows he gave her felt like

lightning bolts. She didn't notice that her skin was

not marked or that Mr. Smith was using a suede strap,

the soft leather caressing and slapping her skin more

than cutting and biting. She developed a lovely rosy

hue as the blood rushed to the stimulated surfaces.

Alex climaxed once early on and never seemed to stop

after that.

It took her a while to realize that the girl in the

video was her.

Damon fitted the electrode and probes from the chair to

the hanging girl. She was still babbling, incoherent.

Angry, he jabbed the button without trying a final time

to get her to sign. It was his second error.

He sent Alvin down to clean her up and left for the

day. He came back late that night and checked on his

recalcitrant Pet before going to bed. She was

screaming nonsense as the pendulum swung back and

forth, as if she were conversing with someone.

Satisfied she wouldn't get any sleep tonight, he shut

the sound-proof door and went to bed. Tomorrow or the

next day, signed or not, he had to take her. He

couldn't wait any longer.

Alex heard the door shut through the tiny fraction of

her mind that was still grasping reality. She hadn't

heard it open, or she would have told the voices to be

quiet. They had started calling her last night. She

was one of them now, she had the ring. She belonged

now.

Alex argued with the voices, she was married. She

still had her ring. She had committed herself to

another man.

The voices laughed at her. What man? That worthless

failure? He couldn't even satisfy you. He left you

for another. Marcy. Why waste yourself on him? Give

in to the Master. Let him own you. You can join us,

belong.

On and on they would argue as the pendulum swung, the

constant shocks to her erogenous zones now almost

unfelt. Almost. She couldn't sleep with them, nor

could she think. But she could talk to the voices.

This afternoon, to placate them, she had insisted that

Alvin leave her alone in her cage for an hour. She had

asked for a knife, or even a fork, but he had refused

her, concern in his face and voice. She laughed madly

at him. What did he think she was going to do, kill

herself?

But he had left her alone and she had carved in the

soft pine with her fingernail. She had left her mark.

She hadn't had her first dance so she left the first

and second dates blank. drawing her finger over the

names, she forced herself to envision their faces, the

terrible pictures from the small plastic cards and the

beautiful and sexy models in the pictures and videos.

She cried for them. they were silent, for once.

Alvin had let her sleep for almost eight hours and had

given her three drinks of juice and eggs. Even with

his help she was beginning to look thin. Her

cheekbones were coming into high profile and her

breasts seemed over large compared to her sunken

stomach. He told her he wouldn't be able to see her

tomorrow. It wouldn't be allowed. He didn't know when

he would see her again.

The sleep was a help but not enough to fully restore

her grasp of reality. It had only taken three sweeps

of the pendulum before she heard the voices in her

head. They had still been talking when Mr. Smith had

looked in on her.

Chapter 15

The next day, the fifth of her training, marked a

change. The first thing she noticed was that he let

her walk. On her feet. And shower and get clean with

warm water. He even helped dry her off. She cried.

She stared at the food on her plate. She was sitting

at the table with Mr. Smith. She kept her hands in her

lap until he said she could take a bite. He allowed

her to use the fork. She chewed the savory food

slowly, relishing the texture against her tongue. It

was the first solid food she had had if four days. She

cried as she swallowed and thanked him.

He allowed her to eat the entire meal. If she had

taken one bite without permission, it would have been

the last. He didn't say that, but somehow, she knew.

Instead of turning off into the training room, Mr.

Smith took her to the large room at the end of the

hallway. The one where the voices were.

There were lights on today and people bustling around,

setting up things and moving big lights. She was naked

and didn't notice.

Mr. Smith led her to a chair, a real one, and had her

sit. She felt awkward, not being bound. She looked at

him for reassurance and he smiled at her. It felt

cold, but at least he wasn't angry with her. She would

try to please him today. Maybe he would forgive her

for not signing, but she couldn't. She was married.

She stole a glance at the cheap narrow band Harold had

given her. It was almost a year. It was a part of

her, yet it wasn't. But it was a symbol of her

commitment with Harold.

She didn't judge him harshly anymore. How could she?

Look at her, a married woman, sitting here without

shame. Lusting for another man, willing to give him

everything he asked for. Everything but what she

didn't have.

She was pampered that morning. Washed and oiled with

glistening oils, her hair was washed and set. The lady

trimmed it a little, just like in a beauty salon. Then

the man came and worked on her face, adding a

foundation and then some color. He used eye shadows

that made her eyes stand out. All the time he was

explaining what he was doing, showing her how.

Alex watched the transformation of the pretty girl in

the mirror into a sexy siren. Her green eyes and red
hair were stunning. When the make-up man was done he

stood looking at her for a long moment. He looked

almost sad.

Mr. Smith was pleased with her, she could tell. She

saw him staring at her, as if he had never seen her

before. She smiled at him as sexily as she could and

he licked his lips. She laughed and stopped suddenly.

It had been so long she couldn't remember when she had

last laughed. When had she stopped?

Then the man with the cameras took over. Mr. Smith was

in charge, but she followed the directions of the

photographer. All the time, in her mind, she was

posing for Mr. Smith.

They started out with tiny swimsuits. By now Alex knew

the routine. Start with it on, then it comes off, as

sexily as possible. It was what the others had done

for Mr. Smith. She had posed in three different suits

when she stumbled. She felt dizzy, tired.

Mr. Smith gave her a pill and a glass of water. She

didn't know what it was. She looked at him and he told

her to take it. It was safe, he said, just some speed.

Alex didn't know what speed he wanted her to go. The

water tasted good.

In a couple of minutes, Alex felt better. Not good,

but better. Like she was nervous and antsy. She

couldn't stay still. The lingerie that she posed in

next deteriorated from an elegant, if transparent gown,

to ludicrously obscene pieces of lace that had no

practical purpose but to expose and excite.

It was about this time that Alex noticed that there

seemed to be a shift change in the people in the room.

Most of the gaffers set up the lights in a fixed

position and left. The make up man that had been

giving her touch ups all morning long left her with a

kiss on the cheek and a large bag of cosmetics for her

to use. She thanked him. He looked so sad when he

left.

Soon it was just Alex, Mr. Smith and a new

photographer. He wasn't as nice as the first one and

was touching her and making her do things she didn't

like. Mr. Smith saw and didn't stop him, so she let

him, even sticking things inside of her anus and

opening herself up, holding her pussy open so he could

take pictures. Mr. Smith looked like he was waiting

for someone. He kept glancing at his watch and walking

up and down.

Alex had never before seen the woman who finally came

in, but she knew who she was. She was beautiful. Tall

and elegant, perfectly made up and covered from head to

toe in black leather. She looked so sexy.

Without a word from Mr. Smith, the woman took over the

photo shoot. The costumes Alex modeled now were made

of leather, latex and chrome. She was corseted and the

woman put her knee in Alex' back and pulled it tighter

than she had thought possible. Then the nipple clamps

were put on and Alex didn't think much more. Between

the pain, the pills and the arousal, she was lost to

her feelings.

A month ago this would have seemed strange, to be so

free, wanton and wicked with a total stranger, but now,

it felt right. Mr. Smith was there, and it was all

right. Alex watched him the whole time, watching his

eyes, wanting to please him.

He watched this part of the photo session much more

intensely and Alex was thrilled. She did everything

she could to please him, looking to him constantly for

reassurance. She did things she had only dreamed of,

and then, only because he had shown her pictures and

videos of the other girls doing them. She did them to

please him.

She was bound and laid on a low table. The woman

licked her and Alex climbed for the sky. But she

stopped too soon. Mr. Smith was telling the woman

something. 'Not to come' was what she heard. But the

lady was already here. How could she not come if she

were already here?

The pretty lady had smiled at Mr. Smith and showed him

a small vial. Different than Mr. Smith's. She

injected Alex with something in her cunt and around her

ass and under her nipples. In about five minutes, they

felt like her mouth did when she went to the dentist.

Like they were dead.

When the lady straddled her face, Alex knew what to do.

She had never done it before, but she licked and sucked
the woman with gusto. The pill Mr. Smith had given her

helped keep her going. She knew she was exceedingly

tired. She could feel it in her bones, but the pill

helped her. She pleasured the woman and the woman had

kissed her. She had sucked Alex' tongue in to her

mouth, then explored Alex' mouth with her own. Alex

liked that.

They kissed a lot after that, passionately. The

photographer kept taking pictures from every angle.

The lights were hot, they were sweating, slippery. It

was sexy and the giggled and laughed, sharing little

secrets. Alex had never kissed a woman before and

found it thrilling. It was different, softer. The

woman pushed her further and further until Alex was

gasping.

The toys were next. At least, that's what the woman

called them. She was almost naked now and so was Alex.

They strapped Alex over a bar that pushed her butt way

up in the air.

Alex didn't scream when the lady rammed a huge plastic

dildo into her pussy. She could barely feel it. She

did feel the fullness of it pressing against her

diaphragm but the usual feeling the nerves sent to her

brain were blocked. She felt cheated. Her body knew

it was getting fucked and the juices were flowing, the

tensions building. Unfortunately for Alex, her brain

was sitting this one out and refused to allow her to

climax. It was very frustrating.

That frustration grew as the afternoon wore on. The

beautiful woman had used a huge strap on dildo and had

fucked her for what seemed like hours, then had

switched to her ass. They had finished the session by

the woman putting her whole hand up inside Alex' pussy
and pumping in and out. She did that for a long time.

They had been excited at those shots. They called it

'fisting.'

The numbing from the shots hadn't worn off yet. Mr.

Smith was impressed and told her they were getting some

great shots, that she was doing great. She was

thrilled that she had pleased him. Alex thanked him

and pleaded for release. Not from the bondage. From

the sexual tensions. He held up the clipboard with the

papers. She cried. The Dom saw that exchange and

looked thoughtful.

She began to get hopeful towards the end. The numbness

left her nipples first and the millions of tiny

prickles that preceded full sensation almost set her

off. The beautiful woman, having used the drug before,

was watching for this and left Alex hanging on the

edge. Now that her brain was back and willing, the

woman toyed with Alex, teasing and tormenting her

relentlessly but never letting her go over the edge.

At the end Alex was strung up on a portable frame

spread-eagled. She was naked, sweating, her new makeup

a wreck, her hair in straggly clumps. Her breathing

was ragged and in her mind the thin sliver of reality

she had remaining was fading. She was screaming

hysterically at them. The woman and Mr. Smith. The

photographer was gone.

The woman was holding a belt with two huge vibrators.

They plugged into the wall. Mr. Smith said he was

planning on leaving her all night wearing it. The

woman said not yet, it would set her off, ruin the

whole effect. Mr. Smith agreed. They waited. He

touched the woman, right in front of Alex. The woman

let him.

They got tired of waiting and left her, forgetting to

put in the vibrators. Alex screamed at them for a long

time, then the urgency passed. The effects of the pill

finally wore off. Without stimulation, Alex slept.

She dreamed for the first time in many nights. It was

them. All of them. And Petunia. Why was Petunia

here? In her dream, Alex was awake, but was hanging

just as she actually was, like they had left her. Or

was she really dreaming?

She looked around. Without the bright lights on, she

could see into the other half of the room. The studio

was only on the left side. The voices were coming from

the right side of the room. Alex wanted to walk over

to them and pull them back. They were in danger but

they didn't know it. They were calling her to join

them.

Then she saw Petunia, as she had last seen her.

Hanging by her legs, head down, her blood flowing into

a large square drain on the floor. Like the one in the

floor on the right side of the room. Under the block

and tackle hanging from the ceiling.

Alex called out for her Daddy. She was back in the

barn at home. Daddy would save her. Her voice echoed

back at her. There weren't echoes in the barn. She

knew. She had tried over and over as a child but never

found an echo in there. But it looked like the barn.

Over there was the butcher shop. There was the big

drain that had that always had that funny acrid smell

of blood that tickled her nose. There was the big

grinder for the sausages. Over there were the coiled

hoses for cleaning the floor and washing all the ground

up guts down the drain. The sharp knives were hanging

in order on the wall, not on a big bench. They were

for skinning and the saws were to cut through the thick
bones. Gleaming and sharp. But not old, like Daddy's.

These were new. This was a dream. Petunia was here.

Petunia was dead. And the girls. All his pets.

Calling her. Come join them.

In spite of the discomfort, Alex slept. And dreamed.

In the quiet of the third basement, no one heard her

pitiful screams.

The cold water blasting at her from a high pressure

hose woke Alex the next morning. Damon was pissed that

she had slept. He had been too needy and had allowed

that Dom to seduced him. It had been a good pairing of

almost equals. It had been a dangerous but exhausting

dance they had done, and it had taken longer than he

had planned. They had dallied and dallied again. He

had forgotten the girl.

The damage wasn't too severe. She woke nicely, and the

look of terror that had crossed her face brought a

twitch of life to his cock. It was about time she

showed some fear. He had dragged her over to the other

side of the room and positioned her above the drain.

That was after he had slapped her several times trying

to wake her. He wasn't surprised she was dead to the

world. Four days of constant stimulation without sleep

will do that to you.

When that had failed he had spied the hoses. No sense

making a mess, so he moved the frame she was bound to

over here and turned the hose on her. She had come to

with a start, looked down, and voided herself from

terror. Good thing she was already over the drain, he

congratulated himself. He hated to clean up shit.

Mr. Smith released her. Her terror abated and he led

her, dripping and stinking up to the apartment and let

her shower. She was beginning to feel almost human

again. The only problem was that she was

hypersensitive. Everything aroused her. She decided

she needed to be fucked.

When she went through to her cage to get dressed, she

noticed his room smelled like sex. The sheets were

messed up and there were some leather garments that

weren't his size. She remembered the beautiful woman

from yesterday. She was happy for Mr. Smith. She

hoped the woman had pleased him. Alex automatically

changed his sheets and cleaned up the room. She folded

the leather vest and chaps neatly and put them in a

paper bag. Going into the dining area, she set them by

his plate without a word, without a glance.

He was watching her to see if she was jealous. It

would be interesting to see if she was. He could use

it. He was disappointed. Her eyes looked at him as

they always had. Clear and open, willing to give,

wanting to please. Not judging him at all.

He had had her dress in her skimpy skirt, her blouse

and high heels. He told her to go back and put on some

make up, like the man had showed her yesterday. She

had to go back three times before she had it right.

First it wasn't enough, next it was too much and the

last time, he was just being ornery. She could tell.

They went upstairs to the club. Except for Alvin, it

was empty. Mr. Smith turned on the music, the music

the others had danced to. She knew what he wanted.

She wanted it, too.

It was her best dance yet. He was pleased. He was

aroused. Even in the shadows she could see him, see

the swelling that indicated his arousal. From the dark

corner of the club she saw a glint of gold. Alvin was

watching her dance, the first time, from a corner where

Mr. Smith couldn't see him. It made her feel safe,

knowing he was there.

She danced over to his stool and he bound her. She was

ready, needy. Hot. She pleaded with him to take her,

use her.

Damon looked down at the shivering bitch. One more

chance, then it was gloves off. He held out the

clipboard with the forms for her to sign. She begged

for understanding with her eyes. She had explained to

him, to the voices. She couldn't give back what wasn't

hers to give.

He was displeased. But she was there, begging for it

and he had waited patiently. He pushed her down onto

her knees. She went willingly, bending her head

towards his groin, anxious to take him as she had

received no other man. Damon slapped her and she went

down, ass high in the air, wanting him. She lay there,

waiting, whimpering, begging.

He dropped his pants, his need suddenly impelling.

Without warning he thrust into her sopping cunt. The

fisting yesterday had convinced him he needn't worry

about her accommodating him, not that he would have.

He held her head pinned to the floor while he pulled

the belt from his pants. It was good quality leather,

smooth and supple. He looped it, holding both ends in

one hand. With the other hand, he grabbed a handful of

her red hair. He yanked her head up roughly and

slipped the belt around her neck.

Slowly he withdrew from her depths, watching as the

folds of her pink flesh clasped at him, keeping him in.

With the same slow speed he moved back into her,

pushing in to the maximum depth, nudging against her

hard cervix. Her body eagerly accepted him.

Damon was glad now he had spent the time with the Dom

last night. The urgency was gone and he would last a

long time. He wondered idly, as he fucked slowly in

and out of the bitch under him, what it would take to

break the Dom? She would make a challenging pet. How

would he get her on the machine? What could he use?

Slipping his hand down he tightened the belt around her

neck. He wasn't close yet. He wanted to give her a

thrill. He heard the rasping of her breath as her

airway was closed, then there was only silence.

Regardless of the training, when threatened, instinct

takes over. It was what thrilled him, watching the

poor bitches fighting their own instincts for survival.

As expected, his new pet fought for air. With her

hands tied and him pinning her down with his weight,

she couldn't do much but buck up and down As she

fought for her life, her cunt muscles tightened and

shuddered so pleasingly on his hard cock. He could

feel the fight, the need, the hunger for air. He was

in control. He felt the familiar rush, the thrill of

this one moment, like none other.

He held the belt tight until she stopped, then waited a

beat more. Then, releasing the pressure of his hand on

the back of her neck he let her breathe. In a great

gasp, the bitch filled her starved lungs, gulping for

several moments.

Damon saw Alvin standing by the stage. He looked at

his new friend and grinned.

"The slut gives a good ride," he said. "I felt her cum
when I strangled her. The little slut. She loves

this."

The black man just stood there. He was an enigma. Why

was he watching?

Damon pulled out of her cunt and the pet moaned,

begging for more. She had thanked him when she could

talk again, when she had air. What a fucking slut!

He knew she had been in a constant state of orgasm from

the first thrust. He had felt it. He placed his tool

against her tight sphincter and pressed in. There was

only a slight hesitation and then she relaxed, allowing

him easy entry. She really was a slut. He told her

she was.

He pumped faster now, his own need building. The belt

tightened around her neck again. It would stay there

this time until he came. His pet bucked and thrashed,

fighting for air. It was so good. She quit fighting

but her ass was still clenching at him, pulling him.

He exploded into her. As he came down from his

wondrous release, he slowly let the belt loosen. The

pet lay still under him. He looked up at Alvin and

shrugged his shoulders. No great loss, really. But

what a rush!

With a sudden gasp, the cyanotic girl started to

breathe. Oh, well, just as well she was alive. He'd

have had to forge the signatures and that wasn't an

easy thing to do. They tended to check those things

very carefully for five million dollars, especially on

such a quick death after the policy went into force.

The wouldn't like it at all.

He got off the gasping figure. He didn't notice the

big black man, wound as tight as a coiled spring, relax

slightly or see him slip the deadly blade that was

hidden in his huge fist back into his pocket.

"Here. You want a piece? On the house. The slut

likes it and likes it rough. Just not her mouth.

Clean her up and put her away when you're done," he

tossed off carelessly, got dressed and left the club.

He had an idea how to get the Dom into his clutches.

It was early evening when Alvin finally lay her gently

down in her small room. She had clung to him on the

stage after he had freed her, still needy. She would

have given herself to him willingly, if he had wanted.

But he didn't take her. He wanted her, and let her

know. She had needed that reassurance right then, and

it would have been hard to lie, anyway. She had her

head in his lap and she would nuzzle him, bleating

softly, cooing against his thickening member. But this

wasn't the way he wanted her. He let her sleep,

holding her, crying with her until she fell asleep.

She was still catching up from the deprivation and

stress of the last four days, gaining strength, but she

was still susceptible. As she cried, she had repeated

one thing over and over. He had trouble catching the

soft sounds as she mumbled into his chest. The words

were almost a mantra, said over and over. Finally,

just as she was nodding off, he heard what it was.

She was repeating over and over to herself as she

rocked back and forth, "Not a slut, not a slut."

She woke as he laid her down on the low sleeping mat.

Her hands were still free. With a lurch she grabbed

his neck and pulled him down. He was off balance and

landed, with an effort, beside her and just managed not

to crush her beneath him. Giggling, she made him roll

over onto his back.

He thought she would get on top of him and initiate

sex, but she didn't. If she had, he wouldn't have

stopped her. She turned her head toward him and

motioned with her eyes. It took him a couple of times

before he understood. Turning his head away from her,

he looked up. All he could see was the bottom of the

shelf above his head and some writing. A list. Some

carpenters had used this for some notes or something.

Probably a lunch order or a football pool. When they

needed a piece of scrap for the shelf, they had used

the good surface on top, leaving the scribbling

underneath. It was done all the time.

He looked back at her and frowned, questioning her.

What was there? She again motioned with her eyes. He

looked again. There was nothing in that direction but

the shelf. As he was looking back at her, a name from

the past jumped at him.

He gave a strangled cry. It scared her as he started

shaking suddenly, sobbing. In a complete reversal of

their roles to this point, she was now the one giving

comfort to him, holding his bald head in her arms as

the bitterness and frustration of all those years

poured out. They were rocking together, crying, their

tears mingling on the floor.

It was a struggle, but he got himself under control.

All these years. He had known in his gut it was here.

The trail had run cold, but he had stuck it out.

Against all evidence and no evidence, he knew she had

been here. And now, finally, here was the proof. She

had been here, in this room. He had seen her driver's

license, but had not understood. The memory of their

tender love flooded over him again. He felt like he

had just been kicked in the nuts. He rolled in pain,

then groaned and knelt over the teary-eyed girl.

He leaned over her to shackle her down for the night.

As his ear was over her face she whispered to him.

"Think I'd get an Oscar, now?"

He looked quickly at her face. Her eyes were clear,

focused. She was looking up at him steadily and

sanely. They both knew she would soon be lost for the

night when he started the pendulum. But right now, she

was here with him, in control.

He nodded at her, grinning. He held up his fingers.

Two. She laughed.

Closing the door on her, he said a prayer for the brave

little girl. One thing puzzled him. The list of

names. He knew the name of the last pet Mr. D had

here. He had seen her name on the list. But not on

the bottom. He had expected to see Miss Alex' name

there at the bottom, but it wasn't. The last name was

just a single name. A flower. Petunia.

The next two days were repeats of this one. Mr. Smith

would have her dance. He would ask her to sign the

papers and she would refuse, as politely as she could

knowing it would anger him. He would then verbally and

sexually abuse her, strangling her with his thick belt.

She never failed to cum when he did that to her. She

never failed to cum when he did anything to her,

anymore. She began to question if she was a slut. She

never failed to thank him when he got dressed and left

he club. He didn't hear her. His plans for the Dom

were coming together. And in a couple of days he would

start the last phase of the plan for Harold and Marcy.

The sooner the better, too. They were costing him a

bundle.

By the end of the second day, she saw Alvin's worried

face looking down on her. He didn't know what the

program was Mr. Smith had her on now. She wasn't aware

of it, but none of the other pets had gone through what

she had been put through the last three days. Those

pets had been cherished, pampered women, had the finest

of everything. Beautiful, sexy, obedient. None had

been abused like Alex was.

She was tired but managed to grasp his thumb and give

him a reassuring squeeze. He smiled at her, knowing

what it took from her to think of him. But it was a

worried smile she saw.

She was frightened at first when he didn't start the

pendulum. But soon, the fright gave way to a restless

sleep. The voices were still arguing with her, but

tonight they weren't as loud. After a fitful start,

she fell into the first peaceful sleep she had had in a

long time.

In the back of her mind was the nagging worry that

whatever Mr. Smith had planned for tomorrow must be

very bad, if he was being so nice now. But tomorrow

was later. Right now, she could sleep.

Chapter 16

Marcy stripped down to a tiny yellow bikini and danced

around the cowering executive. For the past week, the

routine had changed. This was yet another change in

their routine.

Harold's erectile problems had continued when he went

back to Marcy. Seizing the opportunity, she had added

a few variations. First, she had doubled the dose of

Viagra in his morning coffee. Second, she didn't strip

down now. Harold did. She wore a lot of leather

things and carried a whip and a paddle, part of her

standard hooker gear.

When Harold was naked, he kneeled at her feet, licking

her boots until he was hard. That took a long time,

sometimes, especially when she cut out the Viagra

altogether. She loved to torment him, cruelly

punishing him for being lazy and incompetent. And

impotent. He would cry when she said that. When he

was finally hard and she was satisfied with her boots,

she would allow him to lick her cunt until she came.

That also took a long time, almost always.

It wasn't long before she had Harold gagged -- when he

was through licking her, of course -- and handcuffed as

part of the routine. He accepted most anything she did

now. And with the gag in his mouth, she didn't have to

listen to him complain all the time. What a whiner!

She introduced him to cock bondage and whipped his

balls with a little flogger. He had squealed and

fought until she pointed out just how much bigger he

was and how much longer he could stay hard. He didn't

know, of course, that she had reintroduced the Viagra

that morning. After that, it was an easy sell.

He hadn't liked the leather paddle she had used on his

ass or her riding him like a horse, but she just

stroked him once on his puny cock and he had actually

turned around and offered his ass to her again. He had

become, in just a few short days, a total wuss.

Thank God, Mr. Smith had called. Finally! In three

days they were going to be headed for the British

fucking Virgin Islands. BVI! She was wearing her new

bikini to celebrate. She only hoped Harold wouldn't

slobber all over it. She did look hot and her big tits
were obscenely exposed by the tiny swatches. She

didn't care. She was going to be rid of this lump for

good! Or if not, at least she knew how to effectively

control him.

Marcy had been toying with the germ of an idea to

double-cross Mr. Smith. She knew the whole plan for

the insurance scam from bits and pieces she had heard.

Harold couldn't keep his mouth shut, anyway, so they

must have trusted her if they wanted her to keep him

quiet and out of circulation. They were sure paying

enough. She knew where the weak spot in the plan was.

Someone had to withdraw the money as soon as it was

deposited and move it to another account. That's why

Harold was going down there.

She had heard of these places down in BVI, places where

you could buy and sell people. People who could

disappear and wouldn't be missed. An ex-boyfriend had

told her about snuff films and how they got the

'actors' for them. When she called him last week he

had given her a name to contact when she got down

there. With her hold over him, it wouldn't be hard to

convince Harold to be an actor, especially in a sex

film. He would jump at the chance.

That would happen after, of course, he had withdrawn

the cash. Marcy, with her newfound power over the

wimp, had no doubts she could get the cash transferred

to her own account. She had already set one up in the

same bank as his was.

She saw Harold's eyes light up as he heard the news

they would be leaving soon. The greed was almost

palpable as he, too, thought of the islands. She

mentioned acting in a sex film and he got hard without

the Viagra. She smiled to herself, knowing her plan

would work. Harold was a very good licker that morning

even if he did slobber a little. And she could get a

new suit. She could afford it.

Mr. Smith's attitude at the table the next morning was

a radical departure from the abusive man of the last

three days. He smiled and chatted with her, letting

her eat uncontrolled and even stroked her cheek. She

began to relax a little but was still wary. She always

got hurt when he was nice.

She was allowed to work unbound but naked in the

apartment and upstairs in the club. One of the smaller

areas was having a private party tonight and the bar

needed to be stocked. If her nakedness bothered her

she didn't show it. The other staff, both male and

female, were wary of her because of her special

relationship with Mr. Smith. They could see his mark,

his brand on her.

For the most part, they tried to ignore her nudity, but

for some of the men, it was awkward to walk when she

was around. The women, dancers and waitresses, were

nice to her. When they had a break, they chatted a bit

and Alex listened to them. Once she chanced a few

questions. Mostly, she kept to herself and worked

hard. The others respected her for that.

By the early afternoon, Mr. Smith came in and got her.

He led her back down to the apartment. There he made

her prepare for an evening out. He laid her clothes

out on his bed, selecting and caressing each article of

clothing as she dressed. He had laid out the naughty

underwear, her hosiery and heels, and her sexy dress.

She now knew what was going to happen. In a way, she

was glad. He had accepted her. And she was ready

He helped her with her makeup and hair, fussing with it

until it was perfect. It was perfect. He stood behind

her, his arms wrapped around her, looking in the

mirror. They made a stunning couple. He smiled at her

and she melted.

Almost as if he didn't want the ruin the moment, he

hesitated before picking up the clipboard with the

forms he wanted her to sign. But he did, and she shook

her head 'No.' The look that flashed across his face

was murderous but it was gone in an instant. She could

almost pretend it hadn't been there.

He took her up to his office and poured her a generous

glass of whiskey while they waited. She was kneeling

in her familiar spot by his desk. She tensed until she

saw both of his hands were empty. She remembered how

he had helped Lewis with his coughing. He hadn't gone

near the cognac bottle, either. She had watched.

In fact, she had been checking on that fake bottle

nearly every day. At least, every day when they let

her clean. Even those days when Alvin let her sleep,

she had made him bring her in here so she could check.

The syringe and the small vial of drug were still

there, untouched. It had been her job to clean and

stock the bar, so she had arranged the bottle so that

she could tell at a glance if it was out of place.

Just like she had arranged her dollies on her bed at

home to catch Benny snooping for her diary. He never

did figure out how he always got caught.

The cognac bottle was turned so that when she knelt by

the desk in her usual spot, the label of that bottle

and the label of the bottle in front of it were

perfectly aligned with the seam in the mirror. Basic

geometry; three points make a line and from here she

could sight along it. Since you had to move the bottle

in front to get to the bottle with the syringe, the

chances of both of them being put back perfectly

aligned was unlikely. In a hurry, or when Mr. Smith or

Alvin were in the room, all she had to do was check on

the alignment. A quick glance and Alvin could take her

downstairs.

She took the crystal glass from him.

"You don't need to get me drunk, Sir."

"Why should I get you drunk?"

"I know what to do tonight, Sir."

"Really? Are you going to be a slut tonight?"

"I'm not a slut, Sir."

"Then tell me, why are you going to do this?"

"For you, Sir. Because you want me to."

"And you? Will you enjoy it?"

"Yes, Sir. You have trained me to enjoy it."

"I've trained you to be a slut! And tonight I'll prove

it to you."

"Yes, Sir."

After a moments thought, she tossed back her drink, the

strong whiskey burning her throat. She looked up at

him, grinning derisively down at her.

"May I have another, please, Sir?" she asked, holding

out her glass.

He handed her the whole bottle and laughed cruelly at

her, letting her drink five more large drinks before

leading her out to the private party. You could barely

notice the wobble in her step.

Mr. Smith took her to a part of the club she had only

been in a couple of times before, backstage in one of

the smaller rooms. She could hear the noise of the

party on the other side of the heavy curtain. Mr.

Smith looked around and pulled up a stool. He knew

just where to put it so that he would remain just at

the edge of the shadows.

Mr. Smith didn't say a word to her. When the music

started and the curtains opened, he moved to sit on the

stool, watching her.

She danced. She was drunk and she knew it, but she

danced. With all her new-found skills and more, now

that her few remaining inhibitions were damped by the

alcohol. She was beautiful. The bright lights shining

down on her caught the brilliant colors of her hair.

As it moved with her, it looked alive, flashing and

flowing, caressing her face.

She had wound the black cord around her neck, not to

tight, but in a narrow band that looked like she was

wearing a collar. The silver bands at the end of the

cords were tucked in under the windings. It wouldn't

come undone until she wanted it to.

With her hands free, she floated in the lights. The

party-goers, sensing something special, hushed. The

reverent silence added to the effect, letting her dance

for one man alone. The man she wanted.

He was there in the shadows, watching her as she moved.

She reached for him and he knew. He nodded and the

first strap of the shoulder fell, baring the top of her

breast. Then the second fell. Her nipples held up the

dress until she shrugged her shoulders and they gave

way. Only a wisp of lace covered her breasts, barely

containing them. She unclasped the bra and it fell

like a nuisance.

The crowd gasped, and, the silence broken, called for

more. Whistles and cat-calls, clapping and cheering.

She looked to the shadows and he nodded.

With a wiggle, the dress melted from her hips and the

room erupted in a cheer. She danced around the circle

of light, teasing them, teasing the man in the shadows,

her creamy buttocks flashing, her legs sensuous,

promising and hiding the treasures between them.

She moved her arms, caressing her body, teasing it,

arousing it and exciting the men in the crowd.

Pleasing the man in the shadows.

The final wisp of lace was teased down her thighs and

over her calves. After the first help over her hips,

she had managed that without the use of her hands,

leaving them to pinch and pull her nipples, wetting her

fingers in her mouth and touching herself. No one

seemed to mind the time it took for the panties to

reach the floor. The room was in a constant uproar, by

now.

With a shake of her head, the ends of the cord were

freed and, again without using her hands, shook and

wiggled as the cord unwound from her neck. She caught

it as it fell free.

If the room had been in an uproar before, the noise now

escalated to a full riot as they watched her work her

body with the cord. They knew what the significance of

the cord was. They knew by the brand that this dancer

was one of the special ones, the owner's private stock.

They knew. They had waited a long time. The owner had

set a premium on this party, triple the usual cover

charge.

The girl was worth that and more. They were mesmerized

by her beauty, her sensuality, the juxtaposition of raw

innocence and raw sex. This was a once in a lifetime

event and they all knew it.

The cord sang between her legs and the girl moaned her

own arousal. As if on its own, it bound her legs,

teasing her. It twisted around her perfect breasts,

making a figure '8', the black cord a clear contrast to

the whiteness of her skin. The softness of the silken

cord tantalized her, tickling her, driving her to the

edge.

The man in the shadows signaled her over. She went,

dancing, teasing, hoping he would take her away and

ravish her. It was what she wanted, to please him, to

make him take her and ravish her.

He bound her hands and then used a ballgag to bind her

mouth. The crowd held its breath. No one could use

it, but neither could she. She could not call out for

him to stop them. Their blood ran hotter. She was

theirs to use. All but her mouth.

Mr. Smith urged her back into the lights. She knew

what she would find. It was there, large and angry

looking. Waiting for her, standing upright, the man's

hand holding by the base with two fingers. It was so

large it couldn't stand up on its own. Watching the

shadows, she straddled the supine figure. Weaving back

and forth, teasing up and down but always lowering her

core towards the man below.

Finally she touched and a cheer went up from the ones

not lucky enough to have been chosen to go first. It

was beginning and she felt the fullness of the man as

she let herself sink down, finally resting on his hips.

She had never taken her eyes off the man in the

shadows.

Another man approached her from the rear and got on his

knees. He had been lubed and his thick cock probed and

pushed at her rear. The man in the shadows nodded and

she relaxed. The thick head and shaft surged into her

and she screamed into the gag.

They fucked her hard and fast, knowing she would be

available again later when they could last longer. And

again after that, if they could get it up. Within

minutes she came. All the buildup and tension of the

past weeks flooded her senses. She blacked out for a

moment, but the men pounding into her never noticed.

They didn't stop.

When she could think again, she looked anxiously at the

man in the shadows. He was gone. The stool was empty.

Even in the state she was in, aroused, horny and more

than a little drunk, Alex felt a pang in her stomach,

like her heart being torn out.

The twenty men at the party had never had a night like

this before and they were not inexperienced in this

sort of thing. They had the owner's private girl, all

night long. They discovered why his girls were so

special, in such demand and so well worth the price he

charged. Even without the use of her hands and mouth

she had outlasted them all, and was begging for more.

The big black manager finally had to drag her away.

Alvin drove Miss Alex to her old apartment. Mr. D had

given him specific instructions. He had also given him

permission to fuck her, if he could stand it, he had

said. Alvin had seethed at that comment. He knew then

that Mr. D was finished with Miss Alex, and that meant

her time was short. Wherever he had sent those others,

she was on her way there shortly.

The other pets Alvin had known had all done a couple of

private parties, then they had disappeared. Word had

it that the pets were all living in luxury somewhere,

pampered and well taken care of. Alvin suspected

something different. White slavery, maybe. They had

never found any bodies, so it made more sense for them

to be shipped out of the country. That would explain

them not needing the driver's licenses. But he had

never found a link between Mr. D and any of those

groups. All it would take would be one, though, and

then only once in a while.

He knew Alex was being tossed out. As far as Mr. D was

concerned, she was used up. Alvin tended to disagree.

The exclusive private party was the first sign. And he

had more, less selective parties scheduled in a couple

of days. Alex was to be told to stay home and wait for

a call.

Surprisingly, they had found her dress and underwear

folded neatly on the side of the stage. Her expensive

stockings were ruined, one missing and one badly

laddered, but she had kept her heels on the whole

night. The men had loved it. He had been told not to

let her clean up, but to take her straight home,

'smelling like a slut.' Those were the bastard's own

words.

Alvin had watched the whole evening. He had seen her

stumble going down the hallway to the stage area. It

was a familiar stagger to one of his experience. Mr. D

had gotten her drunk. But he had watched her

performance and knew that it hadn't been necessary.

This was what she had been trained for and she was

good. For a moment during her dance, he thought she

had seen him, standing there in the back.

Alvin realized that night for the first time how much

he wanted Miss Alex. The way she moved, the way she

danced. She was beautiful. Even as the men took her,

over and over, as she had drawn them out and excited

them to more and more excesses, he had wanted her.

Like he had never wanted a woman before.

It didn't matter to him that she had been used and

abused. Sitting there next to him in his car, smelling

like an orgy, she was more woman than any he had ever

known before.

At the apartment building, Alvin walked up with her,

holding her firmly. The elevator was broken again and

she had had a long night. This early in the morning,

they met no one on the stairs.

Inside the tiny apartment Alvin feels a pang of

homesickness. He recognized the setting if not the

exact furniture. Poor but hardworking people lived

here. Proud and honest. It was in another city, but

the smells of cooking, the burned out lights, the clean

floors in the small rooms and the neat but worn sofa

and chair. He would bet the tv was a black and white

model.

He started to talk to her, to tell her his feelings for

her. He wanted her to run away from the club, but he

knew she wouldn't. She still needed something from Mr.

D and the bastard was still trying to get something

from her. He'd said as much, but not what it was.

Miss Alex was frozen in the middle of the floor,

staring at something. A floor lamp. He started to

talk and she whirled on him, not knowing what he was

going to say, but sensing from his attitude that it was

probable something he would rather others not know

about.

He stopped, her finger on his lips. Her other hand

pointed to her ear, then the lamp. He looked again at

the lamp. It was out of place, designed more for an

office than a home. Even used, it would cost more than

any other single piece of furniture in the place. And

it scared the shit out of Alex.

As he left, he kissed her hand. She leaned up and

kissed his cheek. As she approached, he heard her

whisper, "Oscar," and she held up three fingers. Then

she cried.

She started to say, "I'm not..." but he held up his

fingers over her lips to stop her. They would hear any

sound in the room, even with old equipment. He nodded

that he knew what she was going to say.

He gave her the cryptic instructions Mr. D had given

him. She was to wait for a call. There wasn't a

timeframe. She said she understood. As he closed the

door behind him, he heard the first hard sob wrack her

slender frame. She was going to have a long night.

Alvin picked Alex up the next morning as she walked

back from the market. It was so exciting, like in a

James Bond movie. She was grinning like a little girl
again, smiling up at the handsome face of her friend.

She giggled.

Chapter 17

Early the next morning she had heard a scratching at

the door. It was odd, but she thought maybe one of the

neighbor's cats had the wrong apartment. Cats weren't

allowed but almost all the tenants had either a cat or

dog. She opened the door, but didn't see anything.

She almost missed the tiny slip of paper on the floor.

It hadn't been there earlier when she had mopped the

kitchen.

"Market. red car." The note was puzzling. There was

crude diamond at the bottom, and suddenly she knew what

who it was from. She threw on her old house dress and

her flats and hurried to the market.

The tiny mom and Pop shop carried a lot of ethnic foods

for the changing population in the surrounding

neighborhoods and Alex had always enjoyed the simple

pleasures of the smells and the strange labels. It

made her imagine the lives of the people in those

countries, how different they were, yet how much the

same people were everywhere. She wandered the isles

for a while, then, with a wave to the owner, headed

out.

The shiny red car pulled smoothly in front of her as

she was crossing the street. The door popped open and

she slipped in. To anyone watching, it would appear as

if she had vanished into thin air.

No one was watching. The quiet little man who had been

her constant companion before and who had bugged her

apartment was now watching another woman. The new one

was more of a challenge. She was sneaky and up to

something. He was excited, or as excited as a non-

descript quiet little man could allow himself to

become. Finally he could use his talents.

"New car?" Alex asked after they had driven for a

while.

"Rental," came the one-word reply. Alvin was focused

on the rearview mirror, looking for a tail. It was

unlikely, but he was taking no chances. He rarely did.

"Oh. Is your car in the shop?"

"Sort of. It had a few bugs in it."

"Oh. What kind of bugs?"

Alvin threw her a disbelieving look. How could she not

know? She had been the one to tell him about the ones

in the bar and then the one last night. He held up his

hand and cupped his ear.

"Oooooh," she said understanding. It was just like

James Bond. She slouched down in the seat, below the

level of the window. She saw him look and then grin at

her new seat on the floorboards. She watched him

drive, watching backwards constantly. They made a lot

of turns.

Alvin pulled into a deserted parking area in one of the

many parks in the city. She had heard about the

beautiful parks in the city but had never been in one

before. Harold hated parks.

"Miss Alex. We need to talk."

"Can we walk, too? I love parks. There's no one here,

not even the joggers. Please?"

He nodded and they got out. Without asking, she took

his hand in hers. She heard him make a small choking

sound and she knew. She had known last night. She had

seen him in the room. He had watched her dance. She

had seen him watching her, and knew. She felt it, too.

They couldn't talk about it now. Not now. Later.

When the voices stopped, when she was done with the

insurance thing. When she was free from this craving,

free from her marriage. When Mr. Smith let her go.

She had always known he would not keep her. Last night

had confirmed that. Soon. Then she would be able to

talk about this. About love. Not now.

"Did you ever find out what happened to that man, the

one that attacked me?" she asked, diverting the

conversation to another area.

"Lewis? Yeah. He got depressed and drunk, went home

and committed suicide. Can't say I feel sorry for

him."

"Did he leave a note?" her breath held in futile hope.

She knew.

"Yeah. Cute one, too."

"Oh God, oh God, oh God," she muttered half to herself,

half in prayer. "'Fuck the bitch, Fuck the bank'," she

quoted.

"Yeah! Hey, how'd you know?"

"He wrote it in Mr. Smith's office. Just before he

killed him."

"No way. I saw him alive, leaving with two guys."

"Vinnie and Max."

"Right. They take a lot of drunks home."

Alex proceeded to tell him what she had observed and

overheard that night. How Mr. Smith had gotten him to

write down those sentences, dictating them to him. She

told about the strong drink and Lewis choking. How the

needle had been hidden, first in the bottle of cognac

then in his palm. She told about the pat on the back

and the injection, the twitch and the rolling eyes.

Alex explained in detail how the paralytic agent

worked, like the drug the Amazon tribes used to kill

monkey. Curare, or something. Lewis couldn't move, but

Mr. Smith had known he could hear him. She related how

he had told Lewis that they were going to drive him

home and close the garage with the car running. She

had said Vinnie was wearing gloves.

Alvin walked beside her, silent during her story. He

sensed there were things she wasn't telling him, but

didn't push her. What she had told him was more than

enough for him to think about.

"Miss Alex? The names on the list. The one you showed

me."

"Yes. The girls. I hear their voices."

He turned to her, alarmed. He wondered if she was

loosing it. If so, how much of what she had told him

about Lewis' death would hold up?

"I'm not crazy. I don't hear them now. Only when the

pendulum swings. I can't help it. I started to talk

to them to keep from going crazy. Then, when it I was

really tired, they talked back. Hallucinations."

He nodded. He had experience with that.

"Do you know where he sent them? The girls? When he

was done with them?"

"Oh, sure."

"Where, Miss Alex? It's very important."

"Nowhere."

"What?"

"Nowhere. They're in the basement. But you won't find

them. But that's where he took them." She hesitated,

begging him silently to understand. "They told me,"

she said quietly.

Now he was scared. For Miss Alex. He had hoped to get

her out, but if what she said was true, he would never

know.

"Tell me about the girl you knew, Alvin."

The big man closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"We were in high school. Sweethearts, though with the

racial differences, we had to be careful. But it was

love, or as close as any two hormone-addled kids can

get. Her parents disapproved, my mama disapproved.

"Mama took me down and enlisted me in the army the day

I turned 18. The day I left for boot camp was the last

time I saw Terry. I drove by her house to say 'good-

bye.' Her father met me at the door with a rifle. I

saw her on the steps behind him.

"They liked me in the Army. Even though I was too big

for Special Forces, they made an exception. I had

passed all the intelligence tests with the highest

marks they had seen." He blushed, not wanting to brag.

"I was too late for 'Nam, but the older guys, the

officers, opened up to me. They told me what had

happened to them in captivity, to their buddies.

You've gone through a lot of that here, Miss Alex.

"My first mission was in Africa. I can't tell you

where, but we weren't supposed to be there. I was the

only survivor, but it took a long time for them to get

me out. I lived in the jungle for months. I killed a

lot of people, too.

"When I got back I found out what had happened to

Terry. Her father had sent her to college. Some ritzy

girl's school back East. Terry was the kindest,

sweetest person I had ever known. She was still a

virgin, but her father would never have believed us if

we had tried to tell him that.

"She got hooked up with some rich kid her first

semester. He got her hooked on cocaine. She would

never have done it if she knew what it was he was

giving her. He got her drunk at a party, then held the

straw up to her nose, four people holding her down. He

kept her high for a week, day and night. Then he

fucked her. Then he dumped her.

"She was out of it when the police came and arrested

her. She had shoplifted some jewelry and hocked it.

They took her to a local precinct. This fancy lawyer

shows up. She thought her father had found out and

went with him but the guy takes her here, to this city.

She used a credit card for a hotel here. Then she

disappeared.

"Her parents were devastated. So was I. I resigned

the Army, moved here and started asking questions. The

last clue led to The Dungeon. One of the dancers in

another bar recognized her picture. She'd seen her

here, with Mr. D about a year before. Just a couple of

months after she was arrested. Called her a 'Pet.'

"I got a job here. Then, about a year ago, when the

previous manager developed a sudden case of cement

shoes, I was made the manager."

He paused. "Uh, Miss Alex? I have to tell you that I

have certain connections. I can find out things. I

can't say more than that, but believe me when I tell

you that you are in danger. I want you to leave.

Now."

"I can't, Alvin. I can't explain it but I just can't.

I need something from him, Mr. Smith. It's, it's a

hole inside."

"Give it up, Miss Alex."

She just shook her head, squeezing his hand tightly.

"I guess we both have a few secrets left, huh?" he said

after a while.

Nodding, she wondered if he knew that she knew how he

felt about her. If that was one of his secrets. She

wondered if he knew she felt the same way about him.

Looking at his worried face, she thought he did.

***

Marcy and Harold checked into fancy hotel in the city

he lived with Alex. No way was he going to stay in

that slum again. Besides, with Marcy here, Alex

wouldn't understand. Things were different now. He

had to move on with his life. He was on the way to the

top.

He had to meet the insurance guy at this exclusive club

down in the warehouse district to sign the final

policy. He didn't need his wife's signature this time.

The location of the club told him it would be an

exciting place, exclusive and discriminating. A little

over the line. In fact, the guy had told him not to

bring Marcy down here. This was going to be a man's

night out. Harold agreed. Marcy was getting a little

demanding lately.

Marcy was soaking in the tub when he left.

Surprisingly she had made no effort to stop him. She

said she was going to soak and then order room service.

She'd see him later. Or tomorrow before the plane left

for Miami. They already had the tickets in false

names.

The club was fancy. A little kinkier than Harold was

used to, but the patrons were obviously well heeled.

He recognized a State Senator from another state

sitting three tables down. There were several other

well-dressed men in expensive suits at the other

tables.

The insurance guy must have known somebody, because

they were sitting at the owner's table. The 'Private'

placard gleamed in the dim lighting. Harold knew he

had it made. He could feel it. The drinks were

flowing, the food was great. 'On the house' the

waitress had said. Only the best scotch, too. Their

table was 10 feet from the stage with a clear view. No

one was in front of them.

He'd developed a taste for scotch. Marcy had been

teaching him about how the rich people lived. She said

that that way, he wouldn't stick out when he had his

money. She had said 'their money,' but he knew she was

just excited about the trip. It was his money.

The insurance guy had him sign the policy, then said

he'd hold it for him. Wouldn't want it to get lost

tonight, with all the celebrating and all. Two friends

of the insurance guy joined them. He must have been

expecting them. Vinnie and Max, they introduced

themselves. They apologized for being late. They had

just delivered a package downstairs and it had taken a

little longer than they expected to put everything

away.

There was some music and the room got dark. The floor

show was about to begin and they had the best seats in

the house. The insurance guy had hinted that this was

going to be a special show, not one you would normally

see, at least in the US.

The show was amazing. These three girls put on a

lesbian act for a good half hour. Then, when there

wasn't a limp dick in the place, they went to one of

the tables and pulled this guy up on stage. There they

proceeded to suck him off. One girl stayed with him

and the other two went back into the audience. Another

guy was taken up on stage and they dropped his pants.

Then the last girl went out and got a guy. Soon all

three were busy sucking on these guys' pricks. When

one guy finished they just pointed, and wiggled their

finger, calling up another lucky bastard. It looked

like they were taking on all the patrons with their

mouths. Even the State Senator had a go at it.

Several of the men around the room went two or three

times. Harold had wanted to go up, too, but with

Vinnie on one side and Max on the other he couldn't get

out. They didn't seem to want to go. They started

kidding him.

"You married, Harold?" Vinnie had asked him.

"Yeah, the ol' ball and chain," he replied, holding up

his ring finger with the band.

"So, you must get this all the time, huh?" he nodded at

the stage.

"Oh, it's not that special," he'd said. How did they

get on this? He was too drunk to lie about it.

"Besides, my ol' lady is so frigid, we don't need a

cooler in the house," he joked.

"You mean she never sucked the weenie for you?" asked

Max.

"That's not her thing. She just doesn't like sex."

"That so? I know a guy that can get a girl to do

anything. In fact, he's the owner of this club. I've

seen him do it with a movie star once. Five minutes

and the bitch was putty," put in the insurance guy.

"You're shitting all over the table, man," said Vinnie.

"I'll bet he couldn't get ol' Harold's wife to put out.

Waddya say, Harold?"

"Nope. She's tighter than a rusty bolt on a Peruvian

steamer." He didn't know what that meant exactly, but

he'd heard that line before.

"This guy could do it. $50 bucks says she's sucking
his cock in 5 minutes."

"You're on," laughed Vinnie. "I'll take that bet.

Here's my $50, on the table. Harold, you in?"

The drinks had done there job. "Damn straigh'. Easy-

ess 50 bucksh I made tonigh'," digging in his pocket

for his wallet.

"So give her a call! Get her down here!"

"Wha'? Now?"

"Sure. Here. You can use my cell phone," the

insurance guy said. "Just press the button. The

number's already dialed." Then, as an afterthought,

"Oh, and tell her to wear something nice, too. When

you're done, I'll call a cab and have her picked up in

twenty minutes."

Harold didn't see the set-up heading at him like a Mac

Truck. He pressed the 'Send' button.

"Hey, Alex. It'sh me, Harold, your hushband. ... Uh,

yeah, a li'l bit. Just a few with the boysh. Lishen,

I need you to meet me down at this here club. The

Dungeon. What? ..."

He listened to the whispered instructions from the

insurance guy

"... Oh, yeah, I'm shupposhed to tell you, wear that

nishe dressh. You know the one, wi' the li'l flowersh.

A taxshi will be pickin' you up in tw-twenty minu's.

Oh, and jus' go meet this guy in the club offish. ...

No, that'sh it. Shee you, babe."

For the next half hour, Harold was put on a ration of

hot coffee. Orders. Mr. Smith wanted him as sober as

possible. Harold didn't notice. They were all

drinking coffee, joking and laughing. He watched the

floorshow until they all got up to use the john. It

was just about time. He knew he couldn't lose.

Chapter 18

Alex stared at the phone. It was only about the fifth

call they had gotten, other than the ones from the

credit card companies who always called at dinner time.

There was no question in her mind that this was the

call she was supposed to be waiting for. It had come

sooner than she expected, but not soon enough. She

wanted to find a resolution. She needed to have only

one man, not two. She needed a master.

Alex dressed in the white dress she had altered.

Harold had been so drunk. She wondered if he would

even notice the changes in it. Probably not, but he

would need to be blind not to.

A pair of hose and some make up had arrived by

messenger. No note. Just the those items. Alex could

take the hint. She applied what little make up she

needed, heavy where Mr. Smith liked it. Around the

eyes and around her mouth. The lipstick color was new.

It was brighter than she had worn for the photos. The

makeup man had explained to her that a shade this

bright would draw attention to her lips. He'd said

that in her case, with her mouth and lips, that wasn't

necessarily a bad thing. The only downside, he' said,

was that the observer would miss her gorgeous face. He

had said the nicest things.

She felt foolish pulling on her virginal white gloves

and the little pill box hat. A look in the mirror

confirmed her feeling. A hooker going to church.

That's what it looked like. She laughed, and it felt

good to her. She had laughed yesterday, too, with

Alvin.

She was waiting when the taxi pulled up and it was

early. The cabbie knew exactly where to go and

wouldn't take any money. He also couldn't keep his

eyes on the road. They were glued to the mirror. To

her face. Her lips.

She entered her code at the front door and walked into

the now-familiar club. In her clothes, the bartender,

who had worked with her only three days ago, didn't

recognize her. Alvin did and he gave her a little hug.

He had been told to keep her here, at the front for a

few more minutes. As they were speaking, she thought

she saw Harold with three guys. They were going into

the men's room. But it couldn't have been Harold. She

knew two of the others. Vinnie and Max. No way would

Harold get mixed up with those two.

Alex waved to the lady from the photo session, the

beautiful lady that had posed with her. The lady

seemed surprised to see her, but came over and chatted.

Alex mentioned she was supposed to see Mr. Smith in a

few minutes. Would she have time for a drink later?

Alex really wanted to thank her for the other day. She

had been so, well, kind to her.

The lady just smiled and said that she'd wait for a

while. She had some girls working here tonight and

needed to take care of them. But she was still here

when Mr. Smith was finished with her, they'd have that

drink.

Alvin pulled her inside the small security office, away

from the crowd, away from the floorshow. Alex had seen

what those girls were doing on stage. She thought it

was cute that Alvin was trying to protect her. They

stood in silence, side by side. She wondered if Alvin

had a hard on every night.

They didn't see the four men walk down the hallway to

the room just past the club office. The one with the

one-way mirror. They didn't see the trim figure of the

pretty lady that followed them into the room. Vinnie,

Max and Harold were so intent on the one-way mirror,

they didn't even notice her. The insurance guy thought

she was part of the Mr. Smith's plan. Vinnie reached

forward and flipped the toggle switch under the mirror

down to the 'On' position.

Damon saw the tell-tale go on and called the front

security kiosk. Alex was waiting. He told Alvin to

send her down.

Damon's first thought as she walked into his office was

the she was the perfect picture of an innocent slut.

It was the gloves and hat. No. It's what she was. It

stirred him, and he was glad. When she was kneeling in

front of him, he wanted to be hard, he wanted it to

spring out at her.

"Hello. You must be Mrs. Wilson. I'm Mr. Smith.

Harold has told me so much about you."

If anything, he was counting on her quick mind. She

had demonstrated that enough in the past. She didn't

fail him.

Coming forward, she extended her hand. "Hello. It's a

pleasure to meet you, Mr. Smith." She copied his

inflection and used the 'master' pronunciation. He

grinned at her and winked with the eye the hidden
observers couldn't see. She had noticed the telltale

light was on when she came in. This was for show.

"So Harold was telling me a bit about you two. I'm

afraid he was a little drunk at the time, and he said

some things that were perhaps a bit indiscrete."

"Oh, my. I hope that didn't cause you any discomfort."

She was looking right at his crotch. She had noticed

the swelling and was licking her lips. Damon wondered

how much they had told her on the telephone. Or how

much she had guessed.

"No, no. Nothing I can't handle. But there was some

talk of a bet, a silly man's thing. It's nothing

really..." He let it hang, hoping she would pick up on

his cues.

"Oh, a bet? Those aren't silly. That's serious, a

matter of honor. Is that why you wanted to see me? Is

there anything I can do to help?"

"Well, as a matter of fact there is. I don't mean to

be crude, but Harold bet that you had the softest lips

in the city."

She smiled brightly at him. "Oh, he was being silly.

Would you like a kiss to prove it?"

"Well, I would like you to prove it, but not with a

kiss."

"Then how, Mr. Smith? The only other way I know about

is like this."

With that, Alex knelt in front of Mr. Smith and put her

hands to his belt. He didn't stop her this time and

she smiled up at him. It was a joke on Harold, and she

didn't feel guilty at all. His zipper followed and

Alex lowered his pants down past his knees to his

ankles. His short followed.

"Oh, Mr. Smith. It's so beautiful. May I kiss it?"

"But of course, Mrs. Wilson. Tell me, do you do this

often?"

"Oh, no. Never."

"Do you know how?"

"Well, I've seen pictures and heard stories, but I'm

not real sure. Would you teach me, Sir?"

Looking down at those twinkling green eyes, Damon

almost changed his mind about his plans for her.

Almost. She'd pissed him off by not signing the

ownership papers. No one had done that before. He

still had to get that taken care of.

"Sure, I don't mind. See that drop of clear fluid.

Lick that with the tip of your tongue."

"Ummm. That tastes good. Is there more?"

With a laugh, Damon begins instructing this novice

fellatrix in the joys of cock-sucking. He groaned as

she applied herself with great enthusiasm, only needing

to be warned once to watch her teeth. Soon her head

was bobbing, taking more and more of him into her

mouth.

He felt her gag as his fat cock reached the back of her

throat, but she was prepared for this. She had watch

the videos and seen those impossibly long cocks slide

down, completely swallowed by the girls. Deep-

throating, the audio had called it. She had felt him

in her body and knew he was large. As large as the

plastic dildos the pretty lady had used on her if not

bigger. For the last two day, she had practiced with a

sausage she had gotten from the market. Her cheeks had

burned when she had gone though the checkout line with

just the sausage. She knew that everyone would guess

what she wanted it for.

Staring at the wonderfully hard cock in front of her,

Alex was a little afraid she had not gotten a big

enough sausage to practice with. She would try to

swallow this monster, but it would be a stretch.

When it hit the back of her throat, he had pushed a

little. That was what made her gag.

"Am I supposed to swallow the whole thing, Sir?" she

asked, taking the glistening cock out of her mouth.

"Yes. All good girls swallow the whole thing."

"OK, Sir," she said and dove back down on him, this

time relaxing her throat muscles and burying her nose

in his pubic hair. Then she hummed.

Damon felt the vibrations of her vocal cords and the

sensation surprised him. His cock swelled and his jism
burst deep into her throat. Feeling him cum, she

slowly backed off, keeping just the head of his prick

in his mouth. She sucked him dry, swallowing it all.

She wanted to be a good girl. He was amazed. For a

first time blow job, that had been one of the best he

had ever had.

When he had softened he pulled himself from her mouth.

Her red lipstick smeared its length and had come off on

her white gloves as she lovingly caressed the slowly

deflating organ. It was an erotic sight. She kept

sucking him until he pulled out. She wanted more.

"Did I do good, Sir?" she asked, looking up at him with

an impish grin. She was proud of herself.

"That was very good, Mrs. Wilson. Perhaps you'd care

to do it again sometime?"

"Oh yes, Sir! Now?"

He laughed, peeling her hands away from his groin.

This had gone much better than he had hoped. Much

better. He could just imagine the little bastard in

the other room. Probably going out of his fucking

mind.

She remained kneeling as he pulled up his pants,

whispering "Thank you, Sir" as their heads were

together. It had been a wonderful game to her. She

helped him buckle his belt, leaning forward as she

finished and kissing the leather than had strangled her

earlier in the week. He shook his head, stiffening

again at her willing subservience.

"If you can stay for a minute, Mrs. Wilson, I have some

business to attend to. Do you mind?"

"Oh, no, Sir. I'll stay right here." She moved to

kneel in her spot beside his big desk.

Damon busied himself at the bar for moment, handing her

a drink as he left the office.

Harold had smirked when Alex had walked into the

office. What a prude. A good looking prude, he

corrected. There was something different about the

dress. It looked, well, sexier, somehow. But she was

wearing her silly little hat and those stupid gloves.

Who did she think she was, the Virgin Mary? She sure

as fuck acted like it.

Vinnie and Max had been ready when Harold had jumped

out of his chair. Or tried to. The insurance guy had

his hands just above Harold's shoulders. He didn't

have a chance. They tied his arms to the arms of the

chair he was sitting in. In a touch of irony, it was

the same chair Alex had first been bound into when she

had come to the club searching for a way to save her

marriage. The two men on each side of the enraged

husband used wide nylon bands that wouldn't leave any

marks to bind his arms. They did his legs, too. Too

many of these guys kicked like girls.

Harold had accepted the ties, eventually. It had been

a bet, he shouldn't be a sore loser. But that Mr.

Smith, was deformed! Huge! No one was that big. He

had started yelling when she had licked the tip with

her tongue. He was going to lose. That couldn't be

his wife. It was an actress, a double. This was all a

joke.

The three men had laughed with him. Or laughed at him.

He wasn't so sure anymore and Alex was carrying the

joke way too far. She couldn't have taken him that far

down her throat. It was an optical illusion, it had to

be. The mirror was a trick mirror.

The guys weren't laughing any more. They were

fascinated by the sight in front of them. It wasn't

fake. They weren't faking it. Oh, God. Alex. That

could have been him, taking her mouth. It should have

been. That cunt Marcy couldn't hold a fucking candle

to that beautiful woman in the other room. That was

his wife, damn it.

Harold heard the man's groan and saw his wife gulp and

swallow the ejaculate. She kept his prick in her mouth

far longer than necessary. Come on. It was just a

fucking little bet. Get off your knees! Get up, go

home. I'll be there as soon as I check out of the

hotel. I'm coming, darling...

Damon strolled into the next room. He felt rather

proud of himself. He saw the red-faced balding paunchy

man. That must be Harold. Then he saw the Dom

standing in the corner, clapping sardonically. He was

surprised to see her, but it gave him a thrill, too, to

have been seen to be so masterful, especially by his

next pet. It would make it all the more sweet when she

was on her knees. Oh, life was good.

"Hello, Harold. I'm Mr. Smith. That's OK, don't get

up. I won't keep you long. I just stopped in to tell

you thank you for handing me your wife on a silver

platter. I couldn't have asked for a better gift."

Harold sputtered but was speechless.

"I wanted to thank you for participating in our little

insurance scam, too, Harold. Without you, I have to

say it wouldn't have been possible. And since you were

such an integral part of the plan, I wanted to share

with you just how it's going to go from here."

Damon walked over to the man strapped in the chair.

For a second it looked as if he was going to put his

hand on the man's shoulder in a comradely gesture.

Then at the last minute, his hand darted towards the

man's neck and the syringe was emptied into his neck.

It happened so fast that three of the observers never

saw it happen. The Dom did. She had seen his cupped

hand when he had come in the door. The same way she

cupped hers to hide a needle.

Harold gave a sudden twitch and his eyes rolled up into

his head. Slowly they rolled back down, unfocused, but

still seeing. Damon knelt in front of him and started

undoing the straps that bound him. The three men were

surprised when Harold didn't try to get up.

"I'm going to tell you your future, you little piece of

shit. You're going to sit here and watch while I go

back in that room and fuck you wife. Then she's going

to suck me hard again and I'm going to fuck her again.

When that's done, you're going to go get ready for your

trip to the islands. Vinnie and Max here are going to

take you downstairs and put on your swimming trunks.

Then they're going to put you in a big tank of salt

water.

"You're going to drown, Harold, in the basement. But

don't worry. We're going to take you to the islands.

We still have to collect on the insurance, now, don't

we?

"Oh, you were so fucking smart. You had it all figured

out. You thought you couldn't lose, didn't you. Well,

you little fuck, you lose."

On the way, out the Dom caught his arm. "You want some

help in there with the little bitch?"

Damon eyed her. "You'd like that, wouldn't you? Are

you after her cunt or my cock?"

"A little of both, I guess," she teased him. "But I'd

settle for your cock."

"Stick around, then. You can stay and watch, but I

imagine you want to see to your girls. Thanks, by the

way, for letting us use them. I didn't know lesbians
were such good cock suckers. How'd you do it?"

"Oh, I have my secrets, too," she said, drawing a sharp

fingernail down the side of his face. "I'll see you

later. I promise."

She grinned. Unless that bitch was totally out of it,

the perfume she had just scented him with would cause

her some serious doubts. guys had no clue when it came

to aromatic warfare. This dick was no different. She

settled in to watch for a while.

Alex was kneeling in the other room. She had been

euphoric, basking in Mr. Smith's praise. It had been a

fun game. A little cruel, maybe, but Harold already

had another woman. Marcy. She hoped they would be

happy together. It was the way she was.

She had sipped a little of the strong drink Mr. Smith

had given her, but it wasn't what she needed. She

liked the taste of him in her mouth and the whiskey

burned that out. She reached up to put in on his desk

and nearly spilled it.

The bottle. It had been moved. It had been closed

when she came in. Oh,God. Harold! With a sickening

knot growing in her stomach, she knelt and clutched her

arms around her body. She didn't know for sure, but

she knew. She knew.

This wasn't a game anymore. She didn't want to play.

She grabbed her arms, pinching herself. Get a hold of

yourself! You knew it was dangerous. From the time

you saw the size of the policy. Harold's a big boy.

He can take care of himself. He knew the risks.

Alex talked her way through her panic. It was too late

now, anyway. And she still needed something from Mr.

Smith. Now more than ever. She had willingly started

to severe her ties with Harold. Maybe a divorce wasn't

impossible. Her family would understand.

The scent of that woman struck her as Mr. Smith walked

into the room. She looked behind him for her. She

wouldn't have minded her being here. But she had been

in that other room. With Harold. More to the point,

she had been in there with Mr. Smith.

"Come, pet. Dance for me."

The music started and as if drawn into its seductive

beat Alex danced. She tossed her parochial little hat

and her catechism gloves across the room. She was done

with that part of her life. Gone. It was gone

forever. She could never go back to her church. She

would be a tainted woman when the divorce was final.

Her silky dress was off in a hurry. There was an

urgency, a desperation to this dance. Alex wanted to

get naked and get fucked. Now.

Mr. Smith through her the black cord when her bra and

panties were gone. She looped it around her neck and

handed him the ends. Then lowering herself to her

knees, she began stripping him of his clothes. He let

her remove her clothes then turned her around and tied

her arms behind her back.

He lifted her onto the large desk and set her on her

knees. Then he got on the table himself and lay back.

In a flash she was poised over his loins, capturing the

tip of his cock in the mouth of her vagina and impaling

herself on his hardness.

Alex screamed and began sobbing, the sexual release

immediate and continuous. She thrust her body up and

down his length, now working for his pleasure. She

screamed as he slapped her tits as they bounced up and

down with her efforts. He was not gentle and she egged

him on. More, she demanded of him. More, harder.

He came inside her and she wept. She had pleased him.

Mr. Smith urged her off of him. Suck, he said. Clean

me and suck.

Alex complied eagerly. He would give her more! Her

tongue laved over his semi-hard organ. She sucked his

testicles into her mouth and cleaned them. He gave no

response to her efforts. It wasn't until she chased a

trickle of her fluids down the crack of his ass and

licked his asshole that he showed further signs of

life. Seeing that twitch, Alex buried her face in his

ass, urging his knees up and out so she could get in

and lick. Finally, when it was almost hard, Alex took

it once more into her mouth and down her throat. Then

she hummed.

She hummed the song she had hummed when Petunia died.

The one she hummed when she was looking for the bugs in

the storage room. It was a nursery rhyme. She didn't

remember the words. Just the tune her Daddy had

hummed, over and over to her at night.

Mr. Smith pulled her off of him when he was finally

hard. The humming had worked again. He positioned her

on her knees and pressed her head against the desk.

With only her spit for lubrication, he stood on the

floor behind her and rammed his hard cock up her

asshole. She screamed, in pain now the pleasure burned

from her mind. That hadn't happened before. Now she

could tell the difference. Now it just plain hurt.

Then her body betrayed her once more. The rhythmic

filling and emptying of her body, even in that cavity

stimulated the basic core of her brain. Endorphins

flooded her blood stream and she became aroused,

despite the pain. But not because of it, this time.

Mr. Smith lasted a long time before coming in her ass.

Alex came, too, at the end. She cried when he pulled

out.

She cleaned him and he untied her. He put the black

cord in her special drawer in the desk. Her old cast

iron bra and granny panties were still in there. It

seemed such a long time ago when she had surrendered

them to him. So long ago.

She knelt, waiting because he had told her to wait.

Someone would come. She hoped it was Alvin.

Vinnie and Max carried Harold downstairs to the third

basement. Once there, the paralyzed man was stripped

and dressed in his own swimwear. They laid him in a

large tubular frame that could be hoisted up and over

the big tank of water. The frame had a lid that could

be closed, trapping whoever was in it. The frame was

still wet, but Harold hardly noticed.

The two goons hoisted him up and over the large

saltwater tank. He was lowered in, without visible

protest. The only sign he gave of life were the

bubbles that were his last breath. On his next breath,

Harold inhaled sea water.

For all intents and purposes, Harold had just drowned

in the ocean.

Vinnie and Max waited the half hour the boss had said

to wait. Then they hauled the dead man back out of the

tank. Splashing in the water that pooled on the floor,

the two lifted the lid of frame and heaved the

deadweight into a sitting position. Max held his arms

out while Vinnie fitted and fastened a bright orange

life vest on him. The name "SS Big Break" was

stenciled on the fabric of the new jacket.

Dragging him by his armpits and his ankles, the two men
butt-bounced Harold over to the huge walk in freezer.

Max got the corpse in a fireman's carry and staggered

under the deadweight into the depths of the huge

freezer. Vinnie took a meat hook and slipped it

through the loop in the back panel of the life

preserver. Max eased down, out from under Harold,

letting the meat hook take the weight of the man.

The two looked at their handiwork. They were

satisfied. The body was lying like it would if it were

face down in the water. Not straight up and down, but

with the torso at a slight angle, the arms and legs

dangling straight down. Any postmortem lividity

studies would show he had died in this position.

They closed the freezer door, leaving Harold swaying

gently in frigid repose next to a smaller, big-titted

bikini clad figure. Marcy was going to the Islands

with Harold after all.

Chapter 19

"Ooooh, lover, that was good. I didn't think you'd

have anything left after servicing your little bitch."

They were laying in Damon's bed, panting still from the

exertions of their combative coupling.

"You just bring it out in me, I guess."

"So, where do you keep her? I can't see you letting

something that needy out in the world. She'd fuck

every pair of pants between her and there and still

want more."

"Yeah, she is a demanding little cunt. Kind of like

someone else I know."

The Dom gave a low laugh. "Flattery will get you

anything you want. So, where is she?"

Damon nodded with his head at a door she had assumed

was a closet.

"Really? Is she in there?"

"Yes. At least, she should be. I told my manager to

put her down for the night."

"Oooh, goody. Can I see?"

Damon looked at her. "You want some cunt?"

"No, silly. I just want to see how you keep her so hot

and pliable. I just want to steal your trade secrets.

You are the best, you know."

He didn't catch the sarcasm. She knew he wouldn't.

After a good fuck, a man's ego didn't let him think.

He had fulfilled his God-ordained task of procreating.

Like God on the seventh day, the fuckers shut down and

rested.

"In that case, OK. But no touching and keep quiet.

I'm still working on her."

The beautiful, if bedraggled lady stepped gracefully

out of the bed, using her nudity as a weapon. All was

fair in this war and love had no part of it. She

opened the door to Alex cage and the girl's plaintive

wailing filled the bedroom. Her cries vacillated,

quiet to loud, quiet to loud, in coordination with a

large swing pendulum. The lady saw the girl was nearly

insane with frustration. A cruel smile of satisfaction

crossed her lips. It was amazingly simple yet

diabolical in its effectiveness. A slut-making

machine.

She recognized the latex clothing. Her girls each had

their own, too. But the swinging arm, that was genius.

Sheer genius.

Silently she shut the door. If it all worked out, she

would get this little bitch for her own. Oh, God, what

she could do with her. Such devotion. Such loyalty.

It was fucking wasted on this prick. He didn't even

know how to break her.

And the idea was planted and grew. It was brilliant.

"I can't believe there would be anything more you could

possibly get from her after observing her performance

today."

"The bitch is stubborn."

"Oh, come on. She's dying to serve you. It couldn't

be that hard."

"You have no idea." Damon was opening up to this lady.

His guard was down. He had never had someone he could

talk about his work with, someone who understood.

"Anything I could do to help?" she asked carefully.

This was the make or break point.

"I don't know. I can't get her to commit, sort of."

Yes! She was in!

"I'll bet you I can get her to commit to it, whatever

it is, in three days. If I win, I get you for a week,

in my parlor."

"Ha! Sure after I softened her up for you."

"Are you making any progress?"

"Well, no."

"So? How about it?"

"And if I win? I get you for a week?"

She didn't even hesitate. "Deal. Shake?"

"Done. So. What's your brilliant plan? What do I

do?"

The beautiful woman leaned back in his soft bed and

grinned. God, he was going to look cute on his knees

sucking her cunt.

"Nothing."

"Huh? Nothing?"

She sighed, like a trainer with a stupid dog. "Yes.

Nothing. I'd suggest you turn off that ingenious

machine, too. And then, you ignore her."

"Ignore her?"

"Yes. Give her the 'silent treatment.' Be there, but

don't be there. Let her see you, but to you she

doesn't exist."

"It'll never work."

"Then you'll have me in your clutches for a week. And

you'll only have lost three days. Sounds like a good

deal to me."

"You're pretty sure of yourself."

"Let's just say I know women. I know that woman." She

grinned, "At least, I sure the Hell hope I do." She

paused. "As long as we're in this together, you mind

telling me what it is she won't give up?"

He looked chagrinned. "A divorce," he said finally.

"You're shitting me. You married that little cunt?"

"No, not me. You met him earlier. Harold."

"Oh. I see. It could be hard to get a divorce from a

dead man. Hmmm. That may take a bit longer than I

estimated."

Damon looked at her, his interest piqued. He had

swallowed the hook and she had just set it. Hard.

"You want out? Too tough for you?"

"No way, lover. Come over here."

Giggling as her newest victim attacked her with renewed

vigor, the Dom salivated over her plans. This Mr.

Smith liked to use drugs to his advantage. She had

seen that at the photo session and earlier tonight. He

had one drug, apparently, that he like to use with a

very lethal effect. He was very good at it, too. She

had never suspected him of it and the police had

obviously never connected him to anything. She had

never had much use for actually killing people, but it

never hurt to have it in her arsenal.

What Damon had forgotten about was her arsenal, her

medical bag of tricks. Her newest little

pharmaceutical helper was a Central Nervous System

(CNS) drug that had failed spectacularly in the

clinical trials. It had been intended to help severely

depressed individuals by making them more open to

suggestions, allowing therapists to alter their

thinking patterns. If anything, it was too successful.

The patients were so open to suggestion that their

entire moral code could be influenced. A normally

harmless person could be made to do the most

reprehensible things imaginable without the slightest

remorse or guilt. And all with only one dose.

Obviously the Army was interested in guilt-free killing

machines and had tried to hijack the project, but the

company and the FDA had thought better of it and shut

it down. She, of course, had a contact in the lab.

All the samples that were supposed to have been

destroyed had ended up in her vault. Her first three

subjects, normal heterosexual college freshmen two

weeks ago, had put on an outstanding performance

tonight at his club as lesbian nymphomaniac cock

suckers. They still attended college, but they served

totally at her whim and without question.

As would this prick and his 'pet.'

Damon got out of bed and opened Alex' cage after their

latest mating. He stopped the pendulum and she opened

her eyes, glazed and unseeing. Staring down at the

delirious girl, he wondered if she knew what was going

to happen to her. In three days, he would have his 5

million dollars or he would have that bitch in his bed

under his control. Either way, he couldn't lose.

He didn't even notice he was using the same words he

had used earlier with Harold.

The next two days were pure torture for Alex. Alvin

would get her up, feed her and walk her through her

day. She was now a considered just a regular worked at

the club. She cleaned the bars and waited tables.

She didn't dance. She had to tolerate the none to

subtle pinches and advances of the club members. She

did so stoically. While on the outside she was calm,

inside she was a tightening coil.

She hadn't quite figured it out the first day. She

told herself that Mr. Smith was just busy. He had a

lot of important things to do.

Then she got her first paycheck. Alvin had handed it

to her along with passing out all the other employees

their checks. At first she had been excited, even

jumping up and down. Then she saw the amount and asked

Alvin why it was so much. He said Mr. Smith had told

him to tell her that he had given her the earnings for

her dance. Suddenly, Alex got sick to her stomach and

had to rush to the bathroom. She threw up and was sick

again when she thought about it.

Pale and wan, she came back and gave the check back to

Alvin.

"Please, Alvin. Could you hold this for me? I-- I

don't..."

"I know, Miss Alex. You're not a whore. You did that

for him, not the money. It was a bad thing for him to

do."

"But, why, Alvin?"

"I don't know, Miss Alex. I don't know anymore."

Mr. Smith made frequent forays into the club, stopping

and chatting with Alvin and the other employees. It

was as if Alex didn't exist. He would see her and walk

right by her. By the end of the day she was in tears.

Each morning and evening Alvin would hand her the

clipboard with the forms. Each morning and evening she

would shake her head and the tears would fall.

On the third morning Alvin handed her the clipboard.

Tears falling down her cheeks, she took it from him.

Alvin moaned, as if in pain. She didn't hear him.

Alex took the clipboard into the dining area of the

apartment. She laid it by his hand softly and then, on

top of them, laid her wedding band.

"I'll sign them, Sir. I'll go out today and file for a

divorce from Harold. I need your advice, Sir. I don't

know any lawyers. Could you help me? I could use the

money from the check, Sir."

Damon stared down at the clipboard in disbelief. The

fucking Dom bitch had been right! He'd won! Five

Million Dollars! Yes! Eat that, Elizabeth Farnsworth!

"Pet," he said, "Don't worry about anything. A good

master takes care of all of those little details, like

lawyers and money. Tell you what. Let's have a

signing party tonight to celebrate. That will give me

time to get all the other papers drawn up and you can

sign them all at once. How does that sound?"

"Wonderful, Sir. But, Sir?"

"Yes, my Pet?"

"May I call you 'Master' now?"

He thought for a minute, toying with her. It had been

a delicious fight, especially since he had won.

"Yes, Pet. I think that would be a good idea."

"Oh, Thank you, Master!" she sobbed, kneeling to his

feet and kissing them. "Thank you!"

As Alvin was no longer necessary to his plan, he waved

him away after giving him instructions for a small

quiet celebration in the bar tonight. Employees only,

then they could have the night off. He and his new pet

would be having their own celebration. Alvin had a bad

feeling about the whole thing.

For a celebration, it went well, even if the guest of

honor was a bit subdued. Alex was not bound, but she

was collared and leashed. She stayed by her Master's

side all night long. Her Master was in a wonderful

mood. She had signed the papers, all of them, without

glancing at a single one. They were even now sitting

in an envelope in his outbasket, addressed, notarized

and with the proper postage. It was all over.

Then they had gone to the party. He was the center of

attention and the life of the party. He was witty,

smiling and everybody's best friend. It was a

wonderful celebration.

Through it all, Damon was seething. How could he have

been so fucking blind. Right under his fucking nose.

Right there, all the time. Shit!

He had left Pet kneeling in the office. He had to make

a call. He probably could have done it with her there,

but better safe than sorry. He stepped to the next

room and dialed the four digit number for Vinnie.

"Hello, Vinnie? Yeah, it's me. All the papers are

signed. ... Yeah, it's great news. Listen, I want

you to get those two out of here tonight, OK. ...

Right. Get them ready. I'll get everybody out of here

early. ... Yeah, him, too. ... You got the boats,

right. ... Right, the 'Big Break.' ... Yeah,

Vinnie, I got the joke. Cute. Was that your idea?

... Funny. A good one. OK, you get them ready and

I'll let you know when it's clear up here. Better safe

than sorry. ... Yeah. Bon Voyage."

He hung up. Then he remembered he needed to tell them

to put them in plastic bags with dry ice. Those idiots

would probably just let them thaw out in the back of

the van. Eight hours in this heat to Miami and there

would be a big stink, in more ways than one.

He had picked up the handset and was puzzled. He heard

Vinnie talking. But the light for the line wasn't lit.

Something was very fishy.

"Hey, Maxie!" he heard him yell, "It looks like Mama's

going to get her $5 Million bucks. Oh, happy shit!

Wait until I tell her."

Damon heard the familiar sounds of a cell phone

dialing. He hadn't know Vinnie carried one. He had

never given him the number if he did.

"Hello? Mrs. Farnsworth, please. It's Vincent."

There was a delay. Damon was ice cold. Everything was

falling into place.

"Hello, Mama? ..."

That was all Damon had to hear. He sank down in the

chair and held his head in his hands. He didn't see

his new pet through the one-way mirror as she fixed him

a drink at the bar. He wouldn't have thought anything

of it, anyway. Then she straightened out the bottles,

fumbling with a couple of them. She was just being

domestic.

It had all been too simple, so easy, when you thought

about it. He remembered the rumors now. No one put

any credence to them because there wasn't any proof.

The bastard kid was never with her at any functions.

He had heard Elizabeth Farnsworth had had a kid before

she married her husband. Named Vincent something or

other. Pirolli. Vincent Pirolli. But no one had

heard of him since. And the bitch had managed to slip

him in right under his nose. Vinnie had obviously been

bugging the club since the first day. What was that,

three years ago? That was about right. The phone in

this office was obviously one of his listening posts.

Neat trick. Dial an extension while a room is empty,

or even when someone is there. Let it ring or be

answered, it didn't matter. The connection would stay

active, the handset acting like a microphone. It would

be totally untraceable, as there were no bugs to

detect.

He made a decision. He still had those gifts he had

been planning on giving to Alvin. That was before he

had found out that Alvin was in the clear. Damn, that

would have been a terrible mistake. But they were

perfect for this occasion. Perfect and appropriate.

Steeling himself, he had gone in to the office,

collected his pet and gone to the party. No one

suspected he was acting a part. Which wasn't unusual,

if he had thought about it. He was always acting a

part.

Alvin had primed the staff to leave early. After a

rousing cheer and several well wishers kissing the

bride, so to speak, the small gathering dispersed.

When the three of them were left, Alvin was shocked

when Mr. D hugged him, in a manly way of course. Of

all the nefarious deeds he had witnessed or heard of,

that short physical contact disturbed him the most.

Something had happened to completely clear him in Mr.

D's mind. Either that, or Alvin was a dead man and

just didn't know it yet. He wasn't sure he liked

either choice.

He also didn't like it when Mr. D sent him home, too.

He had an uneasy feeling about tonight. Too much was

coming together. People could get hurt in the

stampede. He hurt for Alex, too. She looked beaten,

defeated. Oh, she was radiant and glowing, but her

eyes were empty of their fire. She had what she

wanted. He could tell, every time she said 'Master' he

could hear the enjoyment in her voice. She relished

it, savored it. But it was a hollow victory. She had

had to give up too much.

From the office where he had taken her, Mr. Smith sent

Alex back into the club to get her black cord and then

meet him downstairs in the apartment. He had an errand

to run but would be right back. She hadn't been bound

tonight, but unquestioningly she had searched for the

cord. She found it where they had left it. It was in

her special drawer in his desk. It had been in his

office all along.

Mr. Smith wasn't there when she had come back into the

office. She was just about to leave when, out of

habit, she checked the alignment of the bottles. It

had been moved again! As she was alone, she checked

the contents of the cognac bottle. An icy hand gripped

her heart. The syringe was gone and the vial was

empty.

With growing dread, she made her way down to the

apartment. She didn't have to look to know, but she

checked anyway. She found the syringe in the drawer of

the nightstand. He hadn't even bothered to close the

drawer all the way or cover the syringe to hide it from

view.

Alex laid the black cord carefully on the bed. He had

never taken her sexually without her being bound. She

had one chance. If he could be convinced he had

completely won, there was a chance, a slight chance he

would be magnanimous. He might make a mistake.

Probably not, at this stage, but she could only try.

Otherwise, she was dead. As dead as Petunia. She had

no doubts that he didn't need her anymore. You didn't

keep pets you didn't need.

Chapter 20

Damon left the apartment and took the elevator down to

the third level. As he suspected, the fucking dolts

hadn't packed the bodies in ice. They were sitting on

the cart, ready to be hauled up to the service entrance

when everyone was gone. Vinnie's smug expression was

almost enough to make him want to bash his face in.

But not yet. They had to get the bodies to the

Islands.

"Hey, guys! Looks like you're all set, right!"

"Yeah. For a little guy, he weighs a ton, ya' know,"

said Max. Vinnie just smirked at him.

"Say, Max, how long will it take you to get to the

Marina?"

He looked up at Vinnie. "Oh, dunno. Maybe 8-9 hours.

Don't want to speed or nothin'."

"Yeah, that's good thinking, Max. So, have you

arranged to pick up some ice on the road?"

"Ice? What for?"

"Oh, come on, Max. Quit joking with me. It's over a

hundred in the back of the van and it will be even

hotter in Miami. You're not going to load them into

the yacht in broad daylight, are you?"

"Uh, no, boss." His eyes were flicking over at Vinnie,

who was no longer smirking. It was a major screw up,

the kind of detail Mama would have expected him to

think of. Especially when he took over this club from

this faggot.

"We'll get some ice from the freezer, Mr. D," said

Vinnie. "I was planning on getting that out at the

last minute, so it wouldn't melt. And, oh yeah, we'll

put it in plastic bags, so it won't melt all over,

too." With that 'save' his smugness returned. He

could do this job as good as that phony bastard.

"Well, look. I'm sorry you two had to miss the

celebration. To make up for it, I saved two of the

best bottles of champagne for you. Besides," he kicked

at the largest lump on the cart, "it's his Anniversary

tomorrow. It would be a shame not to toast to his good

health, right?" He gave a big laugh, as if this was a

great joke.

"Gee, that's nice of you boss. Thanks." Max took

possession of the bottles.

"Remember guys, work first, play later. This is the

good stuff. You'll probably never have any better.

So, get them in the water, arrange for them to be

found, then party to your heart's content. And drink

one for me, too, will you? I really owe you guys for

your help with this project. I think we'll be talking

about moving you up in the organization after this.

Finish this, then we'll talk."

"Hey, boss? Any chance we'll get a piece of the new

girl when we get back? She's a hot one, she is."

"Well, Max, you know I don't like loose ends. But I'll

tell you what. If she's still around when you get

back, I'll arrange for you to have her for a while.

How about that? I'm not sure how things are going to

work out with her, but you're on, OK?"

"Gee, Thanks, boss. You're d' best!"

"You, too, Max. Vinnie. Drive safe."

He managed not to ball up his fists as he turned away

from them. It was always the weakest links that fucked

up a perfect plan. All the idiots had to do was drive

to Miami, wait until nightfall, load the bodies on the

yacht and sink the sucker where it could be found. It

was all arranged. They couldn't fail. They couldn't.

Harold's body had to be found and in the next couple of

days.

Damon was feeling slightly better when he got back to

the apartment. His new pet was waiting for him, naked

and kneeling beside his bed. Fresh sheets, freshly

showered, her hair in the thick woven braid he favored.

She smelled of musk, a sensual scent she didn't usually

wear. He liked it.

He called her in to the bathroom and she scrubbed his

body while he showered, thoroughly and with a

refreshing delight. She explored him, touching him,

calling him 'Master' over and over as would a child

with a new toy. She dried him tenderly, his arousal

evident as he led her to the bedroom. She seemed

nervous, a bride on her honeymoon.

Damon picked up the black cord. It was a symbol of his

dominance, his mastery over his pets. He fondled the

cool silk, remembering the many different pets that had

been bound by this cord. It had been passed from pet

to pet, a link between them. It had a legacy.

"Master?" his new pet asked, breaking his reverie.

"Yes, Pet?" She kneeling, shivering.

"Master. I would ask your forgiveness. You were

right. I belong to you. It was wrong of me to make

you wait. Please forgive me, Master."

"Not to worry, my pet. All is forgiven."

"Oh, thank you, Master. I would love to make it up to

you, if I may. And I have a request."

"And what makes you think I would grant it?"

"Because you are a wise Master. If you don't wish to,

I will never ask again. But it would mean so much to

me. To us, Master."

This was intriguing. He had always been attracted to

her brain. It was her sexiest feature. It kept things

exciting.

"So what is your request?"

"Master, always before when you have given me the

pleasure of your body, you have bound me. I would like

to give you, just once, myself as a woman. I know I am

your pet and unworthy. But this night, on this special

occasion, let me give you my whole being."

He considered her request, weighing the silken cord in

his hands. It would be a novelty to have a free pet.

He had had to be so wary with that Dom. With her hands

free he hardly could let himself go, but it had been

nice. There was no rush, either. The needle could

wait. Now that those to idiots had finally taken the

cart up the elevator, the building would be empty until

tomorrow night.

He coiled the cord in his hands and set it on the

nightstand. Later. He would put it on her later.

He was not disappointed with his choice. His pet

exceeded his expectations, which were very high indeed.

She gave of herself completely, teasing him, exciting

him over and over.

The long night passed by, cry after exalting cry

filling the silence of the darkened building. Time and

again his pet urged him to a new hardness he didn't

think he could manage. Still she urged him on,

demanding, giving herself to his pleasure.

No, it hadn't been a mistake. It was a memory he would

always cherish.

When he could give her no more, his pet slipped from

his side. He heard the water running into the bath,

her silvery voice humming a child-like melody. Then

she was urging him up again, but to his feet this time.

It was as if she couldn't get enough of his body, she

was touching and caressing him constantly. It was her

only chance to do so and he indulged her.

He eased into the steaming water. It felt so good, so

relaxing. Her hands were on his chest, her lips on his

face. Like a good pet, she was kneeling beside him,

outside. Her hands found his masculinity and softly

caressed him. It was not to arouse him, but to worship

his superiority.

He drifted off under her calming touch. His eyes

slowly closing. Just for a minute. Then he would

finish his plan. It had been delicious, thrilling.

This was a just reward for his hard work, this

delightful little pet. Too bad about her.

Mr. Smith hardly felt the prick of the needle in his

neck, but he knew what had happened in the next

instant. He struggled to get out of the tub, but the

drug's effect was fast acting. Her aim had been true

and the needle had found a vessel leading directly to

his heart. Ten beats, fifteen at the most and his arms

collapsed. Then his legs buckled under him as his body

shuddered, his brain having lost control of all of the

voluntary muscles. Only the smooth muscles of his

heart and diaphragm still functioned.

He could live for hours before his lungs filled with

fluid and he drowned. Terror filled hours with the

blood coursing through his brain, keeping him alive,

letting him wonder what had gone wrong.

Slowly his eyes rolled back down and Alex turned his

head so he could see her. She wasn't crying, neither

was she jubilant. The pet had turned on her master.

She looked at him and caressed his face softly. He was

confused. What had gone wrong? How had she known?"

"Master, I have done a terrible thing. I know you can

hear me and I don't want you to die wondering what went

wrong. I owe you that much.

"I knew you weren't who you said you were. I suppose I

had always known it, but by then, all I wanted was to

call you 'Master.' But I knew for sure the night of

the party, the night I was attacked. So much happened

that night. I tried to ignore it, but tonight I

couldn't.

"I saw you sign your name on some contracts. You

didn't sign it 'Mr. Smith' or even 'George.' You

signed it as 'Damon Arquette.' That's your name.

That's why you let Alvin call you 'Mr. D.'

"That same night, I saw you kill that man, the one who

took me into the club and beat me. You killed him,

just like Daddy killed Petunia. I saw him write the

suicide note when you were pretending to help him. I

watched you get the needle from its hiding place and

hold it just like Daddy did. I saw you put the needle

in his neck and watched him twitch like Petunia. I

heard you telling him how he was going to die. I saw

the look in your eyes as you watched his terror. It

excited you.

"Finally that night, I heard your call to Marcy. It

wasn't until later I found out she was Harold's lover.

It was then, though that I realized you were planning

something big that had to do with me. Alvin had told

you I would be out for two weeks. You told Marcy there

would be a two-week delay in your plans.

"You sent me home to be there when Harold came home.

He thought I wouldn't read all those forms, but I know

about insurance policies. And insurance scams. It was

coming together. Harold, big dope that he was, was

your race horse. And the race horse always died.

"I understood the genius of your plan when I saw my

paycheck two days ago. It was drawn on the club's

account in an off shore bank. The same bank you had

arranged for Harold and me to have a joint account.

The account where the money was to be deposited in the

event of a payout. Did you ever find out that I

changed the deposit instructions? Only 10% of the

payout would go into it.

"I wonder, too, what happened to Harold. He called me

from the club. He was drunk. I thought you were

playing a game, teasing him. He had hurt me and I

wanted to hurt him, too. I wanted to please you more,

so I went along with your game. It was exciting.

Until I saw the bottle with the needle had been moved.

"You were so good with accidents. Like Lewis' suicide.

I hope Harold's death will be an accident. I changed

the insurance payout on that, too. Accidental death

pays double. Ten million dollars. Tax free.

"I would have been a very rich widow. I would have

given it all to you, willingly, gladly. But you had to

take it from me, like my marriage. You had to have it

your way.

"I know about pets. Pets are put down when they're

used up, when you're through with them. Like Petunia.

You were through with me. I knew. You already had

your eye on the next one, a challenge. I smelled her

in your room. She put her scent on you after she

watched us in the office, the night I gave you my last

virginity. She wanted me to know.

I found the syringe missing tonight when I looked for

the silk cord. That's when I knew. I would have given

you everything, Master, even my life. All I wanted was

a Master, to be allowed to call you 'Master.'

"I couldn't let you take my life from me. Not that.

It was all I had left."

Alex stood slowly. She had begun crying as she talked

and her tears were running down her cheeks to fall to

her chest, then dripping from her nipples onto the

floor. She turned to the cabinet where he kept his

razor. The one like Daddy used. Using a towel she

picked it up.

Folding his unresisting fingers around the handle of

the sharp instrument, she turned his hand to the other

and drew the blade down along the inside of his

forearm, careful not to cut crosswise, across his

wrists. If the tendons in his wrists were cut, it

wouldn't look like a suicide. You can't hold a razor

with fingers that have had their tendons cut.

The blade sliced deep, cutting through throbbing artery

buried there. She carefully folded the razor into the

bleeding hand and repeated the careful, but deep cut

down the other forearm. She let the hand and the razor

drop into the warm water.

The water turned pink, then crimson, then deep red as

the life flowed from her Master. She sat with him,

cradling his bristly head in her arms, humming a

wordless tune. She sat with him until the lights went

out of his eyes.

She would have been surprised by his last cogent

thought: "Who the Hell was Petunia?"

Prologue

Alvin found her locked in her cage. After the blood

spattered scene he had found in the bathroom he had

searched for her frantically, not knowing what he would

find. He was about to search the third basement when

he took a quick look in her room.

Miss Alex was in her bed, shackled, tear stained, but

sleeping peacefully. She smelled of sex, but that

didn't worry him nearly as much as the blood on the

soles of her feet. A drop or two had fallen on the

bathroom floor and she had not seen it as she stepped

in it. It put her at the scene of the crime.

Alvin shook her gently. He didn't let her loose. Not

yet. Her eyes were haunted as she looked up at him.

She didn't have to tell him she was still hearing the

voices. He asked her what had happened and she told

him everything, including how she sliced his wrists.

After that, she was hazy. She thought she had tried to

clean up the bathroom, but was careful not to use the

towels. Only paper she could flush. She had scrubbed

her hands and arms with bleach. She remembered putting

the syringe away upstairs. She told him where the

hiding place was. She remembered seeing the envelope

with the forms she had signed. She had shredded it in

the big office shredder. Then she opened her fist.

She had her wedding ring tightly clasped in it. Damon

had thrown it in the trash. She found it in there and

picked it up. She had asked him to keep it for her.

Keep it safe.

Alvin went upstairs first. He found the syringe and

wiped it clean. It was OK for her fingerprints to be

on the bottles. It had been her job to keep them neat

and clean. He was amazed she had been able to clean up

as much as she could. There was very little evidence

to counter the suicide theory. But what there was, if

it was found, would hang her.

Alex looked up at the towering black figure above her.

He had gloves on and was holding Master's little whip.

He'd only used it on her once. Last night on her back.

She had begged him for more and more and he had become

aroused. It was the last erection she had been able to

draw from him. Alvin was telling her about the blood

on her feet. She understood. She closed her eyes and

tried not to scream as the whip bit into the tender

soles of her feet, cutting and breaking the skin. They

waited together for the blood to congeal, her blood

covering all traces of his. It would never be found.

An hour later, the 911 service got a call for an

apparent suicide. The whip was left in the door to

Alex' cage. It propped the door open a crack and she

could be heard moaning and weeping. Alvin wanted them

to find her as soon as possible.

Vinnie and Max arrived on schedule in Miami. After Mr.

Smith's gentle tongue-lashing, Vinnie was doing

everything by the book. He still couldn't believe the

cocksucker didn't know what was going on. But until

Mama put him out of his misery, he would keep his nose

clean and follow orders.

The bodies were kept on ice during the day and loaded

onto the decrepit yacht that night. The "Big Break"

had had many names in its life. The latest and last

name was a small scheme of the owner of the marina.

This old tub had been sitting for years. He had too

much tied up in it to tow out and sink, but no one

wanted it.

Then Mr. Smith had called. Yes, he had a boat he could

rent. No, he didn't mind if it didn't come back. He

would insure it. No problem.

He had stripped the boat of all valuables, changed the

name and sent two new life jackets to a PO Box. They

were the newest fittings on the boat by decades. He

renewed and increased the insurance, as befitting a

rental property. As instructed, he fitted a tow line

to the bow. Then he cashed his hefty check.

He was not there when two men loaded the bodies on the

leaking boat. He was not there when the two motored

out of the private marina without running lights later

that night. He was not there when the men took axes to

the hull after running the craft up on a reef just off

shore of an inhabited island.

The pounding surf quickly tore the boat to bits. The

bodies, already thawed to water temperature, floated

face down until noon, when the rescue helicopter

spotted their bright orange live vests. The partially

eaten bodies of the couple were taken to the nearest

morgue for identification and autopsy.

Vinnie and Max stayed within sight of the morgue until

the helicopter came back and unloaded the two bloated

bodies. Vinnie put the high powered binoculars back in

the holder next to the captain's chair and patted Max'

head as he worked on sucking his cock for the third

time today. Today was Vinnie's day. Tomorrow he would

suck of Max. Unless they could get women, it was how

they passed the time. As it had been since boarding

school, when they had been two lonely boys, ostracized

for being Italian.

Interrupting his devoted friend, he handed him a glass

of the exquisite champagne Mr. Smith had given them.

As requested, the two hoisted a glass to the first

anniversary of the dead man. Then they had one for the

success of the plan. Then they just drank. The wine

was excellent.

Three hours later Vinnie rushed to the head, only to

find it was already occupied by Max. His urgency so

great, he didn't wait to yell at the rude man. He

could tell by the smell that Max had a problem. It

sounded terrible, too.

Vinnie dropped his shorts and hung his ass over the

port side rail. Shit flew for several yard as he

explosively defecated into the pristine waters of the

deep blue ocean. The dark brown matter continued to

flow from him, forced out by painful contraction. The

flow turned a reddish brown then was bright red. The

ocean around him turned a pale pink and the scent of

that much fresh blood attracted every sea-going

carnivore in hundreds of miles.

A gentle wave broke Vinnie's precarious balance and he

fell backward into the churning water. He had lost so

much blood he was too weak to scream for help or to try

to fend off the ravenous beasts that attacked him. Max

wouldn't have heard him anyway. He was already dead.

Damon would have been pleased to know his revenge had

been successful. It had been a gamble, giving them the

champagne. But they were soldiers, they would follow

orders. Mama needed the money. Still, it was a

gamble. Had they had the wine too soon, the fast

acting poison would have ruined everything. Still, he

had won.

Alex was taken for treatment to a secure medical

facility while her feet healed. Two weeks later she

was quietly transferred to a secure psychiatric

facility for observation. She was hearing voices and

wasn't sleeping. Her case was still pending and she

was the only suspect in a questionable death. It was

just a precaution.

Josephine (Joey) Murphy, M.D was admitted to the room

in which Alex was being held. The eminent psychiatrist

was an expert in traumatized women. The medical staff

that had been observing the new patient were disturbed

and concerned about her.

The doctor scanned the room. The room was sterile and

bare, like every other room in every other psych ward.

Alex was strapped into the bed. Her hair was brushed

and clean. Had it been visible, she would have sent

that the hole in her cute little naval was healing.

Body jewelry was not allowed in the prison.

The cool grey eyes smiled down at her. Alex met them

calmly. She did not seem to be irrational at all.

Still, the doctor was intrigued by the facts in this

case.

"Hello, Alex. How are you feeling today?"

The patient grinned back. "Wow. That's a switch.

Everyone else asks; 'How are 'we' feeling today?' I

don't know how to answer that."

"Somehow, I don't think you belong in here."

"In the loony bin or in prison?"

"Neither."

"Thanks. Be sure to tell the warden."

The doctor was silent for a while.

"I'd like you to come and see me when you get out. It

shouldn't be much longer."

Alex looked down and shook her head.

"Why not, Alex?"

"I have a Master," she said quietly.

"He's dead, Alex."

The girl looked up the doctor. "Not to me," she said

simply.

The doctor took one of the bound hands in hers, holding

it lightly.

"Oh, how I wish you had found me first, before him. We

could have been so much to each other."

Alex squeezed the strong hand tightly. "I know, Ma'am.

I wish I had found you first, too."

With a parting squeeze, the doctor stood and walked to

the door. Alex watched the beautiful Dom leave,

knowing she would never see her again.

Alex slept peacefully for the first time that night.

She was free. The voices were finally gone. A week

later Alex was moved to the general population.

Surprisingly, both the inmates and the guards left her

alone and her mind slowly healed.

The board met and discussed a growing problem in the

Syndicate. They met without the knowledge of one very

powerful member. A decision was reached and it was

unanimous, based mostly on the terrible loss of one of

their top directors, who had tragically been driven to

suicide by a vengeful woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Farnsworth

was invited to a garden party a week later. Sadly, she

was laid to rest in a lovely ceremony attended by only

the board and their closest friends. She died two days

later when the oxygen finally ran out of the large

coffin the board had special ordered. She screamed

until the end.

Alex stepped from the courtroom a free woman. During

the brief questioning, the prosecutor hadn't asked her

if she had killed Damon Arquette and she hadn't

volunteered. A secret witness for the defense had

cleared her. There had been a government agent in deep

cover who had witnessed the events that had occurred in

the months prior to Mr. Arquette's death. That

testimony corroborated the evidence.

When she was released from custody, the property clerk

handed her the small envelope with her personal

effects. Attached to the envelope were a couple of

other claim tickets that took forever to find in the

disorderly mess of the property room. Alex walked out

with a large canvas bag and an envelope from a coroner

in the British Virgin Islands.

She opened the envelope first and read, "We regret to

inform you that your husband, Mr. Harold Wilson, was

found dead in the waters off the islands. The cause of

death was found to be accidental drowning. ..." The

rest of the papers were the death certificate and a

copy of the autopsy report. It hardly registered.

She stepped out into the bright sunshine and stood on

the steps of the courthouse. She had been confined for

three months before she had been cleared. The state

apologized and she agreed not to press charges. In

fact, she thanked them for the kindness and care she

had received, both in the hospital and in the lock up

facility. They had been stunned by her attitude.

She saw the familiar figure sitting on the steps, about

mid-way down. Slowly, and with not a little fear, she

made her was slowly down to stand beside her friend.

Alvin had come to see her released. It pleased her.

"Hello, Alvin. I'm surprised to see you here. And

pleased."

"Hello, Miss Alex. When I checked, they said you'd be

out today. I've been waiting."

"Oh. Thank you." There was an awkward silence. "Tell

me, what have you been doing lately? Since the club

closed, and all."

Alvin looked at his big hands and sighed. "I've been

meaning to talk with you about that Miss Alex. I

didn't tell you the whole truth before."

"That's OK, Alvin. I wasn't exactly completely honest

with you, either."

He grinned. "I know. But I just resigned my job. I

was working for the government, sort of. It was

complicated. I had a job at the club already, they

just sort of recruited me. I was handing them enough

information as it was without their help. They didn't

know how to handle me, really. I guess they checked me

out, liked my record and signed me up. It's easier to

hand out money to an employee than a snitch. Still, it

was all very unofficial, of course."

"Oh. So you're unofficially unemployed... Oh, God!

He looked at her with an amused grin.

"You just figure it out?"

"Oh, Alvin. Thank you. But how? ... Why? ...You

knew what happened. Why didn't you tell them?"

He looked down at his feet. "I figured it was self-

defense, Miss Alex, only there was no way a jury would

see it that way. I just saved the tax payers some

money, that's all."

"But you lost your job!"

"I wasn't fired. I resigned. After I knew the truth

about Lewis' death, I couldn't stay on. I killed him,

just as sure as Mr. D did. I was responsible for too

many deaths, very nearly your own, too."

"What I did was my decision."

"It took guts, even if you won't admit it."

"I was being selfish, Alvin. You could have gotten

hurt, too."

"Yeah."

They were silent. It was hard, remembering. He took

her hand and they started walking down the steps.

There was a big park across the street.

"What's in the bag?"

"I don't know."

"You want me to look for you?"

She handed him the bag. He unzipped it and rummaged

through it. Inside it were her collar and leash, some

clothes and shoes and some other things. She didn't

see him palm one item before he closed the bag.

"It's the past, Miss Alex. Just the past. Let it be."

She nodded. He tossed the bag into the nearest trash

bin. She didn't look back. It was over.

Alvin stopped under a tree and made her face him. He

took his hand and laid it over both of hers. When he

removed it, she held the black cord. She stared at it

the up at him, her eyes misting.

"I know it's part of the past, Miss Alex. But it's

part of you, too. I watched you. You need this, you

need a master, someone strong. But I figure you need

more. You know that now, too. You need to be loved,

Miss Alex. And when you find the right man -- or woman

-- you give them the rope. They'll know what to do."

A single tear fell from her eye, then she slipped the

silken cord into her pocket.

"So what are you going to do now, Miss Alex?"

She showed him the Death Certificate and told him there

was an insurance policy. She didn't say for how much,

only that there was about a million dollars in a

British Virgin Island account.

"I'm free, Alvin. I thought I'd go somewhere warm and

open a club. Would you care to join me?"

It was a hard question to ask. If he said 'no'...

"I'd love to work with you, Miss Alex. But not in a

club. That's not the place for you."

"Oh," she whispered.

Slowly she turned away and walked into the park. She

had no idea where she was going. But where ever it

was, it would be alone.

He let her get to the edge of the clearing.

"I know about Petunia."

She stopped walking, but didn't turn around.

"I know about your pet, Petunia, Miss Alex."

She turned.

"What? How did you find out?"

"I spent some time with your family. They're really

nice folks."

"What? Why?"

"Well, I had to hide somewhere, didn't I? I just

figured I'd hide out with them."

The thought of this huge mountain of a man, black as

night, 'hiding' in her little lily-white town struck

her as funny. She started to laugh.

"You? Hide there? The most color we ever get back

home is a sunburn. How did you pull it off?"

"I worked as laborer. It felt good to work hard. It

felt right, too. And I loved your Mama's pies. The

peaches were in season while I was there. The pies

were fresh and creamy with flakey cinnamon crusts..."

"Stop, you're making me homesick!"

"And your Dad is a lucky man. Especially on Sunday

afternoons..."

"Ooooh, that's terrible!" She punched him in the arm.

"Daddy talked to you about Petunia?" she asked when he

had stopped laughing.

"Well, he did after I told him how important it was.

I'd told him up front who I was, that I'd known you

while I was undercover at the club. I think he guessed

a lot more than I told him. He's pretty smart.

"I told him someone named Petunia saved your life, kept

you same. He cried, then told me about the pig. The

window, too. They still laugh about it, but they miss

you. I think he would like to see you. Your Dad, he

misses you, most of all of them."

"Oh." Tears fell silently as her heart was torn in

small pieces. She couldn't talk because of the lump in

her throat.

"Benny says 'Hi.' I met his bride-to-be. She's nice.

She said you know her. Said she was your best friend

in high school. Cathy something. Turns out, ol'

Benny's the father of her first son."

"I wondered why she named him Franklin."

Alvin laughed. "You folks sure got a strange sense of

humor. A pig named Petunia, Benjamin Franklin." He

looked at her. "That's why you laughed at my tooth,

isn't it? The first time we met."

Alex nodded.

Anyway, looks like it's just going to be one big happy

family. From the looks of her, the wedding will need

to be pretty soon."

"Oh, I'm so happy."

Alvin paused. He looked nervous.

"I bought us a house there. The farm next to your

family's was for sale."

"Oh, the Jenkins' place?"

"No. Ben and Cathy bought that place. I picked up the

Anderson's, on the other side. old man Anderson had a

stroke. Billy doesn't want to run the dairy. I had a

little bit of cash squirreled away. It seemed...

"Wait a minute. US?"

He grinned and plowed ahead. "Yeah. I thought you and

I could move there for a bit while we plan our future."

"You and I? Our future?"

"Sure! Maybe we could enroll you in the local college
and I could work the three farms with your Dad and

Benny."

"We?"

"Then, of course, you could go to law school and I

could retire. I'm an old man, you know. You'd have to

support me."

He looked down at her. She was crying.

"How you like the sound of that?"

Alex reached into her pocket. With both hands, she put

the black cord back into his.

"I do," she said, simply.

He looked down at the cord.

"Huh? I do?" he repeated slowly. Suddenly the light

went on. The big man blushed and turned suddenly shy.

"Yeah, I guess I do, too, Miss Alex."

Both of them wearing stupid grins, they walked out of

the park to where he had left his car. He had packed

everything he owned in the back. Her things from the

apartment he had had shipped back to her family. On

the way to the car she took his hand and compared it to

her small one. An impish smile crossed her face.

Looking up at him shyly she asked "Alvin, are you big

all over?"

Smiling mischievously, his diamond caught the afternoon

light and filled her eyes with rainbows.

"Oh yes, Miss Alex. Oh, yes."

***

The End

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