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What I’m doing is cruel and cowardly. It’s possible that I’ve done worse things, but if I did it was strictly business.
This is personal, too personal.
Am I sorry to do this to him? No. I’m too relieved to feel sorry. The moment I knew I was going to stand him up, I felt calm. For the first time in months.
FOR DR. MABEUSE. OOC:
Talent agent Karen Delaney. Thirtysomething, happily divorced, less happily facing the end of another relationship. No kids, no pets, no career crisis, no financial problems. No Michael, as of three months ago.
No worries.
Karen has delicate features and a petite build, for which she compensates in the corporate world with a degree of ruthlessness. She has a couple of good friends. And several excellent enemies.
No need to compensate in the looks department. Karen’s parents didn’t leave her much else, but her profession has taught her the value of good DNA. She has her English mother’s peaches-and-cream skin and startling violet eyes; her exotic father’s silken hair, dark and sleek as polished mahogany.
In firelight, as it is now, Karen’s extravagant mane glows almost red from within, as if producing heat. She keeps it long, a vanity she thinks is silly on a woman her age. But she likes it when men stare in a certain way, and she knows they want to touch it.
Two years ago Karen bought this cottage, never occupied until now. Her dream cottage on the Northern California coast. Hidden from view by rocky cliffs on either side and by the forest where it faces the road, the cottage is private and achingly romantic.
In light of what had been planned for tonight and the weeks ahead, the romance of the place cuts like a knife.
Time to go.
She makes sure the fire is out, turns out the lights – the day is overcast and prematurely dark – and leaves a note taped to the door, sealed rather comically in a ziplock baggie in case of rain. Eight miles up the road, on the coastal highway just beyond the village, she checks into the motel where she’ll spend tonight hiding from the man she’s standing up.
A year ago, when her sex life with Michael had settled into pleasant predictability, Karen began an online flirtation with the least likely of men: a Dom. Karen, the least submissive of women, had been shaken to the core by her response to this man. What had begun as harmless teasing had built to unbearable tension, as Karen confronted her darkest secret fantasies.
Cyber-sex with her Dom had been more powerful, more real than anything in her experience.
Her dreams of him were not of writhing bodies, but of words on a glowing screen:
This isn’t a game, Karen. Open your mouth.
>> Yes, baby. Do it in my mouth, come in my mouth! <<
Here it comes, slut. Take it, take it all you HOT fucking BITCH
Damn, it had been good. A wicked pleasure. If only she had left it alone.
Instead, in the aftermath of losing Michael, she had invited her cyber-lover to meet in person. Invited, then pleaded. His reluctance had surprised her, then angered, then panicked her. She had to fuck this man.
He had finally agreed. Karen had taken a three-week hiatus from work, called ahead to have the caretaker prepare the house and stock the pantry, and had spent days in a frenzied effort to tie up loose ends at home and at the office.
On the drive up from Los Angeles, there had been time to think. Too much of it.
What the hell have you done? This man could be a serial rapist, a psycho with a chain saw…No, it’s worse: He wants you to kneel, to wear a collar. You said you wanted it too.
The butterflies in her stomach had turned to lead ballast. By the time she stopped for gas in the village, she had been almost certain she couldn’t go through with this.
He’d be furious if she canceled on the day before his flight.
This morning, steeling herself to see this through, she had watched the clock until she knew he would be on the plane.
There. Done.
No way to back out now…
Like hell there isn’t! I'm getting out of here.
KAREN DELANEY. IC:
He’ll get over it. Hell, for all I know he never planned to go through with it in the first place.
Maybe there is no “he,” maybe it’s “them.” Six or eight guys in a bar someplace, one of them a writer, the others snickering at my response to their most demeaning suggestions…
No, I don’t really believe that. I’m fucking with one man, a man I all but begged to fuck me for real. A man I know nothing about, except that I’ve promised him things I can’t do. I can’t.
And who knows how a man like this reacts when his “sub” says no. And means it.
I won't be here to find out. And once he knows the house is empty, he'll hve no choice but to accept this and go home.
One night in a crappy motel, a bit of a guilty conscience, and I’ll get over it too. It won’t be fun. But it beats being found in more than one dumpster.
This is personal, too personal.
Am I sorry to do this to him? No. I’m too relieved to feel sorry. The moment I knew I was going to stand him up, I felt calm. For the first time in months.
FOR DR. MABEUSE. OOC:
Talent agent Karen Delaney. Thirtysomething, happily divorced, less happily facing the end of another relationship. No kids, no pets, no career crisis, no financial problems. No Michael, as of three months ago.
No worries.
Karen has delicate features and a petite build, for which she compensates in the corporate world with a degree of ruthlessness. She has a couple of good friends. And several excellent enemies.
No need to compensate in the looks department. Karen’s parents didn’t leave her much else, but her profession has taught her the value of good DNA. She has her English mother’s peaches-and-cream skin and startling violet eyes; her exotic father’s silken hair, dark and sleek as polished mahogany.
In firelight, as it is now, Karen’s extravagant mane glows almost red from within, as if producing heat. She keeps it long, a vanity she thinks is silly on a woman her age. But she likes it when men stare in a certain way, and she knows they want to touch it.
Two years ago Karen bought this cottage, never occupied until now. Her dream cottage on the Northern California coast. Hidden from view by rocky cliffs on either side and by the forest where it faces the road, the cottage is private and achingly romantic.
In light of what had been planned for tonight and the weeks ahead, the romance of the place cuts like a knife.
Time to go.
She makes sure the fire is out, turns out the lights – the day is overcast and prematurely dark – and leaves a note taped to the door, sealed rather comically in a ziplock baggie in case of rain. Eight miles up the road, on the coastal highway just beyond the village, she checks into the motel where she’ll spend tonight hiding from the man she’s standing up.
A year ago, when her sex life with Michael had settled into pleasant predictability, Karen began an online flirtation with the least likely of men: a Dom. Karen, the least submissive of women, had been shaken to the core by her response to this man. What had begun as harmless teasing had built to unbearable tension, as Karen confronted her darkest secret fantasies.
Cyber-sex with her Dom had been more powerful, more real than anything in her experience.
Her dreams of him were not of writhing bodies, but of words on a glowing screen:
This isn’t a game, Karen. Open your mouth.
>> Yes, baby. Do it in my mouth, come in my mouth! <<
Here it comes, slut. Take it, take it all you HOT fucking BITCH
Damn, it had been good. A wicked pleasure. If only she had left it alone.
Instead, in the aftermath of losing Michael, she had invited her cyber-lover to meet in person. Invited, then pleaded. His reluctance had surprised her, then angered, then panicked her. She had to fuck this man.
He had finally agreed. Karen had taken a three-week hiatus from work, called ahead to have the caretaker prepare the house and stock the pantry, and had spent days in a frenzied effort to tie up loose ends at home and at the office.
On the drive up from Los Angeles, there had been time to think. Too much of it.
What the hell have you done? This man could be a serial rapist, a psycho with a chain saw…No, it’s worse: He wants you to kneel, to wear a collar. You said you wanted it too.
The butterflies in her stomach had turned to lead ballast. By the time she stopped for gas in the village, she had been almost certain she couldn’t go through with this.
He’d be furious if she canceled on the day before his flight.
This morning, steeling herself to see this through, she had watched the clock until she knew he would be on the plane.
There. Done.
No way to back out now…
Like hell there isn’t! I'm getting out of here.
KAREN DELANEY. IC:
He’ll get over it. Hell, for all I know he never planned to go through with it in the first place.
Maybe there is no “he,” maybe it’s “them.” Six or eight guys in a bar someplace, one of them a writer, the others snickering at my response to their most demeaning suggestions…
No, I don’t really believe that. I’m fucking with one man, a man I all but begged to fuck me for real. A man I know nothing about, except that I’ve promised him things I can’t do. I can’t.
And who knows how a man like this reacts when his “sub” says no. And means it.
I won't be here to find out. And once he knows the house is empty, he'll hve no choice but to accept this and go home.
One night in a crappy motel, a bit of a guilty conscience, and I’ll get over it too. It won’t be fun. But it beats being found in more than one dumpster.
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