After the Fantasy 

Alice woke up in the wee hours of the morning. She
needed to relieve herself. Henry had shifted his
position slightly during the night and she was able to
get up without waking him. She took off the shirt and
looked at the damage to her body. She had expected he
would lash out at her physically. She was prepared for
it. She wasn't prepared for the severity of the
beating he gave her. She understood now just how much
damage her stupid act of selfishness had done to him.
She cursed herself for the umpteenth time "How could I
have been so stupid and selfish?" 
Well maybe not stupid exactly just very naive. When
Richard started calling her,  early in the new year,
she should have told Henry right away. She didn't
because she thought she could dismiss him, and she
didn't want Henry to make trouble. It wasn't a big
deal anyway, was it? How many times had she rehashed
this in her mind. If she had told Henry right from the
beginning, the two of them together could have
withstood Richard's advances. She didn't of course,
until it was too late. By the time she realized that
Richard was winning, she felt too guilty to tell
Henry, and then it was too late for them.
She should have been totally honest with Henry right
from the start. Shortly after they started dating, and
when it became obvious that they would be getting
married. She should have told him then of her need to
be dominated. Alice hated this aspect of her character
back then, and did her best to repress it. She though
she had succeed in totally banishing this unwanted
demon from her body. Had she told Henry about it,
maybe the two of them together would have worked
something out to their mutual pleasure.  Alice thought
she knew better of course. She was after all a
thoroughly modern woman. She wanted to be the equal of
any man. She had proved it hadn't she. She had a
successful career, and a happy marriage. Even as late
as the afternoon of December thirty-first she felt so
much in control of her life, that the demon was the
last thing on her mind. Until Richard's little
exhibition of bondage with Diane at the new years eve
party that is.
That demonstration reawakened the demon and it struck
with a vengeance. She tried to put up a real battle.
Henry probably thought she was protesting against what
Richard was doing to his slave Diane in public. In
truth she was fighting against her own demon, which
kept telling her that she, not this other woman should
be dancing like that on the end of Richard's leash.
Richard was showing her what he wanted to do to her.
The deamon in her was telling her how exciting it all
was. For a brief moment she actually wanted it all.
The public humiliation, even the pain of the whipping
on her pussy. Alice's resolve took over again and she
thought she'd succeed in putting the demon down again,
but she hadn't, and he was there for Richard to see,
even if nobody else , not Henry, not even she herself
could see it. Richard saw it and he took advantage of
it. Richard wanted her, and he even offered to give
Diane to Henry, in exchange for Alice. She should have
told Henry that night after they got home. She should
have told him what she was feeling, and asked him for
his help in resisting Richard's advances. 
When she let herself be seduced the first time she had
no idea it would lead to this. It was to be just
another one of those little affairs. Other people have
them all the time, especially here. They would meet
once or twice a week somewhere in secret so Richard
could fulfil his promises of fulfilment. Brief escapes
from the stifling that she was suddenly feeling.
Nothing more. It wouldn't last for very long she told
herself, the way Richard goes through women, we'll
probably tire of each other in a month or two. That
wasn't Richard's way. Alice of course had no idea of
Richard's motive or his methods. She also realized now
that she hadn't ever felt stifled until Richard
started calling and telling her she was. 
She hadn't told Henry of course, then it was too late.
Richard's well practised method insured that when a
woman fell into his clutches, she was his, and he knew
how to seemingly shut her away from the rest of the
world, while she was in fact still highly visible in
it. Step by step Richard followed his plan and Alice
was quickly and steadily drawn down the spiral that
led to her marriage breaking up and his total
domination of her. He thought that he had succeed in
totally owning Henry's beautiful wife. That night when
Henry had broken in, armed and dangerous, Richard
decided to give Henry one final demonstration of just
how far his ownership went. When he ordered her to
strip naked and give him oral sex in front of her
husband, Richard was certain it would devastate Henry
completely.
But she couldn't! She begged off. She had broken
discipline. If it had been any other man she would
have been naked almost before the echo of Richard's
voice died down. That's what was expected of her. But
she couldn't do it in front of Henry. Richard had to
threaten her and to make it worse he had to do it in
front of Henry. "So what" she said to herself, Henry
doesn't want me back anyway. I have nowhere to go. So
she obeyed. She was way too slow in removing the dress
, and she did a poor job of deep throating Richard.
Alice fully expected to be punished after Henry left.
A hundred lashes at least. While she hung suspended by
her wrists. She would spend the night suspended and
gaged, watching Richard and some other female sleep
together. Some other woman where she ought to be.
She knew she had really hurt Henry, she saw it in his
eyes. She didn't want to hurt him anymore, but Richard
did.  That's why he ordered her to preform for him. It
should have been easy for her. She had done this sort
of thing so many times before. It took Alice a couple
of day away from Richard before she started to think
straight. She realized that her failure to obey was
what caused Richard to throw her out. In spite of all
his training, she wasn't really his. Not one hundred
percent anyway. With Richard it was all or nothing.
Even if Richard had really intended to keep Alice for
ever, the fact that some small part of her still
belonged to Henry was enough for him not to want her
at all.
Alice touched one of Henry's bruises and winced. "Oh
well it could have been worse," she said to herself.
As far as she knew Henry still had the gun. She was
prepared to take that chance. She congratulated
herself. The first two steps of her plan had been
taken successfully. Henry had let her back into his
house, and he'd taken her back into his bed. Step
three would have been to have sex with her. Henry
hadn't done that yet, but she would change that. 
Her plan? Oh yes she had a plan. She still loved Henry
after all, and even Richard could see that Henry loved
her. Perhaps that fact too caused Richard to admit
defeat. In spite of all he had done to them, they
still loved each other and there was nothing more he
could do to them. Alice wasn't naive anymore. She
didn't expect to just walk back into Henry's life just
like nothing happened. Her actions had almost
destroyed them both. She was going to have to pay for
her sins. There may be other beatings like last night,
and now that she fully understood how much she had
hurt Henry she would welcome them. Her main goal was
to never leave this house again.
She returned to Henry's bed and found him laying on
his back. He hadn't missed her. Probably, thought her
coming back was only the dream, and being in bed alone
was the reality. She took off her panties and slowly
and carefully she knelt on the bed, took out his
penis, and started to take it in her mouth.
Henry was dreaming a new dream. In this dream he had
caught up with Richard and Alice somewhere without
Richard's bodyguards. Richard had allowed him to whip
Alice as she was tied naked to a bed. When Henry had
vented all his anger, dropped the whip and turned to
leave, Richard called for  him to wait. He cut Alice
loose and ordered her to suck Henry's cock, as a final
good bye. It felt wonderful as he felt his penis slide
down into her throat. The sensation was unbelievable.
He felt her throat close in and caress his shaft. Then
there was the blast of hot air as she slid him back a
bit and exhaled. Then the cool air came rushing in as
she inhaled. Right away he was deep down inside her
throat again. He was really enjoying this. He's never
been deep throated before, but it felt just like he
imagined it should. He tried to look at Alice as she
knelt between his legs, but she was fuzzy and out of
focus somehow, as if in a dream. 
He awoke with a start when he came right down into her
stomach. "What! Huh, What are you doing? You didn't
have to do that. Why Alice? Why are you doing this to
me?"
"Because it's what a slave should do for her master."
"I'm not your master Alice. I'm not like that bastard
Richard, I couldn't make you do all those disgusting
things. It hurts me to even think of you doing them."
"Please Henry hear me out. I know I don't deserve a
good man like you. Not any more. I was naive, and
selfish, I hope someday to make you understand that I
didn't mean for this to go that far. I won't ever ask
you to forgive me. I know that every time you see me
it will bring back painful memories for you. I still
want to make up for some of that pain. I have a
proposition for you."
"Proposition? What sort of proposition?"
"Well first thing, you can divorce me. You can keep
everything, I won't contest it. I don't deserve
anything from you anymore. After the divorce you can
have my name legally changed back to my maiden name. I
don't deserve to bear your name anymore either. If you
will let me stay with you, not as your wife, but as
your slave. No! Not like I was with Richard. That was
all a fantasy. I mean a slave for real. I'll sign any
contract your lawyer draws up, even saying that if our
relationship ends again, then I will leave with
nothing. I'll even sign an ambiguous suicide note. If
you decide to, you can even kill me and make it look
like suicide. In the mean time I will do what ever you
ask. Not just sexually, but I'll clean your house and
cook your meals, whatever. You can do what ever you
want with me. I'll be your whore or even just your pet
bitch, if that's what you want. You don't have to
worry about clothes. I'm prepared to spend the rest of
my life naked. You can feed me scraps from your table,
I don't eat much anymore anyway. You will still be
free to have other women."
"For how long Alice? How long can I count on you to
stay with me. Until Richard or one of his friends
comes back for you?"
"I deserved that, I know, but I'll stay for as long as
you want me. I promise to never leave you again. You
can keep me chained up, or in a cage when you're away
from home, or you can take me with you. I will happily
kneel naked under your desk ready to service you
anytime you wish. You and your clients, if that's what
you wish. And whenever the painful memories return,
then you can take it out on me. I want to experience
your hurt, your pain."
"But I'm not like that, I'm not that kind of guy!"
"Look Henry suppose for a moment that I was still with
Richard. And Bill came to you with a problem. He's
just discovered that he has some incurable terminal
wasteful disease. He's decided to end his life and
make it look like an accident. He asks you for a big
favour. He want's you to take Jessica off his hands.
They've been into bondage for years, you know. He
wants you to keep her as a slave, because he know she
loves the lifestyle. He explains how well trained she
is and that she considers you attractive and
desirable. Would you reject her?"
"I don't know, I guess not. She's attractive enough
that's for sure. OK. Yes, I would take her for my
slave."
"Of course you will! I'm sure every man fantasizes
about having a beautiful sex slave at his beck and
call. Well, Bill isn't dying so he isn't going to
offer Jessica to you, but  you can have me. You can
tell yourself that you're just punishing me for
hurting you so much. When you think you've punished me
enough, maybe you'll start to love me again, then you
can gradually start to treat me like a wife again. But
only to a point. I want to always be your slave."
"I wouldn't even know how to act. Well maybe that
isn't exactly true. I sure had some ideas of what I
wanted to do to you last night, but then I came to my
senses."
"It's easy, to be a master. If you want to do
something to me or with me, just go ahead and do it.
Don't try to explain your actions. Just do what you
want. As your slave, it's what I'd expect. You see
that's what Richard did. That's how he made he his. He
took me slowly step by step, never giving me a choice,
or a chance to think about it. Like when he had me
pierced, or tattooed. He didn't tell me he was going
to have it done. He just took me to the studio and had
me dome. That's what made it exciting I guess, never
knowing what was coming next.  When he started to
share me with other men, I would be bound and naked
before the other men showed up. I couldn't resist so I
gave in and enjoyed it."
"I don't want to be like Richard!"
"No of course not. Your motives will be different.
Richard did what he did for his own ego, and to hurt
us and destroy our marriage.  I was never able to
discover why he hated you so much. You will be doing
it because it will bring pleasure to both of us."
"How will me whipping you bring you pleasure?"
"Because with each lash, I'll know that you are
healing. And the pain you feel inside is slowly going
away. I'll know that eventually you'll forgive me."
She paused and sighed. "And because I need it." She
added with a whisper.
"What! Did you say you needed it?"
"Yes, I guess I always knew it deep in my heart. For
all my life I suppressed it.  There is something about
receiving pain that somehow seems to fill a need in
me. I certainly don't enjoy it! But I seem to have
this need to suffer. And I also desperately need to be
mastered. Richard could see it. He saw it that new
year's eve. He forced me to admit it to myself, then
used it as a weapon against me. He made me believe
that he was the only one who could master me. He
insisted that you certainly never would. Last night
you accused me of wanting to live in hell. Well
someone's hell can be someone else's heaven. I guess
my idea of heaven would be to live the kind of life
Richard was forcing me to live, but with you as my
master."
"Well he was right about that. Look Alice I'll admit I
still feel something for you, and yes damn it is love.
In spite of all that has happened, In spite of all the
pain and humiliation you and Richard put me through, I
still don't hate you enough to do that to you.
Richard, him I could kill, and maybe still will
someday. But you, I can't hate you enough to hurt you
again. What happened last night, wasn't the real me. I
promise you it won't happen again."
"No don't promise. I know it will happen again. At
least the rage will build up in you again, that's for
certain. If you're by yourself when that happens,
there's no telling what you might do. If I'm here then
you can take it out on me. If you do it in small
doses, then it will never build up to the danger
point. I'll be your pressure relief valve. I'll always
be here to take my punishment. She was laying beside
him now still naked, using his left arm as a pillow.
She slid her arm inside his under shirt and gently
caressed his chest. She noticed his penis getting
hard. "You said just now that last night you had some
ideas of what you could do to me. Why don't you try
some of them now?"
"There isn't time now, I'll have to get you to a
clinic so they can see to your wounds before I go to
the police and turn myself in."
"No master no! There's no need to go to a clinic, and
certainly not to the police. I deserved everything I
got last night. I let you do that to me. I didn't try
to run away because I deserved it. The cuts have all
closed now, see no more bleeding. I'll heal. In a
month's time you won't even know I was punished. Maybe
one or two of the cuts will leave a scar. That's OK
too. I'll proudly wear it as your mark on me. Richard
had me marked, with a tattoo and by having me pierced,
neither of them are permanent. Your scars will be
permanent. What ever happens between us, I'll have
them to remind me that at least I tried to undo some
of the damage that Richard did to us because of me."
"OK I won't take you to a clinic or go to the police,
but if there are any scars then a plastic surgeon can
remove them."
"If you keep me for your slave then of course you may
do what ever you wish with my body, if you reject me
then I'll have them until I die."
"Why do you keep insisting on taking all the blame for
what has happened to us? Do you believe it was all
your fault? Maybe if I was a more attentive husband
none of this would have ever happened?"
"No please don't think like that. Your only fault in
this was what ever you might have said or didn't say
to Richard that made him hate you that much. You will
probably never figure that out. If I wasn't so naive
and selfish, if I had been honest with you about my
need to be dominated, then Richard wouldn't have
succeed as far as he did. That is my guilt, and for
that I'm willing to be punished by you for as long as
it takes."
"I don't like hearing you talk like this Alice."
"Well than stop talking and start acting. What have
you got to loose? Look at the alternative. Suppose you
reject me and we go our separate ways. You will
probably give me a fair settlement in the divorce. You
are a good man Henry, so that will cost you a fair bit
of money. Then you will start looking for a new woman.
That won't be easy. You'll always be comparing her to
me and wondering if she will ever hurt you. There will
always be doubt in your heart and you know it. And
what if Richard decides that he hasn't hurt you enough
and goes after her too, then what?"
"Then I will kill him!"
"It will be too late for that, even if you can get him
before his bodyguards get you. If Richard comes after
me again he'll have to take me by force. I know he
won't come for me because he wants me, it will be
because he want's to hurt you some more. Well I won't
willingly let him do that to you again. But enough
talk about Richard. What I'm offering you is total
control over me for the rest of my life. You will
never have to worry about what I'm going to do,
because I'll do only what you order me to do. As I
said before, if you don't trust me then you can take
me with you everywhere you go. Even on a leash if it
will make you feel better. If you want sexual relief
all you have to do is state your wish. I've been very
well trained in all aspects of sexual pleasure, you
know that. You know how good I am, why waste that.
That will be one way that you can have the last laugh
on Richard. You get to benefit from all his work." As
she said this her hand slid down to his penis, and it
sprang up as soon as she caressed it. Before Henry
could say anything she had it in her mouth and Henry
knew he couldn't argue anymore. It had been too long
and he's suffered too much not to take advantage of
what she offered. 
He accepted her offer of course. Henry was a nice guy,
but he wasn't that stupid. He took her to work with
him that very day. That first day she wore only her
skirt and another of his T shirts, no underwear. He
had some important appointments that day so he had to
go in. During the appointments she Knelt naked and
secured  in a closet in Henry's office. They left work
early and he took her shopping. First to an Adult
novelty store, where he bought her a lock on slave
collar with matching wrist and ankle cuffs, and a
leash. He also bought a selection of toys. Henry  then
took her to a shopping mall and bought her about a
weeks worth of clothes. Nothing special, just stuff
she could wear to the office. He had a small desk
moved into his office and she was put to work, at
first entering data into the computer system as she
sat naked When he had clients, it was back to the
closet. She was always with him, hardly ever out of
his sight for the first several months. He made her
crouch down in the car when they left the house in
case Richard was having them watched. There hadn't
been anybody around the night he took her in, so
Richard wouldn't know she was back living with him.
Henry bought a minivan so he could transport Alice in
privacy. She knelt naked on the floor of the van
beside the driver's seat. Henry had a large wire dog
kennel installed in the back, and when ever he went
shopping and didn't want anybody to see her getting in
or out of the van, she would crawl into it and he
would lock her in the cage and leave her in the van.
He was overly paranoid, but Alice understod and
happily went along with it. The van also made it
easier for Alice to give him sex anywhere or anytime
he wanted it. From her kneeling position she could
easily reach over and caress his penis through his
pant, even while he was driving.
The divorce went through alright. Neither of them had
to appear. His lawyer, and the lawyer they hired to
represent her, handled everything. Alice's name change
was done the same afternoon. She signed the personal
services contract without even reading it, and she
gave him the suicide note that night. They heard from
Richard again, the very next day after the divorce.
Well not his voice, but a letter. It was hand
delivered to the office of the lawyer they hired for
Alice. Richard must have had someone checking the
court records. It was a check for fifty thousand
dollars made out in her maiden name. Alice wanted to
tear it up, but Henry instructed the lawyer to have
the money invested in Alice's name in a GIC.  Henry
had Alice write a short thank you note, which Henry
sent to a friend to mail back to Richard. When Richard
received it, it had a New York City postmark, but no
return address.
Everything went well according to Alice's plans. In
the evenings she served him dinner and he hand fed her
while she knelt beside his chair. She then quickly
cleaned up the dishes, did some other house work, then
knelt naked by his chair in the livingroom and they
talked. Well it took almost a month before Henry
couldn't stand it any more. He wanted to hear it all
from her own lips, and she told him everything as
truthfully as she could remember. She told him how it
all began. He understood by now, that she needed to be
owned so it was easy for her to explain how powerful
the effect of Richard and Diane's little dance was on
her. Alice frankly admitted that for a few brief
moments, she wanted to be the one on the end of
Richard's leash. Alice explained how she fought
against the feeling and thought she had won. 
Later when they had again made contact with Bill and
Jessica, Henry heard from Jessica's own lips, that she
also felt the same way. Since she was already being
dominated, although not to that extent by Bill, it was
easier for her to break the brief hold Richard had on
her too. Unlike Alice though, Jessica opened her heart
to her husband, told him what she was feeling and
begged him to make her his absolute slave, and to
punish her for even thinking of being with another
master. Bill of course took her up on her offer. 
"I should have told you, I know but I was so ashamed
of my feelings. How different everything would have
been if I had only admitted to myself that I was meant
to be owned and dominated. We could have been
exploring all this together," Alice sobbed and Henry
comforted her.
"I should have realized," Henry said. "You were so
aroused for the rest of the evening. I was so dense, I
thought it was just the booze and the party."
Richard didn't waste any time. He started calling
Alice only two days after that party. Alice admitted
to Henry that Richard had gotten to her with his first
call, but Henry already knew that from listening to
their phone conversation. She went on to tell him the
rest of it, the parts he didn't know. That she had
four intimate meetings with Richard before that
fateful Monday, and  each time he let her leave after.
The first time she hadn't done anything for him. The
second time it was just a hand job, before she left.
The third time it was a blow job. She admitted that
Richard hadn't asked for any of this, it was her idea,
maybe because she felt she needed to thank him. The
forth time, he had intercourse with her, just at the
end and they finished together as she had her last
orgasm. The last of dozens she had that Sunday when
she was supposed to be shopping. She realized she
needed help, but was too ashamed of what was happening
to her to even hint to henry. What started out as
maybe only once or teice a week, quickly became
everyday, Saturday, Sunday, then again on Monday. Then
she stupidly allowed herself to be seduced into
leaving Henry. At first it was all pleasure, and guilt
of course. The guilt kept her form telling Henry. But
Richard wanted more. Slowly he increased the stakes a
little by little until she was too far gone to help
herself. She had no intension of leaving Henry, not at
first. Each little step she took pulled her deeper and
deeper into Richard's trap. 
It was during  the Monday trysts when he made his
demand. They had met very early. She went to Richard
instead of going to work. By nine o'clock in the
morning she was tied naked to his bed, and he was
eating her out. Just as he always did. Not as well as
Henry ever did it, but a lot longer. One orgasm
followed the other, but each left her wanting the
next. Everything was just as it had been the other
times, like she was used to. Then Richard changed his
tactics. He would bring her to the brink of orgasm
then stop and let her rest. He'd start again and this
time taking her higher than she was before, but still
not letting her reach her climax. He'd stop again for
a bit. Then start again, each time her arousal got
higher and higher. He'd almost let her reach her
climax, but not quite. When she was aroused like she'd
never been before and she became desperate, so
desperate that she promised to do anything for an
orgasm, he told her what he wanted. At first she said
no. So he kept on and on until she thought she
couldn't stand it. She finally agreed. She figured
after he give her a climax, she could take back her
promise, because it was extracted from her against her
will. Richard was too smart for her. It was still
eleven in the morning. He had plenty of time. She
hardly noticed when he inserted the catheter. He kept
her tied and kept on tormenting her until she told him
where to find a suitcase and what she wanted brought.
Richard then took her keys from her purse and sent one
of his men to fetch her things. 
He allowed her to climax then, but gaged her right
away before she was recovered enough to realize it,
and left her tied. He's gone to lunch, but he didn't
feed her. He came back a little later and started
again, when he again had her desperate, he removed the
gag, and started rehearsing her. Teaching her what to
tell Henry on the phone. When she got it right she was
rewarded with  some water, or a little food, or even a
climax now and then to keep her high.  When she got it
wrong there was the belt, just as he had promised. It
took Richard until  the evening before he was
satisfied Alice would get it right. All day he had
been tormenting her, and now she was starved and
drained both mentally and physically. She was still
tied down when Richard phoned Henry. Henry couldn't
tell, but there was a vibrator buzzing away against
her clitoris as she read the words written on cue
cards. Words that would put an end to their marriage,
and her freedon.
She didn't know it at the time, but she had remained
tied to that bed for three days. She was  always
either in a state of orgasm or desperately in need of
one. It seemed that Richard never left her. He must
have at times, she remembered that there were times
when she fell asleep. She woke up and she wasn't tied
down any more. She was in a different room, as it
turned out she was in a different house. She was still
naked, but she now wore a collar around her neck. Her
wrists were fastened one to each side of the collar
just below her ears, and a chain was locked to the
ring just below her chin. The other end of the chain
was locked to a ring in the wall, high above her head.
She must have been sleeping for some time, because she
felt rested. She was still hungry, very hungry, but at
least she was rested. She remembered everything that
had happened, and she figured that her fantasy had
ended. She decided that when Richard came back she
would tell him it was over. She wanted to go back to
her husband. 
She had to relieve herself. She hadn't had that
feeling in a long time. She tested the length of the
chain that anchored her in this room. She could get up
and walk around the bed, as far as about five feet
from the bed, but no more. When she got to the other
side of the bed she saw the chamber pot beside the
night table. She squatted and relieved herself. Alice
was wondering how she was going to wipe herself, when
Richard walked in the room with a maid. He took a
tissue from the box on the night table and wiped her.
He was so gentle she almost swooned. When he dropped
the tissue into the pot the maid picked it up and took
it out of the room.
"Richard it's over, I want to go home," She started to
say.
"What makes you think you have a home to go to? You
left Henry remember, you told him so on the phone.
What makes you think he wants you back now? After all
we have done together."
"How could he know all that we have done together?"
"I've been sending him pictures all the time. I've
sent him hundreds of short video clips of you coming
and begging me to fuck you. I've been talking to him
on the phone, I know he doesn't want you back. The
only reason he hasn't served you with divorce papers
is because he can't find you. I've been moving you
around from place to place."
"I know Henry. He isn't like that, He'll be hurt but
he'll understand."
 "You want to hear it from his own lips. Here, It's
Thursday morning, he'll be at his office until noon,
you've got two hours. You know the number, go ahead
and dial it yourself." Richard said as he unlocked her
right wrist from her collar, and handed her the phone.
While it was ringing, he took the phone and put it out
of her reach, but switched on the speaker phone. He
had her wrist re-attached before the receptionist
answered. Alice's eyes lit up when she recognized the
receptionist voice. "May I speak with Dr. Jekyll
please. It's important, tell him it's Richard
calling."  Richard spoke before she could form the
words. They listened to the music as they were put on
hold. After what seemed like hours she heard Henry say
hello.
"Henry," she called out. "It's me Alice. I'm being
held against my will, Henry, I want to come home,
please help me Henry."
"What is this Richard," she heard her husband say! "Is
this your idea of a joke? I told you I didn't want to
hear from that bitch again. Just tell me where she is
so I can have the divorce papers served."
"No Henry No! Please listen to me I don't love
Richard, I never did, he made me say all those things.
Please Henry I want to come home."
"I don't have to listen to this crap Richard, I don't
know what sort of game you two are playing but I'm not
buying." Henry hadn't even addressed his words to her
but to Richard. She mumbled something as Richard
forced a gag into her mouth.
"I tried to tell her all that Henry but she wouldn't
listen. She had to hear it from you, just like you had
to hear it from her." All through this Alice moaned
through the gag as Richard proceeded to tie her down
to the posts of the bed. He was so efficient that he
had her secure before he even finished explaining to
Henry, "And now, my friend, you can listen and hear
her getting punished for disturbing you. I'm going to
whip her on her pussy, Henry. I bet you she comes
before the hundredth swat." Henry didn't say anything
in return.  
Alice's arms were bound to the two posts at the head
of the bed, and her legs were drawn up and back and
attached high up to the same posts her wrists were
tied to. She was spread wide, and open, Her pubis was
almost right next to her chin. It was front and center
in her field of view. Alice moaned loudly when the
first stroke hit. It was a slow progression but her
moans got higher pitched as time went on. Her climax
was obvious even to Henry listening on the phone. When
Alice's last high pitch squeal died down, they heard
the dial tone come out of the speaker phone. She knew
she was lost then, Richard thought of every thing. He
had everything planned and organized. He had seduced
her into becoming his slave, and he had persuaded
Henry that it was what she really wanted.
Alice knew now of course that Richard hadn't really
called Henry. The phone wasn't connected to the phone
system, and that it was some professional mimic
imitating Henry's voice. Richard  was capable of any
sort of deceit to get her to believe that Henry had
really abandoned her to him. He explained it to her
weeks after, as a sign  of  how clever he was, and
that she really had no choice but to obey him. Henry
explained to Alice as she knelt sobbing by his chair,
that he didn't even go into the office for a week
after she told him she had left him. If Richard had
let her talk to Henry in that first week, she would
have begged him to come and get her. Begged for his
forgiveness and told him she still loved him. Richard
knew that just as he Knew Henry was looking for her.
That's why he kept her moving and hidden from Henry,
and almost constantly in the state of orgasm, or
desperately wanting one. She had nobody to turn to but
Richard, and he took advantage of that to further
tighten his dominance over her. Finally he succeeded
in brainwashing her into believing that Henry wouldn't
ever want her back. The constant activity and motion,
the lack of sleep and food, sometimes she didn't eat
for days, all worked to hasten her eventual downfall.
Richard kept telling her that Henry knew where she
was, and what she had been doing, that he's emailed
pictures to Henry, and Henry didn't want her anymore. 
She told Henry how  Richard even explained away the
police officer who interviewed her, by saying that
Henry was just using the police to get evidence for
the divorce. Since she felt Henry would be better off
divorcing her and getting on with his life, she said
everything that Richard had rehearsed with her. 
Then Richard's dominance really took hold. He never
asked her to do anything. He commanded, and he
punished. No not like Henry had done that first night.
Richard was more methodical, just as painful, but it
didn't leave any lasting marks or bruises. Alice
explained how she soon learned that what Richard
wanted now, was only a little bit more demeaning then
what he made her do only an hour ago. This little tiny
step in her further degradation wasn't worth the pain.
She stopped resisting and she came to understand that
the pleasure he gave her, was the reward for obeying.
She explained how Richard never gave her choices. She
even explained how he whipped her and suspended her.
She explained to Henry that if he had whipped her with
the other end of the belt that first night, he could
have gone on for a much longer time, giving her a lot
more pain, and she wouldn't have been marked.  
Almost right away after Richard succeeded in stealing
her from Henry on that Monday, he started to display
her naked to the people in the house. She never wore
clothes at home. Most of the time when they went out,
she left the house naked. Alice never knew before hand
that they were going anywhere. Richard, or one of his
house staff, would come to get her. She would ride
naked in the limo, and only be given clothes to wear
just before they arrived at their destination. Several
times, she remembered now, that she even left the limo
naked and boarded a private plane. It was only just
before landing that she was given clothes to wear. She
was never told where they were or what they would be
doing there. Her job was to obey whatever Richard
wanted.
Step by step, Richard followed his plan.  She'd be
laying tied naked to a bed, and Richard would put a
blindfold on her. He did this often, taking her blind,
so she didn't know before hand what he was going to do
to her. One time she suddenly realized there were two
men using her. She rebelled for only a second and then
only inside of herself. Richard had decided it was
time to share her. What could she do about it?
Nothing. She laid back and took it, and enjoyed it.
Soon there was no need for a blind fold, and shortly
after that no need for her to be tied. She'd be in a
room with Richard and another man, and right out of
the blue, Richard would offer her to the other man.
Instantly she'd strip and make herself available
however they wanted her. The next step was for
multiple men, then for women. 
It was about this time that Richard had her call her
sister and try to persuade Deb to join them. Then
punished her severely when she failed to deliver her
sister into his clutches. That was when he started to
use isolation as a punishment. He'd tie her in some
uncomfortable position so that she couldn't move at
all, She's be blindfolded, and heavily gage, and
soundproof headphones over her ears. He's leave her
like this for hours. She always started out hating him
, but as time wore on she was silently begging him to
come to her. She was so happy to see him when he came
that she actually felt love for him.
Henry stopped her at that point and showed her the
picture and videos that Richard sent him. Alice knew
she had done all that, and often, and more besides,
but she couldn't isolate a particular episode from all
the rest. She was sorry, but she really couldn't
remember all the individual acts that happened. She
never really knew where she was or what she was really
doing. She concentrated only on obeying and on the
resulting orgasm. She couldn't even remember the night
of the opening when Henry had called out to her and
she looked right at him. To her that was another
opportunity for Richard to show her off publicly. For
him to show off his dominance. She had no idea where
she was or who was calling her name. When Henry showed
her the stuff from Richard's private island, she
repeated that she was never told where they were
going. Sure sometimes she could tell where she was,
like here in Reno, ot LA, or Cannes, but other times
she had absolutely no idea. "No," she had no idea who
those men were. Richard had tied her naked to the
table, then before she knew it, he came back with the
men. "Yes" alice answered Henry's question. She had
sex with many men, most of whom she didn't even know.
Richard said suck and she sucked. She answered yes
again to the next question. She had no choice but to
obey, so she allowed herself to enjoy each and every
experience. 
That was one of the times when the rage flared up in
Henry. He tried to suppress it. "It wasn't her fault,"
he kept telling himself. Alice saw the change come
over Henry. She saw his hands tighten into fists, and
heard his breath become raged. She begged him to
release his emotions, not to bottle it up inside. She
begged him, actually begged him to punish her. To take
his anger out on her. He did. Not in a savage feast of
sadism, but in a controlled whipping, as she hung
suspended by her wrists, from a newly installed hook
in the ridge beam of the cathedral ceiling of the
living room. After the fifty lashes, and after he
lowered her, after a few minutes wait for her
trembling to stop, Alice thanked him for the
punishment, Then she continued with the story.
Alice explained how in only the second week, Richard
started to train her to do deep throat. This was
fairly easy for her, because she didn't mind giving
head. All she had to do was learn to control her
breathing and to suppress her gag reflex. When she had
that almost mastered, he started to train her rectum.
This was a lot more difficult, because she really
hated it. Richard won this battle of course just like
he won all his battles. She had no defences left,
Richard could keep upping the ante, until he broke her
will. He started her out constantly wearing butt
plugs, that got progressively larger. There was no
real battle here. Richard simply inserted them while
she was tied and helpless. They were always locked on,
so she couldn't remove them. He also took her in her
rectum often enough while she was tied down and
helpless. She screamed out, more out of indignation
than pain. Although it did hurt her rectum, it hurt
her self esteem even more. The really hard part was
submitting to anal intercourse without being tied
down.  She learned that the pain form the whip, and
the nipple clamps, and anything Richard could think
of, can always be made greater than the actual pain to
both her rectum and what little self esteem she had
left. When the last of her self esteem vanished,
Richard started to instill a new form of pride. He
instilled her with a pride in being the best, sex
slave ever. It was now just as easy to take her in her
rectum as it was in he pussy, and she found it just as
arousing. Alice couldn't help herself any more. No
matter how she was used sexually, or abused for that
matter, she orgasmed. 
There were times when she didn't know which country
she was in let alone which city. She lost track of the
different houses she'd stayed in, or which of them
were Richard's. That's how it went all the time, she
was kept in the dark about what was going to happen.
There was no future, and hardly any past. Everything
was now. She had absolutely no idea of what day it was
or which month. She existed only for this moment and
the very near future. "All that mattered was, when,"
she explained. "When was I going to get another
orgasm. When was I going to be fed again. I was always
hungry. When would I be bathed and shaved again. When
was Richard going to let me down from my suspension,
when will this whipping session stop. Or when will he
find reason to whip me again."
One thing led to the other until she found herself
ordered to preform for Richard in front of Henry. She
pointed out to Henry that although he didn't notice,
she had failed miserably. Richard had noticed that she
couldn't obey him instantly and completely, in front
of her husband. She pointed out that in spite of all
Richard's work, she still wasn't his completely. Even
if she didn't realize it herself, some part of her
still belonged to Henry. Richard noticed too that in
spite of Henry's words, he still loved Alice. Yes it's
true she didn't want to leave Richard at the time. She
was so screwed up that she actually saw Richard as her
only master. It had been drilled into her so
efficiently that when Richard told her to leave, she
immediately felt a great depressing void. A void that
she earnestly believed at the time that only Richard
could fill. She would have done anything at the
moment, happily undergone any punishment if Richard
would take her back. She would have literally given
her right tit, as the vulgar saying went, and she
would have cut it off with her own hands if Richard
has ordered her to. Yes she had tried all that first
day to reach Richard, but after a while they even
stopped answering the phone. It only took her one more
day to come to her senses.
She reviewed her options. The little money Richard had
given her would soon run out. At first she thought she
had no options and considered suicide. She failed
miserably as she had already explained to Henry, that
first night when he took her in. When Alice finally
screwed up her courage to return to Henry she had only
twenty dollars left. Alice went to a taxi stand and
asked around if any drivers lived in her old
neighbourhood, or at least close enough. Several of
the drivers directed her to a certain cab. Yes he
lived fairly close to the shopping mall she was asking
about. What was it to her? 
"I need to get there," Alice pleaded with the driver,
"But I only have twenty dollars. I was wondering if
you would drop me off there for twenty dollars on your
way home at the end of your shift?"
"Even though I go close by there to get home," the
driver answered gruffly, "it ain't twenty dollars
close."
"But it's all I have," Alice pleaded. "Look, if you'll
take me there, I'll give you the twenty dollars and
the best blow job you've ever had, before I get out of
the cab."
"Well now that's very interesting, but what happens if
it ain't the best B J I've ever had?"
"Well then you can punish me for disappointing you,"
Alice answered with tears in her eyes. She was going
to have to degrade herself with a strange man just to
get home. Three hours later, she got out of the cab at
the shopping mall. She had deep throated the driver,
much to his pleasure. He didn't punish her, and he
even let her keep the twenty dollars. she spent the
night sleeping out on Henry's porch, not wanting to
disturb his sleep.
So now Henry has his Alice back with him. Not the same
Alice that walked out of his life so many months ago,
but a new and improved Alice. As he learned more of
the story. As Alice remembered more of the details
over time, Henry started to understand how they had
both been victims of Richard. It hurt Henry a lot to
hear these stories, but he had to hear them from her.
When at times the pain did get to be too much, Henry
punished her. She was right, there were times when the
rage did flare up in him, and she taught him that it
was best to take it out on her, than to let it build
up inside. He had learned how to punish her without
breaking the skin or leaving permanent marks. For her
part she never complained or begged him to stop. She
cried out of course, but she never formed words, and
she always remembered to thank him for his discipline
when it was over. She also gave him sex. Almost drove
him crazy with the sex. She showed him things he had
never imagined.  
During this time Henry developed into a very good
master, he had certain things installed in the house,
things to make her bondage easier. There was a long
chain that was attached just inside the door from the
garage. It was long enough so that she could reach
every part of the house, and even some of the yard.
Every night when they returned she herself would lock
the steel shackle around her right ankle. It would
remain like that until he unlocked it on their way out
in the morning. 
After a time he was able to go out by himself leaving
her chained at home. But he took her to work with him
almost everyday. She was eventually allowed to dress
and actually helped around the office, but for a long
time at first she was kept naked and  typing data into
the computer, at the little desk in the corner of
Henry's office. Over time, she became his secretary
and started to really help him in his business, But
whenever Henry had to meet with clients in his office,
she was back kneeling naked in the closet. Of course
she was always ready to service him any other way he
wanted. The rest of the office staff knew what had
happened, and that she was Henry's sex slave. A few of
the younger women even envied her. Everybody knew what
she did for the boss. Nobody was surprised the day
they came to work and instead of the lock on leather
collar, she proudly showed off to everybody, the gold
collar around her neck. It took little examination for
anybody to realize that it was permanently fixed, not
just locked on, and it was completely seamless.
Henry had her fitted with the gold collar as a reward,
shortly after she started drinking his urine. It
wasn't his idea! He was basically still a nice guy. He
had thought about it, but only as a fantasy. He would
never ask her to do it. They were watching Television.
It was a drama on PBS, and he needed to go. He made a
comment about the lack of commercial time and
mentioned his need to urinate. Without a second
thought Alice offered her mouth. She took his limp
penis into her mouth and actually begged him with her
eyes. He obliged, reluctantly at first, but since then
it had become the norm. Shortly after that he started
to give her some of his saliva to rinse out her mouth
right after, so he could kiss her.
It had taken months and months, but Henry was now an
accomplished master. He was happier than he had ever
been. Alice was obviously happy too. She just beamed
with pride as she gave Henry the best sex he'd ever
had. She beamed with pride in public too as she walked
arm in arm with Henry. Especially at the office where
people knew what she was. She wanted them to know she
was very proud to be what she was. She was Henry's
woman. Henry decided it was time to branch out a
little. All this time since Richard, it had been only
the two of them at home every night. They hardly ever
went out. Henry decided to invite Bill and Jessica for
an evening. He told Bill that he wanted them to meet
his new woman. They knew he'd divorced Alice and
thought he'd finally found a new mate.
Henry met them at the door when they arrived. He had
said it was a casual affair, but was surprised to see
the outfit Jessica wore. It was a simply elegant
little dress, sleeveless with an elasticized collar,
if you could call it, that went around just above her
breasts and under her arm.  It was designed to offer
freedom of movement for her masters hands, and for
ease of display. One little pull on the elastic and
her breasts would be bare. Her shoulders and arms were
bare. The skirt was very full and very short. She wore
no stockings, and five inch heels. Her hair cascaded
down her back, about a foot below her shoulder blades.
She was gorgeous. Henry couldn't help noticing that
she had filled out a fair bit, and that her breasts
were larger than he remembered.  After a brief
greeting Henry led them out back to the patio. They
talked for a few minutes and Henry asked what they
would like to drink. He excused himself and went into
the house only to return almost right away empty
handed. They were only in the conversation for a few
minutes when Alice walked out. Besides her permanent
gold collar, and the chain shackled around her ankle
she wore only a simple skin coloured slip-like dress.
It covered her breasts, but only just. The skirt came
only a few inches below her butt.
"Well folks, meet my new woman," Henry said as Alice,
carrying a tray of drinks went from one guest to the
other.
"But it's Alice," Bill said surprised. "My god she's
changed so much I almost didn't recognize her."
"I thought you two were divorced." Jessica said in
surprise.
"We are," Henry answered. "She's no longer my wife.
What you see is my sex slave."
"If she's your slave, then why isn't she naked,"
Jessica asked?
"Probably for the same reason you're not," Bill
answered his wife.
"I didn't know how you would take to having your
husband looking at a naked beautiful slave," Henry
answered. "If you two have no objections to her being
naked, then she shall be."
"Well I have no objection," Bill replied, "and Jessica
isn't allowed to have an opinion. Isn't that right
slave."
"Yes master," Jessica said in almost a whisper. Within
seconds the two women were naked. and Jessica was
wearing the collar and wrist cuffs that she carried in
her purse. Now that the ice was broken, the party
became more friendly. The two couples discussed the
type of things they did, and Alice even talked about
some of the things Richard had made her do. Sex soon
became the most important party game. and by the time
the evening was over, both men had enjoyed each slave.
Alice had time to demonstrated only some of her
talents, and Henry promised to let her teach Jessica
how to do them for Bill. 
Near the end of the evening, Alice was laying on her
back on top of Henry, who had his penis up inside her
rectum. Bill was standing between their legs with his
penis buried deep inside her pussy. Alice's head was
hanging over the edge of the table, and Jessica was
straddling it, forcing Alice's mouth against her
pubis. Henry reached around from behind Alice and
mauled her breasts and pinched her nipples. Alice came
shortly after Bill started pumping into her, and she
kept on coming. Bill and Jessica were facing each
other, so while Alice was making Jessica come, with
her mouth, bill played with his wife's breasts.
Jessica's moans were muffled by Bill's mouth as they
kissed each other passionately. Alice was too busy
with her own orgasm to count how many times she had
made Jessica come. When Bill finally came, everybody
shifted position. Jessica collapsed into a near by
chair, Alice was turned over onto her stomach with
Henry on top still taking her rectum from behind. He
couldn't move very much before, and now started to
drive towards his own orgasm. Bill came around to her
head, and she took his penis into her mouth and
cleaned him off with her tongue. Alice climaxed again,
and kept coming until Henry shot is seed into her
bowel. The two couples met regularly after that.  
Shortly after the first meeting with Bill and Jessica,
Henry got hold of Alice's sister Deb. It took a lot of
explaining on Henry's part, but after two months of
trying he managed to arrange a meeting between Alice
and her sister. Deb turned down Henry's invitation to
punish Alice for trying to get her involved with
Richard. She hadn't completely forgiven Alice, but at
least the two sister were talking to each other again.
Deb even visited them at home, and didn't seem to mind
that Alice was naked and chained.
About three years after Richard threw Alice out. He
inserted himself into their lives again. Alice was
home by herself when she recognized Richard's limo
parked across the street. Henry and Alice had been
going out in public more and more lately, and
eventually word got back to Richard that they were a
couple again. Alice phoned Henry right away.
"Master! Richard's here!" Alice blurted out as soon as
Henry answered the phone.
"You mean in the house?"
"No master, but I just noticed his limo is parked
across the street. I have no Idea how long it's been
there. What if he comes to the door?"
"Now relax, sweetheart. We've talked about this a lot.
If he isn't alone then call the police, and don't open
the door until they get there. If he's alone then you
can play it by ear. I have every confidence in you, I
love you."
"And I love you too master."
"If you decide to let him in then don't forget to turn
on the surveillance cameras and recorders."
"Yes master. I feel better now master."
"He's probably just trying to see if you're home. He
knows I'm at the office. There are a couple of his men
watching me. 
"Now I'm a little scared again, Master."
"Be brave now. Remember he can't hurt us any more
unless we let him."
"Yes master I'll be alright master."
"Good, after you hang up I want you to show yourself,
briefly at the front door."
"Yes master. Bye master." Alice did as Henry asked.
She went out naked on the front porch , picked up one
of the small flower pots and brought it into the
house. Ten minutes later, she watched as Richard got
out of the car. She laughed when she saw him carrying
a bouquet of flowers and a box of candy. Even from
this distance she couldn't help noticing that he'd
gained weight. When he got closer it was also obvious
that his hair was thinner and the hairline a little
higher than she remembered.
"Why Richard, what a pleasant surprise," Alice gushed
as she opened the door before he even pressed the door
bell. "Oh are those for me? You shouldn't have."
"You don't know how much of a pleasure it is for me
too, Alice," Richard said, not quite as arrogant as he
used to be.  When did you and Henry get back together
again? The last time I heard, you'd divorced and you
were in New York."
"Well, we were never apart for that long. Once you
released me, and I was able to think for myself again,
I threw myself at Henry's feet and begged his
forgiveness. In return I've agreed to become his
slave. We went ahead with the divorce, so I am no
longer his wife. I think it makes my role as a slave
more absolute."
"Yes I see. Oh, I like that collar idea. It's
permanent isn't it? I wish I had thought of that."
"Yes and it's solid gold too. Feel free to use the
idea on any of your slaves, Henry won't mind. It
wasn't his idea originally. I can give you the name of
the jeweller who made it."
"Actually that's what I came to see you about. I don't
have a slave at the moment, haven't had one for some
time now."
"Oh you poor dear," Alice said as she fell to her
knees and started to undo his fly. "You mean you
haven't had anybody to give you pleasure like I used
to." With that she started to give all her attention
to his rapidly hardening penis. She took him in her
mouth and then down her throat. She did it flawlessly,
just like he had trained her. Richard almost swooned
as he shot into her throat.
"Oh god! Ms. Alice that was wonderful, thank you. I've
come to take you back with me Alice. I freely admit I
was a fool to let you go in the first place, just
because it was obvious that I hadn't completely  won
you away from Henry." She allowed him to run his hands
all over her body. He hadn't lost his touch in this
respect. Richard knew how to make a woman feel like
she was felt. She snuggled against his leg as she
hugged herself to him. "We won't have to worry about
Henry, he's at least a hour away. We can be long gone
before he gets here. This time it will be different,
he'll never find us this time I promise."
Alice almost laughed, Richard actually believed that
she still desired him. I'm afraid there's a small
problem Richard," she said holding up the chain. "It's
made of high carbon hardened steel. Henry says that
nothing can snap it or cut it, and it will take
several hours to grind through it." She held it up in
her hands as she knelt before him, looking up at him
with a sad face. "Henry keeps me chained up all the
time, except when I out with him, then he keeps me on
a leash that's locked around his wrist. He said he's
never going to take a chance of losing me again."
"Oh you poor thing," Richard sympathised. "Well not to
worry my dear.  I'll come back for you tomorrow, and
I'll have men and equipment. They will remove the
chain from your leg. Then we'll be off where no one
can find us." Alice sat cross-legged on the floor
giving Richard an excellent view of her pubic lips.
"Before you go, Richard, can you hand me that small
lock on the shelf to your left. Yes that's it. Is it
locked?" He tested and nodded before handing it to her
with a quizzical look. Alice quickly worked the knob
on the combination lock and opened it. As Richard
watched, she wrapped the chain around her left leg and
passed the loop of the lock through two links of the
chain. Snapping the lock shut, she secured her other
leg to the chain also. Alice then reached over and
worked the knob on the combination lock on her right
leg. Within seconds her right leg was free.
"You little minx. You were having me on. You could
have released yourself anytime," Richard whined.
"Yes Richard I can release myself anytime I desire. If
I really wanted to I am free to do so. Henry isn't
keeping me here against my will. By-the-way, the chain
really is made of very tough steel. It would take
hours to remove it if I was to be taken against my
will. By then the police would be here. Turn around
and wave at Henry. He's watching all this on a monitor
in his office. You see Richard, I've never preferred
you over Henry. You took advantage of a weakness I had
to gain control over me. And you did it all to get
back at Henry for some real or imagined wrong that he
might have done to you. You had no real feelings for
me. Yes I'll admit, that with all your money and
connections, life with you would be very exciting. I
don't know about your sexual prowess, but you never
disappointed in that way either.  The things you did
to me were exciting at the time. In spite of all that,
there is one thing that Henry can do to me that you
never could. There's one thing that Henry can make me
do for him that you will never be able to make me do
for you."
"And what is that," Richard asked sadly"
"Henry can love me, which you never can, because
you're too taken up with loving yourself  to ever love
anybody else. Everything you did to give me pleasure
wasn't done out of love for me, but it was done so
that I'd be easier to control, which would in turn
give you added pleasure."
"And what is it that Henry can make you do for him
that I'd never could?"
"Love him back!" Richard turned around and left
without another word. Alice never set eyes on Richard
again. But he didn't give up all that easily. Two days
later a package was hand delivered to Henry at the
office. It contained a set of very revealing pictures
of a beautiful young girl in nude bondage. Richard was
offering her to Henry in trade for Alice. A week later
Henry walked into one of his meeting rooms for an
appointment with a Mr. Richmond, a representative for
a  new company that wanted Henry to design their
employee retirement plan, He found himself looking
into the beautiful eager eyes of a gorgeous young
woman. She was kneeling naked, so as to display her
perfect body to the best effect. She held her arms out
to him. In her left hand she held out the loop of a
leash so it was handy for Henry to take. The other end
of the leash was attached to the ring in her right
breast. The weight of the leash was tugging painfully
on her nipple. 
"Please make me your slave, master," she pleaded
through pouting sensuous lips.
"She's been well trained Henry, and I guarantee she's
virgin in both her pussy and ass hole," Richard said
proudly
"She's a lot better looking in real life than in
pictures, isn't she," Henry said holding her by her
chin and looking into her eyes.
"This is better looking too," Richard added as he
opened his briefcase. "There's a million in cash in
small denomination bills.  The cash and the girl,
don't you think it's fair exchange for Alice?"
Henry laughed after he caught his breath. "Look
Richard, I ought to kill you for what you did to Alice
and me. I don't know how it happened but you seem to
have fallen in love with Alice or her memory. But
Alice is not for sale.  If she wants to go with you I
won't stop her. You don't have to buy her from me."
"She won't go with me on her own. I want her, to show
you just how badly, I can have two more million in
cash in here in under ten minutes. All you have to do
is make her helpless, then turn her over to me. I
won't really hurt her, and I'll take her far away from
here."
"Sorry Richard, I can't do that to Alice even if I
wanted to. But tell me, how much will you take for the
girl? On a strictly cash basis." Henry asked as he
again rejected Richard's offer. 
"She cost me a hundred grand, Henry." Richard answered
and he handed the girl her dress and told her to put
it on. Over the next several weeks Richard kept
trying. He gave up when Henry turned down three girls
and ten million. Richard was rich, but ten million
dollars and whatever it cost him to buy the girls
would have put a dint in his lifestyle. Alice hugged
Henry tightly and thanked him profusely when he told
her about Richard's offers and what he wanted Henry to
do to Alice. Henry laughed at the shocked look on
Alice's face what he remarked "Damn! I was hoping he'd
eventually get to five girls and fifteen million. I'm
only kidding sweetheart. I wouldn't trade you for a
dozen slave girls and a hundred million." 
They never heard from Richard again. They did hear
form his lawyer however, about five years later. It
seems Richard had somehow fallen overboard sometime
during the night while cruising on one of his yachts
in the Mediterranean. His body was discovered several
days later. It seems Henry and Alice were mentioned in
Richard's will. He left Alice the house and property
where they last lived together. He left Henry
twenty-five million dollars. Alice's share of the
inheritance was eventually sold for seven million.
And they lived hapily ever after.



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