"My heart is broken." She said into the phone. The only response was the drone of the dial tone. He had long since hung up.
"I don't know how I am going to survive this. I hurt so bad." She continues to talk. "I can say this to You, knowing that You can't hear me. You were my first — my first Master, my first lover to take me to the dark places I craved. Who will love me like that again? I despair of ever again allowing myself to be open and trusting. I gave everything to You. I held nothing back. You witnessed my humiliation and my ecstasy. You seduced me. You taught me. And then, You abandoned me. I don't know what to do."
The dial tone changed to a non-human female voice telling the caller to "...please hang up and try again." She obeyed the command because that is what she had been trained to do.
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Several months later
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The phone rings. She glances at the caller ID and winces. A quick debate is waged in her mind... answer — don't answer. The caller is a former lover from several years ago. Someone, it seemed, from another life.
"Coward," she berates herself. Picking up the receiver, she says, "Hello."
A male voice answers, "Hi, baby. I have been thinking about you."
"Really." She answers abruptly. But, playing the game, she says, "And what were you thinking?"
"I was thinking about the last time I fucked you and how good it was," he says.
"Uh, huh," she says noncommittally. "And I suppose that you want to see me and fuck me again. Is that what you are thinking?"
"Oh, yes, baby. I want you. It has been too long. Do you ever think about it... about us?"
"It has been a couple of years since we have been together, Bill. You disappeared from my life. One day you were there and the next you vanished. But, that doesn't matter. I moved on. There has been a lot that has happened to me in the time since we were together. I am not the same woman that you knew. There are differences that might make "us" impossible."