This is a sequel to
Protected By Lentz Trucking
,
Queen of Diamonds,
and
Mrs. Sykes's Last Brooklyn Exit.
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I was sitting one day in a bar with my older, classy-lady girlfriend, Holly Sykes. I had met her while I was driving part-time for a car/limo service called Lioness Limousine. She was one of my passengers and we got involved in "activities" inside the car when she rented vehicle for the day. She definitely was the one who initiated the affair.
After a few weeks we got into a more conventional relationship that involved real dates. Before that we only had various BDSM and other sexual activities when she rented a car. I was the one who insisted that we take this to a more serious level; I didn't want to just be her "boy toy." At that time, in the summer of 1976, I was twenty-one and she was sixteen years older than I was. Somehow, for a while at least, we clicked together.
She was fairly well-off and lived in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan. I knew that some of her money came from the divorce settlement with her ex-husband.
She was a tall, attractive woman and she had a knack for always dressing well. Beyond that, she was just interesting and fun to be around. One Friday, after I had come down from summer session classes at City College, we went to the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village.
When I had a date with her, I tried to dress a little better than my usual 1970s college-boy slovenliness. No Converse sneakers, for example. We were sitting at a table when she said, "I have a friend, her name is Tiffany Harris, and she is interested in some, ah, kinky activities with a young man."
"So there are more of you out there. Does every lady on the East Side have some sadomasochistic preference?"
"Well, she certainly does. I can tell you the general outlines of what she wants."
"Okay, satisfy my curiosity. What exactly is it?"
"It would sort of be like we have done. She'll book a car and ask for you. Then, as I did, she'll come up with a pretext for a, ah . . ."
I knew already, "An ass-beating."
"Yes, that's it. She'll have that pretext of course."
"Of course, there has to be one of those."
"It will probably be that you are fooling around with her college-age daughter. You, know, oral sex with each other and so forth."
"Does she actually have a daughter?"
"Yes, but she made up a fictional character named Betsy, who is supposed to be eighteen. The real one is actually older than that. I can tell you what she'll do to you next."
"Okay, tell me."
"She'll take you in the back seat and paddle you. Like I did, but she'll be harsher."
"What you did had quite an impact."
"Yes, but she'll be worse. She said you'll be purple, or black and blue, when she's finished."
I tried to be sarcastic but I failed, "Sounds intriguing."
"Then, if she's satisfied with you, she'll invite you to another session in her apartment at a later date. She'll put you over a couch or desk and cane you. First on your trousers, then on the bare buttocks."
I expressed some skepticism. "I've heard that canings are really painful."
"Yes, that is probably is worst implement there is. They punish prisoners in Singapore and Thailand and such places with it." Before I could object she broke in, "But she really knows how to use in properly. She won't use maximum force and she won't permanently injure you."
That didn't sound very reassuring. I had another issue to bring up. "Is she then going to ask for some - something sexual afterwards, like oral sex or intercourse?" Holly had done that from the very beginning.
"Yes, it's practically guaranteed."
"I guess nothing in life is truly guaranteed. Where did you meet this lovely person?"
"She was one of my roommates in college."
Yes, Bryn Mawr, one of the Seven Sisters.
"Nice co-incidence that you met your - well, someone with the same tastes. Is there a Mister Harris around?"
"No, she's divorced, like I am." But she had a real daughter somewhere. I wondered if she knew about the games her mom liked to play.
I asked, "Do you have a photo of her somewhere?"
"Yes, I have one right now in my wallet." She took it out to show me. Tiffany was a tall woman, thinner than Holly. She had short dark-blonde hair. And she was actually fairly attractive.
Holly said, "She's also a 'switch,' like I am. When it comes to thrashings, she can take as good as gives."
"Amazing how you two found each other."
I sat there for a little while in silence. Finally I said, "All right, Holly, I'll consider it."
*****
The next Sunday I was driving to Manhattan from Long Island City. I was going to pick up Tiffany at her apartment on East 79th Street.
She met my car at the curb and got in before I could get out to open the door for her.
I noted the short, dark-blonde hair I had seen in the photo. Just like Holly, she was a snazzy weekend dresser. She was wearing a short, sleeveless gray dress, and she had some kind of wrap, I'd guess you'd call it, draped over her shoulders. This thing had what appeared to be fake black fur with had a long, dark-gray sash attached.
Her stockings were dark and her shoes were black high-heels. There were black gloves that almost went to her elbows. Like Holly, she was a total MILF and she obviously was classy. I wondered what her personality would be like. I knew she was about to start a game with me so I wouldn't know her true self right away.
She must have taken a hint from Holly's playbook, because she was quite cool, almost frosty, from the beginning. She spoke before I could, saying , "Hello, Paul." Something about her tone hinted that she already knew me, which of course wasn't true.
"Good morning, Mrs. Harris."
She had another one of Holly's moves. She said, "I'd like you to take me someplace where we can have some privacy in the car."
I had expected this, and had already chosen Long Island City because it was just across the 59th Street Bridge. It was also the location of my company, so I thought I knew the area.