Selene suddenly pointed forward. "Lookout!"
Kat's head snapped forward in time to see her headlights illuminate the tawny body of a deer. Slamming on the brakes, she knew she couldn't come to a complete stop in time. The car was going faster than she realized.
Kat released the brake and tried to swerve behind the deer instead, taking her headlights off it. The stag jumped away the moment it wasn't under the beams, and Kat tried to correct the car's direction, but she was too late.
The car's tire snagged the roadside dirt, yanking it into a ditch. Kat held the wheel as firmly as she could. She slammed on the brake again, but the force swung the trunk to the right. They heard gravel under the tires, a noise like a gunshot, and Katelyn retching from the sudden shifts in inertia.
Moments later, Kat, Rani, and Selene stared forward, panting. Katelyn lay with her head on the cushion, her feet on Rani's lap, her shoulder still dislocated. Vomit soiled the back of Selene's chair, the backseat floor, and a portion of the backseat.
Kat was still white-knuckling the steering wheel.
There was a slight buzzing noise from Selene, only detectable because of the total silence around them. Otherwise, they wouldn't have heard the app-controlled vibrator.
"Everybody okay?" Rani ventured after a minute of silence had elapsed.
Katelyn gave a moan from the backseat to indicate she was still in pain if anyone cared.
Selene took a deep breath and exhaled deliberately.
Kat started crying.
Selene didn't offer any words of comfort. This was one of those moments when tensions snapped. Kat needed time to move through them. Unfortunately, time was a luxury, with Katelyn's dislocated shoulder and inebriation weighing on Selene's anxiety. Their goal was to get her to the Urgent Care as quickly as possible. Now, they were sitting below a semi-rural road, looking across two lanes at an eight-point stag, indignant at having his evening stroll interrupted.
Selene watched as the stag huffed, the breath from his nostrils steaming the air beneath his snout. He turned and bounded away into the darkness.
Rani proffered a pack of tissues from her purse, and Selene took them, offering one to Kat. Kat took the tissue and blew her nose. She took another and wiped her face.
Kat exhaled, and her voice warbled when she spoke. "I'm sorry."
"Hey, it ain't your fault." Rani said. Her tone was as confident and assured as always. "We're all alive, and no one got injured."
She and Selene glanced at Katelyn.
"From that anyway." Rani amended. "When you're ready, we'll get back on the road and be okay."
Kat nodded. She took another deep breath and started toward the road. She pressed the gas, and the car lurched but went nowhere. Gravity tugged them toward the ditch. The vehicle tried to propel forward, but the dirt slid away with every rotation.
Kat smacked the steering wheel with her palm in frustration, which did not help.
The car pulled to the right, and Kat stopped rather than risk spinning the car into the divot of grass and dirt even further.
"Should we get out and push?" Selene asked.
Kat sighed. "I don't fucking know!"
Selene flinched.
"Hey." Rani spoke up from the backseat. "I'm gonna get out and see if I can push. Kat, you hit the gas again when I tell you, okay?"
Kat nodded.
Rani climbed out, relieved to escape the smell of Katelyn's mess. She moved to the trunk, checking the tires and looking around, and shook her head when she checked the passenger side.
"We've got a flat tire on your front passenger side!" Rani called out.
Kat groaned. "Of course we do."
"Hey, it could be worse." Selene tried to sound comforting, but discerning Kat's current mood, there was no right thing to say.
"Not helpful." Kat snapped. "Why did I let you talk me into this?"
Selene looked hurt. "We were trying to help your friend, remember?" She put emphasis on the 'your.' She didn't know or care about Katelyn. Kat did, and tonight was supposed to be for her benefit. That hadn't worked out like anyone planned.
"Should I call Master?" Selene asked.
Kat glared at Selene. "No. Don't call him. We can handle this ourselves."
Kat reached down and popped the trunk. She switched off the car and stepped out.
Rani was one step ahead of her, lifting the board under the trunk space to reveal the empty spot where a spare tire should be.
"Fuck."
"You don't have a spare?" Rani asked Kat, who was now standing next to her.
"The car is a hand-me-down from our mom." Kat explained. "I guess I never checked it before."
"Do you have a Triple A membership?" Rani asked.
"No, I don't have a Triple A membership." Kat mocked her.
"Sorry." Rani surrendered. "Just trying to be helpful. Should we call-"
"We're not calling Arthur." Kat said, defiant at this point. They were strong, independent women. They didn't need a man to come and save them, even if seeing Arthur ride up on a valiant steed would surely delight them.
"I was going to say a tow truck." Rani said.
Katelyn retched again. They still needed to deliver her to Urgent Care.
"And maybe an Uber?"
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Arthur's fit-bit buzzed against his wrist, and he checked the timer. It was time to flip the laundry. Kelly, in her character of Megan the slutty maid escort, had finished cleaning the exciting tools and toys Arthur had in his briefcase and trunk. She asked questions when she didn't recognize something, like the spider gag or the leather body harness, and Arthur's patient answers intrigued and aroused her.
Right now, he was watching her micro-skirt lift and show off her lingerie. He glimpsed her white fishnet-clad ass as she hung the last of the rope over the curtain rod to dry.
"I'll be right back." Arthur announced as he stood up from the sofa.
Kelly, er Megan, looked alarmed. "Where are you going?" She asked.
"It's time to switch the laundry." Arthur said calmly.
She wore her black dress under the white lace apron when they put the laundry in. Now, all she had was her lingerie. She wore a black lace teddy under the white fishnets that rode high to her narrow waist. She accessorized with her gloves, heels, and black collar with a white silk ribbon bow. Over it all, she wore two strips of cheap satin, the top and skirt of a two-piece French maid lingerie. Between her plush bell-shaped tits and pert sculpted ass, they struggled to preserve her modesty.
The total effect was undeniably sexy. He couldn't allow her to go to the basement with him in that state. One of his neighbors might get nosy or do their laundry, too.
"That is my job, Master." Megan said. She returned to the room and adjusted the white silk gloves that ended just above her elbows. "I will go. You stay here and enjoy your whiskey."
She'd refilled his whiskey glass, and he'd only taken a sip.
"We'll both go." Arthur decided, recognizing that Kelly wanted to. Maybe the risk of getting caught excited her. Maybe not. They'd find out together. "If you must. But... would you still go if I told you to take off that skirt?"
Megan stopped mid-stride toward the back door and looked at him. She looked defiant, even as she hooked her thumbs under the waistband of her skirt and slid them down her legs. She stepped out of the silk micro-skirt in her black high-heeled shoes.
"And the top." Arthur said.
Megan still looked defiant but ripped the top off. He could now make out her hardened pink nipples at the end of her bell-shaped freckled breasts, still restrained by the sheer, strapless, black lace teddy she wore. She had to pull the neckline up to keep the lingerie on. Arthur enjoyed watching what the motion did to her breasts.
"And you still want to go downstairs?" Arthur asked.
"Yes, Sir." Kelly said. "But I would ask for one favor."
"And what is that?" Arthur asked.