How I got into this Part 2
We suggested the Shergar as a meeting place. Sal was still working there, and we knew we would be pretty much ignored. We were sitting at a table by a window, so we saw Benny arrive with Albert. They came in, sat down without a drink, and Benny came straight to the point.
There is an old cinema in Camberwell; his people bought it and were going to turn it into a high-class fetish club and dungeon. I suppose Benny had worked out that Sal was the brains of our little outfit, so his questions were addressed to her. First, was she interested in fronting the house and managing it? He wanted her to think it over, and then we would meet the people behind the project. If she wanted the job and they could come to terms, was I interested in the wet work?
He would take us around to have a look; it wasn't going to be as well appointed as the gay BDSM club, as he said the straight community could not keep its mouth shut, but if we could put this together with the same team, in budget, it only had to last 18 months to pay for itself. If it folded for any reason, another place could be found; the idea was portable.
From my point of view, it was a no-brainer. Good customers are harder to find than good plumbers. For Sal, it was a bit more problematic. If she took this job, she was going to become the face of this place. We were both very nervous about having her picture plastered all over the shity side of Fleet Street.
I will say now that Sal has never abused her position as my mistress. I do know, however, that when something is pushing her buttons, my little best friend gets even less fun. It doesn't work both ways; my tongue gets lots to do, and she really gets off on denying me. In the six months I had been Sal's sub, I had learned very quickly that whinging and begging only increased the time intervals between me getting off. So I guessed, quite correctly, that if she could get assurances, she would not get thrown under the Fleet Street bus she wanted in.
Later, when we met the main man, she got the assurances she wanted, plus a fat salary package; the clothing allowance alone was the clincher. As soon as she found she could tart around in heels and corsets all at someone else's expense, she wanted in. At that point, so was I, for no other reason than that, as I had given her carte blanche to dictate our sex lives, we were moving into a 24/7 dome/sub lifestyle. An unforeseen benefit was that I was about to become a fixture at the club. Take that literally: 95% of the time we spent at the club, at least when it was open, I was fixed in the lower half of "Lady Sally's Throne," as her somewhat lavishly appointed bar stool became known.
When fingers were pointed and the question was who the hell is he, the answer was Mistress Sally's sub; he's the guy who plumed the place and made the heating work. I pretty much ended up working solely for the SM community in the Southeast. The SM community wasn't shy about putting its hand in its pocket; I was doing very well. Thank you very much.
There was none of the real dark stuff that happened down at Mile End. "Club Sally" became the place Mr. and Mrs. Stock-Broker came to on Friday and Saturday nights to do their thing. A sub would often finish the night with a dozen or more stripes across his or her arse, but there was none of the serious SM stuff that happened at Mile End tolerated at the Camberwell site.
For the grand opening night, Benny had an absolutely inspired idea. He invited one of the better-end Sunday newspapers. He later told me the editor was a regular at Mile End, along with his long-term master/partner. He brought with him a girl who wrote a feature article entitled "Sinfull Sex in Southwark", and together these two played Madam X and Sub pretty well. Sal gave Madam X and a partner a lifetime membership. Madam X gave Sall star treatment. I wore a gimp mask, as I still had to make a living among the vanila horde.