Thank you for the positive responses and ratings to the first chapter. As always, I appreciate the feedback and the ratings.
A warning that I probably should have included in chapter 1: this story delves very quickly into some extreme fetish play. This chapter has play involving food, and watersports are coming down the line. Apologies if that disappoints people.
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Alexa Calloway is very brazen, almost the complete opposite of Rose in many ways. When she walks into the room, she seems to be bouncing. The joke to make would refer to parts of her anatomy bouncing as well, but her breasts are modest and held in place by a very fashionable sports bra, though it is tight enough that I can make out her nipples. Her athletic shorts are also tight enough that barely anything is left to the imagination; the material hugs her backside tightly and the swells and shapes of both cheeks are easy to follow, and a distinctive crease in the fabric between her legs suggests she either isn't wearing anything under the shorts, or the elastic pull is so strong it's pushing her panties up into her.
The clothes aren't just to show off her body either, at least based on how that body looks. Alexa is toned, with muscles visible in her arms, legs, and abs as she walks. She doesn't have creases and bulges like a bodybuilder, but it's clear she works out regularly and keeps her body fit and trim. Her dirty blonde hair (dyed if her eyebrows are a clue) is in a tight braid that stops just below her shoulder blades.
I meet with her at 1:00pm, suggested (or directed) again by Xander Talbot. The second of four interviews requested and required by Talbot to get a view into his world. He suggested Alexa next, and no one felt led to argue with him. I find myself willing to do the interview, but I wonder what I'm going to see that I haven't already. Rose's situation shocked me at first, then I came to see the appeal for her, and I understood the larger symbiosis it creates between dom and sub, master and slave. I wonder if there's much more for me to learn in that vein or if Talbot simply wants to try getting a rise out of the naΓ―ve journalist some more.
Alexa would be the type to do it. She reminds me of those girls in school who are the most aggressive. They ask the boys (or girls) out, they're the ones who want sex on the first date and will brag to their friends about it, and they wear labels like "slut" and "harpy" as badges of honor. The phrase "get on my level" seems made for girls like Alexa.
I feel like she would have straddled the chair backward for the interview except it was a high-back armchair, so it would have completely blocked our views. Instead she sits in it cross-legged, her knees resting on the armrests, daring me either to look or not to.
To my surprise, she begins with, "Just so you know, I have a hard stop at 2:30."
"Does Mr. Talbot need you for something?" I ask.
"No, I have a client I have to go meet," she replies.
A nonverbal duel starts right then. We both know because of her status and the atmosphere what assumption I'm supposed to make, and she's daring me to accuse her of being a prostitute. But I didn't get to be a lead anchor at the network just because I look pretty.
"So you do personal training?" I finally reply.
She smiles, her eyes telling me she's frustrated she couldn't trap me and impressed at the same time. "Yeah. I have to do all of them off-site, obviously, and I'm not connected to Master's name in any way. I built my own business, and it's still my own business. I have to be careful about what clients I take; I have a meeting with Master every time I take on someone new to make sure there's no conflict."
"Doesn't your control and ownership of the business interfere with your slave status?" I ask.
Alexa shrugs. "It's all because of legal bullshit. If Master had direct control over anything, there'd be no way to separate the business from him. People would find out, and it would be 'Xander Talbot's personal training service,' not mine. He still handles most of the administrative stuff, and my money goes into accounts that I don't touch, just like Rose and Sally."
Sally is Xander Talbot's third BDSM slave, whom I hadn't met yet.
"Isn't that...an unusual amount of freedom for a sex slave?" I ask.
"Not all sex slaves are like Rose and Sally," Alexa tells me, "I'm a free spirit. I'm high energy. An extrovert. I need people, I need excitement. That's what got me into trouble, actually. When I got to college it took me one semester to flunk out. My parents told me to come home to Missouri so they could find me a nice boy from my church and start making babies with him. My response to them was to send them a picture of me naked, smoking a joint while being fucked by a frat brother, flipping two birds at the camera. Four months later I was living in an apartment with six other people, drunk all the time, smoking some dangerous shit, and debating whether I wanted to start turning tricks or make a go at porn. I'm not equating those two, by the way, but the porn I had an 'in' for wasn't the mainstream stuff you find on Pornhub. This was back alley, 'if they don't like it, give them roofies until they can't say no' type shit."
"So how does a woman in that position end up with Xander Talbot?" I ask.
She shrugs again. "I'll admit; it was blind luck. I had a hookup at a major LA hotel, one of my girls worked at the desk. Master was staying at the hotel and something came up where he had to stay longer. He didn't want to skip his workout, but his trainer was back here, so he asked if the hotel could hook him up. My girl called me in."
"So do you see that as him saving you, or you just happened to fall into the hole he was in charge of?"
The question is sort of my comeback for trapping me with the potential prostitute angle from before, but Alexa either doesn't notice or doesn't want to play anymore.
"Look, this was not easy, for either of us. He...I don't care if you know what this means or if you misinterpret it, but he broke me. And I needed breaking. He broke me, and he still breaks me. I need someone to do that. Every time I think I've got it all together I do stupid shit. Master keeps me from that. I'd say he's like a daddy to me, and yeah, he's a daddy who fucks me, but I don't care if you want to twist that around like you did with poor Samantha."