"So Alice, how are you finding the job?"
I looked around the room to try to distract myself from the deep brown eyes boring into me. A typical director's office: leather seats, cabinets with glass doors (although the paraphernalia on the shelves unlike any I'd seen before), and floor to ceiling windows adorned with heavy velvet curtains. I felt like I was in an Agatha Christie novel, 'Alice, in the office, with the leather whip poised unassuming but all too obviously on the wall behind Monica's head'.
I rung my hands nervously and wiped the perspiration onto my dress, "it's great" I replied.
A pause. I swear she hadn't blinked since she asked me that question. You'd think she was reading my mind. Who knows, perhaps she could?
"Great?" She took a sip from her whiskey glass. I could smell the sweet lingering alcohol on her breath as she leaned in towards me. "Is that all you've got to tell me?"
I had never considered myself attracted to women, but in this moment, with this exotic latex-clad beauty sat just feet away from me, I felt my body tingle. Was it fear? Was it anticipation? Could she tell? How had I never noticed how shapely her body was until I had no choice but to run my eyes over every inch of it?
"Alice, lots of people start work here and they don't last a month. The hours are long, you must always look immaculate, and of course there's the sex."
Four days ago I started this job, and I had never anticipated what I was letting myself in for.
"Bar staff wanted. Must be well presented, professional and have an open minded approach to customers. Ability to be discrete is mandatory."
I'd assumed that there would be celebrity customers and the need to work within a circle of secrecy. Both of those things proved to be true, but neither for the reasons I'd expected.
"How do you feel about the things you've seen here the past couple of days?" she pressed.
It didn't take much for me to know the answer to her question. I cast my mind back to the images of naked bodies moving in ecstasy against one another, the sounds of people giving themselves over to partners and strangers alike, and of course I never imagined the live sex shows performed by in house dominants... like Monica herself. I felt my throat go dry and reached for my water.
Tell her you liked it.
I stifled the excitable voice in my head and composed myself, raising my eyes to meet hers. "I liked it" I replied.
A wry smile pulled at the corner of her red lips and she tilted her head to one side. "I saw you watching my show from the bar last night Alice" she said in a low silky voice, "have you ever been with a woman?"
A pause.
"No" I whispered, the tension in me rising so much so that I could barely utter the word.
Monica placed her whisky glass on the table beside her, "Hmm..." she whispered, running her tongue along her front teeth before glancing back to me. "Can I kiss you?"
I felt my breath catch in my chest. My whole body was electric now with anticipation. My nipples hardened inside my dress. Completely void of words left to speak, I nodded.
Time moved slowly, but my senses heighted. Before I had time to think her long fingernails were weaving their way through my hair and her lips were pressed to mine. I inhaled the smell of alcohol on her breath and the expensive perfume placed tactfully on the pressure points behind her ears. She smelt like rich leather and gunpowder.
"Are you ok?" she whispered to me, her lips still millimeters from mine.
I nodded coyly again, "don't stop" I replied.
She kissed me again, but this time urgently, with force.