Chapter 3: The Christmas Party
Anxiety hangs like a thick fog in my car as I near the house. My last venture up this lane essentially changed my life, at least my perspective on life, and now I feel like I'm entering a kind of twilight zone or maybe another dimension. A three day Christmas party at Sam Darquesied's bondage ranch... the mind boggles at the implications.
My headlights reflect off several cars parked all around the yard. Not limos or anything too ostentatious but all are top-of-the-line personal cars; fewer than I expected since Sam had said he had sixty or so clients. As I park beside a beautiful metallic blue Jag I notice the personalized license plate on a silver Lexus--"MARDI".
"Shit."
Party sounds emanate from the house as I approach; rambunctious chatter mixed with boisterous chortling, occasionally interrupted by bursts of loud, cacophonous laughter. Still with butterflies dancing in my tummy, I rap on the door. Almost instantly it flies open and reveals a beaming Sam Darquesied and I cannot suppress a little giggle at his ridiculous Santa hat.
"Sylvia! I am so glad you made it!" He gives me a huge one armed hug as he hands me a glass of champagne with the other.
"Come in; come in. Here let me take you bag and... oh, we'll put the present under the tree... you didn't have to do that, by the way... come on, I'll introduce everybody."
He is giddy like a school boy and it doesn't take long to see why. As he puts my bag on the floor then guides me to the living room I am greeted by the sight of a dozen or so of the most stunning women I have ever seen in one place. All but one are dressed casually in jeans or slacks and I immediately recognize a beautiful, statuesque blonde from her work in television and an equally alluring dark haired Latina from countless movies.
Sam gets everybody's attention, "Okay everyone... ladies... ladies this is Sylvia. Now I'll just go around the room..." He walks behind each woman and touches her shoulder as he announces her name, "This leggy blond is Teri... and this fiery little Mexican spitfire is Malsa... oh, and this is Isabella, probably the horniest woman on this planet!"
Everybody laughs and Isabella gives Sam a playful shot in the stomach. Wearing a light summer dress, she is a bewitching, auburn haired woman in her mid thirties, voluptuous and sexy with a mischievous look in her eyes.
"This long haired beauty is Lilly and is every bit as fiery as her mom..." He points to Malsa! Mother AND daughter? This party is already surpassing my expectations... and I just got here!
"... and this long legged goddess is Helenβ"
Isabella lightheartedly interrupts, "Hey! How come you didn't say I'm a goddess?"
Everybody laughs amid a cacophony of demands to be called "goddess."
Sam continues through the heckling, "I'm sorry, I should have said the horniest GODDESS on the planet!"
I find myself laughing along with them as Isabella fires a cushion at Sam. "Okay... anyway, beside Helen is the red haired, country 'goddess' Kendall and to her right is the flaxen haired little devil, the 'goddess' Penelope."
Sam pronounces it "pen - a - lope", like "antelope" and another cushion is launched at him.
"... and the young Irish beauty beside her is the 'goddess' Colleen... and beside her is our own Michelle Pfeiffer twin, the 'goddess' Gloria."
Now he points to the woman sitting near the back wall and, in a more serious tone Sam says, "And, of course, you already know Mardi."
Mardi glances in my direction and, in her typical "you're barely worth my time" voice says, "Hello Sylvia."
"Hello Kristel."
I match her glare as she chafes at the sound of her real name. I realize everyone here, even Sam, is using a pseudonym of some sort but... screw her!
Looking around Sam says, "Where's Al?"
Gloria and Colleen point to the kitchen and he excuses himself then heads out of the living room. Television star Teri and movie star Malsa come over to me and we strike up a typical small talk conversation. Within a minute I feel like "one of the girls".
"I thought there'd be more women here."
Teri answers, "Well, it's Christmas and not everybody can get away..."
"And not everybody wants other people to know they come here... not even us." interrupts Malsa.
Teri continues, "But we wouldn't miss this for the world! Trust me, Sylvia, next year you won't want anything for Christmas except the invitation to this party!"
We all laugh and I notice Malsa glancing at 'Mardi', "So... what's up between you and the ice queen?"
I love her reference to Kristel and I know now that she treats people here the same as she does at work. "It's a long sto..."
Sam interrupts, "Sylvia? This is my sweet lady Alyssa."
As Alyssa shakes my hand she smiles and almost takes my breath away. She is possibly the single most beautiful young woman I have ever met. She is small, maybe five foot six or so, with very short cropped curly brown hair and the softest green eyes I've ever seen. I blush at my instant attraction to another woman but I simply can't help it. She is in bare feet, wearing form fitting jeans and a simple, thin, white sweater top which does little to conceal the shape of her perfect thirty six Cs. Here face is soft and flawless and her body is tight and trim but not skinny. She must look absolutely marvelous when she's naked and bound in one of Sam's rigs.
The unmistakably abrading voice of Kristel snaps me back to reality, "Sam, we need to talk about this some more."
With an exasperated look Sam escorts 'Mardi' to the kitchen. The four of us; Alyssa, Teri, Malsa, and myself, move to seats around a card table and I ask, "What's that about?"
Malsa shrugs and says, "Not too hard to guess."