A village on the Peloritani Hills, Province of Messina, Sicily, the late sixties
They called him the painter, but no villager had ever seen his paintings; nobody bothered, because all the art they knew was that of Madonnas, baby Jesuses, and Saints from the crude frescoes that decorated their rural church. They thought, and rightly so, that the man with the unshaven look and the stained clothes could not be the author of images of any religious inspiration.
That afternoon he was sitting at a table alone, outside the bar of the village, drinking a beer.
A large, black Bentley parked at the other side of the street.
It was rumored that the young Baroness, owner of the Manor was an eccentric, and using this vehicle on the narrow, dusty road that led to her villa surely confirmed this impression.
But It was not just the car to leave an impression: the driver was not like anyone they had ever seen.
it was a woman in her late twenties, in a tight light grey uniform that barely restrained her wide, but shapely frame, with large, curved hips and round, soft breasts that pushed against the jacket closed by gold toggles that shone under the sun.
That majestic figure was completed by a beautiful face, with large chestnut eyes, a sensual mouth, a strong chin, and thick hair, the color of ripened wheat, tied in a bun.
She looked around, as if she owned the place, projecting all the dignity of the aristocratic woman she served.
She ordered a coffee at the bar and the only male customers stared at her with a mix of awe and desire.
Only the painter dared to comment, without addressing anybody in particular but loud enough for everybody to hear:" I can take this woman, undress her and then fuck her on the floor, squeezing her fat boobs, until she starts mooing, just like the cow she is."
She finished her coffee, like she had not heard anything, and then on the way out she looked straight into the painter's eyes.
She pulled off the comb that held her hair; now a golden shiny halo appeared around her beautiful olive oval, and she smiled at him.
"What's stopping you?" she said, and then walked back to the car and left.
The next day when the painter arrived at the bar, the owner had a written message for him: "Tomorrow after lunch I will come to pick you up."
He did not order anything and went back home.
The next day he had shaved and wore a clean white shirt and velvet trousers; the car arrived, and he left sitting next to the driver, while the village's children run happily behind them.
Of course, she had changed; possibilities had become certainties; but this was more in a certain flash that crossed her eyes, than in her body, that had remained lean, but soft around the hips and the chest; after all, the Baroness was not yet forty.
"You have aged," she remarked instead, unkindly, grinning.
"I can't say the same of you."
"Lying will not take you far," she replied.
"I don't need to go anywhere, I reached my destination," he insisted.
"It was stupid of you to leave Palermo and your wealth."
"When you refused to marry me, the city seemed boring, and my brother will surely make a better use of our family's possessions."
"When I told you no, I knew I didn't want to be yours. Soon after I realized that I couldn't be a man's property."
"That's reassuring."
Suddenly her silver-green eyes became colder.
"You provoked my driver...to be summoned, I assume."
"I waited years in the village close to your villa, initially I just wished to be near a place that belonged to you. Then I discovered that you also withdrew to the countryside."
"You escaped like a defeated soldier, I moved to advance like a winning heroine establishing the source of her power."
"When I saw your driver, I understood that."
As to confirm these last words, a young man, naked, but for a ribbon around his waist, entered the room.
He had the greyish skin of the local peasants when they are not exposed to the sun. He was hairless, but for the short bristly, black hair on his head.
He moved next to the Baroness, who took his elongated, but soft penis and started playing with it. Even under the stimulation, the boy remained still and expressionless.
"Damiano has been well trained from young, I wonder if the same can be done with an older man, his fickle cock might need harsher ways to subdue it."
"Sometimes a foolish man can mend his ways, and accept that he tried to escape his destiny, to which he will need to be led back, sometimes with painful means. He can only hope to be up to it."
"What I should add is that I learned that I was born to own men and be served by them. I learned that I was born to make them know pain and to break their pride."
"I realized that much, Anna."
She slapped him.
"From now on you should address me as Baroness, or Mistress. I won't tolerate any familiarity. Now, if you are ready, kneel and lick my feet, Cosimo."
She kicked one of her exquisitely embroidered slippers, and at the same time the painter kneeled and started licking the bare foot.
It was clear now that she was enjoying her victory; she was stroking excited the boy's cock, which was unable to resist. It had become rigid, long but thin like a flute. A soft cry escaped his mouth.