Dear Reader: THANK YOU! Great feedback. It's fun to see your thoughts on the story. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I did. Please let me know your thoughts when you've read it. I've received some great input from some of you, and there will be elements emerging that will reflect some of my favorite ideas. Thanks to jkuehn and yumacolonel for your emails. Great input. Thanks.
*****
I went to bed with my mind racing. All kinds of crazy thoughts were flying around in my head as I lay there, and all of them were the result of having Eve fall into my. She had been so completely modified by some guy named Rob that I was pretty horrified. The problem was that, if I were being completely honest, I was disgusted with myself for how turned on it all made me. Shit. I felt like such a complete asshole. At some point in the night I guess I finally fell asleep, because I woke to the smell of coffee. And right then Eve surprised me as she walked in with a cup. Wow. She was captivating.
"Good morning!" she said with a smile as she handed the coffee to me.
I took the cup of coffee and took a sip while I tried to hide my morning wood under the blankets. She kindly ignored my efforts as she went to pull the drapes back a bit. With the room better lit, I could see her better. She was so exotically beautiful. Maybe erotically beautiful would be more accurate. All I could think of was to stop staring at her. Fuck. So I looked at my coffee and took another sip. "Wow, you make a great cup of coffee, Eve. And good morning."
Eve looked directly in to my eyes and said, "I really don't mind if you look at me. I know it might hard for you as I look so... well... changed, but I hope you can relax and we can be friends... or maybe, eventually, more than friends." She trailed off. "I really need your help, and I want to make sure you like me and want me around."
Wow. Well, that was straight to the point.
She looked uncomfortable, then said, "Bo, I need to tell you something. I feel bad that I wasn't completely honest with you last night. Maybe you need to know that Rob owned me. I was his slave. I was never his girlfriend. Maybe that changes things."
I sat in stunned silence for too long before saying, "Is that what you're looking for? Do you want a new Master? I would think you'd be pretty well over that after your experience. Don't you want to live your life without someone imposing their shit on you?"
She stood very still and looked very uncomfortable.
"Eve... seriously... I need you to talk to me." But after an uncomfortably long pause I shook my head and said, "Fine. Let me get some clothes on and I will come out to the kitchen and we can talk over some breakfast. Ok?"
Eve looked sad, or maybe concerned, and nodded, "Ok."
As she walked out the door she pulled it closed behind her. I let out a big sigh, and took another sip of the coffee. Coffee makes everything better. How did she make coffee taste so much better than mine? How could she be so fucking hot AND make such great coffee?
I crawled carefully to the side of the bed and set my cup on the end table. I hit the bathroom, then pulled some jeans and a t-shirt on. As I got to the door of the bedroom I stopped and tried to collect my thoughts for a second before I went out to the kitchen. How did I get in to this position? I was just trying to help. Last night seemed like such a confused whirlwind. Between being burnt out by the work-week, and then with meeting Eve, I was feeling completely undone. By the time we got back to my place, things had really spun out of control. I didn't have a clue how I could help her, but I also knew I couldn't throw her out. By the sound of things, she really had no place to go here in town and I really didn't even know if she had any other options. I opened the door and walked down the hall.
As I entered the great room Eve was just coming around to sit at one of the places she had set at the breakfast counter. She was dressed exactly as she had been last night.
"Eve, do you have a change of clothes in your bag? I really didn't feel comfortable undressing you last night."
"I didn't take the time to grab much, but I did grab a few things. Rob has cameras throughout the house and he watches me when I move around, even when he's not there. So I had to pack my bag as quickly as possible and then make a run for it. I grabbed my purse, some toiletries, the antibiotic ointment for my new... for the new work Rob had done. I did manage to grab an extra bra and a few blouses and skirts. There are a couple of other things, but it doesn't matter," she said evasively.
"Do you have the key for your shoes, or your chastity plate?"
"No. Rob is the only one with those keys. If there are spares, he hid them in his office where I was not allowed. He always kept that room locked and forbid me from going in there. So no, I don't have a way to take my shoes off or to remove my chastity plate. Sorry Bo." Eve once again looked embarrassed and downcast.
"Why are you sorry for that? It's not your fault. It sounds like you were pretty brave to get out and make a run for it. Jesus Eve, I'm glad I was there and you found me, because you could have really gotten in to trouble if you'd come across the wrong person."