Edited by Spellslave
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"It's no good, I have to go and I can't get out of it," Eddie practically whined in annoyance as he attempted to fix his tie, a thickset man with a rather plain face that didn't match his expensive designer suit Edward Black never quite matched and always seemed to be dressed in someone else's clothes.
"But it's my birthday," Dawn protested indignantly as she glared at her erratic boyfriend. If Eddie thought that she was going to let him put his work first yet again and not get yelled at, then he had another thing coming.
"Come on Dawn, do I sulk when you go on a spending spree on my credit card? I have to make this meeting or I'll lose the account. I'll be back tomorrow I promise," he replied sounding exasperated his arms crossed in irritation.
Eddie found her pouting face almost comical and only the thought of the retaliatory shopping spree she would no doubt launch prevented him from laughing. As much as her happiness when she showed off the items purchased was always entertaining, the dent to his account often was not. His 'fiery but worth it' girlfriend meanwhile lounged on the bed sulking as he finished getting dressed, an ugly pout spoiling her otherwise gorgeous features.
Dawn was pissed and he knew it, but god she looked good even when her temper was up. Eddie stopped his frantic attempts to do up his tie and gazed down on her while the chance presented itself. Five foot five, red-headed and athletic almost to the point of muscular she had been a model when he first swept into her life and always looked as if she was mid photoshoot. At present she was glaring up at him from between her perfect D-cup breasts, her face framed by her expensively-styled coppery curls. If the dammed meeting wasn't so important, he'd drop it and continue as planned, he mused. He had met Dawn almost eleven months ago now, yet it seemed like ten years. Not just because she was the most hot-tempered girl he had ever gone out with, but because she had a talent for making even an hour last feel like a week especially in the bed. Or bathroom. Or living room. Or wherever the whim took her.
Ignoring her blazing expression, he turned to the mirror and returned to getting ready. It was the worst possible luck. He had planned her surprise for months and now it was spoilt just because his hidebound-traditionalist Japanese partners insisted he personally chaired the meeting rather than leave it to one of his more than adequate subordinates.
"Would you rather I lose a four billion dollar account than wait one day for me? Think of the shoes you can buy with that much money."
He regretted the cute comment before he even finished speaking, dodging a hurled pillow. He wondered idly how much of the stuff she would buy for that outburst before he could return. Dawn wasn't just fiery; she was a passionate shopaholic with a taste for the incredibly expensive. How she had survived without going millions in debt before she met him and his wallet, he would never know.
"It's my birthday, you pig, how can you care about money on MY birthday!? What did I ever see in you anyhow?"
"My wallet, Dawn, my wallet. Now look, baby, I promise when I get home I'll give you the greatest birthday surprise you will ever have. I promise," it's not like I'm lying he thought to himself as he searched his shoe closet for just the right pair.
"You had better, if you want sex with me again in this lifetime," she replied waspishly.
She was sitting up now, eyes blazing. Her bountiful bosom was on display, both pale pink nipples sticking out like bullets as she exploded at her long-suffering boyfriend, shouting every curse she could think of at his unresponsive back. How could he treat her like this? How dare he?!
Preoccupied with thoughts of the impending meeting, he wasn't thinking straight or he never would have made his next mistake.
"Now baby I have to leave, enjoy yourself play with your toys, visit the vivarium's and see the snakes or go to town and buy whatever you want."
With that last passing comment to his incensed and incredulous girlfriend, Eddie dashed out of the bedroom, a few seconds later his chauffeur driven limousine roared out of the driveway.
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Two hours later she emerged from the bedroom, dressed only in a silk dressing gown. Irritable and feeling ill-used, she headed for the kitchens only to find them empty. A hurriedly scribbled note on the table simply said 'Sorry baby, gave staff day off, didn't expect to be needing them, love you. Eddie'.
With a shriek like that of a banshee, she tore the note up with sharp, jerky movements and threw the shreds to the floor.
"How dare you, now who's supposed to drive me to town?"
Dawn stomped out of the room and headed for bed again. Maybe a few hours playing with some of the toys he had bought her would ease the boredom on her most special day.
Reaching the sweeping staircase, she paused. Eddie might be a sexist, chauvinistic pig but his endless wallet was certainly good for some things. If she couldn't have him, at least she could visit his enormous collection of snakes, starting with his most impressive specimen. Money allowed for near-endless sources of entertainment.
Leaving the stairs, she headed for the lift to the basement where he kept his snakes. When the door opened, she was surprised to see a beautifully wrapped package on the floor in the corner.
"Oh Eddie, you must have planned this..."
Dawn pressed the button for the lowest level and started to open the box, fully expecting a grinning Eddie to be waiting at the bottom. But when the doors opened, she found only a dimly-lit wine cellar and no sign of him. The last of the wrapping fell from the box to reveal a glass-topped container; inside was a small bottle of perfume and a pair of brown furred slippers. Confused and a little annoyed, she opened the box and took out the unusual contents.
"Now what is he up to now?'
The slippers proved to be divinely soft. Mink perhaps? No, nothing so common; knowing Eddie it was probably from some animal believed to be extinct until the very specimen her dainty feet were even now slipping into was discovered. The scent bottle was even stranger. Despite spraying a fine mist over herself, she couldn't smell anything at all. Tucking the useless scent back in the box, she padded off across the cellar past the door to Eddy's main collection and pulled the concealed lever that opened Lillith's enclosure.
The viewing room was a comfortable chamber with several large couches; one wall was solid armoured glass several inches thick that looked out onto a vast chamber beyond. A row of large high definition monitors sat by the glass window displaying areas not visible from the viewing room directly.
Ignoring the view Dawn went directly to the only other door in the room a heavy steel construction that wouldn't have looked out of place in a vault. Opening door, she was greeted by a warm and unpleasant blast of humid air with a strong stink of spoiling meat. The little airlock room was Spartan containing only a large walk in freezer where Eddie kept the food supplies for his most exotic pet and a metal table where they could defrost, indeed the source of the stench was sat ripening on the counter, a skinned sheep long defrosted by the looks of it.
"Why baby, the smell of this must have been driving you crazy. Why didn't naughty Eddie feed you," Dawn tutted to herself as she hosted the dead meat by the legs and tried to lift it off the counter.
"Damn that's heavy, oh no my dressing gown!" Dawn shrieked, mortified as the stinking mutton bounced on her well-muscled thighs, smearing not just a little blood onto her favourite silk number. Infuriated at the fashion disaster, she dropped the lamb and shrugged out of the stained robe, throwing it into the corner. At least the lack of flowing material did not restrict her movements as she dragged the carcass to the inner enclosure door. Naked as the day she was born, her cleavage bounced with her efforts. Her thin strip of carrot-coloured fuzz making a lie of her rich copper curls as she dragged the sheep's carcass into the big enclosure, not noticing the door slide soundlessly shut behind her.
"Lillith, here girl," Dawn yelled into the gloom.