Chapter 1
Sara walks into the CEO's offices at J & J Enterprises and goes to Kathryn Sullivan's desk. "Hello, Kathryn. I know I don't have an appointment but I would like to see Jacob. He isn't in another appointment, is he?"
"No. He is sitting at his desk with a bunch of paperwork. Let me call him and see if he will take a few minutes to see you." Kathryn then calls Jacob to let him know that he has a visitor. Kathryn then turns to Sara saying; "Jacob asks that you please wait for a few minutes while he finishes a very important report that he is working on. Why don't you have a seat and I will let you know when he is ready to see you."
While Sara waited to be called into Jacob's office, she recalled her first meeting with him. Across the room from her stood her sister Dora who was a tall beautiful brunette and standing next to her was a tall, 6 foot 6 inch, hunk with brown hair to his shoulders. They looked liked the perfect couple and both were very successful business people with old money standing behind them. She had been so worried about her sister getting into the BDSM lifestyle that she wanted to hate him knowing that he would hurt Dora and not understanding how someone could like having such things done to them. It was several years after Jacob and Dora had been married that she went to their ranch and saw them in action. Although it still wasn't her cup of tea, she no longer was at odds about Jacob and Dora's relationship. Sara became the one person in the family that Dora would be able to speak to about what was going on in her life without any animosity or derision. She knew that although Jacob was the dominant in their life that while her sister was the submissive, Sara knew that Dora was a very strong person, which was, why she was now sitting and waiting for Jacob to realize that she was here. After about 15 minutes, Kathryn's telephone rang and then Sara was ushered into see her brother-in-law.
As Sara entered Jacob's office, she took notice of all the papers covering just about every surface in the room. She noticed that while still wearing his Brook Brothers suits that now they were wrinkled. Sara knew that it would take quite a bit to get her brother-in-law to start living again and hoped that her visit would somehow be a catalyst in helping that to happen.
Jacob walked over to Sara and gave her a peck on the cheek and asked her what had her out and about. Sara looked around and said, "If you could give me about a half hour of your time, I would like to talk to you. I am leaving the states for Japan at the end of the week and it will be the last time I will be able to see you for awhile."
Jacob quickly started moving a pile of documents off of a couple of stuffed chairs that were in his office and then offered Sara a place to sit and some coffee. While Jacob was getting her some coffee, Sara tried to figure out a way to start the conversation. She decided that the best way to handle this would be to tell Jacob what had happened and then leave the rest up to Jacob to handle. She only hoped that this would help him to heal enough to start living his life again.
"Do you remember the very long and dreary day that we spent at the lawyers office after Dora was pronounced dead?" she started. "I think that everyone was in shock but you had a look of being, well, shell-shocked. The lawyer went on and on about who was to get what and then he asked me to stay for a few minutes after everyone else had left. He told me that one of Dora's request was that the next part of the proceedings was just for me so that was why everyone else had left and I was alone in the room with him. He then went on to give me a few items. On top of a few items that Dora left to me, I was given a large manila envelope. Inside of that were two other envelopes, a key and a very long letter from Dora."
"I didn't realize that you were given an envelope. I guess I was still in shock and didn't really pay attention to what was happening. I knew that Dora was a very organized person and that she wanted to make sure that everyone got something. What was so special about this envelope that you are here now? I don't understand." Jacob commented.
"The letter explained that the key opened a safe deposit box and that the key that was in the envelope was the only key to the box. It went on to explain that depending on how you were doing would determine which envelope I was to open. Dora was worried that if something would happen to her that you would pull into yourself so tight that you would forget the outside world and the activities that make you so special. If you would allow me a few minutes, I would like to read part of the letter to you so that you will understand everything. "
"The letter read as follows: Sara, dear Sara, I am about to ask you a very big favor. In case you haven't realized it, the relationship of a dominant and submissive pairing is one of a power exchange. A submissive gives her dominant her power to him and then the dominant accepts that power and gives it back to the submissive. For example, I give Jacob the power of responsibilities in our relationship. He in exchange makes me feel loved, sheltered and protected. By making me feel these things, I do my best to be the person who loves him above all else which makes him feel loved. I want to make him happy so that he will in turn make me happy. I want to make sure that he has the foods he likes to eat, his house cleaned the way he likes it to be and that I keep my body and soul the way he likes it to be. In doing these things for him, he happily and willingly gives me a good place to live, food to eat, love for my soul and the discipline I crave only from him. I don't know if this makes much sense but in many ways it is like any couples relationship with the extra excitement of being able to let him control our marital life. If something should happen to me, I would like to ask as one last favor for you to do something for me. If after a year, Jacob has seemed to move on with his life I want you to always be his friend and let him know that you will be there as family for him and give him the envelope marked number one. If he is hiding himself in his work for more than 18 months then I want you to open the envelope marked number 2 and follow the instructions inside."
"I have tried to be here for you as I thought Dora would want me to be. I watched you grieve and then hide in your work as if that was the only thing left in this world. Some of our friends would come up to me and wonder how long it would take you to finish grieving. Two weeks ago, I remembered the envelope that Dora had given to me. I pulled out the letter again. I went through a period of grateful remembrance and then I opened the envelope which was marked number two and followed her instructions as well as I could."