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Chapter Two -- A Purchase
"Dot, darling, would you please stop dawdling!" Her mother's impatient, long-suffering tone was justified. A rare occurrence. She had been dawdling.
She had been daydreaming about Mr Halloway.
She spent a lot of time doing that.
At first, Dolly had known that it was just because the release was associated with him. Doctor Bridger had been very clear that this was common, that she should not refine too much upon it. All meetings took place at Bridger's place of work, she had no social contact with Mr Halloway, and she knew rationally that she was allowing herself to obsess over him simply because he made her feel happy and alive and free of remorse for a few blissful hours.
She never slept as well as she did after a session with him.
With them.
Pretend Bridger doesn't know I am here.
She had been set into a hot, flushed mess of a woman, holding a conversation about a shameful, shocking event that would see her barred from any social interaction while the man she thought about night and day fucked her with his fingers. The man she had thought was disinterested until his teeth closed on her breast and he looked at her with all the heat of hell and bliss of heaven in his dark eyes.
She had read erotic books since she had begun the hysteria treatment, and not a one tempted her in the slightest. Finding anything not involving a man's sister -- a fact that turned her stomach when she thought of how many friends of hers had older brothers -- was difficult enough, but the books were often puerile. They were written for boys and about boys. She wanted books about men.
Men with strong, tireless hands. Men with barrel chests and weight to them. Beards that tickled the skin and teeth that bit.
"Do-ro-theeeee-a!" Her mother shook her arm. "Come! We must not linger outside this shop!"
Ah yes! God forbid they be seen outside a shop selling unmentionables and frills for chemises. Following her mother inside, she drifted away so her mother could have a comfortable cose with the shopkeeper who had become a friend, even if her mother tried to appear above the lower middle class.
Her fingers drifting over fabric, Dorothea glanced up to see a silky pair of combinations, more lace than cloth, with deep pink ribbons contrasting the snowy white lace and scraps of silk. Instantly she imagined wearing such a thing for Mr Halloway. His hot gaze and amused, indulgent smile devouring her and reducing her to a ready, wet woman, desperate for his touch.
An almost painful tweak of heat flooded her vagina.
No, her cunt. That was what the stories called it. Her cunt.
The naughtiness of the word made her blush, she could feel the heat on her cheeks as much as between her legs. She caught the eye of one of the assistants -- a girl called Lizzie she had been served by before - and beckoned her over.
"Get this made in my size and delivered to me, if you please, and I shall pay you its price again for your discretion," she glanced pointedly at her mother and the girl grinned, an instant conspirator.
"Absolutely, Miss," she promised. "Do you know your measurements?"
She quickly wrote them in the girl's notebook, and the heat faded to shame and anxiety at the numbers she wrote down. What woman's waist should be forty two inches? What man could desire hips that were well over fifty? She might fit the fashionable silhouette but the moment she got closer to them they lost their interest.
Except him.
He looked at her like she was his plaything. He had gone from polite detachment to holding her gaze, suggesting daydreams to focus on, biting the peak of her breast and taking her to the most insane parosysm of her life. It had made her feel truly mad as she lost control of all that she was and existed in exquisite pleasure.
She had worn pretty, lacy things for herself many times. She liked that she was dressed up underneath where no one would see, just her knowing about that added luxury. But for him? For him she wanted to expose herself in this frothy, daring creation. She wanted him to look at her as he had from her breast, his blue eyes focused and hazy all at once, his lips around her flesh, his hand buried in her...
...in her cunt.
"Dorothea? Are you buying something?" Her mother called over.
"Just some linen to make up another chemise," she lied breezily. "I had not made the calculations for how much I would need so Lizzie is helping me!"
Her mother did not answer, merely turning back. Dolly caught the shop assistant's pitying look. Yes, she thought, I spend my life being questioned and critisized. At my age.
No wonder she had needed the hysteria treatment eventually.
But then, it must be working, she realised. She had always hated grabbing the attention of shop girls, feeling arrogant when she did and pathetic when she could not. And furthermore, she had agreed to go up on stage in front of a room of men. Her fantasies aside, she could barely attend parties! Her mother had had to become used to her daughter retiring early from the frippery affairs of the City's version of the Season, or else have to miss most of them herself.
I could slip from a ball and go to Mr Halloway, she imagined, as she awaited her mother. He could see me in my best, in a proper satin gown. And then he could strip it from me. Dress and petticoats. Corset and chemise. Leave me in nothing but stockings and drawers.
They would have hours. Her mother never checked on her when she got home in case she was sleeping. She could feel his mouth on her again.
"You look frightfully flushed, Dorothea," her mother pushed past her to the outside and Dolly followed.
"Yes, this pelisse is perhaps a little too wintery since the spring has been so kind," she lied idly.
Dorothea had learned very young that the truth shocked and offended her mother. She had learned to say what her mother wanted to hear.
She wondered if Mr Halloway would laugh at her observations or frown her to silence. She could not afford to imagine him perfect. He would likely be disgusted with her frankness. Yes, it would be safer to assume he would rather she spoke in the roundabout politeness of her class.
When the combinations arrived two days later, she had managed to convince herself that her crush was on a man of her own imagining that she had set on Mr Halloway's shoulders. She had told herself very clearly that she was not to become enamoured in any way.
But she still rushed upstairs in the middle of the day to change her clothes so that she could wear the combinations she had bought for him to see. She still stood in front of the mirror in them and breathed with increasing deepness. She still locked her door.
She still sat on a padded stool in front of her dressing mirror, spread her legs so she could see the dark curls and the glistening pink of her puffy, ready labia.
She still imagined him behind her, guiding her hand as he had the first time, helping her curl her finger against her clitoris and then delve, dipping the tip of two fingers inside herself. Her nipples wrinkled and peaked, aching with the need to feel his beard and lips again, to feel his teeth. To have his thumb in her mouth.
Raising her own hand she bit on her thumb, rubbing the lips of her mouth with one hand as the other rubbed her nether lips with equal passion and exploration.
"Anthony," she whispered, and a jolt of pleasure made her jerk where she sat, her knees lowering so and her eyes closing as her fingers moved faster. She sucked her bent index finger, lapping her tongue against her own skin.
Anthony. Anthony. Anthony.
His hot eyes. His touch.
Imagine Bridger doesn't know I'm here...
She came, climaxing for the first time under her own touch and her moan was triumphant, even if it was muffled behind her hand. When she lowered it, there were teeth marks where she had silenced herself.
Joy sprang through her and she rose unsteadily and twirled about the room.
She had done it!
She wished she could tell him. Starting to feel dizzy from her spinning, Dolly steadied herself on a table. Her writing davenport, in fact. She stared at it, lowered the desk portion, sat, and with fingers still slick from her own juices, she wrote a note to Mr Halloway, care of Doctor Bridger.
***
Sitting at luncheon with Bridger, Anthony Halloway listened to his friend and employer discussing the upcoming event. They had not secured the Penetrator, which he was oddly glad about. His Miss Chase was not ready for that level of loss of control. She trusted him to know her limits, and a machine could not.