"Sharon?" he says when I pick up the phone. He always asks first, just in case it's a secretary or, God forbid, my husband answering my mobile.
My tummy flips when I hear his voice. Heat rushes south and my vulva immediately begins to juice.
"Speaking," I reply, barely able to utter the word because my throat is suddenly clogged with the sexual yearning rising inside me.
"Fuckmeat," he says, the gross obscenity followed by a number.
The former is the trigger, the code that means I'll be setting aside my carefully constructed persona as a well-respected, high-flying political executive for the evening ahead. Instead, I'll make my way to some seedy location - the sites he chooses are always run-down places like abandoned warehouses due for demolition, sleazy, despicable buildings perfect for the corruption that takes place.
The latter is the number of men I can expect to find waiting for me. That afternoon he murmurs the number I'm going to take is fourteen.
Fuckmeat 14.
It's humiliating and degrading, abdominal that I let them at me, but I love it. I adore the sheer wrongness of it. The contrast between me in professional mode and the warehouse slut excites me in a way I can't articulate precisely. It's insane, really. The risks are huge - personally and professionally catastrophic if it goes wrong and I'm recognised. And the risk is increasing; I'm appearing on television more and more these days.
One day I suppose it'll have to stop. But I don't want it to.
"Thank you," I say, outwardly calm, the consummate professional.
Inside however my body is raging.
The phone vibrates a few seconds after I hang up, a signal his email has arrived: the directions to the venue, the location of tonight's lewd soiree.
***
It isn't vanity when I say this, just a simple truth corroborated by years of experience and even a couple of newspaper articles. Men, and a surprising number of women, find me attractive. I've been pestered by men as far back as I care to remember, and journalists have mentioned my looks in their writings about the Party and my role within the political engine of the country.
I know I'm considered hot, I've been told often enough - sometimes in quite crude terms. It isn't conceit, please don't think that. It just is what it is. I haven't done anything on purpose. It's just the way I'm made, a random clumping together of organic material that just happens to affect men in a certain way. The thing is, as I get older, the allure seems to be increasing. And so is my sex drive. My libido is revving constantly. There, inside me where nobody can see, desire for the carnal bubbles away. It's been known for me to chair a meeting on auto-pilot, working in a cool manner while my pussy snarls for man meat. Sometimes it gets so bad I have to lock myself in a toilet cubicle and rub myself to orgasm, heels skriking across the tiled floor as I sit on the pan and brace one hand against the partition wall, bottom lip between my teeth to stifle the shrieks of joy when my climax hits me.
It was when I went to a therapist that this latest sordid chapter in my life began. I wanted to stop smoking and went to see someone on the recommendation of a friend. The man suggested hypnosis, to which I agreed. And the need to smoke left me. The treatment of three courses worked a dream and I haven't smoked or wanted to smoke in three years.
But, what the perverted bastard also did was do a little rooting around in my psyche while I was under his influence. Apparently I told him of innermost desires and fantasies, leaving nothing out. He winkled all of the sordid urges from the deepest, darkest recesses of my mind and then he ... programmed me to respond to the codeword
Fuckmeat
, which is what I became. I'm a gangbang slut, a cum-whore, a bukake babe.
They do say a subject under hypnosis can't be coerced into something they wouldn't do anyway. If I don't have the capacity in me to kill, it wouldn't be possible for me to be influenced to commit murder; and I doubt I'd be one of those stooges on stage that flap their arms and crow like a cockerel, either.