Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
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"What's all this about, Jim?"
Robin bit her lip, sitting in the coffee shop that she never usually would frequent, eyes plaintively wide. He had not been subtle about inviting her there, although it was more of a summons than an invite in all honesty. He thought he had something over her and the sickening twist to the pit of her stomach told her that, well, he kind of did. But she was trying not to think about that. She'd been trying to not think about that since it had happened.
The coffee shop bustled and buzzed around them, a chic and trendy place that Robin scorned. Where were the sugary drinks? This was all filter coffee from places that she'd never even heard of! But maybe she would have if she'd been into all his nerdy stuff. It was probably some really exotic, rare coffee or something that she wouldn't touch and someone that she knew would be highly offended by that fact. It wasn't her problem to deal with though.
Grunting in the back of her throat, she tightened the fold of her arms across her chest, stubbornly hiding her breasts from view, sockless toes curling in her shoes, suddenly everything feeling a little too constrictive as she strained to wriggle and squirm before him. That little perv... How did he know? And what was he going to do about it? He studied her, a few fresh pimples rising on his face, and leaned back, shoving his phone across the table to her. She couldn't help but notice, even then, just how unstylish his phone was, lacking in the substance that she would have wanted from such a device. It was essential, after all, to a girl's social life!
"This."
Turning the phone to her, he watched with some measure of pleasure as her expression fell. She slapped her hand over it, the image of Alex between her legs stark on the screen.
"Put that away!"
"Why?" He said, eyebrows raised, the hint of a smirk on his lips. "You don't seem to be shy with Alex, do you? That was my girlfriend. You knew that, right?"
His voice came out as bitter rather than cocky and he leaned back, eyes sad. It wasn't right that he had lost Alex and Robin at the same time but getting to see a sexy show, well... It was not as if anyone was going to feel bad about getting to see what he saw, considering that he was not committed to Alex anyway, his eyes lustfully wandering to sweeter fruits and spoils that were not his to take. And yet Alex had swept Robin up all for herself regardless of anything else and, well, he'd been the one to deal with the fallout for that, in one way or another.
"Wait..." Robin eyed him. "Was? Was your girlfriend?"
He snorted.
"Well, you didn't think I could stay with her after that, did you? She cheated on me!"
Robin scoffed and pressed her slick lips together, gloss shimmering.
"It wasn't as if you were sleeping together..."
Jim stiffened.
"So you say."
He could be as evasive as he liked but everyone still knew the truth about that, the video playing under Robin's hand, Alex giving her orgasm after orgasm. A rush of power, unlike anything he'd felt before, thrummed through him, warming him from the inside out like a hot drink on a cold winter's evening, something perhaps laced with just a touch of his father's whisky. With a twisted smile pulling at his lips, he threaded his fingers into those of his opposing hand, quelling the tremor that was annoyingly apt to come up at the least opportune of moments.
"Look, Robin, this is very simple..."
She tried to cut across him, lips petulantly pressed together, but he halted her in her tracks, peering at her over the top of his huge, round glasses.
"Do what I say or I'll make this go viral," he said simply, sitting back to look her over. "There's nothing more to it than that, Robin. And don't make any comments about my sex life or lack of it, please."
Polite to a fault and yet ice-cold at the same time, he sure did know how to make his side quite clear. Robin gasped, hands flying up to cover her mouth. He wouldn't! Would he?
Yet how could she know just how far Jim was willing to go. He had to be a pervert to watch her, to record her, to use it against her... And just what would happen if he 'outed' her to Dave, forgetting everyone else? That would be the end of their relationship and it wasn't her fault at all! Everyone would say she was a lesbian slut and she'd be more upset about the wrong part of that statement rather than the misleading nature of the blackmail in itself. No one would even believe that it had all been against her will!
Sighing, she turned her face away, tears pricking in the corners of her eyes. How bad could it be? After Alex... Jim couldn't be into weird shit, he was still a virgin. It couldn't be that bad, it had to be okay, she had to do whatever she needed to in order to keep everything under wraps, that movie hidden away where it belonged, if not deleted. Swallowing hard, she gave the tiniest of nods, not even looking at him - she couldn't bear to. And it was in that moment that he knew he had her.
His little Robin, perched right where he wanted her to be.
*
It turned out, however, that what he had planned for Robin was stranger than anything even she could have expected, taking her out of the city for the expedition. Of course, she didn't know anything about the journal that he'd uncovered and the research that, really, should have been burned by his great-grandfather's hands years ago, but that made the blackmail all the sweeter as she moaned in the unsexy way. Her T-shirt was rolled up to expose her midriff and she wore daisy dukes, her bare, sockless feet complete with freshly painted toe nails. Converse Chuck Taylor (limited edition, of course) sneakers had been the footwear of choice that particular day, cute and chic but perhaps not quite as well suited to a day out as Robin may otherwise have liked. Truly, it was a ridiculous shoe choice too for a day of hiking, which seemed to be what he had in mind, and her bare feet grew increasingly sweaty with how hot and humid the day turned out to be, sun flitting in and out of the clouds as the air clung to her like a tangible being, a little brother that she couldn't shake off from another game of 'piggyback'.
Still, she knew she looked cute and Jim didn't seem interested in sex, which was a bonus. If he wanted to go on some crazy hike, she could deal with that better than, effectively, being forced to bang again. That just wasn't her thing, despite the pleasures that could, clearly, arise from it.
"Why are we doing this?" She whined, pawing at his arm as if that act worked on other guys. "Come on, Jim, this is silly. I don't want to be out here!"
"It doesn't matter."