"You know I would give you money if you wantedâfor anything but what you've said you need money for."
"I know how you feel about my plans to marry Missy Vanderhof, Anton. I wouldn't ask you for the money I need for a honeymoon. In fact, I don't know why you've been willing to set this arrangement up for me."
"I owe a favor to Luigi too."
I felt it was more than this. Some days I felt that Anton was possessive and jealous of my relationship with a woman and other days I felt that he was tired of me. At one time I thought we were moving to a deeper commitment, but now I wasn't sure. I had not been the one who was vacillating, but this needed to be brought to a head.
We were on a balcony of Villa Sebastian overlooking Italy's Lake Como, the town of Bellagio on the far shore, and the Grigna Mountains in the Italian Alps beyond. You couldn't ask for a more idyllic backdrop for what we were doing. I was lying on my back on a chaise lounge, my silk robe parted and flowing away from me on either side. Anton's knees were buried far up the small of my back, his dick already two inches inside me, waiting for me to open fully to him. He was bent nearly in two and had just lifted his mouth from my cock. I had already sucked his cock to throbbing. There was no question that he was going to fuck me.
I had known that this was what the owner of the prestigious New York art gallery had brought me on the business trip to Rome for, although I was surprised he did as he hadn't appreciated at all learning that I planned to marry into the superwealthy Vanderhof family of the Hamptons on Long Island. My cajoling that being married into the Vanderhofs would make me all the more effective in selling the art in his gallery didn't seem to impress Anton much.
To make that momentous move, I also had to declare that I was going fully straight. No more sitting on that fence, going with men and women alike. The Vanderhofs were just too conservative and too much in the public eye. Anton hadn't taken it well that I wouldn't continue with him on the sly in spite of what I told others I associated with.
I owed him everything. He'd pulled me out of a Chippendales lineup in Las Vegas, saying I had just what he wanted in an art salesmanâand in his bed. Knowing artists of all kinds, he had diplomas forged for me at the prestigious Potomac School college prep institution in Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania, not wanting to use schools closer to New York, where clients of the gallery might ask "do you know?" questions. He also had completely outfitted me for the part of a well-heeled New York patrician and had schooled me well in the type of art he handled.
In my defense, I learned quickly and didn't flaunt my "degrees."
When I thought he would kick me out for going "straight," he surprised me by offering me the chance to go to Rome with him on a buying trip. He made no bones about where I'd be sleeping during the trip, and I didn't kick up a fuss. I may have pledged (to myselfâof course Missy and her family had no idea I swung both ways. To them, I was just fetching and harmless eye candy) to go one way for something much more comfortable than just security, but the ceremony wasn't for a couple of months and I saw no reason to start early.
Anton was a good lover. He wasn't youngâhe was in his early fiftiesâbut he was trim and handsome. And he was equipped like a horse and knew how to use his equipment.
I had told him before he'd offered to bring me on this trip that I needed to do some side art deals to earn enough money for the sort of honeymoon Missy and her family would expect. Anton turned me down flat on thatâand also said even then he wouldn't give me money to pay for what he said would be the biggest mistake in my lifeâbut he did say, although he didn't want to hear of me making any side art deals, that he'd help me earn the money myself in another way.
He was secretive on how that would happen beyond saying we could combine the trip he already had planned with a money-making venture for me. He really was being too generous about all thatâsuspiciously so, I thought, knowing how he had railed behind my back about me selling out to the Vanderhofs. For the life of me, though, I couldn't figure out the angle he would be using to stick it to me. Not even after he laid out the plan he'd worked outâwhich was after he fucked me that morning on the balcony of Villa Sebastian overlooking Lake Como, Belagio, and the Grigna Mountains, could I figure out what his stake in this wasâbeyond that favor he said he owed Luigi.
We both felt the head of his cock breaching my sphincter muscle. Having done that, he plunged for the depths with that long, thick cock of his, making me arch my back, encase the small of his back with my legs, cry out to the heavens, and hold on for dear life as he pumped me hard and deep. It was a rough fuck, but then that was Anton's styleârefined in public demeanor; cruel in bed. It didn't leave me with the impression that he was demonstrating his anger at my decision to leave his bed when we returned to New York.
After he had finished me, making sure that I came before he did, he held for a few minutes, his forehead plastered to mine and watching the fire in my eyes die down to embers of fulfillment and satisfaction. When we'd both cooledâalthough I knew it wasn't really over; it rarely was over with Anton with just one fuckâhe rose off me, pulled me up from the chaise lounge, and guided me over to the marble balustrade overlooking the ground that sloped down to the lake. A stone terrace descended in different levels to the lake and a stone pier and boat house. A swimming pool took up most of the terrace two levels down from the house. Two young menâas young as I was, mid twenties, and in as good a physical shape as I was in, which was very good indeedâwere walking around the pool. I had been here a day and a half but I hadn't seen them beforeâjust Luigi, the fashion photographer whose villa this was and his somewhat elderly house staff.
"See the young men down there?" Anton asked.
"Yes. Are they pool boys?" One of them was using a long-handled skimmer to take leaves out of the pool.
"No. They are male models. They are here for Luigi to photograph. If you wish to earn money for your honeymoon, you will get to know those men intimately. And Luigi will be photographing you as well."
I suddenly understood what this money-making plan was. I still was suspicious about Anton's motives, and it may have been that he thought this would embarrass me or that I wouldn't sign off permission to be photographed with those two for someone's private collection. But, if so, Anton didn't fully understand what my short life as a Chippendales dancer had entailed. He should have understood; he fucked me the first night he saw me perform on stage.
I could do this.
* * * *
I was at a disadvantage all during the photo shoots. I spoke a little French, so I could converse to a limited extent with the French model, Jacques, a tall, slender and willowy, androgynous beauty with dark, sultry looks. Luigi, the photographer, a hirsute middle-aged man, who was stocky but heavily muscled, and the other model, an Italian, Paulo, also of dark complexion, but more swarthy than sultry, and strongly muscular, spoke only Italian.