To Pauline, sex and money were items of trade, but did her husband REALLY expect her to be doing THIS!?!?
The strange erotic dream drove Pauline awake. And someone is in her room.
The rich red velvet drapes are pulled aside to admit a silvery shaft of moonlight that turns the room into a blur of soft half-darkness. She sits up, the black silk sheets falling back, Scandi-blonde hair spilling in rich profusion over her shoulders and nightdress. She can see herself in the wall-mirrors. She's not beautiful, her lips too full with a tendency to pout. Her large eyes pleading an undeserved innocence. And her breasts, much too full for the demands of the Supermodel status she craves.
She cat-crawls as quietly as she can from between the sheets, to kneel on the rumpled coverlets. The savage arousal of the dream has left her giddy and breathless, in an air of erotic unreality, but there's real movement in the darkness. A car hisses down the Mews outside, its headlights slice momentarily through the room, and in the sudden inrush of light she briefly glimpses two men, before the light is gone. Reflections in the mirrors multiply the intruders into an army of lovers. She's out of bed, her bare feet sinking deep into carpet pile, seizing the phone-alarm. In a moment she can alert the entire household...
Then she pauses. Her mother always accused her of lacking guile - she hesitates. Sir Jasper had been boringly disappointing today. He'd shouted her out in front of staff and his business associates, and why? - just because she'd pranged the car on a shopping trip (and on her way to that long slow delicious dalliance with David!). True, she wasn't supposed to be driving his car today. But he's a meany old tightwad, she flounced petulantly. He thinks more of his (not inconsiderable) wealth than he does of me, his own wife!
Stay calm. There's movement in the darkness. Prickly with uncertainty. But stay cool, and THINK.
As Sir Jasper's wife you enjoy certain - financial advantages. As his widow, you'll continue to do so. But what if something changes - divorce? a rewritten will? Today - in front of everyone, he threatened to do just that, because of a lousy car! You've given him almost three years of your life, and he threatens to kick you out, leaving you and Mummy without a penny. Mummy, who schooled you for this role, and coached you so hard. All that, in retaliation for wrecking a car, and not even this year's model.
'Easy Pauline.' A voice from the darkness. A man standing in front of her. A strong masculine presence. The chauffeur - Sloane. He runs his hand down the side of her face, almost tenderly. His fingers trace their way down her neck, cool on her bare shoulder, outlining the curve of her breast through the thin material, revolving in relentless circles around the nipple's growing bud. Now he's cupping her breast, applying gentle pressure, the nipple swelling in appreciation. Her fingers grip the phone-alarm. WAIT. Stay cool. What had Jasper said? A test. He'd threatened her with a test. To fail the test implies... divorce. Not a penny. Her mother's scorn. Failure.
'Relax Pauline.' Another male voice from the half-darkness, anonymous and soothing. A figure, now sitting on the bed. Wilbur Hughes, her husband's business associate. He must have come in from the guest suite. In truth, she'd always found him attractive. Lean, dark, always well-dressed with his hair drawn back into a stylish pony-tail, but so cool and detached.
Her throat is dry, anticipation and confusion squirming at the back of her brain. Can this be the test? Can this be what the old bastard intends? Can she risk doubting it? Sloane's hand moves to the ribbon at her neck, deftly untying. He's smiling reassuringly. Should she resist? Should she press the phone-alarm? It would be so easy. But THINK - what would Mummy advise? The fastening slides loose. The nightdress gapes slightly apart, revealing a full glimpse of deep deep cleavage and stomach. She has a good body, she knows that. A male hand moves over the surface of her smoothly yielding skin, sliding inside the tactile warmth of her nightdress. Its skin-texture faintly rough on the underside of her breast, fingers sliding around to fondle the hard nipple, while shrugging the nightdress back. She moves her shoulder involuntarily so it falls back from her shoulder, her breasts trembling heavily with the motion. She's conscious of her exposed nakedness, now revealed, and it feels so exquisitely exciting.
Just like in the dream of lovers.