Everyone in this story is over eighteen. It seeks to explore lesbian masochism, which I know exists.
It was my husband's fault. Really. Mike was a horny bastard, and something of a voyeur. And that was how he lost me β simple as that. We used to go to a lot of parties, with other young married couples, many of us fancying each other's partners like mad. Nothing unusual in that, I suppose. But Mike had this notion that if I went without underclothes, and he could watch me as I danced with other guys, it was about as sexy as could be. I humoured him, by wearing slinky, silky dresses, and no panties. Actually, I got rather used to the idea myself, and liked the feel of the soft material against my naked skin. I went one better, as summer came around, and I needed to shave to wear a bikini. I thought I might just as well shave off the lot, and found the feeling even more sensual.
Came the day when Mike was invited to a big party to celebrate his firm's launch of a new product. I dressed in a long grey silk halter-neck backless dress - and nothing else but a pair of high-heeled sandals. My smallish breasts were unfettered under the loose folds of the top, and the skirt clung nicely around my hips and long legs. I took care with my hair, which was long and straight, with a centre parting, and wore some long gold drops in my ears, and a tight gold amulet just above one elbow. I had had my nails done that afternoon, and, looking in the mirror as I put finishing touches to my make-up, I thought β you look good enough to get yourself into trouble, Greta.
We were being picked up by Mike's colleague, Jake, who lived close by, and his wife Laura, and we talked with them when we arrived. While the other couple went to get some drink for us, Mike whispered, 'Why don't you have a dance with Jake? He fancies you like mad.'
I nodded resignedly β what I thought didn't enter into it, and I didn't fancy the overweight, ginger-haired Jake one bit. I humoured my husband, knowing that Jake's seniority in the firm was necessary to his career, and let the sweating guy hold me close, rejecting a feeling of revulsion when his hands wandered over my near-naked buttocks.
'You're not wearing much under this dress, are you, Greta?' he breathed in my ear.
'Nothing at all,' I confirmed, and felt his hardness against my stomach β flattering, I supposed, but hardly welcome. I saw Mike watching us as he danced with Laura, a cheerful but not specially attractive blonde, and smiled in his direction, but when the music stopped, I murmured something to Jake about needing to go and get a drink, and we parted company as we left the floor. It was then that I saw her.
She was standing beside the drinks table, surveying the dance-floor, with a haughty air, as if she owned the place. I was rivetted by her incredible elegance and beauty β I had never seen a woman who even approached her looks, never in my life.
She had long straight hair, like my own, but it was platinum blond, and looked fine and silky, falling down her long straight back, to her waist. It contrasted startlingly with her black satin dress, which could only have been by Versace, I thought. It was open down almost to the waist, showing just the right amount of cleavage, and the knee-length skirt looked almost too tight to allow her to walk. Perfect legs, in black, seamed stockings, were perched on impossibly high needle heels. As I approached the table, and she turned to pick up a drink, I saw that the dress was, like mine, backless, but hers was spectaculary so, and the start of her buttock-cleavage showed above the top of the material. Up close, as she turned back around, I saw that she was, indeed, supremely beautiful, with a perfect, olive complexion, and immaculate, understated, make-up. Her eyes, in the brief glimpse I had, were a startling shade of violet, under long, black lashes, tipped with silver β an erotic touch. I was all too conscious that I was staring at her, and turned away, suddenly embarrassed, as her eyes fell upon me. I walked back over to where Mike was standing alone, Laura having just reclaimed her husband.
'Just who is that?' I asked, trying to indicate the magnificent blonde I had just been entranced by, without actually pointing. Mike knew who I meant β she stood out like a zebra in a herd of horses.
He laughed quietly. 'Quite something, isn't she? Fact is, nobody really knows. Jake's heard a rumour that she actually owns the company. She's been coming and going for the last few months, popping in to old Turner's office, and going off to lunch with him, then disappearing in a taxi. Never speaks with the likes of me. I did hear her speak to Julia the other day, and she had a funny accent.'
'Mr Turner's secretary?'
'The same β our very own black dyke.'
'Oh please, Mike! Aren't we in the twenty-first century?' I walked away. I knew Julia slightly β in fact, she had made a distinct pass at me at the Christmas dinner, but was cheerful in rejection, a tall, smiling, coffee-coloured girl with a lilting Jamaican accent she hadn't lost despite living in England since she was a child. I resolved to seek her out, and spotted her, in a white broderie anglaise dress, across the big room, talking to another secretary.
It wasn't until much later that I managed to catch Julia, while I was refilling my glass.
'Hi Julia,' I said, 'how are you enjoying the evening?'
'It's OK,' she replied, 'but I didn't think you'd remember my name after....after....'
'Don't be silly,' I said, 'and I was flattered, anyway.' I patted her arm, 'Maybe I'm not quite as.....er..straight as you think I am.'
I had her full attention, and I noticed gold flecks in her big brown eyes as she regarded me. In spite of myself, my pulse quickened at her nearness.
'I love your dress,' she was saying, and I found that I enjoyed her admiration. We took our drinks and sat down, her closeness, probably assisted by a few vodka martinis, having a marked effect on me now. But just then, the platinum blonde walked by in front of us, very slowly, obliged to take tiny steps by the tightness of her skirt. She turned and smiled briefly at Julia, then made her way to the ladies room.
It was my chance. 'Who is that?' I asked.
'Elvira Mendoza,' she said, 'she owns the company. Do you like her?'
I couldn't lie. 'I think she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.'
'Strangely enough, she asked me who you were earlier. And yes, she is very lovely, isn't she?'
'Do you know her well?'
'It sounds as if you are interested in her,' she said, with an evasive sort of half smile.
At that moment, Elvira returned from the cloakroom, and paused by our chairs, a cloud of fragrance β Guerlain? β accompanying her, and her nearness itself even more intoxicating than the perfume. She turned towards me, her eyes entrancing.