With a salute to Edgar Allan Poe.
Philip Fortune had cheated me greatly. He did it in such an evil and clever way that it would be futile to approach the courts for redress. That injury was bad enough, but then the unpardonable sin, INSULT!
Quite unnecessarily he was taking every opportunity to laughingly deprecate my business acumen to our mutual acquaintances. He had to be punished. He had to know that I was the instrument of that punishment, and I mustn't incur any great risk while inflicting it.
While his death wasn't called for, something unpleasant was, using MY definition of unpleasant.
To avoid alerting him whenever I received reports of his insults, I would laugh and never seem angry or overly concerned. I would often utter some small compliment to conceal my chagrin.
He was wealthy, successful, intelligent, married to an attractive wife, and one vulnerability I was aware of was his CLAUSTROPHOBIA. This I had learned about accidentally, and was planning to use it in my revenge. And of course there was SEX WITH HIS WIFE!
I had already prepared to leave the country permanently and retire to a place where I was as safe as possible from my government's reach. I had powerful people on my payroll, and my wealth had long been distributed safely around the globe.
My revenge on him wouldn't have to be restricted by legality.
After abducting him on a Wednesday morning without incident, my people had delivered him to a private estate outside of town and into a room that was by no means cramped, but his condition started affecting him constantly as soon as he realized he would be enclosed for the foreseeable future.
He had no idea where he was, and he was given no explanation. After an hour, his protests gradually turned into occasional screams that were muffled but audible. Most people wouldn't suffer from merely being enclosed, but he was miserable from his phobia, much as he would have been if trapped in an elevator, whether alone or with others.
He would spend his days and nights in this room which had a small attached bathroom. Among other things he had a regular sized bed, a comfortable chair and the choice of many books to read. But no TV or music. He would be fed and not harmed as long as he behaved.
His wife Ruthie had a reputation as a ballroom dancer and teacher. She had no need to work, but weekday afternoons she hosted a dance class for the ladies at the country club. She was blonde and pretty rather than beautiful, but her slender body stayed in near-perfect shape.
She took a break from teaching each Wednesday, but she usually spent time at the club planning next week's lessons. I had an appointment with her for 4:00.
When she and I met in a private office I told her directly that my people had taken her husband captive, and he was in grave danger. I knew she would be shocked and not believe me at first. We had to spend time going through why she would do exactly as I said, and why she mustn't call the police or say a word to anyone. After more than an hour of explanations, along with copious questions, she finally understood that I intended to revenge myself on him, but physical harm wouldn't be necessary. It wasn't anywhere near worth her risking his life by violating my instructions.
If she alerted anyone in any way, he would be killed. Letting her go home was risky, but it was necessary, and he would have surely died if she hadn't been as smart as I believed she was.
On my instructions she made the notifications that would have been necessary if Philip had been called away on short notice for three or four weeks. She took a taxi to pick up her husband's car and put it in the garage with hers, and another taxi to the rear of a nondescript motel to be picked up by my people.
His wife arrived and was brought to his room at 10:30 PM, and not before. She sympathized with his predicament and told him what I had told her at the country club.
Every night at 10:30 she would join him for no more than thirty minutes. This arrangement surprised him, but I had a reason for allowing it. He thought about sex. They would barely have enough time to visit after being apart all day if they intended to make love. Then at 11:00 she would be brought to her lavish suite, and at 12:00 to my bedroom. She would spend every night with me.
In the short time remaining they hurriedly made love before she was ushered out of the room, and afterward his claustrophobia kept disturbing him as I had trusted it would. Much of the time he was too upset to fill the hours reading.
He now knew that I was his tormentor, and he looked forward to having me arrested. He knew very well why I was taking revenge, but had told her he didn't.
He wondered why his wife was here, but the most likely reason didn't occur to him immediately.
Ruthie was allowed to rest, shower and put on a nightgown before being brought to my bedroom. That was the only clothing offered although she could see beautiful clothing and shoes filling the closets.
When she entered I reminded her that she would spend her nights here with me starting at midnight each night. I didn't tell her, but I intended to fuck her every night, tonight being no exception.
I wondered how he would react after she described to him tomorrow what I had required of her the previous night and would every night. Even if he made hasty love to her in their short time together it would be like nothing more than foreplay for the two or three hours of fucking that would follow.
I had no bad feelings toward her. I encouraged her to sleep as late as she desired. Then she would be served a delicious breakfast and lunch at her leisure. She would have the use of a fully equipped spa.
Sex wouldn't be required of her during the daytime, but I would require a dance lesson every afternoon. I loved dancing, but mainly wanted her in my arms for that hour.
She would wear beautiful new clothes and shoes out to dinner and dancing with me most evenings and be home for her 10:30 visit with her miserable husband.
That night facing me in her nightgown she felt ambivalent. She knew that by threatening her husband or by using force I could make her do anything. I could rape her mouth. I could rape her pussy or her ass. I could hurt or punish her or worse.
But I hadn't acted vengefully toward her so far. She would actually be on a top-flight vacation every day. How should she behave when I came to her for sex at bedtime?