Chapter 1
Dave:
Morning came with a three year old jumping on me. Her mother was still dead to the world. I rolled out of bed and fixed Ally some cereal and settled her in front of the cartoons. Saturdays were usually our day to keep house and do laundry, but the late night had depleted my energy and Sally slept like the dead until noon.
When she woke, she stumbled out of the bedroom. "Coffee?"
I handed her a cup fixed the way she liked it. She winced as she sat at the kitchen table. Ally came running out of the living room and jumped on her mother's lap. "Mommy."
Sally smiled at her daughter. "Good morning. Are you my good girl?"
Ally hugged her mother, then she slid down and ran back to the TV.
"I've got to get ready for work tonight." Sally groaned. "I'm sore this morning. I need to soak my pussy for a while."
Sally sauntered off to the bathroom and started running water in the tub. I followed her and watched from the door as she dropped her robe. I gasped. I hadn't seen the bruises last night.
"What's the matter, hon?" she turned.
"You've got handprints on your ass. And bruises on your hips."
She turned and looked at her breasts covered with red marks and bruises. Her areolae looked enlarged from the hickies. "Things got a little wild."
"I guess." I studied the marks the other men had made on her. Guilt and excitement warred inside me. "Are you all right with this?"
She looked at me with a crease in her brows. "I guess. The money is good. I can't risk my job by not showing up tonight."
"You can quit if you want to. We'll find a way to get by." I kissed her shoulder.
She looked up at me. A tear formed in her eye. "You want to make me say it?"
"What?" I stepped back. "I don't want to make you do anything you don't want to."
"Well, you are..." She stepped in the tub and sat down in the suds. "I want to go back tonight. All right? Not just the money. Not just the job. Not because they need me. Because I liked it. I had fun. I want more."
She turned away from me and sunk beneath the surface of the water. I waited for her to surface. Slowly she emerged from the water and suds, streams running across her face.
"Do you still love me? Do you still want me?" I asked.
"Do you still love me and want me?" She replied.
"Yes..." We said it almost together.
"OK then. If you want to do this, I'm behind you. I love you." I brushed her wet hair out of her eyes.
"I love you, too." She smiled at me.
Sally:
When Dave left me alone in the bathroom, I examined my bruises, the ones I could see. They weren't too bad and explained the tenderness I felt. I slipped into the hot, sudsy water and let the heat sooth me. My pussy was tender. I'd certainly tried to wear it out last night. What I wasn't too sure about was my soul.
My whole life had been a fight between my self-esteem and men trying to use me for a sex toy. Dave was the only man who had treated me as an equal partner and loved me for myself. I wouldn't have gone with Rob in the first place if it wasn't for the money. I wouldn't have signed up for the sex night if it hadn't been for the money.
But, if I was going to be honest, I enjoyed the hell out of the sex. Being paid for what guys had always expected for free made me feel in control. Was I? Probably not. But it felt good and that made me a slut. A slut and a whore...
I sat in the tub until the water became cold. The bad girl excitement wore off and I began to dread going in for another sex shift.
By the end of the afternoon I was rested, and most of the bruises had faded. I did my makeup and threw on some comfortable clothes. Margie said they wouldn't need servers tonight, just the working girls. That was me, just another whore. The bar and restaurant would be closed for the private party. Before I left the phone rang.
"Hello?" I said.
"Hi, Sally. It's Rob. Just wanted to let you know we lost the game. Tonight is on our team's tab but the other guys get you girls. Do us proud."
"Ahh," My guts griped. It had been bad enough last night when I knew one guy, Rob. But tonight, I wouldn't know anyone. And no one would know me... "I'll miss you."
"Me, too. Maybe I can give you a call this week?"
"Sure..." I hung up.
"What's the matter, babe?" Dave massaged my shoulders.
"I'm not going to know anyone there tonight. Last night Rob introduced me to his friends and let them know to treat me like a person. Tonight I'm going to be a prize for the jocks. That scares me a little."
"Call it off," Dave said. "Call Marge right now and tell her you don't feel comfortable doing this."
"I'll lose my real job and all we'll have is whatever Rob throws to me on the side for me to fuck him during the week. We can't get by like that." I sucked in some air. "I made it through last night. It'll just be a job. People treat you the way you expect to get treated. Isn't that what you always say?"
"Yeah, but I don't want to bet the farm on my fortune cookie sayings."
I patted his shoulder. "I'll be all right."
"You don't have to do this..." Dave touched me as I stepped away.
I kissed my husband and my daughter, then I headed out the door. "Yes, I do."