Father Al picked me up at Lovett County Field and asked me how it went.
All that I could think of to reply was, "Better than I had expected, but not as good as I had hoped." He asked me no further questions, for which I was very profoundly grateful.
The next three months went fairly quickly. It had been a mild winter, and the town had a very good crop of snowbirds for the season. The spring showed signs of having equally nice and pleasant weather, and the local businesses seemed to perk up just a little bit. The local software company was now growing by leaps and bounds, and Alice even received a small grant from a private foundation to help keep the local paper afloat for yet another few months.
Once again, I began to fall back into my regular routine of weekly life, but thoughts of Wendy and Victor were still with me constantly.
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One day I returned home late one evening to find a small box from Wendy sitting on my doorstep. Inside there was a short letter on top and the contents were twenty VHS home recording tapes labeled #1 to #20. I didn't have a good feeling about this at all and her note confirmed it.
"Dearest Claude,
It would do absolutely no good whatsoever to apologize now for things that happened between us those many years ago. However, I do wish now to apologize specifically for not treating your concerns and worries on that last plane flight with the seriousness that I should have. I was very wrong indeed to belittle your quite valid concerns, but frankly, as we both observed in the end, no warning would have been sufficient enough to have prevented or even delayed what occurred.
You were right, we never should have gone in the first place - that would have at least delayed our fate and given us a little more time together.
While we both seem to clearly understand the reason behind some of the increasing 'extreme actions' I have found myself engaged in these recent years, and while you suggest that this is just 'water under the bridge' to you, I would prefer that you get a closer and hopefully better understanding about the exact nature of the water. I doubt you can.
I have selected these few tapes (less than 1% of your brother's exhaustive library) to provide a few specific examples of the vast sewer your loved one has waded and even willingly swam into. I assure you, these are not even remotely the most extreme items in his vast collection starring me as it featured performer. Watch these please in sequence, as they are more or less chronological, and I'm certain your observant eye can distinguish certain facts that will help you more easily make your future decisions...
There is another note inside Tape #20's case, but do not read it until you have finished with #1 through #19 first, please.
This seems cruel, but like your warning on the plane to me, this is now my warning to you - please treat it with the respect that I should have given yours."
Love, Wendy"
I had been afraid of this and she had hinted something about his video collection after the funeral. Before we could even attempt to pick back up where we had left off, she wanted me to know -
really
know, just what life with my insane mind-controlling brother had been like, and just what he had forced her to do... and even enjoy.
I had been prepared to 'forgive her' - for everything. Could I still do it after seeing
exactly
what I had intended to forgive her for doing?
I put in Tape #1, and it was a plain boring amateur film of my brother fucking Wendy, not particularly well in my opinion. His only concern seemed to be exactly how fast he could cum himself. Wendy was young, just as I last remembered her from college. Her actions seemed nearly robotic as she eagerly did everything that Dragos asked of her. No problem - it was just about what I had expected.
Tapes #2 & #3 were a bit more interesting visually to watch as Dragos sought to expand all of Wendy's boundaries and she willingly participated in threesomes with another woman (Dragos's pool friend Annabelle?) and one of Dragos male bully boy friends. Again, about what I had expected.
Tapes #4-10 continued exploring those themes, and more... with Wendy always in a very submissive role being bound, spanked or whipped and used by multiple partners. This was disturbing to watch, but I hadn't seen anything that I hadn't already imagined being done to her while I was by myself in the dead of night alone in bed.
Tapes #11-15 seemed on the surface to be much like the previous set, albeit with more kinks and fetishes included, but I soon noticed a few subtle differences. Wendy seemed to be more or less 'herself' and less 'controlled' in these scenes. Dragos was also almost never an active participant himself and from the sound on the tapes he seemed to be the main cameraman and was constantly looking for better angles to film his wife's debauchery. Wendy's later performances, if anything, resembled a tired porn star or whore that was just going through the motions, and she seemed to be relieved when everything was over at the end of each video. There may have been a few genuine smiles at a few pleasurable erotic moments with her partners (especially with a particular one lady who was in many of the group scenes with Wendy), but there was little 'love' for what she was doing expressed. I began to feel better about seeing the last few tapes.
Tapes #16-19 were mostly from a new venue and not filmed in their bedroom or some hotel room. These seemed to feature heavy group activity in a professional or private sex club of some sort. The camera work was of professional quality and very high detail. There was no mistaking that Wendy now loved nearly every moment of her sexual antics and she was a
very
willing and enthusiastic partner for nearly every sex act imaginable. Dragos was nearly nowhere to be found in the action and he mostly appeared to play the role of the voyeur while in the club. The few scenes I saw of him he was invariably drunk, very overweight and looking pallid and unhealthy in general. He appeared to have great trouble getting or maintaining an erection, and if he could perform he'd blow his load in just three or four strokes. Undoubtedly he had little or no will left to use his powers to control his wife, or probably anyone for that matter.
I had to stop with this tape as I was so disturbed. Wendy, now apparently mostly or totally free from Dragos' control, seemingly now loved every bit of sexual excess that she could obtain. She delighted in double and triple penetrations and pulling train, where as soon as one partner completed their ejaculation into her she would call for another to take his place. Wendy was also now starting to accumulate a complete collection of erotic body piercings and now displayed a distinctive colorful 'tramp stamp' on her lower back. I didn't think that this new version of 'Wendy' could ever again be satisfied with just a single lover, such as me.
The note taped to the top of the final tape #20 just said, "Watch this tape non-stop, repeatedly, until you either have to throw it away into the trash and burn it, or else you can masturbate to it. Then call me and let me know what your decision is.
Tape #20 was an especially long tape that was nearly three and a half hours long that featured one long orgy with Wendy being multiple penetrated and fucked by over 100 different men and women. She never looked happier, and her only cries were for "More!" There was only one very short scene showing Dragos sitting in a chair next to where she was being gang-banged scowling in obvious displeasure, naturally being drunk and abusive in the process. It was apparent that he was now a pathetic fat fool that was obviously the butt of many of the club's jokes as each member would mount and use his wife in turn, to her ecstatic pleasure.
I sat on my front porch holding this tape in my lap for at least an hour after I viewed it, just inches from the trash can. I saw no way that I could possibly 'forgive' this. She didn't want me anyhow, anymore, I reasoned. Undoubtedly now that she had the family wealth and fortune, she could afford to remain at her Club, with all of her gentleman and lady admirers. She didn't need or really want me.