This story was prompted by a kind reader who was extremely complimentary about my work, for which I am of course, always extremely grateful, but closed by asking if I had ever thought of writing something dealing with more forceful, less consensual, encounters. Or, as they put it - 'Rape, Pillage and Burn'. It is not an area of sexual activity that I have dealt with before, but here is my offering in that genre. As you see, I have used that reader's words as the story's sub-title.
ALPHA MALE
(Rape, Pillage and Burn)
The woman stood at the cashier's desk, one hand poised motionless while in the act of reaching to unclasp her handbag, but with her eyes fixed on the action on the other side of the beauty salon's front window.
Working out there was yet another of the seemingly interminable road-crews, either digging or refilling yet another of their apparently pointless excavations. And, like every other road-crew, their numbers made up of a group of either beefily over-fat, or scrawnily under-nourished, unpleasantly unshaven and quite probably unwashed men. Save for the one of them that she found she just couldn't stop herself from staring at!
The lingering heat of the late afternoon had forced him, like the others, to wear no more than shorts and a gaudily fluorescent safety-vest - but unlike them, the physique it flapped around, was truly impressive! Lean, yet powerfully muscled, tanned, and save for the patch at the centre of his chest, virtually hairless.
From where she was standing she could see no more than that, yet in her mind's eye she could; knew he would have long, powerfully well-shaped legs, tautly rounded buttocks - and, beneath his shorts, well, exactly what?
'Will the same time next week be convenient Mrs. Palmer?' the cashier enquired.
'Pardon?' the woman replied.
'I asked if the same time next week would be convenient, for your appointment.'
'Yes, yes of course.' she replied irritably; finding that even as she fumbled in her bag for a credit card she was, for some inexplicable reason, still quite unable to take her eyes off the man.
Marianne Palmer was a thirty-something woman to whom appearance was everything; a woman who had to feel certain she always carried an aura of magnetic attractiveness about her. A woman who spent a good deal of time, effort and, most of all, money, in guaranteeing that both her body and outward presentation of it were always equally eye-catching.
A woman who had carefully improved on the beauty an overly kind nature had allotted her, by submitting herself to a series of expensively subtle nips, tucks and even very slight augmentations. A woman who ensured that her body was regularly, and expensively, pampered and cosseted by the most renowned of experts. A woman who travelled at least twice a year; to London, Milan and Paris, just to re-stock her already unnecessarily vast wardrobe.
What did not show, and what Marianne Palmer herself did not fully understand, was that beneath that thick veneer of beauty and wealthy success, cowered an all too often lonely, and frequently restlessly dissatisfied woman.
Her husband, Halden III
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, had built on the wealth both his father and grandfather had left him, but at the cost of any long-lasting emotional relationship with either his wife - who filled her days with rounds of social or charitable engagements - or their two, now young teen-age children, who had, over the years, spent more of their lives with nannies and minders than they had with either parent.
Having settled her account she stepped through the door, and stood in the sun-glaring shade of the wide, over-hanging portico - her eyes still fixed on the man.
In that deep mid-city canyon the sound of the jack-hammer was deafening everyone within fifty yards, everyone that is but Marianne Palmer; to her it was barely registerable, all she was really conscious of was the man, the man whose sheer brute strength had command of it.
She watched the tight concentration on his craggily rugged face as he drilled through the only grudgingly yielding concrete. Watched the way his powerfully large hands gripped and controlled the machine. Watched the tensely flexing muscles, rippling from the force of its vibrations. Watched the pooling rivulets of sweat gathering in their knotting crevices. Watched them spilling and then quickly trickling their way down over the rest of his body.
And for some equally unfathomable reason she suddenly recalled the tales her closest friends had often told her; of their various exploits with discretely compliant, yet also conveniently over-sexed men - Susie's masseur, Katy's less socially acceptable, grocery delivery-boy.
Then, in what was no more than a surreally fantastical moment she found she was imagining herself in some weird, almost Hieronymus Bosch-like setting - imagined the man was in fact the machine, and she, her body, the mere subject of his drilling. And, in spite of the utter ridiculousness of that image she nonetheless felt her core reacting, responding; felt the increased beat of her blood flow, felt the all too rarely experienced quickening and moistening.
And, as though the pressure itself would reverse that process she pressed her hands against the sides of her thighs and pushed them more firmly together - but found that instead of lessening it, the pressure merely served to magnify the unwanted effect.
But then she suddenly realised, the sound of the jack-hammer had stopped - and, looking up, saw that she was being observed by a pair of ice-blue eyes. But, she somehow knew, they were not merely casually observing her, they were both stripping and evaluating. Her costly Italian silk dress had gone quickly, and even the filmy underthings from Paris hadn't deterred him too much longer, then he was judging what more fleshly enticements and rewards she had on offer.
She felt her face flushing in much the same way that her pussy already had; but, jerking both her head and her thoughts away from that hypnotic stare she stepped down on to the sidewalk and, with totally unfelt confidence, walked off towards the nearby car-park building.
'Log me out on a break Charlie!' the man said to the foreman, his head turning to watch the trimly taut jiggling pair of buttocks, then adding. 'Put it down as a call of nature! I doubt I'll be too long.'
Discarding the work-vest and slipping on his T-shirt took but a few seconds, but it delayed him for just long enough to see that by then she had entered the car-park and, not wanting to lose her in that rabbit warren, he jogged quickly after her. Although there must have been a lift waiting when she had got there, he saw the indicator light was still in motion, watched it drop two floors, then stop - a few well balanced bounds took him down the fire-stairs, then the sound of her click-clacking heels directed him.
His rubber soled boots made no such noise so by the time she had her keys out and was about to open the vehicle's door, he was there. 'Yours?' he asked, his eyes dropping to give the dark silver-grey car an admiring once-over.
Although his approach had been soundless and his voice momentarily startled her, she somehow found his actual appearance there unsurprising - unsurprising, yet still more disturbingly arousing than even the first sight of him had been. Then it had been just the effect of the image she had felt herself responding to; his build, his obvious strength, the sheer and all-too potent 'maleness' of him. Now she not only had that image, but the reality of it was there, virtually at her finger-tips - and adding to that already far too powerful effect was the scent of him; a co-mingling aroma of his sweat-sheened muscularity, plus the even more compelling testosterone fuelled muskiness of him.
'Mmm - yes it is.' she finally answered.
'I could have guessed it, a woman like you would have to have something like an Alfa - and I bet you chose the sedan because you didn't like the idea of getting your hair mussed.'
'Something like that.' she admitted.
'But it's still a beautiful piece of work - like its owner.' he said, his eyes again doing what she had felt them doing when he had first caught sight of her - stripping her. Then, as he moved even closer, he added, 'And I bet that once started you both go like a rocket!'