It had seemed like a victimless crime at first. My husband stealing £400,000 from work, me helping him launder it. Of course, as a lawyer, I should have known there is no victimless crime. If I am being entirely accurate I should say as a former lawyer, as due to my involvement with my husband's crime that's no longer my primary profession. These days I am a whore. Oh, it might be forced career, but that's I have become.
I remember our life before, my life before. Success. Privilege. Comfort. It's all changed now. My life now is about humiliation. Each day selling myself. Humiliation after humiliation. The things I have done, the things that have been done to me -- I don't think anyone knows more about the meaning of that word than me.
At first when the missing £400,000 was discovered we thought we were off the hook. One of Alex's colleagues -- a man called Gary Abel -- was blamed for the theft. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to three years in custody and we celebrated. Champagne, a big night out. Promises to each other we wouldn't feel any guilt about an innocent man rotting in prison. More champagne and a giddiness about what we were going to spend our ill-gotten fortune on that led to some amazing sex.
The night Alex came home with his boss was the night it all changed. Mr. Croker was a tall man in his early sixties, mainly bald, with a small ring of close-cropped white hair and a stomach bloated by good-living and little exercise. I had always thought he had a face that suggested a little bit too much joy in the power he wielded as the CEO of the bank. A bit too much joy in bullying the staff, firing employees.
Mr. Croker sat down and ordered us to do likewise. He opened his briefcase and shared the evidence proving our guilt. He then took out a cigar, cut its end off and lit up. When I objected he calmly said: "You won't object to anything I want to do again. Not if you want to keep your lovely home, your jobs and your arses out of prison."
"I am going to make you a proposition. If you fail to accept it you will both go to prison on multiple charges and you Anne-Marie, as a lawyer, should know that the custodial sentences will be longer than poor Mr. Abel is currently suffering. When you got out you'd be penniless and unemployable."
"Agree, and after a period of indenture, you would be free and I will even allow you to keep the money you stole. Now the terms are simple, I want to own you for 400 days and use you to satisfy my needs and command you to provide certain services for financial gain. During this period of sexual servitude you will follow every order I and certain others give or you crimes will be reported. I warn you, my ownership of you will be exceptionally degrading and most days you will wonder if prison and poverty wasn't a better deal."
Mr. Croker pulled out a contract for me to read. I realised we were in an impossible situation, but I thought if we said yes it might buy us some time to flee the country and consequences. As I read the paperwork my stomach churned at some of the clauses. Somewhere between fury and broken sobbing I managed to ask Mr. Croker what 'body modification' meant.
"You are an attractive woman Anne-Marie. You may be 26, but you look much younger. With your petit height, those small breasts I dare say that when I put you in school uniform it will take 10 years off you. However, I may wish to take you up a cup size or two or order a vaginoplasty to tighten your cunt for my, others and even your pleasure."
"You said 400 days, but the contract requires an extra 30 days for 'conditioning'. What is conditioning?"
"I would require you to check into a health club for a month. Lose a little weight, be pampered with a lot of spa treatments. They'd be some laser hair removal, some anal bleaching and the like -- I would want you to be at your best before I took ownership of you."
I tried to make eye contact with Alex, but he just stared at the floor. "Oh your husband won't tell you what do. He made it very clear on the drive here it is entirely your decision. I must say I hope you agree to this little blackmail, from the things your beloved has told me about your sex life -- your enjoyment of spanking, how you like to let him fuck you while you push a little dildo up your arse -- I think I and many other will enjoy your servitude."
I had never known such fury. Fury at my husband for getting us into this mess, at myself for being his accomplice. Fury for the cruelty and perversion of Mr. Croker. Fury and fear, because I knew I had to agree to this or lose everything.
"If you agree, I will give you a month to quit your job, give your family some cover story such as working abroad for 18 months and say your goodbyes. Then you'd report for a month of conditioning before the contract comes into full effect. Your husband will continue to work for me and although I won't want my employee and my indebted servant fraternising as such, I might let you see each other in some form occasionally."
"I don't want to do this Mr. Croker."
"Of course you don't dear, but if you don't it's prison, poverty and the humiliation of being known as a thief who let an innocent man go to prison for three years. If you agree to my proposal it will be rough on you, but at the end of those 400 days you will be free, £400,000 richer and free from the threat of incarceration."
Hoping we would find some way out of it before the perverted bastard could take advantage of all the rights I would be transferring, I reluctantly signed the contract.
"Fantastic Anne-Marie. I am so pleased you have seen sense. Now I don't want to enjoy all my new property till the first of your 400 days, but before I put my signature to contract as well, I want to inspect the merchandise. I also want a blow job. All this talk of you having to submit yourself to me has made me horny as fuck. Stand up. Undress. Slowly."
I froze. I was the classic deer in headlights. The last thing I wanted to do was expose myself to this man, let alone suck his cock. Yet I knew there was no other way out of this.