A few weeks later...
[How about it, sweet thing? How much would it cost for a private video of you choking on a dildo?]
Of course, the crude request was punctuated with a dick pic. Charlotte sighed, glancing furtively across the kitchen to where Steven stood at the stove, making fried rice for dinner. He was focused on the cooking, so Charlotte took the opportunity to answer.
[Haha, wooowww, that would be super hot! Let me think about it, k?]
There. One more message replied to. It was a new thing this week. Grace now demanded that Charlotte "engage with her audience". In other words, responding politely and encouragingly to even the most demeaning message. It added yet another humiliating layer to this fucked up situation, but it wasn't that bad. Charlotte felt like she had sort of gotten into a groove with her forced Simpspace account. Now that she was used to creating the content, the taboo edge had faded with time.
And she was starting to rake in cash hand over fist. Her Simpspace account combined with her improved tips from the slutty clothes Grace was forcing her to wear at the bar meant that Charlotte had already managed to set aside a sizable chunk of cash in her undie drawer for her lawyer fund.
But she didn't think she was quite there yet. She wanted to be sure she had everything she needed before she pulled the trigger and shook Grace's influence off for good. Besides, the secret content production, crude messages, and dick pics had become almost normal. Even fun. They provided a little zing of sexual excitement in the same way that flirting with customers at the bar had.
And sexual excitement had been a little lacking in her life lately...
Steven sat down beside her, sliding her a plate of crispy fried rice loaded with kimchi and drizzled with Sriracha; her favorite. Charlotte put her hand over her boyfriend's. "Thanks, babe," He flashed her a weary grin, dark circles under his eyes. He had been especially tired and stressed lately, for reasons Charlotte didn't quite understand. Sadly, Steven's mysterious stress was having a negative impact on their sex life. Charlotte had a lot of sympathy for whatever Steven was going through and loved him to pieces, but he simply wasn't satisfying her sexual needs right now.
Just as Steven was about to respond, Charlotte heard a soft *ding* in her pocket, and her heart skipped a beat. It was the special alert noise she had set for Grace. If she took too long to reply, she would be in trouble. If there was one thing that Charlotte had learned over the past few weeks, it was that she should never cross Grace... Not until she was sure she could deliver a crushing blow at least.
"One second babe," said Charlotte, rising smoothly and kissing her boyfriend on the cheek. "Nature calls." Hiding things from Steven was almost second nature to her at this point. She barely felt even a twinge of guilt anymore as she slipped away to the bathroom.
Once the door was safely closed behind her, Charlotte pulled out her phone, praying that Grace was just checking in about Charlotte's next post and it wasn't anything serious.
No such luck.
[What the fuck is this, Cherry? I thought I told you to start engaging with your subscribers.]
At this point, Grace had ceased to call her Charlotte, instead using her porn name exclusively, even in public. Charlotte knew that it was unlikely that anyone would ever make the connection, but hearing Grace call her "Cherry" still sent a shiver of erotic dread down her spine.
[I've been interacting! I've replied to every single fucking DM!] Charlotte texted back swiftly. Being under Grace's thumb could be terrifying. Even if running a Simpspace account could be fun at times, this was the massive, looming downside to the situation. Charlotte's dark, dominant tormentor could be impossible to please sometimes, turning angry at the drop of a hat. Charlotte couldn't even begin to guess what had set the bitch off this time.
[You are a slow fucking learner, Cherry. Address me properly. I won't warn you again.]
Charlotte sighed irritably. Oh yeah. That was another thing that Grace had recently started insisting on. With a sour look on her face, Charlotte texted [Sorry, Mistress]. It felt unnatural and humiliating to call another woman that, like somehow Charlotte was putting herself beneath Grace. But she supposed that was actually a reflection of reality at this point. For now at least. God, she couldn't wait until she hired the best lawyer in the city and showed the smug goth bitch who was boss.
[That's better. But no, Cherry, you aren't obeying your mistress at all. All of this 'tee hee, stop it you bad boys' bullshit isn't the way a fucking porn goddess like Cherry Sweets interacts with her fans. Those poor horny boys are thirsty, and I think it's about time you gave the people what they want.]
Charlotte felt a prickle of apprehension as she stared down at her phone. "Giving the boys what they want" was a terrifying, erotic proposition when you read the filthy requests that poured into Charlotte's DMs on a daily basis. She tried to think of some reply she could send that would change Grace's mind, but she was too slow. Another text followed almost immediately.
[What was the amount you agreed to shake those tiny tits for? Fifty bucks? Let's call that your standard rate. From now on, any guy who offers you fifty dollars or more gets exactly what he asks for. I'll be watching to make sure.]
Charlotte stared down at the phone with her pulse hammering loudly in her ears. Ok, now Grace had gone too far. Charlotte needed to stand up for herself. [No Grace. That's too much. Have you seen what some of these guys have been requesting? I would rather just have you send that video to Steven and take my chances.]
Weirdly, the next thing to come through from Grace wasn't a text. It was an image. For a second, Charlotte didn't know what she was looking at. Then she zoomed in on the picture and her face went pale. It was a massive collage of her Simpspace posts, referenced with photos of her from social media accounts in a convincing effort to prove that she and "Cherry Sweets" were the same person. It also included a selection of Charlotte's juiciest responses to the men flooding her inbox.
Another message from Grace chimed.
[I wonder how interested your future employers and/or love interests would be in this little art project I put together. Maybe you'll be fine. People are sex-positive these days, right?]
Charlotte stared at her screen in dumb horror for a few moments until another text popped in. This couldn't be happening. Grace had just opened up a whole new front of blackmail. Charlotte bit her lip and thought about the bundle of cash she had hidden away in her underwear drawer. Not enough. Not yet. Shit. She might actually need to go along with Grace's sadistic command for the time being and hope things didn't get too extreme.
For some reason, as much as being caught this way scared her, it also filled her with squirming, uncomfortable arousal.
One last message chimed from Grace.