[Author's note: Alice is married to James, a professional football player who has found himself at a loose end after retiring from the sport. After attending a charity auction in which she was outbid for her own husband, Alice and James have been blackmailed into service by Jodie and her upper-echelon friends. They have no choice but to do her bidding, letting Jodie pimp James out to clients, otherwise she will release the videos she took.
In the final instalment of this series, Alice will finally find out who her friends are and who are her enemies.]
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A CHANGE FOR GOOD
I was running late because of the boys. We'd had a squabble in the car, then another one at my parents, then finally I'd been able to get them settled. I had to talk to Dad about it, about the friction between them, which had cost me more time. It hadn't helped that James was running late too, caught up in some meeting in the city, leaving me to fend on my own. I shot Fee a quick message, but got no reply.
I pulled up outside Barton and Fee's house twenty minutes late, tugging my dress into place and running a hand through my hair. I'd had to do my make-up in the car, so it wasn't perfect but it would have to do. At the gate I had a little moment of panic, painfully aware of the dreadful burden locked over my crotch. Two months now, and no end in sight. I'd met with Jodie five times, organising bookings for James or dropping back her share of the proceeds, and she had shown no inclination to release me.
Our last meeting had rankled particularly: I'd gotten around to the subject of my chastity belt, my eyes on the thin chain around her neck, the keys tucked safely in her cleavage. She'd just asked me if I was going to be a good girl, waiting patiently until I'd nodded. Giving her that, admitting the effect that the denial was having on me, the control she had over my body, it had been absolutely humiliating. She'd noticed it, then casually leaned across the table, smiled, and observed that I seemed to be enjoying the humiliation. She'd just gotten up and walked away, leaving me there at the table, burning with shame, feeling once again that dire, endless need between my legs.
It seemed to permeate everything. The boys arguing tonight, the way they responded to the general mood of the house, the look on my husband's face when he told me he needed to take a meeting in the city, it all told me something, holding up a mirror to my own disposition. The belt was having its effect, starving me of release but reminding me constantly of its presence, driving me to distraction. I needed release; I had a suspicion that Jodie was counting on it, that there would be a day in the near future that she would dangle it in front of me with a set of degrading conditions. I was getting closer and closer to the day that I'd say yes. I was getting closer and closer to agreeing to anything.
Fee opened the door and gave me a kiss on the cheek, escorting me through the house to the entertaining room at the back. Barton was in one of the armchairs with a whiskey set on a side table. He smiled at me as I entered.
"I won't get up," he called, "But, good of you to make it."
"Sorry," I stammered, "It was just a nightmare tonight. Logistics."
"Not a problem," he smiled back at me as I approached, "You're not on the clock. Fee, would you be able to get Alice a drink?"
"Usual, Alice?" she called out as she went over to the drinks tray, "Or bubbles?"
"I'm driving, maybe just a glass."
"Very sensible."
Barton indicated the couch and I sank down into the upholstery with a sense of relief.
"Bad day?" he enquired.
"Yeah."
"In general? Or the belt?"
I'd told them about the belt a few weeks back, lifting my skirt to show him. We'd started seeing each other socially, as couples, and despite my initial reservations about Fee, I'd found her to be funny and quick-witted, Barton to be whip-smart and effortlessly charming. James and I had talked long into the night about it and decided that we could move past the fact that they had bought our services, entering into a much more nuanced relationship with this odd couple, one that didn't involve payment but that did still involve sex.
It had troubled me, watching James with Fee that first time, having had the choice rather than it being a booking. It was something just between the four of us, a little help for us all in our current situations. I didn't tell James the other part of it; I kept my little secret to myself, pretending to James that I wanted him to be able to satisfy himself fully even as I was unable to because of the belt. I'd pretended to him that Barton and I had a similar issue and this was just something that made sense, allowing our other halves the release that we couldn't provide.
There was something else though, something that tugged at me deep inside. I loved watching James fuck her. I was mesmerised by his body, the way it flexed as he drove into the younger blonde woman. It gave me such a desperate thrill, a heat between my legs, to witness my man in action, to see the way that Fee's eyes fixed on him as she experienced the full force of his ardent attentions. I shuddered in vicarious passion as their bodies combined.
Fee brought two flutes of champagne over, handing me one. I took a sip.
"On the subject of the belt, do you mind if I take a closer look?" Barton enquired.
"Uh, really?"
"Yes. It's been on my mind."
"You mean, right now?"
"Might as well."
He indicated for me to stand in front of him. I hesitated for a moment.
"Seriously, I'm a doctor," Barton laughed, "I guarantee I've seen it all."
I got up and positioned myself in front of him. Nervously, I took another mouthful of the champagne.
"Facing away, please, and raise your dress. Fee, I'll need some light. Could you?"
I turned away from him and began to raise the hem of my dress until I'd exposed my bottom to him. I felt naked and vulnerable, feeling his eyes on my body, the little familiar tug of humiliation kindling something inside me.
"The light," Barton remarked, "Just there."
I felt a little pressure at the top of my buttocks, where the straps locked together. Fee got out her phone and turned on the torch, shining it across my rear.
"Topless."
I frowned, unsure of the instruction, but Fee was already in motion, sliding down the straps of her dress, baring her breasts for her husband.
"Good girl, much better. Just hold steady."
"What are you doing?" I asked, nervously, feeling his fingers tugging the straps.
"The same, don't you think?" Barton mused, ignoring me.
"Identical," Fee agreed.
"What?" I repeated.
Barton patted me on the bottom and then pulled my dress down.
"You can sit down again, Alice."
I straightened up, feeling suddenly woozy.
"Steady on," Barton cautioned.
I felt Fee's hand around my arm, guiding me back to the couch.