This is the first part of a full-length novel that I am writing. It takes its time to set up a believable and yet highly charged sexual coercion, slut-wife, exhibitionistic, betrayal, BDSM, domination story involving our heroine Suzanne. Trust me, future parts of this story will get very much hornier. If you are looking for immediate satisfaction, this first part of the story maybe isn't for you. Whilst this part does contain some consensual vanilla sex, it is essentially a scene setter, putting all the hooks in place for later development. Only those that go with this will get the full satisfaction of what will come. I don't expect it to score highly initially, but do expect great things from later sections. You can contribute by outlining ideas for future chapters - if they are original and I use them, I'll credit you with the concepts. However, as I hope you can see from this first installment, I have a pretty good idea where I'm going with this. Suzanne has no idea of what is coming!
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The Invitation
Suzanne James glanced quickly down the list of mails in her in-box. Amongst the usual clutter of spam invitations to increase her penis / breast size, or family income, or to save on medications she had never used, or to subscribe to porn sites she had no call for, were a sprinkling of genuine e-mails from friends or family.
Incongruously sitting amongst the unopened mail she noted one from an unknown, but strangely familiar source. She recognised the domain and format immediately. It was from Ruler Electronics, the company that had employed her husband for the last 11 months. But instead of the familiar ian.james@rulerelectronics.com (indicating another message from her doting husband Ian), the "from" address was an unrecognised hrteam@rulerelectronics.com. Suzanne wondered why her husband's employers would be contacting her direct, and how they could know her private e-mail address. The "subject" line of the unopened mail didn't offer much clarification, and simply stated "2004 360-degree Appraisals"
"Cheek!" she thought to herself, as she quickly started to delete the spam mails from her in-box, resisting the temptation to immediately solve the mystery by opening the enigmatically entitled mail. She scanned the friend and family mails and recognised the usual collection of tired Internet jokes and chain mails. These latter either promised to change your life within 24 hours of sending the offending message on to another 10 unfortunate recipients, or were the slightly less annoying ones that generated a feel-good factor by recounting some heart-warming story of triumph over adversity, followed by an appeal to your conscience to forward the story to "some of the people you really care about, to demonstrate your love for them". She unconsciously made the decision to read/delete those later, and turned again to the mail from the "hrteam" at Ruler Electronics.
Not knowing quite what to expect, she double-clicked the entry and waited for a second for the mail to open on her screen. She read it quickly, and then re-read it with mounting interest and curiosity.
Dear Mrs James,
Please forgive this direct contact, but as you may be aware, we are approaching the first anniversary of your husband's employment with Ruler Electronics. As part of our assessment and review process at this time, we normally undertake a 360-degree assessment of your husband's performance and contribution to the company. At Ruler Electronics, we take the concept of 360-degree assessments very seriously, and seek input not just from your husband's superiors, subordinates and peers, but also from his family. This allows us to form a complete picture of how your husband has settled into our "business community", and also to identify any issues that may affect his happiness or performance, or opportunities for advancement or further responsibility.
In addition to this routine interview, and unusually given Ian's short tenure with the company, we can tell you confidentially that he is one of the candidates being considered for a significant internal promotion. As part of the selection process, we would like to meet with you and to get to know a little about you. Being a member of the Executive Management Team involves a number of extra-curricular duties, including accompanied attendance at various EMT and Board workshops, team-building events and social activities. It would be helpful to understand your own views on such corporate activities when considering Ian's candidature.
We are confident that you will want to play a full part in this process, which is important to your husband's future career with Ruler Electronics, and to this end, we would like to invite you to an interview at which your own thoughts and views can be collected. Obviously, we recognise that this is an additional and onerous demand on your time, and as a gesture of thanks for your participation, we plan to conduct the interview over dinner at the excellent "La Provence" restaurant in the centre of town. Any expenses that you incur in relation to child-minding or baby-sitting will, of course, be re-imbursed by the company, and we will send a car to collect you and to return you home after the interview. The interview will be conducted by one of your husband's superiors, and has been provisionally scheduled for this Friday evening at 7:30 pm.
To confirm your availability and willingness to contribute to the appraisal and selection process, please respond to this e-mail by Wednesday morning so that the necessary final arrangements can be made.
Finally, and in order to allow a completely un-biased and open exchange of views, we take the unusual step of asking you not to discuss this part of the appraisal and selection process with your husband prior to the interview. Based on our past experience, we find that new employees unfamiliar with our appraisal process can be intimidated by the depth of our research, and in some cases can attempt to influence the part played by their spouse to the detriment of the review process itself. In this case we are additionally concerned that, should Ian not be selected for the promotion, we should like to ensure that he is not de-motivated by the result. Consequently, although Ian is aware of the vacant Executive Management Team position, he is not aware of his own position as a candidate. We therefore respectfully request that you treat this e-mail as strictly private and confidential between us, and refrain from discussing it with anyone, including and especially your husband.
Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation,
Yours in confidence,
The HR Team, Ruler Electronics Inc.
Suzanne reflected for a moment or two, and tried to come to terms with her feelings about this strange, surprising and intriguing e-mail. There was so much to think about. "Bloody hell!" she thought.
She had never seen or heard anything like it before. Her first reaction was one of great pleasure and pride that Ian was being considered for such an important position. She was aware that the EMT members at Ruler Electronics were Gods, Trojans, and the elite of the elite. They were extremely well rewarded with executive share option schemes and additional benefits. It was a massive complement to Ian that he was even being considered. She thought how pleased he would be if he knew he was a candidate and reflected on the disappointment he would feel if he missed this chance.
Her second reaction was one of pleasant surprise that her husband's new employer went to such lengths on behalf of the review process at the end of, what she knew to be, a probationary year's employment. But it was a great year, she reflected. The opportunity had come after a tough period of unemployment following Ian's redundancy from a previous employer during the fall out of the 2001 Internet crash. Ruler Electronics was a very secure company, with a brilliant niche in the world of digital imaging, and market leading products in the fields of covert security and tele-conferencing, both rapidly growing markets in the wake of 9/11.
Suzanne remembered how happy they had been when the confirmed job offer had arrived on the doorstep. How, after months of scrimping and saving and managing on their meagre savings, they had enjoyed a bottle of very self-indulgent champagne to celebrate the sudden upturn in their fortunes that the offer from Ruler Electronics represented. After the champagne, they also celebrated by making love in front of the fire, she remembered with a blush.
And it was a great offer and opportunity for Ian; an excellent salary and benefits package, a chance to work in a rapidly expanding field in a senior middle-management position, and to win back his self-confidence after the knocks he had taken during his period of unemployment.
They both knew that the necessary relocation and the peculiar shift patterns had been a small price to pay, although it was mostly Suzanne who had paid the price. It was Suzanne who had been taken away from her family and close friends in the South by the move. She had relied so much on their support and company for so many years, and now she missed them terribly. And whilst it was Ian who spent long nights on call at the plant (Ruler Electronics had a strict policy of always having an empowered decision maker on hand in the event of an emergency), the long nights weren't arduous for him. He was even able to get some sleep in the little duty manager's cabin when he was on nights. It was Suzanne who spent those long hours trapped at home with only young Emma for company. Even after 11 months, Suzanne had made few new friends locally, being on first name terms with only a couple of the other young mothers with 5-year-olds at the local pre-school. The long lonely days and nights whilst Ian was working hard to establish himself at Ruler Electronics were tough on her.
Suzanne turned her attention back to the e-mail. OK, she was delighted at the potential promotion and pleased that the company appeared to take such an interest in the health and happiness of their employee, her husband. So what was it, she wondered, that troubled her about it? She analysed her feelings as she read the e-mail again.
There was a presumption about the invitation that she didn't like. The interview "has been provisionally scheduled for this Friday evening at 7:30 pm"! Despite the word "provisionally", there seemed to be little room for manoeuvre. What if she had other plans for this Friday evening? She chuckled to herself at the thought. With no friends yet established in the vicinity, what else would she be doing? She would be at home with Ian if he weren't on shift, or looking after their young daughter Emma, watching TV and sleeping alone if he was. The thought made her quickly refer to the wall calendar on which Ian had marked his shift pattern. Sure enough, Friday evening he was on nights and would be at the office and plant from 6:00 pm until 9:00 am Saturday.
"Coincidence?" she wondered. On the one hand, it would mean she'd need a baby-sitter if she was going to the interview: on the other hand, it would make it easy to comply with the request not to discuss this with Ian, he wouldn't even need to know about it.
