This old story has been much revised and expanded as 'Moving her On' - multiple parts in preparation.
Waking the next morning, unaccustomed dull fires reminding her of outrage, of cruel abuse of her most intimate places, she knows that something has changed inside her, that she has lost something.
From all the vivid, shocking, appalling flashes of memory - of the red and black infamy of the previous night; so full of firsts, of impossible humiliations, of enforced violations, of casual, debasing cruelties large and small, of ignominy, fear, suffering, and - terrible to recall - unlooked for but devastating sexual intensity, one moment stands out as the moment from which this change stems.
The moment at which she had peeled back her blouse to show them her breasts - so shyly, yet so completely; had so fully exposed herself to these grinning, ignorant strangers.
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He had told her this day would come - weeks and weeks ago.
She had laughed at him, teased him, got cross with him - shockingly rude as well; sulked at him, shouted at him, ignored him, flounced out (only to return, embarrassed - and, truthfully shocked and unsettled at how little she could cope with the idea of truly leaving).
Through it all he had remained calm, amused, tolerant, friendly, understanding - so infuriatingly understanding - waiting until she had worn her mood out, resuming normal relations until she, once again, asked to him to repeat what he had said.
He would smile at her, genuinely, warmly, almost sadly - for a long while. If she got huffy, made a face, she didn't get an answer.
This had happened several times.
If she waited, he would eventually say, patiently;
"Very well, I'll repeat myself. Shortly - in the next few weeks - we'll have visitors - a few of them. Men. Over dinner, I will tell them that I'm making you available to them, that evening, and for the remainder of their stay - as a whore.
"I'll tell them that they must not hold back with you - that they should take the chance to do to you anything they have ever dreamed of doing to a woman - no matter what - that they are to consider you as nothing more than a plaything; a warm and willing sex toy - and if you're not willing, they must force you - with violence, if need be. With cruelty, if they wish - if it entertains them."
And she would stand, or sit, open-mouthed, chest heaving, heart pounding, transfixed, trembling, until at last, after minutes - many minutes perhaps, she would muster from somewhere the energy to make some proper show of outrage, of resistance, of disgust...
Somehow, this got harder and harder to carry off, until one day she had just stopped, mid flow, and burst into tears, stumbled brokenly towards him and wrapped her arms around him...
And, after this had led to one of the most torrid and frankly glorious sexual interludes she could remember, and after she had dozed on his chest, sated, she had drowsily lifted herself from his belly and looked up at him, voice soft but urgent, and very, very sincere;
"Please. Please - don't tease me. This .. this awful thing you tell me you are going to do .."
She falters, and he helps her;
"Whoring you out, you mean?"
She is all but undone, tears in her eyes;
"Please. ... Please, don't.."
He lets the silence grow, playing gently with her hair in a way that they both like, until at last he lifts her chin with a lazy finger so that he can look into her eyes;
"Silly girl. I'll do what I want with you, and you'll be surprised how little resistance you'll put up. This has been your fate since about an hour after we first met. It's been fun playing at boyfriend, but it's time to move you on."
She discovers that she cannot answer this, anymore than, when the day dawns, she can make herself leave - although she has told herself that this is exactly what she will do, has packed her bags for, ordered the taxi for.
But she doesn't open her door when the butler knocks to tell her the taxi is waiting; cannot - stands, furiously gripping the bedhead, shaking but immobile, until it is sent away, when she collapses in tears.
And when those are done, she numbly goes into the en-suite, and begins to prepare herself, as thoroughly as for some gala event. There is nothing else to be done.
After dinner, at a lull in the so far perfectly normal conversation, he says, as if he is announcing a tasting of a fine port or somesuch;
"Well, gentlemen, we should go into the lounge where there is brandy, whisky, cigars and so on. Then Chloe can strip herself for you and she's all yours."