The next night was a Wednesday, and at around eight o'clock I wandered casually into Valerie's office. She looked up with a start, but as expected, a fury descended on her face very quickly.
"Where have you been?" she demanded of me. "You haven't answered my pages. You've changed your email password. What the fuck are you doing? Do you want me to destroy you?"
I said nothing to her. Instead, I grabbed the laptop I had cradled under my arm and I placed it on her table.
She looked at me, frowning with agitated incomprehension. "Well?" she nearly yelled. "Say something. Speak, bitch!"
"Shut up."
She recoiled as though I had slapped her in the face. "Wh..." she started, and faltered. "Wha..." and the storm clouds rolled across her face, flashing thunder and lightning, and she filled her lungs for a good bellow.
But the air left her as my laptop woke up and showed her that I had a copy of the video she had made the night prior, the video of me and my wife's friend Janine, fucking each other like crazy. "How..." she started, but it was all she could manage.
"Turned out that getting Janine involved was a mistake," I told her. "Well, a mistake on your part, at least. She looks a bit of a bimbo, but she's actually pretty savvy. She found your video saved on the computer's cache."
Valerie didn't understand. At least, she didn't understand how this granted me a sudden dose of backbone. "So?" she boggled. "So what? You've got a copy of the video, but it only shows the two of you fucking. I'm not on the video, I stayed off the camera! How can this help you?"
I fixed her in the eye, wanting to be sure I had her full attention. And not wanting to miss her reaction. "Turns out also: the webcam had a microphone. Have a listen."
I unpaused the video, and Valerie's voice rang loud and clear out of the speakers: "...we've set you up," she was telling Janine. "I told him to fuck you - and so he did! Such a good little bitch he is..."
"And, just in case that wasn't enough," I added, and I clicked to another file. "Janine was also able to find a copy of the first video, the one from the night when you caught me. And back on that night, you didn't feel the need to keep yourself off the camera. Remember?"
Just to prove the point, I set the other video to play. And it showed, in full and clear detail, No-Vadge Valerie on her knees, sucking greedily and hungrily at my cock, drinking me up as I came full-force with my head tipped back, and as I came she was looking up at me. And there was that look on her face, that look that needed, wanted, searched for my approval and love - the look that had always confounded me, representing an absolute about-face from the domineering hateful persona that she wore at all other times, all times other than when she would give in to some apparent need of hers and drink up every drop of my cum.
While watching the video on my laptop, Valerie's face had gone white. As her situation sank in, as the realisation that she had been beaten at her own game hit home, I saw her grab hold of some dignity and resolve, and she turned to me.
"So then," she said, quite simply. "What now?"
"Just to spell out the obvious," I began. "If you try to do anything that would destroy me or humiliate Janine, we will make these videos public. They show all the details of you blackmailing me, and then trying to force me to take Janine against her will. They are more incriminating against you than they are against me. If you ever try to bring me down, I will bring you down with me, Valerie. And that's a fucking promise," I finished.
She nodded, and I saw perhaps a hint of admiration lurking behind the cold look of loathing and fury upon her face. "Well played, Jeremy," she allowed, with a nod as though from one professional to another. "Is that all? Are we done?"
"We haven't even started," I told her, with a cold shake of my head. "See, you did a lot of things to me. You pinned me down, broke me to your will and humiliated me. Right now, I kind of feel like returning the favour."
Valerie's eyes narrowed. "You wouldn't," she told me. "You haven't got the balls to stand over me."
"You don't think so?" I reached into my pocket and grabbed my phone. "Janine's online right now, and she's got the videos ready to go. And never mind the whole 'post it on the company forum' thing, she's ready to email it directly to the partners and senior lawyers of the firm. She's waiting for my call. One click, and they're sent, unable to be recalled or withdrawn." I flicked my phone open, and glared at her.
"Care to push your luck?" I challenged her.
Valerie tried to maintain a strong front, but I could see her hesitation. "You wouldn't," she hazarded. "The movies. They'll expose you too, you'll be fired too."
"No no. See, I'm a victim here," I informed her. "I may have done wrong in downloading all that porn on company computers, but your punishment is grossly, grossly disproportionate to the crime. Not to mention horrid, disgusting, unethical and unthinkable - a stupendous violation of my rights as an individual and a human being. It's tantamount to rape, Valerie," I told her.
"Bullshit," she piped up. "You enjoyed it."