Ch08: Induction and Training
The woman who met me in the car-park beneath ‘The Scrava' was tall and black. Brazilian, my boss had said.
She was absolutely stunning.
She wore a full-length crimson-red velvet coat which stretched all the way down to her ankles. High, black, spiked boot heels peeped out underneath. Her hair was clipped up elegantly on top of her head, save for a few loose strands which snaked teasingly down her cheeks.
"You must be Elizabeth," she said, her voice terse, formidable.
I nodded and smiled nervously.
Wow. Look at those eyes. How could anyone have eyes like that? Bright emerald-green hypnotic jewels. Enchanting, Bewitching. Frightening.
She scanned me, sized me up, read me. Unable to match her gaze, I pretended to be distracted by the small thud behind me of my chauffeur pulling the driver-side door closed after him. He had delivered me. To her.
Why did she stare at me like that?
"I will be your instructor," she said finally.
Yes. The CTO had told me I was to attend an ‘induction and training' day. Mr. Khani had booked me to perform for him ‘sometime soon', apparently. My first booking. And I needed to be trained in preparation for it, he had said.
"Follow me," she said curtly, spinning on her boot-heels.
I followed. This wasn't the way we usually took, was it? Where were we going?
"You have a lot to learn," she said over the echoing clip-clop of our heels, "but they tell me you are pretty intelligent for a whore."
Intelligent for a whore? What was that supposed to mean?
We navigated our way down and around the deserted, barely lit corridors and myriad flights of stairs that ran underneath ‘The Scrava'. She walked with purpose, her boot-heels stomping out a resounding beat. I trotted along behind her far less assuredly in my office heels.
We came to what was evidently a security door of some kind. She took out a swipe-card, ran it through the mounted card-reader, and waited for a small ‘click'. She kicked the door open with one of her boots, and we marched onwards. The door clicked shut behind us.
Things looked different suddenly. The corridors were well-lit, furnished, carpeted, and clean. Hotel-like. Doors lined the walls at regular intervals – all numbered and swipe-card operated as far as I could make out.
We turned a corner and there it was: Door number ninety-four.
I gasped inwardly. A room with my number on it? Why?
"Your room," she said, turning the swipe-card in her fingers and slipping it through the reader.
My room!? Why did I need a room?
She pushed the door with the outside of her boot, and it opened into one of the most lavishly decorated apartments I had ever seen: Ornate middle-eastern furnishings lined with silver and gold. Marble floor tiles, silk rugs. Intricate workmanship in the framed paintings, tapestries, mirrors. Medieval candle-stands. Urns, plants. A golden ceiling fan. A four-poster king-size bed fit for royalty.
Wow. It was unreal.
She took off her coat and handed it to me.
What the hell was she wearing!? What kind of outfit was that? A kind of whitish semi-transparent mini-dress! ...Clinging so fantastically tightly to her body, like a sexy second skin... I had never seen anything like it! Her largish breasts pressed up tantalisingly against the silky fabric… enormous thick brown nipples… and there was that dark mound between her legs...
My heart pounded. Get a grip on yourself for Christ's sake! It's only a dress. She's a woman! Beautiful, yes, but still a woman. Not a man. No need to feel weak at the knees over a woman.
A few inches of silky-smooth chocolate-brown flesh separated the hem of her dress from the tops of her thigh-high boots. Lean, long, athletic legs, curved in all the right places…
I gawped at her, stunned.
"Hang my coat over there," she ordered, pointing at an impressive hand-crafted wooden coat-stand.
Why couldn't she hang up her coat herself?
I trotted across the room and hooked the coat neatly onto the stand, unable to dispel from my mind the fuzzy image of her sex showing through her dress.
When I turned back to face her she was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the bed, swinging one boot playfully.
God. How could I not fancy someone as beautiful as that?
I stood before her in my sluttish office blouse and skirt and felt ridiculous. Plain. Average. Inferior.
"Strip," she said.
I blinked at her unbelievingly. What?
"I want you naked," she said. "NOW."
Who did she think she was? Did she expect me to just take off my clothes and stand naked before her?
"Do you have a problem with authority?" she asked.
"No..."
"Then take off your clothes. RIGHT NOW."
I frowned at her defiantly. Was this part of the ‘induction and training'?
"Are you going to do what I tell you or not?" she barked. "If not, you can get out of here right now and go explain your disobedience to your pimp."
My pimp? What pimp?
"I'm not a common street whore," I said, raising my voice. "I don't have a pim…"
"SHUT UP!" she screamed. "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHORE. SHUT UP!"
She sprang up from the bed and her face was suddenly two inches from mine, eyeballing me fiercely. Green penetrating eyes. Like those of a cat. I took a frantic, instinctive step backwards.
"Down here you are a whore," she growled. "You have been registered as a whore, and as far as I or any of your paying customers are concerned, you always have been a whore and you always will be a whore. Do you understand me?"
I straightened up, trembling.
"Yes, but there's no need to…" I whined.
SLAP.
I hardly saw it arrive. It caught me flat across the cheek.
Bitch! She had slapped me in the face! She couldn't do that!
"Are you going to strip for me like a good little whore, or am I going to have to slap you again?"
Adrenaline rushed through my veins. I shook almost uncontrollably. I was furious. Livid. Scared.
I glared at her.
SLAP.
I was too late to block the blow. How dare she do that! I would slap her back. Right now.
"STRIP!" she yelled at me. "I WANT YOU NAKED."
"You can't slap me -" I started to protest.
SLAP. SLAP.
I drew my arms up to defend my face, but clearly anticipating my defence, she grabbed both my wrists with one strong hand and dragged them effortlessly away down to my waist. With her free hand she slapped me again.
SLAP.
"Are you going to do what I tell you or not?" she barked.
SLAP.
"Well?"