CHAPTER 4: Theo
Goddammit, that was tough. Close up, Piper wasn’t just sexy, she was drop dead beautiful. Even dressing that slutty and ho-ing it up she didn’t overdo the makeup, using just the lightest touch to bring out her sapphire blue eyes and highlight her cheekbones. And then there were her lips, so red, so full, so sensual, almost as hot as her body. She didn’t have the enormous, hard, fake tits a lot of the girls had, only a full, natural rack to make a grown man weep, with an ass to match.
I was only able to resist her, bending over and practically begging me to put it in, because I saw that young looking girl creep by. If I’d had to hold on any longer for her to make her escape, I may have had to fuck Piper just to keep us both busy. And I wasn’t into that. I like the ladies, but I need them to like me too, if only for a few minutes.
I don’t know what made me follow Piper upstairs when she got back from her break. Maybe it was because she was trying to be sneaky, which always makes the outcome amusing, maybe it just piqued my curiosity. But, when I heard her give that money to the bruised girl from the break room and tell her where she was going, I just had to play along. I was sure I’d be chewed out and sent to go find her but, hey, it was my first day.
The rest of the night passed uneventfully. I did see that Vinnie guy Miguel told me about, just before two. He gave me a smile and a nod as he passed, on his way in, like I was some flunky that took his hat and coat from him every night.
He was at least six-four, a few inches taller than me, and he had a thick gold hoop through each ear, as well as about twenty-five pounds on me, most of which he was carrying in his chest and shoulders. Call it some sort of intuition, but I got the worst feeling as he walked by, like a bad taste of pain to come. I knew he was heading up to see Piper, so I pointed him to the room she was in
When three o’clock rolled around, I was in the break room and heard some heels clicking wearily down the corridor. I ducked my head out to see Piper striding out through the door. I felt bad that I must have made her feel unattractive, so I ran after her. I caught her as she went through the outer door and quickly noticed the mascara and eye shadow tracing dark tear tracks down her cheeks.
“Hey,” said, “are you okay?”
“Why do you care?” she snapped at me. “If you want me to throw myself at you again you’ll have to wait until tomorrow, I have a ‘one rejection per day’ limit.”
I put my hand on hers to stop her walking away, but she looked at me with such ferocity, like I’d was using unreasonable force to restrain her. I quickly took my hand away and held it up in surrender.
“I’m sorry,” I smiled, trying to defuse her obvious impending anger, “but if you knew how much self-control I had to summon just to resist you, you wouldn’t be upset.” Her tear stained face looked into mine and I could just about sense the ice melting. “Seriously, I had to go jerk off three times just to stop thinking about your ass.”
Just for one second, she burst out laughing and her face lit up beautifully. “So why did you?”
“I knew you were playing me. I heard you and the other girl planning in her room. Only, I couldn’t find a reason to stop her.”
She stopped laughing and stared off for a second. Eventually, she softly said, “Thank you.”
***
I got Miguel to cover for me and Piper to agree to grab a coffee at the diner on the corner. After we sat down, we both realized we were starving and ordered eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, toast, and pancakes. We both ordered our eggs scrambled and took our coffee black, no sugar.
“Where were you heading?” I asked when the waitress had gone to order our food.
“Don’t worry, I wasn’t running, I was heading back to my apartment.”
“Sorry, I thought you lived on the top floor with the other girls,” I said, a little surprised.
“You only get your free room and board for six months. It gives Anna a way to make sure we’re at work on time and that we’re not shooting up or moonlighting,” she told me casually.
“Do you mind if I ask you why you were crying?” I said.
“Trust me, Theo, you don’t want to know,” she replied.
“Try me,” I told her slowly, trying to engender as much trust as I could.
She sat and stared at me, those big blue eyes studying me intently, before finally opening her mouth to speak.
“There’s a client. A big guy. Always wears an expensive suit,” she carried on speaking, using short, deliberate sentences. “He’s a mob boss. His name’s Vinnie”
“Tony told me about Vinnie,” I said. “I saw him tonight.”
Piper barely noticed I spoke. She just kept staring at the table until our food came, then she just stared at her plate. “He comes to see me two, three times a week. He always tips everyone a lot, especially me. Money doesn’t mean much to him. Unfortunately, nor do people.” I saw another tear well in her eye and fall down her cheek. Her hands tightened around her coffee cup. “He likes me a lot and, because I’m good at my job, he thinks I like him too. But every time he… he likes to…” she was struggling, another tear fell.
“Hey, it’s okay,” I whispered to her. She seemed to break out of her trance. She offered me a weak smile and took a forkful of eggs. I started on my bacon and sausage and we ate in silence for a few minutes.
“He’s smart,” she said, out of nowhere. “He never leaves any marks, but he knows just how to make it hurt. What to use on me, how to position me for maximum pain. It’s the only thing that gets him off…”
As she spoke I could feel a surge of anger rising in my chest. I didn’t know this girl but finding out that she, or anybody, was having to suffer like this pissed me off.
“That sonofabitch,” I spat. “Don’t worry, Piper, I’ll make sure he doesn’t touch you ever again.” It was my weakness; I could never stand to see women mistreated. Fuck knows probably every girl in that place was having a hard time but, with Piper spelling it out like that, her situation seemed worse somehow. I needed to help her. I felt righteous, furious and unstoppable, until I spotted an amused smile on her face.
“You’re sweet, kid,” she laughed. “Now eat your pancakes. Don’t think for a second you can make a difference here. I see Vinnie two or three times a week and that’s okay. I have time to recover. And, no offense, but I don’t think you’re about to take on Madam X, your own gang and the Mafia to save a poor whore you just met. I don’t care how chivalrous you like to think you are.”
That put me in my place. But I still wasn’t sure why I was getting so mad. “But, how can you go on like this?” was all I could manage.
“I don’t have a choice. I got myself into this life. The bitch of it is, I nearly have enough money saved to get myself out. Even after the cash I gave to April, I only need another month and I can be free. Only tonight,” she looks away quickly, her face creasing up in pain again, “Vinnie told me he wants to keep me. I know I’ll never be able to match any offer he makes so I’m screwed. I know I won’t survive long entertaining him seven days a week.”
I didn’t say anything this time. I didn’t want her to dismiss my urge to help her again but I also didn’t want to give her any false hope.
Outside the diner, after we’d eaten, Piper thanked me for listening. The sun was just starting to show its first rays over the horizon as I walked her to her car. It was parked behind the club after all. We stopped and she opened the door, before turning back to me. She opened her mouth to say something, then closed it and shook her head slightly.
“Did you really jerk off over me three times?” she smiled instead.
Looking at her out of her work clothes, in just a simple jeans and shirt, her long blonde hair flying free, her makeup fixed now but still slightly smudged from crying, my heart started racing. I didn’t know how she could look any more beautiful.
“Is it true what you said about you girls drawing straws to see who got to be first to have me?” I smiled back
“I asked you first.”
“No, I lied,” I told her. “It was four times.”
She laughed, planted a quick kiss on my cheek, and jumped into her car without another word. I waved her off as she drove away and went back inside the club.
***
I’d just got back through the inner door when Miguel found me. He told me Anna wanted to see me. I swallowed. Her reputation had been built up pretty fierce to me today and I’ll admit I was nervous. She either wanted to say hi, which didn’t sound likely, wanted to bitch at me for letting April go, in which case I’d plead the fifth, or something I hadn’t considered, which was the scary bit. I took a deep breath and headed up to the fourth floor.
At the top of the stairs was another short corridor with a door at the end. There was a button on the door, so I pressed it and felt compelled to smile up at the camera that was looking down at me. The door buzzed open, so I pushed it aside and walked in.
After the harsh fluorescents in the rest of the place, the natural light in this room was a soothing relief. The entire east wall was floor to ceiling windows and the breaking dawn was casting a low glow over everything, which was being supplemented by subtle, hidden light sources around the apartment. The space was filled with very modern furniture and was entirely open plan. The furthest wall from me was home to a pristine kitchen that included a large island and stainless steel appliances. A good part of the west wall was taken up by a huge, black, four poster bed that sat very close to the floor and, next to a big gray sectional couch facing the entryway, was a matching chaise longue with Anna reclining on it. She lay back, seemingly uncaring that her black silk bathrobe fell open far enough to show pretty much all of her shapely legs, and plunged down almost to her navel.
There was a martini on the small glass table beside her, along with a TV remote. I could hear the soft moaning that girls make when they are expressing their identity as liberated, sexual beings and, when I looked around to the massive flat-screen on the wall behind me, I saw two hot, naked chicks stroking and fondling each other. One slowly began her journey going down on the other, kissing and licking her way along the other’s smooth, tanned skin and, when the screen froze, the girl’s tongue was a hairsbreadth from a hairless, waiting pussy.
“You always greet new hires this way?” I asked her, as she placed down the remote and picked up the glass.”
“That depends,” she smiled, her eyes traveling slowly up and down my body. “Drink?” She threw her legs off the seat and drained her glass.
“Sorry, four in the morning’s a bit early for me.”
“Don’t judge,” she narrowed her eyes at me. “Make me another, would you? I need to take a quick shower.” She turned without waiting for an answer and headed towards the kitchen where, I quickly realized, there was a sliding door of frosted glass beside the cabinets that I assumed was the bathroom. Without looking around, she casually undid her robe after she’d turned away from me and shrugged it to the floor, as though I didn’t exist.
“You can put the film back on while I’m gone, if you like,” she said as I watched her naked form slide open the glass door and walk into what looked like simply one big shower. She may have been at least ten years older than me, or any of the girls downstairs, but she still had a hot body. Her back was slender and her ass was perfect, her skin pale like porcelain. I decided I knew why she’d summoned me up here, and I would be lying if I said it didn’t turn me on.
She didn’t close the frosted door, just left it open and stepped under the pouring water, leaning back in a practiced maneuver that kept her shoulder length black hair out of the water. It turned her side on to me as she let the water wash over her chin while I managed to make it over to her small bar to see if I could fix a martini. There’s always a first time for everything.
“Any trouble tonight?” I heard her yell from the bathroom.
“Nothing to speak of,” I called back. I was pretty sure she didn’t want to know exactly how my night went. I mixed and shook, pretty certain that I was never going to make it as a bartender.
“That’s not quite what I heard,” she said, her voice suddenly much closer than before. I spun around and found she had come back out of the bathroom without me hearing her. Either she was really sneaky or I was more tired than I thought. I looked away politely, as she was holding a towel and drying her face but making no attempt to cover up her naked body. I think she smiled. “I heard we lost April,” she continued, ignoring my uncomfortable expression.
“April?” I tried.
“One of the newer girls. No one is a prisoner her but every girl I take under my wing I invest a substantial sum of money in.” She walked towards me, holding the towel to her neck so it failed completely to hide her nudity, falling straight down between her small, yet pert, breasts. A single drop of water ran quickly down from her shoulder, over the mound of her breast, to hang as a drop from her pointed nipple. She looked down at it and dabbed her chest with the towel, lifting it enough to uncover the smooth area of skin between her legs. Whether she was doing this on purpose or just very comfortable in her skin, I couldn’t tell.
“But it’s not your fault. First day and so on,” she said, stopping less than a foot from me. “Anyway, I have an idea how you can make it up to me.”
My heart was hammering in my chest. I wasn’t used to being seduced like this. I usually did the seducing. I tried to look away.
“What’s wrong? Don’t you like my body?” she made a face like a disappointed child, dropping her towel and lifting my chin to face her.
“It’s not…” I stammered pathetically. “It’s just…”
“Shh…” Anna smiled and ran her hands down my chest, over my stomach, and started pulling my shirt out of my jeans. She reached around my back and lifted my gun out, before tossing it onto the couch. Her hands went back to my belt and deftly undid it, then she pulled my pants apart. My already hard cock sprang out and twitched as she cupped my balls, running the palm of her hand up the length of me. “Well, hello,” she purred as I sucked in air. She dropped to her knees and took the tip of me in her mouth. I shuddered. I was still pretty worked up by my near miss with Piper, and now this Asian temptress was all over me. It was tough not to just shoot my load right there.
She moaned loudly, her lips wrapped around my dick, while I tried not to blow. I didn’t think it would be a good idea to leave Madam X frustrated, for my job’s sake or for the girls. She must have sensed my problem, however. “Don’t cum, yet” she hissed, taking me out of her mouth. “Impress me right now and I’ll make it worth your while. I saw you talking with Piper,” she jerked my stiff cock as she spoke, smiling as I tensed up. “You like her? I can make sure she’s around for a while longer, if you want.”
Was she really offering to not sell her to Vinnie in exchange for me fucking her? Did this mean I’d have to fuck her regularly? Was I prepared to do that to keep Piper safe? Did she mean that much to me? I hardly knew her but, if I could help her, stop the deal with Vinnie, at least until she had all the money to buy her freedom? I don’t know why I needed to save her from him, it was just a feeling I had.
“You’re so hot, I can’t take it,” I told her, pulling her up off the floor. She smiled at that, wiping her lips as she stood up. “Let me take care of you properly,” I said, leading her back to the chaise longue. I lay her down and kneeled down on the floor. She her spread legs either side of me.
“Fuck, yes!” she laughed. “Good boy,” she mocked as she used two fingers to spread her sex open before me and a third to give her clit a couple of enticing strokes.
As I leaned in and went to work on her wet pussy with my tongue, she grabbed her remote, un-paused the lesbian porn and stared at it, moaning almost in time with the girl getting eaten out on the screen. I guessed she must have been playing with herself before I came up, because it only took a few moments of my tongue and fingers, with a little help from the lovely girls on the TV, before her small, tight body was bucking off the chair, and she was screaming, “Fuck! Fuck! Don’t stop!” while grinding her twitching lips against my face.
“Fuck me, Theo,” she commanded, pulling my head up from between her thighs. It was so similar to what Piper had said to me before, her face popped right back into my head, which was strange. I’ve never been one to get hung up on a girl. I like to treat them well, sure, but it’s only ever temporary. I’d never found myself thinking of one girl when I’m about to fuck another. Anna reached for my cock and grabbed it with both hands, pulling me back into the moment.
“Give it to me! Quickly!” she panted, dragging me towards her slick entrance. She let out a low moan as the tip of me touched her and tried to pull me inside. Only I put my hands on her hips and held her fast.
“Swear you won’t sell Piper to Vinnie,” I said, quietly but firmly. She stopped, my firm rod still throbbing at the edge of her frantic hole.
“What?” she sighed, breathlessly.
“Swear you won’t accept the offer from Vinnie for Piper, let her buy herself out.” I clarified calmly. She flexed her pelvis, desperately trying to force us closer together, but I still remained unmoved.
“Are you fucking crazy?” she nearly wailed in frustration. I stayed quiet and still, trying to tease her beyond endurance. “Fine, I won’t sell her!” she snapped. “Now, for fuck’s sake, do me!”
Satisfied, I relaxed my grip on her hips and shoved myself inside her as hard as I could, and she rewarded me with a grateful moan of ecstasy.