Chapter Two
Two years prior
I knew your mother, had been her opening line.
An open air café in the heart of Paris. The girl, Carly, was dressed in a shabby summer print that hung on her body like a gunny sack, and a short thin yellow sweater that looked a size too small. Her hair is blonde and long, held back with a cloisonné clip. She gave off the s****l pheromones of youth, innocence and frailty, a vulnerable tension in her slight body, quavering with natural eroticism, although it had not been significantly challenged until that day. The woman, Dana, held her cigarette like an extension of her elegant fingers, and in a place where smoking was still chic, not the subject of disdain, she brought her unfiltered brand to her red painted lips and breathed in. As she exhaled, the cloud of smoke that swirled around her lent a mystical aura to her natural poise. That the day was cloudy and the air wet lent its hand in that poignant first encounter between the woman and the girl.
In fact, I worked for your mother at the embassy, my first job.
Carly didnt smoke during lunch, cigarettes were for s*x: before to seduce, after to calm the nerves; at least this was what the romance of smoking meant to her. But she was just twenty-two when she met Dana at the open air café and she had a lot to learn about s*x, seduction and the powerful effect of Dana and her cigarettes.
That afternoon, they spent in bed.
A girl needs at least one lesbian assignation in her s****l history, Dana told her as she was led to the walk-up flat. I think its best to happen early on before a lot of bad one-nighters taint the appetite for good s*x. Its no mistake that women know women.
Still dressed in Parisian haute couture, the woman came on ruthlessly, pushing Carly to the wall with a vengeance, her red nails like talons moving with savage efficiency. She planted kisses on her mouth, delicate ones to start then others with her tongue poking through her teeth into Carlys parted lips.
The girl was hungry for the experience, for the smell of Danas strong perfume, and the feel of her iron will taking her own and casting it off like yesterdays refuse.
Whens the last time you f****d a man? she grilled the girl.
Carly stood with her back pressed against the cold grey wall, the woman in shocking scarlet just inches from her, towering over her in stilettos that gave her fluid body its birch-like grace.
Tell me, when was the last time? she took the question serious enough to repeat it.
Last night.
For the first time since the encounter began in the café the woman took a moment to pause, as if for one brief second shed lost control of the scene shed so carefully orchestrated. She took control back a moment later and moved on effortlessly.
Well, well need to do something about that, wont we, my naughty girl?
Her red lips beamed with a smile so broad and demanding that the girls eyes could do nothing but stare. Carly smiled just timidly in return, her body quickening, embarrassingly so, at the mention of the word naughty. The woman was too sharp not to notice that insignificant shiver.
Dana stood back and began loosening buttons, stripping away the scarlet jacket and the silk beneath until she was down to her skirt and bra and stiletto heels. Take off the dress, she said as if she was giving orders.
The yellow sweater was already stuffed inside Carlys bag. Now she felt like a street urchin shucking the only thing she wore; no bra, no panties, no drama in this simple act of surrender. The watching Dana was immediately impressed.
Turn around, she said, your hands on the wall.
Once the hesitant Carly obeyed, the svelte brunette tucked her body in close to Carlys naked rear, with her groin pressed against the softness of the girls ass. With her silky hand gliding over the plump flesh, she said: One thing youll learn about me right off, I like to spank young girls behinds. She gave a first startling slap to Carlys right ass cheek, and followed it with a soothing caress.
With a sharp intake of breath Carly froze in fright, then she breathed out willing her horny body to relax.
Thats it, darling. Dana smacked her again, harder this time, then again, and a third and a fourth time until the sting was hot and the caress that followed a welcome relief. But the girl wanted more. As weird and wicked as the scene became, she needed more. More than smacks and deep caresses, a fondling hand and breathy whispers.
Dana, being Danaand smart enough to guess the truththe spanking came hard and fast from that point on, fueled by a fury rising up from the womans strident center, perhaps an inner demon that needed assuaging, one that rarely had a chance to speak with such forceful eloquence.
Once she finished the spanking, Danas long fingers inserted themselves into Carlys wet portal with one sharp nail insistently invading the dark rosette of the girls anus: a place of latent passion, a first time for the twenty-two year old.
Carlys first orgasm exploded so fast and produced such a bath of liquid coating Danas hand that the woman stepped back laughing. Ah, you are a blessed treasure. Were going to have so much fun. Now get on the bed and prepare to use your tongue.
The bed, yes. What that meant came roaring toward her in a wave of disgust, momentarily souring her stomach, until she deliberately took control and forced it back.
A girl needs at least one lesbian assignation in her s****l history
Something huge had been awakened within her and Carly turned on like a tigress. Meanwhile Dana lay back on the bed and raised her skirt. See, she said as she showed off her bare shaved mons to the waiting nubile tart, youre not the only girl in Paris who walks the streets with her crotch wide open to the breeze.
Carlys real s****l education began that day.
She loved the taste, the sweet and the sour, the fragrant aroma of a womans s*x. With one keen eye on Danas face, she lapped the womans gathering dew like a thirsty cat, turning on a s****l charm that would soon carry her places few would suspect the winsome girl to travel. Her efforts were not wasted. Carly had hardly begun her first oral exploration of a womans body when Dana suddenly orgasmed, back arched, head thrown to the mattress, her groin twitching and dancing on Carlys tongue as she cried out, Yes, yes, do it! Suck it, slut! like a hungry animal in heat. Grabbing Carlys blonde hair, she forced the girls face into her snatch and thrust her p***y into the lapping mouth, riding her little victim hard until every spasm finally died away.
The woman took some minutes to recover, minutes she guarded so jealously for herself that she paid no attention to the bewildered girl with the rank-smelling lips.
Ill just slip into the bathroom, Carly mumbled when she thought the woman was cognizant enough to hear her. Then she slid off the bed and pattered naked into the white-tiled room to pee. By the time she quickly washed herself and returned to the room, Dana was on her feet, doing up the last of the buttons on her silk blouse.
You wont mind if I call you from time to time, the woman saidnot a question exactly, more like a preemptive strike. We get along well, what with your need to submit and mine to dominate. I promise, Ill be kind. Her hazel eyes were lit so darkly that they took on a smoky hue. That is kind before and after. Im really not a b***h, even though I imagine youll come to believe that from time to time. She gave herself another long and lingering look at Carlys naked body. Yes, I can see that this lovely body of yours will benefit from a little rough abuse. Hm?
Really? She could see that?
Danas jacket was on and her handbag over her arm; she was about to leave. Then almost as an afterthought, she suddenly moved on the flustered Carly and gave her a motherly kiss on the cheek: the kind of kiss that owns you, that the defiant would angrily wipe from their cheek; and the bewildered, like Carly, might savor. Though, lord knows, theyd wonder why.
Their affair was much like their first encounter: sporadic, earnest, challenging and s****l; hotly s****l. Dana gave the orders, Carly obeyedall very new to Carly, but a relationship she tacitly agreed to out of boredom, intrigue and the need for a lesbian affair to set the stage for the rest of her lifeor so she told herself in moments when she wanted to flip-off the arrogant woman and leave. She didnt really like her much, but she did enjoy Danas body. And, secretly, she did enjoy being dominatedwhich nearly led to their break up when James Battles stumbled into her life a year later in a crowded bar.
Carly wanted a man more than she wanted a female lover, and handsome, dashing Americans like James were just the sort to turn her head. At first she toyed with him, flirting recklessly, because she knew shed eventually pay for her saucy quips and rude retorts and the times she was often latebusy men dont like being kept waiting for s*x by young trollopshis wordswhen their important lives adhere to a strict schedule. She wanted to toss his Blackberry into the Seine.
Carly blatantly refused to be controlled by James, until the day she pissed him off enough that he laid into her with his spanking hand and had her coming in about fifteen astonishing seconds. Their affair took a sharp shift that day, beginning its rocky road through dominance and submission, one that took Carly to her very last date with James Battles in the Paris garret.
She had to leave quickly that day, as did he, neither realizing that they are going to wind up at the same embassy party. Little did she know that coming out of that event her life would take another sharp shift and James Battles would be resigned to a place in her personal history, hardly more important to her than a library book she checked out, read and promptly returned.
Ending s*x with Dana would be more dicey than ending her affair with James. Their involvement was complicated. It had never been clear to Carly if Dana wanted her more for s*x or for business. In the business area of their association, shed become a paid escort for powerful men who wanted a pretty Parisian girl to help them suffer through their nights in Paris hotelsall arranged for by Dana. For most men, these were platonic dates, although others assumed that s*x was the whole point of the evening. It didnt matter to Carly whether they f****d her or notrudimentary s*x was easy enough. After all, she was being paid, and found money like this couldnt be turned down.
But just to clarify to assume that Carly was a Parisian girl would be incorrect. Although she was the daughter of diplomats and had lived her entire life in Europe, she was a bonafide American, carrying an American passport. Her mother died when she was sixteen following a long and difficult illness. Her father went much faster, taken down by a heart attack just as Carly was finishing school at the Sorbonne, and just prior to her meeting Dana Durrant. Carly had been scheduled to return to the United States that fall when her father retired from the foreign service, but having been left an orphan on her own at twenty-two, she had no reason to return to a place shed rarely been and did not know. Options with relatives were few. Her mother had cousins in the South that were pretty strange as far as Carly was concerned, so she wouldnt be leaping into their household. Her fathers sister Grace in New Jersey suggested that Carly come live with her until she got settled. But she was settled enough in Paris and Naples, and even London where shed lived at the time of her mothers death. Finding a life in places she knew seemed more reasonable than landing in the complex vastness of the United States with no clue about what she wanted to do. More than that, however, Europe had a comfortable though exciting mystique for a girl whod yet to taste all it had to offer.