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- MISTRESS OF BONDAGE
-
- PART I
-
- Sue placed her coffee cup back on her saucer with a sharp crack
- and rubbed her eyes vigorously. Reading for a long period of time
- always made her eyes hurt and the miniscule print of the Sunday Times
- was even worse. She flicked a lock of auburn hair away from her face
- and picked the paper up off the table to make sure her exhausted eyes
- had not deceived her. Then she lounged back in the sofa and reread the
- advertisement for the third time.
- "Five thousand pounds." She whispered hesitantly as though the
- figures would disappear from the page should she speak too loudly.
- "Five thousand pounds for less than three months work." Sue would have
- discarded the whole thing as rubbish had it not been offered by a very
- prestigious London firm, well known for integrity and
- professionalism. She made two large rings on the paper with a red felt
- pen and rose from the couch.
- The sun hit her from the left as she opened the french doors and
- walked out onto the balcony of her London flat. Her lovely face broke
- into a smile and she threw her arms back to go into a firm stretch that
- might shake the cobwebs loose.
- "You'll have the coppers on your tail if you keep that up, luv,"
- Harry chirped from the street down below. He was getting into his car
- but had paused to admire the view.
- "Honestly!" Sue said, smiling down at her handsome neighbor. "You
- British guys get more thrills from a girl in a nightgown and a pair of
- panties than one in a bikini." She was really fond of her neighbor.
- She moved over to the railing and rested her elbows on it.
- "On you way to work?"
- "Yeah, if I still have a job. They probably gave it to someone else
- at 8:01 this morning. How's the Duchess?"
- "Still asleep." Sue replied. "How late did you keep her out last
- night?"
- "Miss Hart, such a question a lady does not ask and a gentleman does
- not answer." Sue cocked her eyebrow at him. "Two o'clock," Harry said
- and they both laughed heartily.
- "Well, there'll be none of that when we go to work." Harry's face
- brightened even more than usual at the news that Terry and Sue had found
- summer employment. The girls had arrived in the U.K. last fall to spend
- a year studying at one of the more fashionable girl's schools and he had
-
- grown very close to them. Near the close of the last semester, financial
- disaster has struck when they wrecked a lease car and had not taken out
- the proper insurance.
- "That's just marvelous, Sue but why would they pay five thousand
- quid for tour guides at an old castle?" Harry asked when she had
- explained the advertisement.
- "Well, there must certainly be more to it than that, but Terry and I
- certainly fit the requirements." Sue continued. "They're looking for
- young, attractive, intelligent girls with athletic abilities and
- adventuresome spirits." Harry grinned and winked at her. "So'm I luv,
- except they needn't be all that intelligent," he quipped. "I really need
- to push off, Sue. Good luck on those jobs. Tell the Duchess I asked
- about her."
- Sue went back into the living room, grabbed the paper and bounced in
- to Terry's bedroom. Terry's generous mane of blonde hair sprouted
- elegantly from the inert lump under the covers. Once she had opened the
-
- drapes, Sue sat on the bed and nudged her friend on the shoulder.
- "Wake up, Terry," she said, "we have an answer to our problems."
- Within a few seconds, Terry had turned over, sat up with a chirpy "good
- morning" to her friend, and was peering intently at the Sunday Times
- advertisement.
- "Boy, Sue," she said, glancing up merrily at her friend, "when you
- wish for something, you do it right!" Sue laughed and watched as Terry
- continued reading. The lovely blonde was one of those rare girls who
- could roll out of bed and onto the cover of a high fashion magazine with
- nothing more than a toss of her hair. Terry soon came to the same
- question that Harry asked earlier. It just seemed like too much money
- for too little work. She was not really concerned, just inquisitive.
- She knew that Sue probably had things pretty well figured out.
- "The way the ad reads, they put on more of a show than a tour.
- I don't know exactly what they want, but I'm sure we can handle it." Sue
- was always so confident.
- "But why are you so sure we'll get the jobs, Sue," asked Terry.
- "Surely they'll get hundreds of applications."
- "Read the qualifications, Duchess. They're talking about us."
- Sue's eyes narrowed and lost some of their earlier glint. "Besides, we
- just have to get the jobs." Terry reached out to touch her shoulder.
- "Sue, we've been best friends since we were fourteen. You've pulled
- my buns out of the fire a hundred times and Daddy knows it. He'll pay
- for the damn car."
- "Terry, he's already paid for the most exciting year of my life and
- all I had to do was to keep a lid on you while we were over here." Sue
- was almost in tears. "Now just look how I repay him."
- "Come on, Sue," Terry replied, "your friendship is the best thing
- that ever happened to me. You don't owe me or my father anything.
- Besides, it wasn't your fault the road was so slippery. Now would you
- hug me before I start crying too!"
- They embraced each other tenderly and then Terry picked up the paper
- again. They both agreed that the job sounded exciting and that they
- would make application for it right away. Sue extracted the photo album
- from the nightstand and thumbed through it as she moved toward the door.
- "What are you looking for?" Terry asked as she threw off her
- covers.
- "That picture your brother took of us that summer when we taught
- gymnastics at camp. They want girls who are athletic and attractive and
-
- you have to admit that those leotards didn't hide much. We never looked
- better. That's the picture I want to send to those people."
- Terry watched her friend's buttocks shift erotically under her
- panties as she walked absently through the door. "I swear, Sue, the next
- time I hug you I'm going to give you a long, juicy kiss right on that
- beautiful mouth of yours." She sighed and then rose to begin her day.
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- "Mr. Carney?" Lady Miranda Thorne's voice hung in the telephone so
- softly as to be nearly inaudible, but Lawrence Carney had become accustom
- ed to it. He had never seen her in the last six years that he and his
- firm had handled her business affairs, but her thin, wispy voice over the
- telephone had been worth thousands. For that reason, he was always glad
- to hear from her even if she was a trifle unnerving.
- "So nice to hear from you again, Lady Miranda, what can I do for
- you?" Her reply caused him to snatch his glasses from his face and throw
- them on the desk. "But you can't have made your decision so soon, Lady
-
- Miranda. That first batch I sent you had but nine applications.
- I posted dozens more only an hour ago. They should reach you the day
- after tomorrow." He was dumbfounded.
- "Notwithstanding your herculean efforts, Mr. Carney, I'm irrevocably
- conviced that Miss McArdle and Miss Hart will be perfect for my
- situation. Please issue suitable instructions and have them here by
- three o'clock this afternoon." Lady Miranda had a habit of expecting the
- impossible.
- "This afternoon?" Carney almost shouted into the phone. "But,
- they'll have to release their flat, or sublet it or something, and then
- there's..."
- "I know what you can do, Mr. Carney," she replied, "three o'clock
- please."
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