It took the best part of another hour to sort out the remaining details. Gulong and I then said goodbye as Xi Feng had Wuz Hou went through to the club office. I said I'd try and get back to New York. I made my way into the office and refilled my glass. Xi Feng had Wuz Huou pinned down on the sofa and was riding him hard. I'd been wrong, she hadn't even bothered to wait and take a room. I left them to it.
It had started to get late and the throng had started to thin as the conquistadors(dorinas) made off with their conquests. Most of what was left were either establish couples or fish-out-of water. As I watched the floor a figure slid up behind me, and put his hands around my waist, kissing me on the shoulder as he did so. "Hello Marcus"
"How'd you know it was me?"
"Silly question, after the time we spent together. Was the champagne okay?"
"Yes. Thankyou. See anything you fancy?"
"There's nothing outstanding, but I don't want a 'I'm gods gift to women type', there are a couple of likely candidates, I just need to convince them that they want to come home with me"
"Why don't you take my booth, and I'll go suggest they might like to come up. I think I'm done for the evening."
"Leaving alone?"
"Yes nothing struck a chord tonight"
"Have a word with Jo Huang on your way out. Tell him Cordelia says to fetch Kimberly Asher from room 315 and she's to go with you."
"Any particular reason"
"Feeling a little guilty I suppose. She'll need a bit of TLC for a couple of days. She has a future here but she needs to make the first step as a walker. It'll be something of a leap for her so she'll need some convincing."
"Anything else?"
"No"
"Which two were you thinking of?" I indicated the two "You certainly don't make life easy for yourself. You could have picked two that were likely to know one another. Still its your bed, assuming you're going to get that far"
"Marcus. How dare you suggest such a thing." I playfully swatted at him then kissed him on the cheek, whispering as I did so "I thought the pool actually"
He laughed. "Goodnight Cordelia. Nice seeing you again. Take care."
He turned a walked along the balcony, whilst I turned in the opposite direction and headed for his booth, beckoning the maitradee as I did so.
The first of the pair arrived, escorted by the maitradee, about 10 minutes later. The maitradee introduced him as James Miller. He was a student studying Materials Science at xxxxxxx, in his final year. He lacked a lot in his communication skills and it was a little difficult to keep him talking as he kept giving blunt answers. Thankfully I wasn't interested in his intellect. The 15 minutes it took for the maitradee to arrive with the second of the pair seemed intermnible and I was almost on the point of giving up. He was introduced as Robert Charles Anderson. I'd stood when he'd arrived as he seemed a little taken aback by the presence of James. When I indicate he take a seat he did so, waited until I'd sat down again then said "So what is it you want Miss Chan"
"Are you always this direct/"
"No. But I'd like an answer all the same."
"Okay then. A direct answer deserves a direct answer. I've had a bad afternoon and need some company overnight. Are you intereseted?"
"May be what's in it for us, I'm assuming that you expect either or both of us to turn you down?"
"I was expecting neither of you to turn me down"
"You ditn't answer the question"
"I can offer you a night you won't forget in a hurry"
"And?"
"What else do you want?"
James responded first "500 bucks", but Robert remained silent. "Do you want a drink whilst you think it over or can we go, I'm dying here."
"We can go, but I need my jacket from the cloakroom "
"Don't worry about that. Give me your tickets."
Robert looked at me then extracted it from his pants and handed it over. James rummaged and eventually handed his over. The maitradee had approached in the mean time "Michael can you get there coats and have them taken to the car. I'll need 500 dollars in cash as well."
"Very good miss Chan. I'll have the car brought round."
"Thankyou. Now if you two gents will excuse me I need to freshen up. I'll see you downstairs by the VIP entrance in 5 minutes."
I half expected Robert not to be there when I arrived but it was James who we had to wait for. When I walked down to the car and the diriver opened the door for me I caught Robert watching me with a calculating look. As soon as we were moving I closed the screen , I wasn't in the mood for foreplay, "Okay. which of you is going first."
It turned out to be James, although neither was much cop - they both came far too quickly. They were a little better the second time, probably because I wasn't leaping up and down on them like some demented animal, although James was still in far too much of a hurry. When we reached the house James consented to collecting my pack, whilst I investigated why the lights were on. It turned out to be Marcie, although she was alone.
I walked through to the kitchen, put on some coffee, and then out onto the poolside, shucking my dress off as I did so. James followed me.. I dived in and swam a length before circling back to close to where he stood. "You can either get your kit off and get iin here or I'll toss you in as you are. I'm not paying you to stand about like a lemon"
He started stripping, although he stopped when Marcie and Robert arrived. "Don't mind her. Just get your dick in here. There's nothing here she hasn't seen before."
He was almost as bad the third time as he'd been the second. So far things weren't going to well. I walked back into the kitchen and poured myself a coffee. Marcie followed me. "Where's xxxxxxxx"
"We split up about two weeks ago."
She didn't llok very happy about it.
"I'm sorry I didn't know. How come your here and not at home then."
"He's there with my bother and his new slut of a girl friend. She's all blond and tits, no brains and apparently fucks anything in pants"
"Ah I see, so my bringing these to back was not exactly a good move then."
"You weren't to know I was here. I'll stay inside if you like."
Robert chose that moment to walk in, naked. He looked surprisingly relaxed. "Where's James"
"Sprwled on on of the couches"
I looked at Marcie. "Okay I'm gone"
I grabbed Robert then pushed him back onto the kitchen table."Why do you want a job at the Purple Dragon?"
"Because it'll be an interesting place to work. I always thought being a club bouncer would be interesting since I saw Road House"
"That's just the movies. Real life is nothing like that, and anyway you're neither Chinease nor a martial artist."
"I'm not racist either and I did Karate a few years ago."
"How many exactly?"
"About 12"
"And how long did you do it for?"
"About 21/2 years"
"Why did you give it up?"
"There was and incident and I decided I didn't like the teacher as a result, then the school closed down."
"Did he hurt you badly?"
He looked at me."Oh! No! Nothing like that. I'd done to class on this one night, and this young Chinease woman walked in, I guess she must have been about 20. Anyway, the guy running the class stopped it and made us watch whilst he talked to her. I think she wanted to use the hall, but all he could see was that she was Chinease. Anyway he made some remark about giving her a good time for ten dollars, then tried to grab her. I sort of lost track as to what exactly happened next but I think she knocked him out some how, then a whole load of the older boys tried to have a go at her. I think she injured serveral before she fled. I thought it was all wrong so didn't go back. I heard the school lost the use of the hall a few days later and closed down."
Alarm bells were now ringing loudly in my head. "And you didn't try and find another school?"
"Well a new one did open up a few weeks later, apparently run by this girl, and a whole load of the former pupils went down there to see what is was like, and she beat them to a pulp for no reason, and as I didn't like the idea of being beaten up by a teacher I gave up."
"You shouldn't believe everything you hear."
"Yes, I know that now, but I was 14 at the time. I did find out later that the story had been untrue and that they'd actually gone down there to beat her up, but she'd turned the tables on them, but by that time I was interested in other things, climbing, caving, and girls mostly."
I began to cry.
He sat up then puled me into his arms. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing really. You've just described an incident from my past. It was just before my 19th birthday in my first year here. I couldn't find a dojo but found a hall that wasn't being used all the time. I only wanted to rent it for a couple of nights a week. He called me a 'cook' then said he'd give a good time for 10 dollars. Neither of us expected what happened next."
He looked stunned, then let go of me like I'd become red hot.
"Okay. What did I day?"
"Nothing. Ah god, shit. I knew I'd seen you before. You did a motorcycle advert didn't you? Then you caused a riot outside the bike shop by taking your jacket off when you had no underwear on. I've still got the poster you did, and one of the limited edition jackets. I lost my girl friend at the time because of you."
I burst out laughing. He made to hit me, but I grabbed his arm and pulled him down on top of me. "Haven't you had enough?"
"Not by a long shot"
"We'll I'm afraid you're out of luck. I'm all shagged out."
"You can tie me up agian."
"Won't work a second time. You know what's going to happen."
"Where'd you learn it anyway?"
We went scarlet from head to toe. "One way or another I'm going to find out so you can save yourself a lot of trouble and tell me."
"No way. I made a promise and I'm going to keep it."
A sudden impossible thought crept into my head. "You said you had a sister." He turned a deeper shade of red and pulled away from me.
"Your secret's perfectly safe, but I'd like to know how."
"It all started on Christmas. I'd lost yet another girlfriend, and there were rumors circulating at school. She'd heard them, and for reasons known to herself had decided to do something about them, well about me actually. I wouldn't at first but she just kept on, until in the end I just let her get on with it. After a few times, I started to reciprocate. Anyway she got a new boyfriend and we stopped, at least for a while. I guess it must have been Thanksgiving the following year, when she woke me early in the morning. She was naked, covered in sweat, and had four ropes in her hands. Thankfully my girlfriend at the time wasn't sleeping over. I asked her what she wanted. She said she'd just had the best fuck of her life and wanted to go again, but her boyfriend wouldn't, and if I didn't she'd let on what had happened at the start of the year, and blame it all on me. I told her she was nuts and to go back to her own bed. She'd responded by saying that if I learnt how to do what she'd just been through I could have any girl I wanted, because once I'd done it to one all her friends would know and I'd never be short of partners again. I have to say she was right."
"Sorry I don't believe that. You tied her up and fucked her as she'd asked, and everything was rosey thereafter. Nobody learns that fast or gets it right first time."
"No, the first time was a disaster, so were the next twenty or so. I think it took us about 3 months to work out how to make her come without me actually fucking her. The next step had been a pure accident. We'd been out to a party, the six of us, myself and my girlfriend, my sister and her boyfriend, and two of her friends. We'd been drinking, and certainly myself and Jenifer, that was my girlfriends name had snuck off once to have sex. We'd got back, our parents being away, and we'd started to play strip poker. The girls weren't that good, and Sarah, one of my sisters friends had first bet a fingering, then when she was called a fuck, thinking she'd had a good hand. Anyway when she'd lost there had been a sort of stunned pause and she came and sat in my lap. I wasn't going to do anything, but my girlfriend had taken my hand and started to masterbate her with it. Of course one thing led to another, and I fucked not only her but Jenifer as well. The other girl sort of sat out. I 'm not exactly sure how it happened but there was a dare, and she got tied up, and she was made to come once, and then I was screwing her. By that point I was pretty tired and there was no way I was going to come again so I just kept going and then she came, really big time, created a real sticky mess. Anyway, a several days later, my sister and I found ouselves in the house alone, and discussions turned to the party of the week before, and who'd screwed who, and then she'd asked how I'd made Ashley come the way she did, which of course I didn't know. So she'd phoned Sarah, and Ashley and Sarah had come over, and I tied up each in turn and fucked them, but things hadn't happened in the say way, and then xxxxxx had insisted that I tie her up. I'd refused, fucking her friends in her presence I didn't mind but openly fucking my own sister was a different matter. Anyway, to cut a long story short, eventually I did and in doing so worked out why what had happened at the party had happened."
"And the last bit?"
"That was just something xxxxxxx and I worked out. She like to hang off things whilst we made love. We even tried it hanging upside down once, although the most interesting was hanging in free space in harnesses over a gorge with a 500 foot drop into the river below."
Whether he was conscious of it or not, he'd become erect as he'd told the story. I crawleed over, kissed him, pushing him onto his back as I did so then climbed on top. "See I knew you weren't finished"
It was just after 8:30 when I was woken by the horn of a taxi. I crawled out of bed, opened the sliding door and walked onto the terrace, in time to see James getting on board. Returning through the room I covered Robert with the duvet then went down stairs. Marcie was in the kitchen in one of my T-Shirts. She had the happy air of a cat that had just had the cream.
"Any orange juice?"
"Yes in the fridge. You know he gave me 50 bucks"
"Well given his performance with me you deserve it - I'd want more to let him screw me again."
"But I got the impression you picked him up."
"I did, but you know what they say. You can't judge a book by its cover."
"I take it the other one is still in bed."
"Yes, still sleeping like a baby. I did tire him out somewhat last night."
"I heard. What did he do to you?"
"That would be telling, but it was worth everything its going to cost me. I've not had sex like that since.... well in a long time."
"He's that good"
"Oh Yes, he's good alright."
"Can you get me his number?"
"No. You'll have to do that yourself."
She turned as if to cross the kitchen. "You keep your paws off. He's mine for the rest of the day and I don't want him tired out.
"Spoil sport."
I took the orange juice and coffee and made my way out to the pool. If xxxxx and xxxxx were watching then so be it. They knew the punishment if they were. I'd done about 20 lengths when, Robert appeared wrapped in a towel, and still dripping. "Does your friend always try to makeout with yor sleeping partners when they're in the shower?"
"Not usually, but she wants to find out what you did to me last night."
"And accosting me in the shower helps her how."
"I think she was hoping she'd get your number."
"I think she was hoping for more than that."
"So you didn't fancy her then."
"I didn't say that."
"So you do fancy her?"
"I didn't say that either."
I climbed out of the pool and walked towards him. "Make up you mind either you do or you don't. What does this say?" I slipped my hand under the towel. "Ah so you do fancy her, perhaps I should get her to come out here. Would you like that."
"arggh. Stop playing games."
"Who said I'm playing."
I steered him backwards towards the diving board, loosening his towel in the process.
"You're encourageable"
"Yes. I know."
We returned to the kitchen 10 minutes later, and I set about making omlette for breakfast. Marcie came in and stuck her tounge out at me.
"I told you to keep your paws off. Do as you're told or I'll tell the head doorman at the Purple Dragon how old you really are."
Robert looked at me. "Is there something that I should know?"
Simultaneously we both said "No."
"On that subject why would your sister want a job there, and for that matter you still haven't explained why you want a job there."
"We'll she needs a better job, and I assume the waitresses there get better money."
"Okay. Different question, what makes you think that I could get you or your sister a job there?"
"Well, not only did you arrive in the club limosuine, but it brought us here, and you didn't tell the driver where he was going. You also weren't in the club for most of the evening yet appeared from the staff office, you got Marcus Trent to deliver messages for you, you addressed the maitradee by name, they all addressed to back as "Miss Chan", and they handed you 500 dollars in an envelope without any argument."
"Perhaps I'm just a valued customer."
"No you're more than that. You don't make remarks about doorman and real ages, exactly how old is she anyway, without good reason?"
"It's always the quiet ones you have to watch. Care to elucidate any further?"
"Okay if that's what you want. I'm willing to bet that the club is a front for the Triads, and you're either the daughter of a boss, or some sort of freelance trouble shooter."
"Prepared to be what?"
He was silent. "You're trying to work out what I want, but don't have enough information to hazzard a guess as to what I'll accept."
"Could be"
"Suppose I said your penis. If I am I get to cut it off, and if I'm not you get to keep it?"
Marcie interjected "Only if I can fuck him first"
I told her to shut up. This was an adult game.
"I don't think I'd take those odds. I have no wish to become a eunuch."
"I see so you're pretty confident about this then?"
"Yes"
"Okay then, as Marcie desperately wants you to fuck her. You do so, no questions asked, exactly as you did me last night."
"But if she's underage I could go to jail if we're caught."
"That's a chance you'll have to take. Bet or not?"
He hesitated. I spat on my hand and held it out. He spat on his and shook it.
Marie was jumping up and down with excitement. "Calm down. I don't want another wet mess on the kitchen floor. 2 nights time good with you both. I'll arrange the car and a booth at the club, then you can come back here. Just remember to stay out of my bedroom. Now we need to go get you some new clothes, then we'll go do a little job I need to do, have some late lunch somewhere, then see if I can sort you out a bar job and some training."
"What about my sister?"
"You're a clever boy. The waitresses are well paid for a reason. Are you sure your sister would want that sort of a job?"
He did a perfect impression of a gold fish. Marcie on the other hand developed a strange look.
"Not a cat's chance in hell. You just do well at school, then go to collage."
"I still need to cover my fees and accomodation. Didn't you have to work your way through colledge?"
"Yes but I didn't do it lying on my back, kneeling, or up against a bed post. There are other ways to earn a living."
"But they don't pay as well."
"Very few are pretty enough, clever enough, and talented enough to make any money at it. You need to have a very shrewd head on your shoulders and know what you're letting youself in for. You also need to be very lucky."
"Or attract the attention of someone like Marcus Trent."
It was now my turn to go scarlet. "You need to get dressed, unless to intend to wander the streets dressed like that."
"You're changing the subject. Marcus Trent, how long? Your reaction says it was more than a one night stand."
"Who's Marcus Trent?"
"A business man"
"A high powered asset stripper, womanizer, philander, and accordng to the word on the street someone to avoid like the plague. He's still considered a player even now."
"People exagerate."
"You're avoiding the question"
"Yes"
"I could find out by going through all the gossip columns. There's bound to be photos somewhere."
I blushed again."Can we change the subject?"
"So there is a photo then. Exactly how explicit is it?"
"Drop it."
"So how long then? I reckon at least 6 months, which in itself is something of a record. Was it just you or were there others at the same time?"
"If you want to vanish never to be found again keep going. There are lots of places I could take you where you'd endure a long slow lingering death without any chance of rescue."
"Okay. Have it you way." He walked across the kitchen, then pulled Marcie into his arms. He kissed her neck, and she wriggled against him, then placed her arms behind his neck. He moved his hands in response to her invitation. He was watching me like a hawk, this was a game of bluff but how far was I prepared to go. He inched her t-shirt up then undid the front clasp of her bra. I waited. He undid her skirt which dropped to the floor, then slid his hand into her panties. Her breathing increased rapidly, and she slid her hands down and behind her back. He bent forward slightly, and slipped his hand lower.
"Alright! Enough! Just over 2 years and I was the only one."
He stood upright, removing his hands and placing her back on her feet. Kissing her lightly on her neck he said, "Sorry Marcie you'll have to take a rain check on this one. We've got some shopping to do I believe. Would you like a dress for xxxxday? I'm sure Cordelia can run to a dress for you."
We left the house about 40 minutes later. Marcie was still fuming, and blaming me for not being able to get off, which of course was true. Now without her present, I could ask the question that had bugged me since I'd called a halt to proceedings, "So exactly how far would you have gone?"
"I'm not sure. It wen't further than I thought it would, and much longer I'd probably have gone all the way. She's really responsive. You need to keep her on a tight leash."
"Yes, I know, but she has a way of manipulating situations. The first time I met her was after I caught her brother and her ex-boyfriend spying on me. She ended up screwing him in the pool whilst I kept her brother occupied. Now I think back on it she knew what she was doing even then, and when some friends of mine turned up unexpectedly, she had suggested the Purple Dragon as the place to be seen at."
"The latter she could have just picked up at school."
"True. But she wasn't the least phased when we arrived via the VIP entrance, seemed to know the layout of the place, and reacted as a hardened clubber would."
"How old did you say she was?"
"I didn't. And it's better if you don't know."
"So she's under 18 then."
"Stop fishing, I'm not going to tell you."
"Okay, so where are we going then?"
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