The Corner of H & L (8)

“Then why are you charging me a thousand for a blowjob?” I was focused on the road again, but the corners of my eyes had her fixed.

“Because, baby – it has to cost you something. I need to know – to believe – how much it’s worth to you when I fuck your brains out. That’s what I get out of it. If I let every guy I came across ball me, I’d be Paris Hilton – and I think one of her was enough, don’t you?”

“Aren’t you worried about getting a disease, or getting hurt? What if I was a fucking psycho?”

“Do you have a disease? Are you planning to hurt me? Do I need to tell you I have people on speed dial that could make you disappear forever, in a very painful way?”

I remained silent.

“Well? You brought it up – now you have to assuage my worry.”

“No, no diseases. And I don’t think I could hurt you.”

“Damn right. I look like a kick-ass bitch because I am a kick-ass bitch. Good. I’m glad we got that out of the way. How much further is it?”

“Just up ahead.”

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Cheating Life – 11.1

xi

LATER IN THE EVENING, we were back in my cell. Rather, I was in my cell and she was in the doorway, leaning up against the frame. I had written a bit in my journal – a final entry – and set it to expire, so it would delete if no one stumbled across it and read it in the next few weeks. I’d taken a nap, too. Naps were a pleasure I would miss, but they weren’t worth living for. Now I was back at my desk and proof-reading the journal on the computer. If you’re going to leave a legacy online, even something as trite and common as a personal journal, it should be well-written.

And now Jane stood there silently, watching me, but not hurrying me. She had changed costume again – she was wearing a black patent minidress, boots, fishnets, and gloves. I thought there might have been a riding crop slipped into one of the boots.

“I have some business tonight,” she said, without warning. “It was already scheduled, and with a regular customer – not an ender, obviously. I may not be back in and fresh until after midnight.”

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