The Stand In · Part 2 (2/2)
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With Willie’s help she was placed on the round stage. “Feet together on the bulls eye. Excellent. Now you are my Venus. You will be an attraction. Let me finish the outfit.”
He motion to the bag Willie had brought and brought his own bag with him up on stage. He fitted the head harness that framed her face and head. He brushed her hair softly. Almost a petting motion. She then allowed him to gag her.
Benson stepped back to admire his work. “Excellent. More than I could have imagined. You have earned your thousand dollars but I want to make a small wager.”
“What’s that.” asked Willie sipping his orange juice. Valerie was not able to speak. Or speak clearly.
“One hundred dollars for every hour she stays on that stage. Double or nothing every hour past that. So in three hours that would be four hundred dollars.”
“So the money doubles every hour?”
“Unless you want me to got ensure she can't leave the stage. Then I'll double that.”
“Wait. You will make sure she can't leave the stage and pay double.”
“My only caveat is I get to use my phone and add to her outfit..”
Willie looked at her. Valerie did the math. Two then four then eight. Eight hundred for standing in place for three hours. Sixteen if she made it to four. Valerie wondered about the phone. Was he going to take pictures?
What more could he do to her? She could hardly walk. Her arms where useless and she could barely mutter a word. What was left?
Her wedding dress and her perfect wedding seemed so much more tangible at that very moment. She nodded yes.
“You have deal.” Willie answered.
Excellent.
With their bag empty. Benson opened his and took a small chain. Kneeling. He connected the chain to one ankle then as she heard more than saw something metal being pulled through metal, like a chain through a loop. Then the other ankle was connected. A small step forward told her what she expected. She was hobbled and chained to the platform.
Now she could not leave.
But Benson was not done. He took a poles out of the bag and they snapped together. Then that pole was slipped into a concealed hole in the base of her stage.
Then straps went around her knees, waist, chest, and neck. She was staked out. Ready to be burned at the stake. So she could not move if she wanted to. She could raise a foot a little and nod her head a bit. Maybe mumble some unintelligible. But that seemed to be the range of her abilities. Then something with a box with wires came out of that bag. The box attached to her waist strap and had wires coming out.
Those wires attached to the button caps at her breasts. Bloody hell. What was that going to do?
Someone once said you can't read the fine print in a verbal contract. But now she made a deal with the devil. And the devil always cheats.
“I cannot put into words how I feel Ms Venture, Lets begin.”
He showed his phone and the timer on it had started.
“Now as you are. Guest can come and ogle you. But if they down load an app. They can do more than just watch. They can play with you. “
Play?
“You can guess your chastity belt does something. It has a gps tracker. That went on the moment it was inside you. I can track you anywhere on the globe. The heat of your body powers it. Endothermic reaction. Heat applied to two different metals causes a minor charge of voltage. So as along as your alive and kicking. I know where you are.”
“Bethany and I would play a kind of hi tech hide and go seek. Naturally I always found her,”
Great. He knew they were coming and could track their progress. So if they did chicken out before arriving he could find them. Which sounded very creepy.
“Another function of the belt it is a vibratory device. It is powered by the box though induction. Let me demonstrate. “
Valerie suspected it did something like that. It started at a low buzz. Then cycled up and down. Not having any sex for a year had made her wanting what it did more that she should have. Worse. Or better. Was she squirmed in her bondage trying to make it do what ever it was doing to hit the right spot. She was just starting to feel it when it stopped.
Not wanting to. She let out a little moan of disappointment.
“That was thirty seconds and it cost me fifty dollars. Now the fun part is that the human body can be like tuning fork. You just have to hit it right to get the right vibration. Often it is better to work slowly and see what your sweet spot is. Or hit the bulls eye as it where.”
Now she understood this game. Oh lord this was sick. He began to walk away and the stage turned and moved to follow him. She was strapped to a giant room sweeping robot!
“Now my guests are not allowed on stage but they can cart you around a little. For a small fee.”
She was not looking at Willie nor could she. The neck collar pretty much kept the head locked in a forward looking position.
She was a toy. A remote controlled sex object.
“WMMFPH” was all she could manage.
“Now the box does a bit more. I'll show you.”
Now little vibrations started on her breasts. Damm it. This thing was turning her on. But it stopped just as it was getting good.
“There is a two minute rest period. However if some wants to hit the bulls eye. They pay more for longer times. They can choose an automatic setting or try a manual setting. Some people act in teams or compete to see who they can get to your sweet spot the quickest. So in interest of charity act like you like it but try to throw them off if you do orgasm. These people are pros. They will know if you are lying.“
Good god. Tomorrow was going to be a blast or one continuous orgasmic bender. She did not even know she had a sweet spot. A bulls eye.
“New girls always get the most money. I have three others coming. One has done this before. None from the local area. I do have a porn star this year. Should be interesting to see how she holds up. You work in pairs. After three hours. You are done. We cart you away and another girl takes your place. The party starts at six and goes to midnight.”
Benson held up his phone. Forty minutes had past. It felt longer.
She started trying to keep her mind off the pain and ache of her bondage. She now understood why someone would do this. Or at least she thought she did.
Pain make the pleasure more pleasurable. The brain releases endorphins to counter the pain. But in the throws of an orgasm. That chemical stimulus is over dosing the body putting the brain in overdrive. Going from neutral to reverse. That was one thing. But going from reverse to drive. Was something else. The swing of emotion must help make every thing feel so good.
One hour had past. Standing with no other feeling that the dull ache of her body being held so rigidly. Shifting from side to side taking tiny steps back and forth. They all helped. Putting her mind someplace else helped too. Imagining herself as Joan of Ark did not help. Nor did being a witch at the Salem witch trials. But she was trying.
“Ninety minutes. Very good Ms. Venture. I thought you would not last the hour.”
Odd. Willie had not said a word. He did not even check on her. She could not see him. Benson had her turned away.
“You look so much like my wife. I would be hard pressed to not think of you as her. Her record was four hours. After that she was putty in my hands. But come morning I could tell she was supercharged. Very driven women. Family came first. She was my guiding star. Now I feel lost. “
Benson paused. What happen to Willie?
She watched him watching her. She was just standing there. Shifting about as best she was able. The dull ache was constant and mind numbing. She wanted it to stop or have him use his phone again.
“Two hours. Very good. Lets say I give you a little reward.”
Again he touched his phone and she felt the probe cycle and the things on her breast joined in the action. This time she moaned without wanting to. She then remembered to act like she liked it. It would encourage more people to use the app. But not to like it too much. Damm this thing was good. But she had been abstaining from any sexual stimulation for a year. So anything that got her off was good. She groaned and moaned. Stamped her feet a little as she was able. The straps kept her from leaving and falling over.
Then it stopped. No, It was just getting good. Really good.
“Like that? I could tell. But I want to make it last. Our marriage was special Even after our children we would have play time. Beth liked it when we play.”
He paused again reflecting on his words.
“This used to be a site for a silver mining camp. The caverns where so small that children where used to mine it. Many died in a cave in. That was a long time ago. Beth wanted to make this a happy place. A safe place. That why I made it look like a castle. A fortress to keep all the bad and evil things away. I was always her knight in shining armor. But I could not protect her outside of this place. She would always charge ahead of me for a good cause.”
Benson looked about. Valerie was getting concerned. That man was in worse pain than she was.
“Some times I hear the children. Their ghosts…”
Oh god this place is haunted. Lloyd Benson was hearing ghosts. But whose ghosts. The ones from long ago or his own children. She thought she heard a child laughing. This place must have been slowly driving him mad with the memories of his dead wife and children.
“mphileeee” she tried calling out for Willie but he did not answer. “MMMmillmmeeeee”
Valerie was really getting worried. Benson seemed to pace in front of her. Walking right at the stage edge.
“What made you be a dancer at a gentleman’s club. Dancing or was it the last option. Do you enjoy the attention?”
It was the only thing she could do. Well maybe not, but she wanted a some thrills. She knew she had the body and looks. Now being constrained and tied up as she was. Her body was getting mixed signals. Jobs where hard to come by and student loans where due. She never finished any of her courses. Three years and nothing to show for it. She wanted to be a model and get attention. A dancer. But she was either not good enough or just not at the right place at the right time. All her life she never committed to anything.
“He loves you. I saw the way he looks at you. I know his kind. Say the word and he would take a bullet for you. I know he is ex-army special forces. But what is holding him back. Or is it you…”
Special forces? Willie? That sounded awfully dangerous. But the bomb remark she had made seemed to have a more deeper connection. Was it her or him that was holding their relationship back from taking the final step. Willie loved her. She knew that.
Another long pause. Something was going on inside their host's head and she was not liking the direction this seemed to be heading.
“If you were mine. You would never want for anything. I would keep you safe from harm.”
He motioned and the platform turned one eighty. She saw Willie passed out. The orange juice on the floor. Oh god. He spiked his drink.
That dark chill of fear swelled up inside her. She was now at Lloyd's mercy.
That platform turned back to Lloyd.
“There you are. Just standing there. I could keep you like this for ever. Just Standing. Standing forever. My Venus. I would never let any one hurt you again. But I will give you choice. Him or me.’
He showed his phone with a red button displayed on its screen. “Say you will be mine and I press this button. You will be in a state of sexual bliss for as long as you are with me. Or stay with him and be a common dancer. To stay with him. Just stamp you feet once. To stay with me. Twice. I'll give you thirty seconds.”
He looked at his watch. The clock was ticking. What was her choice? Oh god in heaven help her. She was actually thinking about staying with Lloyd.
No. Willie was there for her any time things got tough. But Lloyd had money. He could do things to her that she had not felt in a year. She tried to turn her head to look at Willie one more time but could not. She needed for the first time in her life make a commitment and stay with it. Valerie choice became clear. It took a gun to her head to make it. She stamped her foot once. She made sure she did not accidentally do it twice.
“Very well.”
He motioned and again the platform turned back toward Willie. But this time Willie was on bended knee holding a ring.
“Valerie MacKinnon.” he said. “Will you marry me?”
Valerie head was resting on Willie chest. The gag was removed and she was in her bedroom on her bed. She still was in the arm binder, boots with the hobble. The head harness was still on. Willie was slowly petting her head with one hand and the other was behind his head. Valerie squirmed a little in her bondage but she was starting to settle into it. Her eyes staring at the ring in the open box on his stomach.
“Happy?’ “Yes. I just can't believe you did all this.”
“Well you wanted adventure.”
“Not like this… well maybe a little.”
“Yeah, well I apologize.”
“No. I love you but I made myself a promise.”
“Oh what is that?
“That any promise I make. I keep. Which is maybe why I don’t try and make very many.”
“So you still want to marry me.”
“Oh yes. I want to get even with you some how and marrying you is the best way I can think of.”
“I look forward it.”
Valerie paused in inhaling as best she was able with the corset on. Then letting out a deep sigh.
“Mrs. Valerie…. What is your last name. I forgot. Everybody kept calling you Willie so often I thought I heard it.”
“I thought you knew. You been saying my whole name since we met.”
“What?”
“William Lea. Like in Tea but with a ‘L’. You botched it up and everyone at the club just called me Will or William. But Willie caught on and the name stuck.”
“You're kidding?” She tried to look at him but the neck corset pushed her head back down.
“Nope.”
“Mrs. William Lea. Sounds nice. I like it. “ She wiggled some more bringing her booted feet to her bound arms. She tried to roll on top of him but failed.
“For some who is supposed to bound and held immobile. You do squirm around a lot.”
“I like the squirming. “ “I think you're trying to get that thing inside you to go off.”
“Well that too.”
“I could get Lloyd's phone.”
“It will cost you.
“Worth it.” he retorted
She smiled and tried to kiss him but the damm neck thing snapped her head back again. Valerie shifted around again. Rubbing against Willie's side trying to make to probe inside her move. God was she this horny or was she becoming a freak.
“Hey wiggle worm. I better unlock you. We do have a dinner to go to.”
“But Lloyd has the key.”
“Nope I do. Had it since you got the outfit. Just incase you did something stupid.”
“What? You stinker. Oh you are so going to get it!”
He rolled her over to unlock the collar first but she wiggled away. Valerie had a bolt of insight. She wanted to know something. Plus she was starting to like it.
“Wait. Before you free me. I want to free you!”
“Excuse me?”
“When I mention I might have a bomb inside me. You completely freaked. Was that an act?”
“Tell me”
She thought that in her bound state she might be able to play on his sympathies a little and get him to open up to her.
Will got out of bed. Put the ring on the night stand. Then stood up. He paced a bit. Valerie shifted about to see him at the foot of the bed collecting his thoughts.
“I was on my first rotation. I finished special force training and was assigned babysitter duty. It was Lloyd and his family. Beth was doing a tour of local shelters and handing out aid packets. She had her two kids with her. She wanted them to appreciate the things they had. This was an object lesson for their children. So on our last stop I see a kid hanging back with a back pack on. He has a padded jacket on and keeps one hand in his pocket.”
“I was about to let some one know about this when he comes running right at us. His hand had something in it. The next thing I know. I blew a hole in his head. We bugged out before any more suicide bombers showed up.”
“You saved their lives?”
“Yeah but I could not get the image out of my head. I shot a kid. Barely in his teens. I mean who would do that to a kid. Worse it messed me up in the head. I did not reenlist when my hitch was up, I came home to find my girlfriend had been two timing me. With my best friend. I lost it. I just walked out the door and kept walking.”
“I bummed around for a year when Lloyd's people tracked me down. They found me through my dad. I kept in touch but going home was just too painful. I had enough common sense not to crawl into a bottle or drugs. My problem was I did not know what to do. I was a lost soul. Lloyd set me up here and I got my head straight. I got the fitness job and took the bouncer job for some extra cash. I then enlisted in the air national guard here. I am leaning to be a cook.”
“A cook. You?”
“Hey. I have been to your apartment. If it does not have microwave directions. You're lost.”
Valerie wiggled some more in her bondage trying to get that probe to the right spot. No luck. She relented to her failure and focused back on Willie. “This guard thing. How long have you been doing this.”
“Just before you showed up. I work the rotations with Henry. I keep it quiet because I don’t want to be treated as a hero.”
“But you are.”
“I don’t feel like one. The heroes I know are dead.”
A somber mood washed over him. Valerie thought it was odd. Willie was the one who was in bondage. The kind of mental straight jacket she could not imagine. What it would be like to take a life. She hoped she would never know.
“Any other skeletons in your closet.”
“That’s about it.”
“So why do all this? It was a lot of work to get you to propose.”
“It was a lot of work to see if you would accept. To be honest I was afraid you would say no. After Annie burned me with my best friend. I was a little gun shy. I had to know you loved me. Really loved me.. I was willing to sacrifice everything for you and I had to know the person I was going to marry was willing to do the same for me.”
Valerie rotated her shoulders to work a cramp out. “I was not sure until Benson put the question to me… Wait a minute… Did Bensons wife die when you shot the kid.”
“That means their still alive?”
“Yep. Beth was the one who set this all up. The kids are at their grandmothers in Boulder. She has a wicked sense of humor and scripted the whole thing out. Her main influence was Steven Kings ‘Shining‘. She was talking to Lloyd in a ear peace. Coaching him. She was in the guest house where the security station is. She was watching you the whole time. By the way. You two do look alike. I think that was got her started on this.”
Valerie lay on her side digesting all of this. It was a very elaborate trick and in the end. Worth it. Marrying Willie would be an adventure. That was for sure.
“Now can I unlock you?”
“Not for awhile I am starting to like this.”
“You're kidding.”
“No. I feel safe. Its weird I know, But I feel protected. Beside you been denying me for a year. With this thing on. I am pretty sure you can't ravish me.”
“I never ravished any one before and I am pretty sure I can come up with something until our wedding.”
“Okay. So should we set a date?”
“Two days from now. As the sun sets.”
“No. I want to have a good wedding. I wanted to be married in the spring. I have everything planned out.”
Valerie tried to sit up but failed. She squirmed around and found that one heel of her shoe had poked through the d-ring at the end of her arm binder. It was stuck on the heel. Now she was in worse shape. She was essentially hogtied.
“I got it all figured out. In two days it will be the vernal equinox. The first day of spring.”
Still trying to get the d-ring off the shoe. “But my dress. The flowers. The food.“ “I got some thing to show you. Come here.”
“I can't. I’m stuck. Help.”
“Mrs. Valerie Lea. What am I going to do with such a wiggle worm.”
Willie dragged her to the edge of the bed unhooked her shoe from the d-ring. Then scooped her up.
“Carrying me across the threshold already?”
“Practice.” he said and walked thought the adjoining bathroom. She sat her down at the edge of his bed facing a large closet. Valerie must thought a really big TV was inside but when he open the doors. She saw a manikin wearing her dress. Her wedding dress. It was perfect in every detail.
“NO. You didn’t.” She jumped up so quick she forgot the boots and hobble chain where still on her. She toppled over only to be caught by Willie before hitting the floor.
Willie stood her up and steadied her. “My size. How…”
“The girls at the club. They knew your size. Ever wonder how that outfit you're wearing now fit so well. It was a test to see if we had the right size shoes. Waist. Body measurements.”
“You sneaky.. But my book! I did not bring my book!”
“Well getting it away from you was a the hardest part. So while you where on stage. Patty ran to a copy store and we made copies. Every time we saw you fiddling or updating it. We had to update it by stealing it and make sure you where occupied. Joan made sure you got an extra private dance so to keep you busy. Buying us time “
He opened a desk drawer and produced a large stack of papers. “It's up to date as of three days ago.”
Valerie was starting to cry. She waddle next to the dress but kept a small distance away fearing she would stain it with her tears.
“Wait… Isn’t it bad luck for a groom to see her wife before the wedding in her wedding dress.”
“Well you're not IN you wedding dress. So I think that does not count.”
“You… You…Oh this so… How are we going to pay for it?”
“Well, you're not dancing anymore. No wife of mine is going to be shaking her booty at strange men anymore. Your going back to finish collage in the fall.”
“So you got three jobs. Will that be enough for this and student loans.”
“Nope. I going to quit working at the club and fitness center.”
“So this air guard thing is the only paycheck we will have?”
“Well in two weeks I start my new job.”
“What new job.”
“Head of security for Lloyd Benson. Mostly I become a care taker here at Icewind. Six month out of the year during the off seasons. We have full access to the guest house.”
“You mean we live here?”
“Yep. From mid March to August. Longer if we need to. The weddings already paid for. I promised I'd pay Lloyd back. ”
“But wait about this charity thing Benson has for tomorrow.”
“That was last week. Oh. If you don’t mind if the girls from the club show up at the wedding. They promised to be on their best behavior. And would it be okay if Benson's children be a flower girl and ring bearer. You did not have names listed.”
“Yes. And most defiantly yes. Now get me out of this thing.”
Tonight’s dinner was a black tie. Again another closet had formal wear for her and Willie. She had on a elegant black dress. Willie looked like James Bond in a tux. The current one. God she never knew how good he could look in a tux. If he said Monypenny in a British accent she would jump him right now.
Dinner was a surprise too. All her friends and family where there. They had been hiding in the west wing. They did not know about her bondage affair and only knew some elaborate joke had been played on her. Then Willie proposed.
She met Bethany Benson. They did look a great deal alike. Beth may have had a inch or two on her more then Valerie. But nearly the same. There was an exchange of knowing looks and hugging. A kinship had been formed.
“That sound effect you had of the children laughing in the halls was a nice touch.” said Valerie “I did no sound effects.” answered Bethany.
“Come on.”
“No really. I swear. My children are with their gran in Boulder They are due here tomorrow.”
“Then what about that story of children dying in a mine cave in.”
“That is true. The used to be an orphanage a long time ago. Then it was also a spa that sold mineral water. Then a hospital for the insane and criminal. Then we took it over and remodeled it into this manor house.”
“You mean that story is true.?”
“Yes. This place is haunted. Or so the story goes.”
Valerie stared at Beth wide eyed. Beth smiled a little it was hard to say if she was kidding or not. Willie was right. She did have a wicked sense of humor.
The evening went on and it could not been more perfect. The food was everything she could imagine. The night passed so quickly and she was so giddy. That she thought she never go to sleep when it all ended.
Tomorrow every thing was going to be in full wedding mode. An army of caterers and designer where already being trucked or flown in.
One assessory she kept on was the chastity belt. She wanted to tease Will a bit and felt some how until after the wedding. She would be his. For only Willie’s key could unlock the chain not only to her sex. But to her heart.
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