gasped. “Just tell me what to say.” “We’ll talk when I get back.” “No!” she shouted at his back as he walked out of the room. “Don’t leave me. Please.” Her voice dropped to a whine. “Please stay with me. Please.” Her pleading was wasted. He was already gone. The pain in her crotch rose to a level of intensity that she had never imagined; her clit was a button of pure white-hot agony by the time he returned. “How long?” She had to struggle to speak. He shrugged. “A few more minutes. Do you want to talk now?” “Yes. Please let me talk. What do you want me to say?” He sat down on the couch and looked up at her. “I want you to be honest. I want you to tell me a secret. A true secret. Something that you have never told anyone else.” “Oh, God. I don’t know. I can’t think. This thing is killing me. Please. Ask me something specific. Any question. I’ll answer. Ask me how I lost my virginity. I’ll tell you that,” she offered. “That’s not a secret,” he scoffed. “You let your first boyfriend do you after the Christmas formal during your senior year of high school. You already told me that.” “I didn’t tell you any details.” “You would have told me the details if I’d asked. I wouldn’t have had to torture you for that. I want to know something that’s really secret. Something that you’re ashamed of. It has to be something that would horrify you if I passed it on to anyone else.” “I can’t think of anything like that.” “I can wait until you do.” He picked up a book and began flipping through the pages. She began to cry. Tears slowly welled over her lower lids and soon began trickling down her cheeks. “This hurts so much. I can’t stand it any more. Please let me go. Please. I’m begging you. I’ll give you a blowjob. I’ll spend the rest of the night giving you one blowjob after another. Please.” He looked up from the book. “I’d like a blowjob all right. But I’m not letting you down until you tell me your most shameful secret.” She pulled ineffectively at her handcuffs. “Please.” “Your secret.” His demand was not negotiable. “Okay. Okay.” She shut her eyes tight and said, quickly, “I got V.D. once. Syphilis. I was in my third year of university and I’d gone to a party with a guy I didn’t know very well.” She groaned in pain and paused, before continuing. “I was seeing some guy, Brent, casually, but never made him any promises so I told myself that it was all right to go out with other guys once in a while. Richard was this handsome dude that I’d seen around.” She whimpered and paused again to gather enough strength to continue. “I wasn’t all that hot looking so I never thought that he’d noticed me until, out of the blue, he asked me to go to a party with him. I found out later that he was telling his buddies that he was going to make love to every girl in Weber’s seminar on the Sociology of Human Sexuality so I was just another item on his shopping list. Anyway, I didn’t know that when he asked me out. I thought maybe he was entranced by my sparkling personality.” She grimaced through her pain, an attempt at a smile. Brave girl. “Oh, God, this hurts. Anyway, to make a long story short, I was flattered and pleased to go to a party with such a hunk on my arm. He didn’t have much of an approach to seduction. I think his exact words were, ‘Want to get it on?’ and I figured that I owed him some consideration so I let him fuck me in the back seat of his car after we left the party. He was a lousy lover. Two weeks later, he called and told me that he’d just been diagnosed with the syph so he was calling all the girls that he’d fucked recently and telling them to get checked. Sure enough, I was one of the lucky recipients. I couldn’t have sex for a couple of weeks while I took the antibiotics. And that was that. I’ve never told anyone before because it makes me feel so dirty.