Nerthus “Do you want to tell me now, what the other thing is that she told you about me?” I’m lying on Arawns chest as I’m playing with his hand. “On top of me being a lesbian, I mean.”“You had that swirling in your beautiful head all the time, did you?” he asks me, making me giggle.“Yes. I’m way too noisy to be able to focus on something while I wait to be told something.” I say while linking my finger into his.Kissing my head, he chuckles into my hair. “Didn’t bother me as you still focused on my cock pretty well.”“You are such a pervert.” I laugh, shaking my head.He groans as he shifts beneath me and grabs my hair to turn me around to face him. “Let me get us a bottle of wine, beautiful. And we can talk before I get hard for you again.”Sitting up, I clasp my blanket to my chest, shielding myself from the cold the absence of his warm body next to mine envelopes me with.“Should I be worried?” I ask him, listening to him rummage through his kitchen in the distance.“You tell m
NerthusMy heart explodes in my chest, and I shake my head. “No! No! No! You told me I could be honest with you. You told me you wouldn’t hate me!”“I don’t hate you,” he tells me calmly while my voice gets louder.“Then why? You can’t do this. We had just discussed-”Grabbing my face with his hand, he interrupts me brusquely.“You need to calm down, Nerthus.” He orders me, making me whimper. “And you need to let me finish.”“I always do,” I say lowly, massaging my gums as he lets go of me.A loud laugh explodes from his chest. “Yeah. Yeah, you do.”Taking my glass from me and setting it down along with his, he scoots closer to me, laying his hand around my hip. I take a deep breath, his mouthwatering scent and the heat streaming from his body calming me down. “I don’t want to keep you bound by a contract where you would have to fear enduring a clause that hurts you. I didn’t know how bad it was and I shouldn’t have done it. Please forgive me.”He leaves me speechless as I never had s
Nerthus – eleven years ago “Is this your true color?” the young woman sitting next to me asks, her Spanish accent heavy in her speech.“Uh-huh,” I answer as I tear my eyes away from the bars of the cages we are sitting in.She scoffs, a tired smile playing on her lips as she shifts on the cold floor we are sitting on. “It is beautiful.”“Tha- Thank you,” I answer in a stutter, and scrunch up my nose.Francis had told me not to talk to strangers because the people in a big city would be different.‘Everybody will try to scam you,’ he told me before he finally let me board the bus which would be driving me into my new life.Scared about her speaking to me again, I lower my head.“Her family surely got a lot. Such color is rare!” Another girl with a similar accent says, scoffing.Shrugging, I hug my legs to my chest. “I- I wouldn’t know. I’m ju-just a bo-boring country girl.”“Oooh, you are good at rodeo,” a third woman shouts, making everyone in that cold cell laugh.I smile but decide
Arawn – Eleven Years Ago“What’s your name, sweetie?” one of the madams managing the whorehouses on the territory as the girl with the most beautiful eyes that I have ever seen fidgets with her fingers.“Nerthus Hendriks, ma’am.” She answers shyly, and I have to force down the urge to shift in my seat.One of the men sitting in the room with me laughs, his colleagues joining him soon after. “What a silly name.”“Oh, please, call me Theresa, sweetie.” The madam speaks again, making Nerthus’ face light up with a smile.“Okay,” she answers cutely.I am glued to the television as I see how Nerthus starts undressing herself as the madam assigned to her asks her to do so.My guts boil at the men around me starting to make indecent jokes, and surprise myself as I clench my teeth.This is not the first time they show this
Nerthus“Oh, beautiful bitch, you are glowing!” I chuckle as Gigi presses a huge smack on my cheek.Pursing my lips, I move to sit at the bar next to him. “I needed to hear that! I had an ugly night.”“If you choose to bed with the snakes,” he sighs, and I know exactly who he refers to. He waves at Simone, who serves me a glass of wine, and I thank her with a smile.“Well, I got my favor, and she pissed off the king, so the chances are good that I’ll never see her again,” I say, taking a sip from my drink.He lifts his glass of beer and cheers. “Might all our snakes be replaced by big cocks.”I nearly choke on my drink and cough as he snickers. “You are impossible.”“So, I guess your career with us ends already?” Ha asks, making me nod.“Yeah, I’m afraid it would collide with my main job that I just got back. But I can still help out once in a while, if you need me to.”He shakes his head, taking another sip with a sigh. “I wonder how long you two will go on calling it a job.”“Hey,”
Nerthus The flickering lights of the cold room give me harder goosebumps than the idea of being surrounded by corpses.“Whenever you are ready, ma’am,” the coroner looks at me over his small glasses, and I nod, trying to keep the bile rising in my throat down.With a swift movement, he lifts the cloth, revealing the pale face of a woman.It might seem like a mundane action on his part, but I certainly wasn’t ready for it.Even if they gave me all the time I needed to adjust and prepare myself for this sight, I must admit that I wasn’t ready for it.And how could someone ever be?Holding a hand in front of my mouth, I swallow hard.“Take your time. If you need a break, let me know.” The detective, standing at the feet of the woman, talks in a calm voice, tearing me out of my abyss.I blink my tears away as I take a deep breath and tear my eyes away from her. “No, no. It’s alright. Erm… I worked with her a few years ago.”Making a little break, I appreciate the fact that the detective
Nerthus “I don’t know what you mean.”I try to avoid his gaze and keep my eyes glued to the floor while fumbling with my purse.“You seem upset.” He tries to argue with me, but my subconscious has me reacting all wrong once again.And I can’t seem to stop myself.“I’m just tired. Can you leave me alone, please? I’m not in the mood to work tonight.”Putting his finger under my chin, he gets me to raise my eyes to his. “I’m not here for your services. Tell me. What’s wrong?”I sigh, taking a step back to free me from his hold. “I just had to identify a woman I worked with a few years ago. I don’t handle seeing dead bodies well, even if it’s not my first one.”I throw my bag on my couch and turn around to face his intense gaze again.“You are normally rather pragmatic, what perturbed you that much?” His question has my resolve crumbling further, and I hug myself as if it could help me hold the pieces together.“I don’t know…” Sighing, I cross my arms in front of my chest. “At 19, I had
ArawnMy mother worked the streets as well.But she was nothing like Nerthus.She lacked everything and most of all, strength.As my father got to know I existed he compensated my mother well. Well, enough to have us living regally. She didn’t provide any differently for me though. She just stopped selling herself but kept on spending all her money on her drugs and every waking minute popping pills.According to her, it was already the biggest mercy that she had come to take me out of that orphanage.She was convinced I should venerate her like her Goddess for it. At first, I was confused, but slowly I began to understand that it wasn’t that loving gesture as what she sold it to me.Without me, she wouldn’t have gotten any money.My father didn’t know that she hated me just because I was looking a lot like him.In front of him, she played the worried mom. An