“Piper? Are you fine?”
A man’s voice echoed across the room. I rubbed my eyes and sat up in the bathtub. It had been three weeks since seeing Syl after the harrowing encounter back in the Darkside, as Kaiser named it.We were in Kaiser’s hotel room after a long day of member ‘solicitation’. Fortunately, after the incident, I was lucky not to run into Syl again. That flabbergasted look on his face and how he ran after me just made me worried that he would find out that I had returned and was involved in this trade. If not that I had changed my number to the sim provided by Griselda, he would probably have attempted to contact me.On the day I formally started work with Kaiser, he had even bought me a phone when I showed him that the operating system of my phone didn’t support the latest version that was required to run the membership application. I presumed that Kaiser had the phone heavily tracked as well.For weeks, on and off, we had each other’s companionship. I“Kaiser, but it’s just been three weeks since I started having sex with you.”I tucked my hair on the right side of my head, knowing it was a seductive action. In my head, I already formed an idea. For whatever interest my boss had over me, it was to my gain.“So what?” Kaiser huffed.“You have Griselda. Who is she to you?” I feigned jealousy.“She’s my cousin.”I almost choked on my own saliva hearing what he said. “Yes, Gri is my cousin. We aren’t supposed to have relations with each other, because we are deeply related. Our fathers are brothers.”“So, meaning to say, she’s a Klef?”I didn’t know much about his roots since Klef was a rare surname to have. When Griselda blew Kaiser off on the plane, I expected them to be lovers. With the jealousy she exhibited towards me, I expected it to be more than that. But he had authority over her, suggesting some kind of relationship between them.“Yes. And I didn’t f*ck her. She only used her mouth.”
A week passed after I had accepted Kaiser’s preposition. I had just come back after another ‘solicitation’, and Scarlet and Shen were busy attending to some new clients that were enjoying their membership benefits in the premises.The rules here were simple. No protection, no banging. The same went for my solicitation. I had to ensure I was safe, and attend regular check-ups at the gynaecologist. Even if they used condoms, the possibility of getting an infection from diet or poor hygiene still persisted. Cervical cancer was a woman’s worst enemy, and I still had to ascertain my health in that aspect.Scarlet seemed rather tense after Jasper Lang developed a fancy to her. I dared not speak to anyone about what I encountered a month ago, but it didn’t trigger me as much as seeing Syl near the Darkside. I knew there were unanswered qu
When I opened my eyes, Scarlet hovered above me. I was a huge mess. After Syl left, I took to finishing an entire minifridge of beer. I was on the sofa in the lobby, where I greeted Jasper Lang yesterday. “I’m sorry, Miss Piper. I didn’t mean…” I held on to her hand and pulled myself up. “It wasn’t Jasper Lang. It was that man who was with him.” She sounded relieved hearing my voice, but she was concerned about me. I felt hungover from the drinking. “Do you have any bookings today?” I asked, to her surprise. “No, not until the late afternoon today. It’s a workday for most of them, so I don’t expect many. Since Jasper Lang had his fill, he shouldn’t be coming any time soon.” “If that is so, I’ll head home for a rest. Can you help me tell Kaiser when he comes in?” “Mister Kaiser is already downstairs, waiting for you.” I almost jumped at her answer. I quickly ran, ignoring the aches in my abdomen, until I reached the reception area. Kaiser
“Baby, that honestly was great.” I yawned, rubbing my eyes. My entire body was tired from the indescribable amount of sex we just had in his condo. A quick glance at the wall clock informed me it was four in the afternoon. The hunger that riddled me earlier was almost non-existent now. All I wanted was to just take a rest, but he kept coming again and again. Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about taking emergency contraception in my state. “Can I continue my rest now?” I asked. Kaiser laughed. “Get ready to come down in thirty minutes.” I didn’t get what he was saying, but the haziness in my mind prompted me to just go on sleeping. I would figure it all out later once I had refreshed my energy. As he left the room, I
“What do you think, baby?”His hands fingered the thin material of my nightgown, slipping down to my buttocks. I stayed calm and answered him seductively.“I like this, Kaiser.”He had just shown me what his spy network’s internal system had captured on Lenard Lee’s insidious activities. But it also shone the light on who he was. Kaiser Klef was no saint, either. Apart from the escort business disguised as a tax-paying legitimate entity involved in multi-level marketing, he also owned Kaiser Technologies, a company that had unknown dealings with secret societies while pretending to be in the information technology trade.I wanted severely to be part of all this. Kaiser’s dark activities thrilled me. It made me feel alive and in awe of the power he had over Darkside and even the mafia world. But who was he kidding? Of course, to deal with secret societies, he had to be one of them himself!“Piper, I know you want to get your revenge on Lenard
Kaiser had fetched me, as promised. Instead of going to the condo, he brought me to the villa instead. Right now, I was living the life of a secret mistress of a CEO, a mafia leader, a criminal and a man of an unknown background.In the daytime, I was his employee and served others with my body.At night, I was his possession.I thought again of the fool I had been once and cast aside my thoughts immediately. He led me to the jacuzzi and I took my clothes off, climbing into the water.“Kaiser,” I mouthed his name, and fell into a deep silence. I didn’t know how I should initiate the conversation with him.“I know.”He was surprisingly calm. A devil had just came and f*cked his woman, despite him arranging Shen for him, and he was still this calm?I felt the urge to sigh. “No matter how many women I arranged to satisfy him, he is still going for you, am I right?”I nodded, unwilling to voice my opinion. Kaiser had pitched in much effort to hire some ne
PART 2Kaiser was shaving in the bathroom when my alarm went off. Today marked the end of the first week that I moved into his villa as his ‘female occupant’. He promised servants to attend to me when he wasn’t around. I knew this ultimately meant that he was going somewhere far for a bit, and I was growing dependent on his kindness towards me.“It’s not what you think. It’s just a symbiotic relationship,” my inner voice told me, reminding me to keep up my guard. What happened with Syl would have broken my heart to pieces had I been the old, vulnerable Piper, but once you fell to the bottom and lost everything dear to you, such things meant nothing anymore.I don’t know what happened to him in the end, and though it gave me a little sharp prick in the chest, like havin
“Ice, I’m busy now.”He had put the call on speaker and indulged me with a daring stare.I held my breath. Over the phone, I presumed Ice, who was his secretary, was either playing dumb or was really innocent. In the silence of his office, the thrusts he made in my well-lubricated cavity were just so unmistakable.“But Sir..”“Later.”The phone clicked.“Moan, Piper.”“They’ll hear,” I whispered, and he chuckled. It wasn’t the first time he had humped a woman here, I supposed.He slid a finger along my g-spot.“Do you like this, Piper?”“Mmm,” I muffled a moan from coming out of my mouth. I could barely think in this scenario. I could barely hold it in.He increased the intensity between us, compelling me to moan. At that point, I totally gave up and let myself loose.“Piper, I thin
I thought about Jacques’ words to me as I spent the next three days in seclusion at the safe house. Lenard frequently sent people to visit me and ensure I was fine, and knowing he wasn’t coming, I just felt gladder. The discomfort in my body from sharing a bed with the person who hurt me in the past, plus how I was being used by Kaiser for his needs and then, slept with my ex, tended to make me dizzy.I had to strike eventually. Lenard and Lee Jung were why I was in this sorry state. If not for what happened to me, I would be living a happy blissful life with Syl now as his woman. Thinking of Syl, I recalled his dismayed face after we had intercourse. He wasn’t in love. I was just a fragment of his past affection for the easygoing and spirited Piper who was the best buddy of Sherry Summers.Not to forget that I now wished she was dead.
“What happened? Why am I here?”I fought the blanket, struggling to move from the bed. I don’t remember what happened after Lee Jung threatened to record the video. All I wanted was to get away from him, to escape. He had pointed a knife at my neck to make me do his bidding, gloating at me like how Kaiser Klef used a gun to force me to have sex with him.I am now in an unfamiliar bed. Some young men and women are attending to me. A girl wipes my forehead with a damp cloth and another scans my temperature with an infrared gun. Some are watching over me, and two men are guarding the door.“Is anyone listening? Why am I here?” I raised my voice, wringing my hands to get attention. The girl wiping my forehead cowers and retreats, stammering nervously from a distance.“Miss Piper, please don’t get mad. You were found in a disarray in a ditch, soaked to the skin and unconscious. You were also running a high fever.”I scrutinised the girl, unsure whether to believe her words. Lee Jung had us
Syl looked at me sympathetically as I told him about the agony I suffered at Kaiser’s hands, starting from the interview up to bedding his brother-in-law and then being sent to serve Lenard Lee. “I shouldn’t have trusted him.” I said, not allowing myself to shed any tears. “But I did, and I made the wrong choice.” “Piper,” he heaved a long sigh and took me into a bear hug. “I thought you were going to hate me for all I did to you then.” My heart numbed. If only I knew the truth, would things have turned out differently? I was still infertile and could never give him biological children. This was why I had left him in the first place, and things could never go back to the past. “I don’t hate you, Syl,” I answered after a short pause. “I just know we… can’t.” “Why not, Piper? After how I opened up to you about my secret of being an undercover agent? You still can’t trust me? Are you still mad about how I treated you then?” “It’s been so long, Syl. Of course, I can’t be still angry a
“What’s up? You’ve been quiet all day.”Lenard Lee glanced at me as I finished my food silently. My lower abdomen hurt like hell. I don’t know what beast the man I loved before had turned into after he consummated his relationship with Erica Gao. I regretted moving here, even though it was where Kaiser was allegedly from. What I thought to be a new start between us, turned out to be a total nightmare.Even my tormentor had turned into a different person overnight. I was clueless about what was happening, and why he had a strange side to him, but it wasn’t until the last two months that I discovered his considerateness. He had been rather harsh when Kaiser sent me there, but it wasn’t until I discovered he was seeing therapy himself, that I realised what was the reason behind his change of personality. His sweetness was starting to dissolve the hate I had for him, although I still feel inclined to have my revenge. I felt lost like I no longer had my sense of direction. From the day Ka
I was discharged over the weekend. Lenard sent his men to get me, and I reflected on Kaiser’s words during the silent car journey. “We can torture her further. You just need to know you’re worth more than them. And how to execute your plan right.” Would he say the same about his wife? I watched the man guarding beside me flip his newspaper. There was an article about Kaiser Klef and Erica Gao. On the outside, they looked like any happy couple. But Kaiser hadn’t been going home for weeks now, and Erica probably was sick somewhere. I hoped that she was being kept at some mental institution because she deserved it. Not that I was any happier doing what I did. Lenard had been nice to me while I was in hospital but it didn’t change the fact I was not going to be his wife. I was his possession and sex slave. A lover was just a fancy word considering it was with someone who raped and broke me. I could never bring myself to be a lover of that monster. “I hope you’re better now that that j
After Kaiser left, I stayed for one more day in the motel, staring aimlessly towards the ceiling before I finally found the courage to return. It didn’t take me long before Lenard Lee’s men captured me and took me back to see him.I didn’t say a thing. They were very polite, but when I passed the main hall flanked by his best guards, what bothered me was not the sight of blood, but a woman being disrespected. The irony was this was the same woman who had lost me in the streets, Freya. Some cuts ran over her thighs and dried bloodstains over her back.But noticing how the men pleasured themselves with her body was more than I could stand. It was bringing back the traumatic past in me. I whirled around, screaming as I relived how Lenard’s men had used me like an object three years ago. How they shared with me and treated me like I was garbage like I deserved it. I hadn’t asked to be captured. I hadn’t asked to be raped. I just couldn’t fight back at that time because of the weakness in
I was in a daze when I woke up the next morning. Our clothes lay on the floor in a crumpled heap, and there were glasses of beer. I couldn’t remember when either of us left the room to buy the beer, because I was suffering from a tremendous hangover.Kaiser handed me a glass of warm water and some pills. It was already the second day that I was hiding with him in the love motel, and it couldn’t get any spicier. However, the fact that Kaiser didn’t have his phone with him, since he left it at the coffee shop, and that he wasn’t concerned about his businesses unlike before, aroused my suspicion.I laid back with my eyes closed, my back hitting the headboard of the flimsy bed. Honestly it was a horrible place with a weird stench and I doubted they had acceptable hygiene practice in handling food and water, but this was a place that didn’t hold records of the guests who stayed. It would be hard for them to track us down. The medicine started to kick in, offering instant relief from my m
We were gone for some considerable distance when Kaiser stopped me in a dark alley. There were a few shady love motels nearby, but they didn’t deter me. After all, if I murdered him in cold blood, his corpse would be barely noticeable. I clenched the knife closer to his throat and urged him to move faster.“Piper, it doesn’t have to come up to this.” His voice bore some emotions, playing with my mind. I didn’t want to listen anymore, but he still went on and on about our past and how he deemed me his woman. He just didn’t mention the word love, although I know that he had sacrificed me for some unknown gain. If it was the work of that b*tch, all the more I didn’t want to show him any mercy.“You f*cking played me, Kaiser Klef!” I roared at him, but my hand didn’t budge. I was scraping his neck lightly. He suddenly moved, pulling the knife and pointing it to his chest.“If you don’t believe me, Piper, then kill me now. The reason you haven’t made a move to do so is that you still love
The traffic lights flickered with a bright colour. Clear luminous digits appeared, indicating the countdown. I stared at the crowd outside. A beautiful young teenage mother with bright red hair, pushing a stroller, crossed in front of us, and the driver hummed. Pedestrians that took their time were infringing on his patience.Then, I focused on the door handle to my right. The doors of the car were unlocked. All I had to do was open it while they were not paying attention, and run out as fast as my long legs could take me. It wasn't even a plan, it was survival.'Piper, it is now or never,' the voice in me spoke. I mustered all the energy I had. Freya had her head turned to watch the young lady, mumbling something inaudible under her breath. Before she noticed, I had opened the door quietly, before I slipped out, making a roll on the ground. Then, I dashed out as if my life depended on it. Who was I kidding, of course, it did!I took shelter among the crowd, catching my breath. From a