The Dollhouse Society: Felix (7 page)

Archie glared at me with deer-in-the-headlight eyes before haring away in the opposite direction.

***

“
You shouldn’t have done that,” I said about an hour later, as the maitre d seated us behind a privacy screen in a high-end café off Broadway called the Royal. It was, according to Mr. Ishikawa, a popular place for gentleman and their courtesans to dine. “Now Arche’ll be giving me all kinds of dirty looks.”

Mr. Ishikawa gave me a half-sympathetic, half-droll smile and said, “Yes. But it was funny, you have to admit.”

“
It was,” I laughed.

He passed a fine white envelope across the table to me.

When I looked inside, my heart skipped two beats. “You must be kidding me.”

“
You pleased me last weekend. You should be rewarded.”

The check was for more than I made in a year at the multiplex. My good sense combined with the dark shadow of my student loans suggested I take it, but my pride got in the way, as usual. “I can’t. We don’t have that kind of arrangement.”

“
What kind?”

“
I don’t want to be paid for sex, sir. There’s a name for that,” I said sadly.

“
I’m not paying you for the sex,” he explained calmly. He traced the rim of his water glass with one finger. “I’m paying you for being my courtesan, just as I would if our arrangement was the real thing.”

The real thing
, I thought. Why did the idea depress me so much? I started pushing the envelope back, but he stopped me, his hand covering mine. I felt that spark of electricity once more and cursed myself. “Keep it. At least for a few days.”

Our drinks arrived, then a course of Lobster Bisque, a Prosciutto of poached pears, walnuts, arugula, and chevre, followed by Delmonico, which was a bone-in top sirloin steak topped with peppercorn, leak and cognac. Mr. Ishikawa explained the rudiments of each dish as it arrived. “We’re not being Japanese tonight?” I teased as I inhaled all the heavenly aromas coming off my plate.

“
It depends on my mood,” Mr. Ishikawa admitted with a closed smile. “Tonight we dine English.”

“
To honor your mother,” I guessed as I forked the tender meat into my mouth. “Tell me about her. How did she meet your father?”

His expression hardened, but only briefly. “She worked as his secretary in the Embassy in Kyoto.”

“
That sounds exciting, like some romance novel. A British woman falling in love with her Japanese employer…”

“
They spent one night together. He was married at the time.”

“
Oh.” I concentrated on my plate for some time as the atmosphere simmered uncomfortably between us. I didn’t know what to say. I thought about backpedaling, or changing the subject, or apologizing, but then realized I wanted to know more. And I’d already made a fool of myself. How much worse could it get? “So…did you know your father at all?”

“
Do you mean did he acknowledge me? Not at first. But eventually my mother pressured him to own up to his mistake. Eventually he offered me a job in a minor position in the embassy. It was quite the coup for my mother, seeing how my kind was not so easily tolerated.”

“
Your kind?”

“
Mixed-race children,” he explained. “They’re considered unemployable in Japan.”

“
That’s a ridiculous notion,” I told him, suddenly angrier than I really ought to be. “I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

He folded his hands. “Yes, but then, you’re American.”

Over the next hour, we got to know each other a little better. He told me more about his early life, how he’d used the money he had earned at the embassy to put himself through Cambridge, how he’d launched Acorn Technologies soon after, a multi-billion dollar company that eventually put him into the rare league of being one of the few European billionaires to make his home in the States. I could tell he was very proud of his accomplishments. Whereas ambition and greed seemed to drive most men in this town, Mr. Ishikawa’s desire to succeed seemed to be fueled by vengeance—revenge against the father who had rejected him. Revenge against Japan, in general, for their outdated mores and prejudices.

His story made me feel blessed, to be honest, and a little bit privileged. I told him how close I was with my dad, how my mom had died when I was three years old, how it had only ever been the two of us. I told him a little about life onboard an offshore drilling rig—or rather, a series of rigs, as his job as an engineer frequently had us traveling from rig to rig when I was younger, never the same place for very long, it seemed—the roughnecks that worked with my father, how he feared they would corrupt my manners. I told him my dad’s dream of a better life for me, and how I’d fought him at first, wanting to stay with him, to be a mechanic like him, my hero.

“
Why didn’t you?” Mr. Ishikawa said as we finished our dinner with chocolate mint truffle cookies.

I shrugged as sucked chocolate off my fingers. I half expected him to instruct me to use my napkin, but he seemed to be enjoying watching me eat. “I guess I wanted to see if there was something beyond the rigs. And I’d always liked to write. I used to write stories about the people I’d meet on the rigs in my little notebooks, make up these elaborate histories about them. I thought being a journalist would be exciting.”

“
Is it?”

“
Sometimes.” I grinned at him. “But I can still fix your car, if it breaks down.”

Mr. Ishikawa bit back a smile. “You are a very unusual woman, Felix.”

“
Thank you,” I told him. “It’s better than being called boring.”

“
You are never boring,” he said as he guided me up and led me back to his limo.

On the ride back to his place, I sat comfortably in his lap while he played with my hair, trailing his fingers down my back and nuzzling the side of my neck. I could feel his steely hard erection pressed into my side. “Will you stay the weekend?” he asked. The weekend before, when I’d first met Ian and Evelyn, I’d only stayed a few hours, so I was a little surprised by his request.

“
I didn’t pack an overnight bag,” I started telling him.

But he trailed a finger over my lips and said, “I’ll order up whatever you need. I’d like the weekend to train you, Felix. In only a few weeks, we’re expected at the Dollhouse. I’d like you to be ready to play with me.”

His words made my heart flit a little faster. In only a handful of weeks, I’d perform for the Society with him. Then our association would be done. “All right,” I said.

He lifted his eyebrow at that.

“
Yes, all right, sir,” I corrected myself, and he smiled and gave my left breast a brief squeeze that left me gasping.

Once we were inside the penthouse, he walked me to the playroom. Inside the suite, which had bunches of new roses everywhere and new sheets on the bed, he asked me to strip and slip on the stockings and heels he had provided. It was easier this time. We were alone and I didn’t have to worry about anyone noticing the baby fat clinging stubbornly to my curves. Mr. Ishikawa sat down on the edge of the bed, fully clothed, and said, “Crawl to me, Felix.”

I stood by the chair where my clothes were piled, dressed in only thigh-high fishnet stocking and black patent leather Mary Janes with five-inch platform heels, and considered my options. My first instinct was to tell him no, to fuck off, but he narrowed his eyes and his beautiful face took on that porcelain mask look that was almost surreal in its intensity. “You’ve already earned five punishments by hesitating. You’ll continue to earn five more for every minute you hesitate.”

I dropped to my knees and crawled to him across the plush carpeting.

“
Keep your head down and don’t look at me.”

His voice was edged with steel. I looked at the floor as I crawled up the steps of the dais to the bed.

“
Good.” He grabbed a hank of my hair and pulled me upright on my knees. He pulled hard, so hard I grunted from the pain and my breasts bounced. The force of it drew my head back almost unnaturally far. He held me in that position, on my knees with my head tilted back so I was staring up at the ornately designed tin ceiling, with a strength that shocked me. “You know better than to misbehave, don’t you, Felix?”

“
Yes,” I grunted out, using everything in my power to keep from grabbing at his arm. “Yes, sir.”

“
I’m feeling generous tonight, so I’ll give you a choice of punishments. Five spankings with the belt, or you can suck my cock. Your choice.”

The last time he’d spanked me I couldn’t sit for a day. Even now I could feel the dull edge of phantom pain in my ass. “I’d like to suck your cock, sir,” I said.

“
You know our safeword?”

“
Yes, sir.
Neko
, sir.”

“
Good.”

He undid himself with one hand and used the other one, tangled in my hair, to guide my mouth down upon his already rock-hard erection. He shoved it into me in a way that made me regret not taking the spanking, holding me in place by the hair and forcing me to deep-throat his dick. I didn’t have much experience pleasing a man this way, and it showed. The moment he hit my tonsils, I choked. He drew back, let me take a deep breath, and forced the length of himself down my throat again.

“
Suck.”

I sucked.

He clenched my hair. “Harder. And no teeth.”

I tried to accommodate him, but he was so hard, so full. He forced me up and down for a few seconds before pulling out. “God, you’re fucking sexy. I want to see my come on you,” he whispered, his voice hoarse and soft. I felt an irrational rush of pride in the moments before he pushed my head down between his legs. No one had ever said such things to me before. “Suck my balls, girl. Make me come.”

I inhaled his musky, male scent. I sucked his testes gently into my mouth, first one, then the other. He tasted salty and warm and his spicy cologne burned in the back of my throat. I sucked hard and he grunted with pleasure and pulled my head back suddenly, spurting his seed down the front of my body, over my lips, over my breasts. The warmth of him poured down my body and between my legs.

I licked my lips, fearlessly holding his frenzied, dark-eyed gaze.

“
So very fucking beautiful…” He forgot himself in that moment and yanked me up so I was astride his lap. He gripped my cheeks and kissed me hard, his teeth clicking against mine, his tongue sliding over my teeth and against the roof of my mouth. I sighed against him, tasting him in my mouth, feeling him surrounding me in a way I had never felt anyone before.

Then he seemed to remember our arrangement and his own no-kissing rule. I felt a rush of disappointment as he turned me over the edge of the bed. “I want to play with you this weekend, Felix, show you my world, but there are some things that just can’t wait. Present yourself.”

I reacted automatically to his voice. I crawled up on the bed on my hands and knees and gave him my ass. He slapped it, hard, so hard I cried out and my heart jumped in my chest. “I said present yourself. Properly. I want to ride that beautiful ass.” I arched my back and rested the crown of my head against the mattress so he had better access.

He thumbed apart my labia and licked and sucked gently upon me until I trembled for him. He licked me until I rocked my hips against him and shamelessly started begging him to take me, to fuck me. “Ohh…” I said, and he gripped my hips and yanked me backward to meet his thrust, impaling me so deep I screamed as that first thrust undid me. He didn’t stop. He pulled my hair. He fucked me hard, holding me down and thumping my ass. I screamed again as he satisfied himself inside of me, as he used me to get off. He grunted and lunged, and I felt him empty his balls inside me, filling me with pulses of heat that left me ripping at the bedclothes with my fingernails.

After he pulled out, he grabbed me around the middle and molded his body against my back as we lay spooned together in bed. I felt sore and satisfied. He played with my clit, rubbed his own wet come against my nipples and down over my belly as if marking me. I heard him sigh deeply into my hair. “You smell so good, Felix,” he told me. “I love being inside you, the feel of you coming for me, obeying me.
Anata nashidewa ikite ikanai.
”
 

I thought about Ian and Evelyn, what they had. A sudden surge of jealousy killed all the good feelings inside of me. I knew if I let this go too far I would fall and fall hard for him. I didn’t want to cuddle with Mr. Ishikawa like we were a real couple. I didn’t want to stay the weekend, even if it pleased my gentleman. When I tried to squirm free, he pinched my nipples so hard I yelped from the pain. “Stay with me and be still, my courtesan. Be mine tonight.”

Reluctantly, I obeyed.

***

I woke the next morning to the scents of coffee and French toast wafting into the playroom. Mr. Ishikawa, dressed primly in a dark navy suit, sat beside me in bed and fork-fed me pieces of the syrupy sweet French toast as we talked about what we would do for the day.

“
Could we have dinner at that place like last night?” I asked hopefully. I knew as soon as our association was over I’d be back dining regularly at Arby’s and KFC.

“
Yes, of course. And I have something else planned for today. A bit of a date, you might say.”

I sat up in bed, naked, yet I found myself clutching the sheet to my breasts. The whole bed smelled like sex, like us. “We could see a movie at the theater. I get half off all tickets for being an employee, you know.”

He laughed at me. “I had something more elegant and involved in mind, but we could see a movie, if you like. What did you have in mind?”

“
Aliens vs. Zombies
is playing,” I informed him. “You know, it’s one of those mashups? The
Alien
franchise and Romero’s Zombies…?”