Torture is the best revenge

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."  A man is about to learn
the true meaning of these words.  With the help of her young friend
Paige, Cathy is about to teach James a lesson he will truly never
forget.

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Torture is the Best Revenge, Part 1.
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James had been pleasently surprised to recieve the email from Cathy.
He hadn't spoken to her in almost three months, and their last
conversation had not been a pleasent one.  They had dated for about
six months; after it had become apparent that it wasn't going
anywhere, he had finally worked up the courage to break up
with her. She did not take it well--in fact she had accused him of
never having really made an effort in the relationship, of only
using her for sex.  James had tried to explain that she was
overreacting--they had dated, it didn't work out, why not just be
friends?  But Cathy was furious and finally stormed out.

But it seemed that she had calmed down a bit since then, as
James had suspected she would.  She was no longer angry with him,
she said, and wanted them to be friends, if possible.  Of course,
James was relieved.  He replied to her and accepted her invitation
to bury the hatchet over drinks at her apartment that week.  It
would be nice to be friends again; he genuinely liked Cathy; the
only reason he had broken up with her was that she had been getting
more and more possessive and he felt like he needed more space.
He couldn't help thinking for a moment about the possiblity of
having sex with Cathy again.  He quickly put that thought out of
his mind as very unlikely; nothig in her email indicated any such
possibility, and from a practical point of view, he really didn't
want to get involved with her that way again.  But they had had
an excellent sex life durring their six months together, and he
couldn't keep the thought from popping into his mind now and
then throughout the day.

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Even though she had spent almost a month preparing for tonight,
Cathy was nervous as seven o'clock got closer.  But it was a good
kind of nervousness; excitement, anticipation, and a feeling of
empowerment, really.

"How are you doing?" asked Paige, almost reading her mind.

"Good. I'm good," smiled Cathy.  "I feel like I'm finally about to
take control over my own life.  Kind of strange, I guess."

"Not at all. That's really what this is all about.  Not about him,
but about you."  Paige spoke with her usuall assurance.  Despite
being almost twenty years younger--Paige was twenty-four, Cathy
fourty-two--she tended to play the role of mentor in their
relationship.  "Getting revenge is one of the most empowering
things a woman can do.  Cathy, believe me, after this is over, your
entire life is going to feel so much better you won't believe it."
                                                                   
Cathy listened in rapt attention.  The two women were about the
sameaverage height, but while Cathy had a very slim build, Paige was
almost fifty pounds overweight.  In spite of that, the age
difference, and the fact that at the firm where they both worked,
Cathy was an attorney while Paige was only a secretary, Cathy was
clearly the follower in the relationship.  Over the past few months,
as they gotten to know each other, Paige had really taken her under
her wing, and Cathy was greatful to her for it.

They had first started having lunch together when Cathy and James
were still together, but the relationship was clearly in trouble.
James had been being evasive, avoiding her phone calls.  She
couldnt understand what was going on.  Paige was so understanding
and so great to talk to durring those times.  After the big breakup,
when Cathy was so devestated she used up 10 sick days in a month,
and some days cried from morning until night, they really grew
closer together.  In fact, Cathy didn't know how she could have
made it through those times without Paige.

As they got to know each other better, Cathy discovered that there
was a lot more to Paige than was apparent upon first meeting her--
she was a facinating individual.  In fact, she was a dominatrix.
Cathy had been amazed to learn about this "other life" that Paige
lived, one in which she "owned" seventeen men as slaves.  It was
hard to believe, at first; but eventually Paige even introduced
Cathy to several of her slaves. She was astonished to learn that
one was Paige's boss--a partner in the firm!

Paige's level of control over her slaves varried.  She explained
to Cathy that it was really a processes she had to go through with
each of the men.  At first, they were really "slaves" in name only--
just a way for them to live out a sexual fantasy of being
"controlled" by a woman, when it was convenient for them.  But as
time went on in the relationships, Paige inevitably gained more and
more power.  Partly it was through subtle psychological
manipulation, similar to what goes on in any male-female
relationship; partly it was due to suble blackmail on her part.
In the case of one of her slaves, for example, named Roger, a young
accountant at a Wall Street firm, she videotaped some of their
encounters, without his knowledge at first.  As the relationship
progressed, she showed him some of the videotapes and suggested
that she might show them to people he knew.  This put him in a
state of panic, which, under the guise of sex play, she used to
manipulate him into further compromising positions, including
having him embezel funds from his firm, and making more
videotapes of ever-more-humiliating situations.

This was typical of how the enslavement process went, though of
course every man was different, and all had their own particular
buttons that Paige learned how to press.  In Roger's case, she
finally discovered that his greatest fear was that his mother would
learn about his true nature.  This knowlege was what Paige called
his "Muldoon"--the key lever she could use to gain absolute control
over him.

The other key tactic that Paige used to establish and increase her
control over her slaves was the strategic use of pain and pleasure.
The infliction of the former, and the granting or withholding of
the latter, were tools Paige used to "push the slaves over the
edge", as she explained to Cathy.  "The edge" was a point at which
a slave's natural instincts for self-preservation and self-control
were overwhelmed, and he surrendered himself completely to her
will.  At that point he became what Paige called a "fully broken
slave,"  not just willing to submit himself to her desires, but
desperately anxiously to do so, in such complete terror of the
alternative that a failure to submit to her became unthinkable.

"Looks like your boyfriend should be here in about fifteen minutes,"
said Paige.

Cathy snapped back to the present. "Paige, is everything ready?  Are
you sure this is going to work?"

"Don't worry Cathy.  Everything is going to work just as we planned.
I promise you."  Paige smiled calmly.  "I know you feel a little
nervous now, but after this is all over you'll see what I mean when
I say... torture is the best revenge."

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End of Part I.

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