Chapter 11. Homeward bound
"I brought you a robe Mary Jane, I thought you might like to wear that today.
It's loose and not rough on the inside."
"You're taking me away from this place today, Michael MacFarlaine. I am not
spending another night here. If you can't take me then I will have to get a
train or bus."
"Mary, you're so sore and the seats in the Landrover are not the most
comfortable. It would be better for you to recover a bit first. There's no
busses or trains running today anyway. Your sister won't be home and....."
Claudia left them arguing, and went to find her husband.
Mary couldn't have worn a bra is she had wanted to, nor a pair of knickers. She
settled for an oversized shirt of Michael's, a zip-up cardigan and a pleated
skirt. "Would you like me to bring some breakfast up for you?" Michael asked.
"No, I will go down and eat with the others. I assume the stupid Romans game is
over?"
Michael nodded. "It's the morning after the night before. Most of the women are
sore and men are suffering hangovers and exhaustion."
They called at Prude's as they went by. The men had gone but Julie was there in
tears. She looked at Mary and apologised for her action in helping Bella. "I
just felt I had to be loyal to my mistress and you hurt her so badly. Then when
I saw her trying to get her revenge I knew it was all wrong. You acted only to
save yourself from being whipped, she just wanted to see you suffer like she's
made me suffer for a year or more." Turning to Prude she went on, "Please help
me. I've no money of my own, no clothes of my own and no place to live. Bella
wouldn't have me back now even if I wanted to go."
Michael stepped forward and pulled a card from his wallet. "If Prude will let
you stay here until work starts again in the New Year and will assist you with
clothing and stuff, contact these people and refer them to me, for giving you a
maid's job. It will be live in so no problem of where to live, but it will be a
month before you get paid."
"Oh, I expect I can find some massaging jobs for her here Mike and may even pay
her for them!" Prude was back in her happy bubbly form. Mary Jane glowered. How
could he just find a job for the woman she knew as Snotface until this morning?
A paid job when she was having to work for free! It didn't help her mood. Nor
did it help when Prude insisted on seeing the result of Bella's whipping and
only remarked that Bella would never be allowed at her parties again.
Soon after midday, they were on the road. Traffic was very quiet and they were
able to speed along. By the time the Travellodge at Carlisle was reached Mary
was extremely sore and had begun to regret moving on. "Shall we stop here or go
on?" Michael asked.
"Stop please."
"I guess you're very sore and I don't suppose the extra pillow under you helped
that much." Once settled in, she allowed him to bathe her again and apply more
cream. He whole arse area bore signs of chafing on top of the welts. The front
too where the belt of her skirt went round, was also inflamed. Luckily the
stripes on her breasts were fading. The whip hadn't caught them with the full
force used on her bum and belly. Only a limited service at the service station
but they were able to get a burger. Not exactly a Christmas dinner but they had
to eat.
Back at the lodge Mary went to the toilet and on returning to the bedroom found
a wrapped parcel on the table. She was surprised and embarrassed. She hadn't
expected a present and hadn't bought him anything, not that she had any money.
On opening it she found a large colourful book on birds. It was so beautiful she
didn't want to take it. "Michael it's a lovely book, but I can't take it. I
haven't got anything for you." Tears for the umpteenth time began to dribble
from her eyes.
"It's yours Mary Jane, treat it as a text book for your work with me."
"Who said I was going to stay long enough to use it. In the past two weeks I've
had nothing but pain, pain from my family, pain from you and pain from your
friends. Why on earth should I want to stay?"
"It will get better, believe me. I won't ever put you in that situation again. I
promise. We'll get back to the relationship we had earlier once we get home.
That wasn't so bad for you, was it? Not until you threw the book anyway."
Mary wouldn't admit it. "I was only a sex slave for you. A hole for you to put
your cock in. A maid to cook your meals. Do you call that a relationship. Sex,
anytime, anyway, you said."
"Sex is a very important part of any relationship Mary Jane. Don't tell me you
didn't enjoy some of the things we did. Don't let what happened at Prude's put
you off. The anytime anyway gave you an excuse to try things you wouldn't have
otherwise done. We can work it out again. Trust me."
"Why on earth should I trust you after what happened yesterday, today? How can I
trust you when you don't have any trust in me. You keep your life a complete
secret from me. You pretend you are a poor student but in reality you own an
estate somewhere in Scotland. You may well he fabulously rich for all I know and
yet you want me free for a month and are then going to pay me minimum wage. You
expect me to trust you?"
"Mary Jane..."
"There you go again, calling me by that double name I hate. The one my mother
uses when I'm in for a hiding. The one your rich friends seemed to favour
because it sounded upper class. I'm a farm girl Mike, not one of those idle
promiscuous dolls." Mary seemed to want to get it all off her chest.
"Mary, I didn't know. I assumed you liked it."
"Call me Mary or EmJay if you want, like my school friends did when I went to
school."
Mary, EmJay, yes I am quite a wealthy man but I also have a passion for wild
life conservation and the year's project on the Dengie marshes is something I
want to do and am committed to do. I will treat it as a full time job. I don't
need the Ph.D. to further my career but I want to get it. I want to know what
lives on and off the seashore, in the reed beds, crawls in the grass, swims in
the ditches, and I would like you to be there helping me find out. Will you at
least say you'll stay with me for a while and if we can make love, then that
will be a bonus. However, if at the end of the month you agreed on, you don't
wish to stay with me any more, I will do my utmost to find you a place to stay
or work, just as I did Julie. Or I will drive you to your sisters if that is
what you want. Will you do that for me EmJay? Stay with me for the next two
weeks and let us try to work things out? I don't want to lose you. Last night
was the most horrific of my life."
Mary just nodded and then muttered, "Mine too." Michael wiped her tears away and
gently cuddled her. Once again she felt safe although her mind said she had no
real reason to do so.
Later in bed when she felt his hardness and knew he couldn't or wouldn't touch
her for fear of hurting her welts further, Mary took his prick in her hands and
massaged it slowly until she could see the pleasure in his eyes. Lowering
herself under the sheets, she gave him her first full blow job. He hadn't had
any sex for the whole of the party so it wasn't long before she tasted his seed.
"Mike?" Mary started and then paused. "For the next few weeks I will give you a
second chance. I will stay as your housekeeper and live as we did for the first
few days but you have to promise no more thrashings. I also want to be able to
phone my sister tomorrow and perhaps at the end of the month, perhaps we can
arrange to meet her again. After that I will decide whether or not to live with
you on at least a semi-permanent basis. Whether this happens or doesn't will
depend on your behaviour. I am willing to go along with some of your sexual
ideas. I don't mind being a love toy and learning to please you sexually, if I
am treated with love. I don't want to be a slave. No more threatening with the
belt and definitely no using it. Understand?"
"EmJay, I understand and agree. If you want we can stay here for another night
and wait for your sister to arrive home. If not you can certainly phone her and
if you are willing to stay for the month, if you want I will use my influence to
get you a job as I did with Julie. However, once we get started on the project,
I hope you will stay and help me complete it. What I feel for you may be love,
but it is too early to say. I just know how much of a loss I felt when I thought
you had gone. A loss I've never felt with any other girl."
Mary crawled up the bed and gently laid herself on top of him. She felt some
pain as her stomach laid on his and the blankets rubbed her bottom but she
ignored it. Her lips touched his and for the first time she inaugurated the
kiss. A kiss with fire and passion .... and love.
Finis
