Walter's right hand came up and joined his other hand as he held her hand between his.
"Paige, I am so sorry this happened to you." Walter told her sincerely.
Paige gave him a weak smile.
"This is where it gets worse." Paige said quietly.
Walter nodded his permission for her to continue. Before she could, the curtain made a noise and Mrs Kovelsky came in to check on them. She smiled seeing Walter holding her hand.
"How is my favorite new couple doing? Is there anything you need?" Mrs Kovelsky asked.
"I could use a refill on my coffee please." Paige smiled at her.
The expression on Paige's face confused Mrs Kovelsky at first, but then she thought Paige must have been telling Walter of something difficult and he was holding her hand to comfort her.
"I could use a refill myself, Mrs Kovelsky." Walter nodded. "Thank you." He added as an afterthought.
"I'll be right back." Mrs Kovelsky smiled at them. She felt proud of Walter for making that connection with Paige. With everyone else he was always distant emotionally.
Walter and Paige just sat there looking at each other, he wasn't about to rush or pressure her. It hurt him to know how she had been used. Walter hadn't released her hand even by the time Mrs Kovelsky came back with their coffee. She peeked back into the room just before locking the curtain back but they were still holding hands. She nodded and smiled as she left.
"I was so devastated Walter, the last two months crashed down on me in such a bad way. But even that wasn't the worst of it. He ranted on, wanting to know if I liked feeling the embarrassment he felt when I was so rude to his friends that night. I just couldn't understand how he thought this was even close to the same thing." Paige wiped at a tear that ran down her face.
"Drew changed suddenly and was like, let's do what we talked about. I'll invite the guys back tonight after your show. I'll tell them to bring a lot of money with them. That you are going to give them the best private dances of their lives here at the apartment and we'll make back all of our money and then a hell of a lot more." Paige sighed. "I couldn't believe he said 'our money', I didn't see him out there taking his clothes off. Exposing his most intimate parts for the enjoyment of other people. Not to mention him bringing people who would be involved in our private life to my shows. He was actually proud of this thought, if you can believe that." Paige choked up a little.
"I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't deal with Drew and I walked out. I wasn't sure where I was going to go but I needed to think. I ended up at the club. Because the club was full-nudity, they couldn't sell alcohol to clients but they maintained a free bar in the dressing room for the girls. And while I was under legal drinking age, the owner didn't care about that, so I had a couple of shots. I don't really remember thinking about anything, just sitting there, numb. Apparently I had been sitting there for a couple of hours. The next thing I truly remember was Carol asking me if I was going to get ready for my first show." Paige sighed but was kind of smiling as she saw Walter staring at her hand. The fingers of his left hand were running small circles around the back of it.
"So I got dressed, or undressed I guess and prepared for my first dance set. As I came back to the dressing room Jake was there and asked what was wrong. He said I was not acting normal. So I explained what had happened. He was pissed. Said he was going to go pull the footage from my last day and print copies of all the guys' faces. He'd make sure none of them were allowed back in." Paige sighed.
"Not that his blocking them was going to help me now. I mean with two weeks before rent, I had plenty of time to make the money but what had kind of become fun wasn't anymore. I hadn't wanted to keep dancing, I was only doing it to get us to his first paycheck. Now…now I wanted to get as far away from Drew as I could. As quickly as I could. During my second dance set there was a commotion back at the entrance and all the bouncers responded and there was a pretty good dust up. Just what I needed, a distraction for the clients meant less tips. And a fight would keep guys from coming in." Paige sighed again. "And yes, it turned out to be Drew's friends. They got their asses handed to them and sent packing."
"And to top this wonderful day off so far, I hadn't even had one private dance request." Paige sighed.
"Jake stopped me before I got back into the dressing room. He said I had a special request. I thought, great, finally a bit of luck." Paige shook her head.
"It wasn't for a dance though was it?" Walter said gently. He wanted her to know he was paying attention to her story.
Paige smiled sadly as she shook her head.
"It wasn't new, I'd been propositioned before, many times. I knew some of the girls usually had sex several times a night with their clients. I had never been interested in that at all. It was difficult enough to let their eyes touch me…there…to let them physically touch me." Paige shuddered. "So I just told Jake no." Paige said as she reached up with her free hand and captured Walter's hand between hers.
"Jake said the guy was willing to pay one thousand dollars. That shocked me, it was more than double the normal amount that the other girls charged." Paige told Walter. "I have to admit that caused me to rethink things but I said no finally."
"I was about half way through my break when Jake came into the dressing room. Jake and the owner were the only guys who were allowed to come back into the dressing room so it wasn't unusual. He told me the guy upped his offer to fifteen hundred. I was so tempted to be honest. But still said no." Paige sighed.
"As I walked back to the dressing room from my fourth set Jake was standing by the door. I shook my head as I walked towards him. I asked if he had another offer and he nodded his head. He said the guy really wanted to have sex with me. He offered to pretend he was asleep, all I had to do was come in, make sure he was hard and have sex with him. He wouldn't touch me or anything. And for that he offered two thousand dollars. I was beyond floored. I thought about it for maybe a minute, as I thought with that much I could just leave tomorrow morning and never look back on San Francisco and Drew. I wouldn't have to worry about the apartment, nothing of any real value besides clothes and makeup, and I was only on the lease as a guest. Suddenly I heard myself say okay." Paige looked up to see Walter looking at her, the look she saw on his face gave her the strength to continue.
"I was so nervous, I couldn't believe I had agreed to this, to be honest. Jake came back and told me he had the money and what room the guy would be in. I nodded as I grabbed my robe and he walked me back to the room and said he'd be a few doors down to give me a little privacy but close enough to respond if I needed help." Paige sighed.
"I was like, wait, what is his name? Jake turned back around and looked at the guy's license. With a smile he said Bobby Dankworth. I nodded and took in a deep breath and opened the door. As I stepped in I saw this guy who looked identical to you. He seemed more passed out than faking sleep. But I trusted Jake and thought a deal is a deal. So I began rubbing up against him as I danced a little to the song playing over the speaker. He moaned a little but otherwise, if he wasn't asleep, he played at being asleep well. I had stripped down in my dance so I was naked already and I considered him. I didn't see a need to take all his clothes off, so I just unzipped his pants." Paige blushed as she recalled that memory.
"He wasn't completely hard so I got down on my knees to further stimulate him. It didn't take much and I slipped a condom on him before I got up. I straddled him and after applying a bit of lube, I slowly slipped his manhood inside of me. He became a little handsy as I rode him but four weeks without sex, I was enjoying the act and so I didn't mind or object to it. Between the condom and whatever he had been drinking he lasted longer than I ever thought he would. Long enough that I orgasmed. And I had a second orgasm after his orgasm, he was still pretty hard. As I said it had been four weeks since I last had sex with Drew and it had all felt so good I just sat there with him inside me and rubbed myself until I had my next orgasm." Paige swallowed hard but Walter's expression still gave her warmth. She figured he'd be showing disgust by now.
"And that was the cherry on top…I couldn't believe it as I stood up, I saw the condom had ruptured. My luck was absolutely rotten that day. There was so much semen, I couldn't believe it. I decided he could just deal with the mess himself as I grabbed the robe I brought with me and put it on and grabbed my clothes and left." Paige said with a bit of anger to her voice.
While Paige wasn't looking directly at Walter as she told him that, Walter's eyes had gotten bigger for a moment but he quickly recovered. This was her story.
"Jake greeted me and walked me back to the dressing room. He handed me eighteen hundred dollars. The club only kept ten percent of special favor money. I went in and put it up before taking a long hot shower. The physical side of me felt so good and the emotional side felt so horrible. I tried not to cry but I couldn't stop it. One of the other girls heard and stepped into the bathroom. She was pretty sympathetic as she said the first time was never easy on anyone. But if I wanted to continue doing it, it would get easier. I just shook my head, I was done with this. Sure, I'll admit I've had some hook up sex in college before that, but…Walter, knowing I did it for money?" Paige sighed.
"I think I can understand that thought." Walter smiled. "I'm not very experienced with love, especially the physical aspect of it. But Paige, you experienced a lot of emotional shocks, don't let this get you down. I promise you I don't think anything bad about you."
Paige smiled at what Walter was trying to tell her.
"Anyway, I got dressed and left. I didn't even stay for my last performance. I went to Mrs Bonetti and I was crying again at that point as she opened her door at 1 am. She hurried me inside and got me by the fireplace. She stirred up the embers and put an extra log on it. She was the only person I knew in the metropolitan area who had a wood burning stove. She had regular gas heat but she said she loved the smell as a child and it brought back such happy memories." Paige smiled.
"She asked what Drew had done this time and so I told her everything, just like I told you now. She just nodded and then said she had suspected some things earlier, that something was going on. She said Drew had met with some of his buddies at her cafe. They had acted very strange, every time she got close they all became quiet, like they were plotting something. She warned me to be careful." Paige sighed.
"I got a text a short bit after I got into the spare bed Mrs Bonetti let me use. It was from the owner, he was pissed I left early and without saying anything. But said he understood, a lot of the girls found it hard after the first time. But listed all this stuff he was wanting to talk to me about now that I had crossed that line." Paige swallowed hard. "Walter, it was some of the creepiest stuff. He wanted me to go full on pornographic, books, movies, the whole gambit. He sent me links to his production company. I just turned my phone off."
Walter saw Paige was starting to shake from the emotions she was experiencing. He made several quick calculations.
"This is where you are going to say you found out the worst of it all." Walter asked but was nodding his head at her.
Paige gave him another weak smile and nodded.
"When I woke up a few hours later, still feeling like crap, I found dozens of texts on my phone. My boss was mad I hadn't contacted him back. I got up and got a shower and heard my phone chime again. So I left the bathroom and picked it up and it was from Drew. It was weird, it was all happy like. And then he said his plan worked and now I was going to be his meal ticket. He had all these plans to whore me out to anyone who wanted me. He listed all this stuff he planned for me to do and said if I didn't agree he would release a video he had of me." Paige shuddered.
"I had no clue what video he could have meant, we never did anything like that. And then he sent me a clip. It wasn't very long, maybe a minute, but showed me with Bobby's manhood in my mouth and then climbing up and riding him." Paige was breathing a bit fast.
"Paige, try to relax. Just breathe and take your time. You don't have to rush." Walter told her.
Paige shook her head.
"I got to get this out. I was freaking Walter, from the angle of the video there must have been a video camera in the guy's briefcase on the floor. Drew told me again if I didn't give in he would release the full video on the internet." Paige drew in a deep breath.
"The video would be bad, and I definitely didn't want it released. But I couldn't see how giving in to his demand would result in something good for me. I was sure he'd end up having me do things that he'd put on the internet anyway. My boss wanted to do the same crap to me. I knew it was better to just leave and then deal with the problem of the video another day. So I bolted. Took the money I made the night before and I flew down to LA and then took a taxi to my Dad's. I broke down and told him he was right, and told him what Drew had tried to do." Paige explained.
"It was the hardest conversation I ever had to have with anyone, this one now is the second hardest. My Dad was devastated that I was treated so badly, that I had allowed myself to get into such a position. But then he said he was putting all of that behind us and did what he always does. He took care of me." Paige sniffed.
"When did you find out you were pregnant?" Walter asked softly.
Paige at first looked shocked but then smiled.
"As smart as you are, it shouldn't be surprising you figured that out. It was about a month later. My Dad wasn't too happy about that. Being Catholic he would never support me getting an abortion if it wasn't life threatening. He asked about Drew and if I was going to tell him." Paige explained.
"But Drew isn't the Father of Ralph." Walter nodded.
Paige gave him a weak smile and shook her head.
"No, I did look up Bobby Dankworth and sent him several letters letting him know he had gotten me pregnant but he never responded." Paige sighed.
"That's because it was me…that got you pregnant, not Bobby. But you didn't know that or even know my name." Walter said quietly.
Paige looked shocked and then a little fearful.
"Wait…are you sure?" Paige said softly as her hand came up to her lips.
"Well you said it had been four weeks since you last had sex with Drew and you didn't say you had sex with anyone else. Plus Bobby doesn't look anything like me, there is no way you could have mistaken him for me." Walter nodded as he stood up…Walter stepped away from the table but began walking the floor back and forth.
"Walter?" Paige asked, a little uneasy.
Walter stopped and looked at her and nodded as he moved over and sat down.
"Sorry." Walter said as he reached out and took her hands back in his.
"As I said Bobby was a competitor. And I was naïve." Walter told her.
Greetings! I hope this finds you all well!
Railman - Yeah, Drew is a real piece of work in this story. We'll find out a bit more about Drew and his baseball career in a few chapters. And it looks like pimping her out (and worse) was exactly what he had in mind...Yep, Walter is definitely prepared to do a lot for Paige!
LouBe - Yes, emotionally this wasn't an easy story to write. Unlike Stephen King I don't enjoy putting characters through such abuse...excuse me for a moment...Walter's yelling at me...something about what I did to him in the Uncivil War storyline. LOL Yep, more to come as you know now and Bobby's name again. We'll learn more about him in a few more chapters too. Lots of good stuff to look forward to. lol The reason she's sharing with Walter is 2 fold. 1 as a potential issue of the sex video, she didn't want that to tarnish Scorpion or cause an issue for Walter and then he fires her over it. And 2, as she stood there watching him walk out to his car, she had this feeling that with Walter knowing this Bobby and having been in San Francisco at some point in the past she was beginning to wonder if it hadn't been Walter she had sex with back then. So you were part right! Well now you know...is she a victim or unwilling perpetrator? More a victim I think.
Marie Mac - So glad you are still enjoying Callan! I've had 20 chapters waiting to post on Callan until I had the last of it written. So when this story ends, I hope to have Aine and Daithi's next story finished I'll have to decide which one to post. Aine's will be about 5 chapters, so I might post that just because of how quick it will go and then post Callan...What do you think?
Pearliegirl - I truly hope I don't! lol But for now we're covered until June I think story wise between this, Callan and Aine!
JerBr23 - hehe That would be the smoothest Walter has ever been! lol Oh I love Mrs K in this story! Wait until chapter 4 and I think 6...She also has a first name finally. lol We learn her "nickname" in chapter 4. Might of helped Drew had he gone to college but in this story he did not. As you can see in this chapter his thought was to make her desperate enough to cave to more of his demands. If he had had a bit more experience, he'd have done it differently to try and trap her. Fortunately, he wasn't nor intelligent enough to notice his "chicken" wasn't ready to roost yet. Yep...March 16, 2005...a landmark day in my stories! lol Definitely a different way to bring them together for Ralph to be his son.
Lucy - Yep, he is and thankfully stupid, if he had actually planned it different he might have succeeded.
Susan - Definitely, I felt bad putting Paige in this situation...and I never liked Drew anyway so any chance I get at messing him up I'm going to take it! lol She definitely didn't want anything more to do with Drew! Looks like Walter is more than willing to over look it! lol
To the Adventure! -Tim