The Exchange by Carrie Williams

Author:Carrie Williams [Williams, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Erotica, Bdsm, Romantic, Romantic Erotica, Romance
ISBN: 9780007533367
Google: jcDimwEACAAJ
Amazon: B008316SVI
Publisher: Mischief
Published: 2012-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Rochelle

I’d said enough was enough, but it seems that it wasn’t. I was starting to wonder whether enough is ever enough for someone like me.

Tatiana and Alice came knocking on my door a few days after the night at the penthouse –Tatiana was ostensibly helping Alice look at flats for sale in my area. Caught off guard, I found myself unable to refuse their invitation to go out.

‘The menfolk are both working late,’ said Tatiana, ‘so we thought we’d go out for a few drinkies. Do come – it’ll be fun.’

I nodded. ‘Give me ten minutes to get ready,’ I said, flicking my head to gesture them in. I hadn’t done much in the forty-eight hours since I’d last seen them. I’d been jaded and worn out, and confused by what had happened. If trouble came looking for me, I kept thinking, it was because in some part of myself I wanted it. Yet I yearned for a life without trouble and it was the very reason I had come to London.

***

For two days I had moped around Rachel’s flat, looking at her photography books, browsing the Internet, chatting with friends in Paris via Facebook. Lisette came online and told me that her new Dance of the Seven Veils act had gone down brilliantly. She was on a real high and while we chatted I felt violent pangs for my old life and for my job, which gave some kind of meaning and structure to my life. I missed the girls, too. They were the family that I’d never had. I found myself wondering why on earth I had ever suggested this ridiculous life-swap and wished fervently that I could go back in time and never get involved in such a hare-brained scheme. Or that I could call up Rachel and tell her that the swap was over and I needed my life back.

But I hesitated after Lisette told me that she’d befriended Rachel and that the English girl had come to the club and hung out with the girls backstage before going upfront to watch.

‘She took some amazing pictures,’ she told me. ‘She’s incredibly talented. I suggested she try to sell them to one of the classy sex boutiques like Lovestore, or that she tries to get a gallery interested. There’s a real edge to her work. Honestly, Rochelle, it’s as if she saw into our souls with that camera of hers. She made us truly naked. You can really understand those tribes who fear photography because they believe it takes your very essence away. I was shocked when I saw her pictures of me.’

‘What was shocking about them? Was it while you were on stage?’

‘No. She didn’t take any then. She said she was too wrapped up in my performance. She seems quite fascinated by that whole aspect of things – by why we do it, what we get out of it apart from money, and how it actually feels to be the centre of attention in that sort of environment.

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