I understood why Mel and Aud thought it might be best to hide this from me though. Why add any undue stress to me when, after the divorce would be finalized, they’d be back home with me and Karen’s knowledge wouldn’t matter? However, they also knew better than to discuss our arrangement with someone outside our circle and having done that, they kept it from me out of fear. They knew delaying in telling me wouldn’t help their cause, but when one day turned into two, then four, then eight, they thought it better to keep digging the hole and hope it all blows over and I’d be none-the-wiser.
This is why dominant’s keep their submissives on a short leash, because they are prone to doing things contrary to the dominant’s interests. The girls were cornered when Karen confronted them about our arrangement and being givers, nurturers and wanting to make people happy rather than upset, they folded like lawnchairs. If I were there, I would be able to hold my ground and lie my ass off convincingly to keep Karen in the dark, but that is not the kind of person a submissive is. Mel and Aud, all of us for that matter, were deeply in debt to Karen for allowing Mel and Aud into her home during the divorce process and as such, they felt obligated to come clean when Karen confronted them, to make Karen happy, as it were, since I wasn’t there to take the reigns. Ultimately, Karen finding out was my fault, as I never should’ve expected Mel and Aud to be able to keep our secret indefinitely.
I kept my disappointment, in the girls and myself, quiet for the moment, as I listened to Mel spell out the reason for the call. I already knew a lot of Karen’s situation and why she allowed Mel and Aud to live there during this process, but I also learned a lot more about what had been going on in the background.
Karen’s whole life was upended when Robert and his firm came after the oil company her husband worked for. Robert was the attorney who handled the case and he destroyed the company. During the trial, it was discovered that Karen’s husband had embezzled millions from the company and from the government subsidies. Once the company had been picked clean, the government came after Karen’s husband. Rather than face the next fifty years in prison, he decided to be a coward and take his life. In doing so, he voided all of his insurance policies and left all of the expenses for his wife and daughter to absorb. Needless to say, they had to sell off everything, including their house and cars. In just a few months, Karen went from living in a hillside mansion to living in government apartments, like my mother and sisters.
Although she had no knowledge of her husband’s activities, her law firm fired her because they didn’t want their image tarnished with the stigma associated with her husband. With the loss of her job, she lost the benefits and retirement package she had been working toward and any hope of getting on with another big firm. With only her ruined name to call her own, she struggled to climb her way back out of poverty. In a few years, she had opened her own law office and managed to move out of the projects and into a low-end suburb. It wasn’t a huge step up from the hole she had found herself in, but she was getting her life back and was determined to make a life for her and her daughter they could once again be proud of. The problem Melanie and Audrey were calling about revolved around Karen’s daughter, Holly.
Holly was Karen’s sixteen year old daughter and had found herself in a spot of trouble. For most of her life, Holly had attended prestigious schools. The kind of schools that wealth and privilege can access. However, such schools are quite insulated from the world around them and Holly was unprepared for life in a public school when their worlds came crashing down around them. For the most part, Holly did her best to conform to life in public school, but had since fallen in with a bad crowd during the end of her sophmore year. Being socially inept in this kind of environment, Holly was desperate for friends and unfortunately for her, the ones she gravitated towards were not the kind of people you’d want to associate with. Her girlfriends all ran around with losers who were well outside highschool and enjoyed corrupting young girls with drugs and alcohol. Holly was the girlfriend of a guy who was involved with gangs and drugs and while he didn’t particularly care about Holly much, he did care that she knew she was his.
Miguel and Holly was a classic case of a young impressionable girl falling for the attentions of the ‘bad boy’ older man. He was in his early to mid twenties and while Holly thought he was her world, she was nothing more than a taxi service, atm and cum receptacle to him. The abuse started almost right away in their relationship, but he’d managed to keep the bruises to areas of her body she could hide under clothing. Now that it was Summer and there would be no nosy school officals to intervene, Miguel had decided to drop all pretenses and Holly would start coming home with a shiner or fat lip. Like many girls, Holly defended her boyfriend against her mother’s complaints, until just recently. Holly went to pick up Miguel at a specific location and while waiting for him, a guy with a dog happened by. According to Mel’s account, Holly was only interested in the puppy, but that is when Miguel showed up. He kicked the dog and threatened the man with a knife, sending him fleeing the scene. Once in the car, Miguel turned the knife on Holly and told her that if she ever so much as looked at another guy, he’d gut her like a fish. If that wasn’t enough, he said he’d bring his friends over to pay a visit to her mother and the other two bitches that lived with them and rape them all before doing the same to them.
When asked why they didn’t bring this up to the police, Mel told me that Karen tried, but she was told that there was nothing they could do unless he tried something first. When told about the bruises, the police said that Holly could press charges if she wants, but it would be a hard sell unless the cops were called as it were happening and that she should just dump the jerk. Of course, that advise landed like rock as dumping him was the reason he threatened her in the first place. Off the record, the cop wasn’t entirely unsympathetic, as he apparently understood the mind-numbing bureaucracy didn’t make sense. He told her to buy a gun and if ‘defending’ herself meant dropping the punk on the sidewalk, so be it, just make sure she could drag the body to the door before the cops get there.
That’s when I got the sinking feeling in my stomach that I was about to get involved in all of this. I asked Mel why she was telling me this and she asked if I could come out there and help them. I tried to tell her that I wasn’t a cop, mercenary or bodyguard, but I could also tell that my words were falling on deaf ears. Melanie knew I did not want to do this nor did she want me to, but she also knew what kind of person I was and they had no one left to turn to. We were all in debt to Karen for allowing Mel and Aud to live there rent free during this, as she was eager to get a shot at the man who ruined her life, if only in the smallest of ways. She was saving us thousands of dollars in apartment or motel room rental for what could take a year to complete. Furthermore, Miguel’s threat included Mel and Aud and that alone was enough to boil my blood, but they couldn’t just leave and come back home either. We owed Karen and Melanie had no issue reminding me of that.