When Martha, his mother, used that self-same term to describe me, the hurt didn’t come from the word itself, but from the deeply offended look on her face that left no doubt that I’d probably not get to see the interior of their house very often, and I felt bad to drive a wedge between Andrew and his family.
“Ignore her,” he told me though once we were safely off enemy territory and back in his car. “She’s always been a stickler for outdated morale values. She’ll either wrap her head around it or hole up in her house and ignore us.”
“But she’s your mother…”
“And you’re my fiancee, Becky.” His voice was dry, and I knew that this would be the last of it.
I still couldn’t believe that I had landed Andrew - clever, good-looking and wealthy Andrew Perkins who lead the legal department. Given his position, it was a wonder in itself that he even noticed a lowly sales office worker, and with office gossip as it was, he surely had heard enough about my reputation.
It wasn’t really a secret. Not when you’re caught with your pants down and your married co-worker’s cock up your ass at your company’s Christmas party and have half of the office staff watch him pound you on the hood of his car. And everyone knew that the only reason I still had my job was that I had spread my legs for Jennings, our department head, the day after. His secretary had made sure of that.
“I love you, Andrew!”
He grinned at me with that cute, slight smirk that always made me melt inside. “So it’s just going to be us and a few friends, I guess.”
“I’m sorry. I hoped that your family…”
He didn’t let me finish. “The only person who’s important to be at our wedding with me is you.”
* * * *
I had never in my life been so nervous. Tonight, I was going to be married and become Mrs. Becky Perkins. I had already moved into Andrews house, but it hadn’t really felt like home. I knew it would after tonight. I nestled with the shoulder part of my wedding dress, which bunched up slightly, and managed to get it to lie flat, while I recited the vow in my mind.
“You’re going to do great. Here, let me do your eyes.”
Joanna was my office head and the only person from my circle of friends to be invited. If I was honest, I didn’t really have friends. I had former fuck-buddies and loose acquaintances from work. Joanna was the closest to a friend I had, and that meant that we went out for a drink once a month - which sometimes grew into quite a number of drinks - and that I had confessed some of the kinkier things I’d done in my life, and unfortunately also a bit about the wicked sexual cravings that were a constant companion for me.
“Don’t you think this is a bit much?” I asked cautiously when she put the dark eyeshade on rather generously.
“Nonsense. You need to draw attention to your lovely eyes.” Skilled fingers applied mascara equally lavishly, and when my mirrored face blinked, it looked rather seductive.
“I don’t know…”
“Hush.” She did the lipstick too, a dark, burgundy red, and followed it with almost black lip-liner. “There,” she finally exclaimed, “you look positively sexy.”
“Sexy? It’s my wedding, not a date. Joanna!”
Before I could pick up a swipe, she was fixing the pretty white tiara with the veil to my hair. “There, all done. It’s time anyway.”
I took a deep breath and got up, trying to control my shaky knees.
“Are you wearing the naughty stuff underneath too?” Joanna whispered into my ear, putting a lot of emphasis on the word “naughty”.
“Joanna!” I hissed. I had, in a moment of boozed honesty, confessed that I had bought crotchless white lace panties with matching halters, a half-cup bra and pretty white bows with soft clamps to wear under my wedding dress. I really wanted to give Andrew a nice surprise on our wedding night, and I knew that he loved it when I dressed up a little naughty.
“Oh, come on. Are you?”
I nodded, biting my lip and feeling my face flush.
The look she sent me was strange. For a moment, I thought I recognized a wicked gleam in her eyes, but I went as fast as it had come, and then she smiled brightly at me, taking my hand and pulling me after her.
“It’s time. We need to get into the limo.”
“My purse. I don’t have my purse!”
“It’s your wedding. You won’t need it. Come on, the limo’s waiting.”
* * * *
My excitement and anxiety had grown with every mile. Andrew had asked me to leave all the details to him, and once he insisted on something, he was impossible to dissuade. So I hadn’t even had a clue where we were going.
I had expected some kind of church, but it was a huge mansion that appeared in front of us after a mile-long slow drive over a gravel driveway. It was all white and had pillars and little turrets, as if it had sprung right out of a cheesy romance movie. I loved it.
The walk on shaky legs to the reception room went by in a haze, and I could probably not have found my way back on my own afterwards. But that didn’t matter.
The room looked like a cross of a tiny ballroom and a church, with an arched roof that was filled with paintings of nude, beautiful people lounging about, drinking and eating, and at the front was a small dais surrounded by statues of nude, pretty, lascivious women.
When we stepped onto the line of black carpet that ran from the entrance all they way across the marble floor and up to the dais, Joanna held up my hand at chest height and a soft rendition of the wedding march began to play. Smiling faces lined the sides of the room, all Andrews’s friends, some of whom I had met and others I hadn’t seen before. My vision grew blurry and my heart pounded.
A big, good-looking older man in a black frock stood in the middle of the dais, but my eyes were glued to Andrew, who radiated happiness and watched eagerly as I approached with a spring in my steps that I’d never felt before.
Joanne gave my hand to Andrew, whose fingers closed possessively around mine, and we turned to face the reverend.
He smiled at both of us, then began to recite the words in a strong voice.
“Dear friends! We have come together on this night to witness the wedding between Mr. Andrew Perkins…”
He nodded towards Andrew, who smiled back brightly, but then he continued and I stood frozen to the spot, my heart trying to explode from chest and the ground opening up underneath me.
“..and his pretty slut, Becky Saunders.”
Had he really just said this? Had he called me a ‘slut’ at my own wedding? But then why was Andrew still smiling all over? Was my mind playing tricks? I started to hyperventilate, but the reverend simply continued, and when I listened to his words, my world began to crumble.
“Andrew, you are here to be united with Becky in a bond for eternity. Will you love her and hold her, expose her and use her, share her body with your friends and see to it that she will be well-fucked every day, until death does part you?”
I stared, wide-eyed and with blood rushing in my ears like monumental waterfalls, as Andrew answered him in a loud and clear voice that echoed in the large room, “I do!”
The reverend waited for the short wave of applause to settle down.