Author's note: I know it's been a while since I posted the last chapter. Life and work has gotten in the way, but I'm back to it now. And while this might be a little unusual, I'd like to respond to the many comments that have been posted about this story.
First, I'm pleasantly surprised that so many readers have hung in there with this very long story, and I generally take it as a compliment that so many of you have gotten so involved with the storyline and characters that you've been posting many reactions -- positive and negative -- and suggestions about where you think the story should go.
Positive feedback is always appreciated, and does incentivize me to keep writing what now amounts to a novel-length story. Criticism is more of a mixed bag, and reveals the different and contrasting opinions out there. Some readers get irritated when my stories incorporate female characters getting tricked or manipulated out of their clothes -- "This is CFNM! Stick to naked and embarrassed males!" -- and others get irritated that Tim doesn't get more payback in the form of baring his employees and rivals -- "Tim is too stupid to be a boss; if Shawna isn't gang-raped and imprisoned this story is a failure!"
The oddest responses have been from people who seem to be offended and even pissed at all of the naked embarrassment and exploitation that Tim goes through without his consent, or that some of the female characters go through without their consent.
In an erotic story that you found in a category called "nonconsent/reluctance"! If that's your reaction, what are you doing here?
I don't mind suggestions for ideas for further stories or plot twists, and again, I'm really pleased that people are reading and engaged enough in the story to care what happens next. But as I've always done, I'm writing about plotlines and characters that interest me, and if those really don't line up with your own interests, I'm not sure why you continue to read stories that aren't your thing.
The reality is that I'm a straight guy who enjoys writing about playful power games between the sexes. I really appreciate female nudity (!), for obvious reasons, and so I'll always be featuring some of that in my stories. But when I was a young man I found that I was also turned on by voyeuristic attention from females, which I experienced intensely on a handful of occasions. At different times several girlfriends cajoled, teased and (in one instance) wagered me out of my clothes, and once three female friends worked together to get me naked, and then expose me to two of their friends.
All of those experiences were simultaneously fun and mortifying, and so I also like to write about CFNM plotlines in which I can live vicariously through the embarrassed male protagonist. If you're here because you like that too, I'm glad that you're reading my stuff.
And if your own tastes run to more or less CFNM than mine, or more or less ENF than mine, or even if you don't like the "slow burn" style that I have (get to the naked action!) that is not for everyone, I really would encourage you to write your own stories, and I will happily read those, too!
Part 46
As Tim was pulling Shawna into the maintenance closet and putting her back on her feet, Carly was thinking fast. She pulled her cell phone from her purse, turned its light on, and put it on the shelf facing up, so that the room was dimly lit. Once Shawna and Tim were inside, he turned and locked the door behind them.
In a few seconds, Shawna had gotten over her surprise. It helped that she was able to watch handsome Tim, naked as the day he was born, locking the door. Her eyes traveled up his bare legs, over his pleasantly out-thrust ass, and up his torso before he turned back toward her.
"So this is where you were hiding out," Shawna said, a faint smile on her pretty face. "Every woman in the building is looking high and low for you. They'll be jealous that I was the lucky girl to find--"
"OH!" Shawna had noticed Carly standing in the other corner of the small space. "Professor Sands! What are YOU doing in here?" Shawna's eyes took in Carly's naked state, as the blushing professor dropped one hand to cover her pussy, and put her other arm across her breasts. "And why are you naked?!"
Shawna looked back and forth between Carly and Tim, and then back to Carly. "You two weren't--"
"No!" Tim and Carly said at the same time. Tim tried to think of how to tell Shawna that he'd stripped Carly, without scaring her into freaking out or banging on the door or something.
But before he could say anything, Carly said, "I- I took my clothes off to make Tim feel more comfortable.
"What?" Shawna asked. Tim gave Carly the same confused look that Shawna did, but Carly quickly went on.
"I found him ducking in here, so I followed him. He was understandably distraught, after what all of those women had just put him through in the studio. He practically had a panic attack when I came in here, which I understood completely. Having that entire mob of women stripping him, groping him and spanking him was a traumatic experience, after all."
Shawna looked at Tim, who was blushing and looking miserable, then back at Carly. "But why--"
Carly interrupted. "I had to make a quick decision. After Tim had barely escaped from all of those females taking sexual advantage of him, I knew he must be feeling very vulnerable. So for another female to immediately follow him into what he thought was a safe hiding space just ratcheted up his panic."
She glanced at Tim, and saw from his expression that he saw where she might be going. She continued, "I knew that to ease his anxiety, I needed to decrease the power imbalance between us. And the only way I could think of to do that was to..." she hesitated, glancing down at her naked body, "...make myself as vulnerable as he was feeling."
"By taking all of your clothes off?" Shawna asked, still processing the drastic change from the professional, put-together professor who had been on Marcy's show to this very attractive but very naked young woman in the closet.
Carly just nodded, as she blushed. "It worked."
"I'll bet it did," Shawna said, looking at Tim. "Did you behave yourself, Tim?"
Carly said, "Of course he did. I wasn't in any danger from him; he was the one who had just gone through a very public humiliation." The disapproving tone brought Shawna up short. She looked at Carly.
"Of course you couldn't have known what was going to happen out there," Carly said to Shawna, "and that Tim was going to be treated so badly, and taken advantage of."
Before Shawna could reply, Tim said, "I'm not so sure about that. In fact, I think she knew exactly what was going to happen."
"Oh, I'm certain that's not the case," Carly said, picking up on Tim's comment. She turned to Shawna. "Surely you didn't know that Tim was going to be exposed like that, against his will?"
Shawna looked uncomfortable and unsure of herself. Tim sensed blood in the water and jumped in again. "Yes she did. She was the one who took my pants off!"
Shawna said, "I didn't-- Danielle did most of it." That sounded weak, even to her.
Carly gave her a scolding look. "Actually, I watched you pull his pants down."
Shawna looked guilty. "I- I just meant that Danielle helped. Anyway, he wasn't supposed to lose his boxers, or his towel."
"Yeah, right," Tim said sarcastically, folding his arms across his chest and glaring at Shawna.