Yvonne Denton sat next to her husband Mike in the office of her employer, Eric Lawrence. She was nervously toying with a bracelet about her wrist while she drank in the realization that her embezzling scheme had been uncovered.
Seated across the desk from her, next to her boss, was a phalanx of lawyers and other officious looking folks. Her boss was speaking now, his voice was tinged with anger, yet he clearly had a hold of his emotions.
"To think I trusted you completely Yvonne. I never even would have run the internal audit had not my legal team insisted. And what have you done with the 250,000 dollars you handed yourself off the books? It has certainly not gone to anything substantial. I could almost forgive it if you had invested my money and multiplied it. Had that been the case, I could have simply recouped my losses and cut you loose, but now we have to get the law involved. I tell you now that I intend to push for the full penalty possible under the law. There is not a judge in this town who is not one of my golfing buddies. You are looking at a minimum seven to ten years in the state prison.
I asked your husband here so that you can not avoid having to tell him. I suspect, however, that he knew full well what you were up to. He probably, happily helped you spend my money. Fortunately for him, and unfortunately for you, only your guilt is obvious in this crime. I DETEST being taken advantage of. I will make you pay until I am satisfied."
The slim, graying businessman then allowed several of his lawyers to speak. Each in turn summarized the considerable case against Yvonne, the certainty of her conviction, and the hellish life in prison that awaited her. By the time the lawyers were finished, Yvonne was in tears with her husband attempting to console her.
After a long silence, Yvonne mouthed her plea for mercy,
"Mr. Lawrence, I am truly sorry. Please do not turn me over to the police, I beg of you. I'll do anything you ask to make amends for what I have done."
"Yvonne, you are only sorry that you got caught." replied the businessman. "The only thing that will make me happy is seeing you in an orange jumpsuit on your way to prison."
Yvonne, wailed loudly as her employer took delight in her predicament. Even with red, tear filled eyes Yvonne Denton was quite beautiful. She had long brown hair and blue eyes. Her skin was all peaches and cream. She filled her blouse nicely and the rest of her was quite lithe and appealing. Her charms were not lost on Eric Lawrence, indeed, the thoughts of her enticing looks gracing his office went a long way towards his initial hiring of her. Lawrence realized that there was an alternative.
"Please Mr. Lawrence I will do anything, please don't send me to prison!"
After allowing Yvonne to twist in agony for a time, Lawrence ordered everyone else out of the room and stared intently at Yvonne and Mike.
"The ONLY thing you have that I am interested in Yvonne is your body. We can work out an arrangement, say you repay me at a rate of 5,000 dollars a month for 50 months until your debt is repaid. That works out to just a little over four years for me to use you as I see fit."
"Oh my God, Mr. Lawrence!"
"It can't be as bad as perhaps a decade in prison."
"See here, Lawrence, Yvonne is MY wife!"
"Ah yes, Mr. Denton. I think I might fund a little investigation into your spending habits. What do you think we will uncover? Perhaps you can serve time along with your wife. Not in the same place of course. As bad as her time will be, male prisons are far worse."
The businessman's words brought the two of them up short. A pregnant silence hung about the room before the businessman utter his coup de gras.
"This night ends in one of two ways, Yvonne, either I call my lawyers back and they escort you to prison tonight, or you agree to submit to me. Oh you will, no doubt, make bail and have a few months of freedom but every dime you have will go to lawyers. That money will be wasted as a conviction is a foregone conclusion. Even if you opt for a public defender, you still end up with your name in the paper. You still have to live with the fact that your relatives and friends will know exactly what you have been charged with. In the end you STILL go away for a long time. If you are arrested tonight, you will eventually be rendered penniless. Imagine what seven years of prison will do to your looks. Do you think that your husband will wait for you? They don't allow conjugal visits. If you choose option two, I take possession of your pussy and asshole tonight and I keep them for the next four years. For every day of those four years you will wear my collar and be my property. When I am not making use of your charms, Yvonne, you can spend time as a relatively free woman, giving your husband blow jobs or hand jobs. On the other hand you COULD spend those terrifically long hours, days, weeks, months and years as the unwilling toy of some huge female lesbian. I can't imagine that that is very appealing to either of you."
Eric Lawrence rose from beyond his desk and stared down at the seated couple. His next words seared themselves into Mike and Yvonne's soul.
"I'm stepping out of this office now to smoke a cigar with my legal team. When I return to this room I will have your answer, prison or slavery, there is no third option."
As soon as the door closed behind her boss, Yvonne burst into a new round of tears. Mike held her close but he was fearful as well. If truth be told, he had planted the embezzlement idea in his wife's head. It seemed to him that a man as rich as Lawrence would never miss the money. Neither he nor Yvonne had meant to take so much so quickly. There were things that Mike wanted, that Yvonne wanted that they did not want to save for. He looked back at it now. The flashy cars, the camper and the rest of it; none of them had made them any happier.
"We are in this together, Honey." stated Mike. "I can't let you take the fall for what was my idea to begin with but I don't want either of us to go to prison. You know very well, Yvonne if they dig even a little bit, that they will find both of us guilty."
"Oh, God, Mike, everything Eric said is true. There is no way I can avoid prison if her chooses to press charges. We will lose everything. I'm not meant to live in a cage. I hate the idea of submitting to Mr. Lawrence but at least the two of us can be together, we can hug, we can kiss, we can love each other. We can't do that behind prison walls. I love you, Mike and I know that you love me, but prison will tear us apart. Mr. Lawrence has us over a barrel with no exit except through his bedroom."
The two exchanged more words but there really was only one decision open to them. Eric Lawrence read resignation and defeat in their faces when he reentered the room. A man adept at controlling his emotions when necessary, he smiled inwardly but kept his face a mask of inscrutability. In a perfunctory manner he dismissed the lawyers and aides, telling them that they were not needed at present but might have to be recalled. Lawrence shook hands with each person and sweet talked them before they left the room. Watching the process, and seeing how tightly around his finger Lawrence held the powerful men, made Mike and Yvonne increasingly numb. Finally, the last of the business suited persons slithered out of Eric Lawrence's office. Only then did he meet the pleading faces of the married couple.
"You made the right decision Yvonne. But I tell you now, you can STILL end up in prison. If you do not please me, or if you try to weasel out of our agreement I will have you arrested so fast it will make your head spin."