Chapter 32

The next day was interesting. If anything she seemed more shy and submissive. I asked about her smoking and she confirmed that she was on track for eight. When I undressed her I complimented her on her trim job. The massage was shorter and I used a vibrator on her. I was very specific on where and how it touched her. I took my time and only used it internally on her. After she asked permission and had her orgasm, I didn’t stop but pulled out another vibrator and used it on her clit. She came again with permission but much louder.

Afterwards, she said, “I’ve never had multiple orgasms before. That was good.”

“I’m proud of you.”

I could go day by day, but over the next few weeks, she lowered her cigarettes down from eight to seven to six and when I let her go to four she just threw them away. She also went from one to two and kept going up until she never left without at least ten orgasms. I still hadn’t fucked her but had vibrators in her pussy, her ass and on her clit in different combinations. She was no longer a timid participant but was becoming a slut for my commands.

One day when she was done cleaning up and dressed she said, “I don’t understand what’s going on. I think both Katsu and I thought that if you agreed to this that you’d be having sex with me. Don’t you want to have sex with me or at least have me suck you?”

“When I want to, I will. Haven’t I done whatever I’ve wanted so far?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Have Ishii stop by before he goes to the club tonight.”

“Yes, Sir.”

There was a knock at my door around 6pm and Ishii came in and removed his shoes. We sat in the living room. I said, “Thanks for stopping by. Have you had talks with your wife since we started to have lunch?”

“She doesn’t talk about it but says that she’s having fun.”

“I’m glad to hear that but I want to talk about you. I know you as a friend and a competitor at the poker table. Can you give me some background into who you are and what sparked the lunches with your wife?”

“I have trusted you with my wife, I guess, I can trust you with the rest of my life. I grew up as part of a family. What you call in the states the Mafia or here Yakuza. We don’t call ourselves that, but it means gangster and isn’t all wrong. I know that you’ve been helping Yuto and he’s doing very well.

“When I was still a street boss, I met Jin and we dated for a while and she got pregnant. I cared enough for her to marry her and have our daughter. Jin has, because of that, lived a very sheltered life as far as relationships go. I worked my way up to be the head of the family. Jin of course knows what I did for work. When I got up there in age which is rare in my line of work, I retired from running the family and became what is known as Kumicho. I’m what you would call the Godfather of Godfathers. My job is to work out discrepancies between families. I’m the mediator or judge. I don’t work for any family. That’s the real reason for the club. It’s a place where people can come together to talk or spend time together in a neutral environment.

“I had some heart pains a few years ago and have been on some medicine that has made it hard for me to get and stay hard. I’m eleven years older than Jin and don’t want her to miss out just because I’m old and can’t take care of her.”

“What if you could? Would you want to? Would you step up and move me aside?”

“Are you a doctor? Do you have a miracle for me?”

“I want you to start picking me up for the club at night. What time do you need to be there?”

“Whenever I get there. They can wait.”

“When Jin is in my home, she does as I say and some of that bleeds over into the rest of her life. She isn’t allowed to talk about what we do here. She’s started to keep herself better groomed for me and she’s quit smoking.”

“I noticed that. Thank you.”

“I would ask that anything that we do here, that you keep to yourself unless I give you permission to share.”

“I can do that.”

“You can come by after dinner or we can eat upstairs. We will work on your performance and then go and play cards.”

“I’ll go along with it until it goes beyond what I can take.”

“That’s fair. Let’s go play cards.”

I knew that Reo’s client was leaving in the morning. I told her that I wanted her home at dinnertime. She was there all afternoon and Ishii came in around 5pm. We all went into my room and I had Ishii sit on a chair while I got out the toys and put Reo through her paces. She asked permission like a good girl. She did what she was told and responded well to my commands. When I sent her to shower I said to Ishii. “You can’t talk about what you’ve seen here until I tell you that you can.” He just nodded.

Over the next week, he was taught my attitude, my techniques and how to please Reo using toys. At the same time, I had him strip to his boxers and he was often seen with a hard on. I commanded Reo to give him a happy ending after his third session and he got one every time after that. It was three weeks later that Jin was knocking on my door just after lunch. I took her to my room and put on a blindfold. It was something we’d done before but I never did the same things in the same orders so she never knew what to expect.

I got her going and then Ishii came in and took over. He just used the toys for a few minutes but then used his voice to command her. She jumped a little with the shock of hearing his voice. But then smiled and responded to him even more enthusiastically as she did to me. I saw him get hard and walked out, closing the door behind me. They both walked out almost two hours later. They had both showered and both had clearly been crying.

They both came to me and gave me a hug and a thank you for what I’d given back to them. I fixed a pot of tea and told Jin to come with me. I went and got a gym bag and then filled it with toys for her to take with her. “Bull, I can’t tell you how grateful you are for not only giving us a love life back but expanding it to places that we have never been before. When I screamed out my first orgasm, he realized that he’d never heard me do that in the fifty years we’ve been together. He felt bad for all that we’ve missed. It was a time of mourning and a time of joy.”

We had tea and I said to Ishii. “I know that you sent your wife here to ride the bull and she never told you what we did or didn’t do. I think now, you know what we did but I also wanted you to know that she never did ride the bull, she never used her mouth on me and never gave me an orgasm at all. She learned to listen, she learned to obey, she learned how to be a sex object and in the bedroom, how to beg and be a slut. She’s yours and has always been yours. I just helped you both with some training. Old dogs can learn new tricks.”

He started to cry again and she nodded that I told the truth and she cried with him and held him. They left soon after that and Ishii wasn’t at the card game that night. I won big and had fun playing and listening to the others speculate why the constant fixture at the table wasn’t there.

Life was good. I would see Katherine when I could. Hong Kong was taking off. Tokyo was growing and our software was selling worldwide. Adam called one day to ask, “What have you got for me? We had our first manager say that he was running out of work.”

“Well, what do you do at work?”

“We have a word processor for writing reports and contracts. We have a spreadsheet for tracking numbers. Other than that we have meetings and write code.”

“I think that you can do a better job packaging the spreadsheets as a new product that’s better designed for payroll and taxes. Incorporate the sales, costs, and make it an accounting system for small businesses. The other thing that comes to mind is that if you can get it to work with some kind of projector, make software that people can use to make presentations. Something they can put in a chart, graph, outline, bullet points and other things to present at a small meeting or at a large conference. Taking a ten-hour task can make it one hour.”

“Cha Ching. Thanks for filling my plate again.”

“No problem. What have you done about the smiley face that I found?”

“Mike and I have been working on it and the top hasn’t been found yet. We have someone watching it and both Patterson and D&B should do very well. Mike personally should do very well also. I told him that you were thinking about him.”

“They said a year and that was six months ago. Things are clicking along here.”

“I see the reports and the numbers. You must be working hard.”

“Sure. I guess I’m working as hard as I ever have but that isn’t saying much.”

“You’ve been in Japan for a while. Why not take a vacation?”

“I’ve been to Hong Kong about twenty times.”

“That’s like me going to New York and I do that for a meeting or a lunch and don’t think of it much differently than driving across town for a meeting. Do something without it being work related.”

“It’s getting cold. I can go skiing or go south and find the sun.”

“I have plenty to keep us busy now. I love that most companies would hire consultants and spend hundreds of hours trying to find the direction of the company but at D&B, it’s a ten-minute phone call and eight of that is talking about other things. If you want to come to Boston, we would be happy to see you and spend some time with you.”

“Let me think about it.”

Ishii was back to playing cards. He seemed very happy and seldom a day went by when he didn’t thank me. I told him to stop or I would start sending him a bill. I asked him but really the whole table about getting away and if there was any place that would be good to go in Japan or elsewhere. I said, “Putting up with you guys is wearing me out.”

One guy said, “I’m taking my family skiing up north in a month or so. I love to go to Thailand and my wife has family over in South Korea if you just want to get away for a while in a different city.”

Ishii said, “There are many ski resorts up north near Sapporo that are good for both beginners and experts.”

“I may head up that way? Do I fly, drive or take a train?”

“All can be fun. It isn’t a short drive. And you have to get over to the island.”

“I’ll have to think about it. My partner wants me to take a vacation.”

The next morning, I walked in to start my workout and I looked down to see Reo finishing her push-ups. Her muscles were getting to be very well defined. She looked good. I asked, “What does your schedule look like for the rest of the year?”

“I have a couple weeks this month and then nothing in December so far. What did you have in mind?”

“I was thinking about going to Northern Japan. Maybe do some skiing. Do you want to stop by and let your family know that you’re alive? I was also thinking about going someplace warm for Christmas. I heard about a resort on the Gulf of Thailand. If you wanted to lay on the beach.”

“I never did get a hold of my friend up there. I wouldn’t mind going up there but my family might be mad about me leaving. I would love to go to the beach.”

I asked Katherine if she wanted to go but she’d made plans to fly back to the states for the holidays.

We took a train up to the Tohoku region to the city of Osaki. From there we checked into a spa resort that took advantage of one of the many hot springs in the area. I wanted to relax and then go out exploring the next day but Reo was ready to go see her friends and her family. I didn’t want to call for a taxi and wait for them so I hired a car. The driver was a young guy and talked about different places as we drove to the town not too far away. Our first stop was to see her family.

Her father answered the door and was surprised to see her. He hugged her and invited us in. He asked about me and she said that I was the owner of the company that she worked for and was the one that brought her home to see her family. She talked about working in Tokyo as an interpreter and doing well enough to pay her rent and put food on the table. She didn’t want to come off as doing too well or her father would ask her to send money home. Her brothers said hello and then stayed away. They knew that they were the reason that she’d left. She left the company number in case of an emergency and Mi would pass along any messages. We stayed for an hour and I had a cup of tea while they spoke. The house was small and only about five or six blocks from the marina.

We left with her saying goodbye to them all. Our next stop was to visit her friend. Masami lived about a quarter mile away. She leapt from the car and ran to the door. A woman answered and was talking to Reo and pointing somewhere. When I walked up, Reo said, “Masami’s parents were killed in an accident and she went to live with her grandmother. I know where that is. Can we go see her?”

It was one of the reasons we’d come this far north so I was happy for her to see her friend. When we got there her friend came outside and soon, Reo and Masami were hugging and bouncing as they embraced. I walked over and was introduced. I asked if Reo wanted me to leave her with her friend, if they wanted to go out or if Masami wanted to come back to the resort.

They wanted dinner and drinks. We went out and I felt like a fly on the wall while they talked about their childhood and what had happened to some of the kids they went to school with. Reo asked if we could go and hang out at the suite back at the resort. There, they had more wine and I let them sit out on the patio and catch up on old times. I eventually gave them some cab fare money and went to bed. I fell asleep soon after my head hit the pillow.

When I woke up, there was a naked girl in my arms but the size of her breasts let me know right away that it wasn’t Reo. It had to be Masami. There were no complaints but it was surprising that she was in the bed next to me and naked. The couch in the living room did pull out into a bed.

Reo was behind me and I climbed over her to get out of bed. I used the bathroom and put on some clothes to go for a run. It was a poor seaside city and the buildings and roads reflected that. I ran down by the water and many people were out and going about their day. When I got back, both girls were awake and had something covering their bodies. Both had one of my t-shirts on.

After my shower, I came out and the girls were hungry and wanted breakfast. I told them we could eat at the resort restaurant or go out somewhere but they’d have to get dressed. We ended up at the resort restaurant and then we went to the hot spring for a soak. Masami seemed like a nice girl, she had a nice shape and a pretty face but I had to really pay attention when she spoke because her English was very broken when she spoke.

We were back in the room and the girls were flirting. We ended up having sex. It was a little odd that Masami wanted to get in bed with me, but it came up afterwards as we lay together when Reo said, “Maybe Masami can come back with us and work for you?”

It really put me on the spot. I’d just had sex with her. I said, “That would be up to Mi. She runs that company. If she wanted to work in a restaurant or the store I could probably get her a job through Rodney or Shiggy.”

“But you own it.”

“I let my people do their jobs. We can talk about it later.” I felt set up and didn’t want to reject the girl but she wouldn’t be a good fit in that role.

We were planning on going back to Tokyo that afternoon and while I went in to rinse off and change clothes, Reo called Mi. I heard her saying that I said that was okay with her getting the job but Mi would have to approve. This kind of pissed me off. I walked over and took the phone from Reo. I told her to go outside and to take Masami with her. I apologized to Mi. I said, “Reo wants her friend to come and be with her in Tokyo. She’s trying to manipulate both you and me to get her friend there. I think she’s a nice girl but her language skills are lacking. I don’t know where she’d live. I think that if she works for you she would stay with you or me.”

“What do you want me to do?”

“I’m going to put her on the phone. You will give her an interview and see if you think her English is up to your expectations to do the job. I’ll talk to Reo at the same time. If you think she’ll do well, you can hire her. If you don’t think she’s the perfect fit then don’t hire her.”

“I’ll talk to her and find out what her expectations are for living and income.”

“Thank you, Mi. I’m sorry to dump this on you. I wasn’t aware that she was calling you.”

After setting the phone down, I went out and told Masami to go talk to Mi and do a phone interview. I sat down and said, “Reo, you have put everyone in a difficult position. I’m going to be honest with you. If I knew that she was looking for a job with me, I wouldn’t have slept with her today. She doesn’t speak English well enough to do your job. I can get her a job like I said before but she wouldn’t make enough to rent an apartment in the city. She would have to find a roommate or live far out and take the train every day.”

“She can stay with me.”

“In my apartment? That isn’t going to happen.”

“It’s my room. She can stay in my room.”

“And use my kitchen, family room, living room?”

“Why are you being so mean?”

“I know that she’s your friend. But I don’t know her, and I’m gone for weeks at a time. You work long hours. I don’t want to worry about all the what-ifs. What if you and she have a fight? What if she and I have a fight? What if she just doesn’t fit into our lifestyle?”

“I’ve escaped this crappy little town and I don’t want her to be stuck here.”

“You can do what you want. I didn’t tell Mi to hire her or not hire her. It really is her choice. If you want Masami to stay with you for one night you can. If you want me to put her in a hotel I can for a week or even two. After that she’ll need to find a place and support herself. You make money and can help her as you want but she won’t be my responsibility.”

“What if I move out and share an apartment with her?”

“Then you could probably find something that you could both afford. I don’t know what you make now. If Mi lowered your pay or the other girls because you lived in the building, I could see if she could give you a raise. If she doesn’t then I can’t do anything.”

“You’re kicking me out?”

“Reo, you’ve come up with your fantasy or the way that you want this all to work. You didn’t talk to Mi or me ahead of time to see if we could figure it out. You’ve pushed it and pushed it to the point where now we have to respond. When we didn’t respond the way you wanted or expected you moved to plan B and now plan C. I can’t tell you what to do, but when I get pushed, I normally push back.”

“I know things.”

“If you go there, I’ll make sure you’re fired. I’ve treated you with kindness and concern but don’t mistake that for weakness because that is not who I am. Now, you’ll be moving out. I need to trust anyone that I live with and that trust is waning. Whether you keep working for Mi is up to Mi. You’ve put her on the spot and she knows that you tried to manipulate her into hiring your friend.”

“I just want to help her the way you helped me.”

“I chose to spend my money to invest in your future. You can choose to use your money to invest in her future. You can’t choose to use my money for that purpose.”

“I’m sorry. I’m making that choice. I’ll apologize to Mi.”

“Do I need to buy another train ticket to get her to Tokyo? Are you going to be responsible for her? If so, then I’ll get a hotel for two weeks and she can work at the store or a restaurant. I know her English skills are not up to Mi’s minimum standards today. Masami can work towards getting better and reapply again later.”

“I want to take her with us. If you can buy her a ticket and a hotel room, I’ll help her get set up.”

“That’s nice of you. I’ll go talk to Mi and you can talk to your friend. She’ll need to pack. We can take a later train but we’ll leave today.”

When I walked in, Masami was sitting on the couch. She said, “I didn’t get the job. My English isn’t clear enough.”

Nodding my understanding, “I think that Reo put the cart before the horse. We can find you a job, but just one that deals more with Japanese speaking people instead of English speaking clients. Reo would still like you to come to Tokyo if you want. Why don’t you go talk to her and we can find a way to get you set up there.”

When she went outside to talk to Reo, I called Mi. She said, “I don’t know what Reo was thinking. I had to switch to Japanese so that I could understand her.”

“Do we pay the girls a salary based just on the work or do you pay them less because they don’t pay rent to live in the city?”

“I paid them less but they do well with the commissions and tips. They all make good money. I like having Mizue and Preeda stay with me. We share the chores and enjoy each other’s company. It makes it easy for us to respond to clients as well.”

“I think that Reo is going to move out and share a place with Masami. If she deserves more as a base salary you should give her a raise. If you think that the others should get a raise and pay rent then you can do that too. You’re just giving that money away. You may want to put a limit on how far away she can live if she’s on call. I don’t want a client calling and want dinner prepared and have it take her two hours to get there because of where she lives.”

“I’ll think about it and do the math. I’ll also discuss what is fair for wages and response times with Mizue and Preeda.”

“We should be home tonight. I have an opening for my vacation if Reo is going to be setting up a new life with Masami. If you are free and want to go with me.”

“I’ll look at the calendar. This was not what I expected when I woke up this morning.”

“You or me both. I’ll talk to you tonight or tomorrow.”

The girls were hugging and crying when I walked out. Reo said, “We’re going to pack some things for Masami. Can we plan on the 3pm train?”

“Sure. Take a taxi to her place and I’ll pick you up at 2:15. If you need another suitcase for her, buy her one.” I handed her some money for the cab and if they needed to shop. It was awkward when the car picked them up and I just helped with the luggage to the car and to the train. We were back in Tokyo in the evening and we found a hotel near the apartment. Reo was going to stay the night. I told her, “That’s fine. You should call Mi, tonight or in the morning. It may help you decide on where to look for an apartment. Also find out if you want me to help her find a job and what kind of work she wants to do.”

“It sounds like she and I have a lot of decisions to make.”

“That’s what happens when you decide that you’re an adult and take responsibility for yourself and more when you include others. I wish you the best. You can get your things tomorrow, when you find a new place or whenever it’s convenient.”

“Thanks Nick.” She gave me a hug and any chance of us being together in a trusting relationship was gone.

The next day, I didn’t hear from any of them. I didn’t reach out and neither did they. It was later that night that I went upstairs for dinner that I ran into Preeda. She gave me a hug. “How are you doing? Reo has been complaining about how much it cost to live in Tokyo. She and Mi have been looking at apartments all day. I had to get out of there. I think she had no idea how well she had it before today. Mizue and I knew what we had before you helped us and were and still are grateful. Reo came from a different background and you treated her differently than Mi treated us when we moved in. Reo is learning a good life lesson. By the way, I don’t think that Mi is going to get away on vacation but if you want to take Mizue or me either of us can go but not both.”

“Why don’t you draw straws or have a wrestling match to see who gets to go. Let me know. We leave in three days.”

“Or I could just tell her that you picked me. I could tell her the truth when we got back.”

“Then she would kick your butt.”

“But it would be worth it. It’s sad that we’re going through this but it’s helping us figure some things out that would come up eventually. We got a raise but now have to pay rent. We have to decide if we want to stay and rent from Mi or move out. Do you have any rooms you want to rent out?”

“Hell no! I’ve learned my lesson. I’m back to being single.”

“I hope that means that you are also free for meetings with me and Mizue from time to time.”

“That may be something we can explore.”

On Sunday, Reo, Masami and Mi stopped by. Masami was amazed at the size and design of my apartment and she asked Reo, “You gave this up for me? This place is great. Much nicer than the places we’re looking at.”

“We’ll get by. I had no idea how much apartments cost in Tokyo, but now that we know. We’ll live with it and move on.”

They had some suitcases and trash bags to carry clothes. As the girls went in to pack, Mi said, “She’s learned a hard lesson. She had to decide on paying more than she wanted to or losing her job because she lived too far away. They’re going to be working as much as they can to make ends meet or bring in one more roommate to help cover costs. The place they found is a fourth-floor walkup, no elevator, small and needing a face lift. You tried to warn her and did the right thing.”

“I don’t really feel that bad for her. I hope they work through it and things get better for her but I don’t feel like it’s my responsibility to make her life easy.”

The girls walked out and Reo said, “I have everything that would fit into the suitcases. I have just a couple things that I’ll get later.”

“Okay.”

As they walked out, I knew that she had a key and instead of asking her for the key, I decided to just get the place rekeyed. Toni had a key and whoever lived there before me could have a key as well. Monday there was a locksmith there and putting on a new lock that had a combination and a key. Either one would work. It cost a lot more but it made it easier for me. I played cards that night and had a good night. Not that I won a lot but the banter at the table was fun and I did win a little.

Mi and the girls came up on Tuesday night and I gave Mi both the code and a key to my place. Mi said, “The last few days feel like a bomb went off. We only have six units rented for the rest of the year and are families in town for the holidays. Since our units are bigger than many family’s homes, they can stay and visit here and not overwhelm the families they came to visit. Reo wants to work all that she can. I need to be around to take care of problems but both Mizue and Preeda can go, so take one or both.”

“If you don’t mind sharing a bed with me, you are both welcome to come with me.”

Both girls were excited. I told them to pack a bikini in case they couldn’t find one they liked where we were going. Mizue said, “That was all we wore at the club. Finding one that won’t get us in trouble will be harder than finding one in general.”

“Go pack and I’ll get the tickets taken care of. We’ll leave here at 9am. Meet me downstairs by the car.”

Mi was going to follow them down but I took her hand. “Come have dinner with me.”

The smile gave her away. We had dinner upstairs and talked some about work but more about her and how she was doing without her husband, without Dirk, running a business and being in charge. Overall she was very happy and proud of what she was doing. After dinner I took her down to my place and we had slow, easy, sensual sex. She asked if she could stay the night.

We were laying together before going to sleep. I was holding her. I said, “If Reo comes to get her things, I want you here with her and use your key to get in. I don’t want to tempt her and she knows where things are. I hope she figures things out and continues to do a good job for you.”

“She’s done well so far but hasn’t been putting you or the business first the last few days. If that continues she won’t be around. If she continues to do good work then she can keep working. When she and Masami saw some of the apartments that they could afford on their income it was quite an eye opener. She asked about renting one of the units on the second floor. A one-bedroom unit rents for three times what she’s paying. Mizue and Preeda were upset when they found out about the rent but they both got raises and are fine with it.”

“I wish you could go with me and walk along the beach in your little bikini.”

“Both of those girls turn heads much better than I do.”

“They’re both beautiful and that is one of the reasons that they were in the club where I found them and why your customers enjoy them so much. You’re a special woman. When most women just take what their husbands give them, you stood up and told him that if he couldn’t take care of you; that he could move on. I respect you for being a take-charge kind of woman.”

“I know you prefer the submissive kind of woman.”

“I like all kinds of women but I do have a special place in my heart for you.”

“You have a special place in my heart and many other women’s hearts. You’re very different from most men but mostly in a good way. If a woman wants a loyal monogamous man you are not the best choice. But if they’re looking for a caring, generous, and sexually satisfying man, you’re at the top of the list.”