Chapter 35

Ten months earlier (FLASHBACK)

Friday, July 10, 2020

Fairfax, Maryland

Colt McCarron pulled up behind his home in Fairfax, Maryland, and cut the engine to his Hyundai Elantra. With the Coronavirus pandemic in full swing, he didn’t keep set hours as an Uber driver. He worked until his lower back was so sore that it told him it was time to stop, or until he ran out of patience for driving all over creation to pick up random passengers and get them to wherever it was they were going. The job itself wasn’t demanding and the pay was good, though that was offset somewhat by having to purchase a used vehicle (and all those trips to the gas station). There was no way he’d put 1,000 miles a week on his precious Jeep Wrangler for the sake of hauling around strangers. Still, doing rideshare every other day kept Colt busy as he, along with the rest of the world, waited for this shutdown craziness to end, and things to return to normal.

If they ever would.

And to add more stress and uncertainty, several mongers in the LPIN community were voicing concerns on Happy Ending Ranch’s bulletin board that Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak would never allow the brothels to reopen. How fair was that, really, with several Las Vegas hotels and casinos reopening a month ago at one hundred percent capacity?

Using his smartphone, Colt checked the GoFundMe campaign he’d set up for his employees who’d suffered the most financial difficulties in the past four months. Crowdfunding was now at $6,388 but had slowed down considerably since he launched the fundraiser three weeks ago. His plan was to divvy up the pot in equal portions to Sahara, Riley, Nicolette, Mariko, Jim, Francisco, Jenn, and Mindy, except for donations with specific directives attached to them. Dave Gregory, for example, sent an e-mail that his $1,000 handout was to be exclusively split between “Pamela and Kayleigh.”

Speaking of Lindsay, her Volkswagen Beetle wasn’t at the house when Colt pulled in. That meant he and Pamela would be alone. Well, at least until Lindsay’s shift at the supermarket ended.

A smile broke through his lips. This was new. Coming home to Pamela (and Lindsay, too) these past four months was something Colt liked far more than he ever anticipated. They were 2,500 miles away from Flagstone and that cursed brothel, and truth be told, it felt really damn good. Sure, he was concerned for his employees, especially Nicolette and Jenn, but a part of him would be fine if LPIN forever ceased to exist. As for now, Colt no longer had to worry about how many mongers would sink their dicks into his wife on any given day. Or his girlfriend gushing about her latest party, and how kind the man was to her.

He and Pamela had to make Lindsay swear that she wouldn’t go the illegal route and start escorting throughout Baltimore. For a while, it was a legitimate concern as she seemed intent on it. Earning eleven bucks an hour as a cosmetics clerk at Eshleman’s Grocery was pennies compared to what she made at the brothel. To Lindsay, it was not a livable wage, though she had minimal expenses staying with Colt and Pamela in their home. Lindsay agreed to avoid hooking but wasn’t happy about it.

Then again, a lot of people nowadays weren’t happy.

Kicking off his shoes in the front foyer, Colt realized the kitchen was empty. As was the living room.

“Pamela?” he called out.

She kept busy, too, but opted to work from home selling customized shirts and knickknacks on her Etsy shop, and delving back into the webcamming game. Unlike pornography and prostitution, there were no laws regulating this form of sex work. In her public video chat room on Streamate, Pamela, often wearing skimpy lingerie or a naughty costume, would interact and flirt with all her viewers. Here, payment was voluntary, and she was tipped for performing both sexual and non-sexual acts.

But if a viewer opted to go private, Pamela received a premium on a pay-per-minute scale. And unlike her public chatroom, these performances tended to be highly pornographic, as she’d appease the customer’s wicked requests by often spreading herself open and playing with a variety of sex toys.

It’s still better than taking endless dick at the brothel. “Pamela, sweetheart, where are you?”

“Out here!”

He followed her voice to the front porch.

Where she was lounging in the hammock.

And she looked so damn fine that he stopped for a beat and gripped the doorframe between the house and the porch.

Pamela anchored a sultry gaze on him. “Hey.”

“Hey.” He held the edge of the doorframe harder.

She shifted and stretched her legs out to get a more direct view of him, the hammock swaying. “You okay?”

He raised an eyebrow. “Yeah. Do I not look okay?”

“You don’t look okay.”

“What do I look like?”

“You look tired,” Pamela said after studying him for several seconds. “And sleepy. Maybe you’re in need of a pick-me-up?”

“Been a long day.” He relaxed his grip on the doorjamb and twirled his head about. “Did eighteen trips and put close to three hundred miles on that little car.”

“Make any money?”

“Two hundred and fifty-three dollars, sixty of which were tips.”

“Nice.”

“How about you?”

“Seven hundred and change.” Pamela’s focus again tracked over him from head to toe. “I had quite the generous tipper this morning on webcam.”

Unlike many of their contemporaries in the LPIN industry, Colt and Pamela weren’t hurting in the money department. For starters, they had quite the sizable nest egg, both in savings and investments, and could live off that for the next decade-plus if need be. And instead of sitting on their asses and taking the woe is me approach, they adapted to these unprecedented times, and did the best they could.

Earning an income from rideshare wasn’t ideal, and certainly not a job Colt ever envisioned having, but it was easy, and he did enjoy driving around the area. I just don’t like some of the degenerates I have to pick up. Best of all, he could turn the app on or off at his leisure. On the other hand, there was always the risk of contracting COVID-19 from a random stranger. Masks are required for both driver and passenger, and I generally keep all four windows down to minimize the risk.

Webcamming took thick skin and a lot of patience, something which Lindsay did not have an overabundance of. Thus, she was off working at the supermarket instead. Pamela, though, thrived on competition, and having to reinvent herself and what she offered daily to keep her audience entertained provided quite the challenge.

“Oh, you’ll get a kick out of this,” Pamela said. “The guy who tipped me so generously this morning messaged me before we went private, saying he wanted me to use a tampon as if it were a dildo to masturbate with. I think that takes the cake for the weirdest thing I’ve been asked to do in all my years of camming.” Her eyes narrowed and she held back a grin. “Tampon play. Do a web search.”

“Don’t need to. Already know about it. A few mongers have asked for that in the past, though I guess it was before you were ever working at the ranch.”

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Four Hours Earlier

“Hi guys. Dakota here. Thanks for coming to meet me live here in my private home gym. How are you guys doing?” With a video camera worthy of being in a television news studio opposite from her, Pamela was all sunshine and rainbows as she spoke to her abundance of followers, invisible as they may be. “Those of you that saw me earlier, thank you for coming back to see me. Let’s play again.” On the big-screen television to her left (and out of the camera’s view), a wall of text – messages from her private chat room on Streamate – scrolled continuously. While impossible to keep up with, Pamela – Dakota – still did her best to read every comment. “Yeah? You like my legwarmers today? I thought I’d go ahead and rock ‘em. I think they’re cute.” She did a pirouette and giggled.

A blonde powder keg of sex waiting to burst, Pamela could oftentimes be found lounging around her home in training gear. Today she had on a black sleeveless top, its clingy fabric exhibiting the bulge of her breasts. Little blue shorts, made of Lycra, clutched her hips and buttocks, and the outline of the pouch between her thighs was easy to see. Tanned and chiseled, sculpted legs (though covered by blue legwarmers from the knees down) gave way to a pair of delicate, bare feet. Lastly, Pamela had a white sweatband tugged across her forehead, with the crimson-red Nike logo front and center to complement her athletic attire.

“Joe, hello. Neo, thank you for coming to see me. What’s your huge favor, Griffin? The eighties called and want their legwarmers back?” A smile materialized. “Oh, I like them, Seabass. They’re cute, they’re playful! Hi Shawn, thank you. I’m sure you’re hot, too, baby.” She blew an exaggerated kiss his way. “Alex, thank you. So today...” The camera followed Pamela on its own, keeping her in frame as she descended to the floor and sat with her knees up. “ ... I guess we’ll just play a little bit and see what you guys have in mind.” The thirty-two-year-old broke out into wild laughter while continuing to read the comments. “Could you do a karate kick, roundhouse style? That would so make my day.” Still laughing, she rose to her feet. “I don’t know if I could do a karate kick! How do you even do one of those? I’m a lover, not a fighter.” Pamela gave it a solid attempt, though, and even screamed “Chuck Norris!” in the process.

“Is that good? Yeah, let’s do a little workout first, some stretching – feel the burn – and I’ll talk with you guys.” She took a seat and reclined on her hands. “Griffin, was that good? Was that a good enough karate kick for you? Of course, Shawn, I’ll blow you another kiss. Eric, I love you, too, baby. Thank you for coming back to see me.” Pamela palmed her breasts and massaged them. “My boobs look good in this top apparently.” She transitioned to a full straddle-split upon her yoga mat. “So, I’ve been hangin’ out at home all day in my self-imposed COVID quarantine, and it’s nice to get in here, in my gym, and stretch out.

“Can you put your knees behind your head? Well, let’s give it a try.” Pamela toppled over, onto her back, and held a position she was quite familiar with for several seconds thanks to all those years of working at the brothel.

She surged upright and tilted her head. “When are you finally going to have some hardcore boy/girl clips available for purchase and download?” Gotta get Colt on board for that ... good luck. “I would be open to doing hardcore scenes for my channel, but it would probably be girl/girl.” I have a much better chance of getting Lindsay to agree to that than Colt. “I do masturbation, you know, bondage ... I’m into that sort of stuff. Next week, I’m shooting a bondage layout with a local photographer. He and his team, they’re gonna tie me up and stuff, and I guess put vibrators on me, slap me around a little bit. That will be a lot of fun, I think, because I’m actually into stuff like that in my personal life. That will be pretty hardcore, I think, and I plan on eventually having those pictures here on my webpage where you’ll be able to purchase them.

“My age? Umm, I’m twenty-four. I’ll be twenty-five come January.” Heh ... I’ve been twenty-four on here for the past six or seven years. “Yeah, Seabass, I agree. COVID sucks. Would you fuck a fan? Well, you’d have to meet me first, right? Then we’d discuss that. Alex, you wanna come on my face?” She leaned closer to the camera. “You can come all over my face whenever you want, baby. Lester, you’re looking forward to the bondage? So am I, so am I. What size bra do I wear? They fluctuate sometimes, but on most days I’m a thirty-six-D. I don’t think they always look that big because I’m a bit on the tall side – I’m five-foot-six. I guess that’s not tall-tall, but it’s not short either.

“Bobby-B, your cock needs a workout too? Stay tuned, baby, and I promise you’ll get one. I’m not accepting any VIP one-on-one cam shows for the next thirty minutes. There’s nineteen of you here, at least at the moment, and I want to hang out with everyone. Let’s chill and have fun. Welp, now there’s twenty-one.

“Umm, I’m from Florida. Been here all my life, love it here. I would love to work out with you. Oh, that’s sweet, Griffin. No, I don’t think I need bigger boobs. These are all natural, and I’m happy with them. They’re great for titty-fucking – that’s one of my favorites! Any anal in the show today? Umm, maybe in private.

“Would you talk dirty to me, please, in a sexy voice?” Pamela went into full actress mode. “Matt from Canada, I can’t wait to make you come, baby. I’m gonna make you come so fuckin’ hard.” Her smile returned. “Alex wants me to leave the legwarmers on for the entire show. Good; I’m glad, because they’re cute! Umm, what sports do you play in a sports bra? You can play whatever sports you want in a sports bra, Calvin. I like playing basketball, soccer, softball, cheerleading ... I did all of that when I was in high school and college. Oh, Joe, I’m glad I’ve made you hard, baby. I love hard dicks. Shawn? Of course, I’d love to suck your dick. Is it okay if I come on your legwarmers?” She laughed again. “Yes, you can, Alex, but you better hope they wash out because I’ll be fucking pissed at you if they don’t. You’ll have to buy me new ones.

“Take that top off and put those boobs together.” A small grin stole her lips as she gazed sidelong into the lens. “Okay, okay, I know that’s what all of you want ... plus so much more.” Pamela tapped away at the wireless keyboard beside her. “Okay, if we can get thirty dollars into my donation box, which I just opened, the top will come off.”

A two-dollar pledge came almost instantly. Then four. Three. And a solid thirty.