Chapter 2

After the threat of blackmail from the stranger, I was determined to meet them, face them and resolve this issue that had returned to my life, although things were about to go wrong, and my nightmare was about to start...

My first date with Raul I spent the morning not knowing what to do, and I didn’t even go down to the pool or go shopping as usual. The hours passed very slowly, and I couldn’t focus, so at 7:00pm I dressed in a white shirt and jeans, and nervously went to the Baritimo Club where the blackmailer had said to meet him. At that time there were still few people, so I could choose a discreet table in a corner.

I ordered a coffee, and I waited nervously. At 8:10 no one had yet appeared, and I was becoming increasingly nervous. What did it mean if no one showed up? I had to get to the bottom of this, and I urgently needed to resolve it as quickly as possible.

While I was absent-minded and still immersed in these thoughts, a man sat in front of me, and I looked up and there he was. I couldn’t believe it; who it was in front of me was my own neighbour, Raúl!

Raúl lives in my own neighbourhood and is a man of about 46 years. It is not that we are friends or anything, but the times we have met we treated each other politely and kindly, and he certainly never had the appearance of a blackmailer.

Money, he did not need, as he is dedicated to managing a small fortune that his family left him. So, he does not have what you would call a job, but he certainly has money to support himself.

I knew that he is married to a woman named Beatriz, who is a member of a law firm, and whom I see little of, and have barely dealt with, since he is almost always on the road. Raul is also somewhat cold, well, like me. I try to keep my distance, precisely to avoid situations like the one I am in now.

I really didn’t understand what Raúl could want from me. There was the possibility that he had nothing to do with this, that he simply saw me here alone, and since we are neighbours, just came over to greet me; but as soon as he opened his mouth, I knew that it was not the case.

Raul said, “Hello Alice ... I see that you have received my package.” I replied contemptuously, “So it’s you! Yes, of course I received it ... What are you trying to do, blackmail me?”

“Easy Alice,” he replied. “Let’s have a drink and talk like the good neighbours we are”, while calling a waiter.

“Let’s get quickly to what you want,” I replied in disgust. “I do not plan to stay or have anything to do with you,” I said, making a move to get up from my chair.

“No, no, Alice,” he said. “ ... we started badly. But hey, since you are so anxious to know what I want, I am going to make you wait!”

“You son of a bitch!” I said, forgetting my manners. “Let’s get to it now and finish this ... I suppose you want money for your silence,” I asked.

“Money! How vulgar!” Raul said. “No Alice, money is no issue. But since you insist on knowing what I want, it is actually very easy. You know that a simple phone call to the police will end your wonderful life. What I want is for you to get up quietly and join me. When we reach our destination, who will know what I want!”

“Let’s go then!” I said, getting up angrily. “The sooner we get this over with the better!”

Without losing his composure, Raúl left money on the table to pay for the drinks, got up and motioned for me to follow him. He was calm, very calm; he knew he was master of the situation, and he did not let my arrogant attitude make him nervous.

We went outside and headed to his car, a BMW with less than a year. Raúl liked luxury and always had good cars, which he changed frequently.

“I came in my car,” I said. “Tell me where we are going and I will follow you wherever...”

“No, leave your car here; you will come with me...” Raúl said bluntly. “Then I will bring you back to go home with your car.”

I did not want to upset him and worsen the situation between him and me, so I followed him and got in his car. Raúl started it in a hurry and took off.

Soon, he turned onto a narrow street, in a not very recommended area in town, and I started imaging the seedy place Raul was taking me to. I developed a knot in my stomach, because I’d never been in the area before, and because his intentions did not seem good at all.

In a few minutes, we arrived at an ugly, old beige building with very discrete parking. It looked like it had been a respectful establishment many years ago, but now just had the appearance of renting rooms by the hours. I had no doubt we had just arrived at a Love Hotel where you just go to fuck.

At first, I thought he must be joking or trying to scare me. But as we entered, his demeanour was clear and I knew he was serious.

My face must have been puzzling, because Raúl looked at me and with a cynical smile and said, “I see you know the place ... Have you been brought here before?” like the pig he was.

“Only by hearsay,” I said. I had never been here. “But if you want sex in exchange for your silence, you better find yourself a whore. I will never sleep with you!”

“Oh, but that’s what I did...” he said looking at me cheekily, and I caught his hint.

The Love Hotel ... and My Violation We entered the parking lot. I looked everywhere, scared in case someone I knew recognized me in that compromising hotel.

Raúl took a small black briefcase from the trunk of his car that intrigued me. Would they be the originals of the evidence he had against me, to make the exchange with me, after getting what he wanted in return?

“Don’t worry,” Raúl said. “This place is very discreet. We are not going to see anyone here!”

Effectively, the hotel seemed prepared for total discretion. A receptionist privately attended us and took us to the ‘suite’ that Raúl had booked. In the corridors, we did not meet anyone.

“Have a good stay!” the receptionist said, imagining that we were lovers. “If you need anything, call me.”

We entered the room. The truth is that Raúl had spared no expense. The suite was huge, with a large, round bed in the centre and surrounded by luxuries. Although the room looked like something out of the 70s, all in white, black and red, it was luxurious, just in poor taste. There was also an open bathing area with a huge Jacuzzi.

“Well...” Raúl said without waiting any longer. “The thing is very simple. You act like a whore and a cocksucker, and now you will be a real, complete whore as you have been wishing! You have exhibited yourself to everyone in the neighbourhood like a bitch, and since that seems to be what you want, you are now going to be fucked like the whore inside you.

“I won’t allow you to talk to me like that!” I said almost screaming, very angry as I released my arm and my hand to give him a loud slap.

Raúl stopped my blow grabbing my wrist with his strong hand. He bent my arm behind my back, holding me very tightly, and put himself behind me. He squeezed my arm so high up that I was afraid it would break!

Then he said, sticking his mouth to my ear, “Let’s see bitch, I will talk to you however I want! I have you at my mercy; if I speak to the police, your beautiful life is going to go to hell, and you know it! So, you are going to cooperate ... right?”

I nodded, but my anger and outrage increased second by second. However, as I was unable to defend myself at that time, I felt more pain in my arm at the mercy of his hands than anger.

“I want to hear you say it, whore ... Say that you are going to be a good girl and obey anything I say!”

I was not willing to give him that satisfaction, and I did not answer him, while clenching my teeth furiously...

That pig, in my silence, folded my arm more, until I was afraid that it would break, so I had to swallow my pride and beg him, “Yes ... Yes, fine, I will obey you, just please don’t hurt me!”

“Perfect!” Raúl said. “Now I’m going to let you go and you’re going to listen to me.”

He sat on the bed and looked at me with lustful eyes that scared me. Raúl made his proposal.

“As I was saying, you are just a whore, ... a fucking whore, and I don’t care if you don’t like me calling you that or not! You spend your time in the neighbourhood showing off and flitting around the pool with those tiny bikinis that do not cover anything. And I also know that you dedicate yourself to sunbathing naked in your backyard, but then you treat everyone in a cold and distant way. I do not know if you know what is said about you in the neighbourhood, but I assure you that what I have said is very smooth in comparison!”

“I’m sorry if any of that bothered you,” I said trying not to piss him off anymore. I’m very sorry, but what do you want from me?

Raúl released me by surprise and gave me a serious slap that I did not expect at all, and that almost knocked me down on the bed! I felt the pain and heat on my face when his hand crashed against me. “Aaahhh! I screamed in pain.

“For now, to start with ... don’t talk if I don’t tell you to, okay ... Bitch?

“Yes, yes!” I said sobbing.

“Perfect ... Well, I think that in view of your situation and what I think of you, it is clear what I want ... I have seen you exhibit in the pool, and now you are going to exhibit for me! You are going to do what I order you, and I am going to fuck you until I get tired of doing it ... It is that simple!

I answered lowering the tone of my voice, “Under no circumstances do I intend to sleep with you...!” I got up angrily but was afraid that he would slap me again, so I put my forearms between the two of us, to protect myself.

With a push, Raúl threw me on the bed again. He turned me on my stomach, straddled me, and grabbed me tightly with one hand on my wrists and pinned them to my back. With the other hand, he pulled my hair back to lift my head, he said intimidatingly into my ear, “I didn’t say that I’m going to sleep with you ... I said I’m going to fuck you, which is very different! You’re not in a position to choose, so right now I’m going to let you go and I want you to take off all your clothes ... I want you to do it slowly, in the sexiest way you know how, bitch ... I’m sure you’re good at being a stripper!”