Chapter 40: Owner Of A Success

As time went by and those of the customers who had doubts about their true rôles settled down, it proved that Jacqui's Place was a real little earner. The swingers even settled down. Karl whipped at home and was whipped at Jacqui's Place. Jason found it easier and easier to make it last and then, when he was ready, to come in quantity and with great pleasure, though Greta found it harder and harder to bear his floggings.

Jacqui's next purchase was after two months when she bought her own full-time bouncer and occasional victim, Grant, her old cabaret partner with the huge prick, from Martha. That was when Martha discovered just how successful Jacqui's Place was.

Jacqui had not paid any rent, nor had she paid for Greta, and Martha knew she had spent three thousand with Kate when she bought Sarah. Martha's sources said that there were only a few regular customers at Jacqui's Place, and Karl's visits three times a week added to Jason's twice a week were about half of all the business. It was a great surprise, then when Jacqui inquired a price for Grant. It was an even bigger surprise to Martha when she offered to buy him without haggling for two thousand credits.

"Send Alf round to fetch me, I'll bring the money with me," said Jacqui.

Martha did just that, but she was determined to remind Jacqui that she hadn't seen a bent credit since letting her leave and that the account now stood at seven thousand, excluding Grant's purchase price.

When Jacqui was shown into Martha's office she said, "Sorry, Martha. I noticed today that I haven't paid you for Greta or any rent. With the two thousand for Grant that makes nine thousand I owe you. I'd better watch it or you'll be asking me to come back."

"Yes," said Martha, who had noticed that Jacqui seemed totally unconcerned at this huge debt.

When she had worked in the New House of Joy, Jacqui had earned about from five to nine hundred a week for Martha, so she would take months to pay her debt off in extra 'tricks' if she came back.

"Well, I brought you twelve thousand which includes Grant and the next eight weeks rent for my arse," said Jacqui and dumped a heavy bag on Martha's table.

"May I ask, purely out of professional interest, you understand, how you managed to raise that from a total of about seventy 'johns'?" asked Martha.

"It's easy," said Jacqui, "My prices are higher than yours."

"Again, purely out of professional interest, how much do you charge?" continued Martha.

"There's no fixed tariff. It depends on what they want," said Jacqui cautiously.

"Well, take Karl for instance. What do you charge him to thrash you as he wanted to when you were here?"

"Oh, I couldn't reveal the private secrets of my clients, as a professional, now could I?" said Jacqui, and then she continued, "But I can say that a visit to Jacqui's Place will cost the average customer about four or five hundred credits, excluding Hugo, of course."

Martha sat down suddenly, her breath quite taken away by this statement. In fact she would have dismissed it as pure fiction, but for the twelve thousand credits on her desk.

"So you can see, Madame, Jacqui's Place is no competition for the New House of Joy. Most of your customers couldn't afford us and the few who could are already regulars, or aren't interested. How many times has Jason been here in the last two months?"

"He hasn't been in on his own at all," admitted Martha, "What did you mean about 'excluding Hugo'? Does he patronise you?"

"No," said Jacqui, "He's been in three times, but doesn't stay. He would be given any of us for free if he wanted. I made that clear to him, but I also made it clear what we do, and straight, or almost straight, sex isn't available, even to him. Oh, I suppose if he insisted as your owner, but he never does that."

"No," agreed Martha, "He never pulls rank like that. Has he seen the one who scared the shit out of Alf?"

"Yes. He came in specifically to look at that 'aspect of our operation', as he called it. He thought it was very funny, but Sarah was very upset when he only laughed," Jacqui confided.

"Now," she continued, "If I could just take Grant with me, I'll be on my way. I'm sure we both have better things to do than gossip all day."

Back at Jacqui's Place, Grant was introduced to an off-duty Sarah and seemed quite taken with her. Privately Jacqui wondered how they would get on if she were in her Dom outfit. Grant's duties were outlined to him, and they consisted of providing a big prick if one of the girls happened to want one, accompanying Jacqui to the auctions, because she would be buying at least two more girls and a drudge to clean the place, and occasionally being whipped for, or by, a customer.