Chapter 17

Alice didn't tell herself this would be the last night at the brothel, but walking up the steps had a sense of finality to her tonight.

She stopped by the manager. As usual, the old woman was sitting at her desk, chain smoking, fiddling with a pen, looking at figures on a book. The grainy images of the club flickered on the stickers behind her.

The woman didn't spend much time with the girls. Alice was sure that she knew exactly what went on, but everything was deputised to Athena and Phil.

Only once, she had come into the girls' quarters. A girl had been stealing from customers and dealing drugs. The club, obviously illegal, could exist only thanks to a mixture of the authorities turning a blind eye, and the customers being pleased with the service. Too much noise would have made it impossible for the outside world to ignore its presence, and they would be chased out into a desert they couldn't return from.

The old woman had looked at girl, straight in the eyes. Her presence was terrifying: the room was silent; even Alice, who had nothing to lose in this situation, felt nervous.

The girl didn't say anything, but her eyes seemed to give her away. The manager looked at the girl with disgust then walked up to her and slapped her very hard on the face, then walked away.

The girl left that day. She didn't say a word to anyone.

The manager looked at Alice.

'Bright, clever. Eleven words.'

'Intelligent?'

It fit.

'I just wanted to thank you for taking me in,' Alice said.

The old woman wasn't sentimental. She looked at her with her yellow, watery eyes and shrugged her shoulders.

'I might not be good with words, but I know numbers. So, we're square.'

She stared at Alice for a moment, and you could tell that she had seen girls a million times before, just like Alice, shuffling their feet, unable to find the right words, unsure whether to thank the woman or to send her to Hell, whether she was their helper or their tyrant. You could tell that she knew then.

Alice wanted to enjoy this night. Things were going well at home, and this was her last hurray. She walked through the couches. The girls, the customers, the music, the drinks, the stench of old tobacco. Nothing had changed since her first time, and yet everything was different: she was not scared anymore; she had a welcoming place to return to. She didn't need this anymore.

The evening started on a pleasant note. Athena came up to her, followed by two customers she knew by sight. They were two young professionals, well dressed, nice looking, well mannered. You could tell they would soon move out the neighbourhood and leave it behind.

One was tall and rather skinny, with a mop of floppy blonde hair. He had a sharp look in his eye, and his face was severe, like that of a medieval saint. The other, slightly pudgy and shorter than his friend, had short black hair. He had kind brown eyes, a square face with a little button nose in the middle.

'They would like to book the two of us for an hour,' Athena said. 'Shall we use my room?'

A foursome? That would be a first. Alice was pleased: she had grown fond of Athena. She liked her honesty and how she ran a clean, straight house with the girls.

Alice smiled and followed the other three up the stairs.

Athena's room was identical to Alice's. The pictures on the walls were different, but that was all. Everything – the flowers, the towels and the linens, the toys – was kept in the same place.

The two guys took their shoes off and sat up on the bed.

Athena started undressing. Slowly, sensually. Her long black wig swaying with her.

For a moment, Alice watched her too. She was skinny, athletic. She almost had no breasts, just two thick nipples protruding on her ribcage. Her legs and ass were strong, like those of a sprint runner, and the muscles bulged under the thin layer of her dark brown skin.

Athena looked at Alice and, with a seductive look in her eyes, gestured her to come closer. She wrapped her arms around her neck and started kissing her.

Alice felt her body quickly relax in the embrace, her initial surprise quickly melting away. She kissed her back, and the two women moved about, holding each other. Alice ran her hands along Athena's back, feeling her ass. Athena opened her mouth and her tongue started exploring Alice's mouth, playing with her tongue.

Before too soon, Athena had released Alice and had moved onto the bed. She took the blonde man. She started unzipping his pants. He was already hard, excited by the little show the two girls had put on.

Alice played with the other man's hair for a moment, then started unbuttoning his shirt. She was slow and methodical: she wanted him to go crazy with his desire for her. Then, she started massaging his crotch.

'Let's see what you have for me,' she said.

He took his pants off, and she started stroking his dick. She stared into his eyes while she did this.

Athena was already bent over the other man's groin and was sucking him. She was going up and down in strong movements.

Alice climbed the bed, and the two women were now side by side, on all fours, sucking off the two men. But this was just the beginning.

'Why don't you take that shirt off?' Alice asked the brown-haired guy.

While he got busy with this, Alice moved behind Athena and started licking her pussy. The noise of the other girl sucking stopped, and her laugh rang.

'You filthy girl!' she joked.

Alice liked exploring her friend with her mouth. She was not fully shaved and kept some hair, cut in short black curls, on the front. Her labia were thick, and their pinkness contrasted with the colour of her skin.

'Let's swap,' Alice suggested.

So, her other man sat in front of Athena, who quickly took him in her mouth, while the blonde guy came up next to Alice.

Alice started masturbating him, then gave his dick, which was long and pink, a few licks up and down the shaft. She put the head in her mouth for a long moment. Then, she expertly wrapped a condom around it, and guided the man towards Athena's opening.

Now, the girl was moving back and forth, positioned between the two clients. Her moans were already quite loud.

'What about you, sweety? You're all alone now,' Athena joked.

The four quickly rearranged the composition: Alice lay with her back on the bed, so that the brown-haired guy could penetrate her. Athena lay next to her, on all fours, with her man behind her.

Alice turned to the girl and started kissing her. Their breathing was fast, and the two girls were moaning at every thrust of their companion. Alice liked this feeling of camaraderie: her friends next to her, their pleasures growing together, sharing duties and merging their fantasies.

The blonde man now wanted to move to Alice, who was happy to comply: she sat on all fours and felt the man penetrate her slowly, as if to savour the moment. Athena crawled underneath her, and Alice eagerly resumed licking her. The smell of her friend's pleasure was strong and filled Alice's nose.

The other man came up to Athena, ready for action, but Alice intercepted him and started licking his balls. She carefully took him in her mouth. The taste of her own liquors was mixed with the flavour of the condom's rubber and the lube. Alice grabbed the shaft and guided it towards Athena's opening. The other woman moaned loudly, and the group resumed their movement: the two women embraced in the middle, and the two men on the outside.

Alice started rubbing Athena's clitoris, while the man kept pumping her.

Both men, almost at the same time, asked for a moment to catch their breath: they had money to spend tonight, and they wanted to enjoy the full hour.

The brown-haired guy was ready first, he lay on the bed and quickly got Athena to sit on his dick, then he smiled at Alice.

'Come here. There's room for you too.'

She sat on his face, and he started licking her. She started kissing Athena who was now facing her. She played with her nipples, and the other girl reciprocated by toying with her hair, caressing her neck, then her back and her chest. Alice enjoyed the feeling of Athena's skin against hers, the different textures that their bodies had, like velvet against silk.

From time to time, Alice had to take in deep breaths, and she felt coming closer to a conclusion: the man was good. He knew were to go with his tongue, how long to stay there and when to move away. He was never boring. At times, Alice wished he kept going with a sensitive spot, but he wanted to torment her to, and let her build up all the steam she had in her before exploding.

The other guy was now standing next to the women and was offering them his dick. Athena gave him a suck. Then Alice gave him one. The man playfully moved from one mouth to the other. He was gentle, but as his pleasure grew, he demanded longer and deeper sucks. Alice watched Athena swallow him, resting her lips on the base of shaft. She was probably running out of breath, but then Alice noticed the tip of her tongue flicker underneath, giving the scrotum little licks. Then it was out, and the girl grabbed it and guided it towards Alice's lips.

Alice let it slide down her throat and moved back and forth a few times. She focused a moment, then tried to get her tongue out, like her friend had done. Red in the face, she exploded in a volley of coughs.

'O my God, how do you do that?' she asked with a raspy voice.

Athena laughed.

'You mean this?'

And she did it again. She swallowed the whole length of the man's dick and got the tip of her tongue out, moving it in quick movements against the skin.

Then, it was time for another change.

The two women were on their backs, next to each other, and the men were on top of them. Each couple was staring at each other. They could read the pleasure in each other's faces.

Alice wrapped her legs around the blonde guy's back and her arms around his neck. She felt in the moment; she enjoyed all the feelings that her body was experiencing.

'Harder!' she whispered in his ear. 'I want you so bad.'

The man obeyed.

Athena, next to them, moan louder and louder. Her man was moving faster and faster, then, with a final groan, he came.

'Keep going!' Athena ordered.

'Don't worry: you're next.'

Her gave a few thrusts, but then he decided to get out and lick her instead. Athena grabbed his hair, pushing the man's face between her thighs.

'You're fucking – oh, shit! – there, there! Yeah!'

And with a loud, almost frightening scream, she came.

'Oh, fuck,' she said breathlessly, 'he's just great with his tongue.'

The two girls laughed. Athena put two fingers in her pussy and moved them back and forth, as if to milk some last drops of pleasure out of her body.

The blonde man was still going. Alice felt her body tighten and she was gasping for air in little bursts: she was coming, and she wanted the man to come with her.

He had his eyes shut and was biting his lips. He was close too.

Alice hugged him tighter.

'Now, please!'

There was a loud humming sound: the couple's moan had melted into one sound, it grew into a moan, then louder still into a groan. Then Alice screamed, her pitch higher than the man's, and her voice louder.

She hugged him for a moment, while his hips gave little, sporadic thrusts, and his body tightened and relaxed. She listened to him breathing in her ear. She could feel the sweat on his skin pressed on hers, his floppy hair against her face.

The two couples took turns with the shower. The girls washing the men carefully with intimate gestures.

The four walked out of the room. Athena gave Alice a look, hoping to share a complicit smile after the moment they had shared together, but found her lost in thought. Athena looked at her, trying to wonder what was on her mind, but Alice, noticing the probing gaze, gave a quick, nervous smile, and stamped a big kiss on the other's lips.

Athena smiled back and whispered, 'Thank God they didn't ask to play with the back, I'm still sore from this dude last night: huge!'

'You little slut,' she joked.

'You have a much dirtier mind than I thought,' Athena retorted. 'I've heard stories.'

Alice laughed. The men, walking in front of them, turned to see what the joke was.

'Don't worry!' the two girls said at once, and laughed once more.

It was a great night.