“Okay… Okay then, Carmen…”.

”Common sense
Can slap me in the face
And yet I calm disent
Embarrassed by your obvious
Indifference
Disgusted at the same time by it all
Watching as my ego breaks your fall…”

After they hung up, Shane stared at the phone pensively. When Carmen had mentioned her girlfriend, she had felt a sting of jealousy hitting the hidden depths of her soul. It was terrifying in a very masochistic way because, for the very first time since she had met Carmen, Shane really desired to take her right there and then, and make her scream, and not because she had been paid for that.

She scratched her head, feeling hot and confused. During the call, she had imagined Carmen sitting naked on the bathroom floor and she didn’t know why. She had imagined her flawless body, her bare skin, she had mentally pictured her long hair, wild and untamable, and her big, dark eyes.

She closed her eyes and felt a sudden warmth in her chest, in her belly, in her lower abdomen. Eventually, she shook her head and sent another MMS.

It was destined to Mister Stevens, this time. Shane had fucked her young wife, Nikki, on the balcony of Yamashiro. It was a pretty ugly picture, showing this very attractive girl masturbating on a railing, her legs wide open, her fingers on her pussy and an idiotic grin on her face.

Shane threw a look at the photograph and grimaced. She erased it and switched off the phone, then she rested her forehead on her desk and sighed.

”Don’t you know that I’ve
Been running from you heart
And I feel like you’ve been running too
Don’t you know that I’ve
been lying from the start
And I feel like you’ve been lying too…”

**

Two days later, DEW had been momentarily turned into a photographic set. People everywhere, noises in the background, assistants running here and there, parabolic reflectors and all that stuff. Shane was suffering a terrible head-ache and watched Carmen with begging eyes.

She just smiled that amused smile of hers and shook her head helplessly.

“Don’t you like your outfit?”, she asked, teasingly.

Shane just shrugged.

“Well, you should. It’s not that bad”, Carmen added, her arms folded. She looked at her squarely and nodded appreciatively.