Virtuality

by Ladee Katherine

  She blushed again. “Guilty.”

  “Then try it. So he has no picture, the rest sounds like a good place to start. For all you know he could suck at playing in the cyber chat and you’ll never even care what he looks like. He could even decline you.” Mary said with a wink.

  Virginia laughed and her index finger hovered over accept hyperlink. She was put off that the man wasn’t sharing himself but if he was a CEO perhaps he didn’t want to be identified and word get back to his company. She also couldn’t deny the desire to be with a man who wanted to walk a little bit wilder in bed.

  As if in answer her body pulsed at the image of a sexy man in a stylish suit as he tied her down to a bed and dripped candle wax over her bare body. She bit her lip and shivered as desire raced a quick path up her body. She dropped her finger onto the screen and when the confirmation message popped up she hit yes.

  Setting the phone down on the desk she leaned her head and groaned. “Please, please don’t let this be a bad idea.”

  Chapter Four

  Her heart felt like it was going to thump right out of her chest if she didn’t get it under control. In two minutes a chat room at Cyber Room would open up and she would be having her first ever virtual sex encounter. She had even dressed up for the occasion. Her blue-black hair was curled and pulled to the side and she’d purposefully done a smoky eye look and stepped into some lacy red underwear. It didn’t matter that video cameras were only an option. If he got brave enough to show himself, and she felt connected enough to try it, she didn’t want anything getting in the way. Nate was even with her mother for the evening, who thought she was just going out on a date finally.

  She blew out a deep breath and tried to calm her racing heart. There was something so dirty about what she was about to engage in and she couldn’t wait. She was tired of playing it safe and her heart was so tired of missing Nathan this might be the best way to get her back out into the field.

  The computer chime almost sent her bolting out of her chair. “You are about to enter Cyber Room. Please note all conversations and videos are deleted upon leaving the chat. Click yes to continue or no to decline this match.” She read aloud and paused before dragging the little cursor over yes and clicking it.

  The page reloaded and she was a little shocked. She wasn’t certain what she was expecting, perhaps the porn boarder that popped up on some sites or a naughty photo for the background. But it was entirely clean. The background was a bland grey and there was a picture of lips where she assumed was the send key. Aside from that it was utterly platonic and almost sterile.

  “So basically you assumed because people wanted to mess around virtually in a digital age that they were pervs and sex fiends.” She flushed a little and her eyes landed on the small cobra photo in the corner. He had joined…he was interested in seeing where the match-up would lead as well.

  So who goes first? The thought crossed her mind just as the message popped up on the screen.

  “Well hello there. I want to admit before we go any further, you’re my first match and I don’t quite know what I’m doing.”

  She felt a huge amount of tension melt away. They were both newbies and both wouldn’t have any clue what was supposed to be going on. She smiled and went to type a return.

  “Hello Matty (p.s. no photo?) I’ve only been with Cyber Room a week. You can see all the pertinent details about me, already have I’m assuming if you’ve accepted as I have of yours. So … as bad as this sounds….what if we just got right to it?” She held her breath as she hit send. A pulse of desire thrummed through her body. She wasn’t the assertive type and could only believe the computer being in the middle had lead to this.

  She felt her heart thumping in her chest as she waited for whoever Matty really was to respond. Her foot tapped nervously under her desk and all of a sudden the surge of desire and intrigue slipping into fear and nervousness. The sound of the computer’s ping snapped her out of it.

  “Sounds like a wonderful idea. I have one question before we start, why Cyber Room? Your profile is impressive. Why not some random Joe out on the street?”

  She wasn’t shocked by the question and even if she hadn’t fully revealed the reason to Mary she was ready to tell some stranger it, if only because he was in the same shoes.

  “I want to think of this as a social experiment. I want to know how a compatible cyber sex personality matched up with a few external personality traits can lead to a successful offline relationship. I’ve read the articles, I’ve seen the Facebook page photos – but I’m a skeptic.” She hit enter, paused and added. “I also may be interested in seeing just how cyber sex truly works.” Then hit enter a second time.

  Again the pause was enough to send her heart pounding. She wasn’t candid like this and if it backfired on her she never would be again.

  “Your honesty is refreshing. For the record, I joined because I wanted to get to know women who might not otherwise give me a shot. It’s nice to meet you Virginia. What do you say to the idea of me telling you exactly what I want to do to you?”

  She had no clue what this man looked like, let alone sounded like but his words sounded in her mind in one of the most sensual tones she had ever heard. Her body pulsed with lust and she grunted out a moan. She was dying to ask him to pull the photo down, to reveal himself. But she’d had plenty of nights in the past three years where she had to fantasize as she touched herself.

  A pang of guilt rushed at her when she realized it would no longer be her husband’s face. That she was going to have to think of someone new if she was ever going to let him go. Virginia inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. It was time to start a new chapter and whether her fingers shook from fear or lust she didn’t know but she typed one solitary word before hitting enter.

  “Yes.”

  Matthew felt blood rush to his dick as her one word response flashed on the screen. “Yes”. When she’d accepted the Cyber Room initiation last night he’d almost backed out. Almost, but he couldn’t ignore the attraction he felt for the complete stranger.

  Now the time was on them and he didn’t know where to begin. He’d never been a Cassanova but he’d had enough women in his bed to know what to do to please them. He’d even whispered a naughty command a time or two. But he’d never sexted.

  “This is simply one of the reasons why this was a bad idea.” He turned his head to the left side of the screen where Virginia’s profile picture and sexual likes were on the screen. Her screen would show his.

  Without thinking he unzipped his jeans and tugged them off. He had no clue if the men and women that engaged in Cyber Room services touched themselves, but if he was going to type out the perfect things to see if his own program could work for him and then meet her in person, he needed to lose the fear and focus on the lust.

  His left hand slipped into his boxers and his fisted his cock, stroking himself up and down while he looked at her picture. The blood took mere seconds to rush to his dick and he groaned as he stroked himself a few seconds longer, until his erection was pulsing with a need of it’s own. Matthew’s hips bucked and he pulled his hand away from himself and forced himself to focus on Virginia. He had a feeling this was not something that could last too long because he had no idea how to split his attention and knew the minute she responded, his focus would be shot.

  With one final nod of his head he began to type. “My hands slowly pull you too me, my palms resting on your cheeks. I’ll lean my head down and brush just the faintest touch of my lips to yours before deepening the kiss. My body would press against yours, as my hips rolled a sensual motion against you.” He had to stop typing for a brief second to touch himself.

  Matthew’s head tipped backwards as he tightly gripped his shaft and stroked himself. A groan passed through his lips as he touched himself closer and closer to a release. His breathing was heavy as he pumped the length of his hard cock up and down and when his hips began to thrust into his hand he forced himself to release his dick.
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br />   “Not what this is about.” He laughed when Gallie purred. “Ok so exactly what this is about but you’re supposed to be seeing if you have any sexual chemistry, not jerking yourself of idiot.” He forced his hands away from himself and set them on the top of the desk and hit send.

  He waited as she responded to him and his whole body was on edge. If this is what his clients went through he wondered just how it wouldn’t be possible to form a sexual connection with all the tension that was rising in the room. “Maybe because not everyone jumps to touch themselves.”

  The computer chimed and his eyes jerked to the screen and Virginia’s response.

  “I moan softly as your lips touch mine. I feel the pressure from our lips and mouth opens, allowing your tongue to slip inside and gently stroke against mine. Liquid pools between my legs as our bodies move as one. Your hands slid the straps from my tank top down my shoulders and your fingers brush against me as you expertly unclip my bra as your mouth continues to kiss mine.”

  “Dear God,” Matthew groaned as the image of their bodies intertwined as he touched her body sent a jolt through him. Her dark hair would thread between his fingers as he massaged the supple peaks of breasts as they kissed.

  His shaft bobbed against his stomach as the images began to push foreword. His mouth left hers and he trailed kissed down his neck before licking a circle around her pert nipple and suckling the puckered peak into his mouth while his hand mimicked the action on the breast. He snapped his eyes open, breathing heavier than he could ever remember doing so before. His breaths punched out in shallow gasps as lust sent every thought he had of responding haywire.

  Matthew wiggled his fingers, trying to force his brain to get back to the situation at hand. Instead his brain translated his wiggling fingers into her hands gently tickling down his body and he arched in the desk chair. “Fuck.” His eyes slipped closed and his groan was long and deep as his hand wrapped back around his cock. Just finish. Finish and then get back to it. This was stupid you’ve been fantasizing about her for a week; of course you’d be sexually connected.

  The muscles in his neck strained as he continued to work himself to the edge. One hand stroked up and down his length while the other applied slight pressure to his balls as he massage them and pretended it was her hands touching them and her mouth on his dick.

  He felt a strange rush of air to his right and opened his eyes to see that Gallie had jumped up next to his mouse and sat down on the computer keyboard. He hissed in pleasure as his fingers gently squeezed his shaft harder. Gallie looked at him and he growled out a moan as he felt the smallest release of cum onto his fingertips.

  A ding occurred in the background and he thought it was just Virginia’s response. It had to have been at least five minutes and she probably though he was some asshole who wasn’t interested in her.

  His hips began to pump into his hand and the chair rolled slightly on the wheels back and forth. His grunts were more audible and his eyes slid closed as his release spurted over his fingers.

  Gallie jumped off the keyboard and he heard it crash to the floor from her pushing off of it. She could be graceful, but she preferred to make a mess. He opened his eyes to pick it up and froze dead in his tracks.

  His computer no longer held the boring grey background text covered screen of his documents and the Cyber Room chat he’d accidentally abandoned. Virginia’s face was larger than life on the twenty-seven inch screen. She looked every bit as sexy as she did in the photo she’d submitted.

  Her dark hair was curled and laying almost model perfect across her shoulders. She wore nothing except a lace red bra that he could see. It cupped the generous size of her breasts and accented the swell of them. His mouth went dry at the sight and he felt his dick swelling back to life in his grip.

  That was when he realized he was holding himself and that his webcam monitor aimed slightly down because he liked to lean back while he did business video chats. He released his cock in an instant and his eyes looked towards hers. The mixture of confusion, disgust and lust was enough to make him lean forward to try and cover the webcam.

  Unfortunately for him he moved to fast and the chair launched out from behind him because of the wheels. He tipped forward and smacked the screen with his hand. “Fuck.” His heart felt like it was going to beat out of his chest if he didn’t get it shut off and now.

  “Matthew Cobral?” Virginia’s voice sounded slightly digitalized through the computer but he couldn’t miss the lusty tone of her voice and he wondered if it was always there or if she had been turned on as well. “You are Matthew Cobral! You own Cyber Room and you use it.” she shouted and he flinched.

  In just that moment his hand finally found the power cord he was groping for behind the large monitor and he yanked. The faint popping sound of technology rapidly shutting off echoed in the room and he looked down to see the screen had gone blessedly black.

  “Thank God.” His whole body slumped as the nervous tension drained out. He went to sit in the chair, fully forgetting it and flown backwards and he grunted as his ass slammed into the carpeted floor. “That could not have gone any worse.”

  Gallie gave a faint meow and started walking towards him.

  “Oh no. This is all your fault Gallie. Fuck.” He dug his hands into his hair and squeezed his head. He had absolutely no idea how to do the damage control that this situation needed. He could already hear the knock on his door with a court ordered summons in his mind and he sighed. “I knew playing in Cyber Room was off limits for a reason.”

  Chapter Five

  “It wasn’t what it seemed. Please let me explain before you make any decisions about myself and Cyber Room. Enclosed is my address, meet me today at five o’clock and I will explain everything. Then you can decide what to make of it. To make of me and I will not stop you. ~Matthew Cobral.”

  Virginia sighed and she read the text message out loud for about the tenth time that morning. She wasn’t scheduled for any cases and it concerned her, almost as if because she’d failed her first one back, she wasn’t going to be assigned any. She looked at the clock on the computer, 4:38 pm. There was no reason she couldn’t go to the meeting.

  Except for what had happened just after Matthew Cobral had severed the connection of their chat. For all of three minutes she had been fuming mad. Cyber Room had positive reviews, but did Matthew Cobral vet every person by trying them out for himself? The idea had sent anger simmering in her blood. But then she remembered reading so many of the stories talking about how perfect the system match was that some only ever had one Cyber Room partner. Which ultimately meant Cobral hadn’t been fucking around with every woman who applied.

  So her brain quickly turned to the possibility she wanted to believe in. That Matthew Cobral had seen her profile and desired her. Seeing the lust in his eyes, then the embarrassment and franticness right before their connection dropped out and sent her mind reeling with the thought. She’d wanted to meet Mr. Cobral since she’d seen his photo when looking up the company. Knowing she’d been about to enter a heated cyber sex session with him had only fueled her desires futher.

  “Which is precisely why you’re going to meet him right now.” She was talking to herself as she turned her computer down for the night. She’d been contemplating what to do with the text message all day and just like that, she’d decided.

  ***

  She banged on the door to the Matthew Cobral’s home louder than she should have. Suddenly she felt queasy. She’d never really wanted to meet the man she’d play with in Cyber Room. Not until she’d learned who it was and now she was changing her mind again.

  Suddenly the dark suit and button down felt stifling. I can’t do this. I can’t do this.

  Virginia turned on her heel to leave just as she heard the door pull open.

  “Virginia?”

  Her whole body tensed. His voice was sinfully smooth sounding and she bit the inside of her cheek as she turned slowly. If she could practice in a courtr
oom over life and death issues, she could certainly speak to this man without jumping him.

  “Would you please come in? I swear to you I’m not a sexual predator it was all a misunderstanding.” He spoke so fast she could hear the nerves in his voice.

  “That would be fine. I am quite curious.” She was astounded she managed to sound so calm as her heart alternated between pounding in fear and pounding with lust.

  She stepped inside and he closed the door behind her. “If you walk straight you’ll come to the kitchen. I’d like to sit there.”

  He brushed past her to lead the way and she felt sparks shoot through her at the contact. She wanted more. She’d come here to listen to his excuse but now she wasn’t going to leave until she had kissed him. She may be out of practice, but she was determined and a lawyer. A combination that ensures she got her way most of the time prior to her husband’s death.

  She sat in the seat he gestured and he wasted no time.

  “Ms. Quark, I offer my apologies over what happened. I can assure you, it has never happened before. I have never mingled with my clients. I had created that profile minutes before Mr. Matty sent you the invitation, well before I sent you one matching you with him.”

  Her eyes looked into his dark ones and she swallowed hard. “But why?”

  “I wanted you. I saw your photo and I was hit with this overwhelming need. I tried to push it off and then when I was reading your preliminary to offer you a place it was like you infected me.”

  She raised a brow. “Infected? Really?” The word rubbed her the wrong way and she wasn’t certain how to take it.

  “Sorry. I didn’t mean it like that.” His hand reached out and touched hers, to hold it and she gasped but didn’t pull it back. “I’m sorry. I’m messing this up. Fuck.” He slid the chair back and stood up, she followed and put a hand on his shoulder.

  “Infected how?” He turned slowly, heat blazed in his dark eyes and she felt her body start to wake up, need starting to take hold in her. Need for him.