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Aside
                           from setting me little humiliating tasks
                           to do both at home and at work, Mr C
                           frequently asked me to answer little
                           questions about myself so that he might
                           get to know me better and tailor his
                           challenges to suit things he would
                           discover about me. One such question he
                           asked was simply what one thing frightens
                           you the most? The reply below became part
                           of a longer group of stories which I
                           entitled The Lana Letters. Lana (not her
                           real name) was a character I created for
                           my earlier blackmail games with Eddie.
                           Much about her was based on a woman I knew
                           in real life who had a brief affair with
                           my husband. There was a time when I felt
                           an overwhelming urge to have her find out
                           all about me and though that feeling has
                           passed the fantasies of what could have
                           happened remain strongly appealing.
                           
 
                           
                           
The Lana
                           Letters
 
                           
                           
What one
                           thing frightens me most?
 
                           
                           
That's a
                           difficult question to answer as there's
                           lots of things which, if I stop to think
                           about them, really frighten me. This
                           blackmail game we're playing, for example.
                           I created a photo album folder in our
                           online group just as you requested and
                           labeled it Lana Fantasies. Even before I
                           started uploading any photos into it the
                           thought that one day she might become a
                           member of our group. She'd see this
                           folder, created especially for her as a
                           testament to the perverse fantasies I've
                           had for her, and the thought of this
                           really terrifies me. 
 
                           
                           
It's not
                           just that she might see the pictures I
                           uploaded into it. It's not even really all
                           the pictures there are of me elsewhere in
                           the group for her to find. It's the
                           thought that by creating this folder and
                           relating this one particular fantasy I've
                           harbored in my thoughts for almost as long
                           as I've known her would be tantamount to
                           making an open invitation to her to
                           fulfill this fantasy of mine in every
                           frightening detail. 
 
                           
                           
It won't
                           take Lana long to discover Tuesday nights
                           are one night of the week on which she
                           could make a surprise visit to me at work
                           and there'd be every chance I'd be working
                           back alone. I often had this dream where
                           she saunters into the library right before
                           closing time; that all too familiar smirk
                           she always had on her face whenever she
                           saw me all the more alarming now because
                           I'd know the thing which could have
                           prompted her to call on me like this would
                           be the certain knowledge you had been in
                           touch with her. 
 
                           
                           
I'm
                           paralyzed with fear as I watch her wander
                           up to my assistant David, clearly asking
                           him for directions to my office - probably
                           after a brief moment of flirting with him
                           in that way I'd see her do so often with
                           men of all ages who were total strangers
                           to her. I don't have time to dwell on how
                           much this one little habit of hers used to
                           irritate me. A moment later she's walking
                           straight into my office and laying on the
                           smarm - yet another things which gave me
                           reason to feel such animosity towards her
                           whenever I saw her in the past. She acts
                           like it's only yesterday since she say me
                           and straight away is asking how my husband
                           is. It's not that she wants to know - I
                           can tell that instantly. Always could. She
                           knows that by asking she is immediately
                           able to make me feel uncomfortable; to
                           push me to the point where I get so angry
                           with her I want to explode. Or ignore her.
                           Either way, I can't because that's just
                           not my nature and she knows it. This then
                           makes me feel so mad with myself that I
                           start to believe that I really do deserve
                           to be humiliated by her. And this is where
                           my fantasies about her always begin.
                           
 
                           
                           
Lana is
                           one of those women who seems to have some
                           innate, uncanny power to twist people
                           around her little finger. I've really
                           never met anybody quite like her. It's
                           easy enough to imagine men falling for her
                           shallow charm, but I could never
                           understand why women also seemed to come
                           under her spell. I often wondered to
                           myself just how many of them must have
                           also felt the same seething for her that I
                           felt; the jealous, festering loathing. I
                           watch helplessly as she wanders around my
                           office picking up things; touching things;
                           MY things. She starts to make comments
                           about things; about art, like she's some
                           kind of an expert. My god! Is there no end
                           to her fields of expertise? It drives me
                           crazy the way she does that, speaking like
                           a world authority on any subject which is
                           comes to mind. It also eventually comes
                           back to sting me when she takes one final
                           look around my room and all the things
                           dear to me; my books; my Monet prints on
                           the wall; my neatly organized piles of
                           work on my desk; the elegantly framed
                           intellectual floss of a lifetime dedicated
                           to study and learning - my two degrees and
                           a number of lesser awards on the walls
                           behind me - it's all just ammunition to
                           Lana. Ammunition she fires with deadly
                           accuracy when she dismisses all of it with
                           one frivolous comment to bring me crashing
                           down to her level. 
 
                           
                           
There's
                           no need to ask why she's come to visit. I
                           know. Even without doing anything else
                           beside being there in MY space, she's able
                           to humiliate me; to make me feel cheap; to
                           treat me like an object of no value
                           whatsoever. Within two minutes of arriving
                           Lana has managed to turn the tables
                           completely and make me believe it's ME who
                           is the one who's old and unattractive.
                           Lana knows just how to make me feel that
                           everything I know about the world and the
                           people in it is wrong. She takes pride in
                           the fact she lost her virginity when she
                           was still a teenager; a young teenager at
                           that. She turns things around so I am
                           forced to admit I was an idiot waiting as
                           long as I did to lose mine; saving it, but
                           for what? All of this she manages to do in
                           the twinkling of an eye. 
 
                           
                           
In my
                           fantasies I've lived and relived this
                           introductory humiliation over and over and
                           have never understood why I feel that way.
                           One thing I do know is the only way I
                           think I'm ever going to know the answer is
                           to firstly accept that Lana was right all
                           along and I was wrong. She was right - I
                           do need to learn some lessons and out of
                           all the people I could possibly imagine to
                           teach me them, it's her with all her wily
                           charms and experience.
 
                           
                           
The
                           photo I found to upload into my Lana
                           Fantasies folder is of a young woman,
                           completely naked, on her knees, arms bound
                           at the wrists and elbows behind her back,
                           another woman behind her tying a gag
                           tightly in place; the location? It looks
                           like a library which made me immediately
                           imagine it was Lana making ready to teach
                           me my first real lessons in submission and
                           humiliation. 
 
                           
                           
Since
                           meeting Lana I've come to know quite a few
                           dominant women. There's much they all seem
                           to have in common with Lana but the one
                           thing which makes Lana distinct from them
                           is the fact she is genuinely mean and
                           spiteful, especially towards me. The
                           question was asked "what one thing
                           frightens me the most?" and I can only
                           answer by saying it would be to have Lana
                           tie me up naked and gag me. Aside from the
                           fact I hate gags at the best of time,
                           being gagged and unable to tell Lana to
                           stop when I wanted her to would be
                           supremely terrifying for me. The only
                           consolation I could think of in that
                           situation would be the gag would probably
                           spare me from having to pleasure Lana in
                           any way with my mouth. Are you reading
                           this Lana? 
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