Chapter Six Sometimes Marcus thought he was having the time of his life. At other times a strange feeling would come over him, an emotion he found hard to put a name to. Perhaps it was a kind of melancholy. He felt somehow distanced from his life, and from the people he met as clients. It was exciting, make no mistake, meeting girls and getting them to talk about their fantasies, their needs. And it was arousing to manipulate them, make them do things no one else would make them do, things they were afraid of doing and yet which they craved from the depth of their being. And yet…. Was it that he was lonely? With these girls he was more intimate than he had ever been in his life. With them he spoke of things he never expected to mention, things he had only dimly thought about, never put i

