Chapter Four
The Sublime Obsession Of Renata V.*
For Renata, a lonely middle-aged divorcee, it all began with what appeared to be a dirty phone call. At first she played along: really a sort of joke, nothing but a game. Over lunch with her girlfriends she would laugh about the dirty old man with the raspy voice, the pathetic creature searching for a bit of titillation. But the calls continued, and Renata…didn’t hang up. Soon she was drawn into a bizarre ritual. His voice deepened into a sensual murmur, seductive, weirdly compelling, hinting, suggesting, instructing, ordering, commanding her to obey, to submit herself to whatever s****l demands he chose to place on her, demands that became more perverse, more outrageous with each passing day. And Renata surrendered herself to that command
