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DITW 11-21: Cadmus et Hermione
🕑 Added 2023-10-08 01:00:01 +0000 UTCPassion pumped through her system in unexpected ways. Sometimes she lost herself in it, rolling with Hyun in her arms, suckling on her skin, enjoying the feel of Hyun’s delicate mouth on her own skin. There was no reproductive imperative, only pleasure. The act of sharing intimacy with a woman was so foreign, but now that she was immersed, so much came naturally. She loved to hold the back of Hyun’s thigh, loved to sweep her hand on the small of her back and then move it down to coddle her ass. She loved when their hard nipples met and rolled against each other. Even loved kissing her. And kissing was the most intimate.
The strangest thing, the scariest thing, was the honey-soaked space of time during Hyun’s approaching orgasm. That was when the roiling, queasy guilt returned. She would deliver this pinnacle of sexual pleasure; she would experience it with Hyun. While she’d come twice already, delivering was not the same thing as receiving. Receiving was abandon, delivering was responsibility. And with responsibility came guilt.
But she persevered, preparing herself to witness Sophie’s mother in her time of release. Hyun liked the little toy. She liked the vibrator. She did not like the threatening bulk of the Devlin replica. The vibrator made her do many things. Hyun would writhe. She would moan. Her moan was delicate, and a turn-on. She liked to grind the heels of her hands into the bed, and when she made fists, she let her curled little fingers stick out. When Kimmy would draw out the vibrator, she would roll it upward so the plastic shaft crushed Hyun’s clitoral hood, mash it while the motor had the thing buzzing. This drove Hyun wild. And that’s when she realized the orgasm was close. Hyun’s breaths came in brief in-and-outs, then she would hold her breath for seconds, then the quick chuff again; her hips moiled against the buzzing vibrator, and Kimmy kept it in place, maneuvering it against Hyun’s clit. Then small feminine cries rose and fell in Hyun’s throat. The thought occurred to her that Hyun would be silent when she came. She wouldn’t bell out a long shrieking cannonade. No matter how large the orgasm, Hyun would hold it in like a sneeze in church. The curiosity quelled the guilt and encouraged her vibrator hand to continue working. She teased Hyun, gave her what she wanted, then gave her almost what she wanted. Then the moments where Hyun held her breath lengthened. Her own complicity in this revelation was undeniable—the teasing she delivered would conjure Hyun’s orgasm. Hyun’s hips raised from the mattress. She humped her pussy against Kimmy’s teasing. The orgasm began. Hyun grabbed the bedding, a squeezed and tormented sound building in her collar, rumbling in her heaving chest. The writhing stiffened. Hyun fought the writhing’s natural progression: thrashing. Kimmy watched Hyun’s neck in the moonlight as the tendons stretched against her soft skin. A quick moment of release where Hyun collapsed in the bed, gasping and panting, and then she stiffened once more. Her legs trembled. One foot kicked out in a sweep. This was it. She’d pushed Hyun over the edge. Hyun’s legs bent then, heels pushed into the mattress, knees pointing up. Her legs flapped open, then snapped closed, and she performed a half sit-up. Her hands went over Kimmy’s, easing the pressure away from her swollen and sopping sex. Kimmy couldn’t stop the smile. She’d just witnessed an amazing and intimate sight. One that bound them. She snuffled a small laugh and kissed Hyun’s knee, her thumb finding the vibrator’s button and clicking it off.
The orgasm reduced Hyun to boneless slag. She breathed through her mouth, trying to catch her breath while making as little noise as possible. She had stifled the enormity of the orgasm. Some heroic interior soldier had jumped on the grenade.
Kimmy climbed up the bed and deposited the vibrator on the nightstand, turned and closed her body against Hyun’s. Spooned with her. She wouldn’t chase Hyun with provocative statements, wouldn’t rile her with all the itemized reasons what they’d done was okay. Only presented herself as a stalwart companion in their mutual adventure. She comforted her. Helped bring the covers over them both, re-cuddled with Hyun, both of them naked under the bedding. She brought the sheets right under their chins, hugged Hyun, kissed her shoulder. Wanted Hyun supported and safe. Hyun should feel safe with her, feel protected and cared for.
Afterward, there was no more talking, only breathing, only comfort. Hyun stroked Kimmy’s arm and let her head incline toward hers, their black hair tangling in the pillows. In time, they fell asleep that way.
* * *
But sleep was controversial. Maybe only an hour or two before she was awake again and staring at the bedroom door’s pale rectangle. It was a flimsy, hollow barrier that kept them safe from the outside world. Because what they’d done held cascading implications that flickered before her like a blackjack dealer riffling the deck. So much beyond that door would hold what she’d just done in high offence. It should bring her before a war crime tribunal. In the cool clarity of the quiet and still bedroom, the guilt returned. Hyun was delicate, and what she’d done truly predatory. And yet, even now, even facing the grimness of her immoral act, the care she felt for Hyun was real and throbbing with hot-blooded honesty. Their sexual endeavor had been a revelation; a genuine discovery. Maybe just the tip of the iceberg.
But the act also brought with it the dismaying complex of potential disaster. While the union shored up her defense, it also left a wide, indefensible swath on the battlefield. More transgressive proof.
That door bothered her.
It wasn’t enough to hold back the outside world. It wasn’t sturdy enough to withstand the boring, penetrative gaze of the suspicious. And without that door, she was naked. There would be no hiding her unclothed sin.
No familiar faces peeking into this bedroom would assemble any rational explanation. She’d sexualized Josh’s discovery, but Josh’s discovery of this indiscretion would be incendiary. And what about Sophie? The thought of Sophie wrung her heart. And her father? Her sister? Not even Devlin would get it, though it would amuse him. Maybe only Amy would see the path that brought her here.
* * *
The phone alarm went off at a quarter to five. She’d told Josh she would be home at four-thirty, but set her alarm for fifteen minutes later. The tension would drive him wild.
Hyun stirred, and Kimmy held her. Hyun sighed, the weight of morning realization settling on her frail shoulders. The thing they’d done last night was not a dream. It had happened.
But then Hyun moved past the dread, rubbed Kimmy’s arm, turned her head to face her. There was a small, uneasy smile there, but she was happy to see it. She kissed Hyun’s forehead, then regarded her a short while, caressing her cheek. They said nothing, only watched each other, then Kimmy left her, sat up and stretched. They were both still naked. Hyun gathered the bedding to cover herself. But she didn’t stay in bed, instead, stepping a leg out, saying, “Let me make you something to eat.”
Kimmy stuck a leg into her pants. “No, no, stay in bed, Hyun. You don’t have to. I’m just going to sneak out.”
“Shower here, Kimmy. I can make you some breakfast. It’ll save you time.”
She zipped the fly, buttoned the waistband, then stood topless admiring Hyun. So much goodness ebbed from her. She’d tainted Hyun’s goodness last night, tainted it for her own uses, and that was a terrible thing to do. And yet, her feelings for Hyun were undeniably caring. What she’d done was a means to an end, but she’d also given Hyun everything Hyun had worriedly fantasized. “Just some toast.”
Hyun picked up some of her clothing from the floor, holding it in double coverage over the bedding clinging to her body. “And some eggs.”
Kimmy picked up her top, holding it loosely in one hand. “You don’t have to, Hyun. Stay in bed, sleep longer.”
Hyun shook her head no, urging Kimmy, “Go, go get in the shower. Don’t worry about me.”
* * *
She would shower in Hyun’s bathroom and then come home to Josh, not smelling like sex. Not smelling like Hyun’s pussy. That smell would deliver the sweet, endless-questioning torment Josh loved, but it would betray Hyun. This was their secret.
But while she soaped and cleaned, she did so surrounded by Hyun’s personal items. Not just Hyun’s, but far worse: Sophie’s. Johnson’s baby shampoo, paraben and tear free, plus comical sponges in the shapes of rubber ducks and slices of watermelon. The squirming guilt resumed, but by the time she had cleaned up, she’d talked herself out of it, knowing in her heart she cared for both Hyun and Sophie, and she would never harm them for anything. Yes, not only that, she would do anything to protect them.
When she emerged from the bathroom, showered and dressed in last night’s casual ensemble, she found Hyun in the kitchen, dressed in pajamas, pouring a cup of tea.
“How was the shower?”
“I’m all clean,” Kimmy said.
Hyun had poached eggs and put them on toast with butter, served tea and orange juice, and cut up an apple and sprinkled it with cinnamon. Kimmy laughed and shook her head, pulling out the kitchen chair and sitting.
Hyun asked her what was funny and Kimmy told her, “You might be the kindest person I know.”
Hyun’s cheeks went red, and the sight widened Kimmy’s smile.
They ate together, though Hyun only had time to poach two eggs. Kimmy offered her one to share and Hyun said, “I’m going back to bed, it’s too early to eat.” Kimmy ate what she could while Hyun nibbled on a slice of toast, eyes darting furtively in her direction, looking at her, but not wanting to get caught or for their eyes to meet.
There was so much to say, so many things to straighten between them, but they were both too comfortable in the moment’s easy placidity. Then it was time to leave. Josh was waiting.
Hyun waved her away from putting the dishes in the sink, saying she would do it, telling her to get going, she would wash them later. Sophie was away today, not at school, but free on a PA day at her friend Chloe’s place, where they had an ice cream machine. They laughed about it, but the laugh was uncomfortable.
In the foyer, ready to leave, they stopped and faced each other. Hyun looked down.
Kimmy stood, shoes on, her shopping bag with Devlin’s big dick in it, wrapped in a towel. She lifted Hyun’s chin so their eyes would meet.
“Everything is going to be okay. Do you believe me?”
Hyun nodded, chin dancing on Kimmy’s fingers. “I do.”
“This is us. This is you and me. I’ll never say a thing about it.”
Hyun’s lips thinned, and she chewed her cheek. “Okay.”
Kimmy unlocked the door, and opened the bolt, turned back to Hyun, wanting to say the right thing, the perfect thing that would ease away all her troubles.
Hyun spoke first. “Don’t hurt me, okay?”
Kimmy winced and looked down, much like Hyun would do. She lifted Hyun’s chin again, and this time kissed her on the lips, long and lingering. “I won’t,” she whispered, kissed her once more, turned and opened the door.
Comments
Bill F Protagoras
The boneless slag certainly was an eye-grabber! Unfair for the fair Hyun?
Bill F Protagoras
And Hermione et Cadmus...
Wess
Reduced to a boneless slag. Ha! Love KT’s merciless vocabulary.
L_S87
I've been contemplating this for a few days, and I'm wondering if this reference has more to do with what happens after the slaying than the slaying itself. After marrying Hermione, Cadmus had a boat load of bad luck. Nothing ever went right for him. This is attributed to a cursed necklace given to Hermione as a wedding gift. My take on this is that perhaps the genders of the original story don't matter here, and that Kimmy is Cadmus with Hyun being Hermione. This joining they have experienced is one of love, but portends bad things for both in the future. The interesting bit of that is that no matter how bad things got, Hermione never left Cadmus. While I feel like Kimmy doesn't deserve that sort of devotion from Hyun, I could see them sticking together if things explode with Josh. Ever since this started I felt like Hyun was Kimmy's fall back position if all her misdeeds finally came home to roost. We shall see. I hoping this is a loosely based comparison and that "Cadmus" gets what's coming to "him" without getting to keep Hermione.
Tim ziegler
I’ve really struggled with this series,your writing is awesome as always.It’s the character’s and how dark the story is.Hopefully KT will deal some retribution out.
Donkatsu
From the wiki: Cadmus et Hermione is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. It was first performed on 27 April 1673 by the Paris Opera at the Jeu de paume de Béquet. The prologue, in praise of King Louis XIV [hence the Louis XIV reference in earlier comments}, represents him as Apollo slaying the Python of Delphi. The opera itself concerns the love story of Cadmus, legendary founder and king of Thebes, Greece, and Hermione (Harmonia), daughter of Venus and Mars (Ares and Aphrodite in another interpretation). As KT notes above,, by slaying the Python of Delphi, Cadmus starts to grow scales himself. At the end Cadmus and Hermione escape the jealous Illyrians disguised as black serpents. Zeus sends them as serpents, to spend the rest of their days at the Elysian Fields. I guess we know who Hermione is, but which lucky guy is Cadmus and who is the Python of Delphi, or is he just a NPC in this drama?
Tracey52
What does the title of this chapter mean?
Andrew Mellein
Indeed, Kimmy needs Josh more than he needs her! From the last three or four chapters it seems like Josh is starting to question Kimmy and her mind games even though she occasionally does them. For instance when she got in his head about stroking off in his car. So imagine (probably won’t happen) if Devlin set Josh up with one of his gals for a fling. I think Kimmy would lose it and probably get crazy, try to keep things in line. And if that doesn’t work murderous!?
L_S87
That was the most notable moment, (with Genesis), but Charlie's possessive jealousy also showed up when Jonny was talking to the Israeli coder lady. Gave him the fifth degree and acted light a complete bitch, which isn't really her personality. I mostly think that happened because at that point she was feeling pretty damn insecure on where she stood with her having all these sexual adventures, and enjoying it while Josh was relegated to getting nothing and suffering through watching her have fun. I'm a bit surprised Reza never threw Genesis at him again in a one on one setting without Charlie there as it would have been ripe for Charlie to react very poorly. I had kind of hoped either she or the Israeli woman (can't remember her name) would have a more prominent role as it would have been interesting to see how Charlie reacted, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. That said, Kimmy is even more insecure about Josh. Not because he's ever hinted at or placed himself in a "Genesis" situation, but because her actions and subsequent guilt over them leaves her in a position of *knowing* she doesn't deserve his devotion, though she craves it like a woman dying of starvation. I would argue, as attached as Josh is, that Kimmy needs Josh more than he needs her. And that would lead her to doing some pretty awful things to keep him in line. The last few chapters, case in point.
KT Morrison
Or Cadmus and Harmonia; either way, wherein upon slaying the serpent, Cadmus's hubris thereafter grows serpent scales on his own skin. . . .
Kat
I don’t think that would happen here either. It’s not in the storyline. But, what about Karina? What if Josh somehow hooked up with her? Karina knows what Kimmy did at the party with Devlin. I just want Kimmy to get hers. She’s so evil!
Andrew Mellein
I thought of this because I was reminded of the Landlord series where Charlie became uncomfortable with Genesis pleasuring Johnny sexually. Now switch that to controlling, manipulative Kimmy and it’s possibly a more extreme situation entirely! I think at that point if this happened Kimmy would try to justify her affair with Devlin entirely and probably try to gaslight Josh ( using her warped logic) and say he cheated first. But she would be extremely angry because at that point she would have lost all control of Josh!
L_S87
That's an interesting question. Largely because Kimmy has contemplated a couple times "sharing" Josh with Hyun. Though we know that was only in the context of using said sharing as a way to sully Josh's character and leave him on equal footing with her from a morally deficient perspective. Her being with Devlin means nothing because Josh has been with Hyun. They cancel each other out. But, that's a controlled equation. Kimmy chooses the circumstances and the outcome. It goes exactly how she wants it to and it ends when she says it does. Hell, the control of that scenario would probably get her off. But, that's a specific situation, another means to and end similar to how these series of chapters started and ended. If Josh were to step out of that? Especially to create a punishing and humiliating scenario similar to what she has done with him? I think she'd go fucking ballistic. Because I think Kimmy feels like she owns Josh. He feels what Kimmy wants him to, he reacts the way she engineers him to, she controls the course of their marriage. Love for her means Josh is unthinkingly devoted to her, regardless of her prior actions and her love for him means she feeds his darkness and controls his desires. That's why she was so hacked off at him being in the parking lot, because he's not doing those things, he's going off script. I have contemplated what it would mean if Josh were to go to Rome again, Amy were to show up like I had mistakenly thought last time when it ended up being Kimmy and she seduces him as a ploy, while Devlin did the same to Kimmy while Josh was gone. I don’t think KT would do this, but i bet it would kill Kimmy inside if that happened and she would try to punish him severely for it. The hypocrisy wouldn't even occur to her. I dont think something like that would happen here, my opinion is the series isn't on that course, but it would be a great premise to include in another series.
Andrew Mellein
I wonder how Kimmy would feel to see Josh with another woman or if he cheated on her? Kimmy says she “loves Josh” but she keeps Josh as a prop to humiliate and gaslight to her hearts content. Josh is the only stable thing in her life and him with another woman I think would make Kimmy lose it mentally and emotionally! In Kimmys mind she owns Josh even after the bad things she has done. I think her endgame is to keep Josh as a cuckolded, naive, weakiling. What do you think about Josh and another woman and how it would affect Kimmy?
Andrew Mellein
KT’s writing is superb! There is no one like her in erotic fiction right now! I like how she writes these expansive novels where you come to love or hate the characters. Any erotic fiction author would be one and done. But KT builds up the world and lets you get to know these characters and their motivations. Once you know the characters then comes the steamy scenes which KT writes beautifully! Most of the stories are like witnessing a car accidents in good ways 🤣🤣 Which I love bravo 👏 KT
Kat
It was painful to read. I felt sorry for both Hyun and especially for Josh. Kimmy doesn’t deserve either of them. KT’s writing, though, is amazing.
L_S87
No, no. What you wrote in your post is spot on and expressed very well. Thst said, it shows how good KT is that she can basically short our brains out because we're practically frothing at the mouth due to Kimmy's depravity. The fact that she can do these things to Josh while enjoying what amounts to a sexual epiphany is almost painful to read. The dichotomy between the love and caring she shows for Hyun, who is clearly vulnerable here, vs Josh, who has also shown himself to be equally, if not more vulnerable is jarring. Kimmy thinks Josh would feel anguish knowing the intimacy she shared with Hyun. No, Kimmy. Anguish isn't even close to what he would feel if he found out the level of love and support you've shown a "friend" in one night of passion vs. the last two months of torment for him. Kimmy's version of love is twisted and evil.
Wess
Yeah right. Kimmy professes her love for Josh. I do not think that word means what she thinks it means
Mike Monroe
Kimmy is the most vile .. disgusting character ever created by KT...there is no redeeming value to her. I am reminded of a another TV character just as vile ..when I was growing up ..JR Ewing...We need a who shot JR situation here...Kimmy needs to be brought down...she needs to be stopped!!! Such great writing KT!! All the emotions and angst I thought I hated .Maggie ..disliked Jess ..I absolutely HATE Kimmy Chang Waters! I hope she has a great fall on many sides! She is detestable..Period!!!
Kat
Everything you wrote I agree with 100%, you’re just way better at expressing yourself than I am! I get so mad at Kimmy that I lose the ability to form a cohesive thought. Lol
Kat
It’s nice to see Kimmy seem to genuinely care about someone other than herself. She says she cares so much for Hyun and Sophie, going so far as to say that she would protect them. But, in the same breath, she’s revelling in the fact that she’s purposely going to be late getting home to Josh. She knows that he probably hasn’t slept, because it’s driving him crazy with torment. She already gaslighted and tormented him earlier in the evening. She’s so freaking cruel to him, while being so caring and soft with Hyun. Telling Hyun that what they did is for them, and it stays between them. I wish Hyun would figure this out, and not get sucked in. Kimmy is going to hurt you, Hyun. You’re going to get hurt very badly. How can she put her heart and trust in the hands of someone who is married to the uncle of her daughter? This person has also told her that she’s cheated numerous times with a man that bullied her husband. She drives around with a dildo replica of his penis, ready for play in her trunk. She’s also pregnant…and it’s probably from her affair. Wake up Hyun. While Kimmy expresses how much she enjoyed being with Hyun and how much she cares about her, a lot of what she did with her was an act, an act for Hyun, so that Kimmy could get what she wants in the end. As much as she says she’ll protect her, Kimmy will ultimately hurt Hyun, too, because Hyun isn’t her endgame. At this point, I have no clue what her endgame is. It used to be staying with Josh, having sex with Devlin, and getting Josh to watch Devlin fuck her. But now she’s pregnant. Her husband can’t seem to function as his own person anymore. She’s destroyed him. Devlin is definitely not finished with her. Kimmy can’t seem to stop thinking with her crotch, and now she’s corrupted a completely innocent party who has no business being involved in Kimmy’s perversions. I can’t wait to find out what happens at home. Is Josh still outside? Did he get lured somewhere else with the panties by Devlin? KT don’t leave us hanging! I need more!
L_S87
100% This. She makes you hang on every word. The way she phrases things, the emotions from Kimmy that in turn evoke emotions in we, the readers. It's rather sublime. Well, KT's ability to write is. The subject matter is anything but. Kimmy is detestable. I feel sorry for KT. I love this series and yet I hate it, and I can't imagine how hard it must be to try to put yourself in Kimmy's shoes so you can write this in such a believable way. Thank you, KT.
Donkatsu
Louis XIV, really!
Donkatsu
Agree, no way, after all the buildup, that Devlin is a man of the past.
Donkatsu
KT, for all of your fan club members who wish to write in this space, you have proven quite conclusively, that they do not stand a chance. This is, without doubt, some of the finest erotic writing I have ever seen. It is not possible to isolate individual phrases or passages, as i did previously. The entire thing is a gem, only some parts are even better than that. Don't want to sound fawning, but I am in awe.
Andrew Mellein
I'm eagerly awaiting the Josh and Devlin conversation! I wonder if Josh is going to be at the apartment when Kimmy gets (like Kimmy wanted) home? I kind of doubt it. I think he wants to put his supposed plan to work and went to meet Devlin. I kinda of think Josh dosn't trust Kimmy at this point. Even though she plays great sexual mind games with him. But we will see!
L_S87
Kimmy makes my blood boil sometimes. All the caring and protective feelings she espouses for Hyun, the insistence she will keep this secret, and it not being a lie, where the HELL is this sort of moral fortitude for Josh??? She started this as a means to an end, just like she confesses internally, and somewhere from the start to the end she's now decided that she will treat Hyun better than Josh. Kimmy will keep this secret because she cares about Hyun and wants to protect her, yet spill all of Josh's to Hyun, not giving a damn about his secrets, completely forgetting about her vow to protect him. She consciously sets the alarm late to torment him, yet takes a shower and has breakfast just to appease Hyun and assuage her fears, even going so far as to kiss her and make promises when Hyun says not to hurt her. Where was this Kimmy while she did all these awful things with Devlin and drove Josh to a sobbing mess? That Kimmy made a bunch of empty promises that she didn't fulfill and yet somehow still insists she "loves" Josh. I'm almost 100% convinced that Kimmy will use Hyun and her love as a golden parachute of emotional support if things go sour with Josh. She even said it herself that this was the tip of the iceberg of her exploration and potential growth with Hyun. And she SO does not deserve it. This woman is wretched. KT, I'm now on the same page as Kat. If this woman doesn't get her comeuppance, I'm going to be pretty damn aggravated. On the other side of things, we have no idea how that conversation with Devlin ended up for Josh, or how he reacted to Devlin's lie. Did they converse more, or did that response trigger something awful in Josh? We really have no idea what's waiting for Kimmy when she gets home. We know what she expects, which is why the heinous bitch set her alarm 15 minutes after she said she'd be home. She expects Josh to be quivering in anticipation, waiting for her to "take care of him". Will be interesting to see if that's what happens or if it will be something more along the lines of the panty scene.
