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exciting experience of your life so far?" Ian asked her, cocking his head slightly to one side and looking at her with interest. 
    So this is how the interview begins, Tessa thought.  Determined to roll with his unusual question, she thought briefly through her life. "I suppose going skydiving." She smiled a little at the memory.  It was on the last birthday she had with her parents. Her father had taken her out for the day and bought them both skydiving lessons. 
    "What did you like best about it?" Ian probed.
    She considered the question, and assumed he was asking it with a psychological motive.  She answered honestly. "Well, I'm the kind of person who likes to be in control, generally.  I like to feel like I have everything organized, and I hate not knowing what's going on.  But... I don't know.  There was something about just having to completely... let go, give in completely to the unknown, embrace my fear.  It was exhilarating.  I'll never forget how that felt." Tessa could feel her skin almost crackle with electricity at the thought.  It was almost sexual, that kind of thrill. 
    "So... you ultimately like giving up control," he said, his voice growing husky, unreadable.
    "Sometimes, yes.  I didn't know that about myself until that day." The man's question had caught her off guard, his velvety voice somehow encouraging her to drift away into her memory.  Suddenly she snapped back into the present, aware that she had wandered. Her face reddened, and she hoped he would not notice.
    "Tessa," he continued, his voice becoming softer, more intimate. Listening to him say her name in his velvety, soft manner made something strange happen inside her -- his voice was suddenly a lover's voice, caressing her, making her long for his mouth to brush against her skin.  She shivered, and felt a warm tongue of heat stroke her between her legs. Tessa shifted restlessly as she felt herself grow moist.
    "Tessa," he purred again, "I have a very unusual proposition for you. I want you to know that you are in no danger, and that what I am going to propse, you are of course free to refuse and leave at any point in this conversation. Do you understand?"
    "Yes," she responded, a heady mixture of mingled apprehension and excitement licking at her.
    "Tessa, what I am looking for is a companion.  Someone whose body will be mine to enjoy and give pleasure to for one month.  You, I hope, will be that person.  Your photo made me very much want to meet you.  Now that you are here, I find you even more enticing in the flesh.  You have the kind of gorgeous, womanly curves that I particularly enjoy, and I find you quite intoxicating.  Let me explain my proposition.  If you agree, you will sign a contract for one month, during which time you will be given a furnished apartment and all your needs will be taken care of at no cost to you.  I will have full access to your apartment, and to you, at all times.  You will not be hurt in any way, I assure you.  At the end of that month, assuming neither of us wants to renew our contract, you will be allowed to keep any clothing that has been given to you, and will be paid a sum of $100,000 as compensation."
    To say Tessa couldn't believe her ears would be an understatement.  In less than a minute, they had gone from talking about skydiving to her being his... sex slave? And getting paid more in one month than she could reasonably hope to make in two years? Tessa sat staring at him, with just enough self-control to not allow her mouth to hang open in shock.  She couldn't think. She couldn't talk.  It was all she could do to try to wrap her head around the scenario he had just painted.
    Ian seemed to sense her paralysis and got up from the chair without waiting for an answer. "Tell you what," he said smoothly.  "Let's leave this subject for a moment and come back to it.  Why don't we have a glass of champagne?" He walked out of the room for a moment, and returned with two flutes in one