Socialising with my main characters – another view
As a writer I love to experiment. I’ve often thought about bringing characters from different books together and to see how they might interact. I have written a similar blog before; different characters of course. I wish to try another group. Now, these characters are not strangers. If you have read or planned to read the Petra Larson story You will know them well. Apart from Jerry Byrne, Petra’s boss at the time when she worked in a Bath estate and lettings agency, all the others were mostly women. Of course, we know Petra had another job quite different to that of a lettings agent. At night she put on her leathers and operated as a high-class dominatrix. Put bluntly, she whipped naked men for large sums of money! For a chosen few she even operated naked. But that commanded a much higher fee to expose her magnificent body. This is all laid out starkly in The Ice Queen the first of five books from the pen of Anietta Strong.
So, once again I thought I’d have a dinner party of my own and invite them round. Maybe not Jerry He left Petra, finding her too high maintenance. Coincidentally, all five books have events which centre around the consumption of food, mainly in Petra’s spacious apartment so inviting them round will feel natural. This apartment was always her big secret. Nobody in their right mind would ever imagine her affording this on the salary she was on at Cranshaw’s Lettings Agency
So, who are these characters?
There are two main characters although a third emerges dramatically. How more dramatic can it be when you stand at the end of a railway platform intending to throw yourself under a fast-oncoming freight train to grind a beautiful and desirable body into a bloody mash and crushed bones. More later. She, Petra Larson’s saviour, may turn up, but it would entail her flying in from Boston where she moved with her partner Sal.
Cerys Hughes, Petra knew from her time at university. As her name implies, she is a Welsh girl, born and brought up in the South Wales valleys. This was a mining area. Hardly a place for a girl to come out as gay. Stunningly beautiful, she had to let men down gently without explaining the real reason she didn’t allow them into her knickers. Then she met Petra, a girl from Suffolk, her own background that of living in a quiet rural village in the heart of Constable country. Petra was unsure about her sexuality, but she had a secret too. Bullied at school her father encouraged her to take up martial arts. She was rather good at it and there she met the second of Petra’s dinner guests. Dominique Vasson, a French country girl who like Cerys had no doubts about her sexuality. Petra and Cerys became lovers at university, Dominique or ‘Dommy’ as she became ‘known’ to Petra later, while attending a tournament in France.
Dommy and Cerys couldn’t have been more different. Cerys, tiny, sweet and delicate with what both Petra and Dommy described as having the most beautiful bum either, had ever seen. That suggests Dommy had intimate knowledge of Cerys too! She was ‘known’ to her just as Petra was too. Dommy was very different, at six feet and muscular, she had her own beauty, but this was on a different par to Cerys. So, this unlikely partnership thrived. Petra had relationships with both women but neither lasted because Petra had this destructive nature, everything she ever had she destroyed. Nothing was more starkly portrayed than her being raped and beaten in The Ice Queen
She fled to Boston, to spend time with Angela Wolfe who won’t be at the dinner. She was Petra’s performance coach. Petra and Dommy both represented their country at martial arts. Dommy beating Petra in the final with Petra leading at the time. An injury exploited and Petra forced to retired and concede defeat to her lover.
After returning from Boston after Angela had put back the broken pieces of Petra’s life, she then meets a woman who dominates her life emotionally, sexually and sadistically. You will meet Jennifer Wallace in The Weekend An emotional rollercoaster of a book which explores a relationship between two troubled women. Jennifer Wallace or Jen as she is known won’t be at the dinner either. She is otherwise engaged! The ending isn’t one made in heaven and Angela Wolfe has to repair the damaged pieces Petra brings out to Boston once more.
Petra returns, quietly. She moves to North Yorkshire hoping for a fresh start living in a restored blacksmith cottage on the edge of the moors. There, she first meets an older woman. Sadly, she can’t be at the dinner party either, she died in a fire. But Petra does meet a young 18-year-old teenager Ella and she, hero worshipping Petra, when she finds out about her sporty past, becomes another lover. This and another relationship with a man means eventually Petra must choose who to be with. All starkly portrayed in The Choice
I mentioned Petra’s encounter with another character on a railway platform. Well, Jasmine Crealey, or Jaz as she preferred to be called is on the same platform. She is returning home after attending a course, when she sees a lone figure at the end of the platform. It’s a freezing day and not one to be out in the cold wind, so exposed. She hears the horn from an oncoming train and sees that figure move forward. The course she attended covered suicide, and some mention was made over how to recognise potential victims of railway suicide. What Jaz sees is a textbook case, so she takes off and grabs this woman just as she was preparing to jump. They fight, but once the train has gone the woman stops struggling. ‘Hi, I’m Jasmine, everyone calls me Jaz’ she opens. ‘My name is Petra, and everyone calls me a bitch!’ This is how Jaz and Petra meet. Jaz accompanies Petra home to her luxury apartment and to her astonishment are all the letters Petra had written to be opened after her death, all lined up waiting to be found. What happens is covered in The Letters
Finally, the cast come together one final time in Anietta Strong’s final book Resurrection ‘Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate’ A moving subtitle which sums up the direction of this final book, where Petra’s happiness seems assured until a savage twist turns this on its head. I’m sure as Petra waits for the arrival of Cerys and Dommy to arrive, unfortunately Jaz couldn’t make it, she will wonder if events raised in this book will rear its head, ugly or otherwise.
So, how did it go?
Unsurprisingly, I suppose, all three of us are in bed. Cerys in kneeling over my shoulders and I have a front row seat looking up at Cerys Hughes’s magnificent arse. It’s been a while since we last met like this. Of course, threesomes, sometimes even more featured in our lives. Dommy remains up in Yorkshire where she has her pick of young stable girls who queue up for back treatments. Well, that is Dommy’s story anyway. Cerys returned to nursing after a break, and she is in a relationship too. Dommy was her normal, belligerent self. She always saw Cerys as a brat and I can recall myself frequently spanking her gorgeous backside with a paddle I still own, but not tonight. My own love is out for the night with her friends. She didn’t fancy being the fourth person in what she always saw as a social event rather personal to us. The dinner was great and once the wine was finished the Balvenie 12 Year Double wood at £100 a bottle came out too. Dommy has her legs wrapped around Cerys’s neck and her tongue is doing its work. I can’t see this stopping any time soon; we all take our turn to be on top!
So, meeting with my main characters has been a success. We’ll leave them to it shall we?
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