Dirty Little Secret

By Fern V. Bedek

In a near future world of superheroes, clubs like Dirty Little Secret make use of the latest technology to offer a unique sort of escort service: men transformed by advanced collars into beautiful women. Great for men still nervous around women. Excellent for a man like Ethan, who has a genuine phobia driven by a horrible mother. Yet, as he falls for one of the collar girls, he starts to suspect 'she' is really one of the city's top superheroes.
What he isn't prepared for is what those suspicions mean, nor the other secrets he'll discover.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fern V. Bedek
• Release date: Jan 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215506516

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Fern V. Bedek

Dirty Little Secret

Copyright © 2022 by Fern V. Bedek

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Chapter 1: Let You In On The Secret

Chapter 2: Who Else Has Secrets?

Chapter 3: Hints of Truth

Chapter 4: Too Close To Truths

Chapter 5: Plausible Deniability

Chapter 6: Truths Come Out

Chapter 7: Struggle for Acceptance

Chapter 8: Infiltration

Chapter 9: Forgotten Truths

Chapter 10: Living in Truth

Chapter 1: Let You In On The Secret

It was rainy and dark as Ethan Quinten walked through the parking lot of a club in the rundown inner suburbs of the cold city of Northford. The club in question was well maintained, despite the surrounding industrial and low income neighbourhoods. The lit up red sign displayed the name of the establishment: ‘Dirty Little Secret’. In years gone by they’d used a neon sign, but these days LEDs had largely taken over.

Not that Ethan paid much attention to the trends of the signage world. He worked in IT, specifically helping to figure out how to quickly reroute corporate trading infrastructure in case of fights between supers. Fights he did his best to avoid. Like any sensible resident of Northford.

Again, though, that was information not on Ethan’s mind as he stepped into the club, a cute waitress lighting up upon seeing him. He was a regular here, after all. Because it was a special sort of club, that helped him out with his little issue.

Ethan tried not to think about the details too much. For instance, he’d never looked up if the shift-collars worn by the club’s employees (and the employees of numerous other, similar, clubs around the world) were the invention of some heroic scientist wanting to help people or an evil scientist working on disguises for some plan to take over the world. All he knew is that they’d existed since he was a teenager, and that they swapped the sex of whoever wore them as long as they were worn. All the cute ‘waitresses’ or ‘hostesses’ in the club were really men, paid a premium for their services due to the… forbidden fruit they provided the patrons.

There were plenty of unsavoury types here. The club kept good bouncers ready to clear out the extra unpleasant ones, but Ethan had heard there were still some issues with clients being just a little too rough.

On the other hand, there were also plenty of men like Ethan around. Most were more mild cases than him: young, generally nerdy, guys still a mess around real women. So turning to the ‘ladies’ of Dirty Little Secret as a way to start in the shallow end.

Most of those didn’t come back often enough to become regulars, getting over their fears.

Ethan’s situation was rather worse, though. He had deep issues regarding trusting women, stemming from his mother, the superhero turned villainous mad scientist, Dr. Gloria Fairbanks.

Having a super genius who hated the half of the population with a Y chromosome (and anyone she saw as ‘traitors’) for a mother had not been… pleasant for Ethan. He’d buried the memories of most of his childhood so deep he didn’t remember his mother from before she’d gone off the deep end. Nor what, exactly, had set her off. All that lingered from that portion of his youth was the deep rooted sense of betrayal.

He remembered some of the things that came after, though. Enough to fear what had been so bad he’d blocked it out.

While he was better with women than he’d once been, he still wasn’t ready to get intimate with any just yet. He also didn’t think it was fair to any woman he might try to date, to leave them in a relationship with so many walls.

So here he was, a regular at Dirty Little Secret. Satisfying the needs he had as a straight man without having to worry about his fears of women.

Ethan! a curvy petite redhead called out, bouncing over to him. I haven’t seen you for weeks! I was getting worried about my favourite customer.

Sorry, Julie. Sorry, he said, while enjoying the adorable pout on the hostess’ face. The Mole King’s invasion last month meant we were working crunch hours to fix everything up.

‘Julie’ continued to pout while twisting Ethan’s tie around ‘her’ finger. Well, tell them to give you a little more time off in future… most of my other regulars aren’t half as polite as you.

They don’t tip as well, I take it? Ethan asked with a grin.

‘Julie’ ‘s pout turned to an overdone performance of apologetics. That’s part of it, that’s part of it.

‘She’ grabbed him by the wrist and began pulling him off towards a private suite. The HD screens that served as fake windows were currently displaying a breathtakingly real looking view of some historic southern European city. There was even a light breeze blowing through.

He’d heard the owners were planning upgrades. It was nice.

When the door closed behind him, ‘Julie’ slipped in close, looking up at him with nervous eyes.

I know you know we’re supposed to tell every guy he’s our favourite, but… I want you to know I genuinely like spending time with you, ‘she’ whispered. Other guys are rough and fun, but you… you like to make me feel safe in a way I basically never get.

Ethan swallowed, looking down at ‘Julie’ ‘s soft features. He wasn’t sure how deeply he returned the redhead’s feelings, but he knew those lips looked so inviting.

He leaned in for a kiss. Which led to another. And another.

Ethan had come here for a reason, after all. It had been too long, and he’d been under so much stress…

Within a few moments ‘Julie’ was letting out moans of joy, feeling soft and delicate as ‘she’ let him lead completely. Soon enough they’d ditched the clothing they’d been wearing.

Well, apart for ‘Julie’ ‘s shift-collar, of course.

* * *

Still awash with the warm post orgasmic hormones, the pair cuddled, ‘Julie’ pressed against Ethan’s larger form. He’d missed this. The way ‘she’ nuzzled against left Ethan believing the cute redhead had missed it too.

You know, ‘she’ whispered, I wouldn’t mind being more than just your dirty little secret…

Ethan froze, staring down at ‘her’. A shiver ran down his back as he thought about what that could mean about the person in your arms.