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The Au Pair's New Proposal
(David Monroe)

Ariel Lyons had landed in Switzerland about 2 years ago just wanting to see the sights there as well as in some other surrounding countries. And for a bit that had worked out well. But in a poor choice of judgment with this guy she had met in a bar one night, she woke one morning in his room to find herself alone. The sheets were still a tangled mess and her fuzzy memory just then began to clear. She had been at this club and met this guy who called himself Anton. He had looked rich and devastatingly handsome to her then. But now as she looked about the abandoned room she was wondering if all that had been a façade. 

With her head pounding from the night before, she sat up and took stock. This place hardly looked to be one where Anton might have actually lived. It just did not seem to be in alignment with her impressions of him when they had met. He had been charming and sexy and alluring and she had readily joined him for a night of drinking and dancing. And when he had suggested they go back to his place, just a few minutes' walk away, Ariel had agreed immediately. As she sat and tried to get herself together just now she began to put it all together. They had engaged in one sexual act after another once they had gotten to his place, which Ariel recalled now as she felt her muscles sore and bruised.

As far as she could remember the sex had not been violent in any way but had just gone on for hours, though at the time she sure had not objected. Even now her nipples hardened as she thought of Anton inside her. But why was her head so achy and her perceptions so fuzzy just now? She had endured hangovers before but this was different. She stood shakily and went to the bedside table and picked up the empty pill bottle and she had her answer. She had been roofied. Most likely Anton had not even been the guy's actual name now she knew. And then a panic set in. Ariel ran to her backpack and began to tear through it. It was worse than she had imagined. Not only was all her cash gone, but so was her passport. Her legs went wobbly and she sat heavily in a chair as she let the impact of this all set in. No money and no passport...now what?"