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Greed & Charity: Mammon

This is the third in a series of seven unrelated but theme connected tales.  You’ll find the first here:  one of seven

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.”

Matthew 6:24

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Charity rubbed the fabric of his jacket sleeve between her thumb and forefinger.  “New suit?”

Mammon gave her a level look.  “You’re not going to purse up your lips and give me a reproachful little glare, are you?”

Charity smiled despite herself.  “Don’t you think the money you spent on this suit, which you quite did not need, could have been put toward something ….” She paused at the look in his eyes.

“Charitable?”  Sarcasm dripped from the single word.

“You have at least three charcoal suits, Mammon.  And while you look very nice in them, I just wish I could convince you to let go of such material pleasures.”  The second she uttered the final word, Charity wished it back.  Biting her lip, she looked up through her lashes at him, found his dark eyes smoldering down at her.

“Quite the virtuous little hypocrite, aren’t you, poppet?  You’ve learned to embrace pleasure quite handily.”

“Not at the expense of others,” she protested.

“No?”  He placed a manicured fingertip on her bottom lip, rubbed it lightly back and forth.  “You’d give up the pleasures you’ve so recently enjoyed for the sake of helping someone?”

Her mouth fell open slightly.  “Yes,” she murmured, then closed her eyes.  Her tongue darted out to kiss that fingertip. 

Mammon trailed the moisture down her chin, then crooked his finger beneath it to lift her face.  “That didn’t sound terribly convincing.”

Obstinacy hardened her eyes.  “I do not see how giving up sex would help anyone in need.”

He chuckled.  “You’re so literal.  So preoccupied with being outwardly good, with demonstrating altruism, that you fail to see you’re falling far short of being someone who is truly giving.”

Charity turned away.  “Go away, demon.  Take your greed and your fancy new suit and your selfishness.  It was foolish of me to think I could change you.”  She took a step away, only to be halted by his hand closing around her upper arm.  She sighed, but didn’t look at him.  “Let go of me.”

“No.  I’m greed personified, remember?”  He stepped up behind her, pressed himself against her back, pulled her against him.  His arms crossed in front of her, cupped a breast in each hand.  “You see, I understand you, Charity.  You confuse altruism with duty, and think greed only applies to materialism.  That makes it easier for you.”  He found her nipples, rolled them between his thumbs and forefingers.

Charity caught her breath, resolved to fight the ache growing inside her.  Her knees were weakening, though, and she knew he felt the way leaned into his hands.  “Why won’t you just go, please?”

His mouth found the throbbing pulse in her neck, bathed it in the humid heat of his breath.  “Because you don’t want me to.”   He nibbled at her flesh, removed one arm from around her and eased the zipper down the back of her dress.  He straighted and turned her around, pushing the dress off her shoulders so it fell to the floor in a circle around her feet.  He pushed her, hard, against the wall, pinned her there with his body.  “Ask me again, pet.”

“W-why won’t –,” she stuttered, then buried her face in his neck as he lifted her, settled her legs over his arms and pushed her thighs open.  “Release my cock,” he commanded. 

Breathing hard, she did as he said, her hands fumbling with his belt and the closure on his pants in her haste.  She whimpered when her fingers finally slipped through the opening of his boxers and found him, hot, hard and ready.  She scraped aside her panties, pulled him to the opening of her cunt.

And there, he stopped.  She wriggled against him, felt him slide smoothly against her outer lips.  “Please,” she whispered.

“Not that easy, poppet.  You’re going to have to beg this time.”

Charity groaned.  “Beg?  Why?  You want this as much as I do.”

“Do I?”  His hands found the front closure of her bra and unhooked it.  Her breasts filled his palms, her hard nipples settling neatly into the V’s between his first two fingers.  He squeezed them.  “Tell me what you are.  Tell me you’re a greedy little slut.”  He pressed himself against her, pushed his hard cock against her clit.

“Why are you doing this?”  Her voice was small, bewildered.

He didn’t answer, just moved slightly so that he entered her slowly, allowed her to impale herself on his cock.  She clutched his shoulders, her breath coming in short gasps.  “Mammon?”  Her voice was tinged with desperation.

His fingers dug into the flesh of her breasts.  “Tell me.”

Charity strained against him, shook her head.  Her teeth found the muscles where his neck sloped into his shoulder, and she bit down, more to fight her desire than to hurt him.

He didn’t move.  “Tell me.  Now.”

She released him, threw her head back and cried out, “I’m a greedy little slut, Mammon.  Dear God, please fuck me.”

And his mouth found hers, his tongue invading the gasping orifice as he pulled out of her cunt, then slammed back inside her, fucking her with brutal abandon.  She took the abuse, grasped his shoulders, her hips struggling to meet his rhythm, fucking back while she repeated the words he’d ripped from her soul.  “I”m your greedy little fucking slut,” she grunted until she could no longer form words.  When her orgasm came, it ripped short, desperate screams from her throat.  As the walls of her cunt contracted around him, Mammon emptied himself inside her, then pushed her into the wall again, bringing his forehead to rest on the cool surface beside her head.

After a moment, he felt her hands in his hair and the soft touch of her lips on his cheek.  “Darling?”

“Mm?”

“I think I’ve ruined your new suit.”

“Greedy slut.”

 four of seven

~ by MangledTulip on May 17, 2008.

10 Responses to “Greed & Charity: Mammon”

  1. I love this series, no matter how unconnected it may be. You capture each sin incredibly well. *big smile*

  2. Sally,

    Thank you. Sin is hot. ~wink~

    elise

  3. I’m confused. Was ruining his suit her way of demonstrating the futility of self indulgence? Or was that his way of showing her that she would indulge herself no matter what the cost?

    Or was it a deeper lesson (to the general public) of the futility of mixing suits and sluts?

  4. sassy,

    Mixing suits and sluts. ~laughing~ You’re priceless.

    No, i’m afraid ruining his suit isn’t metaphorical at all. I think she simply managed to find her sense of humor about how ~cough~ obviously she had enjoyed him.

    i’m sure dry cleaners have seen worse.

    elise

  5. Very interesting - almost a pantheon to loving the sin and disdaining the sinner’s preference for denial. Of course, charity and altruism as concepts are fraternal twins. At heart, both are as self-serving as greed.

    I found it impossible to not equate your short story to the film Wall Street, written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone, and Gordon Gekko’s infamous line that ‘Greed is good.’ If Gekko and Mammon are birds of a feather, Charity is also flying in that flock.

  6. Kaz ~

    Isn’t she, though? It’s delicious to have the demon of greed point out to her that it isn’t completely charitable if one is only doing good out of a sense of duty.

    Demons are so very insidious. And yummy.

    I’ve never seen Wall Street, but that line reminds me very much of one i’m fond of uttering. “Sin is hot.”

    elise

  7. You’re absolutely right! Demons ARE insidious and yummy. But then so are imps, nymphs, fallen angels, and Lucifer himself. And contrary to most popular visions, I picture all the perverse and most sinful as truly beautiful creatures rather than the disfigured and distorted entities traditionally presented. If all our senses couldn’t perceive them as stunningly yummy, fewer of us would so willingly go astray. As you say, sin is hot.

  8. Excellent. i like being right.

  9. Awesome Work. I struggle to find words worthy of the compliments you deserve… dont stop

  10. Billy,

    Thank you very much. And i like your words.

    elise

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