Inspiration just struck me, and I want to get an opinion on this idea before I jot it down as a project I'm definitely gonna write someday.

Over on Dear Author, they have a review up for a book called Tempt Me Tonight. Apparently the "sex for revenge" plot device is used in this story. Wendy made a comment that cracked me up: "What is with the ubiquitous 'have sex to punish guy' plot? 'Oh please, please don't throw me into that briar patch!'"

I responded: "The only time I could see this device working is if the sex is really bad, and she does it on purpose. Like biting him really hard, or just laying there and just randomly asking, 'What do you think of global warming?' while he's doing his best to rock her world. Something along the lines of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, where the heroine puts the guy through all kinds of evil shenanigans, like naming his man-tool 'Princess Sofia.' That could be pretty damn funny actually."

Then the magic light went on. Here's the scenario that popped into my head. Two best friends, one of whom is broken-hearted because some player did her wrong. So armed with a picture, angry, militant best friend sets out to teach him a lesson via a twist on the "revenge sex" thing. She goes after him like a barracuda, but when it comes down to the actual moment, here's a sampling of what I have in mind:

• They're fooling around and she starts faking a huge, noisy orgasm, and then just stops and shrugs. "Nah, not gonna happen. You hungry?"


• She bites him so hard she draws blood, and they're NOT into blood play.


• Heroine manages to kick him in the junk during her ecstatic thrashings.


• She convinces him to participate in some really humiliating roleplay.


• She lays there like a dead fish and eventually says, "Did your other lovers like that? Really?


• She asks at some point, "Is it in?"

Now here's the twist. When she's not torturing him for being a bastard, she actually likes him. They click. Despite herself, she finds herself falling for him. But he gets fed up with her crazy shit and dumps her. That's when she finds out -- old boy has a twin! And he's the one did her friend wrong. She actually picked the shy, sensitive one to abuse, and now our bitch has to mount one of those Alpha-hero-style groveling campaigns to get him back.

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