Paloma (from 'Light and Dark') - Sex Stories

Paloma (from 'Light and Dark')

... of a heavy grey cloud. Kardos left Budapest, disappearing to nobody-knew-where for some three years. He then suddenly resurfaced in Salzburg, claiming to have finally obtained his doctorate, although this had apparently been obtained from an obscure ‘university’ in eastern Romania, and in possession of dubious paperwork which he claimed proved this contention. For the next few years Dr Kardos moved with rather suspicious regularity from one mid-European city to another, before finally settling for some time in Vienna, where his practice became quite successful. He even, gradually, earned grudging respect from some of his peers for his work in the field of analysing and treating a diverse range of fears and phobias. As his success grew, however, so did the interest in his clinical techniques, over which he had somehow always managed to throw, and maintain, a dense, dark shroud of secrecy. Some of his more jealous peers attempted to suggest, without evidence, that his techniques were unethical and hidden suspiciously from peer scrutiny. In spite of these crude attempts to smear his reputation, and perhaps even partly owing to them, Dr Kardos managed to maintain a thriving practice. Several months before arriving in Puente de Almas, Dr Kardos was approached by a wealthy Austrian of nobility, Baron Karl-Friedrich von Hummelberg. The baron had made the decision to spend at least a year in Brazil with his wife, where he planned to investigate the possibility of investing in ...

... several flourishing coffee plantations, and asked Dr Kardos if he could treat his beloved, if slightly coquettish, wife, the baroness, for her lifelong pathological phobia of snakes. Apparently several reputed psychologists had tried, and failed, and the baron was by that time more than willing to ignore the rumours circulating in Vienna about Dr Kardos in an effort to have his wife successfully treated for her extreme ophidiophobia. Dr Kardos accepted the case, for a significant fee, and began treating the baroness. The treatment, however, produced both positive and negative results. After the first two or three sessions with Dr Kardos, it was apparent that the baroness’s deep and lifelong phobia was being significantly, if not miraculously, reduced. However, from the baron’s perspective, it came at a high price, for as the phobia began to diminish, the baroness became ever-more withdrawn, both emotionally and physically, from her husband. She began to refuse to have sex with him, and after three or four weeks she moved out of their bedroom altogether, and into her own. In spite of the spectacular progress, the baroness began to insist on visiting Dr Kardos on an increasingly regular basis, raising the obvious suspicion in the baron’s mind that the two were having an affair. The baron confronted his wife about this. She told him that she had nothing to discuss with him, but this confrontation simply seemed thereafter to make her even more remote and cold towards her husband, and ...