Chapter Twelve
"You came today, didn't you?" asked Lydia as soon as they were driving home that evening. Zoe felt her face go bright red and for the briefest of moments she was going to lie but then she nodded and said, "Yes, mistress, I did."
"Then I will have to punish you severely later," announced Lydia, sending a little shiver of apprehension flowing through Zoe's senses as her mistress looked across at her briefly before she added, "At least, you did not lie to me though. I knew you had as soon as I saw you walk back into the shop this afternoon. Where did you come?"
"In the café's toilets, mistress."
"How sordid yet appropriate. Just like your first time under my control. Do you regret that?"
"Oh no, mistress! Not at all nor do I regret moving in with you," said Zoe fervently, glancing across at Lydia and wondering if the woman was bored with her already.
"You might after you receive two dozen strokes of the cane for coming again without permission!"
Zoe gulped and remained silent for the rest of the journey, fear almost paralysing her vocal cords. Would she be able to cope with that many strokes of the cane? It was as if her mistress was reading her mind because Lydia stated, "Yes, it will hurt abominably and you won't be able to sit comfortably for a few days but there won't be any lasting damage to your beautiful bottom cheeks, my dear little slave. Remember that as your mistress, I am here to push you to your limits and so far, I don't think I have even come close! Your reaction to pain is to eventually discover pleasure in it, isn't it?"
"Yes, mistress," responded Zoe after a moment's thought. The woman was quite right. For some odd, perverse reason, her mind responded intensely to being beaten. The pain seemed to liberate something in her soul and make her response far more intense than ever before. Would she find something she hated so much that it turned her off rather than on?
Three hours later and Zoe teetered on the brink of surrender as the cane plied painfully on her exposed arse cheeks. She had reported as ordered to her mistress at seven and then Zoe had had to endure a long photographic shoot as Lydia had snapped away at the golden clamps biting into her pussy lips. Close up after close up had been taken before Lydia removed the little clamps and took more photographs, including some of her slave's contorted face as she tried to cope with the agonising pain as blood flowed back into the crushed flesh. Then, Zoe had accompanied Lydia down to the playroom where Jack was waiting, kneeling naked with his head bent. Lydia had cuffed Zoe's hands together in front of her then looped a rope through and connected it to a ringbolt set into the floor. After that, Lydia put ankle cuffs on her slave girl and roped those too, pulling the ropes tighter until Zoe's legs were spread out a little before she had adjusted the wrist rope, pulling it until Zoe had no option but to bend over.
"Such a vulnerable position, my little slave, and one in which you can learn not to displease your mistress by coming without asking," stated Lydia, running her hand down the girl's exposed spine and feeling her shudder. Zoe went bright red, knowing that Jack would be listening and then her embarrassment grew worse as Lydia cheerfully announced that her husband was going to use the cane.
"While you pleasure your mistress with your agile tongue, slave girl. Wiggling it in my tight bottom will stifle your screams a little, won't it? Jack, make sure that you strike accurately and hard as you will get six strokes for every one that I deem not to be good enough."
The harsh, whistling sound of the cane a minute or so later came as Zoe licked her way up her mistress' exposed perineum as the woman reclined comfortably on a padded bench with her legs spread wide. The sudden flash of pain made Zoe squeal out in response and her hot breath tickled Lydia's pussy lips and whorled anal aperture gently. The next stroke drove her body forward slightly under the hard impact and she kissed the crinkled furrow, shame mixing with delight and agony in her mind. By the time a full dozen had kissed her arse cheeks with fire, Zoe was in agony and hissing out every time that the wooden rod struck her soft flesh. She was near her limit, she thought as she fervently wriggled her tongue up inside the rubbery tube of her mistress. Her whole bottom seemed about to explode in agony as the next stroke whipped down but then came the familiar pleasure slithering into her clitoris, moistening her pussy and helping her to cope with the harshness of the caning. The next few strokes sent a sublime mixture of pleasure and pain slicing through her senses and she redoubled the efforts of her tongue, driving it as far as she could up inside Lydia's anus until the final stroke fell.
By the end, Zoe's sweet succulence was dribbling fresh love juices down her inner thighs: something instantly noticed by Lydia when she rose off her bench and came to look at her slave's well-striped bottom.
"It appears that we cannot cure your penchant for pain, my dear slave, however hard we try! Maybe too much pleasure will have you begging for mercy instead? A warning, slave, if you come once then I am going to leave you until you have come at least half a dozen times!"