Elizabeth here: This story was requested by a fan. Enjoy!
Amy was on a roll. She had walked into the Vegas casino with one thousand dollars. One hour later she was at twenty thousand, thanks to the whims of the roulette wheel. Twenty thousand wasn't much money to her, but she was still entranced by the highs of gambling and winning.
There were two other people at the table, plus a dealer, but Amy barely noticed them. She was almost deafened to the excited clamor of the casino.
She slammed a big stack of orange chips on the table. "Two thousand on red," she announced. The other people placed their bets, and the dealer spun the wheel. Amy anxiously tugged at the pencil skirt of her white dress as she watched the ball spin around and around.
It landed on the black 26, and the dealer raked her chips in as one of the two other players cheered. Amy still had eighteen thousand left, and she wasn't done yet. She waited for the next round. There weren't any clocks or windows, but without looking at her phone, she figured it was about ten at night.
While the dealer paid out the winner, Amy looked around the wide hall of the casino, and saw someone else coming to the table. She was a tall woman, a bit over six feet, and wore a black biker jacket and cuffed jeans. Her long black hair looked like it had been through a car wash and a few explosions; even though it was straight, the strands were all over the place, and it was parted in weird ways.
She arrived at the table just as the bets opened up again.
"One hundred on seventeen," the woman said calmly as she put her chips down.
"One thousand on low," Amy said.
But just as the woman was starting to fade into the background alongside the other players, she turned and spoke to Amy.
"Come on, if you have a thousand to blow, throw it on some inside bets," she said jokingly. "It's more exciting that way."
"You know what? I think I will," Amy said. She pointed two finger guns at the woman and smiled. Just before the dealer closed off the bets, Amy slammed another heap of chips on seventeen. "Two thousand on seventeen," she said.
"Wow," the woman said. "So I bet you do lots of crazy shit, don't you? I'm Sasha, by the way."
"I have money to blow on this kind of thing," Amy said.
"Here on vacation? Or..."
"Vacation. I come here once a year for the Vegas experience."
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."
"You bet," Amy said. The ball spun around the roulette wheel.
"You know, I'm actually a professional dominatrix. I have a special room in the hotel upstairs. Know anyone that needs tied up for a few hours?"
"Nope. I came here alone and I'm straight."
"Well, it was worth a shot. I hoped you had a posse of some kind."
The ball stopped on the black fifteen, meaning that Amy broke even.
"You know what? We're both gamblers. How about I make a bet with you instead of the house?" Sasha pulled out ten blue chips and eighteen orange ones.
"I'm listening," she said.
"I brought one thousand with me today. I'm crazy and like trying new things, and you seem like the same. How about we make a little bet between us, where if the next spin lands on a zero, you come up to my room and I'll tie you up and do other dominatrix things to you, and on any other number, I'll give you everything I brought with me. What do you say?"
Amy slammed her hand on the table just after the dealer handed her chips to her. "Fuck it. Deal. Lets go." Her gamblers high got stronger.
Sasha grinned. "You sure?"
Amy grinned. "Absolutely."
The dealer opened up the bets again, and Amy and Sasha both abstained this time. Amy teasingly held up her stack of blue and orange chips, and Amy snapped out of the high long enough to be afraid of what might happen if it really did land on a zero. But her odds of getting a thousand dollars were thirty-five to thirty-six, so the worry was quickly smothered.
The ball spun around the wheel. Amy and Sasha peered over it together and watched it bounce. It rolled around and around, and eventually slowed. Amy saw where it was headed; the ball was slowing down as it went towards the zero. Amy prayed that it would land anywhere else, but the ball rolled closer and closer... and stopped on zero.
Sasha put her chips in her pocket. "Luck is weird, isn't it?"
Amy said nothing, and her gamblers high was killed. What did she just agree to?
"I have this really nice suite on the twentieth floor of the hotel. Come on, lets have a good time."
Amy stayed silent.
"Come on, I would have paid you on any other number. There were cameras, so if I refused to pay you could have called the pit boss over. And I know the guy too, I'm just saying. I don't want to get on his bad side, and neither do you."
Amy slowly walked behind Sasha as she led her to the elevators in the front of the casino. Was this really happening? She thought about running out the front doors, but Sasha seemed important around here, given how she talked about the casino's pit boss. Might she be blacklisted from this casino if she ran? This one was her favorite. And, a promise was a promise...
Sasha called down an elevator, but one was already there. It opened, and she led Amy inside the dim red interior.
The doors closed, along with any chance of escape. The elevator quietly rose.
"So, I know you're wondering, why do I make these bets and put money on the line to do this when people are supposed to be paying me to do these things to them?"
Amy said nothing.
"Well, I'm a bit crazy and weird. I'm asexual, actually. People don't really turn me on, but power and control just make me go crazy inside. And what gives you a greater sense of control than tying someone up and having your way with them for losing a bet? That's way more satisfying than doing it to someone who signed up for it."
"I... guess it is," Amy said.
"Don't worry. You'll like it." She put her hand on Amy's shoulder and smiled.
The elevator dinged again, and they walked out into the beige-walled hallway. Sasha's room was room 2049, at the very end on the right. Amy dreaded what would happen inside and wanted to run, but she had already made her choice; a bet was a bet.
Sasha swiped her hotel card, opened the door, and waved Amy inside. They walked in, and Sasha closed the door behind both of them. This was not an ordinary hotel suite; they were in a small living room with one red door on the opposite side.
"Now we can begin," Sasha said. "Wait here and I'll prepare everything." She slipped through the red door and closed it before Amy could see what was inside; all she could catch was a flash of deep red walls.
Amy tried the front door handle; it wouldn't budge. There was a card reader on the inside too, and Sasha had the card. She couldn't leave even if she wanted to go against her bet. Sounds of zipping and tying came through the red door.
A minute later, Sasha opened the red door again, clad from the neck down in a black latex suit, complete with gloves and boots. Behind her was a red-walled bedroom with a single extravagant bed in the middle. There were no windows, and the walls were lined with dark wood cabinets.
Sasha spoke. "While you're here, I want you to call me mistress, okay? And when I tell you to do something, I want you to say, 'Yes, mistress.'"
Amy trembled. "Yes, mistress."
"Excellent. Now, I want you to come into the bedroom and strip for me. Go on; clothing just gets in the way of it all."
"Yes, mistress."
Amy timidly stepped into the bedroom. She put her purse on the floor and slipped off her dress as dread and embarrassment filled her mind. Sasha was going to see all those little imperfections, all her private bits, everything she wanted to hide from her. She finally pulled the dress off her body, skirt and all, and dropped it on the floor, exposing her pale skin. Her tan bra, panties, and short heels were all that were left.
"Those too," Sasha demanded.
"Yes, mistress." Amy took off her short heels first. The dark brown carpet was warm; perhaps there was a heating pipe under the floor. Her bra was next; she unfastened it and tossed it on the ground.
As she bent down to take off her panties, Sasha pulled a red silk ribbon out of an unseen pocket in her shiny suit.
Her panties slipped onto the floor, and Amy was finally naked. She felt vulnerable in front of Sasha, like she was about to reach out and devour her.
"Now, as long as this ribbon is on you, you're my property. Get on your knees."
"Yes, mistress." Amy crouched down and put her hands and knees on the floor. She looked up at Sasha, who leaned forward and reached down, ribbon in hand. Sasha brought the ribbon to Amy's neck and began wrapping it around. It was tight, yet not tight enough to hurt. She wrapped it around twice and used the remaining length to tie a bowtie-like knot on the front of her neck, like Amy was a birthday present.
"There. Now you're mine. How do you feel?"
Amy chose her words carefully. She didn't want to seem eager, nor did she want to offend her. "Anxious, mistress."