I was juggling a paper sack in my arms, because as usual, I had forgotten to take a conveniently handled, reusable bag with me. My keys had worked their way to the very bottom of my purse. I was trying to dig for them with one hand, while not losing the sack and especially the carton of eggs balanced on top of the other groceries. When I felt the sack sliding from my arms, I clutched desperately at it. It took a moment to realize it was sliding upward, in defiance of gravity.
"I hope there's healthy food in here," he said. I stumbled back a step against my apartment door, completely thrown off balance. "You were looking for your keys," he reminded me.
"What are you doing here?" I stammered.
"Apparently, reminding you that you need keys to open the door." He peered critically into the bag.
"You disappear for a month..."
"Twenty-four days," he corrected.
"For twenty-four days," I continued snidely. "You made a mess of my mirror AND my lipstick, with your cute little commands..."
"Which you obeyed, right?" He waved at my purse. "Keys."
"Fuck you," I said, feeling uncommonly brave. "If I want to masturbate, I will masturbate."
"Now is that any way to talk to someone who brought you toys?"
"What? Toys?" I asked, confused by the sudden redirection. The elevator doors opened and a neighbor walked out into the hall, looking our way with undisguised curiosity.
He didn't even look around. "Would you like me to describe them, or should I just show them to you?"
I was rapidly searching for my keys with both hands, turning bright red, knowing it would not bother him a bit to do either in front of the neighbor. And I was pretty sure the toys he was talking about had nothing to do with Rubik's cube. "Okay, okay, I'm opening the door."
"Good girl," he murmured.
When I had the door open, I snatched the sack from him, almost sending the eggs flying. Both the corner of his mouth and his eyebrow cocked up with humor. "I do believe I make you nervous," he chortled as he followed me into the apartment. He closed the door and I heard the click of the dead bolt as I headed for the kitchen.
I started putting groceries away, pointedly not looking at him. I had my speech all rehearsed and ready to go. "Look, I've been thinking about it a lot. I have to admit I like having sex with you. A lot. Okay, a whole lot. And I'm willing to play this dominant submissive game of yours." Now I was not even looking in his general direction. "You know, when we're having sex. Like in a scene, right? Isn't that what it's called?" I put the last of the perishables away as I waited for him to answer. He didn't make a sound and I finally had to turn and look at him.
I hadn't turned on the kitchen light, so the only light in the room was coming from behind him. Two table lamps that turned on with the main switch by the door, and what little bit of light was left in the darkening sky. His face was in shadow, I couldn't make out his expression, but his silence swept a wave of anxiety through me. I tried to proceed with the speech as I'd rehearsed it. "I mean, this business of not being allowed to talk..."
"You think this is a game?" he asked very quietly. "You think we're acting out a scene?" He took a step closer to me. "That we remove our makeup and go home at the end of the show?" Another step. "I leave you instructions and you just blithely ignore them?"
"You were gone for twenty-four days," I stammered. "You can't expect me to go without..."
He took two more steps closer. "I can and do. I'm very disappointed."
I discretely backed up a step. "You give me rules that I can't possibly obey. It's not fair."
"Fair?" Suddenly he was right there, toe to toe with me and his hand was around my throat. "Did I promise you fair?" He began unbuttoning my shirt with his other hand.
I couldn't stop breathing hard, wondering if his hand was going to tighten at any moment. "You said, if I was afraid... That my fear..."
"Are you? Afraid? Or are you thinking about what toys I brought for you? Are you becoming wet just imagining what might be hidden in my pockets?"
He spun me around and shoved me against the refrigerator, yanking my blouse down from my shoulders. Almost instantly, he had bound my wrists with my blouse, then he reached around and undid the front clasp of my bra, yanking it down and wrapping it around my wrists to reinforce the tied blouse. I was spun around again, and shoved back against the fridge. His hand returned to my throat.
"How many times did you come without my permission? And cherie, I will know if you lie to me."
His hand was high on my throat and I couldn't look down so I tried to turn to the side, avoiding his eyes which I couldn't even see clearly. He was having none of that, though. His thumb and index finger fastened on either side of my jaw. This caused the bottom edge of his palm to thrust hard against my windpipe. "Four," I gasped.
"Then I shall have to come up with four punishments, shan't I?" It sounded like a question to me, but I decided not to take any chances. I tried to shake my head, but he tightened his grip. "Consider that rhetorical. But before we get to the punishment, I think I will introduce you to my toys." His hand drifted back down my throat. "Be a good girl, and stay here," he said, with just a slight shove against the fridge at my back. What can I say? I stayed.
He moved over to my catch-all dining room table and just like in the movies, he swept it clear. I watched in dismay as my neatly folded laundry formed a messy pile on the floor and my laptop landed on top of the pile, along with assorted mail that I hadn't bothered to open yet. Then he was back, his hands on my upper arms, pushing me toward the table from behind. He bent me over it and shoved my feet apart until my upper body lay flat on the surface. I felt my skirt being unbuttoned, the zipper pulled down, then it drifted down about my ankles. A moment later, one leg opening of my panties was ripped apart, and the other side slid down my leg to join my skirt. His hands were on my ass cheeks, kneading and patting. Then swatting. I gasped, hoping that that would be the worst of it. I saw him reach down to the pile of laundry and extract some item. It quickly was repurposed into a blindfold.
For a long time after that, there was nothing; no touch, no sound, I couldn't even make out the sound of him breathing and I wondered if he had gone into the bedroom. I stayed as still as I could, but my arms were beginning to ache, pulled behind my back as they were, and I was losing circulation in my hands, if the tingling was any indication. Out of nowhere, there was another swat, and I yelped this time, it was so unexpected. Then his fingers were all over my exposed ass and pussy, exploring, pulling this way and that, like he was performing an exam, and I wondered, not for the first time, exactly what kind of doctor he was. He dipped one finger into my pussy. It was so wet, I could actually hear the squishy sounds as he pumped the finger in and out. Then another finger joined the first and, I admit, I was rather desperately hoping they would make their way to my g-spot. They seemed content though just to move in and out, and not nearly fast enough for my tastes. A third finger joined the first two and it took all my will power not to writhe or push back against the delicious sensation.
Suddenly, all three were gone, and I wanted to moan at the loss. I thought I heard him hum contentedly, but it might have been my imagination. Something cold pressed at my opening, and I wondered if he had managed to fetch ice without my hearing it. Whatever it was, it pressed in and I stretched to accommodate it, having little choice in the matter. Almost immediately, I felt myself close up behind whatever he had put in me. A moment later, there was another one. And again I felt the wide stretching followed by the constriction as it passed inside me. I must admit that, other than a very basic vibrator, I was pretty naΓ―ve about sexual toys. Still, whatever this was seemed to leave me with a pleasant fullness. If this was one of my punishments, I figured I could endure it without too much effort.