Authors Note: These chapters will make almost no sense if not read in order. If you haven't, I strongly suggest you go back to the introduction and chapter 1.
Warning, the story is getting even more sadistic. Enjoy.
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Fred overslept. "OH SHIT!" He awakened with a start. Looking at the clock he realized it was 9:30am, not awful but he should have thought of setting his phone alarm. He never intended to leave Clair for, what, eight hours. Two glasses of wine and all the excitement of last night and he slept like a baby, he realized with some guilt. "Well," he thought, "I need to stop thinking like Clair's boyfriend and start thinking like her Dom."
Fred spent several minutes in the bathroom then pulled on his blue jeans and his hiking boots. He was headed to his luggage to find a clean shirt when he passed the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door. The image of shirtless Fred, with dark blue jeans, a leather belt and heavy boots was... dominant looking!
"I think I'll skip the shirt, at least for a while today!" he thought. As he passed Gran and Leon's room, he saw the tote he had left on top the bed last night. He remembered the rather nasty looking whip coiled up on the box that Leon had referred to in his text as a 'single tail'. Until seeing himself in the mirror it probably wouldn't have occurred to him to even pick it up. Now, he was thinking how it would look with the handle shoved in his belt. He would later learn Leon made it by hand from leftover leather upholstery material because neither he nor Gran had any idea where to buy one.
Fred shoved the handle of the single tail in his belt and went back and looked in the mirror. "Damn!" he thought. Fred wasn't ripped by a long shot, but he did work out in the college Gym a couple of times a week. He hoped his appearance didn't cause Clair to piss her pants. "Oh wait, Clair isn't wearing pants, or anything for that matter." He laughed to himself, but he also remembered he was in a hurry to see how Clair had faired overnight.
Fred did stop in the kitchen long enough to start a pot of coffee and while he was preparing the coffee, he had a chance to think. How was he going to start the day? He had so many ideas, but he at least needed a plan for how to start. Well, he was going to have to clean Clair up, he wouldn't even be able to see her lovely body through all that mud! Was he going to feed her this morning? Probably, this wasn't her mother's weight loss program. Fred wasn't sure exactly what THIS was but he planned to work Clair today and so he would feed her. Fred looked around the kitchen, "Instant Oatmeal," perfect! Fred mixed up two packets, put in extra sugar and put the bowl in the microwave.
Once the oatmeal and coffee were started, Fred he grabbed the keys and headed out to the shed. On the way, as he passed the front of the barn, he had an idea. There was a rope with block and tackle system hanging from a beam sticking out from the ridge of the barn. Fred assumed that Leon used this to lift hay bales to the loft of the barn. "Perfect," thought Fred, "and it's right next to the hose," He untied the rope and lowered the block and tackle to about six feet from the ground.
Even though the sun was up over the nearby hills, the inside of the shed was pitch black. Leon's contribution to his new wife's chosen imprisonment was to put a threshold and weather seal around the door until no light came in at all. He then stood in the shed during the noon hour, let his eyes adjust to the darkness, and used spray foam sealant to stop every little light leak, no matter how small. The result is that someone in the shed couldn't see their hand in front of their face on a bright sunny day. It may have been late in the morning to Fred, but Clair, who had drifted in and out all night, was still in a light sleep.
Fred opened the padlock quietly then threw open the door suddenly and shouted, "Good Morning Slut!"
The image Clair saw as she suddenly became conscious was the outline of a shirtless man, feet apart, hands on his hips, and a whip on his belt. Her first reaction was to try to scoot away from this towering figure in startled fear, but she couldn't push herself through the cement wall she was sitting against. As her brain took control, her second reaction was to cream her pants. Oh wait, she wasn't wearing pants, or anything except dried mud for that matter.
Before Clair could remember where she was, or how much discomfort she was in, before she could get control of her mouth, she just blurted out, "Fred? Is that you?" in a tone that said, "and where is your shirt?"
Now at this point Fred could have done or said a lot of things. He was about to say, "Silence slut!" but instead, what came out was "too much?" in a quizzical voice. The question wasn't just about his dress code.
"Look, Clair," Fred continued, "Last night I surprised myself, I'm not sure where that guy came from. I don't mind fulfilling your fantasies, but I'm not sure I want to be that much of a 'Macho Dom'."
"Can you leave your shirt off," Clair actually smiled, then winced, "and take these handcuffs off, my shoulders are in agony... sir."
Fred, again, thought he understood the signs Clair was sending. "Stand-up"
Clair flopped around as her legs limbered up, then managed to get her feet under her and stand.
"Turn around," Fred said as he found the handcuff key on the ring.
He unlocked one of Clair's cuffs but kept a firm grip on her wrist, a grip that said 'behave."
"Turn back around." And when Clair did, he locked her wrists together in front of her. "OK, stretch and work the kinks out."
And stretch Clair did. She reached up, she circled her arms around, she bent at the waist and touched her toes. It felt painful as muscles moved for the first time in hours. But it was also extremely pleasurable in a way that a good stretch always is. And Clair smiled, she had survived the night in Gran's shed!
Fred didn't know what Clair was thinking, but turns out he said just the right thing, "Good Girl!" Such a simple statement that carried so much meaning. Clair's smile widened.