Chet had responded on a whim. It was in the "platonic" section of Craig's List, apparently innocent enough but with the slightest suggestion of something more:
"LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION...Can anyone help a young woman who needs studio photos to apply for acting positions? Can't afford proof shoot now but would be most grateful"
He'd answered, accurately, that he was a photo hobbyist with professional equipment and a home studio and was, himself, seeking to expand his portfolio for use to solicit more freelance assignments.
Now, not a week later, in walked Kim. She was quite attractive in the kind of comfortably familiar girl-next-door, understated-woman-behind-the-eyeglasses-at-the-library way that seems increasingly popular these days. No glasses, but a modest skirt and sweater and refreshingly little apparent makeup.
At first, after the pleasantries and a glass of wine, he posed her this way and that, only the flash of her bare and shapely legs providing a hint of more to come.
"Exactly what kind of acting roles are we shooting for?" he asked after a while.
"Well, Chet, I'm actually glad you asked that," she said in a tone of voice that conveyed a bit of nervousness or at least ambivalence. "The picture I'm interested in right now involves a kidnapping scene. Three men snatch a secretary right off the street as she reaches the parking garage after work and try to get her to give them the combination to her boss's safe. They take her to some hideaway and tie her up and try to scare her out of her wits. It's kind of a suspense mystery with a sadistic twist."
"Well, then, this might come in handy," he said, reaching for a length of clothesline and some tie-downs he kept at hand to secure his equipment for road shoots. "Why don't we give them a look at how you'd be in the movie?"
"Wow," she said. "I don't know. I would want them to get the wrong idea about me -- although now that you mention it, it might help get me in the door."
Chet tried to appear and act as clinical as possible as Kim pulled off the sweater and stepped out of her skirt. She was wearing fairly modest underwear -- perfect for the part of the secretary in distress. "Come over here and climb on the table," he suggested matter-of-factly. He looped the rope around her wrists and ankles and knotted it at the table legs. In an instant, there she was, spread-eagled, like the victim on the cover of a trashy pulp fiction novel. "I have no blindfold, but we do want to see some terror in your eyes so that's all right, too," he said, as she nodded.
It was time to see whether he could go a little farther. "I'm looking for a little wantonness, too, Kim," he said casually. "Have you ever been tied down like this before"?
"Well I had a boyfriend who did it as a joke once," she said, forcing a smile, "but I wasn't really tied the way you have me. This is much more realistic."
"Realism is what we're after," he said. "And I'm guessing the way most low-budget movies are shot these days that we'll have to show them what you're made of, Kim. Do you think we can get these nipples to stand out a little?"
`Once her sweater was off, he had been momentarily distracted by her breasts. Larger than he'd expected and very well formed. Now, almost innocently he reached behind her and undid the bra. It happened so quickly she had no time to react and he continued his faΓ§ade of detached professionalism, adding before she could speak, "I find that some women get more excited by the hint of touch than touch itself," teasing her with his fingers surrounding but not touching one of her nipples. "Please try to affect an air of arousal. It will really help the shot. Can you?" She could only nod. God, he was good at this, he thought, denying himself the self-satisfied smile that might blow his cover.
"Maybe this will help thing along, Kim, eh?" he said, dropping the other hand to the mound beneath her panties. "Here, too, penetration is not the issue so much as the slightest pressure, stimulating you and giving you a mere hint of more to come."
With her legs spread wide he could see that her pubis was unshaved. He liked them that way -- au natural -- and son of a gun if she was not responding. "Good girl!" he said, still casual but now encouraging and seemingly affirming the appropriateness of the entirely outrageous scene, "Now you're getting it! Well, maybe just a little tweak to help things along," he said, " rolling first one and then the other of her titties between the thumb and index finger of his right hand as his left continued its work down below,
If she could see anything but the ceiling from flat on her back on his table, at that point Kim might have noticed that Chet's camera was nowhere in sight.
* * *
Kim had been spread-eagled, lashed to the table nearly an hour, arms and legs secured at the wrists and ankles, naked except for the little-girl panties that seemed almost a non sequitar given the wanton picture she presented as he worked over her body, using his hands and occasionally his lips now, finding sensitive places to touch and rub, caress and stroke, often barely allowing her to feel the tips of his fingers behind her knees, inside her thighs, at the band of the panties under her navel, under her neck, fingers exploring her mouth, and, of course, all over her breasts. Every time he would give her just enough to elicit the desired reaction -- quickened breath, stirring against the rope, moans and then as he pulled back the word "please," first almost an imperceptible part of a moan, then more pronounced, and finally nearly desperate.
"Your doing fine, Kim!" he assured her, trying to hide the irony as he added, "I had no idea how accomplished an actress you really are! I want to get a few shots now and then we'll try to work you up a little more to give the producers a sense of progression -- innocent young woman to anxious victim reacting despite yourself to your captor's advances to desperate submissive who would do anything to feel his stimulation and serve his needs."
The photos, he thought to himself, would come in handy should she feel regrets later and not want to return for further sessions or, worse, complain to someone about her experience. He doubted either would happen. Based on what he sensed, her ad placement in the platonic section of Craig's List had been designed to elicit only respectable responses and eliminate the perverts, but it was clear that she wanted more.
He was careful to capture her face in each shot and now, to punctuate the series, he mounted the table, unsheathed his penis, and teased each of her nipples with its head. "Want a taste?" he asked, and almost reflexively her mouth opened. There was such temptation for him to go full bore -- after all he had been denying himself as well as her this last hour -- but playing this scene for all it was worth required self-discipline. And, after all, unlike Kim, Chet was delaying sexual satisfaction (and surely heightening it) by choice. So, again, he allowed her just enough of him to want much more and then receded, tempting, teasing, tantalizing, even torturing might not be too strong a word given the look in her eyes.
"Are your arms and legs cramping at all?" he asked, and could see a look of revelation momentarily replace desire. In her frenzied state she had withstood considerable discomfort, even pain, to keep her eyes on the elusive prize -- satisfaction leading to eruption after eruption when -- if -- he finally allowed her to reach fulfillment. "It might help to change positions," Chet said matter-of-factly, starting to untie the cords from the table legs but keeping them secured around her wrists and ankles. Even free of restraint she was motionless, allowing him to reposition her, tracing her breasts and whispering in her ear to retain her motivation. There was no denying it. She seemed nearly in a trance.
He hardly ever used his attic for storage, but now the trap door that led there presented a new anchor for the ropes on her wrists. Chet opened a step stool he normally used to reach the top shelves of his cabinets and lifted her, half standing, half leaning against him, so he could loop the other ends of the rope around the folding steps and then allow the door to spring back into the ceiling. Perfect, he thought. When he pulled the stool out from under her, her toes barely reached the floor. She looked like one of those women imprisoned by a band of pirates in the hold of a ship, arms overhead, helpless, exposed, almost panic-stricken,
`I guess these don't matter much any more," he said, slowly pulled down the panties. Now he was all over her body again, but this time he positioned himself behind her so she could not see him, and his voice became as much a stimulant as his hands and lips and penis. "You're so wet, Kim," he whispered. "and your nipples and clitoris are so excitable to the touch. Should I stop for a bit so you can regain your composure?"