Reality returned slowly at first in the form of throbbing burning nipples. Her arms on each side of her head thrust it forward. Chloe's hands felt like they were tied close together. She could feel the pull on her wrists, arm muscles, and shoulders. Only two toes on each foot were touching a cold damp floor. Her arms held most of her weight.
She opened her eyes a moment later and her mouth opened in a silent moan as she was staring at a pair of heavy metal clamps, one squeezing each of her nipples. It didn't seem to hurt as much as it burned and produced a throbbing that matched her heartbeat. Her small breasts were pulled into long oval shapes by the weight on her arms.
That she was naked was obvious from the faint breeze that caressed her body all over. Add the fact that she could feel the elastic in her panties around her knees. She moaned softly as she heard footsteps behind her. Her mind shied away from the questions of how, where, and why she was where she was.
"Ah! I see you are awake," a male voice from behind her said. It was a vaguely familiar voice but her mind couldn't place it right off.
A fingertip tracing the cleft of her ass made her jerk in surprise. That little jerk caused several problems, the least of which was her balance on her tiptoes. The movement made the clamps on her nipples swing and sway. The change in angle where they were attached was enough to shoot jolts of pain and pleasure straight down to pool in her sex. Those jolts caused her hips to flex, which caused her whole body to sway and the clamps moved even more.
"Cause and reaction," the voice behind her whispered with amusement, "can turn into cause and effect."
Chloe groaned and tried to keep her hips still. It worked somewhat. Closing her eyes and biting her lower lip moved her focus somewhere besides the pit of her stomach.
From in front of her, the man said, "I debated putting those nipple clamps on you. I wasn't sure how sensitive your nipples were or what your tolerance to pain was but I think I made the right decision. You seem to be enjoying them."
Chloe's eyes snapped open as she gasped loudly. The voice had suddenly matched up with a face and now she was staring wide-eyed into that face. Congressman Mark Markham. He sat on more committees than she could name off the top of her head and was one of the most powerful men in Washington.
"Surprise," the Congressman said with a grin.
"I... I... I..." Chloe stammered.
"Yes, you. You've been a pain in my ass since you went to work for that rag of a paper you work for."
"This isn't going to help the situation," Chloe said quickly.
"Ah yes, the situation. You were seen earlier in the evening having a heated discussion with a certain local gangster in a nightclub he owns. I don't think anyone there even knew I was around. That is besides the gangster and he's deep in my pocket."
Chloe swallowed hard as what he said sunk in. The gangster had been hitting on her younger sister and she had tried to put him in his place. Right after that, they had left the club and gone home. That was all she remembered.
"Where is Lois?" she asked quickly, worry for her sister evident in her voice.
The Congressman shrugged. "At your apartment the last I saw of her. Although she didn't see me."
"How... uh... did I get here?"
"That is an interesting story. It seems you left a few minutes after you arrived at your apartment by way of the underground parking area. A few blocks later, your car was rear ended at a stoplight. Nothing drastic you understand, just enough for you to get out to exchange information with the other driver."
The Congressman paused to trace a fingertip up and down between Chloe's breasts. Seeing it coming, she didn't jerk. He grinned at her and went on, "He sprayed a little something in your face, and you were out like a light. We loaded you into my car and here you are."
"Did you... do this to me?"
"With a little help from my driver. Of course, he has a few things he wants to do to you once I'm through with you."
Chloe groaned as the depths of her situation came home to her. Then she groaned even deeper as the Congressman flicked a fingertip against one nipple clamp and then the other. Her hips were moving back and forth again. She closed her eyes and bit her lip but it didn't help as he kept flicking one clamp and then the other.
"I think I can make you come doing this," the Congressman said as he flicked the clamps a little harder.
She tried to stifle a louder groan by biting her lip harder.
"You're going to hurt yourself if you keep doing that. Relax and let it go," he urged her.
Chloe opened her eyes, looked directly into the Congressman's eyes, and took a deep breath. She let it out slowly as she forced her hips to stop moving. She clamped down on her body as tightly as she could.
He grinned at her and said, "I like a fighter. They add zest to the game."
"And what game are we playing?" Chloe asked in as calm a voice as she could muster as he flicked the nipple clamps again several times.
"I haven't decided yet but I'm leaning toward the pleasure/pain side of the question. Lets just say I want to find out how strong you are in several areas."
"You know you're going to jail for kidnapping at the very least when I get out of here," Chloe said as she held eye contact with him.
He grinned and then chuckled. "Who said you were ever getting out of here?"
Chloe swallowed hard. He had a point. She wasn't in any position to even think about escaping. She shivered hard and then took a deep breath. There was always room for hope as long as she was alive.
The Congressman turned to a low table and picked up a camera. He took pictures of her from the front, the back, and both sides. Then he took close ups of her hands, face, breasts, sex, feet, and ass. "These will go very well in my private collection. They will be the before pictures of course. It will be interesting to compare them to the after."
As he turned to put the camera down, Chloe considered her chances of swinging forward and wrapping her legs around his neck. If she did, then what? Could she make him release her? What if she accidentally broke his neck? That wouldn't be good for several reasons, the least of which was escape. Who besides the chauffer knew she was here? No one most likely.
The Congressman turned to face her and leaned back against the table. "What I don't understand is why you're always after me? I consider myself one of the good guys as far as Washington goes."
Chloe started to shake her head but her arms prevented it. "Good and Washington should never be used in the same sentence, Congressman."
"Call me Mark. There is no need to be so formal down here."
"Where is here, Congressman?"
Mark smiled and replied, "Ah yes, what, when, where, and why, the reporters lament. This is the Dungeon, of course. It's not mine but I have full and private use of it anytime I need it. You presented an opportunity that couldn't be passed up."
"What do you hope to gain by this? So far all you've done is scare me on the one hand and piss me off on the other."
The Congressman reached out and flicked the nipple clamp on her right breast. Then he stepped forward and took a clamp in each hand. He lifted them up level with her nipples. Slowly he pulled on one and then the other before releasing the pressure on both suddenly. Chloe took a hissing breath as he pulled, her nipples burned even more intensely, and then she gasped as he released the pressure.
With a soft chuckle, he released the heavy clamps. They swung down and bumped against the lower curve of her breasts, only to rebound. The pull on her nipples made her hips jerk and twitch until the clamps stopped moving back and forth. Now they swung from side to side. There was a subtle difference in how each movement made her nipples feel. One was a pull and the other almost a twist.
"Yeah, you could come from those clamps and probably will soon," Mark said as he stepped back and leaned against the table again.
Chloe realized suddenly that she was whimpering in time with the movement of her hips. It took all of her willpower to clamp down on her body and stop her hips from moving, but the whimpering went on for a moment or two longer.
"I try not to abuse my power and position. I give as much as I get. Take our gangster friend. He provides me with services and I keep his name off a few lists. There is no harm in that. He's even helped with a few investigations by the FBI and such. He doesn't know it though."
"What else does he do for you?" Chloe asked out of habit.
Mark grinned and shook his head. "Always the reporter."
Chloe was going to shrug but with her arms pressed to the side of her head and pulled tight, it didn't work so well. All it did was make her wiggle a bit on her toes. "Too bad I don't have my tape recorder."
"You won't need it since this is all off the record. Just between you and me," he said as he pushed off the table and walked around behind Chloe.