The soft clinking of the delicate silver chains between my wrists seemed as distant and dreamlike as the impossible goddess before me. I lifted a cigarette to Her awaiting ruby red lips, slightly parted as if anticipating a kiss. As though in a trance, or perhaps underwater, I moved slowly and consciously, with my eyes affixed on the movement of Her lush mouth closing over the end of the cigarette. The delicious rosy smudge that She surely left behind fed the flame of longing that rose from my abdomen and bloomed in my throat. I was jealous of the cigarette that was blessed to wear Her marks.
With purposeful and practiced movements, I lifted the lighter from the table, flicked open the cap and lit the trembling flame to Her unlit cigarette. I hoped that in the careful way I cradled the lighter She saw my devotion, which was only Hers. I could not multitask, even if I had wished it so, because the bondage of my wrists prohibited my hands from moving farther than about twelve centimeters apart. My ankles were likewise bound. I lit the cigarette and returned the lighter to the table and my hands to my lap.
My eyes remained fixed on Her as She inhaled slowly, deeply, sumptuously, and held it there. She reached forward, hooked a finger in the metallic ring of my collar, and pulled me forward until Her face was just before mine. I sucked in a half breath as Her startling eyes pulled me in, holding me as powerfully as Her hand. Then She released the hazy, swirling smoke, which made me want to cough and turn away, both urges that I in equal parts resisted and was prohibited from indulging by Her command over me. My eyes stung and prickled with tears that tangled in my lashes and dripped to my flushed cheeks, but I refused to break contact with Her fierce gaze. I felt as if I were sleepy, naΓ―ve Alice and She the caterpillar, or perhaps if such a character existed, a magnificent spider in whose smoky web I could never, would never want to, escape. Intoxicated. I loved it.
When the last whisp of bitter smoke trailed from between Her rosy lips, She smiled, now more like the devious Cheshire Cat than the Caterpillar. More of my sparkling tears spilled over. I saw the devilish pleasure plainly across Her angelic features - She always said I was prettiest when I cried for Her, though in my servitude I was always pleasing to the eye. Her finger slipped from the ring of my collar and Her hand roughly gripped my face, squishing my lips together and apart, pressing into the bones of my cheeks, Her soft palm under my chin. I felt the sharp edges of bright red fingernails against my skin.
"What do you say?" She purred in a low, sultry voice that intensified the aching between my legs. Her accent made everything sound like a song to me.
"Merci beaucoup, Madame," I nearly whispered back, careful to pronounce it carefully, as She had instructed me. I felt every bit a timid white lily swooning under the boldness of a towering, thorned, blood-red rose.
She hummed a chuffed note and leaned yet closer, unbearably close, and scooped up my salty tears with Her darting tongue. I pathetically leaned in to Her and sighed dreamily. She laughed and again She reminded me of music.
...Les effluves de rhum dans ta voix, me font tourner la tΓͺte / The smell of rum in your voice makes my head spin
Tu me fais danser du bout des doigts, comme tes cigarettes / You make me dance with your fingertips, like your cigarettes...
I was Hers, entirely, obscenely, painfully. Forever and since the beginning. She would remind me again today.
She said I always had a far-away look about me, like I was caught in the sweetest dream, to which I always responded that the sweetest dream was She. My Madame. She cherished my adoration and rewarded my worship. Most of all, sacred was my suffering for Her and by Her hand. It was pleasurable in its own right, distinct from what we consider pleasure, but more profound than pain.
She released my face and in a dazzlingly swift movement grasped a fistful of my hair behind my head and yanked, provoking a yelp, so that my chin was upturned and neck exposed, and I had to look down past my cheekbones to hold Her gaze. With Her free hand She lifted Her cigarette again to Her lips, inhaled, and shook Her dark hair away from Her face. Her eyes studied me, especially the movement of my neck as I near panted with desire. She exhaled that spellbinding smoke. My mind felt floaty and hazy. My fingers fidgeted in my lap in anticipation. She rested Her cigarette again in the glass ashtray at Her side and lightly rasped the surface of my vulnerable and ticklish neck with Her sharp nails. I felt the small hairs on my nape prickle as a shiver passed through me. She tugged my hair again, forcing my head further to one side, and I whimpered, struggling to keep my eyes on Her. She laughed, cruelly, beautifully. In everything She was unapologetic and entirely in command of Herself, Her sexuality, and Her surroundings. It was this unwavering ownership and enjoyment of Herself and what was Hers that drew me to her so strongly sealed my fate as Hers as well. She was my Divine Feminine and She did not tolerate anything less than what She deserved. I loved that about her.
"Combien c'est pitoyable,"
how pitiful