This was it, I thought.
The first big test.
We'd been together a few months now, and her slutty submissive side was coming into full bloom, but her past programming was fighting back with a vengeance.
So, when everything went sideways this weekend, she slept with one of my suppliers.
She didn't come right out and say so, of course. First, she wallowed in guilt over "cheating on me" and then began fighting with me to work up a good head of steam for the, from her P.O.V., inevitable breakup. I cut her off at the pass by guessing the big guilty secret halfway into the drive home.
It got a little heated. We pulled off the rural highway at some county park. It was a picturesque setting to be having a relationship crisis. Heh.
It took a while to get it through her head.
I'm poly. I don't CARE if she wants to fuck other people. I do, however, want to be informed.
Even with that clearly on the table, she still wanted to fight.
I was losing my patience when it dawned on me.
The only way she could forgive HERSELF was if she felt she'd paid the price.
So, riding the anger of the fight, I decided the time had come to start what, in my more demented moments, I called "the next phase".
By this point I had a pretty good handle on the way she was wired, even if she hadn't really grokked it yet. For this idea to fly, to actually "absolve" her of her "crime", she needed to feel like what I was demanding was really punishment. OK, I resolved. I can do this.
"You need to be punished." I growled, interrupting her rant.
She looked at me through tear stained eyes, "What?"
"I see clearly now. The only way you'll let this go is if I make you pay for what you did. Am I right?"
A moment of hesitation, followed by an almost inaudible "yes".
"Yes, what?"
"Yes... Master?" she tried.
"Ok, so this is how this is going to be. I'll punish you if that's what you need. Don't expect me to be nice about it either. You fucked up, lassie, and I know you'll keep on pushing unless someone's got a tight hand on your reins."
"OK" she mumbled, "What should I do?"
"Uh..." I stalled, thinking, "If you do what I tell you for three separate days, no questions, no fighting, we will call this cleared. I'll space the days out to let you recover," I leered at her,"and so you can anticipate what new horror's I might be dreaming up."
"Deal."
"Fine then, we'll call this day one, to cement the deal."
"What do you want me to do?" She inquired meekly, snuffling slightly.
"Blow your nose, then get out of the car." She followed my orders, and stood somewhat wretchedly by the side of the road, where less than an hour before she'd been threatening to storm off.
I rummaged in the back seat, going through our bags pulling out a few choice items.
"Step away from the car so you can be seen." I commanded. She did as I asked.
"Here!" I threw her a small black bundle. "Change into that. Right there."
She unrolled the ball and discovered it consisted of a garter belt, black fishnet thigh-highs, and her black fishnet tank top. She looked at me in a measure of shock... her exhibitionist tendencies, while strong, only really came to the surface when she was drunk. Shuddering, she unzipped her boots, stepped out of them, and reluctantly started peeling off her jeans.
"Put the boots back on when you're done, but you don't get to keep anything else you're wearing."
"What? What about my underwear?"
"It's all coming off. You don't get to wear anything associated with this weekend any more."
She changed quickly, like a diver at poolside, and then stood, trying to cover her more naked bits from casual observers.
"Nope, modesty isn't allowed while you're on my time. Here!" I tossed her a bottle of silicone lube. "Make sure you're well oiled, front and back. Make a show of it."
She caught the slim black bottle and squirted a good sized dollop onto her fingertips and began working into the folds of her cunt, blushing furiously.
She'd started in on her ass, hips cocked forwards, when a pickup truck full of farmers came by, slowing to get a good look, hooting and hollering at the sight of a statuesque amazonian redhead wearing nothing but skimpy fishnets and boots with her cheeks spread and two fingers in her ass.
Her face was crimson, so I opened the door and let her get back in.
We got back on the freeway, smoking in silence.
"So, was that my first punishment?" she asked.
"No, that was the warm up." I replied, enjoying the flinch.
We were pulling up beside a big rig now, so I reached behind the seat, fingers groping.