This is one of those things that really happened. Many thanks to my partner/sometimes-Dom for making me sit down the very next day and write the story. Here's to my first foray into erotica.
I'm a very lucky girl indeed.
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I had been meeting The Sadist as schedules would allow for two years. Which is to say, I knew him well enough to know he could be trusted; that he would bring a delightful mix of playful and sexy energy; that he would not put me in a situation where I could be legitimately harmed (though of course, the things we did sometimes carried intrinsic risks); and that night, most of all, that he was not afraid of breaking me, nor was he afraid of the consequences of hurting me.
Because that day, I needed to be hurt.
The need had been sitting mostly dormant for a very long time. Usually it simmered in the recesses of my consciousness, but days like that day, it bubbled up to the surface, strong, clear, and undeniable. It was a craving for impact, abdication of power, punishment, discipline, training, pain, endurance, eroticism, negotiation, and aftercare. It was a soul's cry for catharsis; a wanderlust of being driven past the end of comfort into the wild and unpredictable margins of pain and yielding. It was a need to take the raw experience of pain and paint it with meaning. The Sadist did not need to know that as he was working on my body, my brain was shifting from processing the pain in the moment, to reflecting on high life priorities that I'd been neglecting...priorities like self-care, stoking of erotic fantasies, and enactment of seduction and sensuality; working to overcome repression of pleasure, both physical and mental; learning not to hold back responses for fear of making messes. I needed inspirational pain.
That morning, I asked him bluntly, "Feeling up to being a little sadistic?"
His wicked, quick reply was what I expected. "Yes, I do. ... Can I leave marks?"
At my desk, in my professional and highly-respectable office, I blushed, and answered "Yes. Though you won't be starting with a fresh canvas. My ass is still a mess from a spanking last week."
I always felt a little ashamed when exposing bruises to a lover that had been given by another. It wasn't that I was unfaithful; they all were well aware of each other. Rather, I cared that they might judge me as being greedy, or difficult to satisfy. I worried that they might have a primal need to compete with one another, and that the drive for supremacy would nudge their ego to take precedence over the experience of him and me together in a room, in a place, in a time, where other people and experiences were backstory to the unfolding present moment.
But bless him, the Sadist was not phased. "Are the marks primarily on your ass? And if so, can I mark other places?"
"You can mark other places, yes." Remembering that The Sadist had a wicked erotic vocabulary that far surpassed my own, I asked, "What did you have in mind?"
"I don't know quite yet. I'm thinking rope partials and caning. And, I don't think I've ever marked your breasts."
My breath caught; the thought of having my breasts abused sent a pulse from my nipples to my clit. I was pleased that he remembered what we had and had not yet experienced together. Sometimes, I wondered how he could keep track of the nuances and experiences of play with all of his girls. I secretly pictured him having a catalog of notecards with preferences and play notes, much like my hairstylist did with notes on each client's cuts, colors, formulas, and preferences.
"I would like that. Very much."
"It will be interesting. I'm looking forward to tonight even more now."
The day passed with its mundane routines. The only real hiccup was the emergence of a inexplicable and foul stench from my nether regions. I'm not prone to disruptions of intimate flora, so the timing was surprising and particularly mortifying. I considered cancelling, but the Sadist is also a realist and had on many occasions proven he was not squeamish about much more obvious and problematic biologic challenges. So, I threw in a tampon and sent him a text warning, hoping for the best, full of disappointment that that particular region would be out of commission for the evening.
That evening, I arrived at his house. He met me at the front door with open arms, pulling me close to his body and holding me while I embraced him back, breathing in his scent of woodsy vanilla and masculinity. He kissed me, pressing lips together, teasing with tongue, hands caressing my back, grasping my hair at the nape, controlling me, moving my head just so, opening me so that he could kiss my neck at the pulse points.
He took my hand and lead me down the hallway to the playroom. A bondage frame filled the small space. Pillows and blankets haphazardly covered the floor. On a futon, his collection of natural ropes was set out...so many ropes. I tried to keep my focus on him, and tried to avoid curious glances at the open case full of canes, floggers, and other known impact toys. The array of disorder set my organized, controlled sensibilities slightly off kilter, and I buried my face against his chest, grasping for grounding and stability. As I held him, I stepped out of my shoes, then leaned in even closer against him.
He whispered, "Are you going to be my good girl tonight?" I nodded shyly against his T-shirt.
"Are you going to be my pain toy?" I whimpered softly, wetness starting to flow between my legs, and nodded again.
He stepped back and removed my dress above my head, leaving me standing in my bra, which he also quickly removed. The act of being undressed left me feeling vulnerable and also ridiculously spoiled. In that moment, was I a pampered princess, or a very small child? A treasured doll to be undressed, or a feminine thing to be used and ravaged? I relished that at that moment, the choice of who I was to be was not mine, but his...I simply chose to enter deeper into the contract of space and time with him, to yield, and trust.
He kissed me, devouring my tongue; I kissed him back, willing him to feel my admiration and desire for him, hoping that the dance of my tongue would be enough to tell him that for tonight, I had entered into a yielding to his will, to please him, to take his pain.
He placed his hand firmly on my shoulder and pressed me to kneel. With my eyes closed and downcast, he began to bind me with the ropes. The first rope was placed intently and snugly around my upper chest, swaddling above my heart. He bound each of my upper arms in turn. He placed ropes around my breasts, isolating them, binding them tight so that each one stood proud and independent...perfect, discrete targets for his sadistic ministrations.
He laid me down on my back, face to the ceiling. He bent my right leg at the knee, and he bound my right ankle to the thigh, ropes high and tight near my hip. He repeated this with my left ankle and thigh. He caught my left wrist and bound it to the left leg, then did the same with the right. I lie there, legs open and vulnerable, breasts exposed. He wrapped a single rope around my waist, knotting it at my navel, and from that, he lifted my middle up toward the ceiling until I was caught in a struggle to balance on my shoulders and bent tiptoes...an exposed, arched bridge of exposed belly and breasts and thighs. I breathed, realizing he had intentionally placed me in a predicament that would lead to smoldering exhaustion. I steeled my core for the challenge, tried to find a grounded center, and accepted that The Sadist had bound me in a position where there was truly very little I could do to avoid impact.
I heard him move to his bag. "Are you ready to suffer for me?"
"Yes. Please."
The air split, and the first strike came down hard on my left upper thigh with a crack. I cried out and tried to make sense of the sensation. It was a cane. The strike was heavy, and the impact went deep. At first, there was a sting on the surface, which quickly diffused across my whole thigh in an expanding circle of aching, then contracted back to the strip of direct impact. And with that strike, my whole body began to come alive with a wash of endorphins.