1. MORNING
"Good morning, Sir."
"Good morning, slut."
Lucy was sat on a crowded bus. She angled her phone away from the large lady next to her. Fortunately the man in the seat immediately behind seemed to be engrossed in his newspaper.
"I'm sorry I was late, Sir." She texted.
It was 08.31. The long queue to board the bus had thrown her timing out by one minute. She hated it when she failed such a simple task.
"Apology accepted."
Then his follow up text arrived almost instantly.
"For now."
Lucy squirmed in her seat. Well, actually, she didn't really squirm, it just felt like it. She took a shallow breath and felt a twinge in her nipples and between her thighs. The lady next to her turned and frowned.
"Are you ready?" popped onto her screen.
Her skilled fingers replied in seconds.
"Yes, Sir. Absolutely."
"Are you nervous?"
"Yes, Sir. Very."
The man she knew as Tyrion was older than her. His strong but cumbersome hands typed more slowly.
"It's not too late to change your mind."
Her heart missed a beat.
Two decades earlier, back when Lucy was a little girl, her family had a swimming pool. It was an old 1970s construction, basically just a concrete tank filled with water and dosed with chlorine.
There was a filtration system but no heating. Her austere parents hadn't believed in creature comforts.
She remembered how she used to stand on the side, waiting to jump into the numbingly cold water. Staring at the grey-blue surface, already knowing the rush it would give her as she plunged into it.
Above all, she remembered the delicious two seconds in mid-air after she'd jumped and before the water ripped the breath from her lungs.
That was the dreadful moment of no going back.
The moment when she had taken the decision and dreaded the outcome. Those moments when her ordinary childhood suddenly came alive.
So now, it was way too late to change her mind.
"Thank you, Sir. But absolutely not."
"Good."
She smiled at her i-phone's screen.
He had been her Master for four months. A lifetime and yet the blink of an eye. He was the first man she'd surrendered to in this way. There had been boyfriends. There had even been dominant boyfriends. Well, one. Not a very good one. And there had also been a few games and role plays with a couple of others, mostly just bondage and an excuse for them to demand blowjobs.
"Can I ask something, Sir?"
"Of course."
Initially her fantasy had been so different. She had envisioned an unreasonable, even brutal, taskmaster, a man who never took no for an answer. That had been the dream she would stroke her aching, soaking sex to most nights. And frequently in the mornings. And sometimes during the day in the Ladies too.
But that had been her alter ego thinking. The dark lord she'd masturbated for would never have been compatible with her reality. The Master she'd actually found, by pure chance, was wholly different to her fantasy. Whereas the one was a single shade of coal black, the other was a shimmering rainbow of night and day, as likely to fill her day with sunshine as drench her in rain.
"Sir, are you comfortable with this too?"
She realised she was holding her breath, awaiting his reply. In the end, she had to gulp a lungful of air, when nothing arrived. She could picture him thinking, considering her question, in that way he had, so different from boys her own age who mostly seemed to blurt out the first thought that came into their heads.
It seemed an age but was actually maybe a minute?
"Yes, I am."
Lucy rose from her seat, juggling her phone, fur-hat and rucksack. She somehow manoeuvred around the large lady.
Her journey to work was short, just a couple of stops. She often walked it.
"I'm nearly at work, Sir."
"OK. Keep your phone by you. Noon."
And that was the start of her day.
2. NOON
Lucy impressed herself. She managed to concentrate on work throughout the morning, in spite of what was in store for her later. She'd always been good at compartmentalising her life but had feared today would prove beyond her.
At 11.58, she disappeared to the Ladies.
She waited, watching her phone as it showed 12.00 then ticked to 12.01 without any text arriving. She could never fully prevent the pang of disappointment when nothing arrived and the spasm of pleasure when it did.
"I'm sorry I was late."
She smiled. One minute late too. He was taking the piss.
"Apology accepted, Sir."
She decided to take the risk and play him at his own game.
"For now." she added.
"Very witty, slut."
She could sense he'd drawn a line there. He'd allowed her to get away with one cheeky reply but that would be the limit.
It never ceased to amaze her how close texting with him was to talking; every nuance, every shift in tone, every shade of mood could be conveyed. She could picture his even features, his stern expression, above all his intense eyes, as he seemingly looked at her, and through her, simply via two phones.
She felt the need to apologise and was about to, when his next text arrived.
"No touching."
"I won't Sir."
"You in a cubicle?"
"Yes, Sir."
"Show me your cunt."
She quickly photographed between her legs and sent him the picture.
"I can see the slimy wetness from here. It looks loose."
"I know, Sir. I'm sorry."
She pictured him smiling, chuckling aloud probably, at her shame.
"Remind me how long?"
"Five days, Sir."