She felt the tickle of a moist droplet of sweat glide down her spine as she tossed her long legs over the side of his king sized bed. Gently, so not to wake him, she adjusted the heavy bedspread that wrapped around her life like a cocoon. She was naked and hot and the cover was rough against her delicate skin. She was here again, pleasure in body yet troubled in mind. How does a man have this power over her? She knew she was strong, she could accomplish anything put in front of her, yet she was weakened by his touch, by his voice and by his words. He had promised her gentleness and love but she wondered if it was only to have her once again wrapped within his mind for a moment of pleasure.
Barefoot and tussled long blond hair, she tiptoed to the master bathroom in the shade of the early morning darkness. Another Georgia thunderstorm boomed outside the big windows threatening to break the glass with which it beat upon. The humidity absorbed everything in its grasp and even made the carpet beneath her toes feel moist. She needed to feel the coolness of his shower, to rinse her mind free of his intoxicating smell that lay on her body. It was him that she could smell, a strong musty heat that surrounded her. She remembered looking in his face as he lay on top of her just a few hours before. His sweat dropped from his forehead onto her chest and had chased itself around the outline of her breast. She had moaned lightly, but it was enough to catch his attention. He pushed himself up and looked at her, biting his bottom lip with a look of pure pleasure and pain wrapped around each other. She was confused, she was in love, she was lost, he was so very dangerous for her, and she knew this.
The shower door was opened with a jerk and the light filtered through and touched her skin. "Why in the hell do you think you are allowed to get out of the bed?" he said with stern mixture of anger in his voice. He grabbed her then, and pulled her wet and naked body so abruptly and forcibly that she stumbled out of his shower and onto his chest. "When I bring you here, I expect you to be here when I want you to be. I don't want to wake up and find my cock hard and you not there to pleasure me. Get down on your fucking knees before I..."
She didn't need to hear anymore. He was the same as he had always been, and she knew she was the one to blame for coming back. Why did he have this hold on her, and yet why was she getting warm between her legs as she dropped to her knees and quickly put all of him in her mouth. She did not want him angry or disappointed; she wanted him to be happy no matter how troubled her mind was with whether it was right or wrong.
After his hands had pulled her head tighter into his crotch and his semen had shot hot and syrupy down the back of her throat, he had turned without so much as a thank-you and left her kneeling, alone, on the cold marble of the bathroom floor digesting his essence. She shivered involuntarily not only from the cold air condensing the wetness of her unfinished shower on her lean and muscled body, but from the thought that she had become someone she hardly recognized in many ways. She knew he had finished with her for now and that the worst possible thing she could do was to interrupt his now continued sleep, as although she had not ventured into the bedroom she now knew his pattern – to use her for his pleasure and then to simply walk away as if she no longer existed. How their relationship, and she, had come to this she still could not fathom, as she toweled herself dry and wrapping herself in the bathrobe he had given her slumped to the hard cold floor in a trance like state.
She had known him now for three months, and at first he had seemed like the men who had come before him; not so much physically as he was older, but from the perspective of being attentive, considerate, thoughtful, and a well educated gentlemen. The sort of character traits she'd been brought up to look for in a man and a potential mate. He'd made her grade, and she'd gladly agreed to go out with him that first night when they had met by chance at the cocktail party of a mutual friend. But that was then and this was now and as they say a lot of water had since passed under the bridge. Despite her revulsion at what she had become she was drawn like a moth to his flame, and could only pray that in the end she would not live the fate that had befallen Icarus.
Those first few dates had been pleasant enough, dinners at upscale and elegant restaurants, occasional calls sprinkled with healthy and lustful banter, and the back and forth volleys of email filled with subtle double entendres, which even she had to admit had been a turn-on both to read and to construct in reply.
It was on their third or fourth date, she could no longer remember, that he had taken her home to this house and made love to her for the first time. She remembered that evening as if it had occurred just minutes ago, and despite feeling used from having just serviced him she could feel the dampening between her legs from the memory. What had struck her that first night was the gentleness with which he had caressed her body and the time and attention he had paid to make sure that she was satisfied. It was as if he existed only to give her pleasure, and no man – and she had slept with many – had ever been as attentive a lover to her as he was that night. Oh, how she could only have wished then that this pattern of love-making had continued as that night she had truly felt the way Cinderella must have felt when the glass slipper had been placed upon her foot. He had taken her to a place that no man had ever led her to before, and she had realized on that night that had she gone to her maker she would have felt, and did feel, totally fulfilled as a woman for the first time in her life. After that night she nervously awaited his next contact hoping against hope that he would take her to his bed again and again and again.
Looking back, with the advantage of perfect hindsight, she now realized that he had broken her like a skillful trainer breaks and trains a racehorse. Over the next month she began sleeping with him two or three nights a week, and gradually and imperceptibly at first he started to be rougher with her, but in a way that felt natural to her and seamless in its transition. No longer was he the gentle lover, although she had to admit he was still attentive and she was still experiencing the same four or five orgasms every night. It was just as if something had changed. Some slight tipping of the scales. The gradual transition of power, if that was the word, so that the equilibrium of a relationship built between equals had now shifted to one where even she had to admit he held all the power and she none, for she had become addicted to being in his bed and being made to feel safe in his arms. She still worked at the same job and still saw the same circle of friends that she had before he had come into her life, but now; well now somehow it just was altogether different.
She remembered the day clearly when she had forever crossed the line and left the world she had known and become his. He had emailed her just as she was leaving work and said he wanted to see her. Like the puppy dog she had become she had replied that she was on her way and arrived at his house as the warm Georgia sun was fading into the summer sky. Normally when she reached his house she would ring the bell as she'd not been given a key, but tonight was different. Tonight taped to the door which he had left ajar was an envelope with her name written on it in his elegant scrawl. Inside a note simply said, "I've had to go out. A bath is drawn for you in the master bathroom and a glass of wine and blindfold are on the table next to the tub. Relax in your bath with the blindfold on and enjoy your wine. When I return I will join you but you are to say nothing and make no sound."
She had as she had been instructed made her way through the silent house and entered what she discovered to be a candle lit bathroom within which soothing classical music was playing softly. Stripping naked in the soft glow of the candlelight she had placed the blindfold over her eyes and slipped into the deep moist heat of the awaiting tub. Leaning back with her head against the cool marble of the tub she had let the warmth of the water work its way into and sooth her tired muscles while she sipped at the glass of red wine she had found there and her mind floated freely accompanying the gentle melody of the music. Time had seemed to stand still for what she could only believe was a brief eternity and she realized she must have dozed off as he had entered the bathroom unbeknownst to her.