Sarah showed up at the hotel a good half hour before her lover had specified. She wanted enough time to calm her nerves and familiarize herself with the glamour of the five-star hotel, and she thought helping herself to a double of something alcoholic from the hotel bar would be just the way to kill two birds with one stone. Sliding onto a padded barstool, she ordered her drink and reached into her purse for the note tucked inside.
It didn't take her long to re-read the handwritten message penned on the page in her hands - after all, it was only 8 words long:
"Oceanfront Hotel. 7 PM. You won't regret it."
Jake wasn't usually one to be so secretive, and Sarah's heart raced in her chest as her mind whirled, wondering just exactly what her long-time coworker and short-time companion had planned for the two of them. Obviously, it was something above the level of their normal weekend trysts - those were pleasant enough, of course, but Jake had never before been so mysterious, or spendy, for that matter.
After the last remnants of her drink slipped past her lips, Sarah set the glass down and analyzed her reflection in the mirror that ran from floor-to-ceiling behind the bar. She smiled at the buxom blonde that gazed back at her, and adjusted her bangs slightly with one hand. Her sea-green eyes, just a little too large for her otherwise pretty face, seemed to twinkle in the soft bar-lighting. She knew she wouldn't be winning any beauty pageants, but then again, she didn't know many pageant winners that had her set of curves, or the animalistic hunger for sex that drove her to first seduce and then bewitch her current lover with her more-than-adequate feminine charms.
She left the bar and headed for the front desk, hips swaying sexily. She could feel the eyes of the bartender tracking her progress out the door, hungrily eyeing her tight ass and slender legs as they flexed with every step of her cherry-red high heels. If her matching miniskirt were cut any higher, she wouldn't be able to take a step without fear of flashing her matching red thong to the entire bar. As it was, she still had to tread carefully to make sure nothing...unbecoming of a lady...showed to those patrons sprawled in booths and tables on either side of her path out of the bar.
Just like in her previous hotel rendezvous, Sarah found a room key at the front desk, waiting under her name. The clerk, a curvy brunette who could give even Sarah a run for her money in the cleavage department, gave her a conspiratorial wink as she directed her to the bank of elevators across the lobby. Without any luggage to speak of, the bevy of bellhops at the main entrance didn't bother to approach her, but instead hungrily eyed her from head to toe as her heels clicked across the marble floor and into the elevator awaiting her command.
In only a few minutes, Sarah was inside the hotel room, enjoying the scene laid out before her. The bedside lamps were dimmed to a pale pink glow by the scarf-like material draped over the top of them. The effect left the corners of the room in shadow, emphasizing the bed and all of its promises for the evening. It took Sarah a moment to realize soft music was playing courtesy of a laptop sitting on a desk in the far corner. Some unfamiliar singer crooning out an old jazz ballad. Nothing obtrusive to distract her from her fun. Sarah realized that Jake had picked up on some of her past cues and was really pulling out all the stops this evening. Just as she started to wonder when her absent lover would arrive, her eyes were drawn to the paper folded and placed neatly in the middle of the bedspread.
With a trembling hand, Sarah opened the note, slightly longer than the last missive from her lover:
There's a bottle of bubbly waiting for you in the bathroom. Have a glass, and then undress yourself all the way. Take the two sets of handcuffs from the bedside drawer, and use a pair to cuff each wrist to the headboard. Soon after, I'll arrive to have my way with you. I won't uncuff you until you and I are BOTH satisfied. -J
Setting the note down, Sarah pulled open the bedside table and gasped at the two sets of padded handcuffs that slid forward in the drawer. The short chains connecting the two velvet-covered steel rings on each pair twinkled in the dim light, as did the small key she now noticed visibly centered on the top of the nightstand. She fished out a pair and was surprised at how heavy and solid it felt inside its padded sleeves. These weren't some flimsy toy that she'd be able to wrest her way out of once she clicked them around the slats in the headboard - only the key would set her free from these shackles.
Sarah decided a drink was definitely in order, and strolled into the bathroom, the handcuffs still clutched in one hand. She set it down near the two champagne glasses on the counter, right next to the ice-bucket in which an open bottle of champagne chilled. She didn't know a thing about champagne, but the bottle certainly looked expensive as she poured herself a flute and took a small sip. The cool bite of the sparkling wine on the back of her tongue made her smile as she thought through the implications of the note. She would be bound to the bed, completely naked. She would be unable to fend off anything done to her, powerless to resist any touch or caress on her body. Any invasion at all. And with that thought, Sarah kicked off her heels and began to undress.
Back at the bed, and completely nude, Sarah hesitated for a moment, as goosebumps rippled across her smooth, bare flesh. Once more she considered what she was doing, and what it would mean. Finally, she crawled under the covers, to try to keep at least a shred of dignity in her situation, and before she could chicken out, quickly wrapped one handcuff around her left wrist and then carefully ratcheted the other end tightly around one of the vertical bars of the headboard. She tugged once at the bar, testing it, and tensed slightly when it didn't budge. Before her alcohol-boosted nerve left her, she clapped the other handcuff to her right wrist and then with a small stretch of her already-handcuffed arm, clicked it into place just far enough down the headboard so her arms were outstretched at an angle away from her body. The twisting motion of this latest action was enough to pull the thick comforter down below her shoulders, leaving her breasts exposed to the air. Her nipples started to crinkle, but Sarah couldn't tell whether it was from the chill of the hotel room air conditioning, or the increased tingling sensation she felt between her legs with every passing moment.
As she lay there waiting, Sarah begin to wonder how long it would be before Jake showed up to have his way with her handcuffed body. She squirmed a little, testing her bonds, but found them just as solid as before. She was just starting to have second thoughts about the whole situation when she heard a card slide into the door, followed by the whir of the electronic lock. The door swung open, but although she craned her neck, she still couldn't tell who was there, as they had yet to step inside the hotel room. For a split second, she panicked, worried that some maid was coming by for a turn-down service, and the sense of relief she felt when she heard his voice was almost as strong as the butterflies in her stomach.
"Hello, Sarah. Are you ready for me?"