The trail of the missing women had led Amanda to a creepy run down mansion. Being the local newspaper's lead investigative reporter at the young age of 25 had gotten Amanda into trouble before and she wondering if this was one of those times as she opened the large heavy wooden door.
The door creaked with a sound that almost told visitors they need to turn back. Amanda stepped inside and slowly closed it behind her.
"Hello. Anyone here?" She said trying to sound confident and assertive when on the inside she knew she wasn't.
Her voice echoed down the long hallways and rooms of the abandoned mansion. She slowly made her way towards the first room on her left. She was in awe at the expansive library that was nearly completely covered in cobwebs and dust.
Amanda's vision caught something out of place on the wooden table in the center of the room. A single leather bound book was laying on the large hardwood table's surface. It was unlike the rest of the room. The leather cover was clean with no dust and seemed almost new and untarnished.
She stepped closer examining the book. She opened it and read the cover page. "How to Whip a Woman." She said aloud as chill bumps ran up her spine.
She stopped stunned on the 7th page. A pencil sketch of a beautiful naked woman in bondage and being whipped covered the left page of the book. She read an excerpt from the page beside the image: "The soft feminine form was designed to give pleasures to men. The tender flesh of a woman is never more alive and on fire immediately following the strike of a whip or cane. Watch as a true slave to the lash will squirm her body seductively, begging not just for another lash but for her soul to be owned by the whip."
Amanda slammed the book closed. Something about reading those words had caused her to feel an uneasy nervousness about the mansion and where she was. She looked down at the seemingly harmless leather book and reopened it flipping deeper into its pages. She paused on a page midway through the book and studied the pencil drawing. It was almost as if she recognized the poor damsel in distress. She looked closely before reaching for her cell phone.
"There is no way." She said aloud flipping through pictures of the missing women on her phone. She stopped at a picture matching the pencil sketch. "She disappeared three weeks ago. It can't be." Amanda said comparing the two faces.
The pencil sketch showed a naked woman spread eagled and bound. Heavy metal shackles pulled her limbs in all directions. The woman's inner thighs and pussy mound were streaked in lines from a whipping. Amanda read the pages text. "A cat-o-nine tails whip can be applied to even the most sensitive places. It's strands can be the bringer of such pleasure and pain. A true painslut will beg for the kiss of the cat."
Amanda couldn't help but flip to the next page. Her jaw dropped seeing another familiar face from the photos of the missing women. She flipped again and again through the pages until stopping on sketch matching the most recent disappearance. She was in shock as the naked woman was bound and displayed. Whip marks covered the bare back and ass of the helpless woman.
"How is this possible? She disappeared less than two days ago." Amanda said as her fingers shook touching the top corner of the next page. She didn't want to turn it but at this point she had to.
Amanda stared at the drawing. "This isn't possible." She muttered. She looked down at a sketch of her own naked body. Her small 5'2" frame was bent forward in a harsh strappado tie and her ankles spread by harsh ropes pulling them apart. She looked closely at the multiple strands of rope that encircled her wrists and ankles. There was something so erotic about the position and how she was the subject of the art.
She could almost feel the cool air of a dungeon room caress her naked skin as the ropes held her body immobile. She felt herself becoming slightly aroused at the scene of her helplessness. She at least could see no signs of whipmarks on her pencil drawn body. She reached her fingers again to the corner of the page flipping to the next.