It was the harassment case concerning her colleague that brought Lucy back to see Master Kane. Quite the stir in her office, and had even made the national media. Her colleague, a decade older than Lucy, had won a six figure pay out after her line manager had patted her bottom with a ruler in a meeting. She felt humiliated, objectified, embarrassed, as she made quite clear in the report of the incident. The culprit had naturally resigned.
And yet...
And yet...
She ascended the familiar stairs to Master Kane's study once again. Sylvia at the desk. The austere grey suited receptionist, who had witnessed Lucy's embarrassing corner time on her first visit was present again. Was that a hint of a smile she gave Lucy as she ushered her through into Master Kane's room? And did she have a sense that her witness of Lucy's exposure on her first visit was the very reason Lucy was drawn back to this place again?
This time Lucy was prepared. After being unfamiliar with what to wear for her first spanking, and feeling very self-conscious in the process, she came sensibly attired - a skirt and blouse that were slightly closer fitting than her normal work outfits, white lace trim Brazilian knickers with matching bra underneath. Still M & S, she was an English girl after all. Nothing too extravagant.
Inside Master Kane's study, she took in the familiar surroundings. The sofa, the wooden stool, the armless Mart Stam chair with the engineered cantilever that bounces ever so elegantly when the recipient's bottom is placed across the disciplinarian's lap. She was so absorbed with being reacquainted with the furniture, that she initially didn't see Master Kane, who was standing by the window and interrupted Lucy with a polite "Welcome back young lady."
Lucy felt her face flush, running down her slender neck to the top of her chest. She had already sent Master Kane the story of her colleague as part of their preliminary plans for this session. "What a shocking occurrence," he said, looking at Lucy with those implacable, calm dark eyes
"She is a bossy frump though," replied Lucy, half laughing.
Master Kane laughed. "Quite so, I can quite see why she had the ruler applied to her bottom!"
Lucy sniggered again, though slightly nervously this time.
Then he frowned. "Quite right it was sanctioned of course, no place for that kind of thing in this day and age."
"Quite," replied Lucy
"So antiquated and sexist."
"Indeed,"
"Objectifying, treating women's bottoms as objects to be spanked"
Lucy nodded.
"Quite wrong"
"Quite wrong."
Lucy Paused, so did Master Kane
"Still, you've admitted to me why you have come here." He said eventually, with a wry smile. "Is that so Lucy?"
Lucy flushed, and meekly nodded. She recalled the emails she had sent Master Kane, along with the report of her harassed colleague, confessing to lack of focus at work and a deep craving to submit to rigorous discipline again at the hands of Master Kane who could give her what she needed.
"Up on the step." He pointed to the small wooden step, familiar to Lucy from her first visit, in the middle of the floor.
Lucy jolted, 'But... I'm a professional woman, I don't get put on the naughty step, it's..." she paused, trying to find the words.
"Humiliating? Objectifying"
'Well yes, of course!" Lucy was blushing a little more crimson now, the butterflies had returned.
"As you know fine well Lucy, in here, you do exactly as you are told."
Lucy trilled inwardly at the injunction. She did indeed know fine well that to submit to Master Kane's instructions was exactly what she needed. After several weeks of highly strung work on a corporate merger, to be able to relinquish control came as a release.
Up she stood, flat back work shoes on the step, automatically assuming the familiar position, upstretching her arms and interlacing her hands behind her head.
"A couple of preliminary reminders before we start." Master Kane noticed Lucy assuming her inspection position, and was pleased to note she didn't need reminding about her hands.
"Safeword?"
"Red" said Lucy. Unimaginative, she knew, but it was familiar.
"That's right, and if you feel things fast but don't want to stop completely?"
"Yellow."
"That's right, I know you can take a good spanking Lucy, but safewords are of course important, especially when you're in your submissive headspace. It can get a little fuzzy in there at times, as you know, but don't be afraid to use your words if you need them. You should be able to manage that, you are a qualified attorney after all."
Lucy felt her neck flush again and her heart race a little more. She noted Master Kane's use of the Americanism - attorney. It had the effect of taking her out of her everyday role as Lucy the city solicitor. She felt warm and hot, especially between her legs, her M & S knickers feeling tight beneath her skirt. Had she not been displaying her thighs slightly parted on the stool she would definitely be squirming a little.
"Good girl," he said, and with those patronizing words she felt taken out of her real life role even further. She looked down at her plain flat black shoes and felt about eleven years old, like a nervous schoolgirl.
Master Kane caught her glancing nervously at the Mart Stam chair. "Oh, yes, you know where you're going don't you Lucy. But not so fast."
With Lucy still balanced on the step, he went over to the shelf and fetched a sleek wide leather paddle. "Girls don't get spanked with a ruler in my office, oh no, rulers are for lines, "he pointed to the Helix ruler on his desk. "This is proper discipline, only the paddle will do," he slapped the expensive leather implement in the palm of his hand a couple of times to make the point. Lucy gulped.
Master Kane placed it on the floor next to the Mart Stam chair, and sat down calmly. Lucy noted the strength of his trim thighs, in smart wool trousers, as he patted them in anticipation.
This was the metamorphosis. Only a few hours before Lucy had been in a client meeting, in control, keen to keep sharp focus on all that needed to be done, issuing clear, crisp instructions. Now she could be on the receiving end. She lowered herself over his knee and groaned involuntarily as she placed her palms on the floor, brushing back her brown hair from her ear as if this would maintain a little dignity, before positioning herself in the most embarrassing fashion. She felt her legs taper away, and Master Kane adjusting her bottom into the requisite position with his hands.
Lucy's petite nose, lightly freckled, scrunched up as she felt Master Kane massaging her bottom with some narrow, but light implement, as if to refamiliarize himself with the heft and weight of it. Lucy recognised what he had done.
"I thought you didn't use a ruler!" She said, indignantly.
Master Kane smiled. "You could get used to this Lucy," he continued massaging the Helix ruler across the fabric of her skirt. "Could make you a lot richer if you get into this at work."
The effect of all this teasing, referencing her colleague's sexual harassment case, was of course to make Lucy squirm and bluish even more.
"You know what you need to say."
Oh god, not this. Lucy cringed. The routine didn't get any less embarrassing the more times it was repeated.
"Say it," continued Master Kane, stricter now.
Lucy grimaced. "Please sir, may you spank my bottom?"
"I didn't hear."
Lucy bowed her head slightly and scrunched her nose some more. Damn you Master Kane.
'
Please
sir will you spank my bottom?'
Why did Master Kane have this effect? Strangling her voice as if she were a pleading child.
"And why do you need you bottom spanked Lucy?"
"Because I've become lazy and sloppy in my behaviours." Lucy's reply was almost a whimper now.
He slapped his hand down firmly on her cheeks, shifting her skirt a little under the muffled thud.
Lucy yelped a little, biting her lip as she felt the impact. But she needed it. It had been a long while.
"Time to spank some discipline back into you isn't it."
With that he started raining down his spanks, firmly, crisply, over her skirt, causing the back of the fabric to lift slightly above the top of her thighs, as his right hand connected with her bottom, left hand clasping her around the waist to restrain her squirms. Lucy began to yelp.
Having your bottom spanked as an adult is embarrassing enough. Having your bottom spanked whilst your spanker offers a commentary on the proceedings is even worse. And this was Master Kane's specialism.
"Now, time for the skirt to come up, isn't it?"
"Noooooooo" Lucy's response was more in manner of a chastised child than the articulate lawyer she was, accustomed to talking in crisply formed, precise sentences.
Master Kane looked at Lucy sharply. "That was a whine"