Mark woke up earlier than usual and jumped out of bed. Happiness permeated through him. Sheri had not left his mind for very long. He thought how long it had been since he woke eager to start his day. His mornings often moved slowly, and until he had his coffee, his mind focused on the issues he knew waited for him at the office. Lonely and stressed out from his job, Mark tended to leave for work later and later. He had noticed how his passion for work had started to recede and his loneliness seemed to always be on
his mind instead.
But this morning, he felt excited anticipating his weekend ahead with Sheri. Excitement poured out of him as he thought about her and their weekend together. He felt giddy and wanted to sing! Suddenly, life seemed full of opportunities, and he even looked forward to preparing for the design review meeting. He thought to himself, "One sexy woman squeezes my balls and cock, and everything changes for me. I am so easy!" For so long he had wanted to meet someone like Sheri, and this morning everything seemed possible to him!
Staring out towards the east bay hills drinking his coffee, his mind seemed calm and focused. His emotions were near the surface but quickly contained. Standing in front of his sliding glass doors looking east across the Bay Bridge, he noticed his big bright smile gazing back from the glass door. The weather was gray, wet, and cold, but all he saw was sun and warmth.
He thought about how she felt like a magnet to him. There was just something about her pulling him towards her, this extraordinary woman who had completely captured his attention. He hoped that spending more time with her and learning more about her would cause it to bloom into something more than mere attraction. Or, if not, then at least he felt happy and alive for the first time in too long.
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Mark is 58. He was 5 feet 10 inches, and his body is toned and muscular from working out regularly although his body did carry some extra weight. Mark is handsome to most and had graying hair and a short beard. His beard had begun turning white, and he'd considered shaving but liked his look with a beard. He still had the stamina and could please his partner and himself multiple times. He felt like his sexual skills were as good as ever. He often got opportunities to date or for sex but had grown tired of being with women who do not seem to know what they really wanted. He always felt pressured to initiate sex, decide where they may go for drinks or dinner, or just choose everything. He had a brief encounter with an assertive, commanding woman who liked taking charge. The sex they had amazed him, and she took care of him as well. He loved not knowing what might happen at any given time, and he found it empowering to be able to allow his mind just to focus on her pleasure. Having to please her in all kinds of ways excited him and created a sense of satisfaction he had not felt for a long time.
Mark's job at his company involved leading a team of about 15 software engineers. They were working on developing algorithms to improve data compression for video, audio, and image sharing on the net. The work required senior-level programmers and designers, and his team included some of the best coders in the industry. Like most high-tech companies, the demand for talented software engineers exceeded the available supply significantly. Mark had a reputation for being able to recruit and retain some of the best talents in the industry. Inside his company, he was known for no-nonsense leadership, a clear vision, and an ability to motivate and retain top talent despite the recruiters who were always targeting his people with opportunities from other companies. For most engineers, the project under development mattered as much as anything, so Mark always made sure his team received the most challenging and exciting ones. His company wanted him to take over the entire engineering organization, but he preferred to work with a small, talented team on exciting, leading-edge projects.
In order motivate and maintain his team, Mark needed to provide specific types of leadership. Software engineers are not like people in marketing, sales, finance, and other kinds of functions. They require a different sort of management. Everyone has different needs and desires. Some just want to code and minimize human interaction. Others desire to be architects and designers as much as coders. He had a few he needed to kick in the butt all the time to avoid distractions. Still, others require constant reinforcement about the importance of their specific tasks.
He started a weekly beer meeting that allowed everyone to blow off some steam and gave everyone a chance to bend his ear over their grievances, or new-found technology, or methodologies their engineering friends were using at other companies. These events had helped to provide his team with a feeling of having a voice in the direction of the project as well as making sure Mark kept abreast of new ideas.
Mark had developed his people-reading skills to a high degree. He had learned how to look at each of his team members individually and find ways to give them what they needed to feel valued and listened to, and most importantly, satisfied. While he may not have realized it at the time, he had been preparing himself to be someone's submissive.
To be an excellent submissive requires many skills. The most important is the ability to communicate verbally and non-verbally, anticipate things and find ways to please your Dom without needing constant instruction. Good submissives care more about their Dom's pleasure than their own. As part of leading his team, Mark had perfected many of the skills needed to be in a relationship with a dominant woman. Mark enjoyed knowing when he made his team happy with either a decision or action he took on. Knowing his team felt he had their back all the time brought him a level of satisfaction and joy he sometimes did not understand. He wondered why others feeling good provided him with a sense of belonging and being part of something bigger than just him.
Sheri is 50 years old and stands 5 feet 4 inches with blond hair. She has a solid and curvy body even though she carried a little extra weight. Sheri had bounteous breasts and broad hips creating insane curves, a beautifully ample butt, and a small waist. She stayed healthy and well developed from the swimming she'd done since her childhood. Sheri has deep blue eyes and a pretty face. Most men find sexy, but Sheri is only interested in snagging the kind of man she really wants.
Sheri became a top-notch attorney specializing in Intellectual Property and Trademark law, one of the more complex areas of legality. The advent of the Internet and the ability of companies to build and deploy products to consumers worldwide had introduced considerable new business opportunities while increasing the complexity of protecting intellectual property from misuse and theft. As time passed, she focused more and more on the legal aspects in this area. Sheri became known for securing the absolute best product companies as her clients. It was known throughout the high-tech industry that her law firm was the cream of the crop compared to the competition, and her personal visibility within the legal profession meant she was the most sought-after attorney within her firm.
Sheri was an alpha woman who always led, and in her firm, mostly men were on her team. Through the years in her relationships and encounters with men, Sheri had noticed most men seemed to defer to her on all kinds of things. Through the years she'd started to develop an interest in the idea of a Female Led Relationship. Most of the men Sheri tended to date seemed to slip into a submissive role. She believed many men wanted to surrender to a strong woman, and she liked being the alpha in her relationships. She had been with one man, Dave, a partner at another law firm, who as their relationship developed naturally fell into that role with her. The connection with Dave lasted a couple of years and of all her experiences with men, it was the most fulfilling and fun. Her time with Dave reinforced her desire to build a long-term relationship with her leading.
Dave was an alpha male type who was the senior partner for ligation in his firm. He'd developed a reputation as a worthy and highly effective litigator. Sheri had first noticed him waiting for a hearing on one of her cases to start. Watching him in action made her wet. He had command of the courtroom in a way she rarely saw. He argued his case efficiently. While she had her doubts, he had won the argument while managing to get some very damaging evidence excluded from the case. She wanted to go beyond bedroom play into 24x7 domination with him but wondered how two alphas might work together.
It turned out she had nothing to be concerned about. Dave immediately confessed to her his desire to let go and to allow her to lead him where she wanted. He told her he felt stress from always being in charge. All day long everyone, attorneys in his firm, his clients, and others involved in his work looked to him for leadership, guidance, and motivation. He told her he needed to become vulnerable and let go of feeling the need to always lead. It exhausted him, and he felt like he needed balance and being with a dominant partner seemed like a good option. He had said he always enjoyed pleasing women sexually and the few times a woman had been able to take control, even if just in the bedroom, had excited him and created a sense of intimacy he liked.
For Sheri, the idea of having an alpha man on his knees excited her more than anything. She also felt vanilla relationships tended to fail and thought there were many reasons. She knew a Female Led Relationship required a high level of communication and intimacy, honest conversations about desires and needs more than in vanilla relationships. She also felt having roles defined helped to work through problems and issues as they arose. She knew the sex in a kinky relationship had an intensity and passion she had not been able to experience in vanilla relationships. Sexually, her skills and passions took every one of her partners by surprise. She had power both in the bedroom and out of the bedroom that men found exhilarating.
