He throws his jacket over your shoulders and reaches an arm behind you, wrapping it around your waist as he leads you down the street.
Walking amid the scurrying throng of people, you feel a sense of security and protection that all but overwhelms you. Yes, your hands are firmly clamped behind your back and that should make you feel vulnerable, exposed and wary.
For some reason though, you feel the exact opposite. You feel as if you are on a pedestal high above the shoving and hustling crowd, like you are beyond reproach and out of the reach of anything that might possibly harm you.
This, you realize, is the gift of submission. This breathtaking sense of safety, security and belonging is what your soul has been crying out for.
His sense of ownership over you strengthens you, in some odd way. Submitting, is in essence, empowering. You allow him to guide you through the crowd and deep inside of the core of your soul, you revel in his Mastery over you.
Coming to stop in front of a hotel, your heart leaps into your throat again, as you realize he is leading you inside. He takes you through the lobby, stopping in the very center of the room.
He leans down to kiss you lightly on the cheek and whispers to you, "I'll take back that jacket now".
Your heart hammers what feels like a million beats per minute and you know everyone around you can see the handcuffs. You swallow and try to calm yourself and then a feeling washes over you.
A feeling that would have been unexpected a day before and that you could never hope to convey to anyone that hadn't been through such a dizzying experience. Pride.
You feel proud to belong to him, to be in his control and to know that anyone can see he has his attention centered on no one but you. That is another epiphany that washes over you with the brilliance of a million illuminating suns.
You have his complete and undivided attention. Even when he is seemingly ignoring you, he does so intentionally and with great care.
Your gift to him is simple. It is your submission and surrender. His gift to you, is even more complicated and far reaching. He gives you much more than you bestow upon him. His gift is unique and with an intoxicating affect, he gives of himself.
He reaches his arm around you once again and leads you into an elevator. As the doors close shut with the familiar "thunk", he pushes you gently back into the corner and traps you there.
He leans down to kiss you gently and whispers "look at me, little one".
You slowly lift your eyes and when you meet his that are burning into you with such intensity, you feel faint from the euphoria of it. His lips close softly onto yours and he gives you a kiss of such gentle and delicate tenderness it makes you go weak in your knees.
The elevator hums to a stop and the doors once again slide open as he leads you down the hall and comes to a halt in front of the door of the room. He spins you around with your back to the door and leans down to kiss you passionately and as his arms wrap around you he frees the handcuffs from your slightly aching wrists.
Still kissing you, he takes your arms and pins them high above your head, towards the top corners of the door. Helpless and trapped, your heart once again starts to race and then you feel the soothing caress of his hands as he massages away the ache left from the metal cuffs so long clamped onto your wrists.
"My GOD", you sigh inwardly, "this man is so much more than I ever imagined."
Contentment and peace overtake your body, mind and soul.
He reaches behind you and slowly swings the door open and then he pushes you gently into the room.
"Enter my lair, slave."
His voice seems to rumble from his chest with a near haunting echo.