Kate and Carrie owned a town house in one of the suburbs a couple of miles from their office. It was one of a block of five, a narrow structure on three floors built on the side of a hill. From the road, the driveway dipped down to the double garage, with a laundry room and garden storage behind it. Steps from the tiny front yard led up to the front door, and the kitchen and living room on the second level. On the top floor were two bedrooms. The women were very proud of their home, which they owned outright.
Kate reversed the Volvo into the garage, then Carrie hopped out to open the tailgate and yank Skivvy onto his feet. Kate hit the remote to lock the garage, then the three of them climbed the stairs up and through the hallway into the living room. Briskly, Kate marched to the window and drew the curtains, shutting out the view of the back garden.
Carrie looked at her partner quizzically. "Shall we get down to business?"
"Warm his bum, you mean?" Kate said, being deliberately crude. "Has he done anything to deserve that?"
"No, but I want to see if he means what he says. So many men are all mouth and trousers!"
They both looked at Skivvy, who stood head down, shuffling his feet nervously.
"Well, Skivvy," Kate demanded. "What shall we do with you?"
"I -- I'm at your disposal Miss," Skivvy offered timidly.
"Right," said Kate briskly. "Strip. I'll be back in a minute."
Carrie stood and watched while Skivvy peeled off his clothes. The urge to get started overcame her as she watched the young man's smooth naked flesh emerge from its cocoon of clothing. She went into the hall and came back with a clothes brush. Its back and handle were solid ebony.
"Your predecessor ran away after this was used on her bottom," Carrie told Skivvy.
Skivvy looked at the floor and waited to be told what to do. Carrie settled herself on the larger of the two sofas and eyed the protuberance pointing at her. "There's a loo on the other side of the landing," she told Skivvy. "Go and fetch me a towel. I'm not having you make a mess on my skirt!"
Skivvy trotted off and returned with a hand towel. Carrie spread it carefully over her lap.
"Over you go."
Skivvy draped himself over the waiting knees, his rigid penis squashed against the towel. Carrie could feel its modest pressure but chose to ignore it. She was running an appraising hand over the hairless rump offered up to her when Kate came back, flexing a whippy, three-foot dressage whip.
"Oh, you've started without me!" she exclaimed, her eye on the brush in Carrie's hand. "Never mind. I'm sure there's plenty to go around."
Carrie did not reply. She was focussed on the target draped across her lap. She raised the ebony brush up over her shoulder and brought in down forcefully to whack into Skivvy's bare flesh. The smack of contact was loud and clear, and Skivvy mewed between compressed lips as the familiar burn of wood throbbed through his rump. Memories of his time over Mrs Stepley's lap came surging back, and he pushed his bottom up as an invitation for his new mistress to continue.
The gesture was not lost on Carrie. This boy was offering her his submission, and she was happy to accept it. She looked up at Kate, grinned.
"That's right, boy, offer it up to me. We own it now."
Her brush rose and fell, rose and fell, smacking its masterful message across Skivvy's backside. Methodical as ever, Carrie was aiming for the couple of inches either side of the line where buttock met thigh and sharing the smacks with meticulous fairness between the left and right cheeks.
"Hey, leave some for me," laughed Kate.
Carrie nodded her agreement but continued to whack the back of the brush onto the rapidly reddening rump. She was counting the strokes. "Eighteen strokes, that's what I'm giving him," she said, breathless from the effort of wielding the brush. "Then you can take over."
"Yikes," squealed Skivvy, as a particularly juicy smack bit into his sulcus. "Oh oh oh oh."
"Sixteen..." whack! "seventeen..." whack! "eighteen," intoned Carrie, then shoved the whimpering Skivvy off her lap. "All yours."
"Good-o," drawled Kate, reaching down to take hold of Skivvy's right ear. Using that, she steered him on his knees to a footstool and made him drape himself over it. She placed one elegantly shod foot on the small of his back and swished her dressage whip experimentally. She smiled as Skivvy's bottom contracted at the whistling sound of the whip.
She tapped the quaking bottom to gauge her distance, then snapped it down with a flick of her wrist. There seemed to be no effort involved in what she was doing but the effect was electric. Skivvy gave a strangled yelp, his backside bucked, and a neat pencil-thin red line stretched diagonally across it.
"Steady boy," Kate admonished. "You really don't want to be knocking me over, if you know what's good for you." She paused. "And for that backside of yours."
Skivvy clutched at the footstool legs and waited. There was a pause, then Kate flicked her wrist once more and the whip bit savagely into the buttock flesh. Skivvy knew how much it would hurt, and was prepared for that, so his reactions were more muted as he snuffled snot and blinked back tears.
"That's better boy," Kate encouraged him. "And now for the rest of them."
She followed that with a volley of strokes, lacing down diagonally, the tip biting into the underside of Skivvy's right cheek. The speed with which one lash followed another gave the young volunteer slave no time to identify and appreciate each individual stab of fire. For him, it was just a wave of pain, swirling across his buttocks and up to his brain. His eyes blurred; his breathing faltered. Saliva, snot and tears dripped from his various facial orifices onto the carpet, and a shrill keening struggled through his clenched teeth.
"And that's eighteen," concluded Kate. She moved her foot off Skivvy's back and dropped the whip on the floor. Her face was flushed, her breathing erratic, and there was a drumming in her ears. Her knees struggled to support her weight, and she could feel some dampness in the gusset of her panties. She was conscious of Carrie's eyes on her, and the expression of bemused amusement on her face.
"That was fun," Kate said rather lamely.
Carrie nodded her agreement.
"Okay, Skivvy, on your feet," she ordered. She looked at the lad as he straightened slowly. "That was a taste of what you'll get here. If you want out, we'll drop you off in town."
Skivvy shook his head slowly. "No thank you Miss C. This is what I signed up for. I'll try my best to make it worth your while."
"Let's show you around," said Kate, regaining her composure and getting down to business.
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The guided tour of the house didn't take long. On the top floor, Kate pointed to the tiny bedroom overlooking the street.