This is part 6 of the story. It makes little sense to start here, and you can find the other parts here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
English not being my native tongue. I'm translating chapters and will publish them over a couple of weeks. Be patient. There will be kinky stuff, but it takes a while to reach it. The characters, setting and plot should interest you in their own right. Suggestions and reactions are welcome, given that it is my first novel. Enjoy!
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Pyrmont, 26 July
Dear Milena,
Today you have the morning to yourself.
The rest of the day is mine.
Be prepared.
x D.
I wake up early and still glow from the heavy scrubbing. The traces of Indian ink were harder to remove than I thought, and I ended up all rosy red. After that, I collapsed in bed, dead tired.
You left a note and a small pendulum next to the served breakfast. I have all the time in the world to make my toilet, update my diary and write your detention assignment. You are right, unfortunately. The cadence of words with their explicit meaning evokes heated fantasies.
It is warm and sultry today, which only adds to my need. When I'm daft enough to read back yesterday's account, my own words add too much fuel to the bonfire of lust raging inside me. I succumb and try to satisfy myself without your permission, but can't. Whenever I threaten to reach an orgasm, guilt at my weakness deflates the urge for satisfaction.
As a diversion, I decide on writing letters to family, friends and acquaintances. It is hard to put myself in the shoes of the Milena busy dealing with her inheritance. I prefer to be used as a slave. With it, doubt returns. I enjoy your antics; you are the teacher I long for. But who am I? Why am I so affected by what you do to me?
I lose myself in thoughts longer than I realise and, according to the clock, your arrival is imminent. Just enough time for my internal preparations. When I hear you dragging something heavy to my cell in the corridor, my heart is pounding in my throat with anticipation. I want this, whoever I am.
She sits on one of the two wooden stools at the workbench, naked, like yesterday. I wear nothing more than loose trousers and a shirt. Despite the overcast sky, the weather is warm and oppressive and it's no different in the atelier.
Although her perfume permeates the room, the fresh scent does not dispel the heavy notes of sex. Her hair is loose and her skin has a pink hue, no doubt caused by yesterday's bath.
When I enter, she turns to me with a troubled face. I nod in greeting, hauling a thick heavy mat into the room and placing it in the middle between the workbench, the bed and the armchair.
"So," I say, a little out of breath, "What are you worried about? Didn't you follow the rules?"
She shifts on her stool, but doesn't avert her eyes.
"I did. I also wrote your lines of punishment, but it was... harder than I thought. I also wrote some letters, by the way."
"I'll have them delivered," I say, and pour myself a glass of water. Her attitude emanates frustration, not guilt. An itch not scratched. "Would you like some, too?"
She shakes her head. "I've just had some."
"I can also forbid you to touch yourself, if you like," I say and comb through her loose hair with my hand, "or make you wear a chastity belt in my absence."
She laughs derisively. "No thanks, I'd rather not."
How dare I think her lack of willpower requires such measures. I empty my glass and sit down on the stool next to her, take her right hand in mine, and look her squarely in the eye.
"Everything all right?" I ask. She hesitates and studies our hands in her lap, then nods without saying a word. I'm not convinced yet, so I lift her chin, forcing her to look at me. "You sure?"
"Sure," she says decidedly, and nods at the mat. "What's that for?" A question sparked by curiosity, not fear.
I let her hand go and tap her knee. "For this. Offer yourself."