Chapter 9: My Pleasure Becomes the Priority
"I exist only where you allow me."
-- AnaΓ―s Nin
We had been together for months. He had served me daily. Worshipped me nightly. Slept beside me often.
I had never once allowed him to orgasm.
And he had never once asked.
That silence--that reverence--was not submission. It was devotion.
Every night, he pleased me.
With his mouth first: slow, deliberate, patient. He learned the angle I liked best, how to breathe through his nose, how to flatten his tongue and pulse just so. I taught him to wait for my hand in his hair before changing rhythm. To pause when I gripped his jaw. To finish when I said now.
Sometimes I sat on his face while reading. Sometimes I used him in the morning, still half-asleep. Sometimes I called him into the bathroom as I soaked in the tub and told him, "Now. Use your tongue. And don't let me get cold."
He never failed me.
After his mouth, his hands: strong when I wanted massage, soft when I wanted silence. He learned to kneel beside the couch when I was watching a film and quietly rub my feet with scented oil, never speaking, never asking if I was pleased.
He washed my hair. He clipped my nails. He held my hips while I fucked myself on his face, one leg slung over the arm of a chair. He kissed every inch of my body like it was sacred--and it was.
And still... he never came.
Not once.
Not even when I edged him. Not even when I whispered filth in his ear, stroked his cock just enough to make his legs tremble, and then backed away--leaving him panting, aching, obedient.
He wore a cage most nights by then. Not because I demanded it--but because it kept him centered. I made him put it on in front of me, kneeling, whispering "thank you" as the lock clicked shut.
He had seen my body in every angle of pleasure. Felt my thighs tremble. Watched my fingers curl in climax. Heard me cry out--unrestrained, unashamed.
But he had never been inside me.
That was not his purpose.
And he knew it.
I remember once--just once--I stood before him naked, my thighs still wet with his effort, and I asked:
"You want to be inside me?"
He nodded. Just once. Quiet. Earnest.
And I leaned in, kissed his forehead, and whispered, "No."
He didn't beg. He didn't pout. He just closed his eyes... and said thank you.
And in that moment, something shifted.
Not in him.
In me.