Edited by cymbidia
CAUTION:
This story contains descriptions of physical abuse. If you are offended by fictional stories featuring this kind of topic please do not read this story.
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I sat, my face a passive wall of non-emotion, as she knelt obediently before me. Her eyes were downcast, fulfilling the complete submission promised by her posture. Her bare, unblemished breasts heaved with each ragged breath as she fought to subdue the raging desires I knew were consuming her. I reached down with a single hand and lightly stroked her silky black hair. At my touch I felt her quiver and the thrill of control shot like a hot bolt of lightning up my arm and into my chest.
"Stand" I commanded, my voice harsher than I had intended.
She stood instantly, her eyes riveted on the floor in front of me. Her soft hair fell about her down-turned head to gently veil her thin face as I inspected her; straight black hair, intense eyes, high cheek bones and full soft lips. Exquisite! No other word could describe this docile creature.
My eyes drifted down to her black velvet collar. Its single large diamond stud accented the pale elegance of her slender neck. It was the symbol of our relationship. I owned her and she was mine.
Continuing the inspection, I saw the cute freckles that dotted the creamy flesh of her breasts above her areola. I let my gaze linger on the exaggerated rise and fall of her dark puckered nipples as she breathed excitedly. I continued to explore her nude body with my eyes, studying her firm belly and wide hips, reveling in her splendor.
Her pubic hair was removed, leaving no distraction from her perfect form. She kept herself in excellent shape for me, working at it long hours while we were apart. It was her only job, besides pleasing me, and she did both extremely well. I let my eyes continue down past the treasure between her thighs and contemplated her legs. They were firm and smooth. Shaved bare with no flaws, they seemed to flow down through her knees to rounded full calves and dainty, graceful feet.
"Turn." My voice, more ragged than before, startled her and me alike.
She turned, slowly, knowing what I wanted from months of experience. She was a quick learner, a natural submissive, pliant and giving. She never hesitated or questioned, just obeyed, and my control over her gave me a heady sensation. She would do anything I asked. I knew because I had tested her repeatedly and she had only failed me once, just this once.
I admired her legs from the new angle, a better view of her strong calves, before I let my eyes travel up her body to the soft, full roundness of her creamy white derriere. A freckle at the small of her back drew my eyes up above her exquisite cheeks, and I considered its simplistic beauty for several seconds. Dark brown, nearly black, and perfectly round, it was a single small expression of contrast with the ivory white purity surrounding it.
My breath quickened and I began to feel disconnected from my emotions as I coolly studied my prized possession. I stood and walked around her, my heavy boots clunking loudly on the hard tile floor. She shivered ever so slightly and for the first time I noticed goose bumps on her arms and legs.
"Come." Not permission, a command, and she knew it from the edge in my voice. I strode from the cold room with its impersonal marble tile floor and high vaulted ceiling to a closer, warmer, and far more foreboding place.
My private playroom had wood floors, darker, softer, and warmer than the cold marble of the formal hall. Its walls were finished with a stone facade and fitted with implements of pleasure and pain. A pair of antique stocks sat unused near the center of the room in front of a large soft bed. I stopped in the middle of the room. She quickly took her place two steps behind me and waited while I surveyed my domain. It wasn't really necessary, since I knew each and every toy there by heart, but it was effective for my purposes. I pointedly let my gaze linger on several of the more painful contraptions that graced the walls before pointing to one of them lying on a display stand near the stocks.
The small flogger had eleven long thin strands of leather extending from one end of its leather wrapped handle. Each leather strand ended in a small pellet of lead encased in a velvet pouch. I had never used this particular implement before. It had always been for show, an object of curiosity and threat only.
"Get it." She acted without hesitation, moving silently with a catlike grace to retrieve the flogger. She held it out to me with both hands, submissively bowing her head as she did.
"Kneel." I felt myself becoming more disconnected from the scene, separated from the softer emotions that kept me linked to mundane reality. My already rapid breathing became ragged, and my focus narrowed to her, only her.
She dropped to her knees in front of me. A soft sob forced itself from between her lips before she recovered and regained her silence.
"Failure is rewarded with pain." I said, fighting to control the deep disappointment in my voice. Anger and pride, love and dismay flowed through my veins, a torrent of conflicting emotions both hotter than blood and colder than ice, but I knew them only as a dispassionate viewer. My world consisted only of her.
"You failed me." My voice held an acid tenor I had not intended, and it broke through her stoic silence.
She sobbed openly then, weeping in sorrow, but she did not beg for mercy. Instead she leaned forward and arched her back, wordlessly presenting her flesh in atonement. I raised the flogger and let its weighted ends drag softly from the rounded cleft of her soft bottom up over the small of her back and across her shoulders. My body tightened in reaction to her loveliness and an animalistic growl issued from between my lips.
"Do you have an explanation?" I heard her answer in her thoughts before she spoke. I saw her response before she acted, as if it were being played on a mental screen inside my head. I continued to play the ends of the flogger over her skin as she spoke, my arousal merging with the fury of emotion swelling within me.
"Master, I failed you and I cannot tell you how sorry I am for that. I deserve punishment. I beg you to cleanse me of my failure. Free us both of my wrongdoing, Master, please, so we can go on as before." Sobs shook her body and tears sprang from her down-turned eyes.