He had arrived at the hotel first, checked in at the front desk and told them his partner would be joining him in thirty minutes and to please have a second card key ready for her. He took the lift to the tenth floor and when he stepped out he looked towards the river side and saw the door. The room was on the corner, windows on two sides looking out over the river with the city behind, the sun already low and shining between gaps in the high rise buildings.
He checked his watch and prepared the room. The hotel had given him a bottle of champagne in a silver bucket on ice, as ordered. He popped the cork and poured himself a glass and took a sip and let it work on him. There was a large King bed on the back wall facing the window, but he would have no use for that until afterwards. He pushed the armchair to the centre of the room and angled it towards the windows, then moved the coffee table into the corner between the windows, touching the glass on both sides.
He had told her he liked red and she'd said she had nothing, so he had travelled into the city and shopped on his own, buying red heels in her size and a red corset with black stockings. Then he had sent it all to her with a note about how she was to wear it all, with just her long black coat over it, and to meet him at the hotel at six that evening, when the sun would be setting. The gift box had a lipstick and nail varnish the same shade of red as the shoes. He did not need to tell her what to do with those. She was to text him when she was in the lift.
He had told her that she was not allowed to speak that evening, except for one question she was could ask him.
He caught his reflection in the glass: black suit, white shirt, black tie. He took a long breath and took another sip from his glass, and then his phone vibrated in his pocket and chimed with the sound he had chosen just for her. She was in the lift and on her way to him.
He sat down in the chair and leaned back, crossing his legs, and looked out at the city as the sun disappeared below the horizon and the sky turned gold, then he heard the click and buzz of her key card in the door, then the thump as the door closed behind her. He did not turn to look.
She walked into the room and past the chair, the collar on her long black coat turned up and an overnight bag over her shoulder.
'Put your bag on the bed and then stand on the coffee table,' he said, motioning towards the window with his champagne glass. While she did that he stood and filled a second glass, and when she stepped up onto the table and turned to face him he handed her the glass and returned to his chair.
He sat down and raised his glass. 'Cheers' he said and drank, and she drank with him. They kept eye contact as they sipped. She looked magnificent, her jet black hair combed straight and just touching the collar of her coat. Her fringe dead straight just below her eyebrows, her eyes staring at him from a ring of heavy eyeliner. They watched each other until their glasses were empty and then he put down his glass. She bent down and put her glass on the table and he liked the curve of her calves as they went into the sharp red heels he had bought her. She stood up straight and waited.
'Open your coat,' he said.
She untied the belt and undid the buttons and help the coat open for him. She threw out a hip and struck a pose and smiled at him but he wasn't looking at her face. The red corset fit her perfectly, pushing up her breasts towards her slender neck. The black stockings were stay-ups, no need for suspenders on the corset, and he liked the way the skin of her thigh above the top of the stockings shone pale in the last of the sunset coming through the windows.
She wore no panties, and she saw him looking, so she leaned back against the glass and rocked forward on her heels, pushing her hips out, her legs planted wide. There is just enough light for him to see between her legs, the sunset behind her, making her a silhouette outlined in red, the light almost the same colour as the fabric of her corset.
'Take off the coat,' he said, and she did, tossing it across onto the couch and staring at him, leaning back again against the glass, her legs wider now and her hips tilted far enough that he could see her bare pussy shining wet.
He pushed himself out of the chair and walked towards her. He held out his hand and she took it and stepped down from the table.
'Inspection,' he said. She adopted the pose as instructed, standing with her feet shoulder width apart and her hands on top of her head. 'Turn around,' he said. 'Don't look at me. Look at the city.'
She turned and faced the window and picked a building to look at, the lights in it visible now as darkness crept across the city. He was standing behind her now.
'Lift your hair,' he said, and she did, exposing the nape of her neck to him. He admired her neck, and his eyes ran down her spine to look at the lacing down the back of the corset. A few of the laces were hanging slack, and the line of brass eyelets wasn't straight. His fingers went to each lace in turn and cinched it tighter.
'I really shouldn't have let you get dressed alone,' he said. 'Breath in.'
He went back up the line of her spine and cinched each lace a little tighter, and when he had finished he reached around her and ran his hands up and down the front of the corset to check it that it fitted better now. When his hands reached her breasts she let out her breath and sighed. He pulled her to him and flipped the underwire of the corset so her breasts spilled free. He cupped them in his hands and stroked her nipples with his thumbs and when she sighed again he leaned in and kissed the nape of her neck behind her ear and plucked her nipples under they came up hard.
'Are you wet for me?' he asked and when she nodded he lowered one hand and ran a finger down the wet fold of her pussy. 'Yes you are,' he said, and stroked her clit lightly with the tip of his finger.
She leaned over a little, pushing her ass back into him until she could feel his hard cock against her cheek and they stood like that, his arms locked around her, caressing her and kissing her neck.
He dropped his hands and took a step back, and then reached into the pocket of his jacket. He brought out a red leather collar, with black stitching, and a silver hard embroidered into the throat. It had a small silver buckle on one side which he undid and looped the collar around her neck. He fastened the buckle loose and brought a slender silver chain from his other pocket and fastened it to a loop in the buckle. He held on to the loop of red leather on the end of the chain and pulled it lightly so that she tilted her head to the left and he put his nose into the hollow between her neck and shoulder and inhaled the scent of her skin.
He put his mouth close to her ear and whispered: 'Do you submit to me?'
She tried to nod but he snapped the chain tight. 'You can answer me this one time,' he said. 'Do you submit to me?'
'Yes, Sir,' she replied, a small croak in her voice.