This story was inspired by a photograph. The naked model is as described in the story...standing on tip toes, bent forward at the hips, holding onto the frame of an antique bed. The picture was so perfect that I wrote this as an homage to her poise and beauty.
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She knelt, patiently.
Her thoughts drifted like leaves on a lake, caught on eddies and swirled around by the wind.
He body was graceful and poised...slim, pert, held in readiness for her Master. Being his gave her a sense of place, of purpose, of pride. Others might compliment her on her beautiful face, her defined lips, her dancer's body, but all those were illusions for her...mere accidents of birth.
What gave her pleasure, gave her earth in which to grow, was her Master's control over her, his discipline, his purpose with her. He didn't fawn over her or defer to her wishes. With him she knew her place, and she knew that in that place she made him happy. Serving him and his desires filled her with bliss, even as sometimes her body sang with pain, or endured discomfort until his pleasure filled her with his essence.
She heard his footsteps behind her, and his hand wrap itself in her loose hair.
"Come"
One word, and his hand pulling her up by her hair, and she rose to her feet without comment or hesitation. Almost any other man would have paused to admire her, to praise her, to compliment her and ask to touch her breasts or kiss her lips.
Not him. In those early days he had come, he had discerned, he had taken, and she had given. He saw her need to be useful, to have pain, to be valued for what she gave, not how she looked, though seeing his arousal at times gave her pride that her body was one that pleased him enough to find pleasure in it so often.
So, casually, he lifted her and took her where he wanted.
His hand still in her hair, holding her head upright, he walked her over to the iron bedstead. His shoes echoed on the floor, muffling the sound of her bare feet. She loved being naked while he remained clothed...it reminded her of her availability to him, of his right to decide what she wore, or not.
At the end of the bed, with her facing the bare mattress, her took his hand from her hair.
"Present"
For months they had talked about this. Her job prevented her from giving him a deeper part of herself, her desire for pain, to take his pain, to feel his passion through a cane.
He spanked her often, he even paddled her. She enjoyed those sessions, the bite of the impact, the heat of the after glow, the tears as they released, and then...with him and with such intensity, the raw adrenaline fuelled sex.
He used clamps and pegs, rope work and restraints, and other darker pleasures...but never, until now, had she been able to give her Master her skin to mark, to welt, to bruise, to use as a canvas that she could then admire and treasure for days afterwards.
They had saved for this, set aside time and money so that for several weeks she would be able to watch the bruises blossom, bloom, and then fade, her flawless skin returning to its pale glory for the photo shoots that paid her rent and college fees.