In every relationship, there are some days when you feel really connected, and there are other days when one or both of you are just too tired to focus on each other. And in a D/s relationship, sometimes it doesn't really make sense to try to play on those days.
It was once again scene night. My wife was pretty tired, and I was half expecting her to tell me that we weren't going to play tonight, but she didn't. In hindsight, I suspect that she didn't want to cancel on me because we'd been talking so much lately about wanting to make more time for playing.
After I put our son to bed, I stripped and put on my collar. Mistress told me to get her long leather flogger and my blindfold and go into the guest room to wait for her.
I got her flogger from its hook in our closet and went to the guest room. I grabbed a pillow and kneeled on it, put on my blindfold, and held out my arms with the flogger laying across them, so that it was presented for her use when she walked into the room.
She came in a minute later. "Get on your hands and knees."
"Yes, Mistress." I pushed the pillow aside and got down on all fours. Then, thinking for a moment, I went down onto my elbows, so that my ass was tilted upwards a bit.
"Oh, very nice, Slave." She started by spanking me with her bare hand on both of my ass cheeks. It was a lot harder than I expected right off the bat, but if that's what she wanted to do to me, I would do my best to take it for her. "Mmm, I love how red your ass gets."
I smiled. "I know, Mistress."
Then she picked up her flogger and spent a few minutes striking my ass with it. Again, she hit with a lot more force than I was expecting. It stung badly, especially right after being spanked. I wasn't sure why she was hitting me so hard, but I thought that maybe she was using me to relieve some of the stress she'd been under. If I could be that outlet for her, I would gladly do so.
"Stand up."
"Yes, Mistress," I complied.
"Move over in front of the exercise machine."
I still had the blindfold on, so she helped me move over in front of the exercise machine. I grabbed onto it and she stepped back.
She picked up her flogger again and started hammering my shoulders. Again, she didn't warm me up this time nearly as much as she had in the past. I knew this was going to be an intense session, because she hadn't bothered starting with circular swings; instead, she'd gone straight to striking me overhand. With each strike, she was hitting me harder and harder. My skin was burning, and I was crying out with each impact.
After a while, she paused to run her hands over my sore skin, enjoying the way I hissed at the contact. "Mmm, I love seeing you so red."
Then she stepped back again. "I'm going to give you 10 more on each shoulder."
She proceeded to do exactly that, using extremely hard overhand strikes. My skin was stinging in pain, and I wasn't really feeling the kind of connection with her that usually makes it easier to tolerate the pain, but I also wasn't really hitting any kind of limit. I hoped that she was enjoying it.
Once she was done turning both of my shoulders red, she came up behind me and ran her fingers over my inflamed skin. "Mmmm, nice and red."
Then she took off my blindfold and reached down in front of me to fondle my cock through its cage. I moaned in pleasure. But after a moment, she stopped and told me to go get my strap-on and some lube.
I went back to our bedroom to grab the strap-on. We had apparently taken the big life-like dildo out of the harness the last time we'd used it, and it took a little bit of time to get it re-attached.
"What's taking so long?" she called.
"Sorry, Mistress. I'm trying to get the dildo back into the harness."
"Bring it in here."