(Many- per haps 15 years ago a I read a story that started more or less this way, I think. It stayed with me. So I want to thank that unknown author for the inspiration and hope that my imagination has taken this in a different enough direction that it stands as a homage instead of an act of plagarism.)
Valerie was nauseous with anxiety. She couldn't eat, she had anxious jitters while she bathed and dressed. She had to redo her eye makeup three times because her hands were shaking.
Five years ago, she had made a terrible mistake, she knew that now. She thought she was making the right choice when she walked out on her then husband. She was wrong. Good choices come from positive places within you. Her choice had come from fear. Back then she thought she feared him. She now realized that she had been afraid of herself, of who and what she really was. He had been harsh, scary even, but that was because he knew what she truly needed.
She had run, divorced and then married a guy who was safe, reliable, kind even and generous enough. He was a good man who would probably make a good father someday. But he had no fire, no determination. She didn't try to boss him, but he always caved so easily. Over time she came to grasp that she needed strength in a man, maybe even dominance. She found making all the decisions in their home exhausting. And, oh yeah, the sex was dull.
Five years ago she thought that was the life she needed. It had been a terrible mistake. She was bored, depressed and in need of ungentlemanly treatment. What she really wanted was what she had run from.
Tonight she was going back, to beg forgiveness, to beg for a second chance...to beg to submit. She was terrified both by the prospect that he might say yes, and equally by the concern than he might say no.
Too nervous to drive, she had called an Uber to take her to her former home. She had emailed asking to meet...Please! She had a request. He had replied with nothing more than a date and time...this day, this hour.
She rang the bell and waited...and waited. She considered ringing again but instead just stood there in the chilly spring evening. She reminded herself that just being here was an act of submission. And what to submissive do? They give control to the Master. So she waited.
After several minutes the heavy wooden door opened and there he stood, her ex, the man from whom she had run. He stepped back silently allowing her to enter. No greeting. He led her to a sitting room and sat in his imposing wing chair. She remained standing looking at the floor.
"Wine?" he asked.
"Oh, yes please...sir. This is hard. It might help."
He poured her a generous glass, himself less than half that amount.
"Sit." It was not an invitation, but a command. Valerie sat.
"Why are you here?"
"Ben...Bennett...sir... her voice trailed off."
"Are you here to waste my time? If so, drink up and go. But if you have something to say, say it now. You have one chance."
She gulped. "I was wrong to leave. I treated you very badly. I was wrong to refuse. I was afraid of you...of myself and my feelings. I want another chance, please?
"That's not nearly good enough. Be clear."
"Sir when you bound me that night and told me you owned me I was terrified. You took me that night...I didn't give myself to you...but neither did I ask you to stop. I was so aroused, Bennett and it scared me. When you freed me and went to sleep, I ran. That was wrong on many levels, but I kept running.
"I divorced you and quickly married the safest man I could find..."
"And?"
"From the very beginning whenever he made love to me I imagined I was tied up and being fucked by you."
"And?"
"I would like you to take me back. To use me, to make me serve you."
"I think there is a word you know but dare not speak."
"Please make me your slave. Make me serve you." Tears quietly rolled down my cheeks.
"This is an odd request coming from a woman who is married, expensively dressed and sipping good wine on my couch."
I looked at him, startled and confused. I suppose I imagined we would negotiate some arrangement that was gradual and mutually agreeable. Well, I would discover that we would come to an agreement, just not the slow and gentle way I had imagined. I had a lot to learn.
"If you want to be a slave, act like a slave!"
Slowly I knelt on the floor before him.
"Good first step, but not quite enough."
A bolt of fear shot up may back. I stood, understanding finally. I had to demonstrate my need. With trembling fingers I began to undress.
"This isn't your boudoir, my dear. STRIP NOW!"
I threw off my clothes too fearful to even be embarrassed or ashamed. When he spoke harshly my nipples hardened and my pus...my cunt started to leak.
Naked I knelt again.
"Not there...over on the hardwood floor in the front hall. Hands behind your back and look at me."
"I have no idea if you are for real or just a confused little girl. Do you have any idea what being a slave really is? Do you think it's just toy handcuffs and the occasional blow job? I have company coming any minute now. You will not speak at all until I tell you, you will follow us on your hands and knees into my playroom, and while I am enjoying my friend, you will take pen and paper and write down not what you hope will happen, but what you think will happen, how you will serve me, and what that will mean to you. This will be your only chance to witness a real kind of slavery. If I accept you, you will be the real slave from here on.
"Oh, and if you were hoping for a quick fuck, it won't be tonight, though you will get to taste my cum...if you don't run away a second time.
"Frankly, I don't trust you Valerie. It may well be that you need my guidance and would benefit from it, but you were too fucked up to know it then and I am not at all sure you know what you want now. Before I make any decision, you will need testing. Where is your husband? Does he know you are here?"
"No...Master..."
"I am not your Master yet and may never be. Call me Sir."
"He does not know. Sir. He is away for three weeks on a work trip."