Pulling the last knot tight, she stepped back to view her project.
Damn, he looked good like that.
He was stretched across her very first bondage horse. His arms were spread out - displaying his full wing span. Once he had balanced his fine form across the padded leather, she had set about tying his wrists to help him hold his body in place. Past his upper chest, he was balanced on a necessarily thin centre bar which ran down to a carefully constructed bottom section, where his knees were on cushioned brackets and he could lean his thighs against padded supports - leaving all the more important parts of him uncovered and accessible for play.
Next time she was going to learn more about the ropes and make the ones holding his broad legs slightly spread against the pads more beautiful.
What needed to change was that expression on his face. He was smirking!
"Are we having fun yet?" he quipped, eyes dancing.
Her eyes narrowed. He is not taking me seriously, she thought. That will change too.
At him, she smiled.
She bent down to kiss him. He reached up as far as he could and met her mouth - his breathing was somewhat shallow - the only evidence that he was not completely unaffected by the anticipation about what was about to happen. Or maybe it was just the binding.
He tried to control the kiss. She pulled back just out of reach.
"We have to talk" she began.
"So you said..." he started.
She held her finger to his lips. He laughed at her with his eyes.
Laughed at her!
"I really like you..." she started.
"I really like you too."
She rolled her eyes. It was going to go on like this.
She stepped to the side. He lay his cheek on the headrest and followed her with his eyes as far as he could - an encouraging smile on his face.
She began standing just behind his displayed shoulders. She leaned down and kissed the one closest to her. She stretched herself out to lay light fingertips as far along his arms as she could reach and slowly drew them inwards, traced the muscles, drifted down the trapped shoulder blades and back.
He closed his eyes and looked relaxed. He looked like he was enjoying a spa treatment.
She turned her back to his arms, flattened her hands and continued the light, almost floating tracing of his muscles... down his back, in at his waist, over his hips... lightly around his buttocks, down his thighs... At this point she was bent over his lower back to reach, so she gave his butt a quick kiss.
"Mmmmh" he said.
She straightened and continued to run her fingertips up and down his skin - awakening nerve endings, training his attention on her touch as she moved back and forth in an almost hypnotic pace.
"You have been an unexpected pleasure." she began again. "A discovery."
She started to move her hands in wider arcs, walking back and forth along the length of his extended form.
"You have tempted me with the opportunity to share deeper fantasies and darker desires than I have shared with anyone else."
She slid her hands in circles around his ass, slowly coming up the centre and brushing the back of his ball sack. He quivered and tried to spread his legs further - but the ropes held.
"I look forward to every opportunity to talk to you. We tease, we share, we explore..."
Her single hand came up to circle his anus. His muscles tensed slightly... and then began to relax again at her firm and rhythmic pressure.
"... but so many times it is your turn to answer a question, or even when I have you aroused, suddenly you disappear..."
"Come on honey" he mumbles entranced by the sensations "you know that I have work and other responsibilities."
"I do." she cooed "I understand that sometimes you need to go - maybe even without any notice..." She leaned over and liberally lubricated her hands.
Starting where she left off - deep in the cleft of his bum, she smoothed the lotion down, over his balls and along his partially thickened cock - smiling as she pulled the lotion over every inch as it grew in her hands.
"Ooooohh yeah... that's it baby" he mumbled.
"You see - sweetie - when you leave me like that, it can be very frustrating."
"Sure hun, I get that. I don't like it either." He made to shrug, but didn't quite have the room to move his shoulders that far. "but there isn't anything that can be done about it. I'm just... oooh yes, just like that... really... busy."
She continued to stroke up and down his cock, all around his balls and back up and down his perineum and ass.
A shudder ran through him.
"This is why I said you could have sex with other people" he carefully mentioned. His eyes were closed in concentration.
She leaned forward across his back, putting her ear down to hear his heartbeat and momentarily stilled her hands holding his cock.
"I did." she announced "yesterday I fucked three men."
She felt it. A definite increase in his heartbeat and a throbbing in his cock. This was why this man was worth fighting for.
"Good..." he moaned "good girl. Don't stop. You're such a good slut."
She added more lube and continued her stroking.
"But it is just not the same. The orgasms are not as good as they are with you."
She watched a smile of pride momentarily brighten his face.
"It's just how it is." He summarized, although in a somewhat laboured voice.
"I think the solution is better communication. I am just asking you to think ahead - to think of when we can have dedicated time to each other and for us to plan a little - so I am not left waiting..." she increased her speed and motion up and down his shaft and around his head "for you to come... back".
He swivelled his head around to the side she was on and tried to make eye contact. He flashed his most dazzling smile.
"I will try harder to do better." She could almost hear him wiggling his eyebrows at his own pun.
"It has been days since we were intimate." she said softly. She took a breath and tried to separate the facts from the emotion. "I see you come online, but you do not contact me. It makes me ache."
She took a breath.
"I know you want to spend time with other people too - and I try to be understanding of that. Time with you is just so precious to me. I miss you."
"I'm here now baby" he crooned "un-tie me and I'll show you what you mean to me right now."
She stopped what she was doing, stood up and walked around to face him. He was putting on a look that was both the picture of innocence and yet one that made promises of guilty pleasures. His eyes glowed with a look of success. She projected her own innocent smile.
Something in her eyes caused a glint of suspicion to cross his face.
She bent down and kissed him deeply - exploring his mouth with her tongue, and letting him explore her's back. He made to bring his arms around her, momentarily forgetting the confines.
"Let me go Princess." he ordered.
"Close your eyes" she countered. He smiled and complied.
"Open your mouth wide" she asked. He frowned for half a second, and then obeyed.
She slipped the ball-gag in place.
She barely got the velcro fastened as his head pulled back and his eyes flashed open.
"Wmaat meeh fffuuuuvw?" She did not need that translated.
She walked out of sight and immediately went back to the same rhythm of touches along his back, this time watching the muscles as they seethed and writhed under his skin as he tried in earnest to pull out of the ropes. As her hands once more moved below his waist, his own body betrayed him slightly by moving into her hands instead of away from them.
He visibly changed tactics.
He stilled and gestured with his head for her to come back where he could see her. She walked all the way around the horse to come back into his view from the other side.
She looked down at him with a touch of concern, but mostly overwhelming delight.