Taking Control is not just a graphic BDSM story and sex novel, but a full length dark contemporary thriller in 10 parts.
With adult themed erotic romance, and explicit sexual content, it involves Ava and Lorenzo's unusual sex life and sub and dom predilections and certainly gets darker as it progresses. This deals with the aftermath of Ava's experiences at the hands of James, and her final future.
Readers should bear in mind this story is pure fantasy and includes some of the more unusual and painful BDSM themes. Whilst I have personally tried some of the less uncomfortable practices (a good spanking is a favourite), I haven't indulged in strappado, whipping or caning or the medical device aspects. And, of course, no-one condones non-consensual sex.
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Losing control
James awoke with a headache. It was dark. Where the hell was he? He tried to remember. Had he fallen over? Was he outside? No, it was warm, but he was in pain, sitting on the floor with all his upper body weight taken by his arms. His hands were tied somehow, spreading his arms wide, level with his head.
As his eyes became accustomed to the gloom, he saw a small blinking light on a panel, a few feet ahead. His arms were in agony, tied behind him, to what felt like a rail. His back and neck ached from the enforced upright position. He felt something tied tight around his waist, and his legs were spread wide in front of him, shackled apart.
He couldn't hear any sounds of the city outside though, that constant rumble that drilled into your head every day. He decided to risk calling out and shouting for help. His voice reverberated loudly off walls that sounded very close by, the echo suggesting he was in a small room or chamber. They sounded like metal walls, maybe some sort of steel box, or a shipping container? He'd been in one of those collecting goods from the docks, and they usually stank. But there was no obvious smell in here, which suggested it was clean or possibly new. He gave up. He had no idea where he was.
Despite the tension pulling on his shoulders, he dozed off briefly. When he opened his eyes again, he could hear the high whine of a motor somewhere above, then the box seemed to move. It felt like it was being lifted, maybe by a crane? Were they putting the metal box onto the back of a ship, heading out of Hong Kong?
The movement stopped suddenly. Then there was a rumbling noise, and a dazzling white vertical slit of light appeared directly in front of him. His eyes stung with the brightness of the light after the hours of darkness, but he realised they were sliding doors.
A lift. He was in a lift somewhere, but where? He could make out a figure directly in front of the brightness, the strong sunlight that was coming from a tall high window in the wall far behind. The tall person was standing four feet back from the door and about eight feet away from him. Slowly the image resolved into the outline of a woman, an attractive one, from the outline of what he could see.
As his eyes adjusted to the dark and bright light contrast, the outline resolved itself in more detail. Long legs dressed in dark jeans, with hourglass proportions and a tight-fitting top. Beautiful, rounded breasts too. He could see long shiny black straight hair and just the top half of the woman's face, strikingly beautiful but with a cruel streak to it somehow, revealed by a tight crinkle around her eyes. Her mouth and nose were completely covered by a white surgical mask. In her hand she carried a small black leather case.
"Interesting. You don't have any idea who I am, do you?"
The voice, muffled behind the white mask, was mellifluous.
He wracked his brain but couldn't remember anything from the previous night. Just leaving his office in town and taking his usual short cut down a range of local alleyways to get home. But after that, he remembered nothing.
He struggled to speak, his mouth dry. Had he been knocked out? Or was it the after effects of some drug he'd been given?
"Nn....no. Who are you? What is this place? Why am I tied up in this lift?"
"So, you worked that one out. Bright boy. All in good time."
The voice was calm, smooth, cultured and, in normal circumstances, he'd have considered it sexy too.
He tried to see her better but couldn't move his neck, or look down, his head secured in a type of frame that kept him facing forward. There was something hanging around his neck too. He could feel a cool breeze on his chest, rising up the stairwell and across, into the lift. As his nipples began to stiffen in the draught, he realised he had no shirt on. And where were his trousers?
By shifting his weight slightly on the floor, he swiftly discovered he was naked. His legs spread wide, the rough hard-wearing carpet in the lift was scuffing the base of his scrotum every time he moved.
So, he had been abducted, stripped and tied up on the floor of a lift by this woman or others. He had no idea where he was. Normally highly confident, he began to feel scared. You heard of stories like this in the papers, mostly happening to women. They didn't end well.
"Where am I? Why am I here? What are you going to do to me?"
He struggled to move, but to no avail. He decided to change tack.
"Look, whoever you are, just let me go. I won't tell anyone."
"You're not going anywhere. How can you? You can't move. And you won't be telling anyone about this situation you're in either."