"Take off your blouse."
Carol didn't look at him to see if he meant it. She knew he did. At first, when Tom had begun these games she'd been uncertain in so many ways. Now she knew him much better, or at least a little bit, and she was just afraid. Well, not only afraid. She was turned on, too. Her fear did didn't mean she didn't want him. Maybe she wanted him all the more because of the things he made her do. But she just liked it so much better when he seemed ... more normal. These sexual games were kind of scary. Only they weren't games. He was entirely serious. The things she did for him shamed and humiliated her. She couldn't tell anyone about them.
He removed the belt from his pants. She watched and knew enough not to speak. She'd done that before, asking him, please, not to do it and he'd hit her harder. He'd explained that he liked the marks it left, he liked that she was afraid of it, he liked it when she whimpered, when she screamed. She never admitted to liking it. She thought he knew, though, and she was sure it didn't matter to him. He'd have beaten her anyway.
She put her hands to the hem of her blouse, knowing it was too late. He had told her to take it off and, right here on the beach or not, that's what he wanted and she hadn't obeyed. The punishments always followed. The blow came as she lifted the thin fabric over her head. She stumbled, her ass burning, and he delivered another, harder and faster, in exactly the same place, as she tore the blouse off. She dropped it at her feet, trembling, and looked at him. The flesh of her ass flamed.
His expression told her nothing. Carol told herself she'd been stupid. She should've taken the blouse off immediately. She shouldn't have made him use the belt. There was no one to see her. The beach stretched for miles, empty in all directions. The weather and the earliness of the season had kept everyone else away. She could've removed her skirt too and she wouldn't have been exposed to anyone but him.
"Go find a stick. Something small. Bring it back here in your mouth with your hands behind your back."
He turned away to look at the ocean.