Gerd loosened off and then untied the ropes that bound my wrists and ankles. I rubbed the marks where the flesh had been heavily indented by their tight constriction, sitting at his booted feet now as he watched me. He clipped a leather leash to my collar. "Whenever you are leashed you will remain on all fours unless told otherwise, is that understood boy?" I nodded my acceptance of this rule. "Answer your master boy, a nod is not sufficient".
I heard myself say "Yes Master, I apologise". Once again I found myself meekly accepting his terms and, in doing so, legitimising his power to control me. I was effectively conferring upon him the right to use his power in whatever way he chose. This feeling of total submissiveness was something that was completely new to me. With Debbie I had been the dominant partner, we both liked it that way, now I had entered new and strange, uncharted territory.
Gerd turned towards the entrance. He wrapped his leather gloved fist around the leash, trailing me behind him as if I was some kind of pet. I watched the gleaming shafts of his polished black leather boots and the sway of his similarly clad hips as we now climbed the curved flight of stone steps that led from his subterranean dungeon up into the house above. I was then led along a hallway, crawling on my hands and knees along the wooden floor. We went into a farmhouse kitchen with a large refectory table at the centre. The room was warm, a welcome change after the comparative cool of the dungeon.
Gerd motioned for me to take a seat at the end of the table. Coffee bubbled in a glass percolator and he poured me a mug. The aroma of freshly cooked toast drifted from the range and he placed a plate in front of me. He sat at the far end of the table, watching me as I ate hungrily, having had nothing since the previous afternoon. The morning sun was now slanting in through the large south facing windows.
When he did speak it came as an absolute bombshell to me. "Look boy, how about we call it quits? You have burgled my house and I have given you your punishment. When you have had your breakfast you may as well just leave". He stood up and placed two small keys on the table in front of me. "There are the keys to your collar and cock restraint, your clothes are over there". He pointed to the corner of the room where my jeans, sweater, shoes and socks were all folded in a neat pile.
I felt a strange emotion, almost one of disappointment rising from somewhere deep within me. I had in my own mind already arrived at some kind of acceptance of what Gerd had told me and now It appeared that it had all been a complete fantasy, intended merely to frighten me for my intrusion into his home. I should of course have been feeling a sense of relief but instead I now felt like a pet who had just been told by his owner that he didn't want him. ."And is that really what you want me to do Master?" I studied Gerd for any sign of his feelings in the matter, but saw none, the expression on his handsome face as inscrutable as before.
There was a brief period of silence between us then he spoke. "If you really do wish to stay boy that is fine, however should you decide to do so you will be required to sign a slave contract agreeing to certain terms and conditions." I looked up once more at Gerd. He continued. "A contract of this type would allow me all rights over you. I would be free to use you for any purpose that I saw fit and it would allow me to impose any punishment I choose without the need to justify that punishment in any way. In short you would become my property."
My pulse quickened at the very thought of it. I was still absolutely sure that I wasn't gay. Oddly Gerd using me for his sexual satisfaction the night before had been a turn on because I had gained as much of an erection as the steel chastity lock that he had fitted would allow. But it was the very idea of such a power exchange between two human beings that formed one of the most erotic concepts that I could possibly imagine, a genuine modern day taboo, irrespective of the gender of the participants. I recalled as a youth my discovery of the magic that was sex. At one time I was reading stories of slaves being captured and shipped to the West Indies manacled and chained in the hold of a ship. It had been a school history book that had somehow turned into a strong masturbation fantasy. I had sought out more stories of slavery, eagerly devouring the tales of inhuman cruelty and draconian punishments inflicted, evidently for the sadistic gratification of their owners.
"Should you decide to sign the contract it would be for one month. It would guarantee that you would come to no permanent harm but apart from that you would no rights whatsoever. In effect you would be mere property and subject only to my rules. At the end of one month you would have the option of release or signing a permanent contract of ownership".
I considered his words very carefully. In one way it seemed to be absolute madness to agree to such a thing. I would effectively be placing myself in exactly the position of those slaves that I used to read about. Chained and quite possibly beaten on a regular basis, forced to work without reward and all with absolutely no guarantee that my treatment would be any better than that meted out to their charges by those cruel, whip wielding overseers on those hellish plantations. It crossed my mind that I might possibly be mentally deranged to agree to such a thing. Then I heard myself say quietly and calmly "Master, let's do it."