She heard the knock at the door. Then voices, a brief conversation. Every nerve on her body tingled. She heard the door close. They were alone.
She sat in darkness. It had been less than half an hour since she had knocked at the door and been let in by her man - and the hotel suite was the last thing that she saw. He had been waiting behind the door. It had been a simple word of command.
"Stop!"
She had frozen. He was behind her. She knew what he wanted, what she wanted, but this was the reality. In the next instant a silk scarf had been placed carefully across her eyes, robbing her of her sight. Blindfolded, she was entirely in his hands. Her breathing quickened, but his hands on her arms reassured her, followed by a light kiss on the back of her neck. She could sense his eyes judging her.
She had dressed as he wanted. The black dress was moulded to her body, below knee length, classy with cap sleeves, her otherwise bare upper arms decorated with simple silver armlets. Her hair, brunette with red highlights, was tight to her head in a French Knot.
"Do not move." His voice. She would not have dared to disobey.
She felt his fingers at the fastenings of her dress, the slow movement as he caressed her body as the garment was removed, slid over her body to the floor. His hands were careful with their prize. He held her hand as she stepped out of the dress. She stood there, feeling the warmth of the room against her flesh, now clad in the black underwear he had demanded. Again he was behind her, and again his nimble fingers at her back, unfastening the bra. She felt the lace fall away, her breasts free.
He had held her hand and escorted her into the bedroom of the hotel suite. On the way he had her step out of her black heels. He sat her down on a chair in the bedroom. She felt him raise her legs and slowly peel off the hold-up stockings he had commanded adorn her legs, feeling his hands stroke her limbs as he removed the stockings, reverently touching the sheer black fabric. Now only her armlets, the silk blindfold and brief tanga panties on her body, she sat still as he used the stockings on each ankle, binding them to the legs of the chair. Her legs tied apart, her anticipation grew. She could sense behind the blindfold that the room was dimly lit. Then her arms were held behind her.
Another silk scarf. More than that, she knew that it was one of hers! She painted scarves part time to earn a little more money and use the creative side of her that her boring office job held in. That was how they met, when he had bought one - and then another. Now they were being used on her. He looped it through her armlets, tying the scarf and joining them, her arms now held in place. She knew what was coming next and was satisfied when she felt the next scarf against her wrists as they were bound behind her.
He stood back at the woman, surveying his creation. "Miss Smith... you look... beautiful."
She could not tell how he was dressed, but guessed a suit, dark, commanding. She knew well the usual look in his eyes that matched that description too. In her blind darkness her other senses heightened, including her imagination.
He left her for a minute. Picking up her dress, bra and heels he brought them into the bedroom, laying the clothing over the other chair, neatly folded, shoes laid between the chair legs in careful symmetry. Everything was properly attended to, exact, precise.
It was then she heard him on the hotel telephone. He ordered room service. What could be happening?
He returned to her.
"I have ordered something for us to drink, to enjoy." She felt him caress her hair with the back of his hand. "Then we shall see about the evening." His tone was even, gentlemanly. There was no sense of excitement in his words - events were happening exactly a he planned - and there was no argument.
"I do not want to be disturbed while I deal with this so..."
The next fabric she felt was cotton. Not one of her scarves. It was sudden and tight against her lips. Wound round, secured - one of his handkerchiefs? Her breathing quickened again as she gagged on the cloth. And that was how he had left her as he opened the door, greeted and tipped the room service, took possession of the bottle of champagne on ice - the staff not knowing of the presence of the woman behind the closed door to the bedroom.
The woman, Miss Smith, who sat there, awaiting her man. Bound, blindfolded, gagged, helpless.