Jessica loved seeing more of the city, especially when it was this vibrant and lit up by the neon street lights and bright shop signs.
"The office is a short walk from my home, so most days I try to walk." Samantha explained as they drove along the busy streets.
"I only drive when the weather is terrible or I'm late, which usually is most of the time I'm ashamed to say!"
After a rather emotional visit to the police station to give Jessica's statement, Samantha drove them into the heart of the city, before they pulled into a small parking garage underneath a tall block overlooking the harbour.
"Excited?" Samantha said as they got out and headed to a small elevator.
The parking lot itself only had about a dozen parking spaces, and Samantha's seemed to be the largest and closest to the elevator.
Jessica nodded and followed Samantha into the elevator which ascended one story to the ground floor. Inside the entrance hall of the building consisted of an old fashioned ornate elevator around which a set of stairs wound up the walls of the open stairwell like a snake.
Samantha put her key into the top number of the lift and turned it, the light for the 10th floor lighting up. As the elevator ascended Jessica watched the floors pass them by, the stairs would be a killer if the elevator ever broke. The elevator headed up and up until they reached the very top of the building. Outside the elevator, the stairwell also came to a halt and in front of them was a single door. Samantha's penthouse seemed to take up the entire floor.
"Welcome home Jessica." Samantha said opening the door and stepping to one side to let Jessica in.
Jessica hadn't expected to enter such a grand flat, and she nervously stepped into the hall, her mouth wide open in awe of what she was seeing. The hall way was bright and open and directly in front of the doorway was a huge black and white canvas.
The erotic photograph showed the bound hands of a naked woman resting above her bottom which bore obvious signs of being caned, even despite the monotone colour the thick stripes were clearly visible.
Jessica recognized the rear end of Tessa immediately and smiled, every day she'd at least get to see that much of her friend. The flat went off in either direction down brightly spot lit corridors and Jessica could see more images as she walked in further into the flat.
"I take it you recognize the derrière?" Samantha joked.
Jessica nodded and smiled at Samantha. She momentarily wondered if one day her body would also be on show somewhere in the flat.
"Take a look around my dear, it's your home now as well," Samantha said putting her bag down by the door and throwing her keys into a small pot on the stand next to the door.
The hall way opened out either side of the huge canvas into the living area which was sunk into the room by a couple of steps. Two large leather sofa's sat in the middle of the sunken floor facing each other with a large solid wood coffee table in-between, but it was the other furniture in the room catching Jessica's eye and making her legs tremble a little in anticipation. Having read countless Femdom magazines she recognized the items immediately.
On the wall closest to Jessica proudly stood a jet black St Andrews cross, countless leather straps hung invitingly open from metal eye bolts along the length of the beams. There seemed to be a built in cupboard on the wall next to the cross, its matching wooden doors held firmly locked together with a large bolt and padlock.
As Jessica stepped down into the room more of it came into view. Mounted on the other side of the wall with the erotic image was a huge LCD TV, but Jessica's eyes rested on the item past it a few feet behind the second sofa. It was a heavy black metal puppy cage, with a dark red leather padded base. Behind that further was the dining area, a long 8 seater wooden table surrounded by chairs that matched the leather of the sofa and the wood of the coffee table.
On the far side of the room from the entrance, where the floor stepped back up the walls were actually floor to ceiling sliding doors. Jessica could see a balcony outside that had an incredible view of the city's harbour, along with a room for some fancy wicker garden furniture. Her eyes however soon snapped back to the item of furniture that took central place in front of the sliding doors leading outside. A red and black leather whipping bench had been fixed to the floor, once again thick leather straps sat invitingly open, ready for use.
"I see you approve of my decorating" Samantha said, as she followed Jessica around the flat.
"Oh Mistress, it's wonderful. I've never seen anything like it!" Jessica said smiling back.
"Perks of the job I guess, I got all this at a vastly reduced price from my supplier. All it took was a quick photo shoot and preferential placement of a few advertisements!" Samantha said tossing her jacket over one of the sofa's.
"My room is round there" Samantha said pointing off to the left of the balcony doors.
"Plenty of time to show you that later," she joked bumping Jessica with her hip and giggling.
"Let's show you to your room, and then sort out some food. I don't know about you but I'm starving!" Samantha said grinning.
Jessica nodded and followed her Mistress back towards the front door and down the corridor they started in. Samantha pointed out the door to the bathroom to Jessica and then opened the door to the room opposite it.
Once again Jessica was lost for words as she looked into the large room to see it dominated by a large four posted bed, but not a conventional one. It was a clearly a BDSM bed in line with the other furniture, the framework was made of the same heavy jet black wood as the St. Andrews cross in the living room. Like that, there were eye bolts fixed at multiple locations on all the beams. Besides the bed was a small beside table and reading light.
Samantha entered to room and opened a door to show Jessica a walk in wardrobe, the contents at the back made her gasp. The rear wall was filled with countless restraints, ropes, gags, and all sorts of punishment devices such as floggers, canes and paddles. There were a number of draws, but they were closed. Off to the right hand side of this display was a long clothes rail, whilst on the left hand side there were 5 small shelves split into compartments.
The rails and shelves themselves were empty, awaiting Jessica's clothes.
"We'll get you new clothes sorted at some point in the near future. I want my slave, sorry assistant to be dressed in only the best" Samantha said.
Jessica felt a flush of excitement run through her body as Samantha said slave, it was the first time she had been referred to as this by her Mistress and it sent a shiver of excitement through her body.
Shutting the door Samantha told Jessica to put down her things and join her in the kitchen. Jessica wasn't surprised to find that the kitchen was fitted to an equally high standard, although this seemed to be the only rooms she had seen so far that was free of bondage furniture. Samantha sat on one of the stools of the breakfast bar and pointed at a cupboard.
"Two glasses, wine in the fridge!" Samantha said smiling. "Oh, and in the bottom draw over there are the take away menu's."
