It was three days since she had seen him and she had time to ponder. She had been confused. Not by what had been done to her but by what had not.
Before he so unceremoniously removed her clothes, she'd held mental images of painful whippings and clamps squeezing her most delicate of parts but none of that happened. She dreaded it when they began and she was certain it was coming but she felt some sort of disappointment when it didn't happen. A yearning.
This girl was no masochist. She'd heard the term "pain slut" and she knew she was nothing of the sort. As she had been kneeling in front of him, exposed after he so casually sliced her clothing off, she expected to feel stinging blows. Wasn't this the image always portrayed? Wasn't this what it was all about? Wasn't this dominance? She'd been thinking about the event for days now.
Instead he was almost gentle. Well, maybe that was the wrong word. He was amused. He appeared to enjoy her discomfort. He walked slowly around her and smiled slightly. He held her chin and raised it so he looked her in the eye and then , after a moment, pushed her head down as though instructing her to refrain from looking at him again. He momentarily removed the ball gag and he ran his fingers around her mouth and shoved two of them deep between her lips, passing her tongue and eliciting a slight gag. He softly said " We'll have to work on that." He roughly replaced the ball, tightening the leather retaining strap tighter than before.
He put his hand around her throat and squeezed a little more than gently. She felt a bit of panic race through her and it increased as he used his other hand to pinch her nostrils closed. He held her like this, her staring complacently downward and and increasing urgency to breath building inside her. He seemed to understand the exact instant that terror took over her thoughts. She knew he understood that instant because he held on for another two seconds. She gasped and tears began to flow as she regained her composure. He quietly used a little finger to scoop a tear off of her cheek and quietly taste it. His smile deepened as he did this.
All the time she was exposed. This was someone she knew but only in an academic and friendly way. The discussion of this type of intimacy had been one that seemed distant and yet here she was. Open to him. Available. She would later learn just how much he loved that word. Available. Always available. She was proud of her breasts and extended nipples and tried to suck in her belly which was ravaged by time and babies.
Thinking back she wondered if it was then that she began to have the desire. The want. The need to feel. More.
She said she didn't like pain. She felt that it was always something put up with in a lifestyle of pretend subservience and submission. During these moments as his hands freed up her throat she began to fantasize about what a rush of emotion would flow through her body if she were to feel a blow upon her soft skin. As on cue, he brought forth a riding crop.
She'd seen them but only in the context of jockey's and equestrians. She'd never seen anything so fearsome or beautiful. Like many of his toys, she would find it to be hand made. By his hand of course. A black leather wrapping which covered a powerfully stiff and yet flexible carbon fiber shaft. The handle was laced in red leather and red leather tendrils hung off of the business end. She tensed and awaited a stinging blow not knowing where it might land. Her eyes closed and her tears welled up. And nothing happened.
Nothing at all. He waited. He waited until she opened her eyes and then he so slowly dragged the tendrils across her left nipple. A nipple which immediately became so engorged she felt that any more blood flooding to it would surely burst the skin. He dragged it across her breast and circled the soft white flesh. It was summer and she couldn't help notice how deep he was within the tan lines. "No man's land" , her husband had called it. She wondered what her husband would be thinking if he knew what was going on now. Her tormenter continued to refuse to torment her. Slowly she was beginning to crave what she feared and the feeling was one of pure delight and confusion. Why didn't he strike her? She wondered if it would be gentle or brutal. She wondered how she would react. She was determined to be stoic.
She knew he had given her a "safe word" and that she at first thought it was for her protection. He had told her that, while it might protect her, it was her silence or non use of the word that was his permission and that he would never ask. Ever. She found she didn't want him to ask. She crazily did not want him to hold back. She didn't know how she would explain any bruises to her husband but he had been easy enough to avoid anyway. He didn't understand her. She didn't understand herself. She only knew she was exploding with desire for something she would have found abhorrent just a few minutes ago. Confusion raced through her. She wanted to look up at him and beg him to strike her. She could not understand the desire and she knew that, without a word, he had instructed her not to look at him directly.