This, as you have probably guessed by now, was Katya's trick:
If I said the right things, served her the way she wanted me to, and best of all, if I guessed what she wanted without being asked... she gave me what I wanted.
Well, not quite what I wanted, but close. She would let me touch her, massage her. She would kiss me, touch me all over. She'd let me go down on her until she came, over and over. To me, driven to the edge of insanity as I was, my senses heightened, these things became sex.
I couldn't do anything more than that, locked up as I was, but as the weekend progressed a change came over me. As I lay in bed at night, hard against my cage, the fantasies that occupied my mind were no longer about having sex with Katya, as they once had been. Instead, I found myself fantasising about licking her to the most intense orgasm she'd ever had. Or about doing something for her she didn't expect, something far more than she would ever ask for, and seeing her eyes light up.
I'm not stupid: I did psychology 101. It was classical conditioning. She was using my extreme state of arousal and my sexual submissiveness as a carrot. Dangling it in front of me to make me work for her. And the killer part of it was, she didn't even have to let me have it: all she was offering me was a smell of the carrot, a taste. But the carrot itself was never on the table. It was cruel, it was sly, it was... I can't deny it, effective.
And my behaviour changed, too. When we woke up together on Sunday morning, she rolled over and casually asked me what I had planned for the day. And I responded, without thinking: 'I could do all your washing for you. Make breakfast and dinner, like usual. And wash your car?'
'Oh, good,' she said. 'I'm just going out for the afternoon to catch up with some friends, but I'll be back by the time you finish that.'
All I could think about, while she was gone, was how pleased she would be with my work when she returned. I worked hard, did everything I could think of: the house was spotless by the time I was done with it. How would she react, I wondered? Again, my fantasies revolving around how I might be allowed to give her pleasure, to make her cry out the way she did sometimes.
I was still thinking about this when she walked through the front door and found me (still naked) dusting her bookshelf. 'Oh, don't let me stop you,' she said as I turned to greet her. Obediently, I kept going, very conscious of her eyes on me. I knew she was smiling in that smug way of hers, the way that said: yeah, I've got you wrapped all the way around my finger.
Without saying anything else, she left the room for a moment. I kept dusting, determined to be obedient right up until the end of my allotted weekend. I had promised to be her slave, after all, and if I ruined it now and forfeited my reward, I'd never forgive myself.
So I didn't look around when she came back into the room, or when she came to stand directly behind me, both hands curling around my hips and settling on my cage. Her breath was hot in my ear. 'I like what you've become,' she said.
'Do you? And what... what have I become?'
'My slave. Just like you promised. I like that a lot, Dale. I like a man of his word. But do you know what I like even better than that?'
Her right hand moved up to grip my throat. I swallowed. 'What's that?'
Instead of answering, she tilted her hips forward and the strapon she'd been wearing slid into me with surprising ease. Well, maybe not so surprising. I might as well admit that, during the three weeks I'd been locked up and alone I'd experimented with other ways to pleasure myself, with limited success. This, of course, was different.
Very different.