Chapter 1
In the Beginning
It all started online. He wasn't much of a ladies man, and was all together rather unlucky in love. Divorced, single for over 5 years, the textbook definition of the solitary man. He hated hanging out in bars, and had no use for empty, meaningless sex, so as many like him, he got into online games to pass the lonely hours of his nights. He tried to be social with people in the game world, but he felt like he was just going through the motions and most people seemed to have little interest in getting to know who he really was.
During one of those late night gaming sessions, a young woman was complaining she was bored in chat, and figuring he would give one more shot at being social, he invited her to come play with him for a while. To his amazement, she agreed and they spent the next few hours talking a little, and having fun.
The next night, she started talking to him again, teasing him slightly in her own cute little way and being rather open about her sexuality. Before he knew how it happened, they were in a secluded place in the game, and their conversation was going back and forth between science, philosophy, and sex. They just sat and talked for hours, the game forgotten.
It wasn't until a day or two later that she made a confession. She was really starting to like him, but wasn't sure how he would react. In the middle of a very erotic talk about bondage, she came right out and told him that she used to be a porn star. Her sudden admission caught him off guard, and she pressed on, seemingly wanting to tell him every little thing about her that presumably, people had looked down on her for in the past. She was taken aback when her confessions didn't even phase him. Then he surprised her with a confession of his own, telling her that she was close to waking up a part of him that had been locked away for a very long time. Their conversation continued, and she made it her personal mission to finish breaking through his walls.
He was amazed how quickly she did just that. In the matter of a few hours, she had his resolve all but broken. She was very skilled at getting her way, but more than that, he
needed
her to be the one to break through.
Needed
her to be the one he had searched for, the one that could handle the full, unchained power of his love. She spoke of what she was looking for, BDSM was a big part of who she was and she needed someone capable of being her master. She could see his pain clearly in the words he spoke to her, and she knew once that pain was gone there would be no limit to the heights they could reach. The only thing she could do at that moment was promise him she would make up for those five years starting with the first time they could be together.
As time passed, they became closer and he started to believe he had finally found the one he had been searching for. She was unlike any woman he had ever spoken to and he was taken not only by her beauty, but her spirit as well. She had this way about her, carefree yet pragmatic, romantic in one breath, then slutty in the next. The only problem was that she lived so far away. By their second night talking, he knew it was going to be difficult. She was in his thoughts more and more and he felt himself slowly coming back from the darkness that had been surrounding him. Her smile alone, capable of driving away the shadows.
She told him that for the right person, she would happily travel half way around the world and not give it a second thought. This admission both thrilled and terrified him. He was amazed that she seemed to feel about him the same way he felt about her, yet scared that he was unworthy, that if she looked closely enough, she would turn from him just like his few previous lovers.
When he told her this, she wanted to run... Run right to him and wrap her arms around him. Deciding then that he was, without a doubt the master she needed, she began making her plans. She would go to him, she would be his, and take that horrible pain away. Now it was just a matter of finishing her plans. She was so close she could almost feel him touching her, almost see him waiting for her beyond the crowd...
* * *
There he is...
The only thought in her mind when she first catches sight of him across the crowded terminal. He sees her in that same instant, and their eyes lock. She tries to hurry to him, to feel the sweet embrace of his arms for the first time, but the crowd of people slow her progress.
A loud mouthed businessman talking on his cell phone bumps into her, nearly knocking her over without even noticing. Her eyes flash with anger as she turns to chastise the oblivious man, but the harsh comment dies on her lips. She lost sight of
him...