Travis came home to find Sara and Yvoine in bed. This was becoming a more and more frequent occurrence. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate the fact that his fiancΓ© had discovered both her love of dominating others as part of her sex play and that she had also discovered her bisexual tendencies. What bothered him was that all too often he would find Yvoine in the house without her collar.
"She had to wear it," he instructed Sara, trying to keep his voice under control. They had entered into their own relationship as equals, sharing Yvoine as their slave, but sometimes Sara wasn't firm enough in her discipline. "I don't care if she's clothed or not in the house, but she must wear her collar."
"I always make sure she has something on," Sara insisted.
He shook his head at her. "The necklace isn't good enough. Not in the house. The necklace is what she wears on the outside, it's her symbol that shows she belongs to us. But inside the house, she needs to wear the leather collar. It's not just the ritual, it helps put her in the correct mindset for when she's to be controlled. She needs to physically understand that she is a slave."
"She's not stupid, Travis," Sara said dismissively.
He clenched his jaw and tried hard to control his voice. Sara needed to understand for treating Yvoine as an equal, rather than a slave, upset the dynamic of their relationship and how the took pleasure in sex.
"Fuck her all you want without me here. Let her dress and act how you want when I'm not around. Hell, you can fall in love with her, but she needs to wear that collar."
Sara didn't answer him. He looked carefully at her, suddenly realizing what he had revealed.
"You're already in love with her, aren't you?" he asked softly.
She nodded, trying to keep the tears from spilling down her cheeks. "I'm sorry," she confessed. "I didn't mean for it to happen, it's just that everything between you and me and her and I've never been in a relationship like this before, I didn't know how to act. I didn't know what to do, and before I knew it...I loved her." She sobbed once, then regained control of her emotions. Travis didn't like to see her lose control of herself. Yvoine was in the other room, carefully bound, hand and foot, to the bed, but Travis knew she could hear every word. It didn't matter. Yvoine would never admit to having heard anything.