"Sure" you texted me.
It was a simple, unvarnished word, but in this instance, laden miraculously with the stuff of utter elation.
I had arranged a trip out to the mountains on a pretext with the hope of seeing you for the first time. It was a very adult thing, I reflected on the flight over. I mean, there were various arrangements to be made, accommodations to be booked, wardrobe to be packed, etc. It wasn't something done on a whim. It was queerly, automatically serious. And yet, the way it caused me to feel internally was entirely juvenile. To wit: I hit the gym, I was running 50 miles a week, I cut out drinking, ad absurdum. For so long none of it had mattered, but now I was desperate to impress you—whatever that meant.
The plan was that I'd go see friends in Denver and then take off for a couple of extra days in Vail—nominally for a ski trip. In truth, we had arranged to meet out there, have dinner and then... Then who knows, honestly. I had gone as far as my nerve would take me in even proposing the trip. But I had no idea what would happen. I just decided that whatever it was, I'd take a few days doing it. If it didn't go well, I'd have a couple days to put myself together before returning home. If it did... Well, hell. I had no idea.
The days spent in Denver were tenuous, excruciating even. It was late fall and I celebrated Thanksgiving with my friends, did a winter summit on the front range and tried hard not to think about what was coming next.
Driving through the passes on my way to Vail, I was thankful that I had splurged on a Range Rover for my rental. The roads were a nightmare and everyone was stopping to chain up. The whole way I fretted that you wouldn't be able to make it. I had proposed Vale because I thought it would be romantic, but now cursed the choice.
I got there in the mid afternoon and sent you another text to check that you were fine. You got back to me and said that yes, in fact, you were and actually had been there all day skiing with friends and would see me that night.
Friends? I had no idea what to expect. Had there been some miscommunication? Were they coming? Was she planning on rejoining them at some point? Were they other subs vying for her attention? Other dommes she wanted to share me with? My imagination was absolutely out of control. I took the lift to the hotel bar.
"Single malt. Neat." To Hell with it, I needed it. I let the scotch take its effect. Had another and sipped it serenely while I quietly wondered if I could get away with a cigar without reeking still by dinner. I decided against it.
Finally the time came and I headed to the restaurant. Of course I didn't know it, but it came highly recommended by friends and urbanspoon alike! I took one last glance at myself in the reflection of the car window before heading in. God I hoped I had got the dress right. I had gone classic with a high necked hunter green sweater with a quarter zip and shirt and loose tie underneath over cords and my favorite suede Varvatos shoes. In the lobby, I sighed in relief as the patrons were a good mix from tweed jackets all the way to just off the slopes.
I didn't get much more chance to catch my bearings, though, because at that moment I heard you call out "Saint?"
I turned and there you were... A broad, unforced smile—the sort that warms people instantly—your cheeks still rosy from the day's activity, and your hair flowed with a sort of wild ferocity and, was it, freedom?
"Hey!" I choked. It was the best I could manage.
You were radiant and swept over to me, casually wrapping one hand around the back of my neck while the other held your jacket draped over it. It was the sort of easy embrace long friends enjoy together and for you it was utterly natural.
The meal was a blur. I don't know if it was the nerves or the conversation which just seemed to flow or the wine which did the same. I remember you remarked that you were enjoying yours and wondered how mine was. "Exceptional" I replied, but I'm not sure that I had even tasted it. We left, I tipped the waiter over-generously trying to appear magnanimous and at the same time kicking myself for being so vain. We walked the streets arm in arm and enjoyed the starlit night.
And we connected. These things defy description and explanation, but it was like our souls fit together as two hands held with woven fingers. And I looked down and, indeed, we were holding hands, yours over mine, and I couldn't stop smiling. All o the sudden, without a word, we both stopped, turned to each other, and kissed. Your hand rose up to cup my cheek. Mine went to your waist to draw you closer. And when at last our lips parted we stood there still, embracing. The whole world seeming to fall silent as snow dusted our hair and eyelashes.
It was all too fast, but it seemed to make sense. I trusted you, whether or not I should. Could I trust my own instincts?
Somehow, we made it back to my rental, but we didn't get very far. I was pressed up against the cold driver's side window as you climbed on top of me, holding me by the knot of my tie and kissing me voraciously. Time stopped as we steamed up the windows like a couple of high school kids. We might have stayed there forever, if that police officer hadn't come by, knocking on the window and telling us to "Move along..."
"I want to see this fancy hotel room of yours," you grinned.
You lead me unabashedly through the lobby, leading me by the balls at a quick pace, a devious smirk etched on your face. The concierge blushed. The clerks giggled. One just stared as though with the voracious lust of a starved dog before a steak. You shot her a look that said, "Mine, bitch!" and we got into the elevator.
Finally I stumbled to the door of the suite I had rented and began fumbling for the keycard while you groped me from behind, biting at my neck and probing at my ass obscenely.
At last the blasted light on the door handle went green and I hear the latch release in a sort of orgasm all of its own, a lewd foreshadowing of what I could hardly believe may lay ahead. You wasted no time pushing me towards the bed and I fell on it readily, grinning ear to ear as you climbed on top of me, kissing me salaciously—more tongue than lips. You reached down and pulled my sweater up over my head, but not all the way off, leaving my arms tangled in it above my head. From there you move quickly and ruthlessly, taking my tie and using it to tie me by the neck to the backboard of the bed.
"I didn't come completely unprepared," you said, pulling two pairs of handcuffs from your purse. You continued to undress me, pulling off my sweater, unbuttoning my shirt and removing it, loosing my belt and whipping me with it a couple of times, tantalizingly. When I was completely naked, you bent my legs back and cuffed each of my wrists to the corresponding ankle, leaving my ass open and exposed.