"I've got a present for you," he tells me.
I follow him, nervous and excited, my bare feet padding across our hardwood floor, following in his decisive stride.
I never know exactly what Sir's gifts will be.
He leads me to a parcel, still wrapped in brown packaging paper and placed in the centre of our living room floor.
It was too big to pick up and give to me.
It's flat and square. In fact, when I test its weight, it's difficult to lift. I have to unwrap it in place, kneeling in front of him.
"Thank you, Sir," I murmur, giving him a shy smile before carefully running my thumbnail under the taped join.
As I peel back the paper, a warm and familiar scent hits me.
Sweet, earthy and nostalgic. The smell of tack rooms, stables and long hot summers.
Like a smooth bourbon coating the back of my throat in a smoky bar.
I tremble a little as I run my hands over it.
Raised and dimpled like orange peel, but soft and buttery, supple in my hands with a reassuring weight.
The underside is sanded smooth, a cool grey in contrast to the unpolished black expanse of the top.
"This must have cost a fortune" I breathe, immediately questioning whether I should have let that thought escape my lips.
I don't want him to think I am anything less than grateful for his gift.
It seems that it would be prudent to keep on Sir's good side now, in fact.
While he decides exactly how he plans to make use of this latest offering.
But he only rocks back on his heels, a devilish smirk spreading across his face as he enjoys my confusion and second guessing.
I wonder how he knew to buy this particular item.
Sir has bought me bondage gear before, thoughtfully noticing my preference for the heavy, leather variety.
But always small things like cuffs,hogties, a spreader bar. A collar, of course.
Things that serve his tastes and purposes when it comes to bondage: keeping me captive, and restrained, so he can enjoy my helpless expression as he sweetly tortures me.
But this is different.
How did he know?
Maybe I had lingered a little too long over a certain website in his presence.
He certainly knows of my predilection for blindfolds. Even hoods. Gags. Earplugs. Blissful silence for a noisy mind.
"I was thinking the other day," he interrupted me, "about your feet".
His breath catches on the final word.
"And what I'd like to do to them."
I nod, smiling beatifically, as if this makes perfect sense.
Sir's foot fetish is not news to me.
It's the reason I'm barefoot right now.
"You know you can use my feet any time you wish. My whole body is yours", I tell him.
We've spent many evenings with him massaging my feet, oiling them, working his thumbs over my delicate arches, and lightly kissing and nibbling at my toes.
It makes me squirm and giggle, and I enjoy the expression of rapt attention on his face.
I know resting my foot in his lap gets him hard though.
And afterwards, he fucks me, with an urgency and need that I know doesn't follow a sweet, relaxing foot massage for most people.
He smiles. But there's just a flicker of an expression I don't normally see on his face. An almost shy embarrassment.
I understand before he finishes his sentence. The first time we really indulge his foot thing, he needs to know I'm really into it.
I get it. We're lucky enough to share our main kinks. Dominance, submission. A little delicious fear, and pain.
But fetishes are different, aren't they?
Even if you hit the jackpot, and found someone who shared your fetish, they would probably never understand it in the exact same way you do.
They haven't nurtured it like you have, desperate and ashamed.
Fantasizing constantly.
Feeling like you want to die any time its name gets mentioned.
Rocking silently against your palm, again, the go-to, every fucking time because you can't help yourself.
No, those are just yours really.
Creating an experience you can share with someone else is... tricky.
You've needed this for as long as you can remember.