I had the creepiest feeling I was being watched. I was sitting at the table in the small dining L of my high-rise apartment and diddling through my favorite Web sites.
I liked all-male bondage fucking. It certainly wasnāt something I admitted to in my day job down on the stock market trading floor, but thatās how I unwound. In the evening, after a tough day among the bears and bulls, I retreated to my small seventy-second-story platform in the sky and entertained my sensations and my cock in a solo session with my male bondage sites on the Internet. I had them all booked so that I could quickly run through them, looking for what was new until I found something I wanted to masturbate toāto erase the tension of the day and to entertain a fantasy that I was too shy to bring to reality.
I was sitting, sprawled at my table, naked, and cock in hand. Just beyond the table was a full plate-glass window that would probably have a gorgeous view out over Central Park if there wasnāt another, taller high-rise apartment building just across a narrow street between my building and the park. So, in essence, I had a straight-on, full view of three floors of someone elseās high rise.
I stood and moved over to the window and leaned into it to scrutinize the other building. I still had the creepiest feeling of being watched. It was only when I felt the head of my erect cock rub up against the cool pane of glass that I recalled that I was nakedāexposed to several stories of the brooding building just across the narrow divide of Colombia Street. Had there been lights on across there earlier, I wondered. Now the windows were either dark or close-draped.
I must try to put the money aside to buy draperies for my own windows, I thought. And the time and effort in getting it done, which was an even greater nuisance for me.
Anyone could be watching me from inside those darkened windows in that other building, I thought. My dining L was brightly lit, and I couldnāt see into any of those rooms. Wasnāt that one just across lit up when I first padded naked into the dining room? Thatās where that hunk who was always working out, building muscles on his muscles, lived. Boy Iād like to meet him in the back room of one of those gay clubs down near Times Square Iād heard about but never been brave enough to go into. I frequently sat and watched him work outāin just sport shortsāand fantasized having sex with him. He was arousingly hirsute, with black curly hair all over his body.
I moved away from the window and turned off the lights in my living area and settled in front of my computer again. I pulled up URLs with one hand and stroked my cock to the images I found arousing with my other hand. Then I reached for the dildo that was on the table top, lubed it liberally, and scrunched down in my seat, my eyes glued to the computer screen as I held the head of the dildo to my holeāand started to gently press in.
* * * *
I knew Iād been ripped off as soon as I got off the elevator after work. The door to my apartment was ajar. Someone had jimmied the lock, and they hadnāt even bothered to shut the door after them.
Well, they were sure to have been disappointed, I thought bitterly, as I entered the apartment, because I lived quite sparsely. Virtually the only thing of value that I kept in my apartment beyond the TV system that was firmly bolted to the wall was my computer.
And, sure enough, my computer was the only thing that had been takenāalthough I was somewhat distressed to find that my bureau drawers had been opened and my underwear briefs were strewn on the floor. And then, when I entered the bathroom, I discovered that my dirty clothes hamper had been turned overāand all of my soiled briefs were missing.
How odd, I thought. But a little chill went up my spine that wasnāt at all unpleasant, and I had the urge to go to my computer and run through my favorite Web sites. Only I didnāt have my computer anymore.
What a bother. Iād have to file a police reportāwhich I knew would go nowhere other than support an insurance claim that would also be almost more of a hassle cashing in on than it was worth. And Iād have to get a new computer. And, oh yes, the lock would need to be fixed on the apartment door. But it was late already. Iād stopped for a couple of beers down at OāDonnellās after workātrying to build up the courage, unsuccessfully, to move on to that gay leather bar across the street from the tavern, and it was already dark when Iād returned to my apartment, the gay bar unvisited. All of this hassle would have to wait for tomorrow.
So, I just shut the door with the broken lock, with the assurance that lightning didnāt strike twice in quick succession and that it was unlikely anyone would be trying the doors on the seventy-second story of my building to see if any opened. And I showered, toweled off, and pulled on a pair of the red silk bikini briefs I liked to sleep in.
As I was sitting at the side of the bed, I had that creepy sensation once again of being watched. There was another full-length uncovered plate-glass window beside my bed, just on the other side of the wall from my dining L. I got up from the bed and padded over to the bedroom door and switched off the light. Then I went over to the window and let my eyes travel across the surface of the building across the narrow canyon of Columbus Street.
Nothing was amiss, but the feeling of being watched didnāt go away.
* * * *
I was jolted from a deep sleep by a heavy body covering me as I lay on top of the covers on my belly. Swimming up from unconsciousness, I drunkenly tried to turn and push the weight off me, but the sharp crack of a backhand across my cheek snapped my head to the side and brought bright orange stars to my eyes. Before I could recover, my wrists were being bound together and tethered to the rails of the headboard.