The week after Valentine's Day, the Summerhouse received an unexpected and unwelcome visitor once lunchtime. Mr Simpson was a short, balding man with a suit from the 1980s and an outlook on life from the 1880s. His fingers rapped on the front door of Martin's wooden den of depravity with a firm, officious knock.
Martin and I were both naked, and my host had little choice but to invite the clipboard-wielding gentleman into our abode. "Mr Duncan Simpson, Cheshire East Council environmental health inspector. We've had reports, and some evidence submitted of loud parties from your neighbour, and I need to discuss the allegations and agree a noise management plan."
"A fucking what?" Martin asked. He stood akimbo with his caged cock twitching in front of the startled man reading from his clipboard. The sight of a chastity cage was too much to see. "This is my house."
"Mr ..."
"Braithwaite," Martin replied.
"Our department has the property owner listed as Mr Kielty."
"That's my maiden name," Martin snapped. "I bought the house as Martin Kielty, and then I got married to Miss Braithwaite. So I am now Mr Braithwaite."
"Mr Braithwaite, please go put some clothes on and we can discuss this. We want to do this reasonably. You don't want me to have to file a report."
"A report?" Martin cackled. "Why would you need to do that?"
"If you just get dressed ..."
"I can't," Martin replied. "I am not allowed to wear clothes while at home. It's a condition of the marriage."
Mr Simpson looked at me. "And neither is he. His fiancée gets very cross if he even thinks about socks."
The council official sighed. Martin gestured towards one of the leather armchairs. "Take a seat, Duncan." He followed the gaze of our guest onto the small table containing Martin's Valentine's Day present from Victoria. "Tea? Coffee? Something stronger, maybe?"
Duncan shook his head and looked down at his papers, blushing profusely. "I'm fine."
"I'll have a coffee," Martin ordered of me. "And Jon, did you fill up on the condoms and the lube for Saturday? I know we are running short, and if we need to order some more, as they take a couple of days to come."
"I'll go order them," I said, catching Martin's grin. "Will a thousand be enough?"
"Make it two." He smiled at the uncomfortable guest and raised his eyebrows. "One can never have too many condoms and too much lube. Eh, Duncan?"
The council official blushed. "I'll take you word for it."
"Oh yes," Martin enthused. "If you want a damn good seeing to, then that condom needs to handle some rough fucking. And that's a torrent of lube and a well-made sturdy johnny."
"Mr Braithwaite, I think you are being deliberately vulgar. Now, when I came here, I was told that you are the owner of this house from the gardener and it is you that is listed on this complaint which alleges that you contravene Subsection 14A of the Noise Regulations 2012 and Paragraphs 12 to 16 of the Environmental Protection Act 2005."
"What about subsection 69?"
"This is serious, Mr Braithwaite."
"Oh, really? So what has the prudish cunt complained about now?"
"Did you, or did you not have a party on the last Friday of January at your house?"
"Um ... yeah, maybe."
"And the following Saturday afternoon, did you have a 'plethora of men to conduct sordid acts in the garden'?"
"I wouldn't call six a plethora," Martin replied. "Merely, a small gathering. And there were five of us servicing the men. The girls got a bit excited. We were all tired after the party the night before. There is only so much fucking your holes can take. So there was spanking, I remember that. Some of us love a thrashing. Do you enjoy a good smack, Mr Simpson?" Martin grinned. "Or do you like to dish it out? I reckon you might be an uptight git at work, but you're a naughty schoolboy in the dungeon."
"Mr Braithwaite, that's enough!"
"Does Teacher discipline you? Does she give you six of the best?" Martin joked.
"Mr Braithwaite! That's enough!" Duncan barked and wiped his brow with his suit sleeve. "Your neighbour has alleged that the noise coming from your property exceeded the legal limit, has photographs and videos shot from that weekend from his estate that support his assertion that there was a weekend of wild, sordid partying at this address. And you seem to admit it."
"Is that legal?" The millionaire asked as I passed Martin his coffee and slipped upstairs to the bedroom to order supplies from his favourite condom supplier. "Isn't videoing people fucking other people on private property against the law? Voyeurism, surely."
"It's not for me to comment. That is a civil matter. But according to his statement, there was loud jeering and screaming at midnight on Friday night followed by several motor vehicles." I could hear the chatter from the room below as Martin spoke to the council officer.
He came into the bedroom a little later holding an "Official Warning" and a signed "Environmental Noise Action Plan."
"It basically says that we promise to limit the noise from our property between eleven in the evening and seven in the morning, which we do, apart from special occasions. But I want to smack that nasty piece of shit."
"What does ..."
"... Victoria say? I haven't asked her. I will get back at that twat. You'll help me, right? He's not a saint himself."
"Sure," I muttered, and Martin threw the paper onto his bed.
"I'm going to find my wife, first. I need a thorough thrashing after dealing with that officious prick!"
My host returned three hours later and showed me the dozens of scarlet lacerations across his back, buttocks and thighs. His cock was encased in a spiked chastity cage and there was a vibrating butt plug rammed in his backside. Martin's voice was calmer, his demeanour less aggressive. His wife had soothed the masochist and released his tensions.
Like a day at the spa, the viciousness of his domme's anger had relaxed Martin. She had unleashed hell on his body and he had enjoyed it. He needed it.
For the first time in weeks, my fiancée wanted to include me in my cuckolding. When we embarked on our journey as a couple, most of the sessions were threesomes where I shared my partner, or were her "playing away." As our relationship evolved, and especially since we moved to Cheshire, I was rarely in the same room when she had other lovers.
Carlton was a successful businessman in his mid-twenties. He owned four franchises, bought with money his grandfather left him, and led a debauched lifestyle. Victoria had met him at the sex club where he was an "elite member," vouched for his virility, and he had invited Clare on a date.
And me.
My fiancée had laughed when he had ordered her to bring along "her cuck" and he had been clear in what we had to wear. She was told to attire herself in black lingerie, a short, sexy but elegant dress, and an anklet. Clare gave me a pale pink T-shirt, low-cut denim shorts and shocking pink Doc Marten shoes to put on. I looked ridiculous.
It was freezing in late February, and the icy wind had painted my hairless, exposed skin with goosebumps. I moaned to Clare about it, as we waited outside the pub - our rendezvous point - but she just shook her head. "I am forever wearing short dresses and skirts, and no-one cares that my bare legs are cold."
She wrapped her coat tightly around her skin, and stared into the night, across the well-lit Mancunian plaza.
Carlton was exactly what I expected. Short, curly black hair with a dash of designer stubble. At just over six feet, he was tall and commanding without being freakishly lanky. He wore an expensive suit, impeccably tailored, and oozed confidence.
He strode over to my fiancée, held out a single red rose a little gift. "Mon amour," he oozed seductively in an enchanting voice and kissed her right hand. "You look ravishing."