Clare gasped. "You can't be serious," she squealed.
"We are," Martin replied, and stared at my fiancée and myself. "It'll be our wedding present to you. Well, I also want to arrange Jon's stag do, which may or may not coincide with a pre-season tour. He will walk down the aisle with a sore arse and a massive smile on his face!"
Victoria eyed Clare and wiped the tears from my partner's eyes. "This is massive. This... mansion... is anything beyond what we could afford and..."
"I know," Victoria replied. "But I really need you as our neighbour. We are going to turn the estate next door into our kinky B&B. I want to convert the stable block and the outbuildings into something special. Just like we fantasised about when I was at University after we went to that party at the manor house near Lancaster. I will have a near limitless amount of men to beat and punish, and I'll be able to explore and enjoy myself like never before."
"Vics, we got so pissed when we said that. It was a fantasy because we saw that piece on Other World Kingdom. A nation where women lorded it over men. It's not a reality."
"But I am making it a reality," Victoria squealed. "And I do not want my neighbour phoning the cops because she witnessed the lady of the house pulverise the backside of some oil executive in the back garden! Or that I whipped a misbehaving boy. Or plundered some jackass with a twenty-inch strapon."
Clare laughed through her tears. "It's just... I can't... just... We can't. We can't take a three million pound house from you! That's..."
Victoria snorted. "It was less than two when we bought it." She shook her head and looked at her husband. "Do I need to take you down to my dungeon until you'll accept my hospitality, Miss Clare Brownlees? I enjoy making men scream, but I will happily give you a damn good spanking. I have done it before. I am very versatile when it comes to my sexuality."
Clare sniffed once more. "But Vics, c'mon. This is..."
"I am the Lady of the House," Victoria interrupted. "And you are my best friend who I share, or want to share everything with. Surely, you can find a couple of kinky-minded lodgers to enjoy the house, the hot-tub, the summerhouse and the dungeon."
"Victoria, do you..." I said, but the fearsome woman glared at me and interrupted.
"Ssshhh! This is between me and my best friend. When you become Mr Brownlees, then you can have a say." She turned to my partner and held her hand. "C'mon Clare. This is our gift to you two. And I know you are not planning for a wedding for another eighteen months at least, but the day you walk down that aisle, I'll sign over the house to you. And until that moment, you stay here, rent-free."
"Martin, could..." I said, and the multi-millionaire just raised his finger to stop me.
"We both want to do this," he snapped. "And if Victoria says that she is doing it, then she is doing it."
"Let me show you," the dominatrix said, and tugged Clare's hand to make her stand up. Martin and I followed as she took my fiancée out of the front door and they walked through the gap in the hedges that separated the two properties.
"This - this will be the main house. Mostly private, but we are going to have a dungeon here, and some guest rooms for personal visitors. But over here..." She called and strode towards an unused stable block in a large U-Shape. "This is where the fun will be. I can convert these into half-a-dozen rooms right here. Hot-tub in the middle. And look at the views across the valley. It's magnificent. And there's still three barns and an old ramshackle cottage to think about. The possibilities are endless."
"How does this..." Clare cried out to her excited friend.
"Because I will need you," Victoria begged. "Do you think I can run this without your support? I need to unwind and escape. l need to share a bottle of Prosecco with my best friend in a hot-tub and tell her my secrets and insecurities. I am asking, please, stay in that wonderful house and help me. I can't run this venue of ill-repute without my best friend at my side."
"Oh, Victoria. I'll always be around for you. But a three million pound house. It's a massive, massive present."
"And you a massive, massive friend." Victoria sighed and looked at her husband. Clare had always been reticent at accepting financial gifts from the confident dominatrix. There was a vast difference in their wealth, and if Victoria had her way, my partner would live a luxurious life of leisure. But Clare was too independent for that and valued her career immensely. We had tentatively discussed moving to a nearby village when her company confirmed Clare's promotion in Manchester, and we had hoped to purchase a two-bedroom townhouse or cottage. We had seen a few houses on the 'net and had spoken tentatively to mortgage companies.
But Victoria and Martin's old house was in a different world. "We'll talk," I promised Victoria, and she scowled further. "It's really generous of you both."
This was one argument that Victoria could not win with dominance, although she and Clare played in her dungeon for a couple of hours later that day. The lady of the house treated my fiancée to a massage and then numerous forced orgasms in a lesbian BDSM session and I wished I had been a witness to it.
Instead helped Martin in the kitchen. "I find it easier to accept that Victoria will get what Victoria wants. It's much better just to give in at the beginning rather than the end," Martin told me as we prepared dinner. "Do talk to Clare. Victoria would be delighted if you do accept."
Clare and I discussed it repeatedly when we were alone. We could not escape the belief that we would be exploiting our friendship if we accepted. "I have an idea," Martin suggested at the dinner table. Victoria glowered at him, and he gulped. "If Jon and Clare believe that accepting this house as a gift when they marry is using the relationship with us to get something, then why don't you just agree that Clare and Jon are on the rota for the B&B."
"What?" Victoria squealed.
"Well, you will have errant men to beat and whip. And I am sure you could do with an extra pair of hands for a few hours each week. And you have already said that I'll be on the cleaning rota. So add Jon, too. That way, it is not just a gift. It's also in part employee accommodation."
Clare sniggered. "Honey," she said and took Martin's hand. "I can promise you I will always be around if there is an opportunity to beat a cocky arsehole to a simpering pulp. Especially if it is to help Vics!"
The hesitation that Clare and I had about accepting the enormous gift was more than just concern. We felt uncomfortable, and later that night Clare had a date with Kevin's boss - the restaurant manager - and Victoria dispatched Martin to chauffeur them to and from the welcoming inn in the centre of the British countryside.
Victoria demanded my presence in her dungeon via a text, and she sat in a high-backed red and black leather chair when I arrived at her underground torture chamber. In her gloved hand, she held a long, thin cane. "I need a guinea-pig," she replied curtly, and rose from her seat. The navy blue Latex bustier was enticing; her bottomless attire more so, and I glimpsed a flash of her pussy as she walked.
I gulped, and she backed away from me to a five-foot board with four fastenings on it, angled at around 30 degrees from the vertical. I realised that the spread-eagled position would display my arse or my cock for her torment. She sensed my fear immediately.
"Hands in these top two," she ordered. "Face down." I did as she commanded. Her padded restraints securely anchored my body to the wooden panel. "Now I saw this device on the 'net and I've had Willie make this board for it. It's a remote control spanker machine, and it looks fantastic. I'll be nice and start you off gently." She tittered as she set up the machinery behind my back. "It's the latest invention by some sadistic woman in Germany, and they are amazing. The Germans lead the world in torturing misbehaving boys."
"And I am here to test it?"
"I tested it on Martin yesterday, but I want to unleash it on my businessman tomorrow. He has just closed a shop and made four employees redundant. He doesn't know it, but we're going to be negotiating the redundancy settlements for those employees. And this will be one of my convincers." Her voice radiated with glee as she described the pain she would inflict on the local entrepreneur who owned a string of companies and was amongst the richest people in the county.
My head was at the top of the board and looked directly at the chair where Victoria sat and put her legs on a stool. I stared at her cunt. She picked up the black remote control and pressed a button. I heard a beep from behind me and then a sharp, short whip across my backside, where a cane had lashed my unbroken flesh.
I squealed as the smack landed on the centre of my rump, and she smiled. A second later, the whirr of the motor preceded another fiery crack of the thin rod against my flesh. "Painful?"