Author's note: This was a long time in the writing. It happened in spurts (pun intended), and there were gaps of over a month where nothing happened and the ending got substantially rewritten in my head. And then I did most of the constructive parts of the ending while cybering two sessions at once. That usually helps. But I'm not entirely happy for the ending, for which I have to apologise. But I do hope you enjoy it anyway!
=============
Her clothing was inappropriate, which helped his mood a little. Technically she was wearing a dress, but it managed to look like a blouse and skirt so that the suggestion of accessibility between hem and hem, along with the way the silken black fabric followed her curves without clinging, added an extra hint of excitement. The hem of the skirt finished above her knee, the sleeves at her wrists and the straight-edged neckline went from the very edge of her neck to slightly south of her nipples, in a narrow V of pure white skin.
She didn't have real curves - not as he would qualify them. The neckline was in no danger of revealing too much of her breasts, her legs between dress and black stilettos were barely more fleshy than bone and her arms, while difficult to define with the eyes in their slightly shimmering sheaths, were clearly more slender than his wrists had ever been.
Her eyes, when she focused on his across the expanse of the table, which was only when they were talking, were a smoky grey that defied depth perception and made them appear to be holes in her severely perfect face. Her fingers were long and almost bony, and preternaturally coordinated. When she wasn't writing or speaking she was spinning her pen, and not with the casual circles of most who picked up the trick at University, but so fast that the faceted stainless steel surface sparkled and all he could see was a whir with the occasional flicker of a straight line registering on his stunned eyes. Almost as an afterthought she kept it spinning between fingers and thumb, stopping it abruptly when she spoke or wrote, and always with the pen in exactly the right position between her fingers.
When she looked up to speak to him but didn't still the spinning of the pen, he was so effectively taken unawares that he didn't move his focus from its flicker.
"You look tired," she said in a voice warmer and less clipped than her normal tones, and with no hint of the questioning rising inflection that normally accompanied those words.
"Yes," he said candidly and with a hint of wonderment that he had responded at all.
"You are growing very sleepy," she continued in exactly the same measured, even tones.
"Yes," he repeated, and this time there was no hint of anything except agreement in his voice.
"You are asleep," and, just like that, the concept of 'free will' ceased to be entirely relevant.
#
She considered him with an amused smile playing across her straight lips. The bigger their egos are, she reflected, the more easily they could be toppled and the more definitive their fall. She was still spinning the pen, and his eyes were still, glazed over, fixed upon it. Slowly, she stopped. His eyes didn't waver. "Look at me."
His eyes did not move.
That was worrying.
"Look at my eyes."
Obediently, his gaze slid up from her hand to her face, and half-focused on her grey eyes.
Ah. So. He was one of _those_. Interesting, and more than a little tiresome. But, if pedantic she needed to be, pedantic would have to do.
She would also have to be careful. It would do no good to push too hard too soon and lose him, with potentially dangerous, if not merely embarrassing, consequences. Well, one way to find out and maybe turn the tables. But first...
"Is this room bugged?"
"No, Mistress."
Well, _that_ was an eye-opener! Mistress indeed! Promising, but also curious and curiouser. Where the hell did that come from?
"Is it monitored in any way?"
"No, Mistress."
"Is it possible that it is monitored but you are unaware of it?"
"No, Mistress."
This was getting tiresome.
"Why not?"
"I have had the room swept."
Well, that was more like it. Now, where was she? Ah, yes...
"Have you been wondering if I am wearing a bra?"
"No, Mistress."
"Why haven't you been wondering if I am wearing a bra?"
"I'm not interested in your breasts, Mistress"
Oh, here it comes. Always the breasts.
"Why not?"
"They're too small, Mistress"
She sighed.
"Have you ever heard that small breasts have more sensitive nipples?"
"No, Mistress."
"You will remember that. You will remember that small breasts have more sensitive nipples, and you will remember that if a woman has small breasts she will scream in ecstasy when you bite them, and you will feel more of a man, and it will be easier for you to make her cum. You will like the sight of small breasts because they will make you think of what you do to the woman who has them. Do you understand that?"