The next morning, I awoke peacefully. I had slept well. I rolled onto my side to look at Sarah.
But she wasn't there.
My memory of the night before slammed back into me. I can't believe I'm actually going through with this, I thought to myself. This is my wife! How can I treat her this way? But then I remembered the years of emotional abuse she inflicted upon me. And I remembered how I felt watching Vanessa manhandle Sarah. I hadn't been that aroused in ages. There was something so...right...about a strong woman putting my wife in her place. Turning her into nothing more than an animal. It roused something inside me.
I wanted that "something" to stay.
I climbed out of bed and jumped in the shower. I figured Vanessa was already up - as a dog trainer, I imagined she started her day pretty early - but I presumed she wouldn't have a problem making herself at home. I chuckled at the thought of Vanessa tentatively asking me where the coffee filters were, only hours after bending my wife over a chair and locking her in a dog collar. Vanessa wasn't concerned about niceties.
It wasn't until I was done drying myself off that I realized I hadn't thought about how Sarah had slept. I guess that's normal - how often do you think about your dog's sleep quality?
I walked into the kitchen. Vanessa was sitting at the kitchen table, reading something on her phone with a cup of coffee in her hand. She looked up and smiled as I entered.
"How did you sleep, Greg?"
"Great! I think I was exhausted after the night's...events. You?"
"Slept like a baby," she purred. "I always do after I break a bitch."
I forced a hollow smile, a flicker of doubt suddenly entering my mind. This is so fucked up, I thought. But what was more fucked up was how hard my cock became when Vanessa mentioned breaking Sarah. Snap out of it, I chided myself. You want this.
I poured myself a cup of coffee and leaned against the counter. "So now what?"
Vanessa downed her coffee. "First, I believe I'm owed a certain sum. Let's get that taken care of."
Well, this was it. The "point of no return," in a sense. Our agreement stipulated that Vanessa was owed a third of her $70,000 total compensation if she successfully locked and caged Sarah - assuming I decided to continue. By paying over $20,000, I was fully committing. I thought quickly for half a second. But it suddenly dawned on me: I can't go back. A, I was too excited to see Vanessa work and witness what she would do to Sarah. But B, I couldn't back out. What Vanessa and I did last night was unspeakable. Sarah would divorce me for sure, and surely call the cops, or perhaps my family. I shuddered. No, the only way was forward.
I retrieved my checkbook from the kitchen drawer. "$24,000, payable to Vanessa Laws," I narrated as I drafted the check. I handed it to Vanessa. She surveyed it for a moment before pocketing it. She patted her pocket and said, "Let's get to work."
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I heard Vanessa coming down the hall. "Keep up! Don't make me pull." I was sitting in the living room, watching as Vanessa emerged down the hall. She had dark leather boots, with a tall, heavy heel. She was wearing a tight sweater, with her breasts popping out. Her leather pants were clinging to her legs, accentuating her rippling muscles. She was wearing black gloves. In her left hand was a remote control (at least, that's what it looked like). And in her right, the end of a leash.
The other end was attached to Sarah's collar. I stared as Sarah came into view, crawling on all fours behind Vanessa. But it wasn't the same Sarah that had gone to bed the night before.
Her long dark hair was done up in pigtails; each pigtail was wrapped by a pink ribbon. In her mouth was a bone - how was that possible? As she got closer, I realized it was a black, silicone ball gag, except a bone replaced the ball. Around her neck was a collar, though not the same one Vanessa had placed on her yesterday. This one was bigger, thicker, with a small box on one side. A shock collar, I realized. She had on a bra but no shirt, and on her knees were knee sleeves, like the kind wrestlers wear.
Directly above her knees were leather cuffs, with two sets of rubber chains: one set attached to cuffs around her ankles, another set attached to cuffs around her wrists. I realized what an ingenious contraption it was - it made it impossible for Sarah to stand up or move her hands very far. The chains had enough slack that she could crawl, but she wouldn't be moving very quickly. Finally, Sarah donned a pair of underpants. Not a thong, but not granny panties either. They were sexy but sturdy. Protruding from the back of the underpants was a short tail.
She was finally beginning to look like my pet.
Sarah was staring at me with a mix of rage, pain, and fear. I just stared back at her, a smug grin on my face. This is what you get, I thought.
Vanessa led her to the corner of the room. "Sit, Sarah." Sarah looked up at her and started groaning, clearly firing off a string of obscenities, though she was prevented from articulating them because of the bone gag. Vanessa said again, with more bite, "SIT, Sarah." But Sarah didn't listen. Instead, she pawed at Vanessa, to no avail - the cuffs contraption prevented her from reaching her mark. But it did have one effect: enraging Sarah.
"Bad bitch!!" Vanessa bellowed. She grabbed Sarah's head and thrust it towards the ground, so that Sarah was bowing low. I saw her click the remote in her left hand, and Sarah yelped. After a moment, she yelped again. Vanessa released her head, and Sarah acceded, sitting back on her heels in the corner, whimpering, trying to rub her neck with her hand.
"Is that a shock collar?" I asked incredulously.
"Of course it is. It's the only way," she replied, brushing the hair from off her face. "At least in the beginning."
"So how does this work?" I asked. "We can't just hit her for the rest of her life. How do you actually train wives?" Despite what she had done so far, I was skeptical of Vanessa's methods. It didn't make sense to me - you can't just keep someone locked up forever.
"It's both complicated and simple," Vanessa said. "Humans are animals. Just like dogs. We've got a little more going on upstairs, but at base, we're animals.
"There are two things that drive almost all human behavior." She held up two fingers. "Pain. And pleasure. That's why we avoid certain things and are drawn to others. That's why we stay away from hard exercise and gravitate towards delicious foods. Comfort versus discomfort. Right?"
"Sure, I guess. I think you're short selling humans, but I guess you're basically right."
"I'm not though! That's the beauty of it. That's what it's all about. It's so simple! If you distill human behavior to those two fundamental poles, we become much easier to manipulate."
I guess I saw her point. "Okay, so what, are we going to feed Sarah yummy cheeseburgers every time she does something good?" I still wasn't seeing it.
"Not exactly," Vanessa replied. "On her neck is a shock collar. When a click this," she held up the remote and held her finger over a black button on the front of the remote, "she receives a shock, of fairly significant voltage. Won't kill her, but she won't want to experience it too many times.
"Now, for the key part. See those panties she has on? It has a small vibrating patch that sits directly over her clit."
My eyes widened, beginning to comprehend. "So that means if you click-"
"That's right!" Vanessa said, with an evil smile as she raised the remote and held her finger over a pink button, directly below the black shock button. "When I click this, the patch vibrates. It's a fairly intense vibration, too, so she'll feel it. Watch."
We turned to Sarah as Vanessa clicked the pink button. I heard a slight buzz, like a phone was vibrating on a table from another room. Sarah jumped and looked down at her crotch, but she didn't protest as much; she just stared. Vanessa released the button.