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Through a series of counselling session with Cassie, his therapist, Quinn is trying to come to terms with how his wife Alena managed to transform him from her assured, overbearing husband into her willing slave.
Alena has completed the denial games, but steps up Quinn's training, ticking off new items on the list. Quinn is left desperately trying to catch up and makes a startling choice]
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FOLLOWING ORDERS
We sat down and had a long talk, my wife and I, after dinner one night. I poured two generous glasses of red and we snuggled up on the couch to discuss. After the weeks of denial, it felt good to be cuddled up next to her, though I still made sure to keep eye contact and not let my attention stray to her shapely legs tucked beneath her, or the tantalising curve of her breast in the tight white top she wore. I knew that she had dressed to put her body on show for me instead of opting for loose pants and a sweatshirt. Since the start of her experiment on me, I had been subjected to all manner of clothing choices, from the tight, revealing top she now wore, to eye-popping lingerie, all with the express prohibition against ogling her on pain of being punished with a demerit for inappropriate behaviour.
The last few weeks had wrought a change in my wife, and not just in the clothing she wore. It was the way she wore it, to flaunt herself but forbidding me to touch or look, all the while knowing that my frustration was boiling over after weeks of being denied any release. But now, we were cuddled up together, drinking wine and talking as if the trials she had put me through in the last weeks had never happened.
It was strange, the feeling of just being together like we used to do, the quiet, easy companionship that I had taken so much for granted. After all that had happened, I could see it from her side now, how it wasn't empty time waiting to be filled; to my wife it was a welcome sanctuary from the rigours of the outside world, a safe space.
But, tonight, I was unable to concentrate, fidgeting in my seat with nervous energy.
"Just to be clear," I said, "We're past the point, right?"
"Which point?"
"Don't, please. Haven't I suffered enough?"
Alena wrapped her arms around me, brushing my arm with her breasts. "I guess that's something we need to talk about."
"What is?"
"Whether I really have made you suffer enough."
I tried to read her emotions, but her expression was warm and playful. If she was lining up any curveballs, I could see no sign of them. There appeared, for the first time in three weeks, to be no ulterior motive in play. Alena was simply holding me and smiling.
"Just, first, confirm that we are done."
Alena laughed easily, throwing back her head, cascading her auburn locks down her back.
"Oh Quinn, you are such a worrier."
"With reason."
Out of the blue, she planted a kiss on my cheek.
"Without reason. Okay, how about this," she announced, "I hereby categorically acknowledge that you have completed the agreed period of denial. Satisfied?"
I let out a long, slow breath, sinking into the couch. I could feel Alena's eyes on me.
"Was it really that hard?"
"Oh, you have no idea."
Alena seemed to be pondering my response. "What was so hard about it?"
"Aside from having to not stare at you in lingerie, you mean? Or, aside from giving you pleasure and not being allowed anything in return, ever?"
"Yes, aside from the obvious."
I looked at her, stunned by the way she had just dismissed my three weeks of suffering out of hand, like it didn't matter to her that she'd done that to me.
"Didn't that mean anything to you?" I asked.
To my amazement, my pretty wife shook her head. "Not really," she confessed, "It was part of the game. That's what denial is."
"Easy for you to say, you weren't the one constantly frustrated," I huffed.
Alena gave me a reassuring squeeze. "I mean, aside from that, what else were you struggling with?"
That part of the conversation was clearly done, and we were moving on to whatever she wanted to talk about. Making my life hell didn't warrant further discussion.
"Honestly?"
"Uh huh."
"It was the not knowing. I seemed to spend all my time trying to work out how to avoid demerits."
"How do you think you went?"
"Well, uh, what was my score in the end?"
"Minus three. Close, but no cigar."
"And yeah, that meant three weeks without even a single moment of release."
"I know. I could see how hard you were trying, too. Just the last few days, trying to get to zero."
"I goddamn got there too, and then you pulled that stunt."
Alena giggled. "You mean the lingerie fashion show?"
"If that's what you could call it. It was more like a porn show."
"I know, I could see how hard you were, as you were watching me."
"Racking up demerits for," I screwed up my face in distaste, "Ogling. Or was it lusting?"
"Lusting and ogling."
"Yeah, lusting, until I was firmly in the red again. So, yeah, that was the thing. I knew that whenever it looked like I was going to win a release, you would engineer some trick or some trap to put me back in my place."
I had become quite heated, and was conscious of the way that Alena was watching my reactions.
"I really got to you, didn't I?"
"Yes," I growled.
"Interesting."
I rounded on her, then. "Is that it? That's all you can say?"
Unfazed, Alena simply nodded. "Pretty much," she stated.
I scowled at her in return, but Alena kissed me again. I could feel the warmth of her exquisite body wrapped around me, tapping into the desperate longing engendered by three weeks of her relentless teasing and her denial of my right to orgasm. I was adamant that I wasn't going to let myself get distracted: the air needed to be cleared.
"Did you expect it to go the way it went?" she asked.
"I... um... no. It was, uh, different to what I expected."
"In what way?"
"I thought it was a game, but it wasn't."
"It was a game, Quinn, it was always something you could have called off, but that's the interesting thing. Even when I could see you suffering...."
"And you increased my suffering," I interjected.
"Okay, yes, even then, you never considered pulling the pin, not once. Did you?"
Slowly, I shook my head.
"And what does that mean, do you think?"
"Uh, that I like to win?"
"Do you really think that's true? You lost and you continued to fall further behind. Winning wasn't even on the horizon, was it?"
"That was up to you," I murmured, frowning.
"No, it was up to you. You were buried so far in the game, that there were times that I...."
Alena stopped herself, and closed her mouth. Her eyes darted away from my face and she took a long sip of her wine.
"You need to finish that sentence, Alena," I warned her. I needed answers to the questions she was posing.
"There were times that I lost sight of you."
"What the hell does that mean?"
Alena disengaged from me and I felt acutely the loss of the touch of her body against mine. She seemed to pull into herself. When she broke the silence, her voice was muted.