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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 begun to introduce subtle separations in their lives, changing how they eat together, how they sleep together, whether Quinn is used only for her sexual pleasure or is permitted to orgasm himself. She is advancing with her experiment on him, pushing him deeper and deeper into submission to her]
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MY KINGDOM FOR A HAND
Alena informed me that she would be cooking dinner, which opened up the possibility that we were going to be exploring again tonight. The previous dinner had been a few days ago, and neither of us had commented on it since. In fact, life had gone back to normal, finding ourselves on the couch at the end of the day, then retiring to bed. Alena didn't seem to be interested in sex and I didn't push it.
But the thing I couldn't get past was the way Alena acted so normally, as if the denial games hadn't happened, or the casual, easy way she had humiliated her husband by making me stand to eat, as if it had been just what we did every day. We talked about things, but it was about work, about a conference she had booked to go to in a few months, about upcoming holidays. We talked about her parents' new house and how the car needed to be booked in for a service, anything but the experiment she was conducting to explore our deepest fantasies, or the way that I had become her captive guinea pig.
So, when I got in at six thirty and deposited my car keys and bag in the hallway as usual, my mind was already racing. There was the other issue, of course, the fact that being made to stand had made me aroused and I was yet to get any relief, days later. Now, standing in the entranceway, I could feel a familiar background yearning, as if we were still playing the denial games. It was a subtle thing that Alena had managed to do to me somehow, using that intense period of tease and denial to hardwire a connection between feeling horny and not being allowed to orgasm. Somehow, she had been able to change my behaviour so that whenever I felt horny, I felt like I was back in denial, desperately waiting for my wife to allow me to climax. As far as I knew, I was allowed to ask her for sex at any point, to kiss and cuddle her and cajole her into bed as I used to do, but I wasn't doing that. Instead, I was waiting for permission from her to initiate, restraining myself to her schedule.
That was the problem, though. Her schedule seemed to be the same as it had always been, as if sex was a secondary consideration in our lives. I recalled how the denial had ended, with the explosive orgasm while she tied me to the chair, and I was somehow left expecting that to become the new norm, but it hadn't. The last few days, Alena had acted like she'd forgotten all about just how hard she had cum, using her powerless husband's cock for her own stunning climax.
"Hi honey," Alena called, breezily, from the back of the house.
"Hi, I'm home, as instructed."
"Just be a couple of minutes. Do you want to go sit?"
Sitting sounded like a hopeful sign. I went through to the dining table, hearing my wife opening cupboard doors in the open-plan kitchen area. The dining table was set with two places, done out with cutlery and napkins as before. Once again, there was only one chair. I came to a halt. Next to the chair, on the floor, was a large cushion or perhaps a small beanbag. My mouth dropped open.
"Nearly ready. Hope you like it," I heard my wife call out from behind me, as if nothing was amiss.
I stared at the place she had prepared for me. The other chair was once again standing against the wall, leaving me with three options: to sit down in her chair, to swap the cushion for the second chair, or to accept the awful truth that my wife intended me to eat dinner while kneeling.
From the moment she had announced she was doing dinner, I had been running it over in my head, spending the entire day with thoughts of my clever wife and her confronting experiments gnawing away at me. She had been wearing down my resistance, or rather she had known that the uncertainty would lead to me wearing down my own resistance, to whatever she had planned for us at dinner.
"Thirty seconds. Are you comfortable?"
The kitchen was silent, Alena had finished cooking. I knew that she was waiting in the kitchen, counting down the seconds until I made a choice. She knew what would be going through my head and she knew all she needed to do was give me enough time to accept her requirement. It was obvious what she intended, and I admitted to myself, feeling strangely like I had lost the game before we had even begun, I knew what was expected of me.
Slowly, as if wading through treacle, I approached the cushion and sank down onto my knees, giving my wife what she wanted without her even having to ask.
"I made fish pie, hope you like it. I got fresh salmon from the market."
I jumped slightly, hearing my wife's voice behind me, feeling a pang of despair that maybe she had been standing there silently, watching me drop to my knees. I expected a little, smug grinned on her face, from getting the upper hand right from the start of the night, but she smiled sweetly at me, putting the plates on the table and bending over to give me a quick kiss on the cheek. Alena sat down and unfolded her napkin.
"How was your day, Quinn?"
The innocuous question caught me off guard. I struggled to formulate a reply, staring edge-on at my plate, my eyes level with the table top. I noticed that Alena was wearing the same high heels as last time, four-inch black stilettos, giving me the cue that tonight would be part of the experiment. She was wearing stockings underneath a casual dress, showing off her gorgeous legs, putting herself on display directly in my line of sight under the table. At that exact moment, she must have been reaching forward for the salt, because the hem of her dress rode up her thigh slightly to expose a stocking top.
My mind flashed back immediately to a week ago, at the end of the denial period, the point at which I had won my way back to break-even and only needed one credit to finally be granted a release. Alena had put paid to my hopes, emerging from the bedroom in brand-new lingerie. I could still recall how she looked, the image burned indelibly into my memory after weeks of constant teasing. She had worn a black basque with sheer nylon panels that exposed the firm skin beneath. Little straps had run down to her stockings, clipping them in place. Between her legs had been a tiny g-string in the same sheer nylon as the basque panels, clearing showing the neat trim of her pubic area and her outer lips. I had ogled, I had lusted, and I had spiralled into negative territory within seconds. I could still remember her condescending smile as she revelled in her triumph over me.
"Really, how was your day?" she prompted again, looking down at me.
"A slog, if I'm honest."
"Why?"
"Why do you think?"
"I don't know," she replied, innocently, "Maybe a tricky case?"
"No, the case load is fine."
"Then what?"
I looked up at her, conscious of the imbalance between us as she sat comfortably in her chair and I knelt on my cushion. She meant for me to say it, she wanted to extract the confession from me.
"You know," I replied stubbornly.
Alena put down her fork and turned to me. At my level, it gave me a view directly between her legs under the table. She wasn't intending to play fair.
"Do I?"
"Yes. This," I hissed, suddenly angry, but more at myself than my wife, "Wondering what you were going to do."
Alena reached out with her hand and actually patted me on the head. I flinched, but then she patted me again. I looked up at her with disgust.
"Do you like the cushion, Quinn? I hope it's comfortable. I went out at lunchtime and got it especially. Is it comfortable?"
I shifted my weight, conceding, "Yes."
Alena beamed, "Oh, that's good. I didn't know quite what to get. I spent ages in the shop, kneeling and trying them out. This one felt the nicest."
"Just not very practical," I muttered.
"In what way?"
"How am I supposed to eat?"
"What do you mean?"
"I can't reach the table."
Alena's eyes sparkled, telling me that she had already considered this, that I had just fallen into her trap.
"I'm sure we can work that out."
She leaned back, gathering up the hem of her loose dress and pulling it up, stripping herself. I watched with an open mouth as she revealed herself in the same exquisite lingerie I had seen previously.
"I know it's not usual dinner attire, but you did seem to like me wearing this last time," she murmured sexily.
Alena pouted, taking her time to cross her lovely legs, showing me the little translucent panel between her thighs. It hit me like a lightning bolt: her pubic hair was gone.
"Did you notice?"