Standing at the sink with her hands in rubber gloves she looked like any twenty- something young woman busying herself with the household routines until her husband returned home.
He was a little later than she'd normally expect him but she thought that maybe he was making her wait. After all, he was leaving work in the middle of the afternoon.
Every now and again he acted out her fantasy. It wasn't one that she imagined was shared by many other women but it had always excited her to be taken by surprise and against her will by a stranger who somehow knew exactly what to do to make her his helpless sex slave. In the fantasy she never got to see him but always imagined him to be the dark and dangerous sort, masterful in his ability as a lover but ruthless in taking her for his own pleasure.
At first the enactment had been quite amateur, just a physical overpowering and his voice telling her that this was what she wanted and she was going to get it, but once or twice recently he had got more serious and entered into the spirit more convincingly.
Since he started to relish the role of the ruthless stranger he had become quite skilled at surprising her. He would approach her from behind and blindfold her. Bundling her into the bedroom he would fasten her wrists and ankles to the posts at the head and foot of their bed (it hadn't been a coincidence that she'd chosen this bed from the pine shop) using silk rope that had started life as curtain ties. .
The small fact that took a little of the edge off their adventure was that they always had to plan in advance when it would happen. They'd arrange for parents to babysit the kids so that there wouldn't be any interruption and no embarrassing questions about the noise they'd made. She did make a lot of noise sometimes, but of course that gave him an excuse to put his hand roughly over her face or to stuff her knickers into her mouth and muffle her moans.
She was thinking these thoughts when she heard the door being opened and closed. This disappointed her a little. The last couple of times he'd crept up on her very quietly and it had been a genuine surprise when she felt herself gripped. Maybe something had changed his plans this evening.
As she placed the last plate on the draining board she was yanked roughly backwards. Feeling herself falling she tried to take hold of the sink, but the rough hands around her waist pulled her away before she could get a grip. She was in the middle of realising that he hadn't changed his mind and was about to talk to him when the bag was pulled roughly over her head.
It wasn't a plastic bag or anything dangerous. It felt like soft cotton but it was completely black. In the darkness she had a moment of panic, this wasn't something they'd done before. Her heart was beating faster and it hit her that the scene was becoming exciting.
She paused in her instinctive struggle and was immediately pushed to the ground. Her legs were forced apart and she felt something being clamped around her ankles. Had he gone out and bought something? Her mind had been distracted by this thought so that she didn't realise until too late that her legs were now fastened apart.
She remembered the websites she had been browsing while he was at work. She thought she had covered her tracks well but now she realised that this was the spreader bar that she had viewed a dozen times or more. He must have seen the sites she had visited. How could she have been so careless?
Her mind was betraying her. As she was busily analysing the situation it was changing fast.