The next couple of days went better for Steven. Not good, not happy, but as well as he could expect.
Diana found a number of uses for a slave around her house, and they didn't always involve cleaning. Once she used him as a remote control, forcing him to change channels despite her having an actual remote for that, getting petty enjoyment out of making him do the mundane task. She had him cook some spaghetti for dinner, only for her to discover that he was an even worse cook than she was. That earned him a couple of whips, on top of forcing him to choke down the half-cooked meal himself.
She also seemed to like using him as furniture. Making him get on his knees and using his back like a chair while she read her books. A footrest while she watched her shows. Using his back for a carpet over a spill on the floor.
On the sixth day - maybe the seventh - Diana brought him out of his cell, fed him some scraps of toast and milk for breakfast, then brought him into her living room and told him to close his eyes. Just the idea had him sweating. No clue what was coming his way, now way to prepare. She was either going to kick him in the balls or give him another shock or-
He did it. Without another thought, without a word, he did it, and stood at rigid attention. Hands at his side, face straight ahead, still save for the sporadic tremors running through his body. He didn't know what was coming, but he did know it wouldn't be worse than what he'd get if he didn't comply. Or maybe he just hoped that.
Then came the waiting. She was moving around him. Footsteps, something heavy coming down, the shrill screech of metal scraping along the wooden floor. Then came a pause, followed by the faint rustle of clothing. Was she changing her clothes?
His first inclination was to peek, hoping to get some inkling of what was happening, but he fought the urge and stayed obedient. It wasn't worth the consequences, whatever they were, and he'd only have to wait a little longer. Just a little.
"Open them."
Steven opened his eyes, then his mouth an instant later when he saw what was before him. Diana was laid out on a long, padded table, face down, without a shred of clothing. It was nothing he hadn't seen before, but this was the first time he'd had the chance to see it without intense pain being involved. He could appreciate every inch. The way her dark hair cascaded along the counters of her back, shimmering in the sparkling light of the sun through the blinds. How her body rose and sank with every deep breath she took, with hardened muscles shifting around like rocks beneath the skin.
What also struck him was the small table on the side, with two bottles on it. Massage oils, and ones he'd used before. "You want..." His voice petered out as he pointed towards the viscous fluids with a limping finger. "You want me to..."
"Massage. It's called a 'massage'." Diana rested her head on the side and glanced his way with her twin sapphires. "What? You said you had gifted hands, right? Show me."
She looked down, lingered for a second, then closed her eyes again, and it took Steven a moment to realize she'd focused on his hands. His shaking, jittering hands. He'd given women short messages before, getting them worked up before sex, and they had always approved.
Diana closed her eyes and waited for him to begin, but his focus laid on that remote in her hand, held with a lazy grasp. It wouldn't take much to snatch it away. He could reach out, take it, then throw it across the room. Then hit her in the head with something while she was retaliating. There was this vase nearby, within arms' reach on the bookshelf. Just pick that up, bash her on the head, knock her clean out. A couple of quick blows would finish the job if that wasn't enough. Then, he could run out and get help or find her phone and call 911.
Easy.
Too easy.
Diana whistled, nudging him back to reality. "Hurry up."
It was enough to get him moving. Steven moved over to the small table, took the nearest bottle, then filled his hands with two dollops of the stuff, enough to get started. He turned to her, looking her over, hands helds at the ready. "Where should I start?"
Diana had a deep, exasperated groan and gave him a jolt. Just a single press, half a second, but enough to make him yelp and spill a few drops. "Pick a spot and start."
That was all the incentive he needed to get working, starting at her ankles and working his way up from there. His fingers dug into her skin and pressed hard, kneading the muscles like dough, and the higher he went, the more he sank into the task. The more he liked it. Diana's was a living sculpture, he'd seen that from minute one, but there was such a difference between feeling a body like this and having the real thing in your hands. He pressed against the skin and it shifted under his fingertips. Unyielding, unflinching, almost daring him to press harder.
So he did. Diana's moans told him that the effort wasn't unappreciated. Deep, rumbling sounds that shook the table, pleasant sounds that he would've loved even more from a woman who hadn't kidnapped him. He worked his way up to her thighs, which tensed and hardened at his approach, greeting him. He'd grown familiar with them over the past few days, having been crushed between them in more ways than he cared to think about. But they weren't knocking him unconscious right now. They were sitting there, pulsating at his touch, warping as he moved over them. He pressed against the curves, rubbed into them, touched them with tender care as they swelled. With everything he'd gone through, it was a welcome change of pace, and he found himself savoring every second she was pleased with him.
"There we go." Diana had this long, wistful sigh, as if she were on the cusp of slipping off. "Good. Good. Higher, now."
Higher. Right. Onto her ass. Her plump, ripe, rippling ass.
Steven turned to the side as he continued, making sure Diana wouldn't get any glances of his rising erection, straining despite. He took caution here, respected - after all, these were the muscles that had knocked him out several times already, that could do so much more. He might not like it, but he had to respect it. All that this body could do to him, the ways it could crush him. The power was evident with every touch, and the more he molded her body, the harder her pressed, the more he found himself enjoying it.
...fuck, he was getting hard.