A Master For A Desperate Slave

Chapter One-1

Chapter One

The fog creeps in across the landscape outside my window, swallowing the day. It steals away the cheer of the morning sun and leaves in its place the flat gray of a chilly summer San Francisco afternoon. Maybe there’s a message in this encroaching tide of gloom, telling me I don’t have the time for staring out of windows, for pondering the meaning of life, or toying with my creative thoughts. I have this business to run, this business that is falling to pieces. Some days I see it like a child’s blocks kicked, and in slow-motion scattering in a dozen disjointed directions. Other days, I dig in and tackle the issues of inventory, purchasing and customer fulfillment, all of which require organization, at which I do not excel. Ever since Benjamin left that is what I do with ever-increasing inefficiency.

But this is my business, I tell myself again and again.

A pile of invoices have yet to be recorded and three customers are screaming at me for goods I thought I shipped a week ago—then again, maybe I didn’t. And Jerry down at the warehouse tells me that shipments from Singapore and Tokyo didn’t arrive. I sent Sally downstairs to find out what happened and now the phone rings, jarring me back to reality.

I hesitate to answer, wishing I could crawl under the desk and hide AWOL from my world.

“This is Dana; may I help you?”

“Your phone has been ringing off the hook,” the caller says. I recognize the voice, and on hearing the sound of the man’s deep baritone, a warm s****l heat spreads across my belly, moving outward from within.

“It’s been busy, sir,” I tell him.

“But not too busy to answer the phone.”

“No, sir.” It’s not part of the game to resist this man, even as the wild horses of resentment are galloping through my sane mind. I can’t leave now and this is what he wants—I must assume.

“You’re wearing your ropes?”

“Yes, sir,” I answer as I feel the rope bondage that confines my body pull ever-tighter around my middle, my breasts and my groin.

“And the tall heels, the zip skirt and the thin blouse?” he inquires.

“No, sir.” I stare down at the paint-stained overalls and my combat boots knowing how much he’d hate what I’m wearing. In my defense, I was running late today and these just jumped from my closet. Even my receptionist sighed with contempt seeing me so attired. “But I have them with me,” I hastily add.

“Then you’ll dress and meet me…”

“But, sir, please, I really can’t, not now. I have mountains of work, customers breathing down my neck and a major crisis in the …”

He interrupts. “You remember that warehouse the other side of Market Street?”

“In the Mission?”

“That’s the one.”

“I’ll expect you in twenty minutes.”

Impossible! I scream without sound, swallowing my words until they hit my stomach and turn it immediately sour.

The phone clicks off.

“No, I can’t go!” I say aloud to no one because no one’s in the office with me.

I won’t! I can’t! I’m risking too much. Every time I answer one of Sir Locksley’s calls, I dig a deeper grave. Might as well climb in for good.

Randall Tyler, the investor with the bucks, will have my head. Locksley demands my body. What am I supposed to do? I’m owned by forces far beyond me.

I sit…in fact, I slump listlessly in my chair and gaze into the fog that shrouds the building. A teasing tingle of s****l mirth stirs wickedly between my legs as Locksley’s orders return to me. I want to masturbate myself to ease the anxiety, but I’m not allowed to touch myself without His permission. My fingers can hardly keep from crawling to my crotch, from digging inside the overalls. I tug at the denim, then clutch it in my fist in frustration.

Oh, please, stop this feeling! My head pounds, my gut is clenching, and then like a tidal wave come to bring me back to the sea, I’m ripped from my moorings, from what’s right and responsible, and set adrift.

I know where I’m headed; my obsession draws me and I can’t help myself.

I move quickly to the cloak room and scramble into the clothes he wants me to wear. As I do, the persona of the dutiful submissive drapes my body. The ropes he bound me with three nights ago cut in, the reminder of his dominance, what is fierce and authoritative, what I love. He is with me every hour, and these bindings are the armor that protects me from betraying him.

Heels, zip skirt—zipped from hem to waist up the back along the crack of my derriere—and the sheer blouse; that’s all I need to wear, just as he ordered.

Before Sally returns from the warehouse, I’m gone, leaving the cardboard clock on the door pointing to 4:00 pm, when I hope I will return. Two hours, I’m giving him two hours, no more, I tell myself. But I’m on Locksley’s time now, not my own, and I haven’t a clue about when I’ll finally get back to work.

***

When the heavy metal door of the warehouse slides open, Locksley pulls me in. His impressive presence looms over me—just as the authority in his voice and the power behind his commands and the desire inside his threats all pull me in to his domain. I enter his kingdom whenever I am with him. I fall at his feet. I offer my body, take pain and abuse, humiliation, drinking in all the elements of my kink with exhilarating satisfaction. Whatever he deigns to give me I gratefully receive. I’m owned by him and possessed by my own need for surrender, even under these hateful circumstances.

He slaps my face, stuns me off my feet and I stumble in the heels, falling to the floor. Looking up I see two other people with us, but with a bright light streaming through a bank of windows behind them, I can’t make out their faces. I nurse my wounded cheek. Although the slap really didn’t hurt that much, it effectively put me in my place.

“You’ve got a punishment coming from me, slave,” Locksley barks. His blonde wavy hair falls across his forehead in an unmannerly way, but he smoothes it back with an efficient brush of his hand. His features reek of a kingly charm, penetrating eyes, sharp, high cheek bones and a firm jaw that twitches when he’s tense or angry. He could step from the pages of a fashion magazine, or off the wintry slopes of St. Moritz, handsomely tanned and self-assured. He has the air of an Ivy League graduate, the kind to be born with the silver spoon, and he’s my s****l master. I know nothing of his bloodlines or his background. I can only guess, make up possible stories to explain his life, none of which is likely true. He’s probably from a background of itinerant scoundrels, lucky to look so perfect.

All I know for sure is that he’s had the eye of every dutiful sub in the local b**m scene and I’m the one he Doms, the one he loves to slap around and order to her knees, the one he loves when all the games are over. The one he takes to bed. It’s His ropes I now gladly wear.

“Yes, sir,” I answer his charge. As usual, the word punishment sets me off. My juices are flowing. I’m practically salivating from the word and the resulting horror I’ll feel. It’s a horror that will take me far from my miserable life into a land where I can abdicate my throne of dubious power. I’m no one, nothing but my body and my s****l response. That’s all I have to be when Locksley punishes me.

“We’ll take care of personal business later,” he tells his friends, deriding me with the cold scowl on his face. “You can have her now.”

I’m to be given away. Twice before, Locksley’s made a gift of me to his friends, but that was months ago. I’d hoped that sort of thing was over.

He walks out and I’m left with the two strangers, a man and woman I assume are husband and wife, although I have no way of knowing this for sure.

As the man steps forward into the light, I see that he’s dressed in a gray suit. His hair is dark and curly, short and neatly trimmed. There’s a haughty glimmer in his eyes as they peer from a flat and otherwise unremarkable face. The woman hovers behind him, but I imagine that will not be for long. Already I sense that she’s the harsher and more punishing of the two. I read this in the subtleties of how she moves, how she stands back critically appraising me, waiting. I want to study her face, but I have no time for that.

“You will do everything I say,” he tells me. His voice has all the charm of a pretentious civil servant.

“Yes, sir.” I unthinkingly respond as I’ve been trained. He moves closer still and with one hand reaches down and jerks me to my feet. At the touch of his fingers on my skin, I feel an electrical charge that moves readily to my anxious heart. Fear leaps to my throat.

He looks annoyed as if I’ve offended him. I’ve never seen the man before, but he seems to know me.

His soulless black eyes meet mine and hold me in their grip, while he wraps my wrists with rope and tosses the long loose end over an iron bar above us. By his expression, I see he’s satisfied, happy to have bound me. Stepping away, he strolls around in front of me and my eyes follow each step until he finally disappears behind my back.

His wife moves toward me looking curious and cruel. She wears a navy blue business suit with a wide collar, and four inch heels on her tiny feet. Her eyes are slightly slanted, her skin somewhat sallow. She’s of mixed race, and would appear to have inherited the hard extremes of her blended cultures. Her hair is tied back tightly off her face, hardening her femininity into elegant coldness. Her nose is long and pointed; her lips full. I’m not surprised to see her sleek fingernails polished a glossy red and gleaming like knives.

While the man grabs for the tail of my zipper, the woman smokes a long slim white cigarette, exhaling in my face. The smoke fills my lungs as the man rips my skirt apart. With the skirt falling to the floor, the rope bondage at my groin is immediately exposed.

“How gloriously evil,” the woman speaks, sounding both haughty and envious. I think she would trade places with me enjoying such a bold s****l exhibition. She stares into my eyes now with a menacing look that makes me shiver as profoundly as the gleaming knife her husband holds. The man walks about me, taunting me with the weapon, then steps to my side.

With the thin sharp blade, he slices the sheer fabric of my blouse like tissue. A cold dampness blows across my naked breasts. My n*****s tighten, becoming erect and proud, as if I’m enjoying this terrifying treatment. Already, I can feel my body betray me as my crotch begins to dampen with arousal.

The man is intrigued by the rope dress and how it slices my body into strange triangular patterns. His fingers trace the lines of the knotted cord. Then he pulls at the bindings so they cut ever-deeper into my flesh.

“You prevent me from having what I want,” he says, as he runs his hand over the intricate tying job Locksley did about my crotch.

Hearing what he has to say, I silently seethe. How could I prevent him from having what he wants? But then, isn’t that the irony of my predicament? A submissive will be blamed even for those things that are beyond their control.

The man slides the thin blade between my skin and the rope, and turns the knife outward. Bearing down, he makes a quick, determined movement and the knife slices through the binding. Again and again, he slashes at the rope until it is no more than a tangle of useless, frayed hemp.

My cunt is free now for him to use.

Prying my labia apart with his fat fingers, he releases the musty scent of my perfume. It hits my nostrils and I breathe it in, languishing in my own feral pheromones. My resistance is waning and my fear tempers as the s****l heat in me expands.

His fingers brush along my swelling c******s. I suck breath in again, sharply, moving my hips while my cunt shamelessly seeks his touch.

A snide sneer crosses his face as his hand withdraws and slaps my p***y hard, repeatedly, until it hurts and the look of lust on my face is replaced with a pained grimace.

The sadist pours from his being, but his wife, the evil twin, accosts me, pushing the man aside like an sss queen and does what he cannot do with his hand alone. She holds a quirt in her manicured fist that works my nether regions with two snapping tongues of leather.

My head falls back as I search myself for that place inside me where pain and desire collide. I know there’s nowhere else for me to go now. Each stinging smack of the woman’s tool jars my poor p***y with more stinging torment. I breathe evenly, filling my lungs with the aroma of her expensive perfume and the murky smells of this old warehouse. I begin to disconnect with the pain and a flood of passion sweeps my body. Wave upon wave assaults my senses and I struggle to keep up with its relentless power. Any second I expect the sting of the quirt to knock me back to the reality of hurt and fear. But I hang on, riding wave after wave of pleasure until I can feel the orgasm lift me beyond her ability to hurt me.

“I think she’s cumming,” I hear a voice from beyond me.

I don’t wait for permission, which could be an egregious error on my part, but I can’t stop myself now.

Like a steady surf pounding through my body, the climax crashes within. My mouth opens and I deliver up a pained cry.

See how she writhes, like a spastic snake!

See how she suffers!

Their words swarm around me, but they are meaningless to me now.

“She’ll be good for the party,” is the first thing I completely comprehend when I finally return to the reality of my predicament.

As I do, I watch the woman snap a latex glove over her slim hand. She moves in close again, burrowing her hand in my wet crotch. Another several spasms make my p***y jolt while riding her probing hand. She seems pleased with whatever she determines about my cunt. Is this some test?

She then moves behind me and probes my rear. I half expect her whole hand to slip inside, but then she suddenly withdraws it.

“Give me the probe,” she orders the man.

I can’t see the device she uses, but I feel every bit of force exerted in my ass. A thick dildo of some sort moves deep within my bowels and my entire rectum feels as if it will explode.

Again, the sudden withdrawal of the rod shocks my system. I’m left to assume that this is just the start of this pair’s cruelty and this afternoon has only been an examination to see if I’m worthy for more of their cruel games. There will be a party to expose me further, where Locksley will give me away again. I hate the thought of being used like this—when all I want of my master is a man to love, a man who will steer me in the right direction and love me back. But even as I still dangle from this warehouse ceiling, I know that I will surrender to my master’s will. If it’s a party where I’ll perform next, then that is what I’ll do. I’ve taken a vow to obey him and will do as he orders. Obviously, this sort of wicked exhibition pleases the wicked sadist my master harbors in his soul and that should please me too.

“Too bad about the ropes,” the man chides me. “But I imagine you’ll survive without them.” He looks down. “And the clothes. I suppose, Chiani,” he speaks to his wife, “we’ll have to find something for her to wear.”

“Your coat,” the woman quickly decides. Then she reaches up on tiptoe and grabs the end of the rope that tethers me to the bar. I suddenly realize how much it has cut into my wrists. The ache is mean, leaving my hands feeling numb and useless—I can’t wait for her to unbind me. When she does, the nerves tingle as they dance with life again.

I look on the ground and see my blouse in tatters. The zipper on the leather skirt is broken—Locksley will not be happy.

To exit the building I’ll wear the man’s gray suit coat and nothing else.

I’m escorted between the two sadists with the ill-fitting jacket hanging from my shoulders and my hand clutching the two sides to hold them together. I’m still in heels, a strange sight I’m sure. The window washers across the alley stop to stare. A bum snarls at the intrusion in his living space and a sole pedestrian does a double take as the man pushes me into the back of his black Lexus.

“The address,” he asks, once we pull away from the curb.

I tell him what he needs to know to have me back at work, but he doesn’t take the direct route. It appears that the wife has plans of her own, errands to run…the grocery store, the cleaners and the bank. We finally stop at the alley door behind the office building where the man and I climb out of the car.

“I’ll walk her up,” he tells his wife.

At least I’ll have the coat to cover me as I make my way upstairs. Sally can’t help but hear me enter, but before she can turn and catch a glimpse of my unusual attire, I’m in the cloak room rummaging about for the overalls I earlier threw on the floor.

The man nods when I hand him back his suit coat and he takes a long last glimpse of my naked body. I am objectified by his careful scrutiny, and feel miserably humble. But he seems satisfied with what he sees and, without saying a word, turns and exits the room.

Alone in the tiny closet, I take a long deep breath of freedom. My body relaxes and my mind eases.

I wonder what Sally thinks as I hear her typing in the next room. She understands that there are mysteries about my life that I refuse to discuss. She knows I’m ruled by bizarre erotic desires. In her opinion, I’m either dressed like a slut or a crazy charity case. But what’s or more concern to her, she knows I’m incompetent in my job, terrified of failure and desperately seeking answers from questionable sources.

The floor is bare now where I threw my clothes, although I hardly have to search the coat rack to find the overalls hung neatly alongside the summer sweaters and jackets that are kept there. Sally has a sense of order that I do not. How many times has she cleaned up after me, I can’t count.

As I dress, I imagine she’ll be wondering what I was wearing when I returned. Or maybe, that thought won’t cross her mind at all. Maybe she’ll be wondering why at five o’clock I’m finally coming back to work. Wondering why I left in the first place, without warning, when I have so much to do that I could be working nonstop until midnight. I wonder how much she resents these spontaneous absences, when I leave her alone to steer a sinking ship.

Once I’m dressed, I close my eyes and lean against the wall beside the door for a few extra seconds until I have my excuses in order. When I finally emerge from the closet, there’s a smile on my face to greet her wary expression. But it’s strange this time. Sally doesn’t say a word. In fact, she hardly notices me at all. I return to my job and she to counting sales receipts, as if nothing unusual has taken place. It’s just another day at the office.