Another way (7 page)

I tried to find the place in my mind that wanted to do this, sure that it couldn’t be too deeply buried underneath all my other worries. I started with her stomach, which was one of my favorite places on her anyway. Her skin was so wide and smooth and pale; even and soft and she liked it when I kissed her there, my early-morning bristles rough against her skin.

She started to stir as I kissed along her ribs and up, nudging her loose cotton tank top out of the way as I went. I inhaled deeply as my nose ran underneath the swell of her breasts. I loved the way she smelled, slightly worn in from sleep but still of her apple perfume and the lotion that, once upon a time, I was allowed to massage into her breasts before she went to bed. It was a luxury I hadn’t been afforded in a long time.

Adele had always been all curves for as long as I’d known her. We’d met when my family had relocated to Seattle from Louisiana, and she was the reason I’d stayed when my mother and father and my sister, Jennifer, had moved back only a few years later. Despite her traveling for a year, I’d stayed in Seattle and made it my home, turning it into home for us when she returned.

We were only teenagers, I remembered as I kissed the dip in-between her ribs, teenagers when I had first put my lips on her skin. I learned things about myself when I was with Adele, learned to define myself, in some respects, in relation to her. I was
Adele’s boyfriend.

Her body stretched as she grabbed the hem of her tank and pulled it up over her head, thrusting her breasts out into my mouth. I wasn’t gay… I couldn’t be. The feel of a writhing woman underneath me, the feel of her hard nipples under my teeth and tongue, and the noises she made when I did that, made me grind my hard dick into the mattress for some kind of friction.

My fingers slipped under the side of her panties to where she was already wet for me, so fucking wet and needy, and I was in control of this. I could rub her clit and make her gasp and arch into my touch. I could slip my thumb inside her and make her groan low in her throat. I could lick her belly button and make her giggle as I slipped her panties off her legs and buried my face in her wet heat.

I could make her come, her voice crying my name and “yes” over and over as my tongue lapped a regular rhythm and my fingers sought out that special spot, making it feel good for her. I didn’t give her long to recover, quickly slipping into her and finding that familiar rhythm, one that we had made together so many times before.

I could come with my nose in her soft red hair to remind me who I was with and not to call out the wrong name. I hated the way it was nothing like the way I would orgasm when I was with
him.
There were no fireworks, no explosions—just like scratching a hard-to-reach itch.

Showering her smell off me, I hated myself.

“
W
HAT
are your plans for the weekend?” Adele asked me as she made toast for us both.

“Umm,” I hummed, thinking ahead. “I think I’m going over to Will’s to watch the Seahawks game.”

“That sounds nice,” she said absently.

“How about you?”

“Working,” she said with a smile and a shrug. “We’re going to be bringing the new menu in next weekend, so there’s loads of stuff to be done. You should come and check it out.”

“I will. It’s a shame I can’t take you there on a date,” I teased her.

“Oh, I’d never get a moment’s peace! There’s always some disaster that they’d need me to avert.”

“You work too hard.”

“But I love my job,” she said seriously, passing me my toast.

“I’m jealous,” I laughed. I pulled her onto my lap and held her close for a moment. “Sorry we don’t get to hang out much at the moment.”

“That’s okay,” she said, kissing me on the cheek.

I glanced at the clock. “I need to go. I’ll see you tonight, baby.”

“Probably tomorrow now,” she said ruefully.

“Tomorrow, then.”

I
LET
myself in through the kitchen door, as always, but the kitchen was not empty as was expected. Master was sitting at the table with a petite girl who had short, angular blonde hair, and for a moment I forgot my place. It took only for Master to clear his throat softly for me to sink to my knees in the space to the right of his chair.

“Good evening, Jesse,” he greeted me with his hand in my hair.

“Good evening, Master,” I replied, turning my face to kiss his hand.

“I’ve invited a good friend of mine to have a session with us this evening. Jesse, this is Shannon. She is not a submissive, but her situation is rather unique. Do you mind if I tell him?”

“Not at all,” Shannon said in a warm voice. “Don’t mind me. I’ll make some coffee, if that’s okay?”

“Make yourself at home, you usually do,” Master laughed. “Shannon is probably one of the only women I would ever play with, and the reason for this is not mutual attraction, rather, mutual
un
attraction. Shannon is asexual; she has no sexual desires toward anybody of either gender. She doesn’t desire me, just as I do not desire her.”

“No offense,” Shannon offered from the coffee pot.

“None taken,” Master said, and I could hear his smile. “Shannon is also a heavy masochist. Her sexual desires seem to have been replaced with a craving for the need of pain, and I can provide her with that while attempting to keep both her body and mind healthy.

“Our relationship is not based on sex, or sexual contact,” Master continued, gently scratching at my scalp with his blunt nails. “I think it’s rather special, even in our very open community, and I’d like for you to take part. If you’d prefer not to, you can wait for us to finish our session, then I’ll invite you up to the playroom. It’s your choice.”

“No, I would like to watch, if it pleases you, Master.”

“It would please me greatly,” he said and tugged on my chin until I was kneeling high enough for him to kiss me on the lips. Then he patted my head so I would sink down into my waiting position for him again.

“You have him well trained,” Shannon commented as she brought her coffee to the table.

“Jesse is special,” Master agreed. “We just recently signed a new contract.”

“Congratulations,” she said, raising her mug in a toast. “You’re obviously very compatible.”

“Come on, I want to hurt you,” Master laughed and stood, a small hand gesture telling me I should fall into step behind him.

“I can’t wait,” Shannon said with an excited shiver, and jogged up the stairs to the playroom.

It was only then that I got a good look at her. Shannon was wearing a short denim dress with purple tights and knee-high leather boots, which gave her a vaguely Domme-ish look; I couldn’t help but like her. She had a very carefree attitude, and I knew I should probably be threatened by the relationship that she had with my Master, but I wasn’t. It might have been Master’s assurances that she was asexual, or the fact that I just trusted her straight away.

Master went about setting things out for his session with Shannon, and I knelt in the corner of the room, trying not to get overexcited. I was aware that the session wasn’t about me, and I was genuinely interested in the dynamic between Master and Shannon. Any jealousy that I may have been harboring was pushed away by Shannon’s sexuality, or lack thereof, and my knowledge that Master just wasn’t into girls.

“Are you just going to leave him there?” Shannon asked, sipping her coffee as she also watched Master, although she was standing and looking through the CD collection. “I mean, you could at least tie the poor boy up or something. Let him get his rocks off too.”

Master shrugged. “I was going to just let him kneel and watch, but if you have a better idea, go ahead and get it ready. I’m busy with your torture devices.”

Shannon smiled and crossed to the other side of the room, poking through our Plexiglas boxes. She selected a few things, then came over to me, showing me the gleaming chrome and steel toys.

“How do you like those, boy?”

“If it pleases my Master, ma’am,” I said, keeping my head down.

“Oh, I like him!” Shannon said, turning back to Master.

“I’m rather fond of him too.”

“Can I put him in some ropes?”

“Jesse?” Master asked, making sure I was okay. “Talk to me. I want your honesty.”

“I am happy for Shannon to put me in ropes, and to use the toys she has selected,” I said, trying to make my voice clear. It had been some time since I was dominated by a woman, but the thought didn’t repulse me. Shannon was nice.

“In which case, go ahead,” Master said, turning back to his equipment.

“Come on, boy,” Shannon said, snapping her fingers and indicating I should follow her on my hands and knees. Master didn’t often make me crawl. It wasn’t something I was particularly into, but Shannon was obviously at least partially experienced as a Domme or Master wouldn’t trust her with me, so I obeyed. If he trusted her, then I did too.

“Strip,” she commanded, and I shed my few layers of clothes, folding them and piling them where they wouldn’t be in the way.

Shannon fixed a black climbing rope through the ring in the ceiling, then attached it to the anal hook and lubed it up generously before nudging my feet to a wide stance and pushing it into me. I sighed in contentment as the cool metal found its base inside me. The second rope was wound around my wrists, binding them securely behind my back, and the first rope was then attached to my wrists. It was a simple rig, which meant if I tugged on my ropes, the hook inside me shifted. Shannon spoke as she worked.

“These are breakaway bonds,” she explained, placing one end of a rope in my hand. “If you pull on this then everything will come unraveled. Since we’re going to be leaving you here, this is for emergencies only. Do you understand?”

“Yes, ma’am,” I agreed, keeping my head straight and eyes lowered.

She walked around and showed me the nipple clamps again—clover clamps, my favorites. The deep burn in my chest as she attached them warmed me and helped me sink into my subspace. I tested my footing, rocking on the balls of my feet and wishing for a spreader bar, or a gag, or something else, another element to this perfect torture.

“Calm down,” Master said as he came over and checked Shannon’s work. “I’m not going to do anything else to you for a moment. This is a treat from Shannon. Just watch, Jesse. There are no limitations on your orgasms this evening.”

“Thank you, Master,” I said, keeping my sight line low. He turned to go back to Shannon, then hesitated at my soft intake of breath. He was by my side again in an instant.

“Okay?” he checked, searching my eyes.

“Yes, Master, of course,” I said, trying to figure out how to ask him. “It’s just… can I have my collar, please?” The last words were whispered.

“Of course you can,” he said warmly, fetching it for me and fastening it around my neck. He stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. “Is that better?”

“Yes. Thank you.”

My cock twitched at his words, then grew in length as he kissed me passionately. Master kissed over my cheek and bit my shoulder, then went to Shannon and the area he had set up on the padded table. To her credit, she hadn’t commented on our exchange.

“Strip,” Master commanded of her, turning the tables from the earlier command she had issued to me, and she did, silently finishing her coffee and piling her clothes on my spanking chair. “Let’s get started, shall we?”

I
HAD
a perfect view of them from where I’d been tied up, and Master made quick work of attaching Shannon by the wrists and ankles to the table with thick leather straps.

“We’ve used different instruments in the past,” Master said to me, “but Shannon prefers a Violet Wand, and I like the results from it, too, so that’s what we’ll be using today. A Violet Wand is a device that emits a low-current, high-frequency electric shock. It’s adjustable, so I can make it a little buzz or a burning snap.”

He demonstrated by running the device along Shannon’s skin, and I could see the electricity jump across, like a static electricity ball where the little points of purple light follow your fingertips. It looked very much the same as one of those.

Shannon barely registered the snap and gave Will a deadpan look that clearly said “
is that it?
”

“Electricity is a great way to work with a painslut like Shannon,” Master continued. “She’d happily let me beat her until she bled, or use sharps—needles, knives; as a Dom it’s important to know the sub’s limits even when they’re begging you for more. Electricity isn’t going to leave a mark, and because of the very low amperage it’s not going to leave lasting damage. I can cause her to scream in the same way she’d scream for a needle or a bullwhip, but not draw any blood or leave any bruises.”

“The best of both worlds.”

He ran the device under the soft swell of her breasts, where I knew girls were so sensitive, and suddenly her back was arching off the table, and she screamed as the purple spark jumped to her skin. Master seemed pleased with her reaction and repeated it on the other side, earning him a similar reaction.

Master was methodical as he worked on the most responsive parts of Shannon’s body. He seemed to know exactly when to turn up the frequency to make her jump, and after about ten minutes, she was sweating and panting, her hair stuck to her face. I almost didn’t recognize her; the calm, bright girl from the kitchen had been replaced with this glassy-eyed, wanton woman. But he didn’t touch her sexually at all, staying away from her nipples and her pussy. I guessed she didn’t want that sort of stimulation.

He stopped for a moment, letting her settle back down into what I was starting to recognize as deep subspace. She looked gorgeous, but I wasn’t aroused by her submission. Watching my Master in action as a fierce dominant was much more erotic to me.

“I’m going to try something new,” Master said to Shannon. “I think you’ll like this.”

We had a fairly modest collection of toys compared to some, but there was great variety in the tools that Master liked to use. He quickly selected a medium-weight flogger and picked up the Violet Wand again.