Safeword: Storm Clouds (20 page)

"It sounds like we need to talk about that and let you Top me and get it over with, doesn't it?"

"Yes, I think so."

He closed his eyes for a count of five and then opened them. "Okay, the usual hard limits of asphyxiation, scat, watersports - you get the idea. I guess blood can't be a hard limit since you may bite me, but no cutting for the sake of cutting. I also don't want any CBT, or anything anal."

"Sorry, the anal thing is kind of a requirement. I won't hurt you there, but I do intend to make use of you there."

"Damn. Well, can't blame me for trying. Okay, but no anal pain."

"There will be discomfort, and maybe small amounts of pain, but nothing major. As for the CBT, I won't do anything extreme, but I will pay attention to you down there, and some of it will hurt."

"Leave my balls alone. Completely alone. We can negotiate the stuff you want to do with my cock, but not my balls."

"I will want to put you in a harness so you'll have a very hard time coming until I take it off. I also have a restraint device that will keep you bent over at the waist. It involves the use of your balls, but it won't hurt you unless you try to stand up. Those are the only things I can think of that might involve your balls."

"I think I can live with that for my balls, what do you have in mind for my cock?"

She shrugged. "Clothespins, some light flogging, I'll have to see how you react to medical sounds and other types of inserts. If you react positively then they'll be part of play, negatively and they'll be part of punishment. But I enjoy that kind of thing so you can be sure that will be part of it. I can tell from the smell of your arousal that while those things scare you they also excite you, so we should be okay. I also sense some adrenaline. The idea of what I’m saying excites you. That‘s a nice start."

Kendra thought for a few of Eric‘s heartbeats. "I think the next step is for you to start hanging out with me at the house. As we are, with no pretenses, without worrying about how the other vampires might take it."

"I don't know if he made contacts here that will keep him up on what's happening or not. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not really worried about him, though. I'll let Gavin know what's going on, and probably Josef and a few of his top people. Everyone else will find out when they ask questions."

"What does this mean, as far as time you and I spend together?"

"It means that you get access to the main floor of the house. Once everyone in my section of the house, the basement, approves of you, then you'll have access to the basement. Once you get access you'll be able to come and go as you please, so if you want to show up an hour and a half before the sun sets so you'll be there when I wake up, you can. Or, if you want to stay with me until I rest at dawn you can, and you'll still be able to get out once I'm down for the day. Until you get daytime access downstairs I can let you downstairs once I rise in the evening, and we'll need to make sure you're gone before I'm down for the day."

"Gavin is up on the second floor area, right?"

"Yes, he has what was the original master suite of the house, but with boxes around the windows to keep light out while still allowing them to look curtained from the outside." Kendra paused then rushed into saying, "Just so you know, most human companions are live in companions. If you want to move in once the other downstairs residents give the okay then you can, if you want. If you don't, that's okay, too, but I just needed to get it out there, so you'd know you have that option. You aren't technically a human companion, you are more than that, a lover, a boyfriend, an equal. But, it's kind of a protocol thing that the offer is made."

"Are you asking me because of protocol, or because you want me to move in, Kendra?"

"A little of both, I guess. I don't expect you'll actually move in permanently – your yacht is your home. But, it would be nice if you could come stay for a bit, and then maybe we could stay here for a bit. I know you've got work to do, and while I've got about a week of mostly downtime with The Library right now, once the contractor gets to a certain point then we'll start hiring and training and getting ready to open and I'll be pretty busy again for a while. But in between us needing to work, I guess I'm hoping we can spend some more time together. If you're okay with that."

"Sure, I can give you a couple of drawers here to keep stuff, and let you take over one of the closets in a guest bedroom for stuff you need to hang."

"And I can make room for you in my suite of rooms as well so you can keep stuff at my place. You'll need to hang out for a while though, and let the downstairs residents get to know you. They'll want to get to know you before they give you twenty-four hour access to the downstairs – each suite of rooms locks as well, but vampires can be a bit touchy about who can get to within one locked door of them during the day."

Chapter Fourteen

Kendra didn't mention much to her housemates about Eric, though they all noticed he was with her a good bit. The new security system had been installed for a while now and once the initial discomfort of 'something new' was over, the vampires appreciated it. Eric had also been teaching a class a week and the attendance was good. Even people who had been using computers attended a few of the classes just to make sure they weren't missing some important point, and all of them said the classes were worth their time. Within a week the downstairs residents all gave the green light for Eric to have access to the downstairs access points.

Before long Kendra successfully opened The Library and her main duties were over as Abbot took over the day to day management once she had it up and running smoothly. Eric usually went to sleep around three in the morning, woke between nine and ten, and then worked all day so he could spend time with Kendra when she rose for the night.

Eric and Kendra bundled up and went roller blading and bicycle riding and rappelling and caving and Eric finally took her on that nighttime hang gliding flight he'd promised.

He didn't tell her where they were going, only that they needed to leave right at sundown, and what she needed to wear. They drove to the Ocoee area, where they could get away with being towed up by an ultralight at night without too much risk of getting caught. Eric had a friend who had agreed to tow them up at night, and then they took their time flying with the feel of the wind in their face. Kendra loved it, the feeling of the wind lifting them and moving them around the night sky, it was a wonderful feeling. Hang gliding was such a different feeling than that of flying magically.

Their sex was more towards the vanilla with just an edge of power exchange in it - no planned or obvious power exchange, just the give and take of two people used to being in control who were having sex with each other. They had mind blowing sex, but both knew that eventually they'd need to venture back off into some serious scenes. They weren't terribly sure how it was going to work though, so they both hesitated to bring it up. Eric still felt bad about pulling away right after Kendra submitted, and he knew that Kendra might want him to submit first, but he’d made the offer and now he couldn't bring himself to mention it again. And Kendra, well, Kendra wasn't sure about things at all, even though she knew it was important.

It took about a month for Kendra to make arrangements with Randall, the werewolf Alpha, to tell Eric their secrets. She agreed that she owed Randall a favor, but she owed the favor as Kendra, not as Abbot's third. Abbot wasn't thrilled about her owing another Alpha a favor, but he didn't push it with her. Randall took the deal and told Eric about werewolves, letting him know there were other shifters out there as well. Kendra put a clause on the deal, that if Randall knowing Eric in some way benefited Randall then she didn't owe him a favor anymore, since the introduction would be the favor. She was hoping Randall might want his own security system, then she'd be let off the hook. Once upon a time she would have played on the edges of the rules and worked it so that the werewolf contractors she used would have told Eric and she wouldn't have gone to Randall at all. But she wanted to do this strictly by the rules, so she ended up owing Randall a favor.

Eric took the news that werewolves existed fairly well, thought he joked about being a bit disappointed that there was no Tinkerbell.

For Christmas Eric entered his yacht into this huge parade of lights thing where boat owners decorate their boats and participate in a parade on the water. Eric enlisted the help of many of the vampires and they all had a lot of fun decorating the boat and then having a party on the boat during the parade. More fun than Kendra would have imagined possible for a Christmas parade of boats. There were fireworks afterwards and the view of the fireworks from the water was incredible. She and Eric stood on the top deck watching the fireworks, oohing and aahing over them together.

Eric spent Christmas at the coterie house and was surprised that so many of the vampires got into the Christmas spirit, Kendra included. Kendra wanted Eric to see she could travel to fun places with him, so for her gift to Eric she bought them two weeks at a vampire friendly ski resort in Colorado - with night skiing with lights until 2:00 am, and then night skiing without lights for the rest of the night, and with secure areas for vampires to rest during the day. She also made arrangements with Abbot for the use of his plane to get them there and back. Kendra had been watching for one of the new touch pads that doubled as an ereader and a netbook to come to market, and Eric managed to get a preproduction unit from the manufacturer that he could give Kendra for Christmas. He also had a contractor build a fireproof compartment into the hull of his yacht, so that even if the boat caught fire in the day and sank to the bottom, Kendra would be safe when she awoke that night.

It was New Years Eve that Kendra decided to take the bull by the horns and do something about their sex life. She put a note on the playroom door that she had it reserved the night of January first and the morning of the second, and she informed Eric it was time for a scene. She told him to eat and shower two hours before sunset, and to be naked and have a bath drawn for her when she rose.

When she rose he was laying beside her in bed, naked. She kissed his forehead then stood and walked to the bathroom. He'd drawn the water at the perfect temperature and put the jasmine oils into it that she liked. She piled her hair on top of her head and sank into the fragrant water.

"Please kneel on the rug, ass on your feet, knees apart, hands behind your head."

Kendra noted that he didn‘t have a hard-on, but she smelled just a hint of arousal, so she didn’t do anything to further arouse him just yet.

Since she'd shaved the night before, this morning's bath was just to set the stage for their scene. She didn’t take too long in the tub, instructing Eric to towel her dry, which he gently and lovingly did, igniting her libido as he did so. From the state of his erection, apparently it did something for him, too. She then had him help her into her corset before she stepped into the matching high heeled boots.

"Eric, kneel before me again, please."

Once he complied she fastened a bondage collar around his neck and a leash to the collar, had him stand again, and then walked him to the playroom naked and on a leash. None of the downstairs vamps were up yet, so no one would see him, but it still messed with his head.

They reached the playroom and she locked the door once they were in. She could smell both turmoil and arousal, with a hint of fear. She didn't want there to be fear today, not yet anyway. "Eric, remember, raindrops and storm clouds, okay?" She touched his face, making sure he felt that she was being gentle, trying to remind him that he was safe, that she’d take care of him.

She walked him to the wall with the bondage equipment and pulled down two wrist cuffs. She smelled arousal, but she also smelled conflict. Normally she would make the submissive offer himself here, but she decided to take it easy on him, so she reached for each arm and gently placed the cuffs on his wrists. As she put the second cuff on she held onto the cuff and walked behind him, reaching for the other cuff and then pulling his wrists behind his back before attaching the cuffs together. After walking him to the center of the room she reached for the chain hanging from one of the ceiling mounted winches and bent him over at the waist, attaching the chain to his wrists behind his back. She went back to the wall and pushed the button that would raise the chain, stopping it just as she saw muscles at his shoulders start to strain, then letting it down about an inch. She grabbed a spreader bar on the way back to him and bent to put it on his ankles when she reached him. He was only a little bit hard and Kendra decided he needed to be a whole lot more aroused before they continued. She walked to one of the bondage ottomans and rolled it under his face, it was a little low so she put a wedge on it. Perfect height. She then laid on the wedge, which put her pussy at the ideal height and angle for him to pleasure her with his mouth and tongue.

"Make me come, Eric. Use that tongue. If you tease me I will punish you. Pleasure me, don't tease me."

And he pleasured her, and then pleasured her some more with that beautiful mouth. Kendra was beyond turned on, this strong male bound as he was, hurting his shoulders to lean farther into her, to give her more pleasure. Sacrificing with his pain for her pleasure. After the second orgasm she forced herself to move, the smell of pain telling her his shoulders were hurting him a good bit by then. She walked to the wall and let his arms down then released them from the chain, but she left them behind his back. He was hard as a rock now, and she was pleased. She made him waddle in the spreader bar over to a spanking bench and then stand there while she used the two foot wide plastic wrap to completely cover the top and back of it. She kept a careful eye on him, if he fell she’d have no problems getting to him before he hit the ground, but he looked pretty stable, more stable than he should have been in a spreader bar with this hands bound behind his back. He watched her oil up the center part of the wrap and didn't seem to understand what she was up to. When she was finished she leaned him over it and fastened his ankles, then released his hands from behind his back and fastened them out to his side, but didn't restrain his hips or thighs.