“I was nervous. I was worried. It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s just not really any easy thing to come out and say.”
He nodded in understanding. “Well,” he told her, “If we’re being honest here, I’ve been intrigued by it for some time now.”
She smiled and her eyes widened in excitement. This had been what she hoped would be the case ever since she happened upon the website on his laptop. She could barely contain her excitement. She was actually talking about something important to her, something she had always wanted to try with the right person. And now she had finally found him.
To make it all the better, he wanted to try it as well. It was not just to please her; it was not just something he would be open to trying and seeing how it went. He was actually interested in it out of his own accord. She hugged him tightly, wanting to feel as much of his body against hers as she could.
“I’m so relieved,” she told him, the sound of her voice muffled because her mouth was pressed against his shoulder.
He stroked up and down her back and she felt herself getting drowsy. As much as she wanted to continue the conversation, she didn’t know how much longer she could stay awake. It would be best to talk about this at length when they were both fully alert.
“Let’s go to bed,” she suggested as she pulled her face away from his shoulder. He nodded and, much to her surprise, stood up while holding her in his arms. He carried her over to the bed and set her down on her side, kneeling down to brush her hair off her forehead and give her a kiss. He looked into her eyes for a bit before leaning in for a soft, lingering kiss.
“Goodnight,” he whispered before standing up and walking out into the living room. She could hear him making sure everything was locked up and in order before he turned out the lights and returned to the room, letting his body fall heavily onto the bed next to her. She reached out and held his hand just as her eyes shut and she fell asleep.
Chapter 6
Aria woke up the following morning feeling refreshed and ready for the day despite having gotten less sleep than usual the previous night due to her successful experiment, as she liked to fondly think of it, with Billy. He had already left for work for an early morning staff meeting.
She picked up her phone and sent him a simple text asking if he wasn’t feeling too tired before she rolled off the bed and stretched.
She went into the shower and sped through, toweling herself off before brushing her teeth and moving on to do her hair. Her phone buzzed with a text message from Billy.
Not at all ;-). She smiled and sent him a wink back, setting her phone down on the nightstand as she pulled out an outfit from her closet. She looked at the clock and was happy to see she had time for a nice, relaxing breakfast while looking through the morning’s headlines. She rarely had enough time for that, but today was off to a great start.
She got home in a great mood, happy to walk in and see Billy in the kitchen almost done making dinner for the two of them.
“I love that you cook,” she said as she placed her keys on the hook by the door. “And I cook well,” he said happily. She nodded in agreement before walking off to the bedroom to drop her things and change into more comfortable clothing fit to lounge around in. She settle on shorts and a tank, walking back out to of the kitchen just as Billy was serving the food and placing the dishes on the table. She poured a glass of water for each and joined him.
They ate dinner, taking turns talking about their day. They were in great spirits. After they had finished dinner and cleaned up they sat on the couch and looked at each other, neither moving to turn on the television. It was as if they were both perfectly in tune and completely aware of the pending conversation. They both wanted to have the conversation. Despite their comfort and openness it was a bit awkward to just start talking and break the ice.
Aria moved closer to Billy on the couch, turned her body to face him, and placed her hand on his knee. She took the plunge by deciding to initiate the conversation.
“So, we kind of have more to talk about after last night,” she began. He nodded, but didn’t respond. “You mentioned you’ve been intrigued for some time so I was curious what parts of BDSM you’re specifically interested in?” This felt awkward. It all sounded so formal, like they were in some sort of business meeting discussing the details of a transaction. The truth was Aria had absolutely no idea how to navigate this discussion and she assumed Billy didn’t have a clue either. He was hesitant to respond.
“Just a few things,” he said vaguely.
She could tell he was holding back so she cupped his cheek and said, “You can tell me. I want to know.” He pressed his lips together in a thin line and nodded.
“Light bondage, control, maybe some pain…that’s what interests me a lot.”
She nodded and thought of his answer. Those were the aspects she wanted to engage in the most as well, but she wondered what he meant by it. Specifically, she wondered if he wanted to experience it done on him or if he wanted to do it to her. This was the question she had been anticipating knowing the answer to. It seemed surreal how compatible they had turned out to be when it came to this and she wondered how far that would go.
“When you say those are the things that interest you, do you mean you want to do them or have them done to you?”
“To be honest,” he responded, “I want both, but I’ve leaned more toward having it done to me than anything. I’d like to do it once just to know what it’s like to be on the other end, you know? And then go from there.”
Aria found her confidence anchoring itself in her after this response. She couldn’t properly express her joy and excitement at the major turn of events. It was a completely accidental discovery, but she couldn’t have imagined ending up with this conversation. It was almost as if they had looked for each other with these desires in mind.
She leaned in closer to him and said, “That’s great because I’ve always wanted to dominate.”
His eyes lit up and she felt him grip her waist tightly in excitement. She leaned in and kissed him softly. Though she had intended for it to just be a brief kiss, he pressed into it. She could feel the passion building up. As much as she wanted to continue the kiss and see where it lead she knew this was a conversation they should wrap up first. She pulled back and looked at him, seeing the same excitement she felt reflected in the sparkle of his eyes. She could also see them darkening with lust. It was hard to resist giving in to the urge so she willed herself to get off his lap and sit on the coffee table across him.
“Safe word,” she said simply.
“Right,” he said. His eyes shifted around and she noticed he glanced quickly down at the crotch of his pants. She looked and saw he had a noticeable bulge pressing against his thigh. She swallowed because the ability to resist falling into the passion she had felt when kissing him had instantly become a lot harder.
“You should choose your own,” she pointed out. She placed her hands flat on the surface of the table and looked at him intently, waiting for him to choose. She could see the gears in his mind turning.
“How about ‘lucky’”? He looked at her with a small smirk playing along the corners of his mouth.
“I like it,” she said. She tapped her finger on her lips and said, “I actually like it. I’ll use it as my safe word as well.”
“Great,” he said in a low, husky voice as if he were trying to seduce her. Not that he really needed to try, especially not at this point. She gulped again and did her best shake away the scenes playing out in her mind. She could get to those at a later time. They could get to those at a later time because such thoughts were no longer fated to remain private fantasies of hers.
He tilted his head and bit the corner of his lower lip, looking past her at nothing in particular. He was thinking about their conversation and the terms they were setting.
“I think for me, I’ll discover my boundaries as we go along. I have some boundaries, like no bodily fluids aside from spit and,
you know.” He winked at her when he said that in a rather absurd way and they both burst out laughing. It was the first time they had laughed since the conversation began and it did a lot to alleviate the tension. It wasn’t a bad tension between them, it was just due to the nature of the conversation and the way Aria had started conducting it. The atmosphere felt less like a stuffy business meeting now, something they were both grateful for.
“Really though, I also don’t want to bleed. Dish out the pain with levels, you know. Don’t just start smacking me with a shovel right away or something.”
“Oh my goodness,” Aria laughed. She made a movement as if to smack him playfully on the arm but didn’t.
“Hey, there you go!” He laughed and unexpectedly grabbed her by the wrists, pulling her forward so she fell onto him. He held her tightly against him and kissed her deeply.
“It doesn’t always need to be like that though,” he told her.
She nodded, “I know. I agree.”
He loosened his hold on her as she stood up. She looked at the clock and noticed it was getting late. Although she wanted to be with him more, she knew they should try to get some sleep. She stretched and unwittingly exposed a sliver of her stomach as her shirt went up. As she brought her arms down she felt something wet and warm glide across the expanse of smooth skin.
It was Billy, who had leaned forward and run his tongue along her skin. She let out a quivered breath and just stood there. He hooked his fingers onto the waistband of her shorts and pulled her forward, his lips meeting the smooth skin of her abdomen. His kisses trailed upward, slipping his hands under her shirt and pushing it up as his lips continued making a path up higher and higher.
She moaned softly when his mouth closed around her nipple and gave a suck before his tongue traced a circle around the hardened nub. He stood up and pulled her shirt over her head, tossing it onto the couch before pulling her body against his and kissing her insistently.
Guess we won’t be getting more sleep tonight after all, she thought though she wasn’t at all unhappy with the reason for it.
She pushed her hips outward to rub against his bulge, the feeling causing both of them to moan. She grabbed his shoulders and roughly shoved him back down to sit on the couch. She took off her shorts and panties before bending over to undo his pants. She slipped them down, along with his boxers, to his ankles and climbed on top of him. She wasted no time positioning herself over him, grabbing the base of his shaft and lowering her body until he was completely inside her. She moved her hips up and down and in just a few minutes, he had already reached climax. He clutched at her hips and thrust upward into her. When he finished, she had an unhappy look on her face. It was a look of disappointment. It was a look that suggested he needed to do something quickly to rectify the situation.
“You didn’t orgasm?” He asked, noticing her look of disappointment.
She shook her head as she leaned forward and whispered sternly, “Make it happen.”
Immediately he followed her command, laying her out on the couch and spreading her legs before positioning himself between them. His head dipped down between her thighs. Just from the feel of his hot breath on her flesh made her quiver. The tip of his tongue lick from the very bottom of her wet slit up to just below her clit. She let out a loud breath she had been holding.
He looked up and his eyes met her gaze. She could see the same desire she felt echoed back to her in his dark eyes, his head lowering back down to her aching slit slowly. She moaned out, eyes clamping shut when she felt his tongue delve right into her. He slid it deep into her, as deep as he could go by shoving his face against her flesh. She raised her hips and gripped the edge of the couch, crying out in pleasure when she felt vibrations from him groaning with his tongue still inside her.
Her mind went entirely blank, except allowing her body to completely enjoy the feeling of his skillful tongue inside her. His fingers ran up her thigh and stroked her right above her clit.
The need in her body intensified, building more and more until he slipped his tongue out of her and swiped upward with the tip of it until he flicked her clit. She gasped as her body shook with mounting pleasure, her eyes shut so tight she could see stars and hands gripping the couch so hard her knuckles had turned white as paper. Her hips bucked up against his face and her pelvic muscles contracted like mad as she felt the orgasm slam into her. After catching her breath, she stroked his hair and pet him.
“Good job,” she said as he lifted his head to look at her. He smiled and she bent her legs at the knee, swinging them over the couch before standing up. She walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower.
“I’ll be quick,” she called out.
She lathered and shampooed herself as quickly as possible, stepping out and toweling herself dry. She still felt slightly weak from the orgasm she just had, but it was perfect to allow her to slip easily into a deep sleep. She walked out and kissed Billy good night before heading to the bedroom and laying down in bed, still naked. The shower turned on in the other room as she closed her eyes, drifting off to sleep with a smile on her face.
Chapter 7
The rest of the week went by in the typical routine way. Both Billy and Aria went to work and came home with whomever of the two arrived first being responsible for making dinner that night. On Friday night, Aria had plans to go over to Kay’s apartment for a while. She headed straight there after work knowing Kay had already bought take out for dinner.
They caught up over their meal, talking about usual work stuff without any major news. After dinner, Aria automatically helped Kay clean up before they moved over to the living room to continue chatting. They had already chosen a movie for the night, but they opted to talk instead. Aria was especially keen on this since she felt she had a lot of exciting news to share about her relationship.
“So, that whole thing I was experiencing with worrying about my relationship isn’t really there any more.”
Kay raised an eyebrow and simply responded with, “Oh?”
Aria took a deep breath and proceeded to tell Kay the entire back-story. Aria admitting she had always wanted to try engaging in BDSM and play with a partner, but had never been with anyone she felt comfortable enough with to bring it up, let alone someone she trusted a sufficient amount to actually go through with it.
She went on to say she felt Billy could be that person from a while back but she was too nervous or even afraid to actually bring it up, she ended just ignoring her desires.
“I think that was part of the problem,” she mentioned.
Because she had reached that conclusion on her own the day after discussing the details with Billy. She realized that in depriving herself of something she had always wanted after finding a partner who actually gave her the comfort and trust she needed, she ended up creating some kind of distance between them when it came to sex. She knew it wasn’t entirely because of that but it definitely had played a role.
“So how did you finally gather the courage to tell him about it?” Kay was extremely interested in all this. She had told Aria she found it fascinating and lamented the fact Aria felt she needed to keep it a secret for so long.
So this launched Aria into the story of how she had happened upon the web page on his laptop, explaining it hadn’t been intentional. She made it a point to say she didn’t snoop around his things. Kay found this amusing.
“Don’t worry, I’m not sitting her judging you and I don’t think you’re one of those people with no respect for personal boundaries,” Kay had said brokenly between her laughter.
Aria was always glad to talk to her friend about the things going on in her life. She was especially glad Kay had such a natural sense of humor because it often made it easer to talk to her. Aria didn’t go into specific details of what she had discussed with Billy as she felt those were rather private, especially to him, but she did mention they had that conversation.
“It went well,” Aria concluded with a content smile on her fac
e.
“So have you tried anything since then?”
“No, we haven’t. We just fell into our workweek routine, but I have a feeling it will happen soon. As in it will happen this weekend,” Aria grinned slyly. At these words, Kay suddenly shot up from the couch and walked over to Aria. “What,” Aria said right before Kay swooped down on her and pulled her up from the couch.
“You need to go,” she told her insistently. “You have no reason being here when you have a man waiting for you at home ready to play,” she said.
Aria looked back at her, expecting to see a wide grin on Kay’s face, but she was being serious. Aria bit her lips, smiled and waved goodbye with a laugh before walking out of the door. She rushed home and was glad to find Billy sitting in the armchair reading a book. He was wearing nothing but boxers and tee.
She dropped her keys and purse on the floor and walked right up to him, snatching the book out of his hands and bending over to give him a deep and fervent kiss. He immediately pressed his lips against her as if he had been holding on to that passion for a while only to let it free the moment she got home. She pulled back and looked into his eyes.
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