by Zara Chase
“This is surreal,” she said, shaking her head.
“And exciting.” Rick nuzzled her neck. “Tell me your pussy ain’t leaking.”
“Sure, it’s a turn-on. You have no idea.”
He chuckled. “Oh, I think I do.”
She glanced up. “Is that Ross and Darcy up on that swing thing?”
Rick looked up as well. “Yeah, Ross is really into all that shit.”
“But, he’s…he can’t be, surely?”
“You bet your sweet life he is. Ross loves to fuck her ass while the swing moves as fast as he can make it go. He does it all the time. He’s a real show off that way.”
Rick’s erection was now seriously painful. He unzipped and ran the tip of it down the crack in Sabine’s ass through the flimsy barrier provided by her panties. “Wanna go down there, babe?”
“I want you to fuck me again, but not here. I’m not ready for that.”
A long crack of a whip and a sharp feminine cry called their attention to another corner of the dungeon. Leo had both of his subs naked, crouched in front of him. He chastised them at the same time, bringing a flogger down over their backsides with considerable force.
“Now I know why you said Leo would be busy.” Rick sensed Sabine moisten her lips. “Say, he is blessed.”
“Yeah, the bastard has a cock the size of this country. He makes us all feel inadequate when it stands up like it is now.”
They watched as he grabbed one of the girls by the hips from behind and sank into her, hard, brutally. The other girl stood behind him and fondled his balls while he fucked her mate. The girl came quickly and Leo, still rock hard, withdrew. He then tipped her off his lap and paddled her ass. Sabine watched, gasping, and Rick could sense her concern but she didn’t say a word. Leo had her attention again because he’d ordered the other girl onto her hands and knees.
“He’s gonna fuck her ass,” Rick said, rubbing his cock harder against that part of Sabine’s anatomy. “Watch.”
Leo snapped his fingers and the girl he’d just satisfied grabbed a tube of lube. She squirted some over her fingers, then inserted those fingers in the other girl’s ass. When she was suitably slick she applied more to Leo’s throbbing cock, pausing to suck his balls as she did so. Ready to go, he returned his attention to the girl on the floor, grabbed her hips and sank into her. The other girl crouched on all fours in front of her friend, who sucked her clit into her mouth.
“Wow, that’s hot,” Sabine said, shaking from head to foot.
Rick moved his hands around to her front and slid them inside her shirt, cupping her breasts. “Let’s take this back upstairs,” he said in a hoarse voice.
Chapter Eight
Sabine walked hand in hand with Rick back to his rooms, feeling like her entire body had gone into sensual meltdown. Perhaps her preoccupation with what she had just seen accounted for her willingness to hold hands with a man as though it was the most natural thing in the world. She wondered why she had let her hang-ups get in the way of having a good time before now. Perhaps she’d been waiting for the right person to let herself go with. Well, she’d found him now, but a real question mark hung over his future.
And hers.
“Don’t overthink the situation, babe,” Rick said as he opened the door to his rooms for her. Ruben looked up, wagged a few times, then settled back down to his dreams.
“How do you do that?” she asked accusingly.
“Do what?”
“You seem to know what I’m thinking before the thought even has time to register with me. I can’t decide if you’re clever or I’m predictable.”
“A bit of both,” he replied, grinning. “You were wondering how you could walk around half-dressed, holding my hand, and not feel threatened. Am I right?”
“Well, yes, but I still don’t see how you could have known that.”
“It ain’t rocket science, darlin’. You’ve never done anything like this before. Touching, trusting, ceding control goes against everything that you’ve been, up until now.” He sent her an intent look. “But if you want to play games like we just saw downstairs, then you have to let me be in charge.”
“I already did that. I let you blindfold me, I let you restrain my hands—”
“And now you’re ready to go a step further. That means I get my hands on that gorgeous body of yours, without restriction.”
She gulped. “Okay. But before we get down to it, can I ask you a few questions about what we just saw?”
“You can ask me anything you like, sugar. What do you need to know?”
Only about a million things. “Where to start?” She nibbled her index finger as she tried to prioritize, figuring a lot of it would become obvious if she allowed herself to go down that path. Experience over expectation. “Condoms for starters. I didn’t see any being used. Is that safe?”
“Sure it is. Those relationships are all monogamous, which makes our setup more straight laced in many ways than the casual relationships ordinary people enter into. The ladies have birth control covered and the guys don’t have to worry about condoms. Everyone wins.”
“I see. That makes sense, I guess, but something else I saw really bothered me. Leo fucked one of his subs, then spanked her again afterward. Why did he do that? Did she disappoint him in some way I need to be aware of?”
“No, she came without his permission.”
“She has to have permission to orgasm?” Sabine gaped at him. “You’re kidding me, right?”
“Baby, I never joke about anything as serious as Dom/sub relationships. Those are the rules, she knew it, she broke them and took her punishment.”
“Okay, I guess we’d better not go there for now, because you really don’t want to know what I think of that answer or how I would react to being punished for letting my body do its thing.”
Rick shrugged. “It’s the way it is. Those girls know it, and they’re cool with the consequences if they break the rules. Just as you will be in time.”
“You think I’d let you do that to me?”
“Honey,” he replied, fixing her with a searing look. “I know you will. Besides, has it occurred to you that Leo’s sub, and you for that matter, will enjoy those chastisements?”
“Enjoy having my backside flogged?” She shuddered. “I don’t think so.”
“And yet you were turned on by it.”
“I wasn’t the one getting six shades of shit beaten out of me.”
“Did you see Leo’s sub complaining?”
“Well no, but that doesn’t mean she enjoyed it.”
“I’ll introduce you to her sometime. You can ask her yourself. Now, what else do you need to know?”
“Leo, he had something around his cock. What was it?”
“A cock ring. It keeps him harder for longer.” He sent her a lascivious grin. “And it rubs against the sensitized walls of his subs’ cunts when he fucks them. Just imagine me doing that to you.” She shuddered. “Yes, it’s a real turn-on, isn’t it, sugar? Still we won’t go that far quite yet.”
“You’re the boss.”
“Hmm, you’d better believe it.”
She tossed her head. “There’s a ton of stuff I need to know about some of those weird implements I saw down there, but I guess now isn’t the time.”
“Something more pressing on your mind?” he asked teasingly.
“I have absolutely no idea how to respond to that question without further inflating your already insufferable ego.”
“Well then, I guess it’s time to set out a few ground rules.”
She widened her eyes. “There are rules?”
“You know there are. We already discussed Leo’s sub breaking them. First off, I’m in charge. Absolutely in charge. When we’re playing you refer to me as Master or Sir, never make eye contact and do absolutely everything I tell you to, without questioning it and without hesitation.”
Sabine gulped, wanting to argue, unable to find the right words. “And if I don’t?
”
“There will be consequences. Punishments. Withdrawal of privileges, namely my cock, and you won’t like that.”
“What if you do something to me I don’t like?”
“Then you safeword me. We’ll agree upon a word for you to use any time you need me to stop. As soon as you voice it, I desist, no questions asked. Now, what word would work for you?”
“I can’t believe we’re having this conversation,” she said, wondering if she was having an out of body experience of some sort. Except she could never have dreamt this stuff up, so it had to be for real.
“If you’d rather not do it, there’s no pressure.”
“Hell no, I want to!” Sabine was surprised just how much she wanted to.
“You’re not treating this as another situation like the one with the tattoo, wanting to prove something to yourself?”
“No, Sir,” she replied, surprising herself by addressing him that way without having to think about it. With him in such an uncompromising mood, it seemed natural and right, and she was willing enough to go along, at least with that part of his game. “I want to know more about this stuff.”
“I’m real glad, ’cause I gotta tell you, I look forward to teaching you.”
“We don’t have time for many lessons. Don’t lose sight of the fact that people are coming to Nevella to kill you. That really ought to take priority, don’t you think?”
“I’m not likely to forget that, but if we’re on the subject of killing, we’ve got time to kill before they get here, and I can’t think of a better way to do it.”
“I wish you wouldn’t use that word. Kill, I mean,” she said shuddering.
He laughed. “You worry too much, babe. These guys are coming into my territory, which gives me the edge. You just let me worry about them, and think about your safeword. Well, what’s it to be?”
“Foster care,” she replied without hesitation.
“Okay then, foster care it is.” He stood in front of her, close enough to touch her, but not doing so. Sabine felt oddly disgruntled about that, which was astonishing. He was being too respectful of her phobia. She ought to be grateful, not peeved. “I’ve told you what’s expected of you, but you need to understand what my responsibilities are. As your Master it’s my job to help you explore your sensuality, your physical and mental limits, and teach you stuff about yourself you probably never knew. I will show you how to tolerate pain and transmute it to pleasure, and I will also take responsibility for your physical welfare. You will give me pleasure by submitting to me, doing everything I ask of you—”
“Even if it’s humiliating. Some of the stuff going on downstairs looked pretty demeaning to my eyes.”
“It’s only humiliating if you don’t enjoy it. Did it look to you as though Tanya didn’t enjoy being literally pussy whipped?”
“Well no, but—”
“But nothing. If you want to please me, then anything I ask of you won’t seem humiliating because it gives me pleasure, which is your primary goal.”
“Oh, I see.” She bit her lip. “Well, I think I do.”
“Okay, Sabine, let’s get this party started. Take off your top and panties and let me look at you properly.” When she hesitated Rick move with the speed of light to tap her thigh. “When I tell you to do something, you do it immediately. Now, what do you have to say for disappointing me?”
Sabine’s mind flitted to some of the things she had overheard in the dungeon and understood what he wanted to hear. “Sorry, Sir.”
She threw off her clothing and stood before him, head bowed, hands folded primly across her pussy, while honey trickled down the insides of her thighs. She was conscious of her limbs trembling with excitement, expectation, and fear of the unknown.
“That’s better.”
He walked around her slowly, assessing her from every angle. Sabine’s tremors increased because she was well aware she was far from perfect. Leo’s two subs were tall, statuesque beauties, Tanya and Darcy were clearly comfortable in their own bodies, whereas Sabine was a quivering wreck of uncertainty.
“We’re gonna have to do something about your self-confidence, darlin’.” He was doing it again, Sabine thought. How did he assess her thoughts so accurately? “But first, I’m going to get my hands acquainted with every square inch of you.”
Sabine swallowed, and froze. The initial buzz she’d felt in the dungeon had worn off and she was no longer quite so sure this was a good idea. The safeword was on the tip of her tongue when she felt the warmth of Rick’s body heat behind her and his hands slipping around to cover her breasts. She trembled all over, but didn’t try to pull away from him.
“Good girl,” he said softly. “That’s real good.”
His hands softly cupped her breasts, molding the flesh between his long fingers, probing, tantalizing, testing her resolve. He pinched her nipples and her demons faded away. This was Rick. These were his hands, and she trusted him to look after her. She absolutely did. She sighed, closed her eyes, and leaned her head back until it rested on his shoulder.
“That’s it, sweet thing. Let your body tell you what it needs.”
His lips explored the back of her neck, causing fissions of excitement to bubble through her bloodstream. His erection pressed against the top of her butt, hard and relentless, which is when Sabine knew it would be all right. She could do this because Rick wanted her at least as much as she wanted him. Whatever else he did to her in pursuit of her own brand of pleasure, he would never harm her. That’s what he had been trying to make her understand. He would never exploit her at the expense of her self-respect. She gyrated her hips against his cock, receiving a sharp tap on the backside for her disobedience.
“Keep absolutely still until I give you permission to move.”
Carnal sensation rumbled through her midsection. He was so…well, Dominant, and Sabine was starting to understand how arousing it could be to have a man issuing orders to her. This time yesterday she would have laughed in the face of anyone who had told her such a thing was even remotely possible. What a difference a day had made to her outlook. Sabine Carter, a one-woman, self-sufficient ballbreaker, had found her feminine side. She was learning to trust a man who lit her fires, was beginning to understand that being subservient didn’t make her vulnerable.
“That’s it, baby,” he said. “Let you mind go, and concentrate on how I make you feel.”
* * * *
Rick was conflicted. The Dominant side of his personality balked at treating her with anything other than the full force of his determination to have her do precisely as he wished. The man in him knew he had been granted a rare and special opportunity to heal this damaged, highly sensitive creature. The Dom won the day. It was what defined him, even more so than his total commitment to the environment. Sabine was the woman he had been waiting all his life to meet. He had known it almost the moment he set eyes on her, which was why he had taken a chance and shown her the dungeon. Any woman who appealed to him on so many different levels couldn’t possibly be turned off by what she saw there. If she was, it was better he knew it before he got in too deep.
She was right about one thing. He really shouldn’t be doing this with her—at least not until he’d dealt with the real threat hanging over him. But something stronger than his own will drove him on. If the people sent to get him somehow fulfilled their contract then he would die having known Sabine—the real, sexy as hell Sabine—and she would have learned something about herself. At least he could do that much for her.
“Now, about those nipple clamps.”
He left her standing where she was, rummaged in his toy drawer, and found a pair of clover clips and some lube.
“They restrict the blood flow to your nipples, darlin’, as well as making the woman who wears them look like a sexy little witch. Wanna try them?”
“If it would please you, Master?”
“You please me, darlin’, by being so responsive to my needs.” He knelt in front of her, gent
ly applied lube to her nipples and fixed the clamps in place. “There, how do they feel?”
“I thought they would hurt. They look painful, but actually they’re not.”
“You haven’t yet learned what they do to your nipples.”
He ran his tongue across one blood-starved peak and she cried out. “Oh,” she said, opening her eyes very wide.
“Precisely.” He took her hand and led her to the bed. “Come on, it’s time for your first spanking.”
He waited for a protest, a change of heart, that wasn’t forthcoming. Quickly shedding his jeans, he sat on the edge of the bed and patted his knee. “Bend over here,” he said curtly.
To her credit, she didn’t hesitate. Once she was in position, he rested the paddle he intended to use on her against her backside, getting her used to the feel of it.
“Chastising you is one huge turn on for me, Sabine. Does it please you to make me happy?”
“Yes, Master. I want to please you very much.”
“That’s good to know. It means your cute butt will feel warm and sore when I’m done with you. It’s real important that you breathe deeply and slowly, empty your mind and let your body take over. When you’re in a state of heightened awareness like you are right now, endorphins get released and go to work. They know what to do with the pain, how to make you enjoy it, just so long as you don’t fight them. Think you can do that for me?”
“Yes, Sir. I’m sure going to try.”
“I know you are, but you’re gonna have to ask me to chastise you first. I need to know it’s what you want.”
“Please, Master. Please, I’ve misbehaved. I need you to correct me.”
Triumph ripped through Rick as the words he most wanted to hear fell spontaneously from her lips. He brought the paddle down on her butt firmly but not harshly. She cried out but held her position. Rick rewarded her by tugging on the chain that connected the nipple clamps. That made her gasp, just as he had hoped it would. Shit, she was a quick study! He brought the paddle down twice more in quick succession, the sound of it striking her bare flesh loud and arousing. This time he slid a couple of fingers inside her slick cunt and rubbed his thumb across her swollen clit.