Lara Santiago - Menagerie

by Lara Santiago

  He sighed again. “I like bondage.” He pierced her with a stern gaze and watched to see if his statement had an adverse effect.

  “I…I’d be willing to try it.” The very word brought visions of spike-studded leather, pain and a tiny bit of fear into her very vivid imagination.

  “I appreciate that, babe. I truly do.” Dominick grabbed her in a bear hug, pinning her arms to her sides, and buried his face in her neck. “But if you didn’t like it—”

  “Then I’d tell you. And you wouldn’t make me do it anymore.”

  “But from then on you’d know I’d always want to. I know you. It would change things between us in an adverse way. You’d feel bad or, worse, you’d feel guilty. Please don’t make me cross that line.”

  “Can’t we just move over the line a little? Or step on it?”

  He laughed. “I appreciate your willingness to try something new, but please allow me to decline.”

  “Would what you did to me, um, hurt? Like whips and pain?”

  His eyes narrowed. He didn’t say anything for several long seconds. “No. For me it’s about control. I like having all of it. I’d want to tie you down to the bed, hands and feet spread wide. You’d get hot anticipating what I was about to do to you. I might blindfold you next and make you wonder how I’d please you.” He slipped behind her and kissed her neck before he nipped the cord of muscle along her shoulder.

  “That doesn’t sound so bad. What are you really afraid to tell me?”

  “I like to penetrate hard and deep when I fuck. I don’t want to hurt you.”

  “You won’t hurt me.” She sucked in a shuddery breath. “I want to try it, okay? Please.”

  He wrapped his arms around her torso, squeezing so hard she couldn’t breathe in a full breath and asked, “Do you know what a safe word is?”

  “Sort of,” she squeaked and he released her a little. Johnny had taught her about a word, but after that first night when he’d dressed as a pirate, he’d never tried games again in all this time and Valerie had been relieved. Dominick, on the other hand, was a whole different arena to play in. She wanted to do this with him very much.

  “It’s a word that we agree on before we start. If you want me to stop at any time for any reason at all, you say the word and I will stop.”

  “But—”

  “No buts, no recriminations. Any reason you want me to stop and I’ll stop if you say the word.”

  “Okay.”

  “Okay?” The fingers wrapped around her forearms loosened just a bit.

  Valerie twisted and stared deeply into his eyes. “My safe word is ‘menagerie.’ Tie me up, blindfold me and fuck me as hard as you want and if I want you to stop, I’ll say menagerie, and you’ll stop.” Valerie leaned closer and his hands tightened. “But I won’t.”

  His pupils widened to black. “You won’t what?”

  “I won’t say the word.” Tilting her head back, she longed for him to touch her.

  He kissed her so hard their teeth clacked. He jammed his tongue between her lips with a ferocity of force he’d never used with her before, as if testing her resolve to play the scary bondage game. She was so excited she could barely keep her legs beneath her. His punishing kiss sent pulses of electric desire sizzling between her legs. Arms crossed behind her back, Valerie felt a little thrill when Dominick held her limbs in place and bent her back slightly. Totally vulnerable to his oral assault, Valerie relaxed, ready to let him explore new and exciting sexual practices.

  After the brutally arousing kiss, Dominick picked her up, carried her to his bed and deposited her in the middle of it. He turned to a dresser centered against one wall. From the top drawer he pulled out several pieces of colorful fabric. Scarves, perhaps?

  Valerie swallowed hard and her pussy gushed in anticipatory arousal of being tied to Dominick’s bed.

  Turning to face her with the cloth dangling from his fingertips, he said, “I demand complete acquiescence. Do you understand?”

  “Yes.”

  “And you’ll do whatever I say without question?”

  Valerie gasped as a rush of need barreled through her veins. “Yes,” she managed to whisper.

  “Take your clothes off.”

  From her kneeling position, Valerie stood easily in the center of Dominick’s bed and stripped as he watched.

  Once she’d chucked her clothing over the edge of the footboard, Dominick said, “Now get down on the bed and onto your back.”

  She slid down as he approached. He plucked her hand from the pillow and tied her wrist to a vertical spindle on his iron headboard. He then bound her ankles to the metal footboard and finished her entrapment using the final scarf on her other wrist.

  He glanced down at her nude, very aroused body and rubbed his hands together briskly. “Be right back. Don’t move.”

  Valerie laughed. She closed her eyes and thought about the kind of trust involved in this scenario. She should have been panicked, but instead she could hardly wait to see what he’d do.

  He returned with something tucked behind his back, but she couldn’t see what he had. She imagined she’d find out soon enough.

  “Close your eyes. Keep them closed.”

  Her lids drifted shut as a smile curved her lips and another ripple of arousal sped down her body.

  The mattress gave way beside her hip and she guessed that he’d sat on the bed. She resisted the urge to peek, as the question of what her punishment might be for disobedience had yet to be disclosed.

  The barest flutter of his fingertips on her inner ankle above the scarf sent a riot of goose bumps shivering along her leg.

  “Am I allowed to speak?”

  He cleared his throat. “Yes. But no questions.”

  No questions? Why were queries all of a sudden the only thing in her mind?

  The barest of touches turned into a leg massage as his hands moved up to her knee. His lips pressed a kiss there before they moved further upward. He was getting closer to her center. Her core gushed. She nudged her hips towards his fingers in an effort to connect them with her clit, but he moved his hand just out of reach. A sigh of frustration escaped as her hips relaxed against the sheets.

  His mild chuckle accompanied a quick surprise swipe of a single finger across her clit. The hot zap of pleasure was gone in the next moment.

  “Please,” she whispered, wishing he’d rub her clitoris more.

  His fingertips glided from her center to her belly button, circling a lazy path to seemingly nowhere. An edgy sigh of frustration rushed out until, without warning, his warm tongue licked the center of one breast, pebbling the tip. She arched her shoulders off the bed, until the scarves stopped her progress, as a bolt of sharp arousal shot from nipple to clit with his attention.

  Dominick stroked a palm to her other breast and cupped her flesh, teasing the other nipple.

  Valerie writhed in need, bucking her hips upward, wishing for his tongue to travel south. The mere thought of his mouth between her legs made another wet gush shower her pussy. She was on the verge of climax merely imagining his tongue licking her clit.

  “Don’t come yet,” he commanded.

  Had he just read her mind?

  “What?”

  “No questions,” he whispered and kissed the space between her breasts.

  “But I want to come.”

  “And you will, but not yet. Not until I tell you to.”

  Valerie pushed out a deep breath and began to understand the control aspect of this situation a little more. She was so turned on that if he blew even the tiniest wisp of air on her clit she’d likely explode and unconsciously disobey his command without being able to control herself. Being ordered not to come aroused her to a level she’d never been to before.

  Dominick took a nipple between his lips and sucked on her leisurely. His other hand fastened to her other breast and rubbed that sensitive peak in tandem.

  Her mind focused on trying not to come, but it became increasingly difficult a
s he teased and sucked on her nipples. She trembled, trying to ignore the pulsing zaps of arousal as his mouth and fingers worked.

  Shifting her hips back and forth, she squirmed, testing the strength of her ankle restraints and tried to think of a way to communicate her unbearable need without forming it into a question.

  “Dominick.”

  His mouth lifted from one nipple with a wet smack. “Yes.”

  “I want you so much.”

  “I’m glad.”

  “I don’t think I can last much longer.”

  “You can. I demand it.”

  “Dominick. My body isn’t responding to your demands.”

  He chuckled. “I disagree.” A finger glanced across her nipple and she jumped at the sensation spiraling to her clit.

  “I really want to come.”

  “Not yet.”

  She pushed out an exasperated sigh. “When?”

  “No questions.” He quit the attention to her breasts and removed himself from her. The bed bounced and she knew he’d left it.

  “Don’t leave me.” Valerie’s eyes opened to see where he was going.

  Dominick hovered over the bed with a stern expression. “Eyes closed.”

  She sighed and snapped her lids shut again. She heard rustling and the curiosity of what he was doing excited her beyond what she’d ever imagined.

  After what seemed like forever she felt him climb back on the bed. She sensed that he was between her legs again and loosened her eyelids, trying to open them the barest sliver to catch a glimpse without being caught.

  “Keep your eyes closed.”

  How was he reading her mind?

  Something soft grazed an inner thigh, stroking from her knee to her mound. She opened her mouth to ask what it was, but stopped herself in time. The soft something was brushed over her legs and belly, then each nipple until he finally touched it to her lips and she smiled in recognition. It was a carnation, judging by the wafting scent.

  “That feels lovely.”

  He brushed the flower down between her legs and followed with his mouth. She felt a warning breath of warm air before he licked her clitoris. The overwhelming shot of oral stimulation sent a spasm of desire through her. She was on the rabid edge of a monumental orgasm.

  “Ohmigod.” Her toes curled trying to keep from releasing. She panted with the effort.

  He brushed a kiss on her belly and then two beats later fastened his lips to her mouth. Tangling his tongue inside, she tasted her own musky flavor and pushed her face closer, wanting the connection to last.

  He broke the kiss and trailed kisses along her jaw. “I think you’re almost ready.”

  She nodded her head in desperate agreement. “Yes. I’m so ready.”

  Dominick lowered his body onto hers and for the first time she realized he was naked. His erect cock nestled at the apex if her thighs mere inches from her wet and wanting pussy. A shudder ran through her limbs and torso at the thought of imminent sexual intercourse.

  Another ripple shook her and he asked, “Are you cold?”

  “No. I’m ready.”

  “Wait for me. I’ll tell you when to come.”

  Valerie pushed out a trembling breath, hoping she’d be able to hold in the orgasmic delight of having his cock buried deeply inside her body. “Right.”

  Dominick slipped an arm beneath her waist and put his other hand on one hip. He pressed a kiss to her cheek and pierced her to the hilt with his mighty cock until he was fully embedded and tickling her womb.

  The seductive power of his shaft filling her to the brink made the difficulty of waiting to climax even more unbearable. With each beat of her pounding heart she risked the sudden fall into oblivion.

  With one arm he gripped her waist, the other hand squeezed one thigh as if for leverage and he didn’t wait even a second to start pounding his cock in and out of her body with voracious aplomb. Each thrust of his incredibly wide shaft hit her womb and the resulting sharp contact sent a clenching, arousing need spiraling inside. The angle of his thrusting brushed the barest of accidental caresses over her clitoris with every third push.

  Delirious with the desire for release, Valerie screamed, “Dominick.”

  Piercing her so hard she thought she would split from the pleasure, he growled, “Come for me. Now!”

  The release she’d been ready to beg for washed across her in a turbulent wave of the most acute pleasure she’d ever experienced. Her slick pussy clamped like a vise on his cock, which still moved in and out with perilously deep thrusts. After the first wave of orgasm had swept by, Valerie took a deep, stuttering breath and heard Dominick say, “Now come for me again.”

  He groaned, pierced her deeper than she’d thought would ever be possible and showered her core with his release. Barely recovered from the first climax, her body writhed with the beckoning call of another intense orgasm. Valerie fairly shrieked the walls down as pleasure engulfed her senses. The double bang of two sharp climaxes back to back tested her capacity for gratification.

  Wrists and ankles all pulled hard at the scarves, testing each of the silk bindings’ tensile strength, but the soft cloth held her in place as she panted and came down off the most satisfying sexual experience of her memory.

  Dominick, still breathing heavily, kissed her mouth. “That was extraordinary.” He buried his face between her neck and shoulder, kissing the sensitive place beneath her ear repeatedly. “I don’t recall ever having felt this kind of intensity before.”

  As her breathing finally returned to normal, she murmured, “It was absolutely indescribable.” She tugged at her bonds. “Can I ask questions yet?”

  His rich laugher rolled over her. “What do you want to know?”

  “When can we do this again?”

  Valerie felt a sudden shudder run down his body. “Whenever you want.” He pressed another kiss to her lips.

  “I love you, Dominick.”

  Nuzzling her neck, he whispered. “I love you more, babe.”

  The second time, he blindfolded her so she couldn’t peek and added a jar of honey as an additional component of his seduction along with the carnation.

  Valerie, immersed in the unexpected satisfaction of sexual experimentation she never expected to take pleasure in, snuggled up to the man she hoped her heart would recognize regardless of their memories of this unusual place in time.

  Chapter 17

  7 until Return Day

  “Why have I been called here? I haven’t done anything. Lately.” Blue led Valerie to a familiar place, but she still didn’t like meeting with the High Committee all alone.

  The very first time she’d been called here Mark had accompanied her, but waited outside. After that she’d gone by herself and found she preferred it. Today, she wished Dominick hadn’t been at work otherwise she would have dragged him along.

  Valerie despised being away from him since their time together had grown so short. In mere days, they’d be permanently separated and she was despondent over the loss.

  Stopping briefly in front of the double doors to the High Committee chamber, Valerie tried to remember any little piece of her life before being brought on board this ship. Beyond the fact that she knew she had a life, no details emerged in her mind. She knew she was good with numbers, but didn’t recall if that was an important part of her life on Earth.

  Dominick only knew he dealt with guns, self-defense and had a bevy of skills befitting a mercenary. Talk about opposites attracting. At least they’d had fun the last few months. Little comfort when she’d found the love of her life only to be separated forever once they left this place and would have no memory of it. Valerie used to long for a speedy return to Earth early on in this unusual journey, but lately she decided she should have been careful at what she wished for.

  Blue ushered her through the committee chamber doors to where only Golden waited for her. He was seated alone at the table and Valerie wondered where the other two members were. She hadn’t ever seen him
without Silver and Bronze poised to whisper in his ears.

  “What’s going on?” Over her shoulder, Blue closed the chamber doors leaving them alone.

  “We brought you here to explain the procedures for your return home to Earth.”

  Golden stood and led her from the committee chamber to a hidden hallway at the back of the tall room. Following along at a measured distance, a vague recollection of having been here before surfaced in Valerie’s memory. A green shaft of light appeared ahead and she remembered exploring this prohibited space with Daisy. Until Dominick had caught them. Approaching the familiar space, she suppressed the urge to shout, “Ah ha!” and mentally rubbed her hands together. Now she’d finally get to see what was in this forbidden hallway.

  “All six of us are going back, correct?”

  Golden nodded and opened a door to a room she’d never seen in this part of the alien vessel before. “There has been a slight complication. We wanted to discuss it with you privately.”

  “What complication? How slight?” The spacious white room was well lit, with ambient light seemingly coming from the walls. It looked like her personal vision of mission control on Earth where shuttles and satellites were launched in to space. “What are we doing here?” She didn’t mean to sound so impatient. Time away from Dominick made her edgy. She wondered if it would be prudent to ask about finding a way to meet him back on Earth again.

  “You have truly fallen in love with one of the men in your group,” Golden remarked in a matter-of-fact tone.

  Startled that the conversation had strayed into what she’d just been thinking, Valerie crossed her arms ready to do battle. “Am I in more trouble now?”

  “No. At least, not trouble which will result in any consequences. However, we would like to offer you the possibility to remember each other once you go back to Earth.”

  “I thought you said paradoxes would result.” Still, hope colored her new exuberant tone.

  “They can, but we don’t believe this will result if we give you the information. Besides, the likelihood of your meeting is remote at best.”

  “Okay, tell me what information will help me find him.”

  Golden pressed his palms together as if in prayer. “Let me explain something to you first. Humans have a unique personification of being while traveling in our vessel. Especially the males.”