her.
"Don't move. Stay as you are. Good girl."
The praise flowed over her like honey. "Oh yes, Xiao Māo, you are
perfect. Now, what shall we do to make you fly?" He moved her hair to one
side of her back, slid it across her shoulder and grazed his teeth across the
soft skin on the nape of her neck. Susanna shivered. The tiny stings teased and
it was all she could do not to ask for more. More of what, she couldn't
determine. However, she knew that enticement wasn't enough.
Something soft and long stroked her skin. She sighed
as whatever it was curled over her back and shoulders. It teased like warm
chocolate poured from a jug, and the fine hairs on her back stood on end as
they were touched.
"Bend and hold onto the arms of the
chair."
His tone had changed. Neither harsh nor intimidating,
it invited instant compliance. Susanna risked a glance to determine just where
the arms she needed to hold were and saw his booted feet a short distance in
front of her. As she did as he asked, they moved and she was left wondering
where he was, and what would happen next. The pose stretched her back and spine
and she struggled to keep her arse resting on her calves.
"Xiao Māo , what's your word? We go no further until you tell
me."
Susanna gulped. Her word? Ah…
"Happy, my lord." Oh so very happy. Was she at last going to discover more of Tony's
needs? For a brief second she worried what would happen if it didn't appeal to
her. She mentally shrugged, deciding to address that problem if she had to.
"Then relax and let your mind absorb this."
The strands of whatever he held slid from her nape to the hollow just above the
indentation that signaled the way into entrance of her rear. She squirmed, for
it tickled rather than anything else.
He laughed. It was deep and rolled into her like an
autumn mist rolled over the hills behind her home. "First I will bind your
hands, and I think your ankles. It will make it easier for you to absorb the vibrations.
To immerse yourself in your senses and forget everything else."
Tony pulled Susanna's hair and she lifted her head.
He walked around her without letting go, and hunkered down in front of her. The sight of him wearing only his pantaloons and boots made her
mouth go dry and her quim become damp.
He laughed and used his free hand to stroke her
cheek. "If I touched your cunt I vow my finger would be coated in your
cream. However, I will abstain."
Susanna moaned her dismay and his hand tightened in
her hair. "Patience is something you need to cultivate, my dear. Lift up
onto your knees. Good, now let me put this stool under you for you to rest on."
He slid a long padded stool under her and pressed on her back to make her sink
onto it. Susanna realized she now knew one use for it. She wondered what the
others could be, and hoped she'd find out before long. It took him scant
seconds to fasten her ankles so her legs were spread out.
"Grip hard." He bit the lobe of her ear,
none too gently and Susanna's moan became a hiss. The pain was short lived but
ran through her like water poured over someone from a jug or pail.
Before she had time to analyze why something so
painful made her body tremble with pleasure and her scalp tingle with anticipation
of more, Tony tied her hands to the chair with long silky strips of material.
The ends he left loose to dangle downward.
"Now, I think the eyes. I want all your
concentration on yourself. How you feel, what you anticipate, what you want, or
if necessary, what you hate. The only things you will hear are my voice and
your heartbeat."
Her vision was obscured by a thick strip of velvet.
Behind it she was alone, and could do nothing except strain to hear his words over
the loud beat of her heart.
"Xiao Māo ." His voice touched her soul and made her shiver. It
hinted of unknown things to come. "You look perfect like this. There is
only one more thing. This."
The flick of leather
on her arse made her jump. It stung.
"Word?"
"H…happy,
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