Susan returned to the upstairs bedroom that an hour ago, she had stripped the bed of its sheets and pillowcases to wash and dry. Once again, her eyes were drawn to the sets of cuffs attached to the bedposts at the top of the bed.
Samuel, the homeowner, had apologised as he rushed away after letting her in to do her twice-weekly cleaning. “I slept in and haven’t had time to tidy up,” he had told her. “Just ignore the things on the bed in the spare room when you change the bedding. I should be back before you leave but if not, I’ll see you Friday.”
She enjoyed cleaning for him. He was quite tidy for a single man, and he did not look down on her. A few months ago, she had been a customer account adviser at a High Street bank, but then branch closure came. The growth in internet banking had made the use of high-cost branches redundant and she found herself out of work. An old friend had started her own domestic cleaning business. In fact, Susan had arranged an overdraft to get it off the ground and when she saw her job advertisements, she put pride in pocket and asked for a job. Samuel’s was one of three homes she cleaned on a weekly basis.
Giving the pillows one final pat, she reached for a loose cuff and inspected it closely. It was made of black padded leather with two strap and buckle fasteners. It was attached to a solid steel chain that had a similar cuff attached to the other end. That end was attached to a bedpost. Lost in thought, she sat down and wrapped the cuff around her wrist. Susan had never indulged in this kind of play, but she had once seen a bondage sex scene on television, and that had sparked an interest. The girl in the scene had been chained to the bed; a wrist attached to each bedpost. A man suddenly went into the room, and with the closing of the door, the viewers were left to work out for themselves, the scene on the other side of the door.
Susan’s own mind had gone into overdrive—the helpless, vulnerable, and scantily clad girl at the mercy of a male. Sometimes she imagined herself in such a position. So lost in thought was she that she had not heard Samuel return and suddenly he was with her. His smile showed his pure white teeth contrasting against his dark skin. Samuel was of Jamaican descent. She gasped and jumped up as he sat down on the bed beside her. “Are you into this sort of thing, Susan?” he asked.
“No. No.”
He patted the bed beside him. “Sit down,” he told her. “Nothing wrong with a bit of bondage. Quite a few people like this sort of thing.”
“I’ve… I’ve never done it.”
He smiled. “Well, there’s always a first time, and if ever you want to try, well…”
Susan shook her head, but Samuel took her right wrist and the end of the restraint, and then proceeded to fasten the straps. She did not pull away or offer any resistance as he secured it. Samuel then stood up and calmly walked around the other side of the bed and reached for her left hand. “Slide into the middle,” he told her.
“I… I…” she uttered in protest, but it did not stop him from securing her other wrist to the corner of the bed.
“How does that feel?” he asked as he adjusted the pillows behind her.
She said nothing as he sat down on the edge of the bed. “So… your first taste of bondage, hey?” he asked, glancing at the rings on her left hand
She nodded silently with a look of surprise on her face.
“What happens now?” he asked her as his hand alighted on her thigh.
She glanced down at his large, brown hand, his fingers long and well-manicured. Her lips parted. She could feel the warmth of his hand through the materials of her tabard and her leggings. Susan could also feel stirrings in her groin. She had never been touched by a Black man before.
“I expect that you are wondering what happened on this bed last night Susan, aren’t you?”
She found herself nodding.
“Well, it was a man who was bound to the bed,” he told her. “And it was his wife who bound him to it. She stripped him from the waist down, got him all comfortable and then came into my bedroom,” he explained pointing to the open bedroom door that looked on through the hallway into his bedroom.
She looked to where his finger was pointing. She could see his bed and her mind went into overdrive again. His hand stirred again on her thigh and began to push her tabard back. “He was here almost two hours watching the two of us fuck. It was a tortuous form of sexual excitement,” Samuel told her. “Excitement mixed together with jealousy at watching her.”
She looked up at him and began to wonder what sort of man was holding her down? What sort of man fucks another man’s wife while he is watching, bound to a bed? Finally, she wondered what this man might do to her. “What are you thinking, Susan?” he asked her with a smile that lit his face.
She found it difficult to speak. His hand began to slowly push her tabard back. She looked down and watched its hem rise to her waist. “How long have you been married, Susan?”
“Five years.”
“Do you know what vanilla means?”
She nodded.
“Is that how you would describe your relationship?”
She nodded in silence.
“Are you satisfied with that, or do you sometimes think about venturing into other arenas?”
She did not answer his question.
“Too shy to answer, Susan?” he asked. “That is okay, there’s nothing wrong in that. I guess it’s just the case of finding the right partner to explore with, isn’t it?”
She stifled a response. She wanted to. She wanted to admit it to him, but she could not. She was not that sort of girl. She was quiet, shy, reserved. She may think about such things, there was no harm in that. She might even fantasise and masturbate to her thoughts, nothing wrong with that either. But she just could not admit it openly to a stranger. Suddenly he got up and went to his wardrobe. Moments later he came back to the bed with a riding crop in his hand and sat down, this time on the other side of the bed.
“I have a lady who calls round every now and again. She likes discipline from a man of my colour; strict discipline!” he told her. “She comes here to confess to me all the dirty things she has done since her last visit, and I punish her for it. Not too harshly, Susan, she is a married woman, and I am careful to make certain that there are no tell-tale marks for her husband to see. But all the same, she is punished.”
He waited for her response.
“I take it that you have never been spanked, Susan? As an adult, that is.”
She nodded.
“But you would like to be spanked wouldn’t you Susan?”
She gave no response. His hand alighted on her thigh; his fingers outstretched so that they were close to her mound. “It’s okay to admit it, Susan,” he said softly. “If you don’t ask, you don’t get, Susan.”
Again, she stifled a response.
“Are you going to go through life suppressing your sexual desires, Susan? Holding back and depriving yourself of all that pleasure.”
She sighed.
“Imagine getting elderly and sitting deep in thought and regretting the past, Susan,” he told her. “Perhaps, this moment especially, when someone very experienced wanted to start you off on a life of untold pleasures?”
She found herself staring into his eyes. She knew he was right and knew that this chance may never come again.
“I bet you have never been with a Black man before Susan, have you?”
“No.”
“Never thought about it?”
“No.”
“Lots of white girls do. We have a reputation, a good reputation. We are better lovers; bigger where it matters, and we have stamina. We have imagination, you won’t be disappointed Susan, believe me.”
She lay there gaping at him.
Suddenly he stood and placed the riding crop across her tummy. Bending down slightly, he slipped his fingers into the waistband of her leggings. She saw the fire in his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then raised her bottom. She couldn’t understand why, but she found herself surrendering to him.
“That’s a good girl, Susan,” he said softly as he bared her hips.
Susan looked down, watching her leggings and panties being drawn down her legs to her ankles. Closing her thighs tightly, she raised her feet slightly to allow him to pull them off her feet. She watched them land on the floor in a bundle after his tossing them across the room, before sitting back down. “Now be a good girl and open your legs wide Susan,” he told her.