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PART 7: ET TU BRUTE?
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The moan that Alex expressed with my body lying over his sounded broken. Forlorn.
I could not stop the whimpers as the realization set in that he had disobeyed me.
He whimpered as well and shifted beneath me, tugging at his bindings.
Moving to an upright position, I groaned that he was still hard within me. Reluctantly, I disengaged, leaving the bed.
His ragged moans made me turn around at the door. His cock looked so swollen and red, glistening with my release. But only my release. And then I noticed that he'd gotten the blindfold up on the left side during our dance.
"Naughty, naughty, Sir," I said softly.
He whimpered louder, his eye wide and watching. Unblinking.
I sauntered up to the head of the bed and pulled the blindfold up to uncover his right eye as well, leaving the mask covering his forehead. Tsking as I shook my head, frowning down at him. "You didn't come when Mistress told you to. Do you know what that means?"
He shook his head slowly.
I glanced at his cock again. It had never looked so angry. Leaning down, I kissed him on the lips, slipping my tongue inside.
Even his mouth was being submissive now. Open. Accepting of my tongue. Not returning to play.
So I used his willingness to linger...to remind myself of his taste. Then then I patted his cheek and stepped back. "Don't go anywhere, Sir."
I barely heard his desperate sounds when I walked out of the bedroom. The mumble of something about my ass edging him.
In the hall, I closed the bedroom door behind me. My goal was to get to the couch. But once there, I realized he could probably still hear me. The hallway outside his apartment was not an option. So I grabbed the blanket off the couch and retreated to the bathroom, shutting the door and turning on the overhead vent. The tears were already falling before I made it to the floor, my knees pulled up to my chin with my arms around them and the blanket surrounding my shivering body.
So many thoughts and visions rushed through my head. From my past. The last two days. Just hours earlier. Most were incomplete snippets. Certain ones stood out. Especially the more recent.
I'd trusted him. Not only with my body but my emotions. I'd accepted my punishment. I'd deserved it because I had disobeyed. It had been a mistake from a momentary lapse of concentration, but I knew the consequences.
Yet, Alex... He was doing it intentionally. As though to provoke discipline.
He'd said his fantasy was hard switching. Is this what he'd meant? Being a sub who liked to suffer? Wasn't that masochistic? I'd not agreed to be a sadist.
I was looking for a Dominant partner. Someone to take care of me. Control me. I'd had no preconceived notions to be a Domme and control someone else. I'd been happy to try to indulge him in his fetish. To attempt to make his fantasy come true. But I didn't know if I could carry on like this if he desired it to become a habit.
Maybe I'd been wrong about going younger. I guess I really did need someone older who was sure of their place and met my ideals. But then again, I'd tried that, and look where it had gotten me? Alone.
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I awoke with a start, looking around, trying to locate the sound of the constant buzzing. Slowly, it all came back to me. That I was in Alex's apartment, sitting on his bathroom floor. Naked, save for a throw blanket. And the vent was running overhead, causing the racket.
A stiffness on my face made me wipe the back of my hand across my cheek. I remembered I had been crying. And then I remembered why.
"Shit!" I jumped up and shut off the vent then raced down the hall. But I stopped outside the bedroom, taking a deep breath before I slowly turned the knob.
Alex was still lying spread-eagle on his back on the bed, the blindfold up over his forehead, pushing his hair up into a spiky position. His eyes were closed, and his chest was rising and lowering slowly.
Good. I hadn't killed him by neglect. But that didn't mean I wouldn't eventually. Intentionally, even.
I approached cautiously, pausing between each step. Trying not to disturb him.
The closer I got, the easier it was to see there was a loss of tension throughout his body. He appeared to have recuperated some. But not much. Because the stiffness of his cock told me it definitely still needed attention.
I was tempted to let him sleep. But I was still mad at him for what he'd done. Or rather, what he hadn't.
So I did the next best thing. I decided to get revenge.
Stealthy like a thief, I snuck back out, gathered what I needed from the kitchen, and returned to his room. It wasn't until I'd crawled onto the foot of the bed between his feet that his eyes flickered open.
I slowly opened my mouth, and his eyes widened...his smile disappearing. Because I was smiling now...and had revealed the ice cube I held between my teeth.
Alex shivered. A myriad of emotions seemed to dance across his face then. He looked happy then scared. And finally, resolved that he would accept whatever it was I planned to do to him.
Rising up on hands and knees, I crawled up his body, his cock rubbing against my belly. My eyes on his, I leaned down and touched the ice cube to each of his nipples.
He sucked in his breath, and his hands fisted above where the neckties still bound him. The moan that came from him...it was ghostly, low and rising.
I drew a circle around each nipple before dragging the edge of the cube down the center of his abs. Watching how the cold water that remained trickled down his sides. Noticing that his eyes were closed again, his mouth open with no sound now.
At his waist, I changed course and glided the ice into the upward crease of the right side of that delicious V carved into his hip. One of a handful of areas he'd revealed was most sensitive. Vulnerable. I moaned at the sight and feel of his body convulsing slightly...how his cock tapped against me with even the smallest movement.
Then I repeated the maneuver on the left side. Around his navel, letting the water pool there.
Each time he inhaled or exhaled now—even taking the briefest of breaths—the jerking motion made water trickle over his belly and down to join the trails on his hips. After a couple of times, the water had been dispelled. And it looked like his cheeks were wet.
I could only imagine the thoughts and feelings racing through him. Was he close to finally exploding? Or was the cold doing what I knew it could: subduing him...keeping him from coming even if he wanted to?
The ice was almost gone in my mouth. The heat had melted it too quickly. I would have used my hands, but I was going to need them. Good thing I had brought more.
I chomped down, crushing the remaining piece in my mouth—feeling him jerk beneath me—then leaned over his leg and the side of the bed. Grabbing another cube from the bowl I'd left there, I set a fresh piece between my teeth. Then I turned back to my prey.
He slowly raised his head, meeting my gaze. His teeth clenched. As though prepping himself.
I dipped down and ran the ice over his groin.
Alex let out something akin to a scream, his entire body—back, limbs, neck—extending upwards, as though I'd branded him. Though his eyes didn't move.
I grinned around the ice cube. Lowering it again. I could almost hear the sizzle of the cold touching his heat. As water trickled down to surround the base of his cock.
His cock seemed to strain upwards. Begging for...something. Since Alex wasn't talking...
Tilting my head, I slowly dragged the ice up the side of his cock.
Finally, he expressed one word through his moans. "Mistress."
Glancing up, I saw tears in his eyes, that his muscles had gone taut. But he hadn't said the safeword.
I shook my head and continued the path over the tip. Down the other side. Mindful of not pressing it directly against his balls. I'd received a severe warning about that once and knew to avoid the area. Then I reversed the path. Up, over, and down.
"Mistress!" he whimpered louder, genuinely sobbing now.
I wondered if that had been how I'd looked this afternoon—had it only been that short of a time ago?—when he'd insisted I could and would get through coming under pressure. Willing to do anything to obey except not being able to.
In his case, there was something else. I'd noticed it a few times when he inhaled. How his lower lip slid between his teeth, his breath hissing. And his lips curling up. Was he fucking smiling at me? Begging me to stop but enjoying how much I denied him at the same time?
Dragging the dwindling ice up the underside of his cock, I retraced the path on both crevices where his legs joined his torso. Then I ran my fingertips along the V on his hips. Spreading the water droplets.
He hissed again when my fingers touched him. Squirming, as though to move me closer to his cock.
I won't say I wasn't tempted. I wanted to touch him like no tomorrow. To feel his throbbing heat. To ease his tension and tell him it was going to be all right.
But I was doing this at my pace. And if he couldn't handle it...he knew what to do. Or rather, say.