Chapter 14
COMMITMENT
Author's note: This chapter will make more sense to the reader if prior chapters have been read first. However, on its own, it should still be entertaining. It may arouse your curiosity to go back and see what has led up to it. And, there's more to come!
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Suzie and I slept until around ten Sunday morning. We had spent Saturday evening at our new friends' house in Knoxville. Cocktails, dinner, and then a demonstration of setting up their bondage apparatus and how they use it. Leila, the dominatrix in their relationship, gave her husband Len a good beating, along with some other painful treatment. At least to Suzie and me it seemed like it would be painful. But then, what did we know? We had only been introduced to the world of BDSM a few weeks ago when our long-time friends, Bob and Julie, surprised us by telling us that they had been into that lifestyle for years.
Both Suzie and I were so turned on by the end of the evening by watching the proceedings that we couldn't wait to get home to have sex. And it was great sex, as we talked about the various things we had watched Len endure. And so it felt good to sleep in. Suzie was the first one up. I could smell the coffee brewing downstairs. When the aroma changed to bacon frying I decided I should join her in the kitchen.
No sooner than we had started eating the phone rang.
"Who calls us on Sunday morning?" Suzie asked.
"I'll see."
"Hello," I answered.
"Hi, Tom. It's Len."
"Oh, Hi, Len. How are you?"
"Great. How about you...and Suzie?"
"Oh, we're both good. Just having breakfast, actually. We were kind of zonked after last night. It was intense watching you and Leila. You know what I mean? You OK? I mean after all that stuff?"
"Oh, sure," Len answered. "That wasn't nearly as heavy duty as our scenes usually are. Actually I would have liked to keep it going, but Leila thought you'd had enough to digest."
"She was probably right. I will say, too, that both of us were horny as Hell when we left your place."
"Interesting." Len said. "But that brings up what I really called to talk to you about."
"What's that?"
'Well I wonder if you'd like me to help you put together some play apparatus similar to what we have here. We could adapt it to your situation in your house there. I can build a bondage bench like you saw here last night.
"But look, Tom, I don't want to be presumptuous. I know you two are just getting your feet wet into this. Maybe you're not ready yet. I don't want to push you into something you're really not into."
"Gee, Len," I said. 'That's really nice of you to offer. And I won't hesitate to take you up on it. But, you're right. I'm not sure myself. Tell you what. Let me talk it over with Suzie to see how she feels. If she's ready for it, I'll give you the go ahead."
"Do you think you can let me know by early afternoon today? If you decide to go ahead I can run over to Home Depot and get the things I'll need for the bench. That way I can work on it during the week. Maybe bring it over to you next weekend."
"Yeh. I think we can decide this morning and let you know. But listen, if you're going to do this for us I'm going to pay you."
Len replied, "OK, but only what the materials cost. The labor's on me.
"Oh, one more thing I wanted to mention. There's a Munch meeting again this Thursday. Want to go?"
"Yes. I think Suzie and I both want to go. We enjoyed the last one. Hey, that's how we met you and Leila. We've been talking about joining the group."
"You should. Great way to meet new people and learn new things. Anyway, give me a call either way to let me know what you and Suzie decide. Say hi to her for me."
"Will do. I'll call you back soon."
I walked back to the kitchen table where Suzie was just finishing her bacon and eggs.
"Do you want me to nuke your breakfast to warm it up, Hon?" she asked.
"No, thanks. That was Len on the phone."
"I gathered as much from your end of the conversation. What did he want? We just saw him last night."
"Well, he offered to help set up equipment here. Kind of like what he did at their apartment. But he didn't want to assume that we were ready for that...or ever would be, for that matter. He also said that the Munch meeting is going to be this Thursday. Wondered if we wanted to go. I told him 'yes' to that, and 'I'd let him know' on the other. He asked if I could let him know by this afternoon what we decide on the equipment so he would have time today to pick up the supplies he'd need."
"Wow," Suzie came back with. "Kind of rushing things, isn't he?"
"I don't know. He's just trying to be helpful and he's anxious to help us if he can. What do you think? Are you ready to pursue this lifestyle?"
Suzie thought for a minute, then said, "Give me a little while to think about it. You finish your breakfast and clean up the kitchen while I go ponder. First let me put your plate in the microwave and pour some fresh, hot coffee for you."
"Deal," I said, wondering what she might decide the future of our sex life would be like.
I had no sooner finished eating and put the dishes in the dishwasher than Suzie came back to the kitchen.
"Already?" I said.
"Well, I haven't decided yet. We've had so little experience with this BDSM thing, you know. And most of that is in watching, not doing. Bob and Julie. Leila and Len. All that went on at The Mill Club Gala. Sure, we both got really turned on watching all that, but how would we feel if that was
us
?"
"You're right. Maybe it's too soon to invest too much into this."
"Maybe not," she replied. "Remember last night coming home in the car I didn't want to expose my pussy for all to see...even if nobody but you could see? You were being demanding and said you'd punish me when we got home if I didn't obey. Remember?"
"Yep. I remember. You spread your legs open pretty quick when I threatened that."
"Well, I didn't want to be punished. I had no idea what you'd do to me. But just the word 'punish' has such a connotation to it, even going back to my childhood, that I'm afraid of it. But now, we need to find out. Both of us."
I asked, "Find out what? How?"
"Punish me! Right now! Any way you want! Let's find out if this works for us."
Taken aback by this I was quiet for a minute while I thought of the consequences of this. Then I thought about how to react and just what to do. I realized that Suzie was right. We needed to find out whether this was going to work for us as a happily married couple. Were we unduly influenced by our friends who obviously dug it, or might we find that it really can enhance our lives and our relationship. I finally told myself,
Go for it, Tom!
"Suzie, come here! Now!!" I shouted across the kitchen. I pulled a chair away from the kitchen table and turned it to face her. I sat facing her with my arms folded.
"What? What's the matter?" Suzie asked.
"I'm not happy with the way you've been acting lately. You need a severe punishment and now's the time. Come here and stand in front of me."
She did and looked at me quizzically. My sudden outburst apparently diverted her thinking from our last discussion. "What did I do, Tom?"
"Never mind what you did. All that matters is what I think and what I want. Right now, I want to punish you, and good. Now take off your robe." She slowly took it off and slung it over the table behind me. She stood there, naked except for her slippers while I admired her lithe body. Her small, perky breasts and neatly trimmed pubic hair occupying most of my attention. "Lie across my lap," I ordered her, guiding her body to my right side and then gently pushing her upper body down to my lap. Her head and shoulders extended to my left side and her arms reached downward until her hands were resting on the floor. I reached behind me for her robe and removed the sash from it.
"Give me your hands." She raised them up until I could reach them and I wrapped the sash several times around her wrists.
That should keep her still,
I thought to myself. I pulled my right leg back so I could drape it over her legs to hold them in place. "Spread your knees apart. Further. That's it."
This is it. It's now or never. Don't hold back. Remember, she asked for it.
I gently rubbed my right hand over both of her ass cheeks briefly before letting fly with a barrage of slaps. They weren't hard enough to make my palm hurt so I figured they weren't too painful to her. I increased the strength of the blows until she started to complain. Keeping at that level, I varied the position of my targets, going from one cheek to the other, down the back of her thighs, and then to the inside of her thighs. That seemed to elicit the loudest cries.
I stopped the spanking for a moment, during which time I caressed the body parts that were by now a nice pink color. Suzie cooed softly while I did this. I slipped my fingers between her thighs and into her sex and found that she was very wet. That told me something about her body's reaction to my "punishment". I resumed spanking her, quickly ramping up the hardness of the hits, and shortening the intervals between them. In no time Suzie was crying out again, imploring me to stop.
