Copyright 2012 Jonathan Kollt
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Chapter 1 - A Woman Bound
"Derek, don't leave just yet. Please, let's talk about this."
Ellen stared at her nineteen-year-old stepson as he glared back at her with brooding dark eyes through long black bangs.
"I'm meeting my mother. I have to go, Ellen. She's waiting outside."
These words hurt Ellen deeply. She had raised Derek from the age of nine, and all of a sudden his biological mother decides to step back into his life and Derek just lets her slip back into that role so easily. Somehow, Ellen lost the pet name he used to call her and went from 'Ma' to 'Ellen' while his birth mom suddenly became 'Mother'.
"Look, the pictures I found on my laptop, we need to talk about them."
"Listen, Ellen, I told you I'm not going to engage you on this. I won't use your stupid laptop again. My mistake. The end!"
Ellen was taken aback. Derek never spoke to her like this. She put her hand on her chest in a sign of shock, and immediately saw some regret in Derek's eyes. She was on the verge of tears.
"Look, I needed the pics for my art portfolio. I know they must have shocked you. I won't expose you to that sort of thing ever again. I hope you're not scarred for life."
Ellen wanted so badly to tell him something but just couldn't get herself tosay it. What would he think if he knew she found the pictures intriguing? How would he look at her knowing she was excited by them? In the end, she just wanted to tell him it was okay and that she didn't judge him, but he already concluded she was unnerved by the pictures. It was ironic how he so defensively assumed she was judging him, when in fact
he
was judging
her
.
Ellen looked at the young man standing in front of her. Just yesterday he was cuddling with her on the couch while they watched silly movies. Now, he stood there, tall and muscular, defiant and assuming. He had closed himself off to her and she didn't understand why.
"Derek, I just wanted to say t that-"
Ding Dong
The front door opened and Derek's other mom walked in as if she still owned the house.
"Hey there, love of my life!" Nadia had a big grin on her face and Derek lit up at the sight of her. Ellen's jealousy came through as she interrupted their special moment together.
"Hi, Nadia. Derek and I were just talking about-"
"I'll be outside, Mom." Derek cut Ellen off rudely and walked out the door. Nadia could sense Ellen's sad frustration, and although a part of her was pleased, she felt she needed to intervene.
"Ellen, can we have coffee after I'm done with Derek? I'm taking him straight to work after we have breakfast together so I can come by to have a chat. Are you okay with that?"
"I think that's a great idea." Ellen couldn't wait to give Nadia a piece of her mind. She was still stinging from Derek's shortness with her. She didn't deserve this.
"See you then." Nadia smiled and walked out the door. Ellen couldn't help but notice the similarities between Nadia and her son. They both had an exotically dark complexion. They were stunning, especially when they smiled. However Ellen hadn't seen Derek smile in months.
Ellen went over to the couch and sat down with her laptop. She navigated to the folder which had the three pictures Derek downloaded from the internet, and began browsing them again.
All three pictures were of a naked woman restrained in the shadows of a dark male figure. The one that caught her eye was the woman was bound by rope with a gag ball secured in her mouth. It wasn't as much the bindings and gag that intrigued her as it was the look of terrified pleasure on the woman's face.
Ellen took a deep breath. She had seen this image before. Not on the internet, and not exactly as portrayed here in front of her, but she had seen many elements of it. The similarities were striking.
Her body began to react in that familiar way, now that she was seeing it again. She wished so much that her physiological response was repulsion, but it was nothing close to that. The dark pleasure of submitting, being restrained, helpless at the hands of a dominant male, made her body hum deliciously. She had envisioned herself as that woman very recently. More than that, she had been having these fantasies for as long as she could remember.
Chapter 2 - A Challenge to Connect
"You know, Nadia, ever since you came back into the picture, Derek hasn't been speaking to me. He's been neglecting me and ignoring me for some reason. I've raised him for the past ten years and I don't feel I deserve this coldness. Is something going on I should know about?" Ellen raised her eyebrows challengingly as she sat across her dining room table from her husband's ex-wife, Nadia.
Nadia had a volatile temper, and even though she was in Ellen's home now, she instantly went on the attack.
"I'm his mother, Ellen, and if you're suggesting I've turned my son against you I assure you you're wrong."
"No, Nadia, I'm just saying that you've decided to be a part of his life again, which is great. But I've been in his life since he was nine, and if he's feeling torn between his mothers then I think we should be sensitive to that."
"He's nineteen now, Ellen. He's going through lots of things. Being torn between his stepmother and his mother isn't one of them, I assure you."
"So, I guess he's talking to you then. That's just swell." Ellen tried to hold in some of her jealousy, but couldn't quite manage it. Eventually she reminded herself this was about her stepson, Derek, and not about her.