Innocence Tempted (14 page)

I climbed under her, occasionally giving her support from below and thoroughly enjoying the great view of her ass.

Susan was amazing, as always. She patiently climbed beside Kat, tossing out words of encouragement here and there. She was a steady, graceful climber and the view of her ass from the bottom wasn’t bad either. I kept that thought to myself though
;
Gage would try to kick my ass just for looking.

Gage reached the top and pulled himself up over the ledge a while later. Susan quickened her pace so that she could join him and help Katlyn over the edge. The four of us sat on the ledge for a while and enjoyed the great view.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired,” Katlyn sighed. She took a long drink from her water bottle.

“That just means that we have to get you out here more often,” I answered. “The fun part comes next.”

“What’s the fun part?”

“Well we have to get down somehow.”

Katlyn’s eyes grew wide as she considered the possible options.

“Don’t let him scare you,” Susan chimed in. “It’s just repelling. It’s not half as bad as he’s making it seem. I’ll go first if you want.”

Gage hooked her up and Susan gave us all a big smile as she leaned back over the edge and then gracefully hopped down the flat rock face. “See? Nothing to it,” she yelled up from the bottom.

Kat went next. I tried to help ease her over the ledge gently, but in typical Kat form, she lost her balance as soon as I let her go, and she more toppled over the edge than anything. She let out a terrified shriek, but then seemed to realize that the ropes were secure.

Susan had her on belay from the bottom. “I’ve got you,” Susan reassured her. “You okay?”

“No,” Kat called back, but she was fine.

“Look at me, Katlyn,” I commanded. I laid down on my stomach so that I could hang out over
the edge
and see her.

Her wide brown eyes were slightly terrified, but she met my gaze.

“Keep your eyes on me. Susan has you. You can’t fall. I want you to turn your body and put your feet on the wall.”

Her feet swung uselessly for a moment but then she shifted her hips and her left foot met the rock face. When she’d gotten into a comfortable position, she slowly started her walk down. She was looking at me as instructed, so she didn’t even realize when she had reached the bottom. A huge expression of relief crossed her face when her feet were back on solid ground.

Forget blowjobs in front of a crowd. Rock climbing was definitely the bravest thing I’d ever done, and I was never doing it again. Luckily, Cody didn’t make me.

We had lunch at a mom-and-pop restaurant that was along the road between climb sites, and then Susan and I sat in the shade and watched as the guys climbed a big rock. By big rock, of course, I mean impossibly scary, jagged looking thing. Half of it was sloped the wrong direction
,
so they were climbing with just their arms when their feet couldn’t touch. I had to admit: it was a beautiful display of pure male strength. It made my whole body ache just to watch them.

“Really fucking hot isn’t it?” Susan asked, as if reading my mind.

“Uh huh.”

“There’s just something about a shirtless, sweaty,
D
ominant male.”

“Yeah. We should videotape it. We’d make millions on the Internet.”

Susan laughed. “No way. No one gets to look at my man like that, except me. Well… I’m willing to share the view with you for a limited time.”

“Cody said you’re engaged.”

“Yeah. We’re getting married in June, so I still have a while to wait.”

“How’s that work exactly?” I asked.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean you’re his submissive. Right? So is it like that all the time?”

“Well, every couple is different, but Gage and I have our own way of making it work. We’re not real extreme as couples go, so we maintain it all the time. We only use formal language in the bedroom, and I trust him not
to
put me in a compromising position outside of the house. It’s just the way we work. After a while, it sort of becomes normal.”

“So you just let him tell you what to do all the time?”

She laughed. “Not exactly. I always have a say, but I usually choose to defer to his preferences. I have a job, and I make plenty of decisions there. I don’t really need or want to be in charge at home. Gage knows me well enough that he doesn’t really have to ask for my opinion. If he orders for me in a restaurant, for example, he almost always picks what I would have chosen for myself anyway. And if
he doesn’t
, it’s because he knows that I haven’t been eating what I should, so he g
e
t
s
me something healthier. He takes care of me.”

I nodded. That sounded pretty great. It was hard to imagine a completely full-time
D
ominant/submissive relationship, but she made it sound comfortable.

“And you love him?” I asked, even though the answer was quite obvious.

“With all my heart.”

“Yeah,” I sighed, looking up at Cody. He swung his foot around a bump in the rock and twisted into what looked like an impossible position. “Someday I’d like to have that too.”

As I sat in the shade with a sister submissive at my side, watching the man that I’d come to trust with my life climb a mountain, I began to wonder about my future. I’d grown more dependent on Cody than I wanted to admit. He’d told me right from the beginning that I shouldn’t get attached—that this was just training—but that was easier said than done in some ways. What would happen when I left him to go to school? Would we still talk? I promised myself that I would try to stay in touch, no matter what happened. But Cody was not the only Dominant in the world.

Gage was obviously the perfect fit for Susan. Who was the perfect fit for me? What would happen to me without Cody to guide me through the lifestyle? I tried to picture my ideal Dominant in my head. I wanted someone like Cody, I decided, someone who could teach me and push me but someone who could love me too. I wished that for Cody as well. Maybe I wasn’t the submissive for him, maybe he wasn’t ready to settle down yet, but maybe someday he would be.
I’d love to meet the woman that finally tames him.

It had been almost a week since our camping trip, and I hadn’t seen much of Kat. She was busy preparing to leave for school in a couple of weeks. I was sorry that our time together was going to have to end, but I thought it was likely that I would see her again. Most women that I took as subs made an effort to keep in touch. Unless she found a steady boyfriend right away at school, we might even play again next summer. Time would tell.

She pulled into the driveway at 5:58. Right on time as usual.

I came out the front door, pulling it closed behind me as she reached the porch.

“Is something wrong?” she asked.

“Not except for your lack of proper address.” I had to bite the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing. Even after weeks of reminders she still screwed that up regularly. She just wasn’t good at the whole “Sir” thing unless she was in trouble.

“Sorry, Sir,” she mumbled.

“Lucky for you, I’m in a good mood. I’ll let that one slide.”

“Forgive me, Sir, but if nothing is wrong then why did you come outside?”

“We’re going out. I am going to take you to dinner, and then we are going to go to a play party.”

“A play party?” She paused. “Sir?”

“Gage and Susan are hosting. They asked if I would come, and I said yes for both of us.”

She bit her bottom lip nervously. It was clear that she was intim
id
ated by whatever I might have in store for her. I didn’t want to tell her too much because that would ruin half the fun, but I didn’t really want to scare her out of her wits either. After that stunt in front of the bonfire last weekend I knew she was already on a little thin ice.

“I’m not going to ask you to do anything you don’t want to do. Okay? I am asking you to trust me. I won’t put you in an uncomfortable situation, but I think that this is something you should experience. You’re going away to school very soon and you’re going to have to make decisions about what you might want in a relationship. I think it will be good for you to see a range of how people choose to live this lifestyle.”

A range of emotions crossed her face, but eventually she nodded her head. “Am I dressed okay?” she asked, indicating her tank top and jeans.

“Perfect.”

I looped my arm around her waist and then helped her up into the cab of my truck.

I didn’t want to eat too close to town, on the off chance that we might run into someone we knew, so we found a little Italian place near Gage’s. I considered a beer, but Kat wasn’t old enough to drink, and I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable, so I settled for a Coke.

“Kat, I wanted to talk to you about some things before you leave. Part of the reason why I invited you along tonight is
that
I want you to start thinking about your future. I know that you talked with Susan for a while last weekend, and you’ll get to see more of their relationship tonight, but you need to realize that I’m not the only
D
om out there, and my way isn’t the only way.”

“I do realize that,” she said before taking a sip of her drink. “But I like your way.”

I laughed. “I’m glad. I hope this has been a positive experience for you, and I’m not saying goodbye or anything, but I want you to watch closely tonight because it’s hard to say what will happen after you leave for school. I want you to have the opportunity to experience everything that you are curious about. So if you see something that you want to try, I want you to either speak up or make a mental note so that we can talk about it on the way home. Understand?”

“Yes, Sir. I do appreciate it. You know? You’re um… taking the time with me.”

“The pleasure is all mine, sweetheart. You are a joy.”

The waitress interrupted our conversation, setting down two very hot plates. We ate in silence for a while before Kat spoke up.

“Do you think you’ll ever have a relationship like Susan and Gage’s?” she asked.

“You mean do I think I’ll ever get married?”

“Well
,
married, or semi-permanent? Lots of people live together now without being married.”

“I don’t know,” I answered honestly. “I’m not ready now; I know that much. My favorite part of a relationship is when it’s new and exciting. I like the teaching and the anticipation. I have a hard time imagining myself with the same woman for twenty years, but I’m also not going to say never. Maybe someday I’ll want something different.”

“I hope you find her,” Kat said. “The girl that finally tames you.”

I laughed. “I’m the only one that is going to be doing any taming around here.”

We finished our dinners and headed off to the party. Kat bounced nervously on the seat beside me until I reached out and put a hand on her knee.

“I mean it, Kat. No pressure. Last weekend was different, I know those guys really well, and I had my reasons for pushing you, but tonight you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. You don’t even need a safeword okay? Just say you want to leave, and we’ll go.”

Gage greeted us at the door and we stepped in
to the party. The house was fairly secluded back in the woods so they weren’t concerned about privacy. The curtains had been drawn on most of the windows, but the play was not limited to any specific part of the house. As a result, the living room had turned into the area of largest activity.