Stoned (The Stone Series) (20 page)

“Well, I guess they’re right what they say about strippers having issues from their childhood” Ryan laughs. “I guess her clientele have me to thank.”

“I’m planning on swinging by Stone’s apartment building to see if Sydney’s there tonight” Mark reports.

Ryan tells Mark he’ll be in New York this weekend and they’ll formulate a plan for when he arrives to see Sydney.

“I’m fucking with this douche bag over the hotels. You should see him. He’s a real control freak, isn’t he?”

“Takes one to know one, man” Mark replies.

Ryan just laughs and says, “later” as he hangs up.   

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The remainder of the morning goes without incident even though I’m as jumpy as a kangaroo. I arrive at the restaurant before my client and Andrea shows me into the private dining room and offers me a drink. I sit and wait for my client while I timidly sip my drink trying to calm my nerves. I consider asking Andrea if she has a history with Damian but I’m afraid of the answer so I decide to let my suspicions rest for now.

Finally Megan Aldridge approaches the table. She’s gorgeous and well dressed. She’s tall and thin with long straight blond hair hanging down her back. She’s clearly wealthy, you can tell by the tailored women’s suit she’s wearing. When she sees Andrea she greets her by name and they kiss each other on the cheek European style, one peck to each cheek.

I learn from Megan that she owns her own business that she’s been running out of her apartment, selling her goods solely on the internet but now she has rented some commercial space in the city and she’d like me to decorate it.

“What kind of business do you have?” I ask.

“Damian gave me your name and number, Sydney. I’m one of the Head Masters in The Society. I own my own company that sells items that let’s just say you’ll be in need of for the project at Damian’s penthouse.”

I instantly blush. But then my embarrassment is quickly replaced by the ugly green monster twice over. I wonder if Damian and Megan have been together sexually.  At the very least my guess would be that they’ve seen each other in some way shape or form in the act. Then it occurs to me that Megan knows Andrea. Maybe she’s in The Society as well and yet again I wonder if maybe she’s an ex-submissive and that’s why she’s so cold to me. Megan must notice the look on my face because she offers me a soft smile saying, “I know it’s hard at first. I know what’s going through your mind but it’s not my place to put your mind at ease or answer any questions. You’ll need to speak to Damian about everything. He’s an open and honest man once you ask him the right questions. He really likes you, Sydney. We’ve never seen him like this with anyone. Talk to him, he needs this to work out with you and I can tell by the anger on your face that you’re in love with him and need that too. Why else would you be this jealous? I know it’s killing you to picture me with him, Andrea, the others too I’m guessing?”

I try to act mature, as if this conversation occurs in my everyday life but I know I’m failing miserably. I finally decide to go with honesty and tell Andrea how right she is. I admit to having more questions than my mind can even process and she tells me that Damian is a gifted teacher and I’m in good hands. She offers to help me with the decorating of his playroom and she asks me if I’d also design the playroom for her home. Being a new designer and not having any clients yet I accept but I’m concerned that the only designs I’m doing at the moment all involve sex and bondage.

We exchange phone numbers and schedule an appointment for me to see her retail space tomorrow followed by her home over the weekend. Before she leaves me sitting at the table with my thoughts of Damian with her and many other women she turns and says, “We’ve never been together, stop worrying. Damian and I are just friends, always have been.”

I nod, grateful for her putting my mind at ease. I just wish she had told me that Andrea wasn’t with him either.

By the time I arrive back at my office my desire to hear Damian’s voice, to talk to him about our relationship overtakes me and I call him from outside S&S so I can have a small semblance of privacy. He answers on the first ring.

“Sydney. Hey, baby. Is everything okay?”

“Uh, yeah, sure. Why?”

“Well, it’s the middle of the day. I guess I didn’t think I’d hear from you until later tonight after work that’s all. Are you alone? Do you want to talk about our emails?” he asks.

“I’m on the street outside of S&S, there are things I have to know right now” I demand. “My client that I went to lunch with today was Megan Aldridge.”

I ask him about Andrea and he admits to her belonging to The Society and also having her as one of his past subs. He claims to have never been with Megan sexually but admits to them both seeing each other in various scenes at parties which she left out. He explains that the Head Masters do not engage in activities together but do watch each other from time to time.

“Did my email offend you? I may have spoken in a harsher way, a way you haven’t heard me speak in before.”

“No, if I’m being honest it was kind of exciting. I’ve been thinking a lot about all of this and even though I may not be able to do all the things you want, they turn me on” I admit.

Damian chuckles, “Good to know.”

“I want to talk about the emails, no one is listening, I’m alone out here and I can’t wait any longer. It’s driving me crazy not having some answers.”

“Okay. Shoot”

“How will you know that I just think I don’t want to do something because sometimes I don’t even know if I really want to do things before I do them?”

“Past experience, I know what women enjoy, Sydney. Trust me on this one. I will do things to your body that will bring you pleasure like you have never known before.
”

“I’ll give you that one but what’s up with the delayed gratification?” I ask him.

“It’s a person's ability to wait to obtain something that he or she wants. In our situation it will most times be an orgasm but it might also be a sexual act you’re craving.”

“No, I get what it is. I guess what I don’t get is why?’

“It makes it that much better when you’re allowed to have what you’ve been denied. If it’s an orgasm, it’s that much stronger after being brought to the brink then denied over and over only to finally be allowed the pleasure. Trust me, this won’t be easy but it will be worth it in the end. I think you’ll find this aspect one of the more vanilla.”

“You mentioned something about your sub being with other men in the contract. Is this something that you usually require?”

“In the past, yes I will admit some of my subs may have been with other men upon my directive but it was one of their wishes, not mine and you are different to me than they were. With you and me it’s not going to happen ever. You are mine and mine only. I am not a man who shares well, don’t forget that, Sydney.”

“Um, I think I may have an issue with jealousy too. I didn’t like thinking about you with Andrea or Megan. I don’t even like the thought of Megan having seen you doing stuff.”

“I am for the first time in my life jealous over a woman, over you, so I understand how you must feel. I’m just wondering how you would feel if I was to ask you to be with another woman for me. Not me be with her, me watch you with her. Have you ever done anything like that or given it any thought?

“She would just be with me she would not also do things with you?”

“Dear God, Sydney you just gave me a hard on. Are you serious that you’re ready to talk about this? You’re up for it? I only brought it up as a long shot.”

“Um, I want to see what happens first on Friday night but the girl thing has always intrigued me. I just don’t think I could watch you with another girl. I wouldn’t want her to touch you” I admit.

He asks, “But you’d touch her? And you’d want to be touched by her? An experience with another woman can be very liberating and satisfying for you. I would very much like to share this experience with you some time during your training.”

“Maybe but it would have to be someone I’d never see again.”

“That can be arranged, baby. What else is on your mind? We both need to express what are limits are? Do you know what I mean by that?

“Yes, things I will and won’t do I’m guessing.”

“This is where the contract I used in the past can help us; we need to decide what you will try and what you never want to. I don’t do burning, medical devices, electrical shocks, I don’t use needles or anything that can draw blood, acts involving bodily functions are out of the question as is bestiality and pedophilia. I will not participate in breath control techniques, fisting, whippings or canings to injure.”

“Okay, good because I don’t think I could consider any of those things even though I don’t have the first clue what some of them are or why people would want to do them for pleasure. What do you like?”

“Spanking, gentle biting, paddling to make you pink, maybe even a little red. Flogging to bring the sensations to the skin but not to injure, never to draw blood. Masturbation. Watching you get yourself off, me jerking off all over you. Ice and hot wax. Dildos and clitoris rings are fun toys. Some toys are for punishments others are for fun. We will purchase them together when I get home but if you’re feeling frisky later when you’re home alone, look some of them up, they are listed in the limits sections. Some of my favorites are the clamps, butt plugs and vibrators. I am also a big fan of sensory deprivation so blindfolds are a must. Of course vaginal intercourse and oral sex. We can discuss anal intercourse; I know this is a hot topic in the vanilla world. Bondage is another biggie.”

I am beginning to get very turned on but I’m not sure if it’s because his voice is so sexy and sultry right now or if it’s because I might really like to experience what he’s offering.

“Bondage? Like holding me down or tying me up?”

“We will work on it slowly and together. It will be nothing like what I am guessing you were subjected to in your past. I will never force myself on you or do anything that you are not enjoying. Promise, baby. Please trust me, I will never hurt you or do anything to scare you.”

“I do, I do trust you.”

“How do you feel about masturbation? Do you do it often? What do you use?”

I clear my throat to buy myself a minute and try to change the subject. “So those items you were just talking about and some of the activities?” I question.

“Yes?”

“I’m worried about some of them. I don’t want to be hurt and I don’t think I can deal with ever being held down. So if you’re going to want to hold me down to spank or paddle me, and I can’t imagine I’d let you do it any other way I don’t think I can do them. Not after…you know.”

“Like I told you in my email I understand that punishment scares you right now but that’s because you don’t yet fully understand it. You need to experience it first to understand. Sydney, you must trust me completely on this. I will never hurt you in a way you can’t handle or don’t in the end find sexually exciting” he promises.

“Um…” I begin but he cuts me off.

“You never answered my question about
masturbating and using a vibrator when you’re alone.
”

“I never have.”

“Are you serious? You have never touched yourself, never made yourself come?”

“I have not.”

“Oh Sydney, this keeps getting better and better. I may just need to get on a plane right now and come home to begin your training tonight. Fuck, I am so hard right now.”

I clear my throat again, uncomfortable about him admitting to his arousal so casually.

“Just so we’re clear here, you will not be masturbating or using aids of any kind to achieve pleasure when I am not with you unless I have instructed you to do so and that will be highly unlikely. I need all of your sexual pleasure to come from me. I will not accept otherwise. This will not be an option.