Chapter 9: The J-2010 Training Harness & Amanda’s Mistake
For 45 minutes, Dan sat silently in the passenger seat of Amanda’s car as they drove to her apartment. Even if he had been allowed to speak, he probably wouldn’t have. He was stunned. He was having problems processing what was happening to him. Somehow, he had to tell Amanda that his captivity at the mansion was just a cruel deception by Juliette, but he didn’t dare speak until Amanda deactivated the harness.
Amanda’s drive home was quite the opposite of Dan’s. She had never felt so alive. All of her senses were operating at a heightened level, and she continually looked over to Dan with love in her heart. She simply couldn’t stop talking, telling Dan how much he meant to her and how she would take care of him for the rest of their lives.
She couldn’t believe that he had trusted her enough to give himself to her completely, and although she never knew that he had wanted that kind of a relationship, she was determined to please him. The video presentation and Juliette’s impromptu training session convinced Amanda that she needed to be loving but firm – even if Dan resisted. After all, this was his choice.
Amanda parked in her assigned space, and she asked Dan to get the wheeled case out of the trunk. As they walked up to Amanda’s apartment building, one of her neighbors passed them and said “hello.” Amanda returned the greeting with a pleasant “good morning,” and Dan nodded once with a half-hearted smile.
Once they were inside her apartment Amanda threw herself a Dan, and they landed on the couch. She laid on top of him straddling his waist and kissing him beneath his ear. She nuzzled close and whispered “I love you.” She continued to kiss him for a few more seconds. Then she pushed his shoulders down and sat up to look down at him.
“No I love you, too?” She said with a pout.
Dan opened his mouth and pointed into it, and Amanda giggled, suddenly feeling silly.
“Of course, your vocal chords don’t work,” she said knowingly.
Dan shook his head and reached under the collar of his shirt to remind her of the harness.
“Oh, right,” she said more concerned. “The harness… Silence slave off,” she said in a friendly but confident tone.
Dan tentatively cleared his throat, and a rough grumble sounded deep within. Having felt no pain, Dan gave the expected response.
“I love you, too,” he said sincerely.
With that, Amanda dove back down to kiss him, and even though he was confused and concerned, Dan responded instinctively. He thrust his hips slightly and began to unbutton her blouse. Once finished, he removed her bra and began nibbling at her nipples. She unbuckled his belt and pushed his pants down to his knees.
Caressing his balls, Amanda purred “Mmmm, good slave.”
Dan immediately felt the cock ring of the harness come alive. It began to vibrate and randomly emit the slightest of electrical charges.
“Oh my God!” he exclaimed as the sensations drove him into an uncontrolled frenzy. He became harder than he ever thought he could, and he needed to have Amanda right then. He raised her leather skirt and lowered her black lace panties to reveal his target. With her natural lubricant, he easily slipped inside of her and unwittingly pressed the cock ring against her sensitive vaginal lips.
She was quickly overcome by the vibrations and minor shocks of the harness, and within seconds they both collapsed in satisfied exhaustion. The sensations of the harness slowly tapered off leaving them embracing, trembling and panting. Half on the couch and half on the floor, they slid down between the couch and the coffee table, as though they were one, and Dan fell into a contented sleep.
Two hours later, Dan awoke to find he was alone in the apartment. His pants at his feet and his shirt unbuttoned, he looked down at the harness still holding him prisoner. He wondered whether Amanda had given the harness any commands before she left. He also wondered what else the harness could do. He knew Juliette well enough to know that he could only imagine the full range of possible commands. He walked toward the window to check for Amanda’s car, and as he reached the window, he was startled by a pleasant voice that emanated from of a pair of miniature speakers embedded in the shoulder straps of the harness.
“Perimeter reached. Remain within the designated area. Disobedience will be punished.”
His heart pounding from the sudden scare, Dan noticed that Amanda’s parking space was empty, and he backed away from the window toward the center of the room. He collected his thoughts and reasoned that Amanda must have somehow defined the perimeter of her apartment for the harness before she left. He decided to have a closer look at the harness and possibly find a way to remove it.
He purposefully strode to the bathroom and removed the remainder of his clothing except for the harness. With the aid of the bathroom mirror, he examined the harness in detail. It was apparently made of synthetic leather. A metal ring encircled the base of his shaft, and a connected strap wound around the base of his sac. From the episode with Amanda, he assumed that electrodes were embedded in the strap.
A slightly larger strap ran from the bottom of the metal cock ring through his butt cheeks to the small of his back. The strap terminated at a thin, flexible, rectangular pad. Two larger straps ran from the top of the pad, over his shoulders, to the top of the cock ring. They were essentially a pair of kinky suspenders with high fidelity speakers embedded in the shoulder straps.
Connecting straps ran horizontally around his upper chest and waist to prevent the harness from being removed. In the center of the chest harness was a second thin rectangular pad similar to the pad at the small of the back. Dan assumed that there were sensors in the chest pad, such as a microphone, or a heart monitor, for example. He also considered whether there were additional electrodes in the chest pad or anywhere else in the harness. Given what he had seen at Juliette’s compound, this harness might be equipped to do just about anything, but one thing it was clearly not equipped to do was be removed by the wearer.
He saw no visible means for mechanically removing the harness. So he concluded that one or both of flexible pads housed some type of locking mechanism that could only be activated by the synchronized collar worn by Amanda. He briefly considered trying to cut the harness off using household scissors, but he decided that the designers would surely have made the device tamper resistant, and he didn’t want to find out the punishment for trying to escape.
Concluding that he wasn’t going to be able to remove the harness without help, he considered calling 911, but he didn’t want to implicate Amanda or publicize their alternative proclivities. Of course, he ruled out calling friends or family members. So he deduced that the only person who could help him was Linda, the soon-to-be former store manager of Leather or Knot.
Dan stood in the center of the living room, wearing nothing but the harness, and dialed the shop. The phone rang at the other end, and Linda answered on the third ring with “Leather or Knot, Linda speaking. May I help you?”
“Lin…” Dan began, but before he could utter the second syllable of her name, an electric shock to his cock and balls took his breath away and left him doubled over in pain. He instinctively dropped the phone and reached for his privates. The phone hit the floor hard enough that the battery compartment broke open sending three AA batteries skittering across the hardwood under the couch. Although Linda didn’t hear it, Dan reflexively yelped after catching his breath, and then he covered his nose and mouth to prevent any more sound from coming out.
At the other end of the line, all Linda heard was a dial tone.
“That’s weird,” Linda said turning to Amanda. “That call came from your home phone. It sounded like Dan, but we were cut off before we could talk.”
Amanda’s eyebrows raised in surprise. “Hmm, I’ve been having trouble with my home phone,” she lied after a short pause. “I’m sure if it’s important he’ll call back.”
“Yeah, you’re probably right,” Linda replied, dismissing the topic. “So, you were telling me about Juliette’s place. What’s it like?”
“Well, it’s huge and beautiful,” Amanda said mimicking the description with her eyes. “It’s a small village really, and her house is like a really nice hotel.”
“Wow. I’m envious that you’ve already been there, but she’s invited me there tomorrow. She was really cool on the phone this morning when she revealed that she actually owned the store. And before I could even process that news, she told me that things weren’t going to work out for me here.” Linda paused. “At first I was totally bummed out, and angry with you for taking my spot, but honestly she’s right. Kinky retail isn’t really my thing. The kinky part is fun, but I hate the rest of it. Besides, she offered me severance pay that I can live off for a couple of months if I need to, and she asked me to interview for a position on the security staff at her house. So, maybe things will work out after all.”
“I was bummed out about it, too,” Amanda lied. “I hope you’re not still mad at me. I really had nothing to do with it.”
“No, I’m totally over it,” Linda said unconvincingly.
“I’m glad. Just keep an open mind when you go there to meet her,” Amanda offered. “She’s not as bad as she appears. She’s just really eccentric and hard to read.”
“I’ll try,” Linda replied. “I’ve been wondering, though, how are you going to run the shop all by yourself? I’m gone after today, and Juliette told me that Dan had found another position.”
“You’re right. I can’t run the shop alone, but I was able to round up two new sales associates this afternoon on the drive over here,” Amanda said smiling.
“No way! We’ve been advertising for weeks, and you were able to find two in one day?”
“Yeah, I called Beth, the sorority sister who organized the bondage-themed pledge party. It turns out that the party was a hit. So I asked Beth if she would like a part-time job at the shop working 3-4 days a week. She accepted over the phone, and her roommate Tara accepted, as well,” Amanda bragged.
“Well, congratulations. I thought that you’d have a hard time taking over, but it seems like you were made for this job,” Linda said, secretly hoping that Amanda would fail.
“It gets even better,” Amanda continued, as if to rub salt in the wound. “Beth said that she knew another girl named Lisa and her boyfriend Steve who might be interested. Beth is going to check with them and let me know about them tomorrow when she and Tara come in for informal interviews and training.”
An uncomfortable silence fell on the shop.
“Well, I’d better be getting back home,” Amanda finally said. “Dan’s waiting for me to help him prepare for his new position. You can just give the keys to the shop to Juliette when you see her tomorrow.”
Amanda left the shop feeling rather superior. She was now the manager of Leather or Knot. Her boyfriend at home was her devoted slave, and she had $100,000 in the bank. “What a difference a day makes!” she said to herself.
Once in her car, Amanda reached into her purse and withdrew a booklet entitled “J-2010 Training Harness User Manual.” She sat in her car reading the manual like it was a best-selling novel. After each page, she turned to the next with anticipation of more amazing information.
She was particularly intrigued by the 3G connectivity that allowed 2-way communication between the collar she was wearing and the harness. She loved the fact that the system was currently configured so that the communication link could only be activated and terminated by the wearer of the collar. Further, it could be activated without the harness wearer’s knowledge.
She was also interested in the summary command list at the back of the manual. It included a handy tear-out card that listed all of the harness commands, and it was small enough to fit inconspicuously in her purse.
As she began to drive home, she said in a self-assured voice “3G communication enabled.” Glancing into the rearview mirror, Amanda noticed a tiny red LED illuminated on the jeweled collar. Through tiny speakers embedded in the collar, she could hear rustling sounds.
“Hello, Dan,” Amanda said sweetly. “Linda said you called her, but you weren’t very talkative.”
The rustling sounds suddenly stopped. Although Amanda couldn’t see him, she knew that Dan was startled by her voice, and she was amused by his silence. Having already been punished earlier for talking out of turn, she expected no reply.
“Cat got your tongue? You’ll talk to Linda but not your girlfriend? Now is that anyway to treat the woman who loves you with all her being?” Amanda smiled imagining Dan’s frustration.
“Okay, I’ve toyed with you enough. Silence slave off. Now you can speak without getting zapped.”
Still Dan didn’t answer.
“Seriously, I was calling to find out if you’re okay after your call to Linda. Are you alright?” Amanda asked with sincere concern in her voice.
“Yes, I’m alright. It hurt like hell, but I’ll survive,” Dan said. “Of course, I wished I known that you turned that damned thing on, but you left without telling me.”
“Well, I didn’t want to wake you up. You were sleeping so soundly after making love,” Amanda explained. “By the way, you were incredible.”
“You too, but we really need to discuss this harness,” Dan said, getting straight to the point. “I need you to release me. Juliette has tricked you into believing that this was my idea, but it wasn’t. It was hers.”
As clearly as Amanda heard Dan’s words, she also heard Juliette’s advice ringing in her head. Juliette warned her that Dan might say something like this.
“Dan, I saw the video,” Amanda said in a tone that suggested Dan had just insulted her intelligence. “I saw you ask to be restrained for me even after you knew there wasn’t a safe word. I think you’re just having second thoughts.”
“Look Amanda, that’s not for you to decide. I want out of this damned thing, now deactivate it,” Dan said raising his voice.
Amanda was hurt, shocked and angry. “How dare you talk to me like that!”
“Look Amanda,” Dan said, realizing he may have gone too far. “I love you, but I don’t want to live like this. I want to…”
Without warning, Amanda shouted “Silence slave,” causing Dan to be punished for trying to finishing his sentence.
After taking a moment to compose herself, Amanda continued. “I have agreed to take complete care of you, and in return I expect complete obedience from you.”
She heard Dan pound the floor either in frustration or pain. She didn’t know which.
“You had better get used to your situation, because it isn’t going to change any time soon. I’m coming home, and although I considered having you make our dinner, I’ve decided to just pick up our favorite Chinese food, and we can watch a movie. After the movie, I will have to punish you further for your call to Linda.” After a short pause, she added “Of course, once the punishment is over, we might be able to have a little make-up sex. After reading the user manual for the harness, I think I can make it up to you. In the meantime, be a good boy and watch TV. 3G communication disabled.”
Smiling to herself, Amanda thought how great it was that she could have the first and last word in any conversation. She loved the feeling of superiority that the equipment gave her.
In her apartment, Dan knew that the longer Amanda controlled him, the more her perceived superiority would affect her judgment. He knew that his best chance for escape was now, before she learned more about the harness and before Juliette began his training sessions. He now realized that even if he could convince Amanda that his bondage was nonconsensual, she might enjoy it so much over time that she still wouldn’t release him.
With Amanda having already read the user’s manual for the harness, Dan decided to search the open toy case for any other devices that Juliette may have given to Amanda. Even if he couldn’t use them to his advantage, he would rather know what weapons Amanda had at her disposal. On the inside of the toy case door, Dan found an inventory of all of the items originally in the case. Some items didn’t make sense, like the “locking rope” and the “licking machine” – he almost didn’t want to know what those did. One item that caught his eye, however, was the “J-2010 Installation Disc.” He located the CD and concluded that it stored software for the harness.
For the first time since graduating, his Information Technology degree might work to his advantage. Knowing that time was limited, Dan quickly inserted the disc into Amanda’s computer which he had unsuccessfully used to send an e-mail a few minutes earlier. An auto-play menu appeared allowing him to either view the user manual or install the J-2010 controller application. Immediately opting to install the software, his heart sank as the PC requested a 16 digit CD-Key that could be found on the inside cover of the printed user manual.
Disheartened, Dan reviewed the interactive user manual for the J-2010 Training Harness instead. Reading quickly, he learned that the harness could be controlled in any of several different ways: using the necklace, using the microphone on the harness, using the software and using a mobile telephone. He found the command list and determined that he could transfer control to the computer or the harness itself if he had the CD-Key.
After scouring the interactive user manual for information, Dan silently resigned himself to his predicament for the time being. He put his clothes back on and sat down to watch television until Amanda came home.
A few minutes later Amanda entered the apartment smiling like the Cheshire Cat. Her purse was slung over her shoulder, and she was carrying two bags of Chinese food in her hands. She tossed her purse onto the couch and took the food into the kitchen. As they unpacked the food and prepared their plates, Dan was silent, but Amanda was talking so much she seemed to be out of breath.
She told Dan about Linda’s reaction to being let go and that Linda might get a position at Juliette’s estate. She continued by rhetorically wondering whether her relationship with Linda was still solid and by telling Dan about how she had already hired two new sales associates.
“You actually know them,” she teased with a grin. “They are two of the sorority sisters who organized their bondage-themed pledge party, Beth and Tara. You remember Beth, she was the one who spanked you for being such a naughty little sales associate.”
Dan remembered. Under different circumstances, Dan would have just laughed the comment off, but restrained in the harness, he felt degraded. His feelings came through on his face, and Amanda became concerned.
“Silence slave off,” she said quietly. ”Look, I was just kidding around. I didn’t mean anything.”
“You just think this is a big joke, don’t you?” Dan responded. “You’re feeling so powerful controlling me with this harness, and it really doesn’t become you.”
“Look, you’re the one who wanted this situation, not me,” Amanda responded defensively. “I’m doing you a favor here.”
“Juliette has you totally fooled, but I’m telling you again that this was not my idea.”
They both fell silent staring at each other. Dan was frustrated and angry that he was Amanda’s puppet instead of her boyfriend, and Amanda was confused and hurt, not knowing what to believe.
Finally, Amanda said “I just don’t know what to think. If I let you out of that harness, I might be ruining it for you. When there’s no safe word, I can’t tell if ‘no’ really means ‘no.’ But since I’m the one in charge, at least for now, I’ve decided that we can have a movie night like we used to. Let’s just forget that you’re wearing the harness, and we can talk about it tomorrow. Deal?”
“Well, if the past two days had been normal, we’d probably be having a movie night, anyway. Of course, it’s really hard to pretend that I don’t have a metal ring around my penis that could zap me at your slightest whim.”
Dan turned to walk toward the living room, and Amanda followed. They sat down on the couch, and Dan grabbed the remote.
“I promise I won’t use the harness… unless you want me to,” she said with a smile. Pointing at the manual spilling out of her purse on the couch, she continued. “I had a chance to read the manual, and the harness can do some amazing things… not all of them bad either.”
After eating, they snuggled together on couch and watched a romantic comedy chosen by Amanda. About halfway through the movie, Dan got up. He collected their dirty dishes and said “I’m going to get some more Sprite, would you like some?”
“I would have done that,” Amanda said nodding to the dishes. “But if you’re going anyway, sure. Thanks.”
Once in the kitchen, Dan decided he couldn’t simply abdicate his freedom to Amanda’s whim. After putting the dishes in the sink and pouring two glasses of Sprite, he quietly opened the cupboard door above the sink and removed a bottle of Tylenol PM. Hurrying so as not to attract Amanda’s attention, he broke open the pills and emptied the contents into one of the glasses. A quick but silent stir later and nobody could tell the difference. Dan consciously kept the glass of doctored Sprite in his left hand, and he offered it to Amanda when he got back to the couch.
By the time the movie was over, Amanda was fast asleep, and Dan was sitting next to her reading the J-2010 Training Harness User Manual. After reading for an hour, even though Amanda controlled the harness, and him, through her necklace, he thought he might have a solution to his problem
* * * * *
Amanda slept peacefully on the couch next to Dan as he momentarily set down the user’s manual to rest his eyes. He instinctively looked up at the digital clock on the DVD player. It read: “Wednesday 11:30 pm.” Dan thought about the last few days. So much had happened. Yesterday at about this time, he was wandering around Juliette’s estate as free as could be. Monday at about this time, he and Amanda were asleep in her bed dreaming about their future. Neither one thought it would look like this, and certainly not within 48 hours.
He turned to Amanda, and decided that he should put her to bed. He lifted her in his arms like a life-sized ragdoll, and carried her to the bedroom. He gently laid her on the bed so that her head was on her pillow. After a kiss and a loving glance, he went back to the couch to continue reading.
After another 15 minutes, he thought he had all of the information he needed to unlock the harness. He began to work with more urgency as he realized that he hadn’t used the toilet all afternoon, and the harness effectively blocked any bowel movement he may need to have. Clearly, the harness wasn’t meant to be a permanent accessory.
Dan moved to the computer and inserted the CD from the toy case. When prompted for the CD-Key, he dutifully copied the digits from the inside cover of Amanda’s manual, and the software began the install process. Once it was complete, Dan selected a check-box next to “Run J-2010 Training Harness Utility” and clicked “Finish.”
A flurry of high-tech sound effects and a professional, animated splash screen announced the beginning of the utility. Dan impatiently clicked through the introductory screens until the J-2010 Utility Menu appeared. He carefully selected the menu options to transfer control of the harness to the PC. He clicked “Command” from the main menu. He then selected “Controller” from a list of commands and “Wireless Network” from a list of options. Finally, he selected “Enable” from a drop-down menu.
Instantly, as though no thought were necessary, the PC speakers output a pleasant female voice which said “Control error. Please use personal transmitter to authorize control change.” It seemed that whenever the pleasant female voice spoke, it was bad news for the person wearing the harness.
Deflated but still determined, Dan selected “Status” from the main menu. He examined the two columns of information and focused on “Controller: Personal transmitter.” Dan suddenly realized that because Amanda’s necklace, the “personal transmitter,” was currently in control of the harness, any controller change would need to be effected using it, not the PC. He was devastated. He sat staring at the screen feeling as helpless as ever.
He decided to make the most of Amanda’s sleep, and he surfed through the screens of the utility trying to gain as much information as he could. He had begun to review the personal controller status screen when he read “Master Voice Set: Universal.” He moused over the setting to reveal a drop down menu of the possible selections: “Universal,” “Juliette” and “Francis.”
The corners of Dan’s mouth curled into a smile. He remembered reading in the user manual that the necklace could be operated in one of two modes: universal or specific. In the specific mode, the wearer would have to train the necklace to recognize the wearer’s specific voice by repeating each and every command. In the universal mode, the necklace would accept commands from whoever wore it, regardless of the speaker’s specific voiceprint. Clearly, Juliette and Francis had created their own command sets, but there must not have been enough time to create a command set for Amanda during their stay at Juliette’s estate. Instead, they had used a “Universal” command set for the necklace.
Dan quickly made his way into the bedroom and carefully removed the necklace from Amanda’s neck. He couldn’t help pausing to admire Amanda as she slept. He focused back on the necklace and tried to put it on his own neck, but it was too small. Instead, he walked back to the computer, held the necklace in front of his mouth and said “Harness Unlock,” and the straps attached to the front chest pad fell away. Success!
For the next several hours, Amanda slept peacefully as Dan prepared for the next day.
At 8:00 am Amanda’s alarm sounded, and it echoed in her head like a car alarm in an empty parking garage. She squeezed her eyes closed and instinctively reached for the snooze button only to find her wrists had been secured to the bed frame. Opening her eyes wide in surprise at her predicament, she was surprised a second time by the blindfold that Dan had applied just after midnight. She pulled at her feet and found her ankles were similarly secured to the bed frame. As the alarm continued to sound, and approaching footsteps grew closer, Amanda began to remember snippets of the night before. The last thing she remembered was Dan going into the kitchen for a drink.
Moments later, the alarm stopped its incessant beeping, and she knew Dan was in the room.
“And how is my little Mistress this morning?” Dan asked cheerfully.
After a pause to clear her head, Amanda decided to play along.
“I’m rather well rested thanks to my servant,” she said. “And he’s so good to me that he even handles the littlest tasks like turning off my alarm in the morning.”
Dan found it curious that her first response wasn’t to demand release. Dan sat on the bed next to her wondering whether she knew how beautiful she looked. He also wondered whether she had figured out the full extent of her situation. In her drug-induced hangover, she could tell something was not right, but without her vision or her hands, she was having a hard time putting all of the pieces together.
“Did you sleep well?” Dan asked. “You were out like a light after the movie.”
Amanda wiggled a little and realized that Dan had placed her in some kind of chastity belt. Both of her holes were filled, but it wasn’t an uncomfortable feeling. In fact, the plugs gave her a warm, slightly aroused feeling.
“Here, have some orange juice,” Dan said as he lifted a glass and placed a straw to her lips.
Amanda drank appreciatively. Her mouth felt fuzzy from the pills in last night’s drink.
“Thank you,” she said as she opened her mouth and the straw fell away. “You’re being awfully nice to me after what I put you through yesterday.”
Dan smiled but didn’t answer.
“I suppose you plan to exact your revenge,” she said as though it were a question.
Again, Dan didn’t answer.
“Can I have another sip?” Amanda asked in an attempt to engage him, and again Dan lifted the straw to her full, moist lips.
When the straw began to suck in more air than orange juice, Dan asked “What were your plans today?”
“For you, or for me?” Amanda asked coyly.
“For you, silly,” Dan replied. “I assume that you need to go in to the shop today. Last night you mentioned that you had hired two of the sorority sisters to work for you.”
Amanda explained that she did, in fact, have to go to the shop today. She was scheduled to introduce the new employees to the intricacies of “Leather or Knot,” and Dan knew that if she didn’t show up, Juliette would send someone to look for her... and him. For all he knew, she had high-level connections in the police department which would only be bad news for him.
Dan ran his hands through Amanda’s hair, held her head gently and kissed her.
“Well, one way or another, we need to get you to the shop today,” Dan said with purpose.
“One way or another?” Amanda repeated. “That sounds a bit ominous… like ‘dead or alive’ or ‘the easy way or the hard way.’”
“No, not at all,” said Dan lightly. “You can either go to the shop alone, or you can go with me.”
“Well then, I choose to go alone. You can remove the restraints now,” Amanda replied quickly.
Of course, Dan left Amanda cuffed to the bed, and he explained that the decision wasn’t quite that simple. Dan told Amanda that he had been tricked into submitting to her completely and that she had been tricked into believing that it was voluntary. He also told her that in the course of a single day, he saw changes in her that he didn’t like. By the end of the day, she was taking advantage of her position in a way that was bordering on arrogant and selfish.
Amanda turned her head away from him, realizing that he was right. She told him that she felt horrible for the way she treated him, but she honestly believed that it was what he wanted.
He kissed her again and said “Honestly, I do want to be with you for the rest of my life, but as your partner not your toy.”
Amanda smiled.
“So, here’s the deal,” he continued. “I would never keep you against your will. If you decide not to submit to me today, I completely understand, but if that is your decision, I have decided never to submit to you again.”
A silence fell over the bedroom.
“I figure that it’s the least you can do to make up for yesterday,” he added.
After a moment’s thought, Amanda replied.
“First, let me just say that I think it’s a dirty rotten trick. This is nothing but a cruel blackmail scheme Daniel Learner. Second, you’re right. It is the least that I can do to make up for yesterday’s misunderstanding. I trust you completely, and I am yours without question.”
Dan was stunned. He didn’t know it would be that easy, and he realized again how much he loved Amanda.
“Great! Let’s get started,” Dan said eagerly as he began to unbuckle the Amanda’s wrist cuffs. “Just so we’re clear, there is no safe word or gesture. You are mine until I decide to release you.”
“Whatever you say, Master,” Amanda said with a smile. “But why are you releasing me when I’ve just agreed to submit to you?”
Even as he continued to unbuckle her second wrist, he replied “Oh, I’m not releasing you.”
Once Amanda’s wrists were free, Dan began to unbuckle her ankles, and she removed the blindfold. As her eyes grew accustomed to the light, she glanced in the mirror over the dresser and had a sudden realization.
Dan was fully clothed, and she was wearing nothing but the J-2010 Training Harness.
Seeing her amazement, Dan explained that that box of toys that Juliette sent home with them was an all-purpose gift bag that included items for both men and women. He found a number of accessories for the harness that completely transformed it into a restraint for women.
Then, he said “But slaves as beautiful as you should be seen and not heard. Silence slave.”
Questions flooded Amanda’s head, and she began to ask “What…” when the harness recognized her disobedience. Amanda was immediately overcome with several pleasurable sensations simultaneously, and she almost fell out of the bed.
“Oh, you’ll find that I’m not a cruel Master,” Dan said nonchalantly. “I have set the harness to pleasure you whenever you disobey, but be careful. The progressively extreme pleasures that I have programmed into the harness have their drawbacks.”
Amanda recovered her balance, and silently started her day with Dan’s assistance. She showered in the harness, which was water proof. She dressed in a provocative leather outfit that Dan had selected for her. Once she was dressed, Dan wanted to have his way with her right then, but they would have been late to open the shop. Besides, the plugs installed in the harness would have gotten in the way.
They ate breakfast in silence – Dan because he wanted to, and Amanda because she was compelled to. Then, Amanda drove them to the shop in her car. As strangers along the way ogled at the plunging neckline of her leather top, Amanda blushed, and Dan felt proud of his trophy.
They parked in the rear of the store and found Tara and Beth sitting in Beth’s parked car. They all got out of their cars and collected at the rear entrance.
“Hi Beth. Remember me?” Dan said politely shaking her hand.
“How could I forget?” she flirted. “You’re the cute young man who got caught up in his work when we were planning our sorority party.”
“This must be Tara,” he said, changing the subject.
As they entered the store, Amanda began turning the lights on and preparing for the day. Dan explained to Beth and Tara that Amanda had laryngitis, and that he would be helping her interview and train them. The two young women exchanged smiles at the word “train,” and Dan knew that it would be an enjoyable day.
After the store was opened for business, Dan suggested that Amanda give Tara a tour of the store while he interviewed Beth. After a brief glare from Amanda, she led Tara to the front of the store, and Dan took Beth into the back office and closed the door. Dan sat at the desk and Beth sat across from him.
“Isn’t Amanda your girlfriend? Won’t she be jealous that you are in here alone with me?” Beth asked.
“Wow!” replied Dan. “I thought I was supposed to ask the questions.”
Beth realized that she might have hurt her chance to work at the shop and quickly apologized “Oh, I’m sorry. You’re right.”
Enjoying his superior position, he smiled and said “It’s no problem. You were right that Amanda is my girlfriend, but we trust each other completely.”
Dan began the protracted interview with typical questions, but eventually began asking questions that were wholly inappropriate even for position at a bondage shop. He asked if she had a boyfriend; how many lovers she had had in her life; whether she ever experimented with bondage; her favorite sexual positions; and whether it was currently her time of the month. The questions really had no significance other than to embarrass her and to illustrate that between them, he was the dominant.
Meanwhile, in the shop, Amanda showed Tara around as best she could. Amanda considered writing a note to Tara to explain her situation, but she dismissed the thought knowing that it would drive Dan away from her. Instead, she accepted her position reminding herself that she “volunteered” for it.
In the back office, Dan gave Beth an employment agreement similar to the one he signed when he started. He went over the agreement in detail, including discussing the clauses related to bondage safety. Once Beth signed the agreement, Dan asked Tara to come back, and he went through the same procedure with her. By 11:00 am, Dan had thoroughly embarrassed both women and obtained signed employment agreements from them consenting to bondage as part of their employment.
As the four of them gathered at the cash register, Dan asked which girl liked wearing leather.
Tara merely stared at the ground to avoid eye contact. Behind her back, Beth nodded and pointed to Tara.
“Tara, let’s start with you,” Dan said smiling.
Dan explained that it was the shop’s policy that new employees try out the products so that they have a more intimate understanding of their customers’ tastes and desires. Dan asked Amanda to select her favorite gear, and assist Tara in trying it on.
For the next few minutes, Amanda silently wandered around the shop selecting merchandise and draping it over her arm. Ten minutes later, Tara was learning firsthand about the high quality leather equipment the shop offered. She was amazed at how quickly Dan and Amanda were able to immobilize her as she stood in front of the three-way mirror at the rear of the store. Looking from mirror to mirror, she saw herself at various angles wearing a leather halter top, a single glove, a hobble skirt and a leather hood. The hood included only nose and eye holes and smoothly covered her lips which surrounded a leather penis gag. As if to accentuate her predicament, Dan finished her ensemble with a locking leather collar. Looking on, Beth was surprisingly aroused as she imagined herself helplessly bound in the same situation as Tara.
Without warning, Dan raised the end of Tara’s single glove forcing her to bow to the other women. Bent over as she was, the leather hobble skirt tightly outlined her shapely bottom, and he smacked it loudly with his open hand. It shocked the others, but it awakened Tara in ways she had never imagined. Her ass tingled more than it hurt, and she was so embarrassed that she prayed it would stop. Yet, she silently begged him to continue.
After toying with Tara for several minutes, Dan looked her in the eyes by lifting her chin with his index finger.
“Do you want me to stop?” he asked.
Tara, holding back tears, nodded pleadingly.
“Do you remember the safe gesture outlined in your employment agreement?”
Tara’s tears now flowed down the outside of the leather mask, and she hung her head. Slowly, she shook her head.
“Let this be a lesson to you both,” Dan said with a superior tone. “Your safe word and your safe gesture can mean the difference between your freedom and your torment.” He looked at Beth and asked “Do you think she’s had enough?”
“Yes, I think so,” Beth said knowing that it could just as easily have been her at his mercy.
Instead of untying her, Dan led Tara toward the front of the store. She hobbled along trying to create some slack in the leash that Dan had clipped to her collar. Dan walked up a small ramp on the side of the elevated front display and Tara struggled to follow. As she stood next to him in the center of the display window, Dan pulled the leash taught and tied the free end of the leash to an o-ring in the ceiling. Tracing his finger along the leash down to the clip, Dan grabbed the clip and snapped the spring-loaded clip several times without releasing her.
“It’s only a little spring clip,” he teased. “Even a child could unhook it.”
Tara wiggled and tugged at the leash as it held her in place for the amusement of anyone passing by the shop. Dan stepped off the display and admired his handiwork. Glancing at his watch, he decided it was time for a lunch break. He told Beth that he and Amanda were going to go out for lunch, and that the shop, and Tara, were in her hands. He directed her to a set of safety rules posted near the cash register, and specifically pointed out the rule that you should never leave a bound person unattended. Then, he escorted Amanda out the back door, and they drove away. As Beth watched Amanda’s car drive past the shop. She redirected her attention to Tara, and her eyes smiled mischievously.
Dan and Amanda drove for some time before Dan looked over to see Amanda frowning.
“You don’t approve of leaving two new employees alone to run the shop on their first day?” he said, breaking the silence.
After a moment, he said authoritatively “Silence slave off.”
“No, frankly, I don’t,” said Amanda tersely, looking out the passenger window. “Especially when one of them is bound and helpless,” she continued.
Dan changed the subject, and he asked Amanda what she would like for lunch. They drove through their favorite fast-food restaurant and ate as they drove to Amanda’s apartment. Dan made light conversation, as though they were simply having a quick lunch together. Once at the apartment, Dan said “perimeter on,” confining Amanda’s movements to the same area she had defined for him a day earlier.
“Silence slave,” he said without warning, and Amanda resigned herself to her subordinate status.
Before leaving, Dan told Amanda that he loved her, that he would take good care of her until the weekend and that he expected her not to try to escape. He also told her that he silenced her for her own good. If she felt the need to pleasure herself, all she needed to do was disobey him by talking or moving beyond the defined perimeter. With a smile and a kiss, he left to return to the shop.
Upon his return, Dan parked in the street in front of the shop. As he entered the shop, he could hardly hear the bell above the door due to the grunting and panting of the sorority sister restrained in the display window. He was completely dumbstruck when he looked toward the cash register and saw Tara. He looked back at the writhing figure and realized that it was Beth on display in the front window where he had left Tara just over an hour ago.
“Where’s Amanda?” Tara asked as without looking up. She was recording merchandise sold at an employee discount.
“Amanda decided to stay at the apartment for the rest of the day because of her laryngitis,” he replied.
Noticing that Tara had just marked down an employee sale for herself, he said “It’s only your first day, and you already bought something?” Dan asked incredulously.
“I did,” Tara said with a satisfied smile.
Looking closer at the tally sheet, Dan’s eyes opened wide in surprise.
“Five hundred dollars? You’ll have to work for months to pay that off!” he said in shock.
“It will be worth it. Besides, I used my parents’ credit card,” Tara said.
“What did you buy that’s worth five hundred dollars?” Dan asked.
Tara smiled a knowing smile and shrugged her shoulders playfully.
“Really, what did you buy?”
“My roommate,” answered Tara with a giggle as she pointed toward Beth in the window.
Dan walked over to Beth and examined her more closely. He knew something was different, but he couldn’t put his finger on it. Same hobble skirt. Same leather halter, same collar, leash and hood, yet something was decidedly different.
“How did she get herself in this predicament?” Dan asked, hoping to piece together the last hour’s events.
Tara recounted that after Dan left with Amanda, she pleaded through her gag for Beth to release her. Eventually, Beth removed her gag, and Tara begged for her freedom. Beth laughed and told her to stop being such a baby. Beth told Tara that she had only been in the outfit for twenty minutes.
Knowing Beth’s competitive nature, Tara challenged her to last longer than twenty minutes in the same predicament without asking for release. Beth, believing that she could easily last twenty minutes, accepted the challenge on one condition: the one who asked for release in the shortest amount of time had to be the winner’s slave for 24 hours. Willing to say anything to get released, Tara agreed.
Tara could hardly move after Beth untied her. Tara stretched her arms slowly and worked out the kinks in her shoulders. Once she began to return to normal, she told Beth to change into a leather halter and hobble skirt. A few minutes later, Beth waddled from the changing room over to Tara who buckled Beth’s arms into the strict single glove and locked on the leather collar.
Moving behind Beth, Tara reached around and inserted a ball gag into Beth’s mouth. Beth didn’t realize that while she was changing, Tara had swapped the small penis gag that she had worn with the 2” ball gag she was now forcing between Beth’s pearl white teeth. Beth grunted, and Tara asked “Have you had enough already?” Beth glared at her and “hmphffed” into her gag.
Tara covered Beth’s head with the leather mask and tightly laced it behind her head. It created a smooth, nameless visage toward which Tara had little compassion. To complete the preparation, Tara clipped the leash, still hanging from the o-ring, to Beth’s collar and took her post at the cash register until Dan arrived.
“So, I assume that you won the bet,” Dan said with a touch of uncertainty.
“Yes, but not without a wrinkle,” Tara said. “Beth actually lasted twenty-five minutes before using her safe gesture, but I gave her a chance to go for a bigger prize with a second bet.”
“So, what was the second bet?” Dan asked.
Tara explained that she challenged Beth to go five additional minutes with an extra accessory of Tara’s choosing. If Beth won, Tara agreed to be Beth’s slave for 24 hours and buy Beth $500 worth of merchandise from the store. If Beth lost, Beth agreed to be Tara’s slave for 24 hours, but Tara would still buy Beth $500 worth of merchandise.
Realizing that either way, she got $500 of new stuff, Beth agreed. But it turned out that Tara’s extra accessory was too much for Beth. Tara had wisely selected a remote control vibrating egg which she inserted beneath Beth’s hobble dress.
“She only lasted two more minutes before using her safe gesture,” Tara said smugly. “So, I won. But Beth didn’t realize that I would begin collect on my bet immediately.”
Holding out her arm like a model on “The Price is Right,” Tara said “Say hello to my slave for the next 23 hours and 25 minutes.”
“Okay, I get it. Because you decided to collect immediately, Beth selected her $500 worth of merchandise immediately.”
“Well, not exactly,” Tara said in a high pitched voice.
“So, what did you buy for $500?” Dan asked, confused.
“Oh, I bought Beth $500 worth of merchandise, and she’ll even get to wear it home from the shop tonight. But I never agreed that she would get to pick it out,” Tara said smiling coyly.
Beth stomped her foot, twisted her torso against the strain of the leash and “Hmphffed” into her gag in protest.
05.12.09
story continues in Leather or Knot Chapter 10: Linda's New Job
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