Chapter 53

Once Brent heard the door close behind Jess, he let the pillow drop so he could hug Emma back. They held the embrace for several minutes without talking. Finally, Emma was the one to break the silence and Brent saw sorrow in her eyes.

“Oh, Brent, I’m so-” she began but Brent cut her off.

“Nope, no you don’t. Don’t even say it,” he said with surprising forcefulness. “You have NOTHING to feel sorry for. NOTHING.” He took Emma’s hands in his and squeezed them for emphasis. Emma smiled at him weakly.

Brent leaned in and kissed her briefly.

“Ok,” he said afterward, “Let’s do this.” He gestured towards the nightstand with a nod at ‘this’.

Emma nodded and chuckled. “Ok. Let’s.”

Brent laid down and placed his hands over his head. He wasn’t exactly sure how this worked; Andrea and he had never done anything remotely like bondage play. Fortunately, Emma took charge. She hadn’t used cuffs before, with us or anyone else, but it wasn’t rocket science.

Emma took the cuffs and maneuvered one of Brent’s hands through a gap in the posts on the headboard. She slapped the cuff on the wrist and then pushed Brent’s other hand through the headboard to do the same. She made sure to keep the cuffs loose enough that they wouldn’t bother him; she didn’t really think he would try to make a getaway.

After the final click of the cuff, Brent instinctively pulled on them to see if they were secure; the cuffs clunked against the posts of the headboard as he did so.