Chapter 6

The man stood there looking down at the girl for a minute. He then calmly began talking.

“OK, Nikki, listen up.” The girl remained quiet, not moving. “Let’s talk about the next week or so, shall we?” Waiting again, he managed to outlast her. She finally nodded.

“This evening, I’m going to have to punish you for striking out at me.” At that, she tensed up, so he continued, “but it won’t be as bad as you are no doubt imagining. I’m going to show you several different tools at my disposal and give you a ‘taste’ of each. Only a little ‘taste’, you won’t even bleed. Promise.

“Then, I’ll lay you back down and prepare tonight’s dinner. I’ll bring it down and we’ll eat together. Then bath-time, toilet and finally to bed. By then, you’ll have a hard time keeping awake, I’m sure.”

The girl took a breath, preparing to make a comment, but the man kept talking, “No. I won’t drug you anymore. It’s just been a long day for you and trust me, after a full stomach, you’ll be nodding off in no time.

“Now for the rules. I am ‘Master’. Say it. ‘Maaaaster’.”

She lay there, still not moving. He could tell by her little movements that she was deep in thought, however, and so he simply waited.

Finally, she mumbled, “‘aaaaster’.”

Smiling, he nodded his head, saying, “very good. Now, if I give you a direction to do something, I expect you to do it. If I ask you a question, I expect you to answer it.” And then he waited. She seemed to be thinking again and then, a couple of minutes later, she mumbled, “‘Es, ‘aaaaster’.”

The man left the room for a minute and in the outer room grabbed a large pair of shears. He also picked up a remote control from the counter and went back into the bedroom. Holding the remote, he clicked on OPEN, and in the ceiling a little panel slid open with a quiet whirr. He could tell she was interested, because she moved her head to the sound. Then he clicked on DOWN and held it. With a slightly louder whirr, a cable dropped out of the opening. On the end of the cable is a loop. In it is attached an expensive professional climbing carabiner. Also attached to the carabiner are two, three-foot lengths of cable, each short length of cable has a loop on either end, with both loops in the carabiner and one end loop of each of the short lengths has a second carabiner in it. He held the DOWN button until the main cable reached the floor.

Picking up the end, he opened the carabiner and removed the two three-foot cables. Placing the end of each with only the loops back into the main carabiner, he closed it securely. Now, moving up to the head of the bed, the man attached the carabiners on the ends of the short lengths of cable to each end of the spreader-bar also attached to the girl’s wrist cuffs. Then the man disconnected the bead straps from the wrist cuffs. Pressing and holding the UP button, the main cable started retracting back up towards the ceiling. As the slack disappeared, the girl’s body started to raise up.

“‘ey! ‘uts ‘appenin’?” she cried out. She was starting to panic now. The man released the UP button at this point and moved around beside the bed.

Speaking softly the man said, “Don’t panic. I’m just going to lift you up and out of bed. You’ll be hanging by your wrists shortly. The cuffs are padded, and you should feel no pain from them. You have spreader bars attached to your wrists and ankles, so you’ll be kind of spread eagled. Don’t worry. If you remain calm and relaxed, you might even enjoy it.”

The man moved down to the foot of the bed and disconnected the ankle spreader from the bed straps they were attached to. Holding on to the ankle spreader, he thumbed the UP button again, and the main cable resumed retracting into the ceiling. The girl came up off the bed, kind of hanging from the cables at her wrists and the man was holding her ankles. He swung her off the bed and released the ankle spreader. The girl started gently swinging, so he hit the DOWN button again, stopping at the point where the balls of the girl’s feet were firmly on the floor.