" I waited to hear the clinking ofhandcuffs, but never did. He secured my wrists together with leather bandsthat linked with metal rings. That'swhe...n my heart started to race faster. Tethered and without my sight or hands,I was totally vulnerable to him. I prayed that he indeed was trustworthyand sound. "How doyou feel being so helpless right now?" he asked. "Okayso far." "What'sgoing through your mind, slave?" "I'm wonderingwhat you're going to do next." He tugged on the leash and I. A real man would have pulled my shorts down and given me a proper bare-bottomed spanking,” said Susie with a twinkle in her eye. “You think so, do you?” demanded Jim nervously, shooting his friend a guilty look. “Bob, I can’t have your wife questioning my manhood like this. I’m going to need to discipline her.”“Ahh, Jeez, I don’t know,” muttered Bob half to himself. He was aroused by the situation but the jealousy was starting to twist his gut and he hesitated to let the flirting go any. He stood their shocked for a minute, with his eyes wide open. I twirled for him, teasing him, and asked, ‘What do you think?’ He was wordless for a few more seconds, before half speaking half moaning out, ‘You look beautiful.’ I smiled at him and walked over to kiss him gently. He met me halfway, his lips caressing mine gently, as he began to suck and bite on my bottom lip. ‘Calm down, baby!’ I hushed him urgently as he tried to slip his tongue into my mouth. ‘I can’t!’ He moaned, and he pushed. He said that it was not pragmatic to put off what wouldn’t work- he believed we would never work in the end because of the problems that challenged us. Again that word. I hiccupped tears, buried my face into his shoulder. I had tried so hard to keep it light, to help him feel that I would manage while he was gone. Now it was more than a short goodbye, he meant it to be final. I couldn’t breathe, my entire system had fought against me, as if the tears swelling inside me prevented air from.