13. Going Further
Pp finishes his champagne, places his flute on a silver coaster on the small table and contemplates the young woman. He sensed something there when they first met. Submissive perhaps but hesitant. Certainly inquisitive but cautious.
He wonders. Does she want to be tested? To have him take control so she is unable to retreat? He knows that her persistent touching on his leg in the restaurant was deliberate. To goad him into restraining her, into tying her wrists back.
He has seen the shine in her eyes when she kneels. He has felt her breathing quicken, become a little ragged. She was aroused as she knelt beside him in the church and the restaurant. And she is aroused as she kneels before him now. Is it the kneeling itself that arouses her and the knowledge that he is watching her or is it the feeling of submission, of allowing him control? Was the goading to bind her wrists simply a need for the restriction of bondage or the desire for him to take decision away from her.
He has been careful not to rush her, to push her too far and frighten her away but to take her a little further each time. It is time now to push, to test her.
He touches a finger to her chin and raises her face to his.
"Ella?" Her eyes are focussed sharply. "Remove your blouse." Not please. An instruction.
"But...." He locks his eyes on hers, no words. And Ella brings her hands to the front and fingers shaking, slowly unbuttons her blouses, shrugs it from her arms and shoulders and hands it to him.
"No Ella. Folded." And Ella spreads her blouse on the soft carpet, folds it neatly and hands it to him. He places it on his lap. Has she noted the evidence there of his arousal?
His voice is firm. "Your bra Ella." And Ella's fingers nervously unclip the catch between her breasts, shrug the straps from her shoulders, folds the cups and the straps together and hands that to him too then her hands stray to her breasts, covering them.
"Ella!" Firm, strong and, again after hesitating, Ella lowers her hands and places them behind her back.
He touches her shoulder and Ella remembers the small corrections he made in the church. She feels herself responding, squaring her shoulders but now she can see her bared breasts lift as she does.
His hand at the small of her back, just below her crossed wrists, and she straightens a little.
"There are many ways in which you can kneel Ella, apart from this demure way you kneel to recite those nightly prayers. The one significant correction I would make first is for you to spread your knees."
"Ohh..Pp...I can't."
"Can't Ella?"
"Well, no" And Ella looks up with the faintest of smiles, "well, at least, not in this skirt."
"Then, Ella...." He says no more as Ella rises, reaches behind herself and unclips the waist band and lowers the zip. She slides the pencil skirt down over her hips, bending slightly to allow herself to step out of the garment. Like her blouse and bra she folders the skirt neatly and hands it to him.
No thong, no G-string underwear that barely hides anything but simple silky black panties that are so sexily-appropriate beneath a smart skirt. Her legs are encased in thigh high stockings.
Pp points back to the floor and Ella kneels once more, her knees still close together despite the removal of her restrictive skirt. He reaches down and touches the inside of her thigh, warm, firm.
"Pp....I am a little scared, frightened..."
"Trust me Ella. I will not hurt you nor will I go further than I judge you will accept."
"It is not that. It is. It's that.....I am scared I will back out and, well, I don't want to do that. Can you? Will you...?"
Pp nods, knowing what it is that she needs. He stands, walks to the antique hat rack and comes back with three long black silk scarves. He drops to one knee behind Ella and uses one to bind her wrists tightly. The other two he leaves draped over his shoulder.
Back to his armchair, sits, leans forwards, one hand on each of the young woman's thighs. Ella shuffles, spreading her knees about a foot apart.
"Ella." That voice again. Quiet but firm. And Ella obeys, parting her knees much, much further.
He looks down. Her squared shoulders, her bared breasts rising, falling with her slightly ragged breathing, her flat belly and the silky panties covering her mound and sex between her wide-spread thighs.
The panties cling to her, the signs are clear, she is aroused.