Beth wrapped her fingers around the metal bars of the cage. Tensing her arms, she lifted her body weight off her ass and right leg, which was curled under her. When she couldn’t hold herself up any more, she relaxed, the crosshatched bars that made up the bottom of the cage settling painfully into her flesh.

Though she’d been careful, the slight movement was enough to set the cage rocking from side to side, the ground of the dimly lit playroom five feet below her shifting dizzyingly. Beth closed her eyes until the cage stilled again.

Madame Cat had said that today they were going to play the checklist game. Since she was collared, Beth had known who her partner would be, but she’d harbored a small hope that whatever her letter was would include things that might be more interesting and pleasurable than her normal play with Madame Cat.

Those hopes had been dashed when Madame Cat had put her into this uncomfortable contraption. Shaped like an old-fashioned domed birdcage, it was just tall enough that Beth was able to sit upright, but the diameter kept her legs bent at awkward angles. Currently she had her right leg half under her, foot sticking out between the bars, her left leg folded up so her thigh was against her bare breast.

Beth sighed and laid her cheek against her knee. The cage meant Madame Cat had drawn the letter C in the game. Beth had a very good memory and was fairly certain she knew exactly what lay in store. The rules of the game, and of the club, meant that Madame Cat couldn’t do anything that Beth had indicated was a hard “no” on her checklist, but Madame Cat was creative—she could probably find a way to come close without crossing the line.

Whatever anticipation and hope Beth had when her Mistress had announced that this weekend was devoted to the game died as she sat curled in the cage repeating the “C” section of the BDSM Checklist in her head.

Cages

Caning

Cattle Prod

Cells

Chains

Chastity Belts

Choking

Chores

Clothespins

Clamps

Cock Rings

Cock Worship

Collar

Corset

Cuffs

* * *

darling, how

the Den. She wore slacks and a silk blouse, which was far from her normal leather and chains

confusion must have shown on his face, because she smiled as

attire, but I can’t stay

and his partners would spend the weekend playing the game. It was slightly annoying to

the time. “I want

limitation.” James kept his voice as mild as he could. The weekend did not have to be a total loss—there would be plenty of people here to

Master

with Master

held

is your name and a checklist for your sub. He said the rest of it was up to you to

back in her chair. “I’m afraid

“Oh?”

Given my new position,

politics, which had always seemed incredibly dangerous to him—a secret life as a

to have more time,” she continued, “but my flight leaves at 7. I’m only here

“You’re ending

obedient. Everything

my role is to play therapist

no desire to spend his time

are not some great love story. We are more business associates than lovers. When I told the overseers I would be resigning my membership, they told

Beth was striking rather than pretty, with brown

her, though they’d never played. Beth was one of those subs who was always around, an excellent and obedient assistant in scenes focused on others. She was most often seen playing with Doms who preferred a stricter version of BDSM play than James used. If he was remembering correctly, Cat’s favorite thing to do was to use her as a footstool, pushing Beth more into the

neutral, James could detect the slight derision in her words, could tell that she thought his type of domination was

picked for myself,” he responded curtly. But when James looked at Beth’s picture,

It was why he was so good at figuring out people’s emotional states, at “fixing” subs—he liked taking clues and piecing them together into a complete

I’m afraid I didn’t have time to tell her anything other than this weekend was for the checklist game.” Madame Cat rose.

into the envelope, James stood and motioned for the Domme to

* * *

were two sets of footsteps, the click of heels which she recognized as Madame Cat’s, and then another set she thought sounded like a man’s. She closed her eyes when spotlights flicked on, the bright white beams focused on

her right foot. The blow was unexpected and painful. Beth sucked in a breath and jerked, then wiggled around until

girlie.” Madame’s words were soft and regretful, at odds with

Madame Cat was wearing fashionable, shiny, cream colored stilettos and ankle length gray slacks, nothing like her normal wardrobe. Beth had noticed the clothes when her Mistress had locked her in her collar and placed her in the cage, but Beth had assumed that when she returned she’d have changed. The fact that she was still in street clothes had to mean something

I’ve

didn’t pause to try to figure it out, knowing waiting

opportunity to play with a sub again, let alone one as

tip of Beth’s tongue, but she held them

I can

the command that she

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