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For my first foray in Excerpt Monday land, I thought I would go with something that I’m working on editing up for a Freebie Story here on the site. It’s actually one of two shorts (very, very shorts) that I sat down and wrote out one day. The first is called Room with a View and the second, the one this excerpt is from, is called Room for Binding. They don’t fit in with anything else that I currently have working and there isn’t any character development, plot or real point to the short. Doesn’t mean that one can’t enjoy it, however.

WARNING: F/F story with a naked women at a table and references to bondage in this excerpt – DO NOT continue if you are not of legal age.

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Celia had never been bound.

She had no idea what she was missing. There was something to be said about thick leather surrounding your wrists and the creaking sound of them that drove through you while your arms were raised over your head. The feeling of helplessness was so overwhelming that at some point, when you least expected it, it became intoxicating. It was amazing how quickly that sensation became addicting and you found yourself craving it every moment of the day.

I wanted to give that to her but knew she wouldn’t surrender easily. Nothing with Celia was ever easy, but that’s the way that I liked things. I was always up for a challenge. I suspected she wasn’t even aware of how it would make her feel despite the way I had seen her balk at the pair of leather cuffs that had been on display at the adult bookstore downtown. Sure, she may have outwardly turned her nose up at the idea, but I had seen the spark of interest in her amethyst eyes. A bright fire that she had smothered as quickly as it had flared to life. She thought she had fooled me, but I knew better. If she truly believed that I was going to ignore what I saw then she deserved every bit of what I had planned for her. I had thought this out, figured there were several ways to approach this. Ultimately, the direct approach won and those same cuffs now sat on the dining room table in front of me.

I was waiting for her to return from a long day of work and was looking forward to the evening and the prospects that lay before me. Rain splattered on the fire escape out the window and I knew it would slow her commute.

It wouldn’t matter to me; I was nothing if not patient. At least when it came to matters like this. I had had enough tenacity to not give up when Celia hadn’t thought herself capable of an orgasm. I had shown her just how very wrong she was.

Delightfully, she didn’t keep me waiting too long and opened the front door about fifteen minutes later. I said nothing, watching as she shook a little the rain from her coat and dropped her briefcase to the ground. Keys were dropped to the table with a loud bang and she ran her fingers through her rain dampened hair. I enjoyed watching this little nightly ritual she had. The light overhead snapped on as she hit the rocker switch with a knuckle and she gave a little shout, jumping when she spotted me. “Rachel. Christ, you scared me. Why the hell are you sitting in the dark?” Even as she asked, her eyes narrowed as she noticed that I sat at the far end of the table completely nude. Those dark eyes of hers narrowed even further when she saw the twin circles of leather in front of me. “I thought we discussed this.”

I tipped my head forward in agreement as I shifted my position on the chair. “We did and I respect everything you said. I even understand your stance. I once felt that way myself.”

Her arms crossed and I could tell she knew I was up to something. She just couldn’t tell what and that was obviously frustrating the hell out of her. “Then why are those here?”

I couldn’t help but laugh at the tone of her voice, at the accusation lying thick on each word as she said them. “I bought them today.”

“No shit,” she said dryly. “I asking why they’re here when you know I have no interest in that sort of thing.”

I smiled and reached forward, hooking one of the cuffs over my finger as I pushed away from the chair. “Because it’s not your interest I care to discuss.”

She started to automatically retort but stopped when she realized what I had said. That I wasn’t talking about her pleasure in this, I was referring to mine. The chains joining the two strips clanked together as I pulled them off the table, the noise punctuated by the silence that had suddenly blanketed the room. The cold metal slapped lightly against my skin as I walked towards her and a shiver trailed up my leg at the sensation. Slick, shiny metal against bare skin had always gotten me off. That I wanted to share this with her made it even sweeter of a sensation.
She swallowed hard as I stopped in front of her and raised the cuffs between us in offering.

She seemed hesitant at first, afraid to touch them because it would mean she was confirming my suspicions. That I had been right all along about that lustful flash I had seen in front of that bookstore. The artfully displayed cuffs in the window hadn’t been about how she would feel bound. No, it had been just as I thought.

She wanted me bound.

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Links to other Excerpt Monday writers
Note: I have not personally screened these excerpts. Please heed the ratings and be aware that the links may contain material that is not typical of my site.

Jamie Babette, Fantasy Romance (PG13)
M.G. Buehrlen, YA Fantasy (PG13)
AJ Chase, Paranormal Romcom (PG13)
Stephanie Draven, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Heather S. Ingemar, YA (PG 13)
Cynthia Justlin, Romantic Suspense (PG13)
Kaige, Historical Romance (PG13)
Julia Knight, Fantasy Romance (PG 13)
Nadia Lee, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Jeannie Lin, Historical Romance (PG13)
R.F Long, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Shawntelle Madison, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Christa McHugh, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Debbie Mumford, Fantasy Romance (PG13)
Bria Quinlan, Rom Com (PG13)
Megan S, Paranormal Romance (PG13)
Dara Sorensen, Historical Fiction (PG13)
Melissa Aires, Futuristic Romance (R)
Kendal Ashby, Contemporary, (R)
KB Alan, Contemporary Erotic Romance (R)
Carly Carson, Contemporary (R)
Cate Hart, YA (R)
Felicia Holt, Contemporary Romance (R)
Ali Katz, Historical Erotic Romance (R)
Inez Kelley, Contemporary Romance (R)
Annie Nicholas, Paranormal Romance (R)
Christa Paige, Paranormal (R)
Mary Quast, Contemporary Romance (R)
Alexia Reed, Paranormal Romance (R)
Ella Drake, Historic Paranormal Romance (NC17)
Angeleque Ford, Dark Urban Fantasy (NC17)
J. W. Hankins, Dark Fantasy (NC17)
Kim Knox, Erotic Romance (NC17)
Elise Logan, Contemporary with Paranormal Elements (NC17)
Dawn Montgomery, Paranormal Erotic Romance (NC17)
Kirsten Saell, Erotic Fairy Tale Romance (NC17)
Bryl R Tyne, Erotic Sci Fi m/m, (NC17)