Finally, Tina threw her answer to the listening ears. “I’m curious! … I’m curious, okay?”

But as she looked down to the woman tied, she noted the same enjoyment of the activity as she often felt with Bette. The pain was tingling through the submissive, rushing all over her body, and awakening her desires. Deep, dark desires that no one else could see. Only if that girl shared them with Simone would they ever be realized, and there was a sort of power in that. Perhaps it was the small clips of power that sated the true submissive, Tina thought. Or did they really enjoy any power at all?

Tina watched and wondered as Simone was reaching for something else on the steel table behind her. “Insolence … does with a whip. What do you say, Bette?”

With Tina’s arm back, her fingers pressed into her wife’s hip, Bette was quick to answer. “I don’t whip her.” It was so calmly spoken that Tina was at a complete loss for words. How was Bette so fantastic at all of this? Was she in fact more dominant inside than she’d let on? Was she really being so careful with Tina all along? It excited Tina to inch her way to more with Bette, but jumping in head first to a thing like this? She was glad for Bette standing behind her, giving her strength and supporting her when she didn’t have any. Tina felt very submissive in that moment, but to Bette and to only Bette.

She realized the power of that in Simone’s basement.

“Well then … I suppose I’ll just have to whip … my little thing …” she whispered, leaning on top of Brandi with a heavy smile and nails scratching down her sides.

The whipping wasn’t done so recklessly, thank goodness. Tina might have been truly concerned, but the woman crying out and twisting seemed to have a deep moan behind each of her screams. A connection she shared with Simone that went deeper than Tina’s own desire for pain or humiliation. This woman looked to live with that fascination all the moments of her day, and Tina wondered what it must be like.

“Ready to answer me nice?” Simone teased, getting off on Tina’s shock at the situation. She did so enjoy putting submissives back in their place.