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Cadenia wiped the sweat from her brow as she walked off the stage; summer weather and stage lights always left her drenched after a performance. Thankfully she was alone backstage, and her fans wouldn’t be sneaking past the bouncer, so she took her time shedding her capelet and using it to fan off her face and bare shoulders.
“Just got off stage and you’re strippin’ already? Sheesh!”
Cadenia whirled around to see Delphine leaning against the far wall, eyebrows wiggling.
“Ugh! You are as dastardly and perverted as ever!” Cadenia snapped. She picked up a water bottle and tossed it at Delphine, who snickered as it flew wide to the right.
“Couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, could ya?” Delphine teased.
“Not really, but security is a different story!” Cadenia shot back. She inhaled deeply to call for help, but Delphine started waving her hands frantically.
“Alright alright! Point made, just let me say what I came here to say!” she pleaded. Cadenia gave her a sour look, but said nothing.
Delphine let out a sigh. “I gotta stop fuckin’ around… anyway, Ruth wanted to send you her regards. She couldn’t make the trip to see you cause… I mean, it’s Ruth. Girl doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘break’.”
“That adds up,” Cadenia replied. “How is business going, anyway? I understand she keeps you very preoccupied these days.”
Delphine laughed. “Yeah, she busts my ass on the regular! Haven’t had many days off myself, since I’m workin’ with Polly and Karin too.” She looked askance for a moment. “I’m not made for this shit, to be honest. I need some distractions every once in a while, you know what I mean?”
Distractions? Cadenia actually wasn’t sure what Delphine was implying here. Ever since meeting Melinda’s friends during that whole alien abduction crisis she’d gotten a lot better at understanding figures of speech, but Delphine remained as enigmatic as ever. She cocked her head to the side at Delphine’s implication.
“...Like, relationships. Seeing women. Really gonna make me say it outright, huh?” Delphine quipped.
“Sorry! Sorry! I am still learning how to… read between the lines, as they say,” Cadenia replied. “...um, you are not dating anyone I take it?”
“Bingo.” Delphine said. “Credit where it’s due, I appreciate you not makin’ an assumption that I’m dating Ruth, by the way. You’re better than Sylvie, that’s for damn sure…” she muttered.
“Ah yes, she is quite bold with her assertions!” Cadenia said, “Reminds me of myself, in a way.”
Delphine looked at her cock-eyed. “I’m gonna be honest here, but that sounds absolutely nothing like you. At all.” she asserted. Cadenia brought a hand to her mouth and laughed, causing Delphine’s expression to grow even more confused.
“Ohoho, you have only seen me in public, so I can forgive your ignorance.” Cadenia said. The hint of a leer on her face caused Delphine to flinch. “I am much more than you might expect beneath this humble exterior.”
For a moment, it looked like Delphine had been caught completely off guard, but she shook it off. “Cocky, aren’t ya?” she said. “I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting that, but you’re a long way from bein’ able to handle me.”
Cadenia’s expression remained firm. “I have gone to bed with many, many women like you Delphine,” she said, “and I have broken them all. Do you fancy your chances against me? Would you like to see what it feels like beneath my heel?”
Delphine flinched again. “That’s one helluva offer, but let’s be real here. I’m on a tight schedule, and Ruth’s gonna chew me out if I take time to romp in bed with you. Sorry.”
“How disappointing,” Cadenia said flatly. “I am fully aware that you are a busy woman. I also know what money can achieve with Ruth; she would not object if I were to buy your time.”
“Ha! I’m not complainin’ if you want to buy me a vacation.” Delphine replied. “Name your time and place. I’ll teach you a thing or two…”
“Saturday. Next week.” Cadenia told her. “I’ll send Ruth a payment for your… vacation… ahead of time. Wear something you don’t mind getting torn up.”
“You’re just full of surprises, aren’t ya?” Delphine replied. “Alright, I’ll humor you. I’ll be at your place next Saturday. We’ll see who ends up topping who, eh?”
Cadenia’s expression relaxed and she gave Delphine a warm smile. “I look forward to it!” she said.
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Delphine had no trouble getting into Cadenia’s estate legitimately. She’d considered sneaking past security as a ‘warmup’, but she felt sorry for what she was about to do and didn’t want to embarrass Cadenia further. This girl could bark, but no way she had the bite to back it up. She couldn’t even throw a water bottle, how was she gonna manage topping her? Delphine laughed at the idea of submitting to this goofball. Hopefully the sex wouldn’t be too boring.
Surveying the area, there wasn’t another person in sight as Delphine approached the main door. Was Cadenia’s plan to catch her by surprise? Delphine was taller and stronger than Cadenia, so there was no way she expected to pin her down by force. Something wasn’t right here…
The front door opened on its own, shocking Delphine out of her contemplation. There was nobody inside, only a sealed envelope on the floor. She broke the wax seal lavishly stamped to the other side and read the note within; it was nothing more than directions on where to go. Apparently Cadenia was waiting for her deeper inside.
“Talk about showin’ your hand…” Delphine muttered. It was glaringly obvious this was some sort of trick, but that wasn’t a problem. Evading capture was Delphine’s wheelhouse, what would some musician know about catching a world class thief? Stepping forward cautiously, she made her way deeper into the house. There were a few suspicious areas, but nothing she could be sure was a trap.
Traversing a stairway into the dimly lit basement, Delphine approached a lone table and eyed the single candelabra adorning it. Apparently she was supposed to press a button underneath it… but she took a moment to inspect the immediate area first. When it became evident this was just a secret switch to move the bookcase and nothing more, Delphine gave a sigh of relief and pressed the button. A nearby bookcase moved without incident, revealing a dark passageway.
“Real original, Cadenia.” Delphine said mockingly. “Is your hunchbacked servant gonna come out and take me to Frankenstein’s Lab now?”
“Not quite!” Cadenia’s voice called out. A length of rope lashed out from the darkness of the passageway, lassoing around Delphine’s waist and dragging her into the darkness. Delphine swore loudly, planting her feet and pulling at the cable with her still-free hands, but additional ropes restrained her arms. She tried to stay on her feet, but ropes binding her feet pulled her to the ground and she swore again.
“Real fuckin’ funny!” Delphine yelled out. “Ya got me! If your plan was to piss me off, congratulations!”
Cadenia walked out of the shadowy passageway. Her usual attire was gone, and in its place she was wearing a loose-fitting shawl that obscured most of her body.
“Considering your behavior at my concert, I would say this makes us even,” she teased. “Besides, I wanted to show you one of my favorite toys.” There was a sound of metal on stone, and the source of the ropes emerged from behind her; a quadrupedal robot sporting a number of long, flexible feelers. “I would assume you recognize my assistant?”
“Never been in one, if that’s what you’re implyin’,” Delphine said. It was an autonomous restraining machine, the kind they had in prisons to subdue and search unruly inmates. “I can guess what it’s for, though.”
Cadenia chuckled. “Yes, I use it on my partners to ensure their compliance. Surely you expected something like this?” Delphine nodded her head.
“So uh, you got me, I guess?” Delphine said. “I thought you wanted to like, you know, have sex or something.”
“Of course!” Cadenia affirmed. “If it would interest you, I can do some wonderful things with my machine here. And I still want to break you, of course.” She placed a hand on the chassis of her assistant. “If you have second thoughts, I have already set your name as the safe word. Speak it, and the machine will stop.”
Delphine flashed a wicked grin. “Hell yeah, this is ok with me!” she said. “Gimme your worst. I might be tied up, but I’m not done yet!”
“Very well…” Cadenia said, taking off the shawl she had been wearing. Underneath it was something Delphine hadn’t expected; Cadenia wore a pair of leather go-go boots, a tight leotard with a harness for her collection of sex toys, and a pair of black armguards. Around her waist were a number of implements for teasing and disciplining her subs. She walked up and observed Delphine’s outfit.
“I know I said to wear something you were ok with getting damaged, but this…” she yanked at the collar of Delphine’s shirt and released it with a snap , “These are pitiful.” She pushed a button on her remote control and the autonomous restraining machine’s arms flicked to life. Delphine’s brow furrowed as their long, slender feelers snaked their way up her limbs before burrowing under her clothes. There was a tug followed by the tearing of fabric as the feelers tore her overgarments off her body, leaving her in her underwear. “Better,” Cadenia said, nodding in approval.
“Like what you see?” Delphine snarked. Instead of replying Cadenia smacked Delphine on her breast with a riding crop procured from her belt. It didn’t sting too bad or leave a mark this time, but Delphine yelped when it smacked her nipple beneath her bra. “Do not speak out of turn!” She warned. “Your pathetic moans and whines are permissible, but nothing more.”
Eyeing the spot where her crop had made contact, she cocked an eyebrow. “You’re hiding something from me, under that bra of yours. What is it?” she asked.
Delphine smirked. “Wouldn’t you like to know?” she said, earning her a smack across her stomach from Cadenia’s riding crop. It burned in a way that made Delphine angry… but also strangely aroused. The crop moved up from her stomach to one of her bra straps, nudging it off her shoulder. “Last chance to tell the truth. There are consequences if I have to find out myself…” Cadenia admonished. Delphine said nothing.
Cadenia nudged the strap off her shoulder, then pushed away the cup of her bra with her crop, causing Delphine’s breast to hang free and exposed. The piercing on her nipple glinted in the dim light of the room. “You need a lesson in honesty… and following orders.” Cadenia said. She reached forward and cruelly twisted the piercing, causing Delphine to yelp and moan as every nerve in her breast protested. Delphine knew her secret was out now; she’d always been a sucker for a bit of abuse, and Cadenia was far from the first person to yank on her nipples like that.
“It seems you have a preference for nipple stimulation.” Cadenia noted. She let go of the nipple ring just as Delphine was really getting into it. Why were women always doing that to her!? “You are dissatisfied. Good.” Cadenia added, putting the riding crop back at her waist and taking a wax candle from her belt. She held it to the candelabra on the nearby table and lit the wick. “I suspect you will find this even less enjoyable.” The wax at the end of the candle started to melt as she brought it up to Delphine’s exposed chest. Delphine gulped and clenched her fists.
The candle tipped just a bit, hot wax trickling from the burning head onto Delphine’s nipple. It stung mightily on contact, causing her to groan and grit her teeth as it trickled down her underboob and came to rest on her stomach. Cadenia tipped the candle a few more times, pouring the searing hot substance on several places and leaving her caked in sticky, uncomfortable patches of dry wax. Combined with the shame of her exposure and the discomfort of being tied up, Delphine was starting to cave in. “This should teach you to withhold information from your mistress.” Cadenia said, an eerily sweet smile breaking out on her face.
Putting the candle away, Cadenia pressed another button on her remote control. The autonomous restraining machine came to life again, bringing two of its feelers to Delphine’s hips. They worked their way around the waistband of her underwear, then pulled down roughly before tearing off the undergarment entirely. Cadenia made a disapproving look at Delphine’s bare groin.
“Unshaven? Seriously?” She said, taking a few pubic hairs between her fingers and pulling harshly. “This is disgusting, even for you. But no worries, I have a way to fix this…”
Cadenia’s hand went to her belt and she procured a shaving razor, then a compact can of shaving cream. The autonomous restraining machine reconfigured the angle of Delphine’s restraints to bring her legs apart and out of the way as Cadenia placed herself comfortably in front of Delphine’s bush. “Do not move as I relieve you of your pubic hair. My razor is quite sharp, and you WILL bleed if you fidget.”
This was a different kind of humiliation for Delphine, being bound and held in this demeaning position as Cadenia shaved her groin bare. Her lower lips would be hairless or closely shorn for at least a few days, grimly reminding her of the embarrassment of being shaven by another person. And that was to say nothing of the immense stress Delphine was feeling as Cadenia worked with her razor mere centimeters from her labia and clitoris. Her heart felt like it was in her throat even as Cadenia finished her work, wiping her razor on the rags of Delphine’s torn clothes and taking a moment to clean herself up. Against her better judgment Delphine craned her neck to look at the results… and winced when she saw how unnaturally hairless her crotch was now.
“Inspecting my work, are we?” Cadenia taunted as she took a blindfold from her belt and wrapped it around Delphine’s head. “Whatever I give you is good enough. Whatever I do for you, you do not question. Understood?”
“Y-yes… yes ma’am” Delphine uttered. The debasement felt good and she could feel herself getting incredibly aroused. Her vulva stung a bit from the shaving, making the whole sensation somewhat painful, but better for it.
Unable to see now, Delphine flinched when she felt the crop slide carefully up her slit, rubbing rough against the grain of her shorn pubic hair. “A normal fucking would be far too good for you,” Cadenia said. “What you deserve is something harsh and uncomfortable that will teach you a lesson. Something that will cement your submission.” Delphine’s anxiety peaked again as she heard Cadenia rustle around, then connect something to her harness. “Relax your abdominal muscles and do not tense up while I fuck you, or this will hurt worse.” she said.
Without further warning, Delphine felt something enormous plunge itself into her opening, part of it jabbing her clitoris once it got to the hilt. She gasped and whimpered, thankful that Cadenia hadn’t pushed her toy in any harder. She felt one of Cadenia’s hands caressing her stomach.
“This toy will not harm you permanently, but your limits will be tested.” Cadenia explained. “Once I start fucking you in earnest, it should make the subtlest of bulges right here each time I thrust into you.” She circled below Delphine’s navel with her finger. “I will not touch your clitoris again as long as you behave, but do be mindful I have that option at my disposal.”
Delphine felt like every inch of her insides were being jostled around as Cadenia began to move in and out of her. The discomfort was compounded each time Cadenia’s toy brushed against her still-irritated vulva, but mercifully whatever had poked her in the clitoris the first time was no longer in play. It felt good and it felt painful, but it also felt really fucking good because it felt so painful. She’d always loved a bit of discomfort in her sex, but this was a whole new level, surrendering her body over to her mistress and submitting to the discipline of a dominant woman. Pain and pleasure played a chord of serene dissonance as Cadenia fucked her deep and hard with her toy.
“Before I allow you to come, I must have one more thing from you.” Cadenia said. Caught up in a haze of painful ecstasy, Delphine could only nod her head. “Thank your mistress for all she has done for you today. Admit that you are nothing without me.”
Delphine grit her teeth and groaned as her body was battered by Cadenia’s thrusts, but she was beyond giving any sort of resistance now. “Thank you, mistress! Thank you so fucking much for everything!” She stopped to gasp for breath as her orgasm rocked her body. “Thank you for shaving my nasty pussy! Thank you for fucking me so fucking gooood!!”
Reaching her limit, Delphine started shouting and wailing incomprehensibly as Cadenia slowed down and pulled out of her. She hung there for a bit, twitching and moaning and feeling terribly empty with the toy no longer inside her, before the autonomous restraining machine brought her to the ground and released her. Instead of being on the floor, she could feel something soft beneath her back and heard Cadenia disrobing before coming to rest beside her.
“You did wonderful, my sweet…” Cadenia whispered, gently taking flecks of dried wax off her body and removing her blindfold, along with any lingering scraps of clothing. With a warm, wet cloth she began to wash and soothe Delphine’s skin as they both lay on a large mattress draped in blankets and pillows. The candelabra was nearby, bathing their nude forms in dim, warm light. Delphine couldn’t believe it, but this was even better than the sex. They snuggled for a little while, both of them showing genuine and unashamed affection for each other as Delphine’s body recovered.
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After getting her stuff back together and putting on a new outfit Cadenia had gifted her, Delphine felt like she was at a loss for words. What the hell do you even say to a woman who challenges you to a round of BDSM, breaks you down, then gives you the best aftercare of your whole life? ‘Thank you’ feels more like an insult at that point.
“You do not need to say a thing,” Cadenia assured her. “I know that face very well; you are thinking about how to return the favor. There is no need, I promise.” A warm smile crept over her face that melted Delphine’s heart. “Anytime you want a break, just let mistress Cadenia know, okay?”
Delphine nodded, her head already coming up with new ways her mistress could break her in. “Heh, yeah, I’m up for another ‘break’ alright,” she said with a wink. “And uh, this might sound strange, but I might grow my pubes out again ‘cause getting shaved by you was pretty fuckin hot.”
Cadenia laughed. “Do as you please! It would be my pleasure to do anything safe, sane, or consensual that you desire!”
Delphine had a feeling she was going to enjoy paying Cadenia a visit more often.