It hadn't gone well, Darla thought, as she leafed through an old
magazine.She shifted position, took her shoes off, and curled her
feet up comfortably beneath her on the couch.
Across the room, Michael was still typing away.  They'd been working
together quite well on the book, and then he'd had one of his sudden
fits of inspiration and had shooed her away, irritably, because he
didn't want her "looking over his shoulder."  As if he hadn't looked
over mine enough, she thought.  And leaned on it at the same time.
I wish we could
get an office with two desks, two typewriters, and a brick wall
between them!  With a sigh, she picked up another magazine and slid
farther down into the cushions that covered Michael's couch.
  
She'd just begun reading a fascinating article on archaeological
discoveries at Tell-el-Amarna when Michael spoke.
"Look, it's getting late, and I have a lot of things to do in the
morning. Time for you to go home."
  
Darla closed her eyes for a moment.  All right, she thought, if
that's the way you want it...
She reached down, slipped on her shoes again, tossed the magazine
on the table and got up to go.  Her portfolio and purse and all her
papers had been left on the table by the door, and she turned that
way, unwilling to look at Michael.   Sometimes, she thought,
I wish you hadn't talked me into
this so-called collaboration.  I wish you hadn't insisted that we
both work here at your place.  I wish you hadn't...
  
He came into her field of vision, surprising her out of her train of
thought.  He stood there in the light reflected from the desk, shirt
gone, tenuous smile on his face.  If you really wanted me to leave,
she thought, why did you take off your shirt?  A smile replaced the
sullen expression on her face.
  
"Gee, Michael, I've seen that half of you before.  Why don't you
take the rest of it off?"
He looked down at himself as if to say, who, me?  "Ladies first,"
he said. "Or is it, you show me yours and then I'll show you mine?"
His tone of voice was light, slightly sarcastic.  "I'm just getting
ready for bed here."
  
Hmmm, thought Darla, I bet he thinks that'll get rid of me.  By all
rights it should, but I'm tired of doing everything his way.
"All right," she
said softly, and without another word she quickly unsnapped her jeans,
unzipped them, let them drop to the floor and stepped out of them.
"Like this?"
  
Dead silence in the room for a moment.  Then Michael said "Now wait a
minute, put those back on.  That's not what I meant, and you know it."
  
"No, Michael, I don't know it.  I just did as you asked.  We're not
playing this game by your rules any more.  You started it, and this
time you're going to have to finish it."
Surprised at her own sudden courage, she
slipped out of the large, loose overshirt she wore, and dropped that
to the floor as well.  Clad only in a light pink tank-top and
matching panties,
she stepped out of her shoes and walked closer to him.  He retreated.
Her eyes were fixed on his.  She smiled.  Moving close to him, she
lightly brushed her fingertips through the soft hair on his chest.
He gasped, and held her hand still in his own.
She reached up with her other hand, and now held his hand in a warm
embrace.  "Come on, Michael," she said, pulling him in the direction
of his bedroom.  For a moment, he resisted.
"No," he said, "we can't do this.  Let's stop it now before things
get out of hand."
"They're already well in hand, Michael, and you come with me now."
"No," he said.
"Yes," she said, and pulled him along by the hand.  He tried to pull
away from her, but not with any real strength, and then he followed.
  
She led him into the bedroom, over to the bed, then turned.  "Lie
down here, Michael, and I'll help you take the rest of those
clothes off."
  
"I've been dressing and undressing myself for a few weeks now,
you know," he replied, sarcastically.
  
"All right then, you do it.  I have some things to do here."
  
She turned and walked away from him, opening the doors to his closet.
She didn't look back at him.  After a moment, soft sounds indicated
that he was undressing.
She found his tie rack at the back of the closet and looked it
over.  Hmm, which ones look the softest, the most worn?  Which ones
will cost least for me to have sent to the cleaners, she wondered
with a smile.  I'm glad he has to wear suits to work -- this is a nice
large collection.  Sorting through the colorful array, she selected
four that looked a bit frayed around the edges.
Holding the ties in her hand, she folded the closet doors shut.
Micheal was sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling off his socks.
He was still wearing a pair of light blue cotton bikini briefs.
It was obvious that the situation was beginning to excite him.
She went to the light-dimmer on the
wall and reduced the illumination in the room to a soft glow.
"Lie down, Michael."
"No."
She walked over to him, ties dangling from her hand, and put the
other on his shoulder.  Her nipples had hardened under the thin tank
top, and she stood with legs slightly apart.
She looked directly into his eyes.
"Yes," she said.
Silently, he lay back across the bed, his feet still on the floor.
"No, Michael, lie properly on the bed for me."
  
He shifted position, bringing his feet up on the bed.  She sat down
beside him and took his left hand in hers.  She brought it up to her
mouth and traced the fingertips with her tongue.
He shivered slightly.  She gently opened his hand and kissed the palm.
Then she took one of the ties and tied it gently but firmly around
his wrist.  He watched her, but made no move.
Kissing his palm again, then biting him very softly on the soft
mound of flesh beneath his thumb, she laid his hand down on the bed
and tied the other end of the tie to the bedpost.  Then she took both
hands and caressed his arm, softly, all the way down to his shoulder,
past it, over his nipple and down his side.  He wiggled and gasped,
but made no other sound.
She got up, taking the rest of the ties with her, and walked around
the end of the bed to the other side.  His eyes followed her outline
in the dimly lit bedroom.  She sat down beside him on the other side,
and traced his
cheek lightly with her hand, then brushed his hair back, allowing her
fingers to slip down and circle his ear, very gently.  He turned his
head to the side, trapping her hand between his ear and his shoulder.
She smiled.  Picking up his right hand, she traced the lines on the
palm with a gentle finger, then her tongue.  She took each of his
fingers in turn into her mouth and sucked on them gently.
She looked down at him, saw the very light film of sweat on his
chest, and smiled.  Then she tied the tie gently around his
wrist, put his hand on the bed, and tied the other end to thebedpost.
Then, again, she took both hands and caressed his arm, all the way
down, over the shoulder, onto his chest, circling his nipple with
gentle but insistent fingertips.  He wriggled, pulling against the
ties, but they held him in a firm
of their own.  Her hands continued down his chest, over his belly,
making the skin flutter, down his sides, down his right leg.
Making circles with her fingertips, she shifted her position on the
bed, caressed his leg, down to his ankle, then onto his foot.  Being
careful not to tickle him, she massaged the foot.  Then she took
another tie, tied it firmly around his ankle, stood up, pulled his
leg out a bit, and tied the tie to the footboard.
  
Then she got up, moved back around to the other side of the bed, and
looked down at him.  This time she remained standing, running the
backs of her fingernails slowly, gently, down his leg, beginning at
the thigh, reaching the ankle in slow degrees.
She picked up his foot and quickly tied it to the bed.
Her own breathing was coming more rapidly now.
  
"My goodness, Michael, you didn't get completely undressed.
I wonder what we'll have to do about that?"  She looked at the large
bulge under the briefs and smiled.
 
Darla looked at Michael on the bed for a long moment.  Her eyes were
closed slightly, and her breath was coming more quickly than before.
Micheal shifted on the bed, testing the strength of his bonds,
and found himself held fast.  Darla watched him with a smile.
And then, suddenly, she turned and walked out of the room.
"Hey!  What IS this??" Michael shouted.  "Is this what you wanted?
Leave me here like this?  C'mon!"
"Just be patient, Michael," came her voice from another room. "I know
that's not one of your virtues, but this time you really have no
choice.  I'm not leaving."  He could hear the sounds of cabinet doors
opening and closing.  He tried to pull his hands loose, but the harder
he pulled, the tighter the knot got.  He was still struggling
when she reappeared.
  
"You don't trust me much, do you, Michael?  I told you I wasn't
leaving.  Now quit doing that before you cut off the circulation
to your hand."
She set the pile of things she'd been carrying on the floor.
Then, deftly, she
readjusted the tie on his left arm where his hand was beginning to
turn purple.  "You're going to enjoy this,
I promise you, so don't fight it."
  
He lay back on the bed, panting, and looked at her.  Even in the dim
light her own excitement was obvious.  She bent down and picked up
two large, slightly worn bath towels from the floor.  Sitting down,
she laid the folded towels on the bed beside him.
  
"Turn away from me for a moment and let me slip this under you."
He turned as far onto his side as the bonds would allow, and she
spread the towels beneath him, smoothing them out.
Her warm hand brushed against his back, as if to smooth away
*the tension there as well.  "All right, now roll back this way."
She walked around the bed, pulled the towels out beneath him and
smoothed them across the bed.  There was now a layer of warm, soft
terrycloth beneath him from his neck almost to his knees.  Puzzled, he
watched her as she walked back to the other side of the bed.
  
She picked up a small, heavy ceramic bowl from the floor and set it
on the bedside table.  And then, standing beside the bed, she began,
very slowly, to caress herself.  Her hands ran, teasingly,
from her collarbone over her breasts, circling from the outside
toward the center.  Her eyes were nearly closed. Her back
arched slightly and her shoulders moved from side to side as her
as her fingers moved inwards.  She held first one nipple, then the
other, and pulled them slightly outwards against the fabric of the
tank top.  Then
her hands continued their slow, languourous travel, making their way
downwards.  Her fingers slid inside the waistband of her panties.
Her eyes opened slightly and she watched him with a smile as she
wiggled her hips,very slightly, and slid her hands farther under the
fabric,  but then instead of continuing to the center, she slid her
hands against her sides, stepped back a bit,
and slowly, slowly pushed the panties down.  As she worked the
panties down, farther and farther, she stepped back a  bit more from
the bed so that he could see her.  He strained against the ties as he
lifted his head to watch.
  
She wiggled her hips and the panties slid the rest of the way to the
floor.  Quickly she bent over and picked them up, rubbing the fabric
between her hands.  "My goodness, I wonder why these are so damp?
Do you want to feel it,
Michael?"  -- bringing the soft fabric up against his cheek as he
turned his head away.  "No?  Ah well, no loss.  Now, we need to do
something about you, don't we?"  And with that, she dropped the
panties to the floor.
  
Her hand traced a path up his left leg, caressing him, gradually
working upwards.  When she reached the elastic on the leg of his
briefs, she slid two gentle fingertips underneath it,
tracing the path of the elastic across his leg,
feeling the coarser hair beneath, teasing him, coming close to where
his bulge began but never quite touching it.  He turned slightly
towards her and made a soft sound.  Her fingers slid a bit farther
beneath the fabric, then withdrew.  She drew the backs of her
fingernails across his belly, very gently, and watched the skin
flutter and his back arch involuntarily at her touch.  Again and
 again, till he was writhing on the bed.  "Stop it!"  he gasped.
  
"All right," she said, and moved back away from the bed, walking
round to the foot of it, never taking her eyes off him.  She climbed
up on the bed,
to kneel between his legs.  Watching him, again she began to caress
herself, her hands following the same path but lingering longer on her
breasts, pulling the nipples out again and again.  Then her hands
moved downwards, up under the tank top, and she drew it up and over
her head and tossed it to the floor.
The soft light revealed a light film of sweat.
 
Then she leaned forward a bit and reached up toward where his left
hand was tied.  With both hands, she caressed his arm, slowly working
her way downwards, using fingertips and fingernails in gentle concert.
She traced her way down over his collarbone, his nipple
(circling until he writhed again) and again over his belly, making him
twist under her hands.  This time, she approached the waistband of his
briefs and slid her fingers beneath,
sliding them down ever so slightly, releasing him a bit.
Breathing faster, but still smiling, she ran a gentle fingertip around
the ridge on his cock, only once.  His back arched again and he
pressed against her hand, his body wanting more.
  
But her hands moved upwards to his other hand and arm, and again she
repeated the slow downward massage.  By the time she reached his cock
he was gasping.  "Oh God, please..."
  
"Please what, Michael?  What would you like?"
  
"what...  oh...  in your mouth, please..."
  
"Ah, but I can't do that while you have those on.  You should have
gotten undressed,
you know.  What shall I do now?"  Her fingertips pushed the waistband
down a bit more, teasing him by tracing a path through his hair.
 
Darla knelt on the bed and considered the situation.  Then, lightly,
she began to trace the outlines of Michael's cock through the fabric
of his briefs.  Around, down, up, back, her hands made a path over
the light blue material, but they did not again touch bare skin.
He began to move his hips in rythym with her
fingers, wiggling whenever she moved upwards in an attempt to pull
her hands where he wanted them to be.  Her fingers moved down between
his legs, teasingly, slipping inside the elastic now and again to
caress him.
  
She bent closer to him, watching his reaction.  Her mouth opened
slightly, she bent her head down by her hands.  He moved his hips
upward, seeking her mouth.  Shaking her head, then, she brushed her
hair over his stomach, lightly over the head of his cock, and then
straightened up.  He flopped back on the bed in disappointment and
looked at her.  "Bitch," he said through clenched teeth.
  
"Yes, Michael, all that and more."  She looked down at him through
hooded eyes.  And then, slowly, she put her index finger in her mouth
and sucked on it, moving it in and out of her mouth.  Then two
fingers.  He pulled against the ties that bound his hands.  They held
him fast.  Angry now, he struggled, trying to break free, but she
made no move, kept sucking her fingers and watching him.  At last,
exhausted, he gave up.  She took two wet fingers out of her mouth and
traced them around the head of his cock.
"Is that what you want?  Is it?"  No answer.
  
"I'll give you what you want, Michael, but you have to give me what
I want, too."  Her fingers moved faster, feeling how slippery his
skin had become, spreading the fluids around in wider circles.
  
"Yes," he said, pressing up against her hand.  "Yes."
  
"Good," she said.  Moving one leg over his, then the other,
she slipped off the bed to stand beside it.  Her hands slipped down
inside the briefs, sliding them down.  She reached around him;
he arched his back to help her pull them down.
"Now, Michael, you have to do as I tell you, or I'll leave
you here like this and go home.  Understood?"
  
"Yes..."
  
Her fingers trailed down his left leg, making circles with the backs
of her fingernails.  He lifted his head to watch her.  She untied the
tie from the foot of the bed, and he wiggled his foot, unsure of what
she wanted him to do.  She reached up to slide the briefs down to
knee level and he bent his knee, allowing her to stretch the fabric
over his knee and then down and off his leg.  He put his foot flat on
the bed, knee still bent, and she ran her hand down the back of his
leg, slowly, circling, still standing beside the bed, finally
reaching beneath him, probing, making him curl his leg up
against his chest to give her easier access.  She pressed the leg
back down again, gently, withdrew her hand, and re-tied the tie.
  
"Now, Michael, we both get what we want."
  
She reached into the ceramic bowl on the bedside table and brought
her hands back out shiny with oil.  She rubbed her hands together,
then caressed her breasts again, and again, sliding the oil over her
skin until she shone softly in the dim light.  More oil, and her
hands moved downwards.  More oil, and she reached to caress him as
well.  Her hands moved over his chest, his shoulders, down over his
stomach.  Dipping her hands into the oil again, she placed them on
his chest and climbed back up to kneel between his legs.
She moved both hands down, tracing a circle on his stomach, moving
down between his legs.  Then her hands slid gently upwards again,
upwards again, but this time she shifted her position so she was
leaning close to him.  The higher her hands reached, the closer
she came, until by the time her hands reached nearly to his wrists,
her nipples were brushing against him.  Oiled skin against oiled skin,
she slid down, the pressure light
but the contact unbroken, until his cock was between her breasts.
She shifted from side to side, rubbing him in gentle circles.  His back
arched, and she allowed him to press more firmly against her for a
moment.
  
Then she began to slide her hands gently upwards along his skin again,
raised herself up a bit.  Panting, he looked at her, trying to guess
what she would do next.  She smiled.  Then she sat up, straddling
his legs, and wiggled her hips until he could feel her, warm, wet,
soft, brushing against him.  She reached down to hold his cock against
her and began moving her hips slowly, rocking back and forth.
He pushed up against her, moving in rhythm, hoping that soon she
would slide him inside her, pulling against the ties on his arms as
he kept pace with her motions.
  
As his breathing began coming in ragged gasps, she realized how very
aroused he was, and stopped her motion.
 
"No, Michael, not yet.  I'm not ready yet.  Wait for me."
  
She sat back a little bit, settling down against his thighs, and
began tocaress her breasts with both hands.  The fingers made rapid
circles on the lightly oiled skin, moving inwards to the nipples,
pulling them out, rolling them between her fingers, releasing them,
circling outwards again.  Soon one hand moved down her stomach,
circling, brushing through her short, curly pubichair,
sliding in between her lips.  In the darkened room, tied
on the bed as he was, Michael could not really see her hand, but he
could tell by the motion of her body that she was moving it faster,
sliding it down between the lips, caressing herself as far back as
she could reach.  She moaned softly and brought the hand forward
again, teasing herself, circling, never quite touching the center of
her desire.
  
He watched as her hands moved in rhythm, one up, one down, and she
began to rock back and forth, panting, making small soft sounds of
desire.
  
Suddenly, she wrapped both arms around herself.
 
"Michael, are you ready?"
  
"Yes," he whispered.
  
"Yes," she echoed, and moved forward a bit.  She reached to caress
his cock with both hands, feeling how wet it was, sliding her
fingers over it to spread the lubrication around, the wetness from
her hands adding to his.  And then she rose on her knees,
moved forward, holding him with both hands, and slowly, slowly,
brought him into position and settled down against him just a bit.
He slid inside her, just a little, the slick warm skin sliding
easily.  They both gasped as he slid inside.
  
She kept her hands in place as she settled farther down, slowly,
slowly allowing him to slide farther inside.  He pushed up against
her, but she was tight with desire and he could not make himself
slide in any faster.  Deeper and deeper, until finally he was all
the way inside her.  She stopped for a moment, and he could feel her
muscles tighten against him still more.
  
And then she began to move.  Slowly at first, she began to rock her
hips, sitting up but leaning slightly forward, rising up so that he
slid almost all the way out, sliding him back within her again.
The lubrication increased and they moved faster against each other.
Her hands went back to her breasts, pulling the nipples out in rhythm
with her hips.  Faster and faster she rocked, up and down, back and
forth, her hands in constant motion.
She seemed to want to draw him deeper and deeper inside her.  And
then her breathing changed...  the rhythm changed...  he could feel
the ripples inside her as her climax rocked her again and again.
It was too much for him.  He pushed up against her, again and again,
making her move with him, faster and faster.  She went with him
willingly, reaching down to
hold him against her as his body twisted in climax as well.
  
And then, she relaxed against him, nestling against his chest,
straightening her legs out so that she lay on top of him.  They were
panting, making soft sounds.  He was still inside her, but growing
softer, sliding out.  She chuckled, and tightened up all her muscles,
trying to squeeze him farther out.  He pushed up against her, but
weakly, and finally slid out, feeling the wetness between them.
  
"Did you get what you wanted?"  he asked.
  
"Yes," she said, and reached up to untie his hand.
