"Wow! This is beautiful."
"Thanks, baby. We've worked hard to make this place reflect our tastes and sense of wellbeing."
"Would anyone care for a glass of wine or champagne? I certainly would," Sean asked.
"Champagne, certainly," Vicky said.
"Me, too," chimed in Monica.
Sean pulled three glasses off the glass rack and a bottle of champagne from the fridge. He poured a good measure into each glass and handed a flute each to Vicky and Monica. He raised his own glass to offer a toast. The two women followed his gesture.
"To new found friends, to new adventures, to new beginnings!"
They clinked flutes and drank the champagne. Sean set his champagne flute down. The moment had come.
"Monica, neither Vicky, nor I, can know all that you want from us without first experimenting. To that end we need to establish some ground rules. Please, sit down over here while we talk."
Sean pointed to a grouping of a love seat and two chairs, which sat in front of one of the floor to ceiling windows overlooking the city.
"First, you have taken the step to trust us, and now you must acknowledge that in words. Do you trust Vicky and me to care for you, to care about you, to do nothing to harm you? I warn you, some of what we will do could be seen as harm, but we do not intend it so and do not believe you will see it so. To always treat you with respect and complete recognition of your needs and desires?"
"And.... there is another warning," carried on Sean.
"As you have seen already, some things that two days ago you would have seen as abusive in fact turned you on, and freed a part of you long kept down by conventional ideas of appropriate interaction between consenting adults."
Vicky sipped her wine. Monica thought over Sean's words.
"Do you intend to hurt me?"
Her voice was more curious than worried. Sean and Vicky and the day's events, and then the apartment, all combined to cast a kind of spell over her.
"Some of what we may do, if not tonight then some other time, may cause you pain, but as there is often pleasure closely entwined, I do not think you will consider yourself hurt."
"If you do... something that I simply cannot stand, will you stop?"
"Yes, and to ensure we know when you have been pressed too far, the three of us will agree upon a safe word for you. A word of your choosing, something that will not arise in normal conversation during... during our play together. Perhaps 'Gigi'?"
"If I say 'Gigi' you will stop whatever it is you are doing? Immediately?"
"Yes." Vicky and Sean spoke as one.
"Then I acknowledge that I trust you, that I believe you will not harm me, that whatever happens, you will stop immediately if I say 'Gigi'."
Vicky gripped Monica's hand hard, her eyes shining. Sean drew a huge breath.
"First, then, for tonight until we say play is over, you are to refer to Vicky as Mistress and me as Sir. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Sir," to Sean. "Yes, Mistress," to Vicky.
"Rise, Monica. Stand in front of the window, facing it. Mistress and I will remove the remainder of your clothing, piece by piece."
Without another word, Vicky unzipped Monica's skirt and let it fall to the floor in a puddle at her feet. Sean undid the last two buttons of her blouse and slid it off her shoulders. It joined the skirt. Vicky put her arms around Monica from behind and pulled her close while Sean put a hand on each side of her face and gently, so gently, kissed her on the lips, more a breath than a kiss.
Sean stood back, his hands sliding across Monica's breasts. She shivered, not from cold.
"Step out of your pumps, Monica." She did so, leaving them ontop of the puddle of clothing arayed around her.
"Mistress will take you to shower and turn it on for you. You are not to do anything but stand and wait. Do you understand? Nothing but wait."
"Yes, Sir, I understand."
"You must also understand that to not obey exactly will result in punishment. Do you understand that as well?"
"Yes, Sir. I understand I will be punished if I do not obey."
"Good girl." Sean nodded at Vicky, who led Monica dressed only in her knickers, gently by her hand to the shower in the master suite, turning on the shower so that warm water splashed down.
“In you go baby. You can start to wash all that juice off your face now,” said Vicky.