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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Also by Alison Tyler

  Epigraph

  Introduction

  COMMUTER TRAINING

  SMALL MERCIES

  THE NAUGHTY CHAIR

  ELEVEN O’CLOCK DEADLINE

  PREY

  IN CHARGE

  TOO STRONG TO BREAK

  FILTHY RICH

  LIFE DRAWING

  CUTE BOY GETS SQUEEZED

  ON THE ROCKS

  “GOLF” SPELLED BACKWARDS

  EYE CONTACT

  DOUBLE DUTCH

  SENSELESS

  JUST DESERTS

  BALANCING THE BOOKS

  MELTDOWN

  YOU SAY THIS IS A TESTAMENT

  RIVER OF BEAUTY

  WHEN MY BOYFRIEND HAS A PARTY

  BUTTER THE BIRD

  THE BONDAGE PIG

  CURRY, EXTRA HOT

  BURNED

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  ABOUT THE EDITOR

  Copyright Page

  Also by Alison Tyler

  A Is for Amour

  Afternoon Delight

  B Is for Bondage

  Best Bondage Erotica

  Best Bondage Erotica, Volume 2

  C Is for Coeds

  Caught Looking (with Rachel Kramer Bussel)

  D Is for Dress-Up

  E Is for Exotic

  Exposed

  F Is for Fetish

  Frenzy

  G Is for Games

  Got a Minute?

  H Is for Hardcore

  The Happy Birthday Book of Erotica

  Heat Wave

  Hide and Seek (with Rachel Kramer Bussel)

  Hurts So Good

  I Is for Indecent

  J Is for Jealousy

  K Is for Kinky

  L Is for Leather

  Love at First Sting

  Luscious

  The Merry XXXmas Book of Erotica

  Morning, Noon and Night

  Naughty or Nice

  Never Have the Same Sex Twice

  Open for Business

  Playing with Fire

  Pleasure Bound

  Red Hot Erotica

  Slave to Love

  Three-Way

  “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

  —Alan Watts

  INTRODUCTION

  ...And I guess that’s why I like bondage so much,” I announced loudly in line at a coffee shop last week. My best friend and I were chatting while waiting for our drinks, and the machine in front of us whirred away at a busy clip. Of course, my sentence was spoken at a higher decibel at the moment when the shop seemed to go unnaturally silent. After all of these years of being a shy pornographer, you’d think I’d learn. Based on the way people turned to look in my direction, I realize that bondage remains a buzzword right up there with fuck and anal. (Try saying anal in a public space and see the reactions you get.)

  Ah, but you want to know the first part of the conversation, right? The part that led up to me saying “…that’s why I like bondage…” right? Well, the answer hasn’t changed, not even after having edited anthology upon anthology on the subject. I am fascinated with the sensation of giving up, giving in, of putting one’s pleasure (and pain) into the hands of another. To me, bondage means “I trust you to keep me safe,” and yet BDSM can also mean “I trust you to hurt me.” Ooh, did you get a naughty little shiver from the base of your spine right up to the nape of your neck? I know I did. Because the most important part of bondage, of dominance, of all the slippery ways one can play with those concepts is trust.

  But in the BDSM realm, trust involves crops, whips, blindfolds, handcuffs, paddles, belts, gags, and toys.

  How deliciously, devilishly twisted is that?

  For The Big Book of Bondage, I desired stories that delved into what bondage means to different couples. Sure, these couples are fictional, but their fragile emotions, their darkest desires, are as real as any off-the-page lovers you’ll find at your favorite club—or even at the coffee shop.

  Which isn’t the worst place to discuss my favorite kind of kink.

  I’ll be the silver-streaked girl in the corner, quietly drinking her shot in the dark and wearing the handcuff key on a string around her neck.

  XXX,

  Alison Tyler

  COMMUTER TRAINING

  Teresa Noelle Roberts

  Daniel sends the texts to her at the same time each workday, right around the time Aileen is shutting down her computer and wrapping things up at the office. All of the messages are fully spelled out, no demeaning the language with abbreviations or numbers substituting for words, typical of Daniel, although unlike the emails he will send her when they’re apart for more than the hours of the work day, the texts are utilitarian. No room for flights of the linguistic magic her poet-professor lover can weave. Most of them say the same thing: See you at the station. I love you. After three years together, the simple words still make her smile and fill her with warmth, even with heat.

  Once or twice a week, though, Daniel adds a command.

  Most often it’s the simple one: The usual.

  He sends that text only on days he knows she wore a skirt to work. Because of Daniel, though, she wears skirts often. If it’s too cold to go bare-legged, which it often is in Boston, she wears either stockings or tall socks and boots. On The usual days, she slips her panties off in the restroom and tucks them into her purse, positioning them, as she knows Daniel wants, so they might spill out or be visible in their pink lace or leopard-spotted satin glory when the conductor checks her commuter rail ticket. It would be easy enough to put her pass in her jacket pocket or on a clip around her neck like many people do, but she doesn’t. Instead she’s always intentionally clumsy opening her bag. The conductor’s never said a word, but a few times she’s caught a funny look that suggested the panties were noticed, and got a little thrill, hoping it led the conductor to pleasant, sexy thoughts while riding the Littleton/Fitchburg route for the fifth time that day. She likes to think of it, as Daniel has taught her, as a public service she accidentally-on-purpose provides.

  If Boston ever puts pass readers on the commuter lines like they have on the T and busses, this game won’t be quite as fun. Still, Aileen would be just as aware of her hidden nakedness, how she is doing Daniel’s bidding by secretly baring herself. The odds of flashing through a careless movement are actually small; she doesn’t wear very short skirts that might easily reveal her shaved mound and many piercings to unsuspecting seatmates. Still, the chance is there, and even when she’s wearing a calf-length skirt and boots, almost as modest as jeans, some stray draft will remind her she’s shed her panties for Daniel.

  Sometimes the closing-time text, instead of The usual, says Skirt up. Those nights, Aileen sits, in a careful simulacrum of carelessness, with her skirt tucked up behind her, her bare ass and thighs against the aged vinyl, which, winter or summer, is cool yet sticky. It’s much harder not to reveal herself on those days, hard not to flash her seatmates or the people across the aisle. It’s harder yet to conceal her growing lust, the need Daniel’s instilled in her from a distance. Sometimes, when Daniel orders her to sit this way, she leaves a slick of moisture on the seat, a trail betraying the whereabouts of an aroused woman.

  And then there are the unexpected days. She never knows exactly what Daniel will demand when he’s struck by a whimsy of desire, but over the years, they’ve worked out a set of options that she can easily pull off in the restroom at the office before getting on the train. By now Aileen keeps a hidden arsenal in her prodigious purse.

  Today, the text comes in just when she expects it. Its contents are a surpris
e, but not entirely. Nipple clips and balls. I love you.

  Aileen’s coworkers think she’s a pack rat, that she carries paperbacks and snacks and a makeup kit worthy of Hollywood in her voluminous red purse. It’s partly true, though she’s long since switched to a Kindle instead of the three or four books she used to carry in case of train breakdowns and other emergencies. The bag that looks like a makeup kit, however, contains mascara and one lonely red lipstick.

  The rest of its secret contents, the things she takes care not to spill out when she actually puts on lipstick and mascara in the women’s room, are supplies for Daniel’s closing-time texts. A clit clip with decorative beads. Crotchless panties, ridiculous when she so often goes without panties anyway, but Daniel occasionally likes the look, and the fact that they’re slightly uncomfortable, rubbing on her pussy lips in a way that both irritates and, as a constant reminder of Daniel, arouses. A remote-control vibrating egg for her to bury deep in a cunt wet with knowing it’s under command. The remote function doesn’t have much range, so she knows Daniel will pick her up at the train station and probably take her out somewhere where he can delight and torment and embarrass her by bringing her to the verge of orgasm in public. Another vibe, this one with batteries, to use on herself before she leaves the office restroom. A garter belt, to go with the fishnets, both black and red, and outrageous black stockings with a rhinestone seam and Cuban heels—any of those might mean he’ll be taking her out to dinner, or simply that he’ll be taking her, as soon as she sets her purse down and is stripped to nothing but the garter belt and stockings. Bunny ears—that’s one of Daniel’s more unusual kinks, and one she finds secretly giggle-inducing. Still, his reaction when she walks in the door wearing them is well worth the odd looks she gets on the train. She might not understand the fascination, but she can certainly appreciate that he’s fascinated.

  The items she seeks this afternoon in the cramped white stall are silvery tweezer clips connected by a chain, and silicone ben wa balls.

  Her breath catches as she takes the toys out, sets them on top of the toilet paper holder.

  Her clit is already throbbing.

  This set of toys is tricky. She’ll have to work fast to catch the train because she can’t leave her desk too soon no matter how complex Daniel’s instructions are, and if she misses the 5:45 she’ll have to wait at North Station with her nipples on fire and her cunt constantly teased for forty minutes before the next train home. The train ride’s long enough to be exquisite torture with the toys in place, bur that additional wait turns it to torture pure and simple.

  Acting fast, Aileen strips her sweater half-off, leaving it around her neck. She shucks her red bra and shoves it into the depths of her purse.

  The restroom is warm enough that the women in the office joke about saunas and cut-rate tropical vacations when they head there, but Aileen’s nipples stiffen as if the air is icy.

  No, they stiffen as if Daniel is watching her undress, as if Daniel’s long-fingered hands with the sprinkling of freckles are picking up the clips, as if Daniel, not Aileen, is pinching those pink nipples to make them even harder and more prominent.

  Desire shoots through her, cuttingly sharp yet melting. Her hands want to linger on the softness of her own breasts. The temptation to draw out the caressing, to feel that surge of lust, is almost impossible to resist. Her already stiff nipples harden some more. She started getting wet as soon as she read the text and started imagining carrying out the instructions. Now, actually doing so, she’s flooding, the damp pressure of her red cotton hipsters, which she hadn’t noticed all day, suddenly an erotic torture. Aileen twists her nipples, telling herself it’s just to make sure she’s ready for the clips, and stifles a soft moan at the pleasure-pain.

  No. Time presses, the commuter rail doesn’t wait for distracted perverts, and she’s lucky no one’s waiting yet for the occupied stall. Everyone wants to use the bathroom at this time of day, before getting on the T or commuter rail or beginning a walk to home.

  She puts the right clip on and slides it to just the right degree of tightness, enough that she can feel it pressing snug and safe, but not so much that it will turn to agony before she gets home. Then the left. She’s biting her lip now, letting that small pain help her think through the delicious pain in her nipples. She lets the chain go then, hisses at the shock of its coolness against her heated skin. Too good. There’s no way she’s going to make it home this time without coming. One jounce of the train might finish her, and she doesn’t even have the ben wa balls in yet.

  God, the ben wa balls! She has to take care of those quickly. Aileen pulls her sweater down carefully over the clips, aware as she wasn’t before how the silk-cotton blend is both soft and ever so slightly abrasive. Then she eases her panties down.

  Maybe she should have taken care of the ben wa balls first. The chain between the clips sways as she moves, tormenting her further. By the time she actually gets the panties into her hand, she has to use them to blot cunt juices from her upper thighs, shuddering with need as she does.

  It’s easier to throw the panties out than stow the sodden bit of fabric in her purse.

  Aileen smiles. She’ll have to tell Daniel about how she wished she’d carried out his commands in a different order because she was making herself even more crazy, how she’d thrown out a perfectly good pair of panties because they were too wet to carry home in her bag without making her wallet smell like rut. Daniel loves to know he can make her lose her mind even when he’s not with her, drive her wild with desire when he’s miles away teaching or working on his book or making dinner. Hearing it will make him even harder than he’ll be from knowing she’s wearing nipple clips and filled with a toy for him.

  She’ll send him a text on the train to tell him, she decides.

  Her hands are unsteady as she opens the little brocade-covered box that holds the ben wa balls. She puts one foot up on the toilet seat, even though there’s someone going into the other stall who might glance down and wonder what she’s doing.

  The ben wa balls aren’t very large in her hand, but they feel surprisingly huge inside her, much bigger than she remembers them. She’s that swollen, she figures, that full of need and desire.

  She wants to stay in that stall a few stolen moments, swaying back and forth to feel the balls’ subtle pressure, maybe playing with herself. Instead, she pulls her skirt down, zips her leather jacket, and heads off to the train.

  Her preparations have taken long enough that she has to break into a jog to make it to the train on time. Each step tugs the clips on her delightfully tender nipples, sways the cool chain against her rib cage, shifts the ben wa balls so they tease places deep inside her. Each step reminds her, as if she could forget, how wet she is and how sensitive and swollen her clit has become. Each step reminds her how Daniel will have his hands under her clothes while they’re still at the station. She’ll probably have her first orgasm before they’re out of the line of traffic waiting to leave the parking lot. Ten minutes later they’ll be home, and ten minutes after that—or less if they just fall on each other in the foyer—he’ll be inside her.

  She’s one of the last people to make it onto the train before they shut the doors. She must look wild eyed, maybe feverish, because the conductor, a short, tired gray-haired man with a face like a rumpled sock, asks her if she’s all right. “Just ran for the train,” she says, and since it’s true as far as it goes, and she’s a little out of breath, he nods and waves her on.

  She squeezes into a seat more than half-occupied by a large man in hospital scrubs, pale with exhaustion. He sprawls into sleep before the train reaches Porter Square in Cambridge, only minutes from North Station. Like a cat, her seatmate seems to expand as he relaxes. Even the heat of the stranger’s not terribly attractive body, the heat of his flesh pressing against her thigh and side, adds to Aileen’s spiraling arousal.

  One hour. It takes one hour and ten stops to get home, where Daniel will meet her at the stat
ion.

  At the fourth stop, she sends him a text: Balls before clips next time. You owe me new red panties. Agent Provocateur?

  The panties were actually from Kohl’s, cute but inexpensive. She figures Daniel knows she wouldn’t throw out any of her few bits of high-end lingerie, but it’s worth a try. If nothing else, they’ll enjoy an afternoon in Boston browsing through the elegantly naughty store.

  Predictably, she gets a text back: Provocateur? Name the date!

  She responds, simply: After payday. She knows how budget-be-damned they get around great lingerie.

  The track needs work, and there are places where the ride is rough, making her even more aware of the balls inside her, of Daniel’s orders, of the way she obeys him because it brings them both wild joy. Each time the train stops or starts—and there are inevitably extra, unscheduled stops and starts tonight between stations—the nipple clips sway and the balls shift subtly, and Aileen feels it as a gift both from Daniel and for him.

  At the ninth stop, the one before she’ll be safe in the car with Daniel, the train lurches and grinds into the station, jolting the clips painfully/blissfully. Aileen’s body can’t take any more. Her stomach muscles flutter, her cunt contracts, and the top of her head seems to dissolve as sensation overwhelms her. She has to fake a coughing spasm to cover the real spasms of her orgasm.

  As she leans back on the seat, red-faced and trembling with the aftermath, Aileen curses Daniel and blesses him at the same time. He’s insane, expecting her to do this kind of thing for him, and she’s just as insane to go along with it. But she wouldn’t wish for either of them to be cured of this madness.

  SMALL MERCIES

  Rita Winchester

  Take them off. Please,” I whispered.

  “Nope. I won’t.”

  “Why not?” I twisted in the wind, basically. Not that I was outside; I was in our bedroom tied to the shelf in our walk-in closet. My arms sang with stiffness and I shifted again, my pussy so wet that I was barely thinking straight.