It was with an alarming degree of trepidation that Slave Gary walked the few hundred yards to the Cattle shed. Of all the play areas on Mistress Clara s estate, he dreaded this one most of all. He walked slowly, nervously, and was reluctant to hurry to the appointment. It would make little difference whether he was late for the rendezvous or not; Mistress Veronica would have her sadistic way with him whatever, so he did not hurry as he would for his own Mistress. Rather, he dallied in the evening sun, preferring even the crisp Spring wind that raised goosepimples over his nearly-naked form to the dark deviations that Veronica loved so much to show him.
Of all the friends whom his Mistress let abuse him, Veronica was the girl who most frequently took him to the very brink of hospitalisation. She simply did not care, and he dreaded the crunch of gravel beneath the enormous wheels of her American-style Rancher s truck as she ascended the long sloping driveway to Clara s mansion. When he received the summons; as usual, just a terse note slipped beneath the front door of the little gatehouse where Clara had billeted him, he had trembled at the monogrammed V that was this lady s distinctive calling card, He was trembling now, as he approached the entrance to the shed; the interior was all cinder blocks and a packed-dirt floor that oozed slime between his bare feet.
He hoped that Clara had left instructions that she go easy on him; he was still recuperating from the injuries sustained during Clara s birthday stint on the motorcycle.
He blinked as he entered, and shuddered at the frigid stillness of the air, the dankness of decay. At first, he had hopes that Veronica had not been able to make the appointment, but as his eyes grew used to the dimness, he could make out her profile in the far corner; long dark hair that curled below her shoulders, and a firm imposing body packed tight into a revealing PVC outfit. Sheer black stockings enclosed her long worshipful legs, and black high heels completed the look. She glowered at him without speaking, as he approached, and he was careful to keep his head to the ground and avoid the searing scrutiny of her ice-cold eyes.
When she did speak, her throaty Bostonian accent confirmed her