i blushed within the darkness, remembering of other excusions and the sensation i’d had of being watched. Not simply observed .. however that creepy sort of moderate paranoid feeling of being stalked.
He continued. “If our observations and heritage checks are satisfactory, the Master is invited to meet his first membership duty. The application cash is cheerfully refunded when and if the applicant surrenders a bit of cherished property to the Co-op for a fixed period of time — 12 hours. Let’s name it an initiation rite. If you perform to our standards, your Master might be admitted to full club. If not… well let’s simply go away it at that for the time being. I’m certain you’ll do first-class, just as you have inside the beyond.”
He paused a moment for effect. “Your mother is a pleasing woman, by using the manner. Most charming.”
i was trembling with fear and anguished that they had spoken to my mother. I’d taken such care no longer to divulge my involvement in this lifestyle, and that i had no idea what they’d stated or not stated to her.
He pulled into the lot of a nondescript however barely shabby commercial building. “Let me just say a few very last words. You will have no say in what is going to appear over the route of the following 12 hours. Neither does your Master. You can be back at work the next day morning, just like every other day. Oh, isn’t Dora charming? I’m happy that we had been able to get her the location as your assistant. I’m certain she’ll be overjoyed you’ve joined us, though she normally takes greater of a ‘leadership’ role in Co-op matters.” It become an quite evil snigger that escaped his lips as he continued.
“Nothing is to be spoken to anyone, including your Master, of what transpires during this time. He will now not take part on this event, however, he may be apprised of the activities at the appropriate time. He has agreed to this, and I have a signed assertion to that fact if you wish to see it.”
i shook my head no.
“Very well. As of proper now, for the following 12 hours, the Co-op owns you. Tonight, I could be the only primarily accountable for you, and also you are to name me Owner. You are to call all people Owner. You are belongings — chattel — and that is what you will be called.
“I assure you of your long-time period private safety. Every participant within the Co-op undergoes thorough physical examinations on a ordinary basis, and a condition of membership is that everyone participates in sexual activities handiest with different associates of the Co-op.
“There may be some transient reminders by way of the give up of your visit. If you do properly enough to admit your Master to full membership, there may also be a permanent marking as a way to discover you as Co-op belongings. Your Master might be requested to give up you occasionally in the future, if the Owners choose to exercising that proper. Now, get out of the car, please, and put off your shoes and stockings.
“By the manner, you’ve simply earned your first point. Your Master did now not say to wear footwear and stockings, did he?”
Abashed, i had to admit that he hadn’t.
“chattel can collect three points without repercussion. Points in no way expire and they continue at some point of your Master’s time period of membership. On the fourth point, your Master’s software is taken into consideration void, full possession of you may revert to him, and he can be shunned via all other contributors of the Co-op. He will no longer enjoy the monetary, career, and social advantages of participating, all of which I assure you are pretty extensive. But I’m positive there will be no in addition indiscretions.”
He reached into his coat pocket and eliminated a key, which i found out became the small item that he had been given with the aid of the motive force. He walked round me, slid the key into the lock, and launched me from my chains. Then, there inside the car parking zone beneath the glare of the halogen road light, he ripped the t-shirt from my returned and left me nude and shivering in the damp bloodless evening.
He placed a large, difficult piece of rubber among my teeth and told me to chunk down. It looked a piece like a tub plug. He snapped a leash thru the D-ring that became affixed to the outdoor of the contraption. “Lose the gag, earn a point.” He tugged, appeared to approve of the quantity of anxiety that he felt, and gestured for me to get to my arms and knees. Wordlessly, he led me across the gravel automobile parking space and into the building.