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SCOTT
None of us had much sleep the night Jack shot up our house, but the others could sleep; I had to work. I'd missed a lot while in LA and Jerry was leaving early for his General Contractor classes. That fucker, Jack, had a skill set I hadn't even known about. On top of it all, I couldn't even go to the office.
Jerry met me with everything I'd need to get work done today, but I had to work mostly out of my truck, although I also took a table at a McDonald's for lunch and used the free wifi to do some on-line work. I had to put proposals together for four houses. On the whole, it wasn't that hard. I'd done enough of them, it was half a days work if none of the proposals involved complex work I'd need an engineer for.
I called Detective Riley a couple times. There was nothing more they could tell me. They were looking, but Jack was difficult to find. He'd learned some tricks in the military before receiving his bad conduct discharge. When I got home, check that, Mistress Dark's home, the girls had gotten up around three and started working. Mistress Dark had food ready to go on the table.
During the tail end of supper, she wanted to discuss what punishments should be administered for Julia's seizure of her slaves. It had to happen sometime. I knew how angry I would be if some guy had attempted the same with mine. Hell, I was angry at Sam for buying them when I sold them, because I hadn't believed he would, and just taking them would be worse. Mistress Dark proposed having Julia as her slave for the day. That seemed fair. I'd have a problem with it if she was a Master, but as long as Julia didn't need to fuck other men, I'd be game. Mistress Dark was currently training two females and one male, and I knew she used her slaves to assist in training. I'd speak to her privately later to make sure Julia wasn't used for training the male.
The actual punishment she proposed for all involved was harsh. Ten swats with a cane. I'd seen the marks and bruises left on Slut with a cane. They tended to last for several days. They didn't seem permanent. Slut had no marks on her at the current time, but Julia would live with the reminder for quite some time. As much as I wanted to protest, I kept my mouth shut. Like I said, I knew how upset I would be. Ten swats of a cane might be the least which occurred if it was me.
I was pleased Mistress Dark gave her a way out. Tell her how Julia expropriated her slaves, and she'd cut the caning by half if Julia wore a Slave Trainer for 24 hours. Julia refused because she'd promised Slut she wouldn't give away her secret. Fortunately, Slut herself was not eager to get caned ten times, so she told Julia she was free to speak.
It was quite an interesting tale. It showed quite a bit of subtlety and a keen understanding of the slave mind. Mistress Dark asked if I knew Julia was a switch, and I said I didn't until recently. I informed her of what Julia had done with Janet when she expressed curiosity about submission. Julia said she liked dominating women, though not Lisa. She said she'd love to do the same to Zoe, or any other slave I slept with. Great! All I needed was to have other Dominants pissed off at my slave for pulling the same shit.
"You're not to attempt this with any other owners slaves, particularly Zoe," I said. "She's been too good to us and I don't want you to suffer more punishments from other owners."
"Yes, Master," Julia replied, looking contrite.
"Zoe is another slave?" Mistress Dark asked.
"Another one of Brianna's," I muttered, giving Julia an angry glare.
Then, provided the reduced punishment, Julia threw another monkey wrench in the works by saying she'd accept all of the punishments for all the slaves as she considered herself primarily responsible for everything and didn't want others to suffer for what her misdeeds. I was proud of her for accepting responsibility, but scared. She'd had her ten reduced to half that, then doubled to twenty when Julia asked to take everyone's punishment. Mistress Dark was impressed, though she wasn't blatant about it. She still questioned if Julia knew what she was doing. Lisa, bless her heart, jumped in to say she'd take half for her sister slave; they were in this together. So both of my slaves would end up with ten again, but at least no one would end up with twenty.
Mistress Dark said her slaves had choices and chose to be used and were responsible for their own actions. When all was said and done, Mistress Dark had her own slaves receive being suspended for the night, two strokes of the cane and Slave Trainers for a day. Lisa was getting suspended for the night, eight strokes and a Slave Trainer for the night; and Julia being suspended, receiving eight strokes of the cane, Slave Trainer for a day and Mistress Dark's possession of Julia from eight AM tomorrow morning to eight AM the following day. For her bravery in volunteering to accept all of the caning, Mistress Dark broke it down to four strokes tonight and four more tomorrow morning instead of all eight at once. She would have her new slaves witnessing their punishment.
"Have you anything further to add, Scott?" Mistress Dark asked.
"Yes. Since their actions have deprived me of the services of both my slaves for the night, I will administer further punishment as well when I deem it appropriate." I may not be able to paddle their behinds for awhile, but they would receive something.
"May I ask a favor of you, Lucia?" Julia asked.
"What favor would you ask of me, Julia?"
"Since Master will be bereft of a slave tonight, could I ask you to provide what comfort you can. I don't ask that you fuck him, but to be a warm naked body to sleep with would be nice."
"I can do this for you."
Even after incurring my anger and being punished for her sins, Julia was looking out for me. I frequently wondered what I'd done in my life to deserve her.
As the slaves cleaned up after supper, I had a chance for a few brief words with Mistress Dark.
"Thank you," I said, "for not making it worse than it was. I appreciate your forbearance. I know they'll hate wearing the Slave Trainers, but it could have been much worse."
"Actually, the Slave Trainers, at least for tonight, are for their benefit. While an orgasm is preferable for the production of endorphins, arousal does help. They will be very uncomfortable being suspended as I'll suspend them, and eight strokes of the cane is pretty bad."
"I have one more favor to ask and I know I don't have the right, but I know you use your slaves in the training of the new ones, would it be possible..."
"Not to use her to train any men," she interrupted. "I remember why you almost gave your slaves up. I won't use her for any men."
"Thank you."
"She will be used on the women, however."
"I understand. I have no issues with that."
"I'll request a favor of you in return. After their caning tonight, fuck both of their asses. While it may give them an orgasm, the pain of you fucking their sore buttocks will add something to their punishment. It's better to do it tonight than tomorrow morning after they've had the second four."
"I'll be happy to do so."
"Since I have Julia tomorrow, she won't be able to work on the bed."
"The others can do without her for the day. I'm wondering if it might be possible for the two other slaves to start working on the furniture if this goes on much longer? I hate them being paid and not working and we've got a ton of business now."
"Who?"
"You remember Reneé from the Memorial Day party? She became Jerry's slave and has started working for them. The other one is the girl Janet, Julia's been working with as dominant. Chen put his collar on her this weekend."
"As long as it doesn't endanger anyone here," she said.
"We'll teach them the tricks we've learned for evading a tail."
"Then I have no objection. I wouldn't mind seeing both of them. Reneé was a lovely girl. It seems you created quite a landslide in slave ownership in your friends."
"Chen was reluctant, but he recently realized the benefits of owning a slave that wanted to be owned."
Once the dishes were done, we all went to the dungeon. Mistress Dark proceeded to demonstrate a suspension I'd never seen before, called a strappado. With their arms bound straight behind their backs, they were hooked to a ceiling tie and when the rope was raised, it forced their body forward. It looked uncomfortable. She also had spreader bars spreading their legs apart. Despite their discomfort, it still appeared all four slaves were aroused from the glistening of the fluids on their cunts.
Suspended, the Slave Trainers were put on. They were new to me. Slightly larger dildos in their cunts and could be plugged in while used. She said when they weren't plugged in, the battery lasted longer. None of the slaves seemed to have any difficulty taking the larger cock pieces. They all faced one another so they could witness the punishment of the others.