Prologue

 

It would have been an unlikely pairing to most people.

An Englishman, obviously good-looking, in the latter-half of his forties and looking a sight younger; and a woman about to turn thirty who was quite obviously punching well above her weight when it came to her... partner.

That she was from the Indian Subcontinent - a small village in Pakistan bordering the troubled Afghan territory - was neither here nor there; for there are many attractive women from the region and, indeed, there are those who would assert the Subcontinent to contain some of the world's most beautiful examples of femininity.

But this woman was not of their number.

She was not even plain.

Her facial composition was far too asymmetrical to win such an accolade; a face, in fact, framed by a glorious mane of coal-black hair or not, that most people would have described as ugly; while those whose perceptiveness went further than the superficial would have conceded there to be something... compelling ...in the skewed countenance staring back at them.

And there was another factor that, for men of certain tastes, would have been sure to add another dimension to the handsome Englishman's seeming willingness to adopt such a debased and adolescent position before her.

The factor that was her physique.

Even if, excluding the facial features some of the less stereotypical models made work for them, features that held a certain compelling and off kilter fascination, her brown body was not catwalk material.

Though it did hold a kind of maternal and before its time fascination on one of her relatively tender years that was sure to buy into the more lurid fantasies of those men of a submissive bent.

To which number the kneeling man with his nose pressed to the corner did not belong; despite the evidence to the contrary and the fact she had led him by that same nose to a point where he had been conditioned to accept her...

Authority.

And, to his ever-lasting shame, find a certain... pleasure ...in her discipline of him.

Sitting at her ease behind him, as turned on and moist as ever at having taken a man of his age, race, and standing, so low against his own inclinations, the woman scrutinised the stockings she had taken to wearing in order to tease and tantalise her captive Brit, their sheer black nylon seeming, for some reason. Even more defined against her smooth brown thighs than they would have against the milky European skin of a woman belonging to his own race. She knew also that they really complimented her strong brown legs with their well-defined musculature, perfect calves and thighs. Legs that seemed to the European male so uncharacteristic on a woman with her origins and background; more used to seeing, as they were, the less substantial legs seen on both the indigenous and the Anglicised variety of her Pakistani sisters.

It had, though, taken her a while to realise the effect her wearing them had upon him - an effect only marginally less obvious when she encased them and her awesome brown arse in pantyhose.

But, once she had, it had given her the confidence and belief that she could take him to that place of submission and servitude of which she had always dreamed in regard of herself and an, oh, so, superior, man of his background, standing, and looks.

Dreams in which a man who was a composite of the creature she had sent to his corner was always prominent.

 

Before she started wearing both stockings and hose on a regular basis, finally eschewing the traditional and indigenous costume of her country. Especially now that she knew the effect her body - if not her face - could have when garbed in more stylish and figure-flattering Western fashions. Though she had detected nothing in the way of carnal interest on his part on those special occasions when she had asked him to act as an escort for either a meal out, a concert, or a play.

Her wearing of them, along with complimentary heel, had changed that dynamic somewhat and, though she knew she made no appeal to him on an aesthetic or emotional level, his lack of passion for her as a woman had been short-circuited by his obvious and growing lust for a body that seemed to buy into the fantasies of his adolescence.

A happy regression she had set-upon gleefully to regress him even further and found herself helped immensely in this aim by the absence of a woman in his day-to-day life.

Though she knew with certainty there would be no shortage of them in his fantasy world.

And was equally certain at the time that she did not number among them.

Even if she had certainly changed that state of affairs of late.

And considerably.

Looking at him now, with his nose pressed to the corner in exactly the way she had demanded, the pathetic, and frankly ridiculous, figure of the undeniably attractive white-man would, she knew, have taken an onlooker's impression of the pairing as being unlikely into a whole new-world of contempt and risibility.

For, first impressions being what they were - and the acceptance of one's own flaws and addictions not something to be addressed by certain people lacking self-awareness - those onlookers would have been certain to consign the man, and perhaps even the woman, to the ranks of sexual deviant. After all, why else would an older and attractive white-man abase himself before a woman of her standing - of any standing! - if he hadn't a need to actively seek such treatment out?

Subconsciously or not.

That such treatment was forced upon him, and he no longer had the wherewithal to fight it, would not have occurred to onlookers of such an ilk and would likely have made no difference when it came to their perception of him anyway.

The judgmental seldom view the actions of another from any other vantage point than that of what they would expect their own reaction to be, were they placed in a similar situation.

The morality and mind-set of many of those with a full-stomach, when it comes down to it, cannot be equated with that inspired by the desperation of the malnourished.

Be that malnourishment physical or spiritual.

So, no matter that the man with his nose pressed to the corner had once been a respected and valued government official with a sense of duty and self-pride, he would be almost certain to be labelled by the majority a pervert and a deviant.

Forget mitigating circumstances.

Only their own addictions and flaws are forgivable to people of such low quality.

That this once virile and vibrant man was kneeling in the corner of a room, in the home of a Pakistani woman who was coming to rule him with a rod-of-iron, would only have concreted such people in their contempt, though they might have been surprised to learn that the man himself shared their distaste.

The way in which he was dressed not likely to leaven their response any.

Another reaction he the man himself would have understood completely.

The oversized Legoland-Junior-Builder tee-shirt and striped shorts he was wearing, along with a pair of white ankle-socks, not exactly guaranteed to promote and project an image of vibrant masculinity.

In tandem with the fact his hands were clasped behind the back of his head as his nose rested against plaster and the boyish basin-cut of hair that had once been of a style befitting a man still in command of his full-share of it.

Far from evoking an image of mature manhood, the first response of anyone stumbling upon such a scene would have been to tell themselves they had somehow been transported into the world of the dominatrix or strict nanny and were watching a paying customer have his sick rocks catered to.

It was not, after all, unheard-of.

The reality, however, was far less simplistic and, at its basic level was little less than...

Wicked and malevolent.

As well as planned.

Had these accidental intruders been equipped with a less jaundiced eye too ready to accept the face-value, they might have noticed the angry red weals across his recently denuded thighs; not to mention the way his body shook with a kind of tremolo regularity it was impossible to either act or invite.

Those of a more analytical mind-set would also have noticed how his head shook imperceptibly in its corner; as if he were trying to convince himself he had stepped into another dimension and might, at any time, be transported back to that original where he remained a self-determinate and respected man.

Whatever the response of those seeing it, there can be no doubt that all of them would have found it, initially at least, a scene as inexplicable as it was abnormal and repugnant.

And find it more mysterious still were they to be informed their reaction was one common to the middle-aged Englishman on the wrong-end of the humiliation.

The voice that carried across from the sofa behind him was unequivocal in its own response to his situation and her English was accented with the Hindko that was a direct follow-on from her Peshawar youth.

Another grating aspect of his submission to her.

Tears at the weakness that had led him to this point streamed down his cheeks as the pain of the thwarted erection her placing of him in the cage brought him intensified. The whole of his past life seeming to flash before his eyes and dwelling more on his failures than any of the successes he had once been so sure of. The commitment to Public Service that was a hallmark down the years of both his country and a rather superior self-congratulatory smugness on his part, especially when counterpointed to those one-dimensional creatures whose raison d'etre was money above all else, had gone. Replaced by a commitment to something - someone - else now.

With the marriage he had thought was for life in his rear-mirror, his devastation at its loss had soon led to issues in his professional existence and it had not been long before the suggestion he might wish to think of early retirement had been broached by his superiors with more... intent.

Just past his mid-forties, at a time when most men were reaping the benefits of their hard-work and diligence, he was without either a wife, a secure home, or a job to call his own, and living meagrely off the reduced Civil Service Pension he had virtually been forced to accept.

That a part of that pension went to his faithless wife ensured a cutting of his own cloth was necessary if he were to keep his head above water and was ultimately responsible for his presence in the woman's home and life.

Though it did not explain his abject capitulation to the creature.

The voice of the younger woman who had gained such ascendancy over him almost making him flinch in his corner as he knew what would soon follow:

"Crawl over to your Malkin now and persuade her you have learnt your lesson," she ordered, before, more ominously for the Englishman who had yet to have a third-person witness his subjugation to his Malkin other than the female solicitor who had witnessed the transfer of his power-of-attorney; and even then in only the most limited sense.

Stroking his hair as if her were a pet in need of reassurance, she watched with delight as his lips pressed against toes she so loved having him worship and savoured what was soon to come.

"We will be leaving to meet my friend Nita shortly and I wish you to be on your very best behaviour...