COMPLETED | Take Me Down The Rabbit Hole (BDSM | 18+)

XLVI

The sight that met him was utterly disappointing. Aspen reached out to touch the rope and almost flinched back at the textures of it. He turned to Leo's submissive, trying to seize the man up, and then glanced at Leo over his shoulder. "This is all you have to work with?" he asked.
"Yes."
On the risk of making a fool out of Leo, Aspen closed the door to the closet and made his way to the exit. "If you don't mind, I'll just go borrow some rope from Thea—"
And then, he left.
Without thinking, he crossed the hallway in two steps and knocked on Thea's door. A red-haired woman — decidedly not Thea — opened the door.
"What can I do for you?" she asked, in a forcefully polite tone.
"I'm just looking to borrow some rope from Mistress Thea," Aspen said.
"Pet!" Thea's voice rang from the back of the room. "I didn't know you were here! Come inside, what kind of rope do you want?"
Aspen pushed past the woman into the room. Thea was, funnily enough, fully dressed, and she looked stunning.
Aspen tried to resist the temptation of turning back to the other woman and said, "Hi. I'm sitting in on Master Leo's session—"
At that, Thea's eyebrow shot up.
"And he wants me to tie his client up, but I'm not doing that with untreated hemp rope. Not for my first time in front of someone like him."
Thea laughed. "My brother," she whispered, leaning in, "doesn't know his way around ropes. He is very knowledgeable in every other aspect, but bondage? Nope. I'm surprised he has any rope in his room at all, but on the other hand ... the fact that it's the roughest he could have gotten his hands on is also not surprising at the same time."
Thea too ignored the other woman in the room and opened one of the closet doors. "Take your pick, pet," she encouraged.
There was a whole rope-rainbow in Thea's closet, but Aspen spotted the burgundy rope and reached for it without thinking too hard. "I'll return this after," he promised, and Thea just nodded.
"Remember to check which positions are okay," she reminded him.
"Yes, Ma'am. Buh-bye for now."

The burgundy rope felt a lot softer in his hand and Aspen slipped back into Leo's playroom with a smile on his lips. "Sorry 'bout that," he said, chuckling a little. "I would hate to use material I'm not familiar with."
Jordan didn't say anything as Aspen stepped closer and began unwinding the rope, letting it fall into a heap at his feet. "I don't have access to your documents, so you're going to have to tell me what you're comfortable with," he told Leo's submissive, who seemed to flush the color of a ripe tomato in the low light of the room.
"Suspension," he whispered.
Aspen let that word sink in for a few seconds before he nodded. "Right. Hands or full body?"
Jordan gulped. "I've never tried full body," he mumbled.
Aspen once again seized the man up. "If you want to try it, you have to tell me. If not, I'm doing your hands. Remember that once you're tied up, Master Leo over there is in charge again, yeah?"
Jordan flushed. "Hmh," he hummed, looking from the rope to Leo and then back to Aspen. "I've always wanted to try full body. Please."
"Alright."
Aspen put his head back to look for the rig and found it, lifted to the ceiling right next to where Leo stood.
"Caan you get that," Aspen asked, pointing at the rig, "down for me, please, Sir?"
Leo nodded and joined them at the door, pressing a button on the control panel on the wall. "Who's Thea with?" he inquired.
"Nobody I know," Aspen returned and then gently led Jordan over to the rig by the arm.
"Relax," he instructed. "No need to be nervous, I swear I know what I'm doing."
He watched, amused, as Jordan shook out his body. "Can I ask you something?" he whispered.
Aspen had picked up the rope. "Sure."
"What's it like, to be with ... Both Master Leo and Mistress Thea?"
Aspen smacked his lips together and took the excuse of wrapping rope around the man's chest to step closer. "I prefer Thea," he said, as quietly as he could muster. "I'm currently also seeing Leo's former submissive—"
"You know Master Alan?" Jordan breathed.
Aspen was taken aback by that. Surely, Leo has had multiple submissives since. Was Alan some kind of famous in this community? He nodded. "I'm just his submissive, we aren't in a romantic relationship. But he decided that he wanted to share me with Thea, and since Leo is in town right now, I guess the sub-sharing has also extended to him."
"So, if you know Master Alan, does that mean that you've heard about the club he's planning to open?"
Jordan sounded awestruck as he spoke.
"I do."
Aspen continued to tie the man up until Jordan was trussed up like a porchetta. "There. Anything uncomfortable?" he asked, stepping back to admire his handiwork.
Jordan shook his head and looked up at the rig. "Now what?" he asked.
Aspen reached for the ring at the end of the rig. "The suspension part."
Before Jordan could say anything about that, Aspen had fastened the loose ends of the rope to the ring, and Jordan was suspended, arms behind his back and feet pulled up and bent at the knee, completely off the ground.
"Woah."
"How's that?"
"Just like I thought it would be. Fun."
Leo came to stand next to them. "This is quite complex," he noted, reaching out to run a finger on the chest-harness part of the bondage.
Out of reflex, Jordan flinched back. "I'm ticklish," he complained.
"Oh," Leo returned, "I know that. And now that you say that—"
He winked at Aspen and then marched to his closet, getting out a feather tickler. "Let the games begin," he announced smugly.