Testing Tom
By Lucy
Felthouse
Genre: Erotic, BDSM,
Romance, Femdom
Synopsis
When Katrina’s ex, Tom, turns up on her doorstep, he’s
literally the last person she was expecting to see. After dumping her and
running off with a vanilla chick, Tom broke the Domme’s heart and left her
seriously hurting. So when he returns, begging for another chance, Katrina is
understandably very confused and protective of her bruised feelings. She finds
it very difficult to believe that he’s turned his back on a vanilla lifestyle
for good and wants to be with her, a professional dominatrix. Rather than
letting her head or her heart figure out what to do, whether to forgive him,
she decides to put Tom through a series of challenges that will prove his
devotion to her—or not. Testing Tom is not something she’d ever expected she’d
have to do, but to her, it’s the only way she can be sure whether he’s back for
good.
This is a previously published work. It has been
edited for Evernight Publishing.
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Excerpt
Katrina was halfway through an episode of her favorite
drama series when her doorbell rang. She jumped, gasping as her heart lurched
painfully, then pressed ‘pause’ on the remote control. Wincing slightly as she
unfolded her legs from beneath her bottom—she’d been watching the program
back-to-back for a couple of hours and she was stiff—she moved to the window
and peered out through a gap in the curtains, careful not to let the mystery
visitor see her, should she need to ignore them. Cold callers were common in
her area, and drove her crazy. If she wanted to buy something, she’d contact
them, not the other way around.
As it happened, it wasn’t a salesperson. She ducked back from the window, clenched her hands into fists.
As it happened, it wasn’t a salesperson. She ducked back from the window, clenched her hands into fists.
“What the fuck is he
doing here?”
He was literally the last
person she’d expected to see standing at her door. Prince William or George
Clooney would have been less of a shock.
For there, outside her
house, stood the man that had broken her heart several months ago. Thomas
Black. She hadn’t seen hide nor hair of him since, and now, totally out of the
blue, he’d turned up.
Katrina contemplated
ignoring him, going back to her show and pretending she wasn’t in. But
apparently that wasn’t an option.
“I know you’re there,
Katrina,” he yelled through the letterbox, “your car is on the drive, and I can
see the glow of the telly through the curtains.”
Katrina decided it was
time to get thicker curtains. Not wanting to cause a scene, which her nosey
neighbors would no doubt adore, she moved to the front door, unlocked it and
flung it open.
“Get in,” she said,
quickly closing the door behind him, then turning to face her unwanted visitor.
“What the hell do you want?”
He held his hands up in
supplication, then spoke. “Look, I know I’m probably the last person you
expected to see—wanted to see—but I have to talk to you. Please?”
He adopted the puppy-dog
look he’d long-since perfected. Katrina sighed.
“You’ve got five minutes.
Sit down.”
They moved over to the
sitting area, and Katrina deliberately sat in the chair, so Tom couldn’t sit
next to her. Settling onto the end of the sofa nearest to her, he clasped his
hands together, presumably to summon his courage, and began.
“Kat, I’m here to say I’m
sorry, all right? I was wrong, so wrong, to finish with you the way I did and
go off with Alicia.”
“She dumped you, has
she?” Katrina clenched her teeth, and felt the rage beginning to build inside
her. If Tom thought he could come running back to her because his bimbo had
ditched him, then he had another think coming.
“No,” he said firmly,
and, she suspected, honestly. “I finished with her, actually. When I realized
that I wasn’t happy with her. She never made me feel the way you do, Kat. Not
once. And I know, I know it’s my fault. I wanted something… different from what
we had, or at least I thought I did. I couldn’t help thinking at the time that
what we did was wrong, was weird. Abnormal, even. So when Alicia started
flirting with me at work, I started thinking perhaps I should try for something
normal. Like everybody else out there.”
He fixed her with his
soulful gaze, and continued. “But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Yes, Alicia
offered me normality, a vanilla relationship, but I soon discovered it couldn’t
satisfy me. Sure, she could make me come in all the usual ways—”
“Ugh, I don’t want to
hear this, Tom. I don’t want to hear about your sex life with someone else!”
“Sorry, Kat. Please, just
let me finish?”
When she gave a curt nod,
he carried on speaking.
“Alicia could make me
come in all the usual ways—I am just a man, after all—but it wasn’t the same.
Wasn’t as good. It wasn’t long before I started to miss you, miss what we had
together, both in and out of the bedroom. I ignored it for as long as I could,
forced myself to make the effort with Alicia, but it just got to the stage
where I couldn’t do it anymore. Couldn’t ignore what I was, what I enjoyed,
what I needed. And that’s you, Kat. I need you, and everything that goes with
you.”
As a Domme, Katrina had
become an expert in hiding her feelings, whether she was aroused, angry, happy,
sad… it was all stuffed behind a stern facial expression. Now, though, she
almost faltered. When Tom had left her, she’d remained cool and silent until
the door had slammed. Then she’d broken down. She’d been deeply in love with
him, and his decision had left her devastated. Months down the line, her love
for him hadn’t faded, not one bit, and the fact that he was here, right now,
apparently trying to get her back, was something she’d never expected. She
didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or throw something at him.
She didn’t do any of
those things. She kept her face straight, her thoughts whizzing through her
head at a hundred miles per hour. Eventually, after letting him squirm in his
seat for a minute or so, she replied. “So what exactly are you saying, Tom?
What do you want?” She knew the answer, but she wanted to make him suffer, the
way he had done to her after ditching her for something, someone, that could
never satisfy him.
Meet the Author
Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes
erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over
100 publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include several
editions of Best Bondage Erotica, Best Women's Erotica 2013 and Best Erotic
Romance 2014. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and
co-edited a number of anthologies, and also edits for a small publishing house.
She owns Erotica For All, is book
editor for Cliterati, and is one eighth
of The Brit Babes. Find out
more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk.
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