He kisses my lips softly and slowly rolls me onto my back. I feel his fingers undoing the ropes, each knot. Carefully, slowly.
Sometime later, Alek draws a bath in the large jet tub in the adjoining bathroom, and we sit soaking in the hot water and bubbles with glasses of whiskey sitting to the side.
“How did you like your first experience with shibari?” he asks me with a smirk pulling crookedly at his lips.
I lick my own lips before I reply. “Fucking amazing,” I tell him. “I didn’t know the pressure of the ropes would feel so good.”
“It’s really great when you’re suspended as well, I hear,” Alek informs me.
“You want to tie me up from the ceiling?” I ask with a cocked brow.
He chuckles. “I didn’t say that, just that it feels good,” he replies.
“Have you ever been tied up?” I ask him.
“No. I don’t really enjoy being tied up, but I like doing the tying. There’s something about restraining someone that just…” He hums out softly to finish his sentence.
“You’re dirtier than I thought,” I whisper playfully and scoot closer to him, moving slowly until I can straddle his lap.
“I like to cut you and taste your blood,” he whispers. “I think that’s worse.”
I press my forehead against his. “True…but I like it. Maybe that’s worse.”
“Mmm, who cares?” he asks and runs his hands along my wet soapy body.
I kiss him slowly, taking my time with drawing his mouth open until my tongue slips between his lips and swirls around his.
We simply sit here in the warm, relaxing water kissing for what feels like forever. Until Alek leans back from me and looks me in the eyes.
“Tommy?” he asks me.
“Hm?” I reply.
He takes a deep breath and brushes his thumb along my cheek. “Will you marry me?” he asks. My heart feels like it stops in my chest. “I know it’s real fucking quick. But…I know what it’s like to love someone and lose them the next day, and I want to spend as much of my life with you as possible. I want to betiedto you as closely as possible.”
I stare at him, but the words come out of my mouth without hesitation.
“Yes.”
He smiles at me. “Really?”
“Yes, Aleksandr. I want to be tied to you too, for as long as humanly possible.” I hold him closer and run my fingers through the back of his hair.
Alek moans softly and then a twinkle forms in his eye.
“We’re going to need a lot more rope.”
