Kayla's eyes fluttered, then opened, and she groaned as she wakened. She looked out and blinked, the world falling into place around her. She felt a sudden rush, a tightness in her chest, a fluttering in her belly as it all came back to her.

She was in a cage!

She had gotten up for work on Friday and donned her Armani jacket. She'd matched it with a pale green silk blouse, and a beige skirt which fell to her ankles to cover the tops of her high heeled black leather boots. She'd looked stylish and professional, which was the appearance an ambitious young lawyer with Harrold-Milkin ought to be striving for.

The firm had over eight hundred lawyers, after all, along with twelve senior partners and thirty seven junior partners. Even the junior partners made as much in two weeks as she did all year. Growing up poor, she had made it her life's ambition to NOT be poor. She had scratched and clawed and slept her way into the firm, and saw no reason to stop then.

So she had seduced Colin Forrest, one of the senior partners, a strong-willed, attractive man who was already married (not that that mattered to Kayla). Ingratiating herself with Forrest could only help her career, after all. And it had seemed to work as expected, at first.

Until Friday. When her entire world had changed.

Now she was naked in a cage, and wasn't quite sure how things had progressed so rapidly, so drastically, so... shockingly far in such a very short time. It was only Sunday morning, after all!

It had started with being called into his office, with him obviously angry. She had only discovered why, after obeying his order to strip, and then bend over his desk. She'd expected sex, not a strapping across her bare bottom!

Of course, she'd gotten both.

She had indeed deserved it, though. She'd thought too much of herself, and too much of their relationship. He'd trusted her to write up a fairly routine contract as he'd directed. Instead, she'd left out one clause, thinking it unnecessary, ignoring his instruction to put it in. And she'd been wrong. Very wrong.

And that was when he'd told her that making the partners table had a cost, and that cost was obedience to his orders. She couldn't even argue. He was a far more talented and experienced lawyer, and he was perfectly right to be angry. It was also perfectly understandable that he would want her obedience if he was to put his name and prestige on the line to get her elevated to the junior partners table.

Harrold-Milkin was a shark pit of interoffice politics, and he wasn't about to help promote someone who wouldn't do and vote as he said. Kayla not only understood it she didn't blame him in the slightest. She'd have wanted the same in his place.

So when he'd told her she'd be spending the weekend proving how good she was at following orders she accepted immediately. She was already sleeping with him, after all, and if the 'obedience' was sexually related, well, she certainly wasn't going to complain. He was the best lover she'd had in her life.

But as she'd discovered, what he had in mind was total, instant, unthinking obedience. And while she'd expected him to test her, his testing had been outrageous... and darkly, horribly thrilling! Obedience at writing out a contract was one thing, but obedience at performing sexual acts was an entirely different creature.

Kayla had been using her body to get what she wanted for years, in a coldly calculating, mercenary fashion. But she'd never pursued physical pleasure. That had not been what sex was about for Kayla. Sex had been about getting someone to do what she wanted.

The kind of dark, nasty sex Forrest had introduced her to had come as a stunning surprise in more ways than one. She'd never climaxed while sleeping with her 'lovers' before, and yesterday, she'd climaxed a dozen times!

She'd also been stung by a riding crop too many times to count during the day, not to mention being whipped!

It was a fairly soft whipping, of course, she thought. It hadn't even left any real marks on her body, none that hadn't faded over the following hours anyway. But the dark thrill of it still made her belly flutter! She'd been sodomized for the first time, as well, an idea which would have appalled and disgusted her not long before.