Halloween Submission by Bonnie Bliss

it. You were loud and clear when you ran out on me on Halloween.”
    She moved around him. It killed her inside to just walk away. For her own sanity, to make it all better, she had to just leave him be.
    “No, Luce, it’s not about that at all. I just thought, God why is this so fucking hard!” He ran his fingers through his hair and looked at her with pleading eyes.
    “Can we get out of here? Just go out and talk.”
    She was at the nurse’s station and she looked up. The girls there all nodded.
    “Go on, Lucy. Take as long as you need.”
    Thanks to Millie the girls knew the whole sordid story. Not the bondage, chains and submission part. They knew that they had sex, and then Tom had just left her at a party. Millie was miffed at her brother and dramatized the situation to make him look so bad he couldn’t get another date again in Chicago.
    Turning around she answered, “Yeah, we can go. There is a diner around the corner. We can talk there.”
    Some place public so she wouldn’t cry or make a fool of herself. Lucy grabbed her purse and headed out with him. Tom was awkward the whole way. He fidgeted and ran his fingers through his hair constantly. He kept opening his mouth to talk, but shut it. They got to the diner. It was mostly empty and she picked a booth in the back corner. If she started to cry she didn’t want anyone seeing her there.
    As they took their seats the waitress came over, a big smile on her face. They both ordered water and coffee. It wasn’t past ten and Lucy hadn’t eaten since breakfast the day before.
    “Lucy, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to leave you. I didn’t mean anything I did.”
    “Then why did you do it?” The words came out before she could stop them.
    Somewhere deep in her subconscious she wanted to know all this. She wanted him to explain why he would leave her bound in subspace. Lucy was far from damaged from it. She got it. She just didn’t understand it—if that made sense.
    He scrubbed his hand over his face. It didn’t seem like he understood much either.
    “I don’t know, Luce. I was scared. God, I wanted it to be you. It was you. For me, the whole time I saw you.”
    Lucy was stunned.
    He had never given her that impression. The way he ran. How he had just run from the house like she was some disease.
    “We were always friends, Tom. You could always ask. I mean—“
    “I didn’t know you were in the lifestyle. I knew you knew that about me, but not the other way around.”
    “Why was Halloween so terrible then? I mean, you just left, left me—in chains.”
    He reached for her. Taking hold of her hand he looked her in the eyes. The Dom was still in there. The Master of her body, her heart, and her soul.
    “I have always wanted you, Lucy. I didn’t want it to be like that, like we were strangers having a one night fuck. What Millie and Robert did was out of line. They should have just asked. They should have let us ask one another. I wanted to ask you. I wanted to date you. Fuck, Lucy I am fucking in love with you, I always have been.”
    Lucy knew she was crying. It was why Tom had cursed like that. He thought she was sad. So many things ran through her and sadness wasn’t one of them.
    “Thomas Newton. You realize that neither of us are normal . We don’t date. We Dominate and submit. When I realized you were a Dom. God, I knew. I could just be me. I could get on my knees and ask you to use me,” she looked up at him. “Do you know how totally liberating that is?”
    His eyes grew wide. Lucy knew she had shocked him. Most men don’t expect the woman to be this open, this liberated and to know herself this well. But Lucy knew what she wanted. In every way possible she knew what she needed.
    “Lucy, I didn’t want you in public. Not the first time.” He looked down, ashamed.
    “Well, then there is only one thing we can do. Actually, there is one thing I can do for the man I love.”
    His gaze darted up.
    “What did you say?”
    She started to