Coming Home to Master 01-05

"Yes, Miss Rachel," Bella answered in a whisper.

"Good girl," she commended, "now please take a seat."

"Yes, Miss Rachel," Bella repeated and took a seat across from her.

She reached over to the silver tray and poured two cups of coffee. "Since we are being very casual today, I will serve you your coffee, but make no mistake; this is not how things usually work here. What do you take in your coffee," she asked.

"Just sugar please, Miss Rachel"

Miss Rachel put some sugar in Bella's coffee and Bella noted that she took both cream and sugar; she had a feeling this would be important to remember. Miss Rachel passed her the cup of coffee on a saucer and began to sip hers as she studied Bella.

"Thank you, Miss Rachel," Bella said and Miss Rachel smiled.

"Your Master has told me so much about you. Are you certain he hasn't mentioned me at all?" she asked, still surprised.

"I don't think so, Miss Rachel," she answered, a bit sorry that I had nothing else to offer.

Miss Rachel nodded and sipped her coffee pensively.

"I suppose the best way to start then is for me to explain where you are and what my relationship is with your Master." Bella nodded, but did not interrupt her. "Your Master and I met a very long time ago through mutual friends. We had a lot more than just this lifestyle in common so we quickly became very good friends. Your Master was looking for the right submissive and, although I wanted to help him find the right one, I wasn't having much luck either. I had been working for a very large international company at the time and they had decided to move our head office out of the country. They made me a very generous offer to stay with them, but my heart was here. I was given a very large settlement when the local office finally closed, and although money wouldn't be an issue for a little while, I had no idea what I wanted to do with myself.

One night, while your Master and I were out for dinner, he suggested that I use the money to open a business of my own. I was very good with clients, but I didn't know anything about running a business. On top of that, I had no idea what kind of a business would even interest me enough to call my own. He was very amused with my naiveté and proposed that I do this," she motioned to the house and the enormous gardens with her hands. Bella looked around, but still had no idea what Miss Rachel was talking about.

Her eyes brightened as she continued her story, "It started off as a very small and very private BDSM club." Bella's eyes widened at this, but she kept quiet. "Now it is so much more. You've seen the kitchen, which you've probably noticed is very well equipped, but there are also many other rooms and bedrooms that are all set up to accommodate specific tastes and needs. I can do many things here. You're here today to be cared for while your Master is at work. Many dominants are interested in a service like that, especially if they often work late or have to travel a lot. I also train submissives here, help others find the right dominants or submissives, and I entertain." Bella was fascinated by what she was saying and sipped her coffee quietly so that Miss Rachel wouldn't stop.

"As I'm sure you know," she continued, "your Master has an incredible head for business. I relied on him for many years. He helped me with everything. In return, he had almost unlimited access to my submissives whenever he wanted. Most people pay for the services I provide and I work in trade with others, but your Master was a very special case. He was not only my closest friend, but he really made my business what it is today." Bella smiled proudly at this. Her Master really was an incredible man. "I'm sure you know that he works very hard. It took some convincing, but eventually I was able to get him to come here after leaving the office so that he could work while being served by whatever submissives were here on any given day. Eventually he even started spending some weekends here and I made sure he was very well cared for. He still has his own bedroom and office here, but he hasn't used them for quite some time," she said with a bit of a frown. "As I'm sure you can guess, he is dearly missed here, but now I can see what has kept him away." Her bright smile was genuine as she looked Bella over again.

Bella blushed at what she was suggesting. Miss Rachel was being very honest about things that she didn't have to tell her. Bella was really beginning to like this woman and could see why her Master trusted her with her care. On top of being very beautiful, she also seemed very intelligent and caring. She already knew that the people her Master worked with were intelligent, they had to be to be able to keep up with him, but Miss Rachel had something more than what Bella had ever expected from one of her Master's colleagues. Like him, she cared about her submissives and wanted them to have the best, even if they were just hers for the day. This explained why she and Gabriel were such good friends, although Bella wasn't sure why he'd never mentioned her before. Miss Rachel watched Bella as she thought about what had just been said and then interrupted her thoughts to offer her another cup of coffee. Bella smiled at her, but the scared and timid little smile was gone and replaced by the bright smiles that are usually reserved for her Master. If Miss Rachel was who she said she was, and, from the way she explained everything, Bella was certain that she was, then she needed to show Miss Rachel how much she loved her Master by trying to serve her as best as she could.

"Please allow me, Miss Rachel." Being careful to mind the cuffs around her pretty dishes, Bella poured her another coffee, fixed it with cream and sugar, then knelt at her feet and offered it up to her.

Miss Rachel was so pleased that the smile lit up her face. "Thank you, dear," she said happily, "but please sit in the chair for today while we get to know each other."

"Yes, Miss Rachel," Bella said, and sat back down across from her. She quietly fixed herself another coffee and got comfortable in the soft chair.

Miss Rachel continued her story, "I've had many submissives here over the years and I've always kept an eye open for someone that might interest your Master. I always sent the prettiest and most intelligent submissives to serve him while he was here and, although I know he enjoyed their company, none of them were the one he was searching for. I guess it was just over a year ago when we stopped seeing your Master here. He kept in touch with me and was always willing to give advice when I needed it, but it was all over the phone or by email."

Bella smiled when she realized that that was around the time she and her Master had met and she wondered why he had never brought her here.

"There are a few submissives in the house today, but like you, they are here because their Masters are either at work or away. Kevin is mine and he will be your handler whenever you are here and I'm not caring for you myself. He is well trained and has been doing this for almost as long as I have. He won't hurt you, but he will be quick to punish you if that is what is needed. If I am not present, you must obey him in my place. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Miss Rachel."

"Good girl," she said, "do you have any questions?"

Before Bella could answer, Kevin was at Miss Rachel's side with a big platter in his hand. He put it down on a little serving table that he'd been carrying in his other hand and asked Miss Rachel if she had finished with the coffee.

"Yes, thank you Kevin."

He kissed her cheek, put all the coffee paraphernalia back on the little silver tray and whisked it back into the kitchen. He was back in seconds and was setting the little outdoor table with place mats, plates, glasses, cutlery, and napkins. He then put a big plate of tiny triangular sandwiches on the table followed by a bowl of fresh fruit salad. He poured them both a tall glass of ice cold lemonade and then left the pitcher on the table.

"Is there anything else I can get for you, Miss Rachel," he asked in a way that told Bella he was eager to please her.

"No thank you, Kevin. Please go eat your lunch with the others."

"Yes, Miss Rachel," he said with a smile and disappeared back into the kitchen.

While Miss Rachel and Bella ate their lunch, Miss Rachel wanted to know all about Bella's relationship with her Master. She said that he had told her a lot about Bella, but that she wanted to hear her version of it. Bella smiled as she thought about her handsome Master. She hadn't known that he had had access to so many submissives before her. Bella explained to her that she had met her Master while studying in France a year ago and Miss Rachel nodded.

"I had pretty much given up on ever finding the right Master, because I had become so skilled at finding the wrong one. I came here to study, but figured I might as well find out what the community was like here. One of my goals had been to learn about the culture and what better way to do that than to dive right into it."

This made Miss Rachel laugh, but she didn't interrupt.

"I found out very quickly that I loved playing with Master. He was unlike anyone I had ever played with before and he was able to bring things out in me that no one else ever could. I was very slow to open up to him, because I had been very used to being used and hurt, but little by little, Master chipped away at my protective shell and I began to open up to him."

"As we got to know each other, we found that we shared many of the same interests. When I wasn't at school and he wasn't busy with work, he took me to see things that he knew would interest me and that I had never had the opportunity to see before. I was fascinated with the things he showed me, which in turn made me want to learn more. Sometimes he would hold my hand as we explored and other times he would let me go discover things on my own while he watched me. It was all so magical to me because I had never experienced anything like it before."

Miss Rachel nodded and Bella looked off into the distance as she remembered their time together.

"He was always so attentive and made me feel like a princess, but he also made sure that I knew he was in charge. He liked me to wear skirts or dresses so that I was accessible and he never missed a chance to take me when he could. I was devastated when the time came for me to go back home and it was so difficult to be so far from him, but he came to get me and now I'm here," she said with a big smile.

"Thank you for opening up to me," Miss Rachel said.

While they finished their lunch, Miss Rachel asked if she'd like to put on a special dinner for her Master.

"Oh yes, Miss Rachel, I'd love that so much. What do you have in mind," she asked excitedly.

Miss Rachel laughed and her eyes sparkled just like Gabriel's do when he's ready to. She called Kevin over and had him join the discussion. Together, they came up with some great ideas and then Miss Rachel phoned Gabriel at work to ask him if he could spend some time at her place after work. She was excited when she hung up and told Bella that her Master had agreed to stay for a bit. Bella was almost jumping out of her seat with enthusiasm. Miss Rachel told Bella that they had enough time for Kevin to show her around the house before they had to get ready for her Master. Bella was eager to see the house, but was so thrilled at the thought of a special evening for her Master that it was hard for her to concentrate.