The Pace of Her Control

Elena Ward liked the office best after everyone else had gone home. The building changed at night—its glass panels turning from reflective shields into quiet confessionals, showing her the honeyed lights of the city below. The hum of the air-conditioning softened, the corridors emptied, and the world outside seemed willing to lean in and listen.

Tonight, she wasn’t alone.

Michael Hale stood just inside her doorway, hands at his sides, shoulders squared in a way that wasn’t false but wasn’t entirely natural either. He looked like a man carrying something he hadn’t yet named—an uncertainty, a restlessness, something he wouldn’t have admitted to himself, let alone to her.

Elena didn’t turn to greet him. She kept her gaze on the city, as though his presence was something foreseen, something she’d been waiting for without acknowledging it aloud.

“Close the door, Michael,” she said, her voice warm but carved with intention.

He hesitated—not because he didn’t want to obey, but because of how easily he responded to the command. Still, he closed it. Softly. Carefully. As though the sound it made mattered to her.

It did.

“Sit,” she said.

There was no gesture, no glance toward the chair opposite her desk, but he moved anyway. The obedience in him wasn’t new—not entirely. She had felt it growing for weeks, forming like a tide that rose whenever she walked into the room.

She finally turned to face him. Elena moved like someone to whom the world always organised itself, smoothing the path ahead. Her dark blouse was simple but immaculate; her hair pinned back as though she’d taken a moment to sculpt the effect of being effortlessly in control.

“You stayed late,” she said, crossing behind him. “Again.”

“It’s been a busy week,” he replied, and even the excuse sounded small in the room between them.

Her chuckle was quiet, precise. “Busy weeks don’t make a man wait outside my office for twenty minutes.”

He swallowed. “I wasn’t—waiting. I just—”

She stopped in front of him. Not close enough to touch. Close enough to feel the outline of her presence against his skin.

“You came here because you wanted to,” she said. “Let’s not decorate it.”

His breath shifted, a subtle stutter in the rhythm of the moment.

“And because,” she added, dropping her gaze to him with slow, deliberate weight, “you wanted to see what I would do with you.”

Michael’s composure faltered. Not visibly, not dramatically. But it faltered.

Elena wasn’t guessing. She wasn’t hoping. She knew.

For weeks, Michael had felt it happening to him—not a slide, not a fall, but a pull. Something he experienced in every meeting with her, every time she stepped near, every time she spoke with that measured authority that made him feel like she was peeling back the effort he put into appearing self-contained.

He had always thought of himself as the controlled one.

With Elena, he wasn’t.

“Why did you come?” she asked now.

He opened his mouth, then shut it, then finally said, “Because you asked me to stay late.”

“I asked for the quarterly projections,” she said. “Not for you.”

Her voice sharpened just enough to carve through him. She stepped behind him again, her pace slow, almost meditative. The sound of her heels against the polished floor was unhurried and utterly certain.

Michael exhaled, long and low. “I came because I wanted to be near you.”

“There,” she murmured. “The truth.”

She rested one hand on the back of his chair—not on him, but the nearness of her fingers made the space between touch and non-touch feel like a live wire.

“You’re a capable man, Michael. Intelligent. Controlled. But you have a… softness that reveals itself when you’re near someone who sees you.” She let the sentence linger. “I see you.”

He didn’t know what to do with the tension in his chest—pressure and relief intertwined.

“Tell me you understand what you’re giving me,” she said, leaning in slightly so her breath brushed the side of his neck without touching him. “Tell me you know what it means to want to yield.”

The word landed like a low, deliberate whisper in the dark.

He wasn’t sure he could speak. But he did.

“Yes.”

Her lips curved in satisfaction.

Elena walked back to her desk, dragging her fingertip lightly along the edge of the polished wood. “Stand up.”

Michael rose immediately. This time there was no hesitation at all.

She approached him slowly, not as though she needed time, but as though she expected him to feel each step like its own form of pressure. He did.

“What is it about me,” she said, “that makes you come undone?”

He could have lied. He didn’t. “The way you look at me.”

“How do I look at you?”

“Like you’re stripping away the parts I hide.”

“That’s because I am.”

She let that hang in the air, then placed two fingers beneath his chin—not lifting it, just claiming its position.

“And you like losing those parts,” she said. It wasn’t a question.

He nodded once.

Then she removed her hand.

Control wasn’t in the touch—it was in the withholding of it.

“Good,” she whispered.

The office felt smaller now, as though the walls were listening. Elena sat on the edge of her desk, crossing her legs with deliberate elegance.

“I’m going to ask you something,” she said. “And you’re going to answer honestly.”

He nodded.

“Not with what you think I want to hear. With what you want.”

The correction dug deeper than any reprimand.

“Yes,” he said.

She tilted her head. “Do you want to give me your control tonight?”

His breath trembled, barely perceptible. “Yes.”

“And do you understand,” she added, “that giving me control means giving up the small masks you keep polishing for the world? The ones that make you feel safe?”

He swallowed. “I understand.”

“Good,” she said, her voice soft but edged with unmistakable power. “Then you’ll follow my pace. Not your own.”

That line hit him at the centre of everything.

Her pace.

Not his.

She told him to move closer. He did. She told him to lower his eyes. He obeyed. She told him to breathe slower. He followed the rhythm of her voice instead of the rhythm of his own body.

The control wasn’t theatrical. It wasn’t harsh. It was far more unsettling: Elena dominated with stillness, with tone, with patience that stripped him down far faster than any demand.

“You’re holding tension,” she said, stepping behind him. “In your shoulders. In your jaw.”

He exhaled shakily. “I’m trying—”

“Stop trying,” she interrupted. “Start yielding.”

The single sentence unravelled something in him he hadn’t realised was tied.

She circled him slowly. “Do you know why I wanted you to come in tonight?”

He looked up at her, confused. “You did?”

A faint smile touched her mouth. “Of course I did. I knew you were outside my office. I could feel you through the door.”

He felt heat move through him.

“I wanted to see how long you’d wait,” she added. “You lasted longer than I thought.”

He didn’t know whether to feel embarrassed or rewarded, but the truth was that both sensations tangled together until he couldn’t tell them apart.

“That’s what I like about you,” she said. “You try to pretend you’re not already mine.”

His breath caught.

“I’m not—”

She cut him off with a soft laugh. “Michael. Your body answers me before your mind does.”

She moved closer, stopping in front of him. “And that’s precisely why I’m going to take you apart slowly.”

The promise wasn’t explicit. But it felt more intimate than anything physical ever could.

Minutes stretched, but they didn’t feel like minutes. They felt like something suspended—like time bent around her voice, her presence, her choices.

She asked him questions—not about work, but about what he feared, what he wanted, what he avoided. She wasn’t gathering information. She was peeling him open carefully, deliberately.

Every answer he gave felt like a thread he handed over.

And every time she accepted one, she drew it around her fingers like she was learning the shape of his vulnerability.

“You hold back too much,” she said at one point.

“I didn’t think—”

“Stop thinking.” She stepped so close he could feel her breath. “You’re here because thinking failed you.”

He let out a shaky sound that wasn’t quite a laugh and wasn’t quite a confession.

She touched his face—not tenderly, but with the precision of someone learning how to handle something fragile.

“Look at the way you respond,” she whispered. “I haven’t even touched you the way you imagine.”

He swallowed. “I know.”

“And yet,” she murmured, trailing her fingertip down the line of his throat without touching skin for more than a fraction of a second, “you give me everything I ask for.”

“Yes.”

“And everything I don’t ask for.”

His breath deepened. “Yes.”

She smiled slightly. “Good.”

The night stretched on, not in hours but in depth. Elena controlled the pace entirely—sometimes stepping back, letting silence become pressure, sometimes stepping close, making air itself feel heavy with direction.

Michael didn’t know a person could be undone simply by being guided where to stand, how to breathe, how to look at the floor or hold eye contact only when permitted.

She never raised her voice. She never rushed. Her dominance was something woven, not forced.

At one point she said, “You’re trembling.”

“I’m not,” he said instinctively.

She lifted a brow. “Don’t lie.”

His shoulders sagged slightly. “I am.”

“And does it frighten you?”

He hesitated, then whispered, “Yes.”

“And do you trust me with that fear?”

Another breath. Another surrender. “Yes.”

“Then let it happen,” she said, moving behind him once more. “Let me lead you.”

He did.

When she finally stepped in front of him again, the city outside was darker, the office quieter, the air between them charged with something unspoken but unmistakable.

“You did well tonight,” she said, brushing her fingertips over the back of his hand. Even that light touch felt like a reward he’d been working toward for hours.

“You followed my pace.”

He nodded slowly, meeting her eyes with something calmer, deeper, more open than before.

“And you didn’t break,” she said. “You yielded.”

He breathed out. “I did.”

“And you want more.”

He didn’t deny it.

She held his gaze. “Then you’ll come back tomorrow evening. Same time.”

He swallowed. “Yes.”

“And you won’t wait outside my door,” she added. “You’ll knock. Once. And you’ll stand exactly where I tell you.”

He felt heat run through him again.

“Yes.”

Elena stepped back, her authority softening only slightly into something almost intimate. “Good. You learn quickly.”

She moved to her desk, picking up her coat.

“You may leave now,” she said, not unkindly.

Michael didn’t move immediately. He waited—not for permission, but because he was gathering himself after everything she’d taken and everything she had left him with.

When he finally opened the door, she spoke without looking at him.

“And Michael?”

He paused. “Yes?”

Her smile, reflected faintly in the window, was slow and certain.

“Tomorrow,” she said, “you give me more.”

He closed the door softly behind him.

And for the first time in a long time, he felt exactly where he wanted to be.

The End – Or IS it?

Cruella Pain

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I have written them over the past five years and really enjoyed the form. Making each word count. Each story beautifully illustrates one ‘Perfect Moment’, of the FemDom dynamic, the various and subtle shades which characterise the Mistress / male slave relationship. 

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Charlotte Benning is an interesting author. Not only has she created a unique ‘world’, in her ‘SlaveHouse’ stories, she has also bridged the gap between fem dom and dystopian writings. Slavehouse is a complete world, created and ruled by Dominant Women, and men – the slaves – are reduced to mere appendages. So far, so what I can hear. But this is more than just the run of the mill FemDom. It is a whole world to get immersed in.

Wander in there at your own peril. Getting out may not be so easy.

‘An atmospheric journey into the chilling dark heart of female domination…

The Slavehouse…All who come into contact with its fatal, alluring spell are doomed to be subjugated in the most degrading and extreme way, transformed permanently into vacuous, adoring pets of the evil Mistresses who reside there.’

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Given to Miss Tate
It was their usual Friday night in rain-swept, safe suburbia. The boys were coming home from the pub, swaggering with beer and high spirits. They were a little loud, a little drunk, and a little disorderly. But they meant no harm. It was just to be a prank…

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Every one of them ended up running away like their lives depended on it… every one of them except one.

One of them was caught, and kept, and then…Given to Miss Tate…

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Seeds of the Forbidden
Reports of ‘goings on’ at her address brought two policemen and a woman from Social Services to Miss Pearson’s front door. The three of them were absolutely relishing the prospect of seeing what exactly lay behind the imposing façade, and then using the authority of the state to pick over someone else’s life.

But this call was to be different from their usual. Miss Pearson’s house was no ordinary dwelling, and what goes on there is nothing like everyday life.

It is a Slavehouse. And all those who enter are changed by the experience…their positions, their authority and their uniforms are no protection…

A highly-charged erotic tale of domination, power, control and enslavement, in a series which charts the darkest heart of Domination by the female over the male species.

Chained Inside.
Miss Pearson reveals to Miss Stein something of the beginnings of the Slavehouse, when She first became aware of the real power of Her Femininity, that Dark Epiphany when She suddenly knew who She was and what She could do, and everything She had been told and formerly believed simply crumbled into dust.

Meanwhile, in the present, Miss Tate is busy training Her first slave in the secrecy of Her ensuite apartment upstairs, and Miss Whitworth is surprised by a request to meet with Detective Sergeant Bell…

The Darkest Truth.

Those who approach the Slavehouse with the mantle of authority… those who chance upon a misfortunate intrusion…those who approach in blissful ignorance…all become the helpless, captive prey, doomed to live out the twisted intentions of Miss Pearson, Miss Whitworth, and Miss Tate, sisters without mercy.

Of those men who foolishly enter, none ever come out again except as a living testament to the power of the Slavehouse, broken, changed, subjugated and enslaved.

In the fourth book of this dark and compelling series, the shocking depths of what lies at the heart of Miss Pearson’s thriving establishment begin to appear, and readers beware: As the visitors in this story are changed by the experience, so will you be. …

Taken
As an academic, Miss Stein believed in words, ideas, and ideals. At the Slavehouse of Miss Pearson, she formed what she liked to think of as a scholarly interest in the form of lifestyle pertaining there. It was an interest that induced her to go time and time and time again – researching, taking notes, going deeper and deeper, enquiring further into the alluring, ancient power at the heart of the strange establishment. She was appalled….and then she was interested…and then captivated…until finally, in a dark awakening that words could never describe…
…she was taken.

Broken on the Wheel

Just when you thought the Slavehouse saga was complete, there comes a brand-new, much anticipated installment from cult author Charlotte Benning. Once again, the reader is plunged into the strange, disturbing world of Miss Pearson and the Slavehouse, where Females inevitably discover their power, and males their weakness. We learn of more male lives drawn into the spiralling gravity of the Slavehouse, and who are utterly changed as a result. Read about men who mocked, denied, belittled themselves and everyone else, aimless wasters. Read their fate when they strayed too near.In this tale hear of one who began as an unemployable wastrel, after a chance encounter, driving Miss Pearson. But he come to see the truth only when it is too late…Outside its secretive walls of the Slavehouse there is ridicule and misunderstanding. Once the truth is encountered, however, there is only submission, veneration, servitude. Dare you pass inside? It will change you.

Permanently Dolly

Bad attracts good, they say, and good, bad. Some people have deep spiritual convictions and generosity of soul. However, there is only one winner when the wicked Miss Pearson is involved, as exemplified by the achievement of ‘Dolly’, as perfect a specimen of sissy development as could be, from a former state bordering on saintliness. Read the story of her descent into darkness, the chains, whippings, denial and mind bending cruelty, the enforced chastity and erotic rituals of phallic worship, making her permanently addicted to cock, permanently altered for Miss Pearson’s amusement and pleasure, permanently owned, permanently DOLLY.

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Cruella Pain

I am an author of books with strong and explicit Female Domination themes.

I am a Dominatrix / Mistress. I am a bitch.

I live in the Chester area. Note, I do NOT have an Amazon Wishlist.

So Amazon vouchers ONLY accepted, from those devotees seeking to please.

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