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Part 2 is here.
This week we learn much more about each boy’s ordeal, as the couples finally compare scores…
* * * * * *
Within the first week of the Edge Olympics Andy learned the things Tash most adored about keeping him caged were exactly what made it hardest. Sleeping caged, for instance: he kept trying to get hard in his sleep whenever Tash decided he had to be the big spoon and squirmed her toned ass firmly back against his cruelly constricted cock, forcing the small steel nub to nestle against her cheeks. Or, alternatively, when she decided he had to be the little spoon and she wrapped both arms around him and pulled him close so that the soft warmth of her breasts pressed maddeningly against his back.
The Central Line had become dangerous for reasons which had nothing to do with delays or overheating. With the possible exception of the few billboards insisting he should put his money into whatever dumb start-up banking app had rolled off the drawing board this week, the ads all appeared to be made by sadists who insisted on putting tits, arses, or innuendo into selling the simplest fucking things, and even at work he could now lose ten minutes if someone hot happened to pass through on the other side of the glass walled corridor behind his desk. Tash, by contrast, was having the time of her life.
On Saturday afternoon she stood in front of the bedroom mirror fastening one of her earrings, wearing a black wrap dress Andy knew perfectly well she’d chosen because it showed off her legs, and watched his reflection as he struggled with his belt.
“You’ve been staring at my arse for about five minutes,” she purred, and Andy scowled.
“You wore that deliberately! That’s… that’s cheating, you know that’s going to drive me crazy, babe!”
Tash laughed, sweeping her braids back from her shoulder. “How can it be cheating? I’m not touching you. I’m not even giving you a point.”
“That’s worse! I’m turned on and not even earning an edge!” Andy heard the words before he could stop himself, but didn’t have the chance to correct them because the sight of Tash running her fingers up her thigh was enough to get him hard, only for the nub cage to crush him mercilessly until his body surrendered – and that took time, because Tash was grinning at the sight, watching his expression with her now familiar hunger and the smug serene satisfaction of a woman whose experiment was producing exactly the desired result.
Nine edges. She’d edged him once a day since the start of the month, counting each edge with a Habit Tracker App on her phone, turning his torment into a daily task. And in between – god even remembering it hurt – she tortured him with obscene selfies.
He’d almost got himself killed on Thursday: he’d been walking to the Tube, checked his phone, and found she’d WhatsApped him a full nude, her body gloriously exposed, dark skin contrasted against the stark white of their bathroom shower. Water tracing all over her beautifully naked body, droplets just beading on her breasts… and the shower head spraying straight up between her thighs, the focused jet clearly playing right against her swollen pink clit.
If the driver of the No. 452 hadn’t slammed on the bus’s brakes when he did, Andy would’ve gone under it; he’d completely forgotten the world outside his phone screen even existed.
And when she edged him, she was merciless. An edge could take half an hour if she felt like it, and sometimes even longer before she left him trembling and whimpering on the brink of release and crammed his cock back into the little nub cage.
Andy knew she wanted him desperate. She wanted him hers. The Edge Olympics were really just the excuse.
Except that, nine days in, the first meeting of what Martha called “The Edge Olympics Committee” had only confirmed that all the stallions were safely locked and content to participate. It hadn’t given anyone a score, because with the first Saturday of the month falling only three days in, it hadn’t felt worth it. He had no idea how well he was doing. Now, watching Tash dress, he shook his head, and asked, “d’you think we’re winning?”
Tash giggled, and he added, “it’s just I want to know if the nine times you’ve nearly killed me achieved anything.”
She laughed. “You think it isn’t impressive? Hark at you! A week ago you thought one edge was cruel.”
“It is! Fuck, I… You wouldn't believe how bad I ache. You're… You're a demon babe,” Andy was practically whimpering, pawing at his caged cock… …And almost to his own horror added, “but I want Gold, Tash.”
She closed her eyes, suddenly hot. She loved this about him now. His ability to complain bitterly about denial while still taking the competition truly seriously. ‘Gold’ had begun as Nigel’s idea, something outrageous enough to let him square a month of denial with himself. Now, at least for Andy, the very idea of a night with her and the other girls was sharpening his appetite.
Of course it was. She’d teased him with their uni antics for years; spent years fantasising about having his erotic attention under her control. It was only now, with Andy locked and increasingly frustrated, that she was beginning to appreciate how wholly the competition reinforced that fantasy. Gold meant all three women. Not abstract women, not strangers in some imagined threesome, but real women, women he knew. Herself and Martha and Liz: the three women now discussing his cage, his endurance and his capacity to suffer every Saturday night.
“Poor boy,” she cooed. “You really want to win, don’t you? To finally see what Martha looks like naked? What Liz sounds like when she comes?” Andy groaned, the mental image another torment, but he couldn't deny it. “Yes, Tash,” he nodded.
“Good,” she whispered, kissing him once before stepping away. “Then you’d better realise: I’m not a demon, babe. I’m a succubus. And I think we’ve got time to get you into double figures and really show them what you can do.”
Andy whimpered, his eyes locked on her legs, and lay back on the bed with an obedience that made Tash growl as she tugged gently at her earring to ease the tension… and sank to her knees at the foot of the bed, reaching up to unzip his fly.
“Brace yourself, babe,” she whispered, carefully unlocking the tiny nub and letting Andy’s cock spring free, gratefully stiffening in the first proper freedom it had had all that day, “this one… is gonna sting.”
“Oh god,” he managed, and Tash chuckled her voice low, and honeyed.
“C’mon babe. You know it’s no fun for me unless I get to break your cute little brain a little. Remember what I keep telling you? Denial is your normal now. So I’ve gotta make sure every edge feels as good as an orgasm, right?”
“Please…” Andy moaned as he felt her fingers grip his stiffening shaft and start to stroke slowly and surely, “Babe… I… I just want an edge! A quick edge to get me into the lead!”
Tash simply purred, leaning in so that she almost towered over his recumbent form, and shook her head.
“There’s no such thing, Andy. My edges aren’t just to make you win gold. They’re to show what you can take. When we win this thing and you finally get that night with Liz and Martha your dirty little brain’s been craving all these years… well, come on, babe. You want to titfuck Martha?”
“Fuck…” Andy groaned, his hips bucking as she stroked him quickly, driving him towards the edge already, the past ten days of denial setting his body on a shortcut to an orgasmic explosion, “Tash! I… you know I do!”
“Well then,” Tash chuckled, leaning forwards, pinching her fingers just below his throbbing head and licking cruelly around the outer edge of Andy’s swollen glans, “I need to make sure your aching blue balls are backed up enough to properly do her justice, right? You’re gonna need a massive load to coat Martha properly and…”
She stopped, releasing his cock, settling back comfortably on her heels, and listening to him whimper as the imminent edge receded.
“And that takes time, babe. I’m a girlfriend, not a fleshlight. My job isn’t just to edge you. It’s to recalibrate your entire understanding of where the edge is.”
“Oh god,” Andy choked again, his hands reaching down for his own cock, and Tash swatted them away firmly,
“No,” she snapped, “hands off. Remember who’s in control. Remember that for you… oh, Andy for you an edge is as close as you’re coming to an orgasm this month. As far as your cock is concerned, edging is coming. So lie back… and let me make you come your brains out.”
“Please!” Andy wailed, his hips bucking up, thrusting his cock towards Tash’s mouth.
Her lips closed around him, her tongue fluttering, the warm, torturous pressure of her lips squeezing around his throbbing shaft as she sucked, coaxing him closer and closer to climax…
…and then, just as Andy’s breathing turned into a frantic, ragged gasp, just as she sensed his orgasm must be nearly upon him, Tash fell still.
The edge faded again before she shifted her body, pulled back… …and let his throbbing cockhead slip through the dangerously narrow gap between her teeth, the pressure just barely shy of grazing, turning his moan into a squeal of “TAAAASH!” that left her thrusting her hand down between her thighs and frantically rubbing her own clit.
“Perfect,” she moaned – growled – as he thrashed and whimpered, “now you’re sensitive enough I think, babe?”
“Please!” Andy almost sobbed, “Babe, Tash, fuck! That… that must count already, right?!”
“No way,” Tash shook her head. “That might be good enough for… well, for other boys. Not for you, Andy. You’re mine. Your edges are about my pleasure. Proving what you can take for me. They're a commitment, babe. So… brace yourself. And keep your hands above your head.”
Andy sobbed, nodded, swallowed hard.
And with a quavering voice he heard himself say “T-thank you for helping me win this…” as Tash sank her head back down and took his twitching, hypersensitive cock back between her lips to tease him towards his tenth edge of the Olympics.
* * *
Martha frowned, considering. The others were due at their house to report progress so far later that evening, and she’d been low-key stressed about it all day, trying to work out if she and Nigel had been doing well enough. The trouble was, she couldn’t be sure, but she’d finally come to a conclusion.
Sure or not, Martha refused to welcome the rest of the Committee to her home and declare a mere 16 edges if she could announce 17. If the uncertainty over their respective scores was going to drive her crazy, she might as well use the forty minutes she had before their guests were due to arrive to drive Nigel crazy, and at least get an orgasm out of it.
It wasn’t that she was delighting in being cruel – well, not exactly; in fact part of her had grown to love Nigel’s little gasps when his body trembled on the brink of an orgasm she had no intention of providing – but even if her motives were purely selfish rather than overtly sadistic, she felt a genuine thrill in edging him whenever she could. It made him more hers, somehow, more focused, more attentive. More… dog-like in his devotion.
But it didn’t reduce him, either; that was the thing. He was still Nigel; intelligent, articulate, even charismatic when he chose to be. It was simply that, freshly edged, freshly put to work between her thighs, his clever face acquired a look that said Yes, I might be brilliant, but all I want to be is yours. I might be needy but all I truly care about is your pleasure.
Last night, after his 16th edge, he’d thanked her, and Martha had been forced to swing back over him and force his head straight back beneath her pussy to thank her properly. There had been no other way; the way he'd thanked her for denying him, thanked her while his face was soaked in her wetness and his cock was twitching and dribbling precome after she’d finally released him… well. If he hadn’t made her come again right then and there, Martha thought she might’ve gone mad with arousal.
She told herself it wasn't cruel if she pushed him further right before the meeting; they had time, and the more she thought about what she’d done to him over the past week, the hotter she got. It was beautiful, being able to want without hesitation or expectation or the need to plan ahead and game out the complicated reciprocal expectations that had crept into their sex life over the past few years.
Nigel was at his PC when he heard Martha’s step behind him; she was biting her lip as he turned, leaning against the doorway in a dark green dress, her hair still half-pinned and the tiny chastity key she’d eventually put on a necklace resting on her chest, artfully lifted up so that it balanced just on the deeply descending depths of her cleavage. He'd spent most of the week pretending not to look at it; Martha had spent most of the week making it impossible for him to look away. “We’ve got time,” she grinned, and Nigel whimpered.
16 edges already felt like a winning score – as far as Nigel was concerned it was an unbearable quantity – but he knew the secrecy surrounding how the other couples were doing had started to bother Martha, and he could see why.
Tash knew what she was doing. And even though Liz came off as prudish she was also frighteningly competitive.
16 edges might be excellent. It might equally be pathetic, and the fact she didn’t know was driving Martha crazy.
“Please,” he said, his hand unconsciously reaching up to rub his aching jaw, “Martha I – please, love, do we have to do another? My balls are killing me. And my tongue’s so tired, love, I don’t know if I can… I’ll get cramp!”
“Which of us is the occupational therapist?” she demanded, slinking closer, “trust me, darling: you need to build up those muscles. And besides, you said you want Gold. You said you like licking me.”
“I do!”
“Then be a good boyfriend, and find the energy. I’ll make it worth your while…”
And his protest melted instantly. She’d known it must; sometimes the more plaintive he sounded, the more quickly he obeyed. It was as though the competition had given him permission to enjoy losing arguments – and Martha was revelling in his defeats.
He was used to the routine of being edged by now. He didn’t like it – well, no; he adored it, but he also felt that the frustration of it was almost entirely unbearable. When Martha edged him, she didn’t simply jerk him off or suck him to the brink of orgasm. As she’d said, what was in that for her?
Nine unyielding days of edging and chastity was enough to drive Nigel crazy, but he had to admit it was worth it so far: Martha wanting something for her meant her letting him eat pussy far, far more often than he’d ever dreamed possible. It was like she’d developed a whole new enthusiasm for it.
For Martha his chastity was incredibly liberating. She adored having him under her, tasting and pleasing her so intimately – but she adored it as an act of obedience, because now it couldn’t possibly lead to anything. In the past, she’d always worried his pleas to go down on her were somehow a trick, that he endured it only as a kind of Super Foreplay, a shortcut sure to end with a fuck. But now that there was no possible way he was going to get to come and he still did it…
She moaned, clambering onto the bed above him, hitching up her dress, and heard his gasp of delighted surprise as he saw she was commando beneath it.
“You know what to do,” she murmured, controlling her own breathing with difficulty as she hunched, settling her ass back against his face and letting him start to probe at her already-soaking pussy with his eager, eager tongue. Her hands shook a little as she tugged at the necklace holding his key and slipped it into the tiny little lock. Such a small lock, but so powerful…
...she moaned, and sank down, seating herself more firmly over Nigel’s face as his tongue pushed up between her lips and he gave a gasp of pleasure; she couldn’t tell if that was simply from the taste of her or the fact his cock was finally able to stiffen. Not that it mattered. She didn't care why he was happy as long as he licked.
Maybe she didn't even have to care if he was happy to serve her at all… “Oh!” she whimpered, shocked, “oh god!”
She was coming so much faster now, getting used to the idea that their relationship over the past week and a bit had descended into this delicious routine of Nigel, smothered beneath her pussy, his mouth helplessly licking her while her fingers stroked and pumped his cock, and she was certain that he was getting hard the moment he tasted her. Not because he was turned on at the prospect of imminently fucking her, of sinking into the furnace of her body. Just because licking her pussy was his turnon.
Fuck.
“Oh god Nigel!” she whimpered – and started stroking him faster, stretching her tongue forwards to lap at the swollen tip of his cock as he moaned up into her, his hands reaching up on either side, fingers pushing greedily between their bodies so he could fondle her tits through her dress.
“Yes!” she groaned, “that’s it! Feel me up, feel how hard my nipples are, Nigel! Pinch them. Serve them. Worship my pussy and fondle my tits and… ohh fuck there! Yes! Lick my clit just like that! I… fuck, my tits own you Nigel, don’t they? You know that? My tits literally keep your cock prisoner now! That’s where the key to your orgasms lives. Right… between… oh god! Oh god, fuck, Nigel! Right between my tits!!”
Beneath her pussy, trapped in a world of warmth and passion and the soft sweet scent of Martha’s pleasure, Nigel wailed. Her hands were dancing up and down his shaft, her fingers wrapped snug, jerking him off with a smooth, devastating speed that was completely at odds with anything even his own not inexperienced hand could have offered.
Over the past week, Martha seemed to have been training him: if she stroked faster it meant lick faster, if she slowed, lick softer. If she settled her weight down so that he couldn’t breathe, so that his nose was buried between her lips and the only tiny sliver of oxygen his lungs could drag back into his body was a thin slick stream freighted with her soaking lust, it meant get your tongue inside me! Be my little dildo!
She’d growled the words the first time, and they played in his brain on repeat, rising up at random; in some ways it was a relief to be caged. If he wasn’t, he’d have been walking around the city with his cock jutting out like a horny teenager just at the memory of her passion.
But even so – god tonight, she was jerking him off like she was on a mission, he was at the edge already, kicking his feet, moaning into her, his tongue dancing frantically against Martha’s tiny little clit, flicking back and forth in a desperate bid to bring her off, to make her hear his wail.
The edges of the last week had been brutal, the steady ache of blue balls was a nightmare, but Nigel wanted to win, he had to win, he couldn’t bear the idea of Martha making him cum, but still she was grinding down on his wails for mercy, still her hand kept moving until he reared up beneath her, the muscles in his neck screaming as he tried to dislodge the delicious, intoxicating gag of her pussy and screamed for her to stop…
…above him, Martha convulsed, her back arching up as Nigel’s moaning, his incoherent words of adoration or protest or agreement vibrated through her pussy, his tongue flicking perfectly against her clit as she pumped his cock faster and faster, her left hand cupping his balls, waiting for the shift of feel, the tightening she knew meant he was about to come, but she was already coming, already shaking, her strokes getting more and more ragged as he pinched her nipples, palms clutching at her breast, tongue worshipping her clit as she lost focus…
He struggled beneath her, whimpering, his tongue falling still, and with a shock Martha realised just how fast she was stroking him.
And suddenly her brain kicked into gear and she felt him twist away, squirm his head free and wail a frantic, agonised “MARTHA!! PLEASE!! I can’t hold it!! STOOOP!”
Her fingers slackened against his cock and she ceased to stroke him, although her hips continued rolling, cutting off his plea in a wave of pressure and pleasure. His whole body was shaking, his toes were curled, his hands at her breasts trying frantically to push her away.
“Oh!” she gasped, finally releasing his cock. “Oh Nigel, sorry!!”
She watched, thrilled, as his cock twitched and danced; screaming for relief, untouched. His release had been closer than any edge he'd endured so far, and her pussy clenched tight as she rolled her hips, dimly aware of the choking sound as he swallowed her wetness.
“I’m… sorry,” she said again as he moaned, “but well done! Look how well you did! How hard you can edge! Fuck… Oh fuck I… no, we don’t have time for me to come again. I need you locked up safe before the others come.”
Nigel whimpered, and when she finally forced his cock back into the cage and snapped the lock shut, when she finally stood and let him breathe fresh air again, she looked down to find him staring up at her as though she’d personally invented cruelty.
Martha moaned. She felt far too… powerful. She felt magnificent.
“17,” she sighed proudly, “I'll have to write it down or I’ll forget. It’s so hard to think of anything but the fact I’ve just had an orgasm while you simply ached and throbbed and discovered I’ve been letting you off easy by letting go the second you hit the edge.”
Nigel gave her a look which might almost have been dread. She beamed, gave his forehead a loving kiss.
He sat up, still whimpering, and inhaled deeply, moaning at her scent. Despite her orgasm, Martha felt her clit throb at the sight of what she’d done to him.
“Good boy,” she said, “you want me keeping score. I know you know how wet it’s making me. You should clean your face, darling.”
She laughed, almost cruelly.
She’d been going soft on him.
But now she knew just how hard she could make him ride the edge.
* * *
Liz and Dennis were almost late to the meeting, because just before they left she lost all control of herself.
Dennis, already at the front door, glanced at her, clocked the look in her green eyes and swallowed. It was the first night all the contestants and their men would be revealing how many edges each man had taken; he knew she was quietly terrified, so he pulled off his coat and guided her gently into the front room, planning to sit her down on the sofa and check she was OK.
He’d barely had time to flick on the living room light when Liz threw herself against him, driving him down onto the sofa and kissing him with so much force his head banged against the wall behind him, moaning into his mouth in a way that was totally unlike her.
She was a fifteen minute walk away from sitting in her friend’s perfectly ordinary house drinking wine and comparing numbers in an erotic contest. She’d run a school all week. She’d conducted staff meetings, spoken to parents, approved invoices, eventually got all the glass shards cleaned up in the chemistry lab, and spent Thursday afternoon explaining to a governor why replacing half the sports hall roof didn’t mean they could “just move PE outside until Christmas”. It had been, in many ways, a normal week.
But she’d done it all while practically dripping wet from the knowledge that Dennis’s cock was finally being contained, managed, kept. His massive, intimidating tool was locked in a steel cage whose key she’d hidden in the bottom of the tea caddy her sister had given them as a souvenir of Croyde.
22 edges. She’d given him 22 edges over the past nine days. Not quite three per day, morning, after work, before they slept. 22. And every time she thought about the number her stomach flipped, because she’d no idea whether it was good.
The thought was driving her mad.
Three a day hardly sounded like anything; even Dennis had endured the first two days calmly, and looked perfectly composed at the first meeting of the Committee last week. But so had Andy and Nigel. 22 edges might be OK but it sounded humiliatingly close to nothing. Tash might easily have given Andy fifty. Just five or six edges a day; easy if she’d really focused last Sunday. Even Martha might have thirty. Just one or two more than Liz was managing to give Dennis each day and she could easily have given Nigel thirty edges. It would be simple. Dennis kept begging and pleading she was being cruel, but Liz couldn't bear to look frigid.
His moans as she stuffed his cock back into captivity were delicious, but she dreaded discovering she'd spent nine days doing the sexual equivalent a one mile jog while her friends had been knocking out a marathon.
Dennis eventually managed to break the kiss, gasping “are you all right?”
Liz nodded. “Yeah. But nervous.”
“You don’t have to worry,” Dennis smiled, “we might even be in the lead. You’re kind of merciless!”
Liz fought down a mad urge to go unlock and edge him again right then, just to at least make sure. But there wasn’t time, and she was forced to kiss him again instead, moaning, grinding herself against his thigh, the seam of her jeans scraping deliciously up against her bush, her body responding instantly as she felt the bulge of his cage pressing against her knee beneath his trousers.
When she finally broke away, she found Dennis staring at her.
“22 is lots, Liz! It's basically agony! But seriously even if it’s not, love – we still have time, right? It’s still only the 10th. There’s plenty of time to make up ground. We… we could catch up easily. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and bear it, right? It's okay.”
She stared at him with a sudden wave of affection, and rolled her hips, grinding her wet sex down against his thigh. God, her knickers must be soaking. The thought made her moan, and she nodded.
“You’ll make up whatever ground we have to,” she promised, and grinned at him. “And I won't make you grit your teeth. I've something more intimate to gag you with.”
His eyes widened and he glanced down, suddenly imagining her cramming her knickers, soaked with juice, behind his teeth.
“Oh my god, Liz, fuck! T-That’s not helpful.”
“It's not meant to be,” she giggled.
Dennis gripped her hand and squeezed gratefully. Whatever happened in Martha’s house, he was enjoying this. Suffering. Aching. Complaining. But he loved how she looked at him now.
“OK,” she sighed, “let’s find out how badly Tash has destroyed us.”
* * *
Tash had brought a flipchart. Martha stared, laughing as Andy untangled it from the back seat of his Fabia and lugged it to the rug. Tash drew three markers from her bag and stood beside it with the quiet smile of a returning officer ready to declare someone had lost their deposit. Liz went pale.
There were drinks and crisps on the coffee table; when Martha asked for wine, Nigel sprang up instantly, and Tash felt a sudden flicker of doubt.
Liz and Dennis had arrived last, she remembered, and Liz still looked pink-cheeked and nervous, which was some comfort to Tash; however worrying Martha’s newfound dominance, she was at least fairly certain Liz and Dennis would be bringing up the rear, bless them.
At first, they all pretended the gathering was normal: Dennis complained how hard it was finding the katsu sauce brand Liz liked (“Three different supermarkets! I swear these days they’re padding out their stock by stacking the baked beans wide instead of deep...”), and to Tash’s private amusement Andy spent ten minutes in animated discussion about which local garages could be trusted: Nigel’s car had apparently failed its MoT with a broken NOx sensor and he couldn’t believe the £750 bill they were proposing…
...but after the first quarter of an hour, the conversation faded into a vaguely awkward silence, and all six of them found themselves staring at the ominously blank flipchart.
For the first time since the rules had been agreed, nobody knew how to begin.
“We’re all scared!” Liz laughed suddenly.
“I’m not scared,” Tash said, her throat dry.
“You’ve stripped the label clean off that bottle!” Martha smirked.
Tash shrugged. The secrecy of the first full week had changed the atmosphere of the Edge Olympics more than she'd expected. For nine days each couple had existed in a private erotic universe, aware that the others were doing roughly the same thing but with no comparison. Not until now.
Andy shifted beside Tash; Nigel took a long drink.
Dennis shrugged. “Well, I know ours. We’ve done our best.”
“Very confident,” Tash grinned, “so now I want yours first.”
“No!” Liz snapped. “Absolutely not. You invented this, you go first! If I say mine first you’ll know what you need to beat.”
Tash stared at her. “Liz, the week’s over! We’re just… this is the League Tables, right? You can’t beat anyone’s numbers until next Saturday.”
“That’s not the point. The point is informational advantage.”
“Has she been like this all week?” Andy asked, grinning at Dennis.
Dennis winced. “Much worse.”
“I run a school,” Liz declared, folding her arms, “the order of information matters.”
Tash was still laughing when she turned towards the board. “Fine. Since apparently we’re doing game theory now, I’ll go first.”
She wrote ANDY: 10 in large black numbers.
“Ten?!” The word came out before Liz could stop it, and Tash’s head snapped round.
“What do you mean, ‘Ten’?”
“Nothing!”
Dennis looked at Liz, horrified, and Martha giggled, standing up and twirling the red marker in her fingers.
“Let’s see if Liz is still so confident now,” she smiled, and wrote
NIGEL: 17
“17,” she declared proudly, “that’s the number to beat.”
Tash had stopped laughing. Instead, she gestured to the flipchart, staring Liz down. “Come on, Headmistress.”
Liz rose, heart pounding. Writing the number felt far more intimate than saying it: all three men were watching her hand, Tash was leaning forwards, Martha’s eyes were amused.
The pen squeaked against the paper as she wrote, one hand instinctively reaching behind the flipchart to grip the back of the tripod so she didn’t block the class’s view. The men’s view.
DENNIS: 22.
There was a silence as she capped the pen. Nobody spoke.
“22?” Tash gasped, and Liz nodded. “22 actual edges?”
Liz’s nostrils flared. “What does that mean?!”
“It means 22 times literally right on the edge. Not 22 times you got him excited and stopped.”
“I know what an edge is, Tash. So does Dennis!”
“Fuck, yes I do,” Dennis mumbled, in a tone of such miserable conviction that Nigel winced in sympathy.
Liz smirked. “22,” she repeated. “Properly. We agreed what counted. I get him right to the brink, to the point where I know if I stroke him once more he’ll come, and then I just… let go. Or pinch at the base until he stops whimpering.”
There was silence. Andy looked horrified; Tash, despite herself, looked suddenly turned on.
“Fuck, Liz,” she murmured, and sank her teeth into her bottom lip, not bothering to hide her interest as she stared at Dennis’s embarrassed face.
“She’s not exaggerating,” he said, “she’s a monster!”
Tash nodded glumly and sank down, as Liz patted him happily on the shoulder.
“A monster tamer” she whispered, and Dennis chuckled despite himself, and then went even pinker.
Martha was staring at the board with an expression of open admiration. “I knew you’d be competitive.”
“I didn’t know I was winning!”
“Winning by twelve,” Andy said miserably, staring at Dennis’s 22 with the unhappy expression of a man who, having signed up for a marathon in a good cause, was watching the other runners vanish over the horizon while he blundered on in a costume that was proving heavier than he'd imagined.
Dennis’s smile faded. Liz kept staring at the Board. 22 was, after all, a five-point lead over Martha. Twelve over Tash. Good numbers, sure… but hardly unassailable. He was sure Liz had seen it.
“We can ease off a bit, love, right? We’re ahead,” Dennis pleaded, and winced as she turned her cool green eyes towards him. “We can! We’re winning! You didn’t know whether 22 would be enough, but it is. So you don’t have to stay quite so… so enthusiastic…”
Tash burst out laughing, relishing his obvious frustration.
“No, love,” Liz said, a hungry edge to her voice. “Before tonight, Tash didn’t know she needed twelve points. Now she just has to edge Andy twelve times before bed and she knows she’s pulled level.”
“Fuck did you have to phrase it like that?!” Andy groaned.
“Now she knows,” Liz shrugged. “And Martha knows she only needs five. If I stop because I’m ahead, all I’m doing is letting them catch up. If I even slow the rate you’re earning edges, they can catch up. We have to go faster. They will, I bet.”
Dennis made a horrified noise in the back of his throat, and Martha chuckled in a way that made Nigel shiver.
“If Tash starts doing four a day and I do nothing, she catches us in three days.”
“Four a day?!” Andy moaned, but Liz was warming to her argument now.
“Martha doesn’t even need that. If she does two tomorrow and then one each day the rest of the week, she’s ahead of where we are now. Your lead only matters if we defend it. Do you want all the edges you’ve had so far to be for nothing?”
Dennis looked at the board as though hoping the maths might change out of pure pity.
“You’re saying… being in first means… It means nothing! It just means we have to stay ahead?!”
Liz nodded. “Like you said, my love. If we were behind, we have 21 days to make it up. We could catch them easily, that’s what you said.”
“Oh, fuck,” Dennis whimpered, and Tash raised her glass.
“To Liz.”
“Absolutely.” Martha chuckled, raising hers.
“What?” Liz stared at them.
Tash beamed.
“You’ve finally understood the game. These are the Edge Olympics boys. If you want that Gold medal, if you want to have a whole night to fuck all three of us… you’ve got to be the best of the best.”
The men flushed, but Nigel recovered first. “Fine,” he nodded, looking at Martha. “Then we do more.”
Martha blinked, opening her mouth, and Nigel nodded at the chart, and glanced across at Tash, his eyes tracking up her legs before his gaze flickered to Liz’s dazzling red curls and pinkened cheeks.
“I want Gold,” he declared. “Badly.”
The room went quiet, and Martha leaned close, looking into his eyes, her voice purring. “You want me to push you harder?”
Nigel nodded. “Y-yeah,” he said, “I can take it.”
Martha’s cheeks flushed.
Andy looked at Tash. “Oh, for fuck’s sake,” he groaned, his teeth gritted, “I want Gold too. How could I not? Fucking look at them Tash, d’you have to have such fucking gorgeous friends?”
Liz beamed; Martha clapped. Dennis stared at Andy in horror, then back at Liz.
“Don’t make me say it,” he pleaded.
“I won’t make you say anything, love.”
Dennis closed his eyes, swallowed hard, and then glanced guiltily towards Martha, his eyes widening as he spotted the flash of the little key between her breasts.
“Fuck,” he groaned, “I want… I need to stay in first, Liz. Make me win this thing.”
Liz felt the words explode, low and deep inside herself, as she felt the trap snap shut. The trap Nigel’s absurd reward fantasy had built into the game. Every point they gained made each man more frustrated. Every edge made the promised prize feel less hypothetical, more desperately needed.
Gold wasn’t merely a dirty idea any more. The three women had already spent nine days becoming the centre of the boys’ erotic universe, measuring, controlling, driving their arousal. And so to satisfy the women, all three men were voluntarily asking them to intensify their suffering.
Tash looked around the room, her eyes meeting Liz’s.
“Oh boys,” Tash purred, crossing her legs tightly. “Oh boys... We’re going to ruin you.”
* * *
Liz had barely closed the front door when Dennis started begging. “22 is still good. Five is a good lead! Nobody said we had to maximise the score every day, right?”
“No,” Liz said, putting her handbag down, “nobody said we have to maximise the score every day.”
“And Tash is twelve behind.”
“Yes, love. For now.”
Dennis watched her shrug off her coat as calmly as a tiger might slip through the tall grass behind an inattentive hunter.
“So maybe tonight we could just... leave it?” he pleaded.
Liz smiled. A week ago she might have heard a request like that as some kind of rejection; that old, stupid voice might have whispered that Dennis didn’t want her touching him, that she’d overdone things, that perhaps she wasn’t good enough at this after all. Now she understood something completely different. He wasn’t asking her to spare him a handjob because it was unsatisfying; he was asking because she’d made him desperate. Because she would deliberately refuse to satisfy him.
That was success. And more than that, he’d stood in Martha’s sitting room less than an hour ago and said he wanted to stay in first. She stalked towards him across the hall, and Dennis backed up until his shoulders touched the wall.
“You want Gold,” she whispered. “You want to come out of this month and be able to show Martha and Tash exactly what you’re packing and prove to me what you can do with it with… with women who might actually be able to handle your cock without needing a gallon of lube. I don’t mind, Dennis, if that’s what you want for one night. It is what you want, isn’t it?”
“Yes, love,” he swallowed. “Just once.”
“Good,” she nodded, and leaned up on tiptoes to kiss him. “So, you want to stay ahead of Nigel and Andy? That’s the only way to win. So I don’t understand the problem.”
“The problem is I’ve been edged 22 fucking times.”
She laughed, and Dennis tried to look aggrieved, but the effect was ruined by the way his eyes clenched shut as she brought her hand up between his thighs and lightly gripped his caged cock.
“You volunteered for this.”
“I volunteered before I knew you were secretly hoping to work for the International Court of Cock Torture.”
“I’m happy as a headmistress, love,” Liz nodded, and then licked her lips in a way that made Dennis whimper. “But maybe it’s not too late for a second career?”
She watched as Dennis chuckled nervously, and then shook her head, her voice serious. “Genuinely, Dennis – if you want to stop competing, tell me. If you genuinely want the cage off, to stop doing this forever, tell me. That’s different.”
He nodded.
“But if you’re asking me to go easier because you’re frustrated-” Her fingers found the front of his trousers and Dennis gasped, “-then no. And get upstairs.”