/authors/d-carroll/Recent content in D Carroll on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-us/stories/1/01/01/bed-bondage/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/bed-bondage/<p>The room is warm, almost too warm. I am slightly damp from perspiration, and the occasional draft makes me shiver. The room is filled with a warm, diffuse light, sunlight through heavy lace curtains, giving the place an antique feel. The air smells of potpourri, mingled with red wine and musk.</p> <p>My eyes travel lazily along the ceiling, until they reach the far wall, where a full-length mirror stands across from the foot of the bed, tilted slightly forward in its heavy oak frame. The image staring back at me from the mirror commands my attention: a exquisite brass four-poster bed, and on it a beautiful woman, naked, her arms stretched tautly over her head, and her legs reaching out toward the posts at the foot of the bed.</p>