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Helena nodded. “We had many weekends and holidays here. Some of my best memories are here. Running on the beach with Mariana and Beatriz, my mother yelling at us to put on sunscreen, my father reading on the terrace pretending not to watch us.” Helena pressed her lips to Caitlin’s neck. “I wanted you to see it. This place is… it’s the most me place I have.”

“Then I’m extra glad I’m here.” Caitlin turned in her arms and kissed her, slow and deep, surrounded by the sound of the insects and the sea. “How private is it?”

Helena tilted her head. She was getting better at reading Caitlin’s expressions, and while there wasn’t a smile as such there was the hint of something at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes that told her why Caitlin was asking.

“Very. Nobody will disturb us. Nobody can see us. We’d have to be very loud for somebody to hear us.”

Caitlin nodded slowly before playfully kissing Helena again. “So… Minha Dona. What do we do now?”

“Now, Gatinha, we have all night to play. Would you like that?”

Caitlin nodded slowly.

“I thought so, because you’re my playful, tame Gatinha, aren’t you?”

Caitlin nodded again.

“Tell me, Gatinha.”

“I’m your playful little kitten, and you own me. Completely. I will do anything you say. Anything, Minha Dona.”

“Do you want me to make you purr?”

Caitlin nodded one more time.

“Take off your clothes. All of them.”

Obedience was instant. Caitlin stepped back a couple of paces, not even checking to make sure that Helena was telling the truth about their privacy, and lifted her top up and over her head. She kicked off her sandals, undid the belt of her jeans, and they joined the top on the floor.

“All of it, Minha Dona?” Caitlin’s hands were paused behind her back at the clasp of her bra, a playful expression on her face.

“All of it, Gatinha. Keep only the necklace.” Helena started to slowly circle Caitlin as her bra went, and then her underwear. “From now until the others arrive on Friday clothing is a privilege for you, not a right. You wear what I tell you to wear, and only when I tell you to wear it.” She paused in front of Caitlin. “My tame little kitten will stay naked when we’re here and may only dress when we leave the property.” The look on Caitlin’s face told Helena everything about how enthused she was about this turn of events, but Helena was still going to ask her. “Colour?”

“Verde, Minha Dona.”

“Remember, if you say no to anything there is no consequence. There is never any pressure to keep saying yes.”

“And yet,” Caitlin replied, laughing, “I keep on not saying no. You’d almost think I like this, wouldn’t you?”

Helena grinned. “Me clothed, you naked. It works for both of us, doesn’t it?”

“Yes, it does.” Caitlin paused. “So what now, Minha Dona?”

“Now… I’m going to see if the housekeeper left a bottle of wine cooling like I asked her to, and I’m going to put my bikini on, and I think we should make the most of the pool.”

Caitlin opened her mouth to speak, but then hesitated.

“What is it?” Helena asked.

“I… I was just expecting you to tell me to kneel, or crawl, or… or whatever.”

Helena reached out to take Caitlin’s hand. “Gatinha, we have all the time we need.” She leaned forward and kissed her tenderly. “And you are mine, so remember… me not telling you to kneel when you want to is just as much my dominance and your submission as anything else. You are mine, completely.”

Caitlin nodded slowly and smiled again. “Always, Minha Dona, I trust you completely.”

Chapter 27

The bikini argument the next morning lasted a while.