Thanks to being on the road for WWE so much of the time, Seth and Bayley had made a slow start to their first restoration project. It wasn't for any lack of desire or effort on their part, it was simply that they had not been there to do the work.
This week though, they had Friday, Saturday and Sunday off, giving them a good opportunity to make some real progress.
Friday had been spent with Seth tearing out the old kitchen units and work surfaces, and throwing them into the large dumpster that currently sat on the driveway. Meanwhile, Bayley had made an excellent job of re-plastering the living room. Seth had been delighted with the expertise she had shown at the difficult task. The room could be painted the next time they had a chance to work, as the plaster required another couple of days to totally dry.
On Saturday morning, the two owners of Bayllins Property Developers had been up early for breakfast before heading over to the project to crack on with the work.
Seth started out the day's work in the kitchen. The units and work surfaces were all out now, leaving some loose electrical cables protruding from the wall in a couple of places. In addition, there were cables hanging from the ceiling where light fittings had once been. He decided that although they had already been isolated at the fuse box, it would be a good idea to make doubly sure that the cables were left safe.
He walked through to what would eventually become the house's dining room, where he and Bayley had chosen to store all of their supplies and tools.
It didn't take Seth long to locate a wide roll of black electrical tape. He returned to the kitchen with it, and set about taping up all of the loose ends of the various cables, ensuring beyond doubt that no misfortune could happen to anyone.
The task took him several minutes. When it was complete, he was about to throw the tape aside onto the floor and move on to his next task. But then, a better idea came to mind. There was another excellent use he could put it to. Bayley loved to be tied up with tape, and it had been quite a while since he had indulged her. She was in for a surprise, he decided as a smile appeared on his face.
There was no time like the present. With the tape in hand, Seth walked quietly out of the kitchen, heading for the living room, where Bayley was by now presumably busy with her second task of the day – painting the ceiling. She had a radio on quietly in there, and he could hear her humming along to some dance track or other that he didn't recognise.
Sneaking into the room, Seth found Bayley had her back to him, working at the far end of the room, using a roller with a long handle to paint the ceiling. The opportunity was perfect for him. He smiled again at how cute she looked wearing her blue overalls covered in paint and plaster stains, along with black latex gloves. Even paint was too much for her weird phobia of getting her hands dirty. She even had her hair in the adorable side ponytail that had once been a much-loved feature of her character, before she had turned heel.
Bayley sensed Seth coming up behind her, but not quite quickly enough. Before she could react, he wrapped an arm around her chest, pulling her tightly to him. At the same time, he clamped his other hand over her mouth, knowing it would instantly turn her on as it was a big fetish for her.
"Mmmpph!" she yelped into his hand, grabbing it with one of hers, not that she was strong enough to pull it away.
"Sshhh," he whispered into her ear. "I'm going to tie you up and gag you. It will be easier for both of us if you don't struggle."
He delighted in feeling her squirm uncontrollably in excitement. The muffled sound that she made might well have been an involuntary response of delight. She loved what he had said to her.
Seth raised the roll of tape that was in his other hand so that she could see it. "I think this will do the job nicely. Now, I'm going to have to take my hand off your mouth to tape it up. Stay quiet, alright?"
Bayley managed to nod slightly. When Seth took his hand away, she let out a ragged breath that was born of sheer sexual excitement. Wasting no time, Seth stretched out a length of tape from the roll, stuck the end to her cheek and pulled it tight across her mouth. Standing behind her was the perfect place to work from.
"Mmmmm," Bayley protested as her lips were sealed, testing the effectiveness of the gag for the first time. She knew by now that Seth wouldn't hold back, which was just the way she wanted it. She was literally on fire already, the surprise turning her on as well as the impending bondage that she was going to be put in.
Seth wrapped the tape around her head three times, as tightly as he could. It virtually covered her face from the bottom of her nose to her chin. There was only one way the tape was coming off, and that was by him choosing to remove it. And that wouldn't be happening any time soon, she knew.
With the gag in place, Seth's next decision was how to tie Bayley up in such a way that was difficult, or ideally impossible, for her to escape from. Initially, he thought he might have to leave her sitting on the floor, but after a glance around the room, he saw that there was a better option. The day before, they had brought two old wooden dining chairs into the room to sit on while they had a cup of coffee and a break. The gaps between the bars on the back of the chair were just wide enough to pass her hands through, he estimated.
"Alright, over here," he ordered as he started to drag her towards the chairs.
Bayley was burning up as she was forced to sit on one of the dining chairs. Since most of their bondage experiences happened in the bedroom for obvious reasons, she hadn't been tied to a chair like this before. It was clear that was about to change. For the time being, since she had her overalls on, there wasn't even going to be any sex. She was going to be left bound, gagged and unable to escape. That was fine with her, so long as sex came eventually. The longer she was tied to the chair, the more desperate she would be for it.
Seth pulled Bayley's hands behind her back and between the bars on the back of the chair. Holding them together with one hand, he set about wrapping the tape around her wrists. By now, he was an expert at applying tape bondage tight enough to be inescapable but not tight enough to cut off circulation. Within moments, her wrists were secured. As an added bonus, the gloves she was wearing made it even less likely that she might be able to somehow start picking at the tape with her nails. She wouldn't be able to get off the chair now, but Seth wasn't close to done with her yet.
"Wmmmt tmm hell?" Bayley squealed, playing along with her part as the victim as Seth started wrapping tape around her stomach and the back of the chair to hold her in place. It took him a minute to work around her several times.
"Good," he pronounced after tearing the roll free. "I bet you can't move now?"
Growling angrily, Bayley struggled against the tape. It delighted her how little result she got for her efforts. In that moment, she realised that there was a finishing touch Seth could make to leave her completely helpless. To encourage him along, she aimed a kick at him, which missed.
"Oh, that's the way it is?" Seth asked with a cocky smile on his face. "Right, I can soon take care of your legs, too."
Bayley couldn't contain her delight as first her right ankle, then her left were secured to the chair legs, each one wrapped in several layers of tape. Seth had used most of what had been left on the roll on her.
"Perfect," Seth said, standing back to admire his handiwork. "I figure you won't be going anywhere any time soon. So, sit there and be quiet. If you're lucky, I might be back to untie you in a couple of hours or so, when I'm done it the kitchen."
"Mmmmpph," Bayley moaned pathetically, giving him her best puppy dog eyes.
"You can look cute all you want, it's not going to make any difference," Seth told her before turning and walking out of the room. Only the bulge in his overalls gave the lie to his tough guy act. Tying her up had turned him on almost as much as it had her, she figured.
The situation she had been left in had Bayley on fire and craving sexual release more than release from the bondage. To heighten her experience even further, Seth had left her alone so that she could struggle for freedom. He had done that before when tying her to their bed, but never like this. Opportunity or not, she couldn't imagine how she might get out of this situation, not taped up this well.
She spent a few minutes struggling against the bonds and trying to talk through the gag, achieving precisely nothing the whole time. Nothing other than turning herself on even more, at least. It certainly wouldn't have taken much at all from Seth to get her to reach her peak.
Out of breath from struggling, Bayley took a moment to look around the room. There was an old table standing against the wall. They had been using it basically to throw tools and stuff onto while they had been working. Among the clutter that was currently on there, she saw a pair of scissors. If she could just get to them and manage to pick them up, she might be able to cut the tape free from her wrists, and if she could do that, she would be able to remove the rest of it.
"Cmmm onn!" she growled as she started struggling to move the chair across the room towards the table. With her ankles taped to the legs, it was close to impossible. She also had to be careful not to tip the chair over. Although Seth would come running and free her if he heard a crash like that, the fall would still hurt.
Grunting with the effort, Bayley managed to work out a way of moving that shifted the chair a few inches at a time across the bare wooden floor. It took her several minutes to reach the table, by which time her breathing was laboured and she was sweating with the effort she had put in. Still the bonds and gag remained tight and effective.
Not for much longer, she thought with determination as her fingers started to feel the objects on the table behind her. A paintbrush was the first thing she felt. That was no good to her. Then she felt metal, cool even through her latex gloves, which were now making her hands sweat. The scissors!
Bayley cried out into the tape when she almost had the scissors in her hand, only for them to fall. Luckily, they landed back on the table, and she was able to try again. This time, she was able to pick up one of the handles, opening the scissors in the process of lifting them. Perfect, she thought, beginning to saw away at the tape around her wrists, being careful not to stab or cut herself in the process.
After a minute or so of sawing, she felt a layer of the tape snap loose, and then another. Her hands were almost free. Yanking her wrists apart as hard as she could tore the rest of the tape loose. She had the use of her hands back.
The next job was to strip off the gloves to expose her short finger nails. Short or not, they at least gave her something to use to find the end of the tape that Seth had wrapped around her mouth. Slowly, she unwrapped the gag, being careful not to hurt her lips as the adhesive reluctantly gave up its grip on them.
"Better luck next time, Seth," she muttered once she was able, balling up the tape and throwing it on the floor. She gasped in a few grateful breaths before continuing to free herself, working next on the tape around her stomach.
In another couple of minutes, she was able to extricate herself from the chair, leaving a bunch of tape strewn on the floor around it. For the moment, she didn't care about that. All she was interesting in was going through to the kitchen to rub her success in Seth's face.
Bayley walked out into the hallway and went to stand in the kitchen doorway. When she got there, Seth noticed her and turned to her with a look of surprise on her face.
"Ta da!" Bayley proclaimed, spreading her arms to show off and giving him a smug smile. "You'll have to tie me up better than that next time."
Seth laughed as he walked over to her. "I'll keep that in mind, angel. You're a tricky little one, for sure. And there I was, planning to come back in there for sex at some point."
"I think after I got out of that lot, sex is the least you can do, mister," Bayley said with a sassy attitude.
"Good point," Seth said gruffly, leaning down to start kissing her neck.
A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed the previous chapter. The support is always appreciated.
Next time, Bayley will be at work in the garden. What do you think she might find among the mess out there?