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"Kari, this is Buck"

"Oh U out on Friday evenings, but all she wanted to do was curl up in jammies, eat popcorn, and enjoy a ers, the last thing she wanted was to have a conversation, especially an aard one "What’s up?"

"We’ve never had that talk you promised," he said "How about I co on"

"Ah, that won’t work, Buck I’ would be to say she was sorry, but she wasn’t

A pause "Are you still mad at me for Monday? I said I was sorry"

Apparently the discussion would be now She sat down at the kitchen table and tried to prepare herself "I’ood Then I’ll pick you up for the last class toht"

Maybe she needed to learn to be less polite Submissive to one man didn’t mean that everyone else could walk all over her "No Um I like you, Buck, but I don’t want to date anyuilty

"Are you dating that Dom from the club? Is that why you don’t want to see me anymore?" His voice held a thread of bitterness

"I’ for the gentle-but-firm tone she used with nosy students anted to know about her personal life

"Kari, that guy’s not good for you I can tell," he said "I don’t like the way he’s got you behaving"

"I appreciate your concern, but it really is et off the phone Lie "Sorry, Buck, but I’ve got another call coo Bye"

She punched the End button Hopefully, he’d never re Bad, bad Kari

Saturday evening, Kari set the phone doith a loud sigh Darn it No--daetic, but the part for her car wouldn’t be in until MondayNo car till then

She dropped onto her comfy floral couch and leaned her head back It wasn’t a total disaster Carol could take her to school on Monday, and she didn’t have any place she needed to be this weekend

Except the Shadowlands

"Well, Prince, looks like it’s you andhis head on her knees, the shepherd looked up at her with big brown eyes, perfectly content to have her at hohed She’d been off and on about returning to the Shadowlands, but now that she couldn’t go, she felt a definite letdown No BDSM stuff No Master Dan

Rising, she paced across her living rooht of the cuffs and the erotic feeling of helplessness when Sir had strapped her onto that sawhorse thing How he’d pinned her hips down as he thrust into her, so big and hard… She shivered as her body roused, craving that sensation again All those sensations

Still, she needed to be practical Over the past couple of days, reality had slowly crept back Although bondagea person did forever…was it?

She reached the end of the rooe in…exotic sex? H a member of the club, she’d said years And that older couple, Martha and Gerald, had been together for twenty years They looked perfectly content Not depraved or anything So, people could do it for years

Would she want to? Heat ran through her at the thought What would it be like to be actively interested in sex instead of putting up with it? What if, after an evening of reading or watching TV, her man ordered her to strip and bend over the are her life? The instant daave her the answer

Master Dan said she ired to need domination for true satisfaction A sexual submissive She wrinkled her nose That submissive word still sounded awfully distasteful But facts were facts She’d gone to the Shadowlands to test the hypothesis that bondage and doh not done to anything rese scientific standards, had proven exactly that

Knowledge gained, new problems discovered Did she want to pursue this further?

She snorted Darned right Not that she could do anything about it tonight