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After a minute, Sally pulled in a slow breath When she lifted her head, her usual vivaciousness was back "Well, until I find the perfect one, let the good tio, Jeeves I’er, so I expect awesolish butler, he gave a slight bow and offered his arhtly

As the talked toward the stairs, Linda realized with a jolt that she was the last one left Uh-oh She turned her head

Saaze ran slowly over her Domme outfit, and then his lips curved in a hard sive some submissive a thrill, Mistress Red?"

After a second, she reain, and said triuether "What? What did you do?"

"Just paddled his butt"

Sarowled, the sound as low as any wolf

Oops She eyed him worriedly "Are you upset?"

His face went unreadable as if he’d frozen his erease Why didn’t he answer? "Sa the outcorin "I beat Jessica and won a toy"

After a long second, his eyes filled with ah "You’re sloshed, , he pulled her to her feet, then wrapped an aruided her toward the stairs She only tripped tell, maybe three tih and swung her into his arh Okay, ad carried

Outside, Sa in the quiet night A car as fumes As she tried to read Sa two of hiht led

"That’s a pretty sound You don’t laugh enough, girl" He pulled open the truck door

She grinned at him "I’m happy Cuz I’m with an AYW-ID"

She felt him kiss the top of her head before he lifted her onto the passenger seat Once behind the wheel, he asked, "What the hell is an AYW-ID?"

"It’s when you look at a ht?" He turned on the engine, then nodded at the brown paper bag clutched in her hands "In that case, tell "

Chapter Eighteen

Standing in his bedroorin Linda was seated in the center of his king-size bed Naked As she’d tried to reht latex shirt, he’d discovered she knew a fair nu curses

When she looked up at hi brown eyes held h some of the alcohol had worn off, she still wasn’t completely sober, and he didn’t beat on drunkenher safe word or for her body language to not be h He’d spent part of the afternoon adding chains to the fra beat the clinking of chains when a sub to play now?" She looked up at him "You don’ther like this, relaxed A little giggly No haunting worries visible in those eyes--none but what he put there He winked at her "I intend to enjoy the hell out of it"

He buckled her into leather wrist and ankle cuffs Maybe he’d leave the a thick foae under her ass, he chained her ars free

"Sa breath as she tested the restraints

"Chains and bedposts Just call me old-fashioned" He curved his hand under her jaw and kissed her, not viciously but rougher than nor

The way her breathing sped up was da

He put a tweezers cla until she whined, then backing off quite a bit since her sensitivitythe left, he stopped to kiss her and re intoxicated could let old fears surface She needed to see hi to hurt er

"Not much" Mostly when the cla about pain by then He picked up his handirl"

Her eyes widened at the cla from the two Velcro straps "What are those?"