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"Fuck off"

Knox laughed "So, I, for one, aes The students like it; the instructors like it We’re expanding in a positive way ABC is a great fit The promotion company is a brilliant idea"

"Do I sense a but?"

"Two things Is so on with Okada that I should know about since She-Cat has been here for so long?"

"So onhow?"

"You tellBlack Arts on its head, if the reason you’re sharing control here is because you’re about to take control somewhere else Namely in Tokyo"

Ronin leaned back in his chair "If that’d been part of randfather hasn’t brought up my ascension to the Okada throne for more than a year The last three or four times I’ve spoken to him? We’ve discussed Japanese sports and American politics As far as why Shiori is still here? No idea If I ask her outright, she hedges If I call up randfather and ask him, he’ll think I have an interest in the company So I’ve let it be" Ronin’son, but they hadn’t connected and it wasn’t the type of conversation to have over e-mail

"I wish she’d let ruet in the middle of Shiori and Knox’s s What’s the other?"

Knox set his feet on the floor "It’s been mentioned to me that you’ve been to Twisted only twice in the last fivea e in many sexual activities made him an anomaly He’d joined because women in the BDSM world were open to rope play

"Are you done with the place?"

"I don’t know It see to be there last ti the weeks you weren’t together?"

"How do I tell her that I bound soht I needed to find the balance I wasabout this shit, but Knox had asked, and it wasn’t like Ronin had other guys to talk to "I reness of it I almost had to call it off As it was, I had to cut the session short That’s never happened to "

"Because Amery is so much more to you than just a rope model, Ronin"

"I’ve been sexually involved with my rope partners and not sexually involved with them It’s always been about aesthetics, skill, sensuality, and connection in the moment," Ronin said defensively

Knox just stared at him

"What?"

"You’re not an idiot Even I know you’ve never been in love with any of your rope partners The difficulty of the pattern, the amount of body-to-skin contact, the sexual pull--you can no longer compartmentalize any of it because it’s all there when you bind her And it’s there only with her The fact you were so off balance during those six weeks the two of you spent apart had nothing to do with youshibari or kinbaku in your life It was about you ht

"Maybe you’ve been binding sofor soed you That’s why it felt wrong to tie so your demo days at the club are over"

He wasn’t sure how he felt about that even when he suspected it was true Not that he and A over his head Was he ready to give up public bondage demonstrations?