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He’d sed, his throat working "Like what?"

In as casual a tone I could feign, I’d said, "I loved it when you whippedhad turned to heat and the heat to bliss "So maybe we should raise the stakes and try a paddle, or soer at him--"this"

My cool Siberian’s upper lip had beaded with perspiration

"Or this" I’d showed hied woman trapped in a pillory A fully dressed ing bat, which looked like a leather-covered bookmark that flared at the end "Thatcurse, Sevastyan had snatched theit in the backseat

I’d been certain he was about to pull the car over to ravish me on the side of the road Yet he never had He wouldn’t even discuss what I’d shown him--as if it’d never happened

Basically, my relationship with Sevastyan was e toward sexually frustrated Two very big hurdles

Now, as the lights of Paris twinkled in the distance, he turnedabout?"

"The drive down The azine"

He dropped his hands and dreay fro, he rested his forear that"

I narrowed my eyes, filled with irritation and disappoint his white-knuckled reaction tomade me realize I could wear him down Tempt hi to pay the piper Was I ready to commit to a BDSM relationship with this man? Part of me wanted to, simply because it would at least be a defined relationship

As we stood now, everything was up in the air, with zero stability I was discovering that I liked stability I’d liked living on one farm my entire childhood with steady-as-rocks parents I’d liked settling in at one school

Naturally, Sevastyan would feel differently after his hand-to-mouth existence as a child But I neededelse, Natalie, or on’t talk at all"

"Fine We’ll discuss other things Such as how you made so much money" I’d had no idea he was independently wealthy to this degree, but ithe was a vor himself Now I realized he’d lived at Berezka by choice, to be close to Paxán The idea of that tugged at ht" He fell silent I guessed he knew he’d have to give ain "In round ine you won lots"