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He put a hand onhis lips nervously "Can I help you with anything?" he asked in a low voice

I just shookat him I didn’t reht I knew that Ja me, but all I could think about were his hands on me

So while I knew that it was DaBut I was in a state

"Kindly re the plane or soalley His voice was cold as ice I didn’t have to look at his eyes to know that they would be the same

Dah he’d been doing sointo the lavatory

I felttoon an open cabinet, holding it out forat him

"What was that, Bianca? Do you want him? Explain it to me" His voice was still so cold I was intimated and…embarrassed

"I-I don’t want hiuard And I…I was just distracted, thinking about you I knoas standing right in front of rippedmy head back to look up and squarely into his eyes They were uessed Whatever he was feeling, I couldn’t have guessed it from his face

"I told you this wasn’t a punishh to ely blank "It will be better or worse, depending on your answer Were you trying tohim touch you, or are you drawn to him? Do you want hiive hi the punish depravation "I was too involved withI think I would have reacted, would have pulled away, if he had touched more than my shoulder, but he didn’t, so I didn’t I just don’t think of hi his hands on me, even with this limited contact, as I continued breathlessly "He doesn’t feel like a threat, and I’ve never even thought about having sex with hi, and I value hi, and nice, but I’ve only ever had platonic feelings Perhaps it’s so like how you feel about Frankie For all I know, he’s another submissive That may be why I could only see hiest tiuess, I would say that he was feeling hurt and worried

"I like your answer," he finally said "I can’t tell if I believe it because I want so desperately to, or because it’s the truth You’ll still be punished, but I won’t draw it out like I was planning to when I saw his hand on you Don’t let it happen again" With that, he walked away

The rest of the flight was long and Jalance When he deprived , even his beautiful eyes, and that intense regard that I had come to adore and depend on so helplessly I hadn’t realized how much I craved even his stare, how it made me feel less empty, less cold He was the sun, and when he turned away, I felt so cold and e

I hadn’t realized it before Is that why I was getting this lesson? Had he known the extent of his affect on me, and kno to show me just how much I needed him to want me, needed him to show me

The depravation of his physical affection affected ht that the e And I wouldn’t have realized it, wouldn’t have realized how generously he had always tended to my emotional needs, until he had set my body on fire and withdrawn froenerous iven his They were things I never would have realized I needed so desperately until he’d lavishedwould I feel the loss?

How long would he put atory? It had only been hours so far that he had left , but I didn’t know that I could bear ain

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

"We’re going directly to h the airport

He wasn’t touching h his tone and posture seeone past the point of only wanting him to make me come, to ease the ache that traveled from my tortured nipples and directly to my sex Noanted his affection, his attention I wanted hiry, that he would make er didn’t change the wanting

It tookbehind h ere slowing thenored her It seeeneral

"I could get into trouble for that," I told him, my voice pitched low "We’re supposed to ride with the crew to the hotel, and check in there"

"I spoke to Stephan He looked it up in theis, ‘at the discretion of your lead’ Stephan is your lead He gave you the thuue, didn’t respond I wanted to get to his house I didn’t knohat he had planned, but I was sure that the sooner we got there, the sooner this torture would end

I waved goodbye toand kiss

"Call , Buttercup," he said into ainst Jaot into his town car

I spoke into his ear, since the privacy screen was down and I didn’t recognize the driver "This isme of every part of you You’ll barely look atout theand dis