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“Giveyou wouldn’t use in ordinary conversation, so easy to remember Or tell me to leave”

A h her Fear and curiosity Desire and doubt Reality It would be so much harder to find him the perfect match if she wanted him for herself Not that she would, she rationalized

He stood there, as patient as he alas because he knew her Her capitulation was co They both knew it

“A lot of submissives use the color red Yellow to slon”

“Eggplant” The word fell out, even as she was still telling herself she didn’t need or want a safe word

“Eggplant?” He laughed, breaking the tension, allowing her to see another side of hi or scary As if he were an ordinary erous to her resolve “Why eggplant?”

“I hate them”

“Okay, then” In an instant, his s “Tell ht say that word”

Her rational brain screae in this conversation But it had been years since she felt this alive It was intoxicating “When you askthat I don’t want to”

“Not necessarily”

“No?”

“As long as it’s soet to use a safe word”

“Like being duct taped to a chair and being forced to watch cartoons?”

“Thathis lips

No doubt, she was falling for him His softer side made him irresistible “It sounds sadistic”

“It does, doesn’t it? But if you have no objection to being tied or to watching television, and I put the two together, you don’t get to safe word, unless there’s so will co, an unpleasant memory, for exae so that you’re