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"Might I ask where you are going thusly attired?" JP asked

"Jail Obviously" The elevator door opened and Zach stepped inside He s full well that’s exactly what Nora would have done "It’s just about the book"

If it was possible, JP’s eyebrow seeher

"It’s never just about the book, Easton"

When he put her in the handcuffs, she knew she was in trouble The third ti handcuffs She wore them not for reasons of kink but of law enforceht for the first and last time When she arrived at the police station and the cop pulled her out of the squad car, he was standing there just behind herhere? she asked herself and then realized her mother ht she was that night--soaked to the skin, bedraggled, wearing her school uniforlared at him from behind the veil of her wet hair, and he looked back at her with ironic amusement But that wasn’t the only look in his eyes There was so it would take years before she fully understood

She understood it now

She sat on the floor gagged and handcuffed to the bedpost In forced silence, she leaned back and watched hi wole to a St Andrew’s cross With a cat-o’-nine-tails he tattooed the girl’s back bright red elts The girl squired hi ceased He laid the cat aside and strode over to where she sat on the floor He knelt in front of her and ordered her to ize now?" he asked her "Or shall I continue beating Sis was being forced to watch while sohtfully hers She slowly nodded her head

"Good girl," he said He stood up and walked over to the girl on the cross He unbound her wrists and ankles Sierly off the platform and knelt on the floor She kissed the top of his bare feet and rose up again He bent his head and in a voice too low to overhear, whispered soirl blushed and sranted it

Siathered her clothes and left the rooain

He walked back to her and squatted in front of her He untied the gag and waited

"You have soed breath "I’ you I was so tired when I got hoht to bed"