Chapter Four I lay down to sleep in the queen-sized bed in the peach-colored room. It was nearly three o’clock, but my mind was all astir with images and feelings aroused during our remarkable evening. The narrow limits of my sense of self had expanded in this place. I was challenged by other submissives, whose expression of their desires seemed more mature and expansive than mine was—or was it just, perhaps, that they were different? I wasn’t sure what submission meant to me. I wasn’t sure that I could even find an answer—especially here where the stark reality of this lifestyle was hitting me so hard. While Will drifted off to sleep beside me, the images kept cluttering in my head. I was sure that I’d never fall asleep. But my mind began to work its way into a hazy nothingness where th