I woke up alone in the dungeon bed. After the delicious bath we had after our session, Matteo took me to the bed in the dungeon and we lay down there to talk about various silly things. I told him a little more about my feelings and fears about what I was discovering about myself and he was a good listener. That really surprised me. "I have a feeling that at the end of it all this is going to blow up in my face." "And it's a valid feeling, Bella, if you didn't have that feeling and that fear, you wouldn't be human," she said calmly as she ran her hands through my hair very gently. I turned to look at his face and hugged him like someone talking to his pillow. That gesture of simplicity came to me spontaneously, I hadn't thought about it much, but I was talking to him, I wanted to see