The Appointment “I want you to make an appointment for a session Friday afternoon.” I felt a lump in the pit of my stomach. “Is this really necessary?” My voice was quivering as I spoke. My heart was racing and there was a burning all through my loins. “I won’t have it any other way,” Stuart said. The truth was, this was why I was so attracted to him, the way he didn’t waver, knew what he wanted and needed. Apparently knew what I needed as well. Yet the very idea of submitting to his old-fashioned discipline had me scared to death. “But at your office?” I tried to protest. “I promise you it will make more of an impact this way. I’m sure there was no pun intended, he was quite serious. I wondered at myself, why I stayed with Stuart, knowing as the months went by in our growing re