CHAPTER 16 THE LAST SHIVERS of the best orgasm I’d ever had quaked through me as I stared into the darkness. Vadim could have put a gun to my head right now, and I’d have been powerless to stop him. f**k. What the hell just happened? My mind struggled to process it: the pain, the pleasure, the way the two came together and made me fly. Was Leo right? Had some connection in my brain got frazzled so the sting of a man’s fingers turned me on? All my adult life I’d worked on inflicting pain, not relishing it, and the whole concept left me confused as hell. Another thought slammed into me—was that why Raul had succeeded where others had failed? He’d never hurt me, well, at least until he had me thrown off a bridge, but in the bedroom, he’d been pushy. Selfish. He’d taken what he wanted, and