Mark’s POV I awake early the next morning and in a significantly better mood than when I went to bed last night. I snuggle in close to Amanda who remains asleep. She is the source of all my current happiness. She hadn’t forgiven me right away as I had expected her to. Nope! I had to beg forgiveness many times over, and make many promises not try and control her or try to interfere with the book launch before she would deign to forgive me. And only once she was satisfied with my apology did the make up s*x begin. Oh. My. GOD! It had been incredible! It was like nothing we had ever done before. There had been some s******g with my own leather belt against my bare buttocks involved, since I had been such a ‘naughty boy’. Although I’m not sure I learned the right lesson, despit