“But despite your fear you are willing to suffer this pain and bear it with pride to show your obedience, devotion and love for your master? Is that correct, sub?”
“I love you, Sire, and I can think of nothing I desire more than to be whipped by you in all my most sensitive, intimate and vulnerable places. It will only make me feel closer to you, Sire.”
“What you have said pleases me, submissive.”
“Pleasing you makes me truly happy, My Lord.”
“You have pleased me, and so now I set you free from the whipping post that stole your dignity and the bristles of the rope that chafes and burns your skin.”
Snapping open a switchblade, Stephen cut through the ropes. During the exchanges with Stephen, Laura remembered the cardinal acting rule, “Talk to one person, everyone listens. Talk to every
