Chapter Five
She did as he suggested. She put on her very best underwear, black silk, and a dress she liked a lot, cut a bit low and with a full skirt, but the hemline a couple of inches above the knee.
After he’d poured her a drink he made her walk round the room while he watched from his chair. He told her she wasn’t allowed to look at him, and she wasn’t allowed to speak unless he asked her a direct question. He told her to stand in front of him and slowly take her clothes off.
‘All of them?’ she asked, then too late remembered. She put a hand to her mouth.
‘I’m keeping score,’ he said. ‘All infringements of the rules will be punished. And if I tell you to do something, I mean exactly what I say. If I meant, just take some of your clothes off, I would say so. Nod if you understand.’
