Marcus snickered to himself while Daniel silently fumed. “Let’s be honest here,” he suddenly cut through his grumbling complaints to the heart of the matter. “How many times have you tried this and failed?”
His friend grinned sheepishly. “Oh? Twice, well, actually three times if you count the first day when I found out that she wasn’t exactly a subservient sub. She perceived me as a threat right off and ran into the woods. She was scared and I certainly didn’t have your expert touch. Frankly, I didn’t know you could be so kind, especially to an unruly slave.”
“She’s not an unruly slave. There’s nothing that girl’s more proud of than being the good slave. And in the end that was what broke her. I could have coddled her all day, tried to gain her trust with a bunch of promises I had no way
