Thwack! The first strike of the strap came crashing down on Rebecca’s ass. She jumped from the past, painfully shocked back to the present and a sting so demanding, she could concentrate on nothing else. “Yeeeeaawwwww,” she screamed. A half dozen strikes quickly followed. Ellerby launched the strap like a man with a sacred mission. Standing six feet back, he unfurled its great length so it snapped and danced against Rebecca’s fair skin, turning it a wild and torturous shade of horror. That crimson was as exhilarating for the crowd as it was painful for the chastised girl. She wriggled, no other choice, her body could not passively withstand this agony. Ellerby would know that if he backed off some, if he thrashed her with a degree of finesse, she might find the sensations warming like s