âWhat? He was in my dungeon?â Nora demanded.
âThatâs also the good news.â
âPlease tell me someone caught him in the act.â
âLetâs just say you owe our friend Griffin Fiske a debt of gratitude. I can guess in what form heâll take repayment.â
âGriffin?â
âI underestimated Griffin. Heâd make an excellent bodyguard. I should apologize to the man.â
âHow bad is it?â
âLetâs just say youâre going to need to a new rug, Maîtresse. Yours is...bloody. And the culprit is in the hospital.â
Nora listened for a few minutes as Kingsley told her the story. They hung up and Nora returned to the living room and found Lance picking his shirt up off the floor.
âYouâre not going to need that,â she said, nodding at the shirt in his hands.
âWhy not?â
âThey caught him. And by âtheyâ I mean my friend Griffin caught him breaking into my dungeon. Griffin beat the shit out of the guy.â
âThank God you werenât there,â Lance said sounding genuinely relieved.
âI know. I wouldnât have been nearly as merciful as Griffin. I would have killed him and then gotten arrested. Again. If he laid a finger on my red-and-black riding crop, I swear to God Iâll rip his heart out.â
âSpecial crop?â
âChristmas present,â she said. âFrom my priest.â
âYou are a weird Catholic.â
âThere is no other kind,â she said.
âThis is the guy who beat up Mistress Natasha? Theyâre sure?â
âNatasha came to a couple hours ago. She knew the guyâclient of hers with money trouble. King was right. Just a robbery. He got five thousand dollars off Natasha. Decided to see if the other dominatrixes in the city also kept cash on them. Has a nasty drug problem apparently. Owed a lot of money to dealers.â
âI want to beat the shit out of him, too. Why does this Griffin guy get to have all the fun?â
âSpeaking of having all the fun...you know what this means, right?â
âTell me,â Lance said, a smiling forming on his lips.
âYouâre not my bodyguard anymore.â
Lance let his shirt drop from his fingers. This time he didnât bother to fold the damn thing.
âGood boy.â
Lance followed her up the stairs. The second he stepped into her bedroom, Nora shoved him hard against the wall and kissed him with everything in her.
âThis is whatâs going to happen,â she said, between soft bites of his lips. âIâm going to cuff you to my bed. Then Iâm going to decorate the front of your body with a set of welts and bruises to match the set on your back. And then Iâm going to climb on your cock and ride it until it breaks off. You have any objections to that plan?â
âOnly the part about my cock breaking off, Mistress.â He started to reach for her but Nora caught his hands and pressed them into the wall.
âThat was erotic hyperbole.â
âThen no, I have no objections.â
âGood. Not that I would have changed my plans if you did. Youâre mine today.â
âAll yours. Every part of me.â
Noraâs heart clenched at the solemn tone of his pledge. If only she could believe that; if only she could keep him. Then again...maybe he meant it. Maybe she could keep him. Maybe she would keep him.
âGet rid of the clothes. Pull the covers back. Lay in the center of the bed. Say hello to my ceiling. Now.â She snapped her fingers and Lance immediately unzipped his pants. Heâd just come a few minutes ago but she could see that he was already getting aroused again.
As Lance moved to follow her ordersânaked, covers back, center of bed, hello ceilingâNora threw open her closet and dug for supplies. Playing on the front of the body required a bit more finesse than the back did. With the thicker skin on the back of the body one had to work very hard to do real damage back there. But the front of the body had all those pesky internal organs to deal with.
Nora found her smallest, thinnest caneâa white plastic little beauty no bigger than a conductorâs baton. She also found her smallest flogger with the thin sharp tails. She didnât know if Lance liked CBT or not. Guess sheâd find out.