”“I tell myself that.” Looking down at her phone. “I need to make some calls before everyone shows up. Stay in your den please. This is hard e...ough without you looming.”“Okay.”*Click. “Hi, this is Catherine Larkin, who do I need to speak to, in order to create an anonymous two hundred-million-dollar foundation?” She inquired in perfect Germanic with a slight Austrian accent which I overheard before closing my door.“Bad news bro. you might as well go home.”“Someone catch the bastard?”“Nope,. ‘I’m going to love whipping her,’ said Astrid. Vestiges of her noblewoman’s arrogance could still be seen as we walked her down the stone-floored corridors, down the steep staircase, to the punishment room, but traces of fear appeared on her beautiful face when she was chained up to the metal frame, her wrist cuffs snap-linked to thick metal rings just above her head. Her cape was removed by Daphne, then Astrid walked around her, showing her the thin, leather coach whip she had had soaked in a. ‘I-I don’t know why, but I’m nervous.’ Tommy had noticed it, too. The time before, with Kim in the car, it had been pure lust from the moment he got in the vehicle. Now, alone with Donna, he wasn’t sure how to start. Even though he’d been getting sexual experience at a frantic pace, he hadn’t had to instigate most of it. From the way Donna was acting, he had a feeling she wasn’t sure how to get things going, either. ‘Slide over here,’ he said softly, and the slim, pretty girl did. ‘I-I…what. I have these very strong feelings for you that make me want to say things I take very seriously. I need to be able to think about that. I think you need to think about it too, Bob. You said you were a one woman man. Well I'm a one man woman too. I didn't do all this today just for fun." I know that," he said softly."Then some time apart for us to think things over might keep one of us from getting hurt. I don't want to get hurt, and I don't want to hurt you. What happened today is too precious.