“Please...please...” “Yes, my slave?” The blows stopped, and relief flooded in. Yet as I looked up at her, I saw disappointment in her eyes an... I felt saddened by it. I needed to serve her, to please her. Kathy had asked me to. I wanted to. Even though it might be hard, I wanted to. “Please, Goddess... harder. I want to give you my tears and sobbing to enjoy. Please, please, please.” I broke down into a pathetic chain of pleases, overcome by the sense of shame at begging to be brought to tears. Lilly this is the first time since I met John in the second grade that we’ve ever been separated!’ Honey, now is the time for you to step up and take care of him—just like I did your Dad years ago.’ I went immediately to the phone and called Tom. The answering machine picked up, ‘Hello, it’s Mick and Tom’s place. Leave a message and we’ll get back with you.’ I left a message for Tom to give me a call. Tom finally returned my call four hours later, ‘Hey got your message. Guess you and Debbie. No key. She held her wrist up. The bracelet was heavy, a little too heavy to her eye maybe, but nice. The metal was cool and fitted snugly. She fiddled with the clasp a moment, no, it wasn’t coming off. The other one went on in a second, and she put the note in her pocket and tossed the box. The car dropped her at a cabin, in the mountains above Aspen. It looked very cool, welcoming, from the outside. Log walls, wooden shutters over lots of glass. There was a little smoke coming from the. The anger was starting to return to her voice.“Well,” Jake said, “I needed you saying that for the recording. There are no safewords or safe signals and the contract is a little unusual, so I had to be sure.”“I know,” she replied. “But there’s a blizzard out there and I drove a long way just to get here. I won’t back out of the contract.”“Just so we all understand each other,” Jake replied and the line went dead.Mandy had no sooner hung up the phone when there was a soft knocking on the door..