" I never thought anything about it till we both got home. That evening a young man's voice on the phone told us he had been contacted by our therapi...t friend and needed to talk to us. He arrived shortly thereafter and said that his "job was to counsel, help, and administer discipline to stubborn and bratty ladies." He did relate that our friend believed that some punishment for my pretty, 65 year old professional wife would be "appropriate and very helpful." but that it was our decision.We. It's 8 O'clock in the evening on Friday and "Jim" has just arrived and is sitting on the couch looking through the CD case containing our porn DVDs and Jenn left the room to go shower and "put something nice on".When she walked back into the room Jim and I were already watching a movie, or rather he was. I was making them a pitcher of a mixed drink and was in and out of the room fiddling with stuff in a nervous, sexually charged state in which I couldn't sit still. When I walked in with the. Twelve bucks, and look--it seems like the genuine article. Leatherbound and everything. It seems pretty old.”Denise smiled, motioning for you to come in. You slipped off your shoes.“Twelve bucks? You got a deal, even if it’s a total fake. It looks awesome. Have you already looked in it?” She asked. “Does it have any sort of specialty?”“There seems to be a lot about living essence in it,” You said. “There’s like a chapter on ‘Augmentations of objects, conspicuous and hidden’ and something like. "Here, I'm Emily. I'm always Emily."She stared into her latte, frowning, but when she looked up she was smiling."I like pirates." Does it—do they—mean something special for you, or do something special to you?" I couldn't suppress a laugh. "Well, I know what they do to Amélie."Emily's smile got bigger."Freedom. Absolute freedom." How so?" Fucking."I reached out to hold Emily's hand. Her eyes met mine, and they were happy eyes. She leaned across the table to kiss me. She lingered. Her eyes.