My sounds of ecstasy and despair drowned out Mistress' whispers and Master's grunts. And then, finally, it was over. I collapsed, still jerking and sh...ddering with aftershock. My hands slipped from the branch and the cuffs bit into my wrists. I didn't care. My legs gave out and I hung, held up only by the chains and the strong hands on my hips. I was only dimly aware of the tinkling sounds of unlocking, of falling forward into arms of the woman I could no longer see because I'd closed my. And there was certainly a sense of understated risk inherent to Dan. Beneath his laidback, calm, lethargic, reefer-addict exterior, there was an undercurrent of contempt or disdain for conventional society, its values, and everything that it represented. Somehow, that was a lot more attractive than the slackers of the world like Jeremy or the conformists like David.That was when Joanna called and Alycen rushed to answer her cell, “Hey, girlfriend, what’s new?”“Yeah ... I’ve met and forgiven. Slowly. My head hurt. The sun was too bright. The radio was too loud. The bumps in the road hurt. When I got home, I pulled in next to my dad's Taurus, and I walked slowly to the front door, and opened it. My father was sitting in the living room, sipping at a cup of coffee.EEEK! My father. That was his car in the driveway. He was home. Oh crap!"HELLO LISA. DID YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME?" I swear he was shouting on purpose.I cringed and begged, "Not so loud, please! Pleeeeease!"He looked at me, and. Such as it is.’ The hair prickled on the back of my neck. ‘You mean everything we’ve done may show up on U-Tube if he gets mad at you?’ ‘I’m smarter than that, honey. I have to admit that I captured some of our special time as a keepsake, just for me, but I just purged his archives and put all the house cams on a continuous loop of the 24 hours just before we got here. And now his insurance policy belongs to me…hope I don’t need it, but just in case…’ She clicked an icon and a file opened.