Each dress was in a color to set off the girl’s eyes and hair. The men were all in dress tuxes. Mistress continued her introductions. ‘You’ve me... Rafe…and Tristan…’ as she spoke Rafe took my hand and kissed it, nibbling on my knuckles. The simple act sent shivers up my spine as I recalled my test of the night before. Mistress’ hand caressed Tristan’s cheek as he too, took my hand and kissed it, smiling warmly. Mistress led me across the room to where three men I hadn’t seen before were. . she refused to accept her freedom, because she said it wasn't mine to give. She said that she was a free woman, and had voluntarily pledged herself to me, so I could not simply release her."The crazy thing is, I think I love her ... not the same way that I love my fiancée, but she is such an amazing woman, and sex with her is mind-blowing. Sex with my fiancée is the best thing I could ever imagine, but sex with the woman who calls me 'Master' is so similar, but also so different. Neither one. " How far are you going to go? Tina's brothers are out there." Not that far. Tina told us to get you worked up, but leave it at that." She lowered her voice. "I think she wants to give you a blowjob when you get home."I groaned. "That is all your fault." I just gave her a few tips."I rolled my eyes."It's what I do." Yeah, I know."I knew Tina had talked to Sherri privately at the Astarte Center a handful of times. I, of course, didn't know exactly what they'd talked about, but Tina had. He was free to consider Cora's invitation and all of the implications while he was on the long subway ride out to Jamaica, Queens.There was no question that she liked him. Her invitation reinforced the impressions he got from their "chance" luncheon meeting and then the cozy arm-in-arm walk back and her kind advance notice of his promotion. She had certainly known of all the speculation over his presumed demise at Crown, and she had wanted to ease his mind. A friendly act.But why? They had.