" F-f-five." By the fifth strike, I was beginning to sob. "Please, Sir," I blubbered. "No more. I can't take anymore." You've got five left. I know...you can do this. I'll only stop if you use your safe word. Do you wish to do so?" N-no Sir." Finish counting them then."The cane cut through the air before leaving a trail of fire across my tender buttocks. "Six."He aimed the next blow a bit lower and it fell across the crease between my plump cheeks and thighs. I hissed. "Seven."The next two. Today, Emma had made the tragic mistake of trying to be brave. She had followed Sam's advice and asked her Clayton; the boy of her reams. It had ended in humiliation. It wasn't Clayton's fault, it was Lindsey who had humiliated her in front of everyone. Now Emma's life in high school was over. Maybe she could laugh it off. There were only a few months left in her senior year after all, but Emma knew this day would scar her forever.Emma rested one elbow on her desk and flipped open her makeup. You may not know it, but we have much in common you and I. You were born to fly free on the wind, but fate has betrayed you and now you live in a gilded cage. You are cared for but still a prisoner. I wonder, do you miss flying through the clouds? Or is the golden cage your home? I ask myself this often. I am Asius, a slave to the House of Quintus Lucius Antonius, Legatus Legionis of the Legio Primigenia. As the commander of an entire Legion, General Antonius is a very rich and powerful man in. "Far better for me to meet him in Paris and for us to spend most of thattime in bed. This might be the last chance we get to be together untilwho knows when. With everyone convinced an invasion is coming soon itcan't be too long now before Rommel orders all military leave in Franceto be cancelled."I wondered if they were right about an invasion. I might be British, butI hadn't set foot there in almost two years so I had no more idea aboutthis than they did. From everything we were hearing here,.