"Keri was acutely aware of their eyes on her body, and the effect it was having on her. She could feel her nipples start to harden and could feel a sm...ll amount of fluid seeping from her pussy to soak the very thin material of her skimpy bikini bottom."Anyway," Mark was saying, his eyes trying to avoid looking at her tits," we thought we could come over and get in some swimming before the bash gets started, if that's all right with you." Sure, come on," she said, glad for the opportunity to get. So, she tells him. Little by little her ideas are put into place. She looks to Jack and he winks at her. He tells her that she has great ideas.She and Jack work side by side for the next few months. She starts to relax around him. They have some serious and not-so-serious conversations about life, relationships, and anything else that pops into the conversation. Jack is smart, fun, and vivacious. They laugh a lot. Jack unmercifully flirts with her. She doesn't know how to respond. She is. Back in the study the screen showed my plaything as she struggled against the inevitable. A keen student of body language and long experience allows me to almost read her mind. The tears come earlier than expected, I'm glad to see that they last only briefly, this girl is made of stronger stuff.Turning up the volume a little, trusting it to alert me to each new development, I allow my gaze to wander to the pictures, old memories. The children's nursery rhyme fits each perfectly, maybe now I. She had lost her zen.Beth had not experienced sub-space, that floaty mind-space where she was completely relaxed and free from inhibitions, for some time. It was something that she was only able to reach when she and Reid were fully immersed in a BDSM scene and that was something they only ever got to do once in a blue-moon. With two young children in the house and working full time, Beth knew that is was rare that they could engage in an all-out scene with restraints and painful stimuli.