In that moment I felt my heart expand with love. He had shown with this one gift, this one collar his complete ownage of my. I was completely and enti...ely his now. "Do you like it?" he asked gently, gazing at me intently through those beautiful eyes. Without a word I carefully put the box on the side table beside me and took a step forward so that I was almost touching him. As I held his gaze I could have sworn I saw worry in his eyes. As if I could not love his gift?"Master, can I show you. .”Connie kissed him again. “You were terrified and hopeful and so concerned. And when you saw her, you wept, but you did it quietly so you wouldn’t wake her. You cried for the time it took you to drink half a beer and then you immediately started grilling me to make sure I hadn’t mistreated her.”In spite of himself, Ed laughed. “As I recall, you grilled me too.”“I wanted to know what sort of man you were,” said Connie. “By that point, I’d been taking care of Anna for a week and I was very fond. I couldn’t imagine what state Felicity was in. Rose often referred to her a hot head, and I couldn’t disagree. Felicity felt with every atom she possessed. I admired her for that.I slipped through the curtain and there was Rose, pale and nearly lifeless against the stark white sheets—not much whiter than her skin. Thank God Frank warned me.Felicity was in a chair beside her, toying with the fingers of Rose’s right hand. She looked up when she heard the sound of my footsteps and greeted me with. They completely ignored the fact that five other people wanted to enter the elevator to travel down to the lobby and continued to paw and caress each other as they spun and tottered down the hallway to Room 507.Thomas had to battle Erin’s roaming hands and his own inhibitions to get to the room key buried deep in his front pants pocket. Once the door lock clicked open, and Thomas stole Erin inside the dark room, all restraint was left out in the quiet and lonely hallway. As Thomas slammed Erin.