I'd grown very yielding to my superiors at work, but with strangers and especially the Japanese women I met away from the office, I was normally confi...ent and perhaps arrogant with my background and education. Meek personalities don't graduate Harvard Business School after all, but I wilted beneath her dark presence and the Dominatrix literally grabbed my jaw in her gloved fingers, turning my face so that she could stare into my wide blue eyes."Do you wish to be punished?" she demanded and I. I was pretty sure they had not slept together...yet. But from my counseling perspective I knew the physical part usually happens well after the emotional part was already in place. Once someone tastes the deliciousness of a hot new attraction, a new potential lover, the excitement is similar to taking "crack" for the first time. It's a dopamine rush and it's really hard not going back for more. Yup. For me that infidelity line was already crossed and was probably crossed weeks ago. It pissed me. Nature was taking her place now as ruler of her actions and self will was futile as she slumped into the grasp of the icy cold chill that descended. “You are waiting my child as I told you it would be?” The warm husky voice came from outside the stone circle and her heart leapt as blood coursed once more through tired muscle and sinews to revive her limbs. “Stand for me now for tonight She is coming for you” The masculine voice cut through the cold of the night, his words at once soothing to. .. "Wha... ?" Lighter!" Jovie shouted. She suddenly stepped forward into the gap, screaming as she unwound a mighty kick... ... and an elf fell forward out of the gap, face-planting on the hard concrete floor.It immediately began wriggling to get up; Jovie planted the sole of her boot on its head and leaned forward.Em dug out the lighter and slapped it in Jovie's open palm. She could see the shifting shadows of more elves approaching...Jovie stepped back. The elf leaped to its feet, arms out.