Guilty Pleasures (23 page)

“Yes?”

“How is she?” It was Gabe.

“It was both easier and rougher than I expected. She seemed to submit to me, but there was a fight first.”

The other man sighed loudly over the phone. “Don’t let up on her. Don’t let her get away with a single thing or you’ll lose everything we did. I don’t know why the fuck you didn’t just come to the house as one of her trainers. It would have been a more controlled circumstance, instead of springing it on her like this.”

Michael gave a non-committal grunt, and Gabe let the issue drop.

“Lindsay wants to know if you’re bringing her back for visits.”

“In about a month. I told her then she’d go to the house weekly.”

“How did she feel about that?”

Michael scrubbed a hand through his hair, “She was trying to be nonchalant. I guess she doesn’t want me to be jealous, but I could tell she’s excited.”

He talked to Gabe for a few more minutes and then disconnected the call. His mind went back to the other man’s accusation about why he’d handled things in the end as he had.

They would never understand. Michael needed one moment with Vivian where she didn’t have anger or assumptions about him, where she was his slave and he was her master without any other layers of bullshit.

When Anton had brought her to him and she’d knelt at his feet and offered herself to him as his property, when she hadn’t known it was him, it was honest. Her fear, her surrender, everything.

The moment the blindfold came off, things got complicated, as he’d known they would. They would eventually get back to that place where she understood herself as his slave and not his wife pretending to be his slave. But either way, he would always have that one moment.

Where it was real.

It made the entire fucked-up thing worth doing all over again.

About the Author

Kitty Thomas writes dark literary erotica. Her stories explore the psychology of ownership. This work is fiction and meant for an adult audience. The author does not endorse or condone any of the behavior carried out by characters in her stories.

Inspiration for Kitty’s work comes from many sources including Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks, the work of Claudia D. Christian, and Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty Trilogy.

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