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“I had a feeling you would be entertaining tonight, Your Majesty, so I saved you the perfect room for your endeavors.”

She tilts her head for us to follow, me squeezing Teo’s hand so he doesn’t leave me behind.

“Shall I call someone to watch over you? Your friend seems like a novice,” the naked brunette says, eyes lingering on me a little too long. “If Your Majesty prefers, I can take her place and she can watch. To learn,” she adds the last bit as an afterthought.

“There will be no need for supervision or your assistance tonight, Jasmine. She’s all I need,” Teo retorts with a bit of a bite.

“Of course, Your Majesty,” Jasmine says, doing a pitiful excuse for a curtsy before leaving us.

“Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer Jasmine’s company?” I ask, my own tone cold and snarky.

“This is all for you, kitten. No one else.” He smiles. “Now are you ready to have some fun?”

Fun and pain shouldn’t be synonymous, but in our case, it most certainly is.

I nod, biting the corner of my lip to keep the grin I want to let out at bay.

But when Teo opens the door to the dim room in front of us, all those foolish giddy thoughts fly out the window.

Right at its center is a table shaped like an X. There are ropes at the ends of each wooden board, and so many objects hanging around the walls that I get dizzy just looking at them. Between paddles and whips, the walls possess a playground of never-ending pain.

“If you want to leave, no one will judge you for it. Remember that shame is illusionary and therefore has no place here,” Teo says beside me as I stand mute, taking the room in.

Sensing that I’m not yet ready to move, he walks in without me and stares at the walls to find the perfect object that will end up being my undoing. I shut my eyes when I see him pick up a black flogger with a black leather handle and equally black tresses. Just looking at it is intimidating.

But also exciting.

Slowly, I make my way to the odd-shaped table and run my fingers through the smooth, oak wood.

“I will be tied down here,” I state more than ask.

“You will,” Teo confirms.

“You’ll tie me with these ropes,” I add, fiddling with the coarse and scratchy material that is bound to leave a mark.

“Yes, again.”

“And you’ll use that,” I point to the flogger in his hands, “on my body.”

“Naked body,” he corrects.

“Is there anything else that I might have left out that I don’t know about?”

“You’ll do it all while blindfolded,” Teo says, surprising me.

“Blindfolded? Why?”

“Because that way you will be more in tune with your other senses. Not only that, but when you’re deprived of sight, something happens inside you. Your inhibitions subside, and the real you emerges,” he explains as he places the flogger on a nearby table.

“I am the real me,” I assure him.

“You have no idea who you are, kitten. But after tonight, I promise you that you will.”

“Is that what happened to you?” I ask, both because I’m trying to buy some time and also because I’m genuinely interested in knowing if he did something like this.

But instead of answering me, he takes off his cape and drops it to the floor and then proceeds to take off his shirt. I open my mouth to remind him that I’m the only one who should get undressed, when he stuns me silent by turning his back to me. There are a million little scars. Some that look like they were made with an actual whip.

I walk toward him and lightly brush the tips of my fingers over each mark.

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