Page 60 of Over the Line
“My dress was lifted up.”
“Could other people see?” she asked.
“Was it okay with you?” Jacqueline wanted to know. Probably as well as Sydney, her friend remembered her fury that Lewis had done something similar to her.
“First, answering Lea… I doubt anyone else could see us properly. It was getting close to dark, and we were away from the main house.” Then she turned to Jacqueline. “This was consensual, which makes it entirely different.” And there’d been no deliberate humiliation involved. In fact, what he’d asked of her had rocketed a thrill through her. Even from the first moment they’d met, he’d appealed to her thrill-seeking nature.
“What happened next?” Lea leaned forward. “Did he spank you?”
Sydney took a bite of the cookie and washed it down with wine. Surely all the sugar would give her a toothache. “Yes.”
“And it was hot enough that you went home with him?”
“That could have been dangerous,” Jacqueline pointed out.
Over the years, Leaundra had stood on the sidelines and encouraged Sydney to do crazy things. Jacqueline would recite a list of concerns as long as a legal disclaimer. Before Jacqueline could go on, Sydney held up a hand. “Master Damien vouched for him, and before I left, he told me to call if I needed anything. He even offered to come and get me if necessary.”
“Could he have sent Gregorio instead?”
Rolling her eyes, Sydney laughed. Leaundra saved every conversation from getting too serious.
“Were you your normal, bratty self?” Lea asked.
“Hey!” Sydney protested.
“I’m sure she was guilty as charged,” Jacqueline added.
“Some friends you two are.”
“Chickie, who knows you like we do?” Lea demanded.
No one. Neither had judged her lifestyle choices, and they’d both listened to her sob over the phone when the relationship with Lewis had ended.
“So did he pretend you didn’t exist like Lewis used to?” Jacqueline asked.
“Loser,” Leaundra added.
“You two should take this show on the road.” Sydney took another bite of her cookie. “And his punishment was much, much worse than that.”
“Well that definitely means he didn’t spank you for misbehaving,” Lea observed.
“Worse?” Jacqueline repeated. “What could be worse than sticking you in timeout like he used to do?”
“Orgasm deprivation.”
“The beast!” Leaundra put her glass on a nearby table and fanned herself. “Seriously?”
“Most men I know are thrilled if they can make me come,” Jacqueline said. “I can’t imagine any of them trying to stop the big O from happening.”
Sydney finished off the cookie then brushed her hands together. These two were cheering her up. “Honestly, it sucks,” she confessed. “So frustrating. Painful, almost.”
“So then what?” Leaundra asked. “He has a ranch, surely he knows something about ropes.”
“He does.” She recalled him tying her to his massive bed. Then her wayward brain once again supplied an image of her being secured to his fence while he used a flogger on her.
“When do we get to the welts part?”
“Those were probably from his belt.”