Mae wanted to cry when Master Xavier left her, returning to that sinister duffel bag. The loss of his body heat made her shiver, even as her scalp ached from his hold.

She couldn’t stop thinking about what he’d said. Had she been topping from the bottom?

This time when Xavier returned he had a flogger. Mae tightened her hold on the straps attached to her cuffs. She wanted him to flog her. She wanted to wear the marks from his beating.

This isn’t you.

“There’s something we haven’t talked about.” Master Xavier rubbed his cheek just under the edge of his mask. She wondered what he looked like without it. What color was his hair? How old was he? He was fit, but had the kind of presence that made her think he might be older.

“Mae?”

“Yes, Master Xavier?”

“Did you hear what I said?”

“No, I’m sorry.”

“What were you thinking about?”

“You, Master Xavier.”

He rocked back on his heels and crossed his arms. “And what were you thinking?”

“I was wondering how old you were and what you looked like under the mask. Why do you wear it?”

“It’s not your place to question me.”

Mae dropped her gaze to the floor. “I’m sorry, Master Xavier.”

He was silent, and she thought he was angry, until he said, “Why do you think I wear it?”

“Because it makes you look like Batman.”

Xavier blinked twice, then started to laugh. He laughed so hard that he braced his hand on the wall near her. His laugh was a wonderful, rich sound. Mae found herself smiling, and wishing she could hold him, feel that joy and mirth against her body.

“Batman?”

“One of the submissives called it a Batman mask. Though no one would dare say it to your face.”

He shifted closer, bracing one forearm above her head so they were separated by mere inches. “Except you?”

“I’m not thinking straight.”

like teasing and

couldn’t deny that. “Is it really such a bad

I would have said so, but now…I think it isn’t. But you have

the

brushed her ear. “Whatever I want it to be.” Smooth leather strands trailed over Mae’s upraised leg

“Are you scared, Mae?”

“Yes.”

of me, or

“You.”

“Why?”

with a flogger before, but I don’t think… I think

girl. It will be. And that brings me back to what we need to

pocket and

so ready, that if he just flicked her nipple a few more times she might be able to come. Bracing her hips, she thrust her chest forward, begging him without words to touch

back. Mae nearly

you remember about filling

out a frustrated breath. “It was years

have you been a

“Six years.”

surprise him. “How

know you shouldn’t ask a lady

when a Master asks you a question?” His voice was cold with

“I’m thirty-one, Master Xavier.”

Mae had to wonder if her age changed

didn’t answer my

Master Xavier, could

you remember about filling out your

reading it was

she could see. “You signed this list, and it’s part of your membership contract with

issue? “Yes, Master

you’re bound by what you put on this list. Anything you marked “yes” or “maybe” to is a valid

“I understand, Master Xavier.”

up for her to see. She recognized her own handwriting—the checkmarks and initials she’d used to indicate her level of interest in each item. Mae narrowed her eyes, wishing for her glasses. Xavier held the paper close to

with all the “B” items, everything he’d read out

yes to every

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