“No, no.” Panic was clawing at her throat.

“Are you using your safe word?” Someone in the crowd called out the question, clearly concerned for her.

Mae opened her mouth. Banana. All she had to do was say it.

Instead she looked at Xavier. “This is on your checklist?”

He nodded. “I can see the beauty in marking a submissive in this way, if she chooses to bear her submission like this.”

“Is this…like collaring?” It would make sense if this were about permanently showing ownership.

“No, Mae. We are not bound. This branding would mean that you submitted fully to me in this moment. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

Her heart was breaking and she couldn’t breathe. Mae folded her arms against her chest, only to cry out when her breasts throbbed.

“On your checklist, did you say you wanted to be branded?” His tone was firm.

“Yes, Master.”

“And now you are presented with that opportunity.”

She whimpered and dropped her head.

Xavier touched her cheek. “This is what safe words were made for.”

Though she heard him, all she could think about was his touch. It was nothing more than his knuckles stroking her face, but it made all the difference. Mae exhaled, a trance-like calm settling over her. He’d warned her both about himself and about her own desires.

This was the turning point. She could walk away, or she could embrace this.

And then, when her time with him was over, Mae would have his mark. She’d have a way to remember what it had felt like to dance in the dark. Even if no one else ever touched her the way he had, she’d remember these feelings—the pride and desire of walking through the club wearing the marks of a flogger, the delicious helplessness of being mastered by a man who found release by marking her flesh, and above all the way he’d looked at her.

“No, Master.”

say your

safe word.” She raised her voice and heard the

Doubt bit at her once his touch was gone,

a challenge. No one here doubts your submission.

“Thank you, Master.”

“Use your safe

her head.

if you’ve changed your mind, you too have the right to safeword out of this item.” Though Mae couldn’t see the speaker, she

eyes Mae saw a

voice made the words poetry. “I want to taste her pain and submission and the pleasure it

all that mattered was his green eyes, staring at her from behind

the T-shaped wood structure. “If you want this, attach your cuffs to the chains. I

thin piece of leather, held closed by a buckle. A D ring near the closure was the only hardware that distinguished them from a cuff bracelet. It seemed odd that these simple

two hands she got her left wrist clip in with no problem. The right took her longer, and she had to

around the chains,

wooden stage. “Look

as Xavier held up a branding iron, the tip glowing red. He pushed it down on the stage and the wood hissed and sizzled. When he lifted the brand, an “X” was burned into the

gaze to Master Xavier’s. There was fire in his gaze, a fierce desire to master her body in this way. The

because it would hurt, she wanted it because he wanted to do it to her. Wanted what would come after—the permanent record of what they’d meant to

sound of water hissing as he dunked the brand into the bucket, though she couldn’t see it happening. When he touched her ass Mae screamed, then shuddered when she realized it was just his

“Spread your legs, Mae.”

much to obey. He forced them open, then pressed two fingers into her pussy. The penetration sent spikes of pleasure through her. She focused on that—the feel of

for me. I want to feel you shaking with pleasure.” He brushed her hair aside and kissed her neck.

spurred her arousal. She shamelessly pumped her hips on his hand, grateful to have this to focus on—the kinky pleasure that she understood so much better

her when he pulled back. Mae had a moment to focus, to remember where she was, and what

hard pressed against her right

terror and in satisfaction. She screamed as the heat penetrated her. It was hot, painfully

…But it didn’t burn.

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