Chapter Fourteen
Brooke developed a sudden interest in bondage. Or, perhaps it was more of an interest in avoiding further altercations with Ever. Not that he wasn’t perfectly capable of subverting every outbreak of resistance with sheer brute force, but it seemed to please him more to have Ever immobilized, completely at his mercy.
Stroud’s ottoman was an especially useful means to this end. Knelt and stretched over the ottoman, not only could Ever’s wrists be secured to a ring at the head of it, but her thighs could be spread and secured to the rings at the sides.
Ever was cast into new and frightening depths of humiliation when they first bound her in this position. Even in private, Stroud had never compromised her to quite this degree.
It was immediately clear that they could keep
