Chapter Fifteen
As Brooke seemed to be the catalyst for so much that went on at that time, so he seemed to be the spur that drove Stroud into introducing Ever to another of the upstairs rooms – his personal dungeon.
Although Ever might have thought of it that way, the room actually didn’t look like a dungeon at all. It was merely a room specifically furnished for the purposes of S/M activity. Since she’d never seen anything like it before, Ever was startled and beset by a surge of new apprehensions.
It may have been Brooke’s growing demands that prompted Stroud’s taking Ever in there, but her experiences with her master in this room brought a richer, more intimate psychological depth to the relationship. Not until this moment had Ever perceived herself as being “in training” for the rol
