And then I blinked. Just a reflex action and when I reopened my eyes she was back, her own pupils meeting mine, once again filled with distant laughter. “Oh, you naughty boy,” she said. “That’s going to cost you double.” And then she threw head back and gasped, her arms wrapped around her body as the shudders overtook and reminded her of the hidden meaning of womanhood. She bent down, sliding off my face and lay on my chest, her head next to mine. A few more lingering gasps and her nails dug into my chest, red streaks on my front instead of my back. “Oh, you...you... You’re not getting away with this,” she said. I didn’t. A short pass of her hand and I hung suspended in mid air, a pair of chains disappearing above me into dark infinity. My ankles were cuffed at each end of a wide spread

