Chapter Sixteen Meanwhile, back at the Ranch...Rafe found himself feeling a disconcerting void as he resumed his regular duties after his surprisingly emotional hiatus to begin Nicole's rehabilitation. He had grown accustomed to having a lovely naked and responsive female body to punish and pillage to his heart's content whenever he wished. This was quite different from his usual pattern of handling his s****l needs, which consisted of weeks of m**********n alone interspersed with brief intense sessions of b**m s*x with well-established submissives on periodic jaunts to the Bay Area in Estela's helicopter. Perhaps the time was coming for him to make his move in response to the increasingly steamy undertones he detected in his Boss' regular communications with him on Ranch business. As it

