Chapter Five
Nicole found herself once again awash in a confusing complexity of sensations, feelings, and thoughts. Her fevered brain was bathed in the potent neurochemical soup that all submissives found so addictive. There were endorphins excreted to counteract the now-subsiding pain of her chastisement leaving her with a purely narcotic high, and the other hormones of s****l release and bonding. This created for the second time a uniquely pleasurable state that she once again registered as far preferable to any drug-induced high she'd ever known. Rafe had researched this issue online before agreeing to take on her rehabilitation, theorizing that many repetitions of this cycle of punishment and reward could gradually unwire her drug-craving circuitry, and replace it with a deep attachme
