Chapter Nine
Needles andPins
When I swore off Jacob the first time that first year, it was just six weeks later until I was back, his to command. How easily I fell under his spell. Just the sound of his voice sent my mind reeling, my heart aflutter as if this was a romantic thing. Of course, my physical self responded with its usual arousal. I was peeing on newspapers and behind bushes before I even arrived at his laboratory that Saturday afternoon.
Im sure the clinical setting was bold-faced mockery. See, how weak you are, Tarin Marshall? I hardly have to raise my voice and youre here in my lab, my little pet rat.
Here I thought you wouldnt come, he said with a meaningful grin when I arrived.
You were testing me? I asked.
No. I knew.
How could he be so smug?
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