Chapter Seven
Avery had taken the opportunity while Alison was cleaning up to prepare his boudoir for her ensuing set of challenging experiences. This process consisted of clearing the bed down to its mauve fitted sheet, upon which a large fluffy matching bath towel was centered. Soft white half-inch nylon ropes were produced from their handy hiding place in a bedside table and threaded through cleverly concealed eye bolts secured below counterpane level on each of the upper bedposts as well as halfway down each side of the bed. And finally (and most ominously for the naked blonde as she entered the room), an array of terrifying implements for the administration of corporal punishment was artfully displayed across the foot of the bed below the towel. There our heroine glimpsed leather and
