JESSE This was as much a test of patience for Vivian as it was for me. If I hadn’t been so hell-bent on teaching her a lesson, I would have taken her then and there, regardless of the restraints play. It seemed tame enough. Nothing too wild. Just a simple quick release knot and a tie. Child’s play, really. What this was really about was the dynamic. The suspense. And it was killing me just as much as it was likely killing her. I meant what I said, though. I had a mess to clean up. News outlets were all over it, though my preliminary search failed to pull up any images or video of Vivian specifically. That helped. I could focus more on damage control. Luckily, I had an entire legal department at Pegasus Star organized to deal with this sort of thing. They’d liaison with the police on m

