Chapter Ten
For the first six months after Victoria left, Peter imagined the many possibilities for a proper way to punish his wife. The days and weeks of her exile added to the woes he’d wreak on her—his imagination filled with dark plots and sinister schemes. He even imagined the erotic endings, which would satisfy them both. But with Victoria’s continued absence, the scenarios became more difficult to imagine. Real atonement seemed impossible, and he had to stop his worthless musings.
With Victoria back, he returned to the task of devising a meaningful punishment. As though no time had passed at all, he could remember every scene his mind had previously conjured. After some initial musing, he concluded that it would take some time before he was ready to act.
While Peter debated th
