This was not only an appeal to her greatest vulnerability but a hugely generous concession. If only she could forget the memory of the bruising she’d seen! Even worse were the images from those horrid videos. She wished she’d never come across them….
Bingo – there went another fusillade of instant associations.
Suddenly Talia recalled yet another quasi-scriptural admonition she’d given herself: the one about the dangers of snooping. At what seemed the same second she visualized a different image of badly bruised buttocks. Only these were tender and dependent ones. Wet with urine, they’d already been irritated before she’d so mercilessly belted them. With that a swooning rush returned Talia to that original guilty-trippy epiphany.
It had been just prior to finding those videos that she’
