“Make… make me…” “Make you come.” “I’m not getting naked again—” “I’m not asking you to. I told you I would take good care of you. First, I want you to come back into the gallery with me.” “The gallery?” I nodded. “Okay.” His finger stroked once down my neck, and he turned to me with an irritated look. “Oh,” he said. “I’d forgotten you didn’t have your collar.” “I don’t wear a collar.” “You will,” he said, waving his hand in the air as though it was a commonplace thing. “But now, I want to talk with you about this cake.” *Oh, crud on a muffin. The cake.* I’d almost forgotten about it in the minutes since Knox had looked at my body and told me to strip for him. Everything seemed like a daydream, but seeing the cake on its side pulled me back to reality with

