During these first weeks, she was not allowed in the dungeon. She had to earn the right to be there, and that would take time.
One evening, three weeks after her arrangement with Keith Correll began, she returned from the tearoom expecting to clean up as usual and slip into the clothes her master laid out. Oddly, there was nothing hanging on the hook where he normally placed his choices.
She sought him out, tossing on a dressing gown she pulled from one of the wardrobes near his bedroom. She understood these clothes to be for the women who occasionally stayed there. She wasnt yet comfortable being naked in his presence.
Excuse me, Sir, what would you have me wear tonight? she asked when she found him in the corner of the kitchen. He had been talking with Tay, who now cleaned his boot
