Chapter Nine
The office door closed behind us as Madam Jan led me from Madam Q’s presence. Once out in the hall, alone together for the first time in three months she halted. She let the lead that guided me drop slightly as she crouched down, bringing her head to my eye level.
“Well, slave, are you ready to serve me fully or do you need further, stricter encouragement?”
Before I could answer Jan continued saying, “I could always return you to their tender care and I am certain that if I did it would go harder for you than it has so far, as I suspect they dislike failure or disobedience in their slave’s!”
Fear raced through me as I envisaged being retuned to their tender care, not only because of the treatment I was certain to be subjected to, but also because it would mean being separ
