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quietly.
    “Yeah,” she got out shakily. “Ones I wasn’t expecting.”
    He wasn’t sure what to say to that. “Well, you have the feelings for both of us, so I’m not surprised.”
    She sniffed, and tried to sit up, but he wouldn’t let her. “I hope that’s not true. You have feelings too, even though you bury them.”
    He had been taught to do that long ago, but he wasn’t going to burden her with the knowledge of how fucked up his father had been. “Are you hungry? I’m hungry.”
    It was her fingers trailing slowly down his side that kept him from launching himself out of bed. He craved her touch to such a degree that he’d stay still for it any time he could.
    Jodi could see that this was not a subject he wanted to discuss, so she let him off easy. “So, what does it mean to be your submissive? I said yes before I read the fine print – kind of like those online terms-of-service agreements. Do you own my soul now, like Apple and Facebook do?”
    That got her a rare smile. “Something like that, yes,” he agreed, turning towards her. “And the answer to that question is that I’m not all that sure. I’ve never offered to be anyone’s dominant before.”
    “You weren’t a virgin before we–”
    “No.”
    “But you haven’t explored that area of yourself at all?”
    “Some. But never with someone I cared about.”
    Jodi’s eyes widened. She wanted to pin him down about that – ask him if she was someone he cared about, but she chickened out entirely. “I’m not sure whether or not I should be bothered by that.”
    “Don’t be. I’ve always leaned towards dominant. I’ve just never really had much contact with women, after a few flings in college – not that I was trying very hard, really – so that I’ve never found anyone I was interested in investing the time necessary to do that for her. I was much more intrigued by other things. Until you.”
    Well, she kind of sort of had an answer to her unasked question. And knowing him, she bet she’d better be satisfied with that.
    “I do want to say, though, that it’s not, like, pretend for me – something that just gets me hot, like putting you in a maid’s uniform or something like that. It’s not play at all. It’s how I want to be with you, all the time.”
    “Took the words right out of my mouth.”
    “Really?” He looked surprised.
    “Yeah. It’s... it’s too close to my heart – and other places – for me to treat it like a game.”
    Cayson nodded his agreement. “That’s why I said that I won’t make stupid rules. Rules should have a purpose.”
    “I agree.”
    “That said, you’re still mine,” he said, gathering her even more closely to him. He was quite pleasantly startled at how much pure enjoyment he got out of the sound of that small sentence. And he intended that he would be still saying it long after they’d left here.
    Somehow he’d get her to commit to him on a more permanent basis. Hopefully before their situation was resolved.
    “And I intend that you will be well used.”
    Jodi wrinkled her nose. “I don’t really like the sound of that. Makes me sound like a dirty Kleenex.”
    He gave her an exasperated look. “I mean that I intend to take you whenever and wherever the urge strikes me. And I don’t expect to hear the word ‘no’ from you about it.”
    She would have been surprised if the impulse to turn him down ever crept into her mind. Unless she did too much thinking…
    “And I also want to say that all quarrels are hereby suspended for the duration. I won’t have my own misdeeds and your rightful anger at them spoiling our time here.”
    He paused as if waiting for her to argue with him.
    All she did was shrug. “If that’s your rule, then it’s up to me to obey it, isn’t it?”
    Somehow, Cayson didn’t look quite convinced, but he went on anyway. “I can’t really think of anything else–” Looking down at her lovely breasts, the way they were pressed against his skin,