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presence. It was like his presence had swallowed up the whole room and her along with it. There was no Diamond, no room. There was only him.
    She pulled at the thin, cotton dress she wore beneath her denim jacket, feeling very self-conscious.
    “Tell me about yourself, esclave.”
    The words flowed from his lips in a masculine, baritone melody that rolled over her and made her feel like he already owned her.
    “Esclave?”
    “It means slave and, from this day forward, you are my slave, esclave,” he repeated again as if solidifying his claim.
    “But I’m only here for six weeks of training.”
    “Yet fate has intervened… and you are mine.”
    Diamond brushed the tears away and shook her head, burying the memories of yesteryear. She pushed herself off the wall with determination and made her way to her bathroom, eyeing herself in the mirror.
    The only sign of her distress was the wet sheen of her eyes. Though her lipstick was smeared, she had learned long ago to always wear waterproof make-up around Master William.
    She grabbed a tissue and wiped the red stain from her lips and chin where he had purposely smeared her lipstick. It was just one of his many ways to mark her, to leave his stain on her soul, and his memory in her psyche.
    With the expertise of a woman who had been the slave of a sadistic Master for many years, she sponged on a dab of foundation and relined her lips. The defiance she carried like a torch in her chest reflected back in the mirror through her translucent green eyes.
    With her head held high and a mission on her mind, she made her way to her desk and booted up her laptop. She started flipping through her rolodex with the mindset of a woman who had done more than her fair share of business on her own for the last year.
    The clients who paid her did so quite well and she lived a life of exquisite means. The men who bowed at her feet did so willingly and with no reserve, and that included their bank accounts. She was the best in the business; she could thank her Master for that. They were the definition of It’s complicated when it came to their relationship status, so much so that she had actually used it on the online profile her Master made her create . They took each other to such depths of depravity and dysfunction that even Master Richard shook his head at them.
    She dialed Rene’s number to check in with her and give her an update on Toby.
    “Hello, I’m shocked to hear from you so soon. There are no problems with Toby, are there?”
    “Absolutely not, I simply adore the boy. Can’t a Mistress call another fellow Mistress with no ulterior motives?”
    Rene chuckled, “Not when it’s Mistress Diamond.”
    “Very well, I do have an ulterior motive. I’d like to have Toby’s things sent here and wasn’t sure if I needed to meet you to have them picked up.”
    “We’ve already picked up his things from his apartment. We’d planned on bringing them before now but we’ve had some work issues. The poor boy doesn’t have much. The apartment was furnished, if you want to call it that. As far as we can tell, he only had an old, beat-up laptop and some clothing. I think he enjoys writing poetry so I’m sure he would like to have his journals. Let’s do this… my pet and I are attending the dinner this weekend so we’ll just bring all of it with us when we come.”
    “Lovely, darling, that will work out wonderfully. I want him to feel at home here.”
    “Are you keeping him?”
    “Well, mum is the word but I have every intention of doing just that.”
    “And Master William?”
    “He’s agreed,” Mistress Diamond lied. She didn’t want to talk about her personal problems and chose that moment to get off the phone. “I look forward to seeing the two of you. Goodbye, Rene.”
    “Bye, we’ll see you Saturday evening.”
    Mistress Diamond wasn’t in the habit of discussing herself and she wasn’t about to start now. She picked up the phone again and dialed her