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door. Courage deserted her and she froze in place.
    Like the place where Lindsey had been tied up, this room was plain. God help her, there were shackles on the brick wall.
    Paddles, some with holes drilled in them, and all sorts of implements she didn’t recognise hung from hooks on another wall. A couple of items resembled wooden spoons like she used in cooking. Surely that couldn’t be possible?
    One corner had a small pedestal sink next to a shelf. A few small towels were artistically arranged on top
    “This is the spanking room,” he told her. “It’s set up slightly different from some of the other spaces.”
    A plain chair dominated the centre of the floor. As he’d mentioned, there was also a type of horse. It looked similar to ones she’d seen in gymnasiums. Only this one had all sorts of threatening-looking ties affixed to it. Ties he wanted to use to keep her in place while he reddened her ass cheeks.
    Even though she’d welcomed privacy, having the door closed startled her.
    “Please face me,” he told her. “And remember, I told you to breathe. We can leave the door open if you are more comfortable with that. Or we can play in public.”
    The idea of someone witnessing her humiliation didn’t sound that appealing, either.
    “There is a window in the door, and I guarantee you either Master Damien or Gregorio will look in on you. As Master Damien said, he takes the safety of the house’s subs seriously.”
    He took another step deeper into the room. “ I take your safety seriously. You may have some red spots on your buttocks tomorrow, perhaps even my handprint. A small bruise or two is unlikely, though certainly possible.”
    She shivered but, just in time, remembered not to cover her nudity.
    “Nothing will happen between us that you don’t agree to.”
    “That seems odd. You’re talking about punishing me, and you’re saying I have to agree to it.”
    “I will walk you to your car any time you ask. You have your safe words, and the house safe word. On the other hand, this will hurt. It’s meant to. There are several different kinds of spankings. One is punitive. Another is erotic. Another can be for reinforcement.”
    “Erotic?”
    “It can be enjoyable, a way to warm up a sub for a night of hot sex.”
    She realised he’d done it again. He’d kept her talking, engaged her brain to the point that she was thinking intellectually rather than descending into fear. He was making this matter-of-fact. “And reinforcement?”
    “If I were administering a reinforcement spanking, we would discuss my rules and your understanding of them. We’d agree to a number of strokes you’d receive. It wouldn’t be as painful as a punishment, but it would sting enough that you would associate breaking of the rules in future with how bad it would hurt your butt.”
    “Let me get this straight, you’re telling me this will hurt—”
    “A great deal.”
    She scowled.
    “And understand this, Julia. You have to ask me to do it. Tell me your safe words.”
    “Do we have to do this again? You heard me go through it with Master Damien. And I remember the house has a safe word, too.”
    Implacably he crossed his arms.
    After sighing, she said, “Green is for everything being okay. Yellow means slow down.” It also meant they had to talk, something she was getting a bit weary of. “Red is for stop. Halt is the house’s safe word.”
    “Will you saying the word stop prevent me from continuing?”
    She thought about that. “No.”
    “Will you saying no prevent me from continuing?”
    This time she blinked at him, understanding dawning.
    “A lot of times, subs will shout no when they don’t mean it. If you need no to mean stop immediately, you need to tell me now. We have to both understand the way you’re communicating.”
    “I get it.”
    “If I discontinue the scene and ask if you want to proceed, the only answers I will accept are yes, Sir and green, Sir. Yeah or uh-huh will not work. Neither