Cardinal's Rule
Cris had told him about her .
    personality.
    What Cris put her through changed her. For the better? Only time would tell.
    One thing for certain, she was a woman who went after what she wanted. He couldn’t think of
    anyone better to have by his side. The fact that she bumped his timetable up by months by insisting they move in with her was a bonus.
    That he found himself attracted to her had come as a genuine surprise. He should have known
    Cris would never lose his heart to some sniveling, weak-spined trollop. Tilly was unlike any other woman he’d ever met.
    He couldn’t wait to get to know her better, this woman who still owned his slave’s heart even when she herself had been his slave.
    He unlocked the hotel room door. Slave still knelt on the floor where he’d left him. “Do you have to use the bathroom?”
    “Yes, Master.”
    “Go do it and get ready for bed.”
    Slave slowly stood, then turned and walked to the bedroom. His back was covered with fresh
    bruises from where Tilly had beat the crap out of him. Looked like she’d used her fists, maybe a crop.
    Nice. No slices from a cane. A particularly large bruise on his thigh where Landry suspected she’d kicked him.
    Damn. Had to hurt like a son of a bitch.
    He stripped and pulled the covers back on his bed before lying down. When slave returned,
    Landry pointed at his cock. “Get busy.”
    Slave knelt between his legs and went down on him. Landry tightly gripped his head, fisting his hair, pulling on him, driving his cock deep into his throat and nearly choking him.
    Slave never complained, never fought, never tried to pull away as Landry fucked his mouth.
    Slave took it.
    After a few minutes, Landry shot a load down his throat. He didn’t even give slave a gentle pat on the head or a “good boy.”
    “Go to bed. You can sleep on the other bed tonight. On top of the covers.”
    “Thank you, Master.”
    Landry turned off the lamp and pulled the covers over himself. He didn’t crank the A/C down
    like he had the previous nights. He hated sleeping alone, missed the feel of Cris’ taller body stretched out beside him. Maybe now, being able to make reparations for what happened, he’d finally be able to let Cris back in bed with him without feeling guilty or angry about his presence.
    Or without feeling like a goddamned pity fuck.
     

Chapter Six
    Tilly laid in bed and stared at the ceiling. She realized sleep would be a long time coming as she replayed her conversation with Landry.
    What the fuck.
    What.
    The.
    Fuck?
    Why the hell was she agreeing to this? And why the fuck had she come up with that crazy idea of hers?
    She didn’t really want to fuck Landry! Well, okay, great eye candy, sure, but in all her revenge fantasies over what she’d do if Cris returned to her life, that wasn’t one of them.
    Although something about the idea gave her a deep sense of satisfaction.
    She tried rolling onto her side. A little after three, she finally fell asleep and dreamed about Cris, about their life together. All good times, even during her blackest emotional storms he stood solid and patient beside her, loving her. When she awoke a little after seven the next morning her resolve had faltered. She stared at the ring on her left hand. Cris had wanted to give her a ring and she’d refused for the longest time, terrified over the thought of being married to someone after what she’d seen her mother go through.
    After what she’d gone through.
    What if she’d let Cris marry her when he’d wanted to? Would he still have left and gone back to Landry?
    Nothing good could come from that line of thinking, so she ended it.
    It’s just another job , she tried to think. I wanted to be a nurse, wanted to help people. I get to do that.
    There was that. No more making men dress up in diapers or trying not to kick them in the teeth, 
    literally, while they licked her boots, or whatever their kink was.
    After a couple of years she found it a lot easier to slip into the

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