Chapter Twelve - Testing My Boundaries

Tori’s POV

Full dominant mode. I recognised the signs. Yet all of them were different. Travis, with his innuendoes; Oscar, mostly silent; Calvin, hard to read; and Alex, the bully.

“I’ll do it,” I said, “but only because I need to fully understand to be able to help the others.”

This time I was lying to myself. And this wouldn’t bring me any closer to finding out if he was the monster responsible for the demise of Black Gold. All it would do was help me to see if I’d recovered from the other traumas of my past.

It bothered me that I’d not been able to watch the second demonstration for long.

“The scene will last no longer than twenty minutes. During that time you are highly unlikely to need a safe word, but use the traffic light system. Red for stop, yellow to pause, green if okay to continue. At no point will I use a gag. However, you will speak only when I ask you a question. Call me ‘sir’ and I will sometimes address you as ‘pet’.”

“Am I your plaything, sir?”

“Ah-ah, pet, what did