North’s povI moaned, my head falling back against the wood."Please," I whimpered, my voice barely a whisper."Please, what?" he asked, his other hand coming up to wrap around my throat, not squeezing, just resting there, a constant, possessive weight."Please… touch me."He chuckled, a low, dark sound. "Oh, I am touching you, bunny. But if you want more, you have to earn it."He stepped back, and the cropping resumed, harder this time, more deliberate. I lost all sense of time. There was only the cross, the leather holding me, the sting of the crop, and Lucien's voice, a constant, commanding presence in my ear. He pushed me to the edge, to the point where the pain blurred into a haze of pure sensation, where I thought I might break. But I didn't. I held on, my body trembling, my mind adrift on a sea of endorphins.Finally, it stopped. I hung limply in my restraints, my body slick with sweat, my mind a peaceful, blank slate. I felt him behind me, his body pressing against mine, his
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