~ Alexa ~

I gasp, my lungs seizing up as his words hit me.

The playful cruelty in his voice slices right through the thick haze of pleasure-pain, and for the first time, a small part of my brain manages to surface.

Everything about this, the hot wax, the shock of the ice, the agonizing depth of the hook, is designed to drive me insane.

It shouldn’t feel good, yet I’m a mess of trembling want. A reaction I never knew I was capable of.

And the fact that a part of me responds at all makes something old and cold inside me twitch awake.

I don’t want to think...