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Mags was on fire! The evening had gone far better than she could have imagined. She' and Jen had begun with the loosest of scenarios. They'd talked some about what she might do to her captives/pupils, but most of what had happened had been improvised. She'd pushed hard, and so far Jen—and Theo—had responded beautifully. Jen had turned out to be a particularly fetching damsel-in-distress, and Mags' capricious cruelties seemed to turn on both villainess and victim alike. Now Mags had her endgame planned, but its success depended on Theo. As long as he was bound, she could control him, but loose... She had only Jen's description of her...