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“I know, pretty girl. Master won’t stop you but he’ll be disappointed. It’s okay.”

How did she know what I was going to say? She removed the tray from my lap. “Get some rest.”

I nodded, sliding back down to cocoon myself in the blankets while gazing out the window.

Chapter Two

DAMON

“She managed to eat more this morning than she has since she got back,” Susie told me while carrying the tray into the kitchen.

I sipped on my coffee. “Good. She’s gaining her strength back.”

“That girl…” Susie paused before speaking. “She is broken, Master. I’m not sure she’ll ever recover from what’s happened. And we don’t know what she has been through.”

“She won’t talk to you either?”

Susie shook her head. “No. But she seemed…I don’t know, comforted when I sat next to her on the bed. I think she just needs to know you’re there for her. And when she’s ready, you’ll still be here.”

“I do tell her that.”

“Yeah, but you gotta show her, Master. There is a difference. I know you are used to your own ways, living by your own rules. And no one is saying you can’t. But Kara, I’m not quite sure she wants the life you were offering her before…he took her and now she’s different. But it’s just my observation.”

Thinking about losing Kara gutted me. It hurt me to my core. Would she really leave me after everything? I lost her once, I sure as shit didn’t want to lose her again. But might have been out of my hands this time. I might not have a choice in the matter and that was what scared me the most.

“I’ll be in my office if you need me.” I stood, heading off in that direction. But first, I peered into Kara’s room and saw she was peacefully sleeping. If I could take all her nightmares and stress away, I would do it in a heartbeat. But this was something she had to work through.

***

Three hours later, there was a light knock on my office door. I pulled my glasses off my face. “Come in.”

Kara pushed the door open and walked over to my desk, sitting down in the oversized brown leather chair; it swallowed her body. The woman didn’t realize just how powerful she really was. She writhed her hands in front of her body. “I wanted to see if we could talk, if you aren’t busy.”

“Sure.”

“God, I don’t know how to say what I want to say.” She looked at me nervously while she tried to gauge my temperament.

“Just come out with it, Dove.”

“I don’t think I can be here anymore. I feel like it would be best if I went on my own for a little while.”

I paused and thought about what she was saying. “Are you planning on coming back?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I just feel like I need to be on my own in order to heal myself. I need my own space.”

“You don’t want to be with me anymore?”

“I need to think about what I want, Damon. I don’t know if I can continue the lifestyle you expect me to live.”

“Why can’t you tell me what happened? I want to know so I can understand.”

“I can’t. At least not right now. Jose fucked me up.”

I winced when she said his name.

“If you don’t want the handcuffs and the spankings, then I don’t have to do that. I’d rather have you. Just remember that when you are thinking about everything.”

Tears escaped her amber brown eyes. “You’re just going to let me go?” she questioned with concern.

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