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This is an unprecedented ure—it’s a fine one—but that’s not whatnext to him as my husband

Wow I did it Ime to be his co deciphered into so much different back then—an offer of noncoe for the tireed to be his whore There, I adardless of what kind of label we place upon it Now he’s my husband—forever mine—and I couldn’t be happier

No number fourteen for him Ever

We began as strangers—aswas so le each time I hear or say it now There’s never a time I don’t recall the freakish control my husband displayed when he told me he was aI turned his world on its head To know I hold that power over him makes me feel invincible And adored

Some would consider our inception into this ind a perverted one Even I did in the beginning, but then we became so much more than either of us intended Noe’re Mr and Mrs Jack Henry McLachlan and this is the beginning of the rest of our lives We’re setting out into the world to write our own story—in stone, never sand

I look at my husband’s face and see his eyes flutter beneath his lids, a clear indication he’s drea, and I wonder what a man like him sees when he’s in the deepest of sleep Whatever it is, I don’t want to disrupt it so I slide to the edge of the bed in slow motion and place my feet on the floor of the plane’s bedroom suite I look over my shoulder to —so I ease froht

When I’m finished in the bathroom, I return to bed and repeat the same motion in reverse I’ed to slip into bed next to Jack Henry without waking hi inrin wide across his face

“Mornin’” He lowers his er, a sweet kiss just on the surface of ainst mine “You know … I think I like the sound of that”

“You better love the sound of it”

“Hrow on me with a little time”

I push against Jack Henry’s chest and we roll so I’row on me” I lower“If I try really, really hard”

I ainst hihs until they’re onon you Really, really hard”

“You and that mouth of yours, Mr McLachlan”

“You love thisit does to you” He’s told me that before

He slides his hands up the sides of ain His ins a journey at my neck and leaves a trail of wet kisses on its way down until reaching et how much you love what it does to you as well”

He dips it inside ing et about your highly talented tongue Or how good it ht”

He looks up atyou hoped it would be?”