we can try. They all have
descriptions and if you touch your finger to the item it expands to let you
read it. If you like it hit accept, or consider. If you don’t like it hit
decline and it will be a no on our list of things to do.”
She
carefully viewed the items he had selected and by the end was panting slightly.
“Is it bad that I want to try all of them? Especially the ones where I’m bound
and wearing a blindfold while you swat me with a hand or soft crop.”
“Not
a bad thing. But pick carefully because they get a lot more intense from
there.” He rubbed his hand up and down her arm. “The next few pages are more
intensive than this first one. Page one is pretty mild in comparison to page
four, let alone what’s on page six.”
“Can
we try them all and then whatever I can’t do or don’t like we will strike it
off of the contract? I want to try everything with you, at least once. You’ll
always know just how hard you can push me, or when I might need a break,
right?”
He
gave her a squeeze. “I know you, Cecilia, so it won’t be that hard to gauge
what you can and can’t take. But read the list. As I said, there are some very
extreme items on the last page that might even make you wary.”
She
began to read through the list and finally said, “Okay, the ones with the
blood, and the stuff with urine and feces, I can’t and won’t do. Same with
being humiliated and used as furniture. I think that’s about it, though.
Honestly.” She was for the most part open to all of this.
“Mark
them off,” he said. “Those are what we call hard no’s. We’ll add in anything
else as we come across them. Now I’ll take this from you for a moment.” He
pulled the pad from her hand and propped it against one of his legs. He put a
few more in as hard no’s, she saw. One that involved fire and another that
involved knives. He also ticked off the one with a vicious-looking whip as a
no. Next, Draven went to another page at which point he handed the pad back to
her. “Put in our names, add in the date, and we’ll each sign it. Since we’re
leaving it open for now we don’t need to worry about anything else right now.”
She
nodded and did as he instructed. She signed her name to the document and passed
it back to him with a grin. “Your turn. Then I guess that you are mine and I am
yours?” She liked that idea, a lot. That she might just belong in some fashion
to him and he to her.
He
scrawled his signature on the document, then pressed his thumb to it. “That’s
it,” he told her. Setting the pad aside, he turned back to her. “Now you are
mine. I should warn you, I fully intend to marry you one day soon, Cecilia
Kauller. Don’t worry, I will ask you properly after getting your brother’s
blessing. Which I may need to do prior to him coming on board and discovering
you’re not logged into one of the guest quarters. Which also reminds me I need
to put you on my door’s security scan otherwise you’ll never get back in here
without me.”
That
had her snickering and she nodded. “You know what my answer will be time and
time again. As for Bracken.” She shrugged. “He might be a little upset that
I’ve moved right on in with you but if anyone should understand, it’s him.
Right?”
“One
would think so, yes. But he is your big brother so who knows how he’ll actually
react. I’m not too worried. After all, what’s the worst he could do to me?”
Groaning, he dropped his forehead to her shoulder. “I shouldn’t have put that
out in the universe. Now I’m a goner.”
“No,
you aren’t. Like I told you, he loves me and as long as I’m happy he will be
too.” She would be well loved with Draven. Everything about their relationship
to date made her ecstatic and now that he was acknowledging her and she him it would only get better.
“I
want you to be pleased with me, Cecilia. And I’ll do everything in my power to
make and keep you that way. But you also have to let me
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