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I skimmed the section on bondage, confirming what we had already discussed. Kylie’s submissiveness blossomed when she lost all sense of control. My dick twitched just thinking about using the ropes in my collection.
“Luc?”
“Yes?”
“What would happen if I used my safe word while I was bound and gagged? How quickly could you get me freed?”
“I would immediately remove the gag. I could have your hands freed in less than a minute.”
I appreciated her question. It let me know that she was carefully considering everything in the survey and not blindly responding with what she thought I wanted to hear.
“How do you know that?”
“I practice my knots often, with extra attention to releasing the knots.”
Kylie blanched, burying her face back into the papers.
“Where’d you go, Ky? What’s wrong?”
“Do you practice with a lot of different partners?”
“No. I haven’t had many submissive partners, only one since I split with Sky. I practice the knots while I’m watching baseball replays. And I mentored with another dominant. Any knot I try on you would be one that I’ve tied and released countless times.”
“And Sky was submissive?”
“She was a switch, but with me, she played the submissive role. I don’t switch.”
“I’m not sure why I asked that. I don’t want to know the details of your sex life with your ex-wife. It will only lead me to obsess over her.”
I cupped her chin in my hand and turned her face until she met my gaze. “I’m an open book. If you ask me, I’ll answer. Notbecause I want you to compare yourself with Sky, but because I don’t think there is any shame with sex between consenting adults.”
Kylie placed her pen down and slid the rest of the pages across the counter towards me.
“I’m done.”
“As much as I want to read the rest of this tonight, I would rather spend the night with you. This was our last homestand until the All-Star break, and I won’t be home much until then.”
“Are you going to Houston?”
“Yes. I’m mainly going to spend time with my brother. But between now and the end of the break, I will only be sleeping here one other night.”
“Does the travel ever get to you?”
“I love the game more than I dislike the disruption the traveling creates.”
“And you love it more than you loved Sky?”
Shit.
“There were things inherently wrong with my marriage that would not have been repaired by me changing my career. Even if I had given up baseball, we would have ended up in the same place. It might have delayed the inevitable, but that’s all it would have been.”
“I’m sorry if I’m being invasive. I have little experience with relationships, but Lily and I have a theory that men fall once, and if it doesn’t work out, they won’t give another woman the chance again. And, well, my theory is that’s why you won’t let go for anything permanent.”
I stared at Kylie; her assumptions might be correct for other men. But there were far too many factors that led to my split from Sky. I didn’t want to go into my reasons for not wanting to marry again. The more reasons I gave Kylie, the more risk there would be of her trying to change my mind.
CHAPTER 23
KYLIE
