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of her own self-pity and need that had nothing to do with caring about herself. Now, he was nurturing every aspect of her life, her soul.
    Crack!
    The leather tails slashed across her ass in hard, rapid succession, sending anguish racing through her body. “You will learn one way or the other,” Master Dante hissed, cracking the whip across her back and ass cheeks.
    Crack! Whoosh!
    Briana jerked against her restraints, the leather bindings biting into the tender flesh of her wrists. “Aaaahhhh!” Instantly she bit back a scream. She wasn’t allowed to make noise when being disciplined. While damn painful she longed for more, knowing what she’d done was horrible.
    Master Dante growled. “Willful. When will you learn?”
    “Sir…”
    “Enough!” He pressed the back of his hand across the heat of her neck. “I love you so very much and want the best for you and you know that. When you lie and steal, let alone forget to do your chores, it hurts me desperately. When you deceive me I cry.”
    Cry? Oh God… “Sir.
    “No more.”
    Briana hated disappointing him and her Master Dante had warned her that she would have set backs. But this was so unexpected. What in God’s name had possessed her? Lowering her head, she was ready to accept every strike of her punishment, even begging for more.
    Whoosh! Crack! Crack!
    An odd combination of anguish and bliss raced through her. Wiggling, Briana bit her lower lip as tears slipped past her lashes. Her ass was on fire, stinging from what she knew would be reddened welts. And she wanted more. Needed more.
    “I’m very disappointed in you and I realize that you must learn. I love you and want nothing more than to teach you how to be a better woman, the woman you’ve longed to be. I know you so well. You want nothing more than to please and obey me.”
    Crack! Pop!
    Master Dante whipped her hard as she bit back strangled moans. Somewhere in the shower of pain ripping through her body, something else happened. Ecstasy raced through her until she was blinded with hunger for please him and serve him, her Master Dante and the one man who had saved her from herself. All the years she’d spent fighting who she really was until she was lost in a sea of self-mutilation, going from man to man in an endless series of pain. Briana was a broken soul until she met her Master Dante and now she knew love and honesty and felt safe in his strong arms.
    And she had disobeyed him. She’d disrespected him. There was no way she could ever make up to him what she’d done. None.
    “Please Master Dante, help me learn.”
    He inhaled deeply and slid his finger down her spin to the crack of her ass. “Perhaps I will allow you to pleasure me.”
    “Please, sir!” As he inched his finger past her ass cheeks, to her dark hole, she stiffened. Briana hated to be touched there, fucked there, and Master Dante knew it. Shutting down her raging fear and emotions, she willed her body into a place of peace, succumbing to his touch, his needs.
    “That’s it. You’re learning. Relax and open to me.” Inserting a single finger inside her most forbidden place, he growled and then lowered his head, licking across her neck. “You’re always so tight. We’re going to need to take care of that. Tonight’s training will be about getting your sweet little ass ready for me.”
    Briana shook, clenching her mouth shut as he pressed a finger inside her ass, ignoring her whimpers. Inserting a second and then a third, he pushed past the tight ring of muscle, thrusting in and out in a slow and even moment of power. “Oooohhhh….” Her voice barely audible, she heard his disgruntled hiss. Suddenly remembering she was not to cry out, she clenched her eyes and mouth shut as he flexed his fingers open, driving into her asshole in an almost unbridled fashion. Concentrating on her breathing, she was lost to the dichotomy of anguish and rapture and there was something so amazing about his practiced control.
    “That’s