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pulled back to look at him. "Gideon?"
"Why me?" he asked softly, his beautiful eyes dark and stormy. "You know I'm fucked up,
Eva. You saw what I...that night you woke me...You saw, damn it. How can you trust me with
your body this way?"
"I trust my heart and what it tells me." I smoothed the frown line between his brows. "You
can give my body back to me, Gideon. I believe you're the only one who can."
His eyes closed and his damp forehead touched mine. "Do you have a safeword, Eva?"
Startled, I pulled back again to study his face. A few members of my therapy group had talked
about Dom/sub relationships. Some required total control to feel safe during sex. Others fell on the
opposite side of the line, finding that bondage and humiliation satisfied their deep-seated need to
feel pain to experience pleasure. For those who practiced that lifestyle, a safeword was an
unambiguous way to say "stop." But I couldn't see how that had any relevance to me and Gideon.