Chris couldn't help it as his knees seemed to get out on him, forcing him face down onto the bed where he buried his face into the sheets, trying not to scream from the pain itself.

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Pike finally made it to that last thirty - he'd broken skin on the last four hits - and set the whip aside as he inspected his boy's body from shoulders to upper thighs before he moved to replace the three items he'd used back in the closet. When he returned to the room, he removed the blindfold and met James' eyes with his own.

"You can just stay there for a few minutes and think about what you've done."