That switch comes down good and hard a few more times before it's put up and those eyes narrow a bit. "Get up, Christopher. I want your ass in that corner, now. And if you so much as move from it we'll start all over again."

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James gives a cry of pain when the last of those lashes hit. But when he's told he can stay right there on the S-hook, those tears start fresh. He didn't want to stay hanging there. Not that it was his choice, it wasn't.