“You collared her.” Susan growled and Jo smiled, no laugh lines on her smooth alabaster skin, just the cold smile of a killer.

“Yes. She’s under my protection. She’s yours, Tina, but only yours, you
understand that?” Jo asked and Tina nodded, her hand finding Shane’s
thick mane of hair, rubbing it and petting her as Shane sighed, still
feeling light headed from whatever had happened upstairs.

“Good. Susan, I expect Tina to be up and running the club at week’s
end. And Tina, I also heard you don’t have a place to stay, that you
are staying with a friend?” Jo asked and Tina nodded, wondering how she
knew all of this. Susan began to steam next to Tina. Jo was enjoying
seeing her getting angry.

“Excellent. We can’t have you taking home a new submissive to a
friend’s house. What fun will that be?” Jo tossed her a set of keys,
“That is the keys to my old place, on 343 Valliant Street. Small home,
fully furnished, you’ll both be comfortable there.” Jo said, about to
leave when Tina called back.

“Both?” Tina asked and Jo turned around, nodding.

“Yes, she’s yours-not just here, but outside of the LNF. Get used to
it, Tina, you own Shane for as long as I say you own Shane.” Jo stated
matter-of-factly as she walked away

Tina found herself blinking and looking down at the kneeling Shane, her
dark hair in her eyes and somewhere inside herself, Tina smiled.

~*~*~*~*~*

The doorbell rang, and Steven Jaffe moved to the door, casting a cold
look at his wife as she looked away from him. Her face still bruised,
and her arm still in a cast from her latest beating. None of them
administered by him, but for him. Steven pulled the door open and came
face to face with a woman from the past.

“Hello Steven.” Lara Perkins said with a cool voice, pushing passed him
and into the entryway. She looked around the house, having lived here
for two months after she’d run from Susan, the first time. Where she’d
gotten off the drugs, and the *****. Where she’d seen things that would
make a normal woman’s blood run ice cold.

“Lara” Steven said and Lara turned to him, her blue eyes ice as she
met his look, dressed in a sharply tailored suit, cut tightly around
her shapely body.