Such a beautiful ending to the chapter.  Bitter sweet.  It wonderfully shows how while Bella relies on him for every choice, he is just as dependent on her.  I also love how her trust in him is so strong that she doesn't even hesitate to tell him what happened in the bathroom.  I love the relationship you have woven between them.

Fantastic chapter! That restaurant scene was smokin' hot! I honestly wouldn't have a problem with Bella and Jasper having sex with how you've written their progression. And I loved Edwards explanation to Jasper about their relationship.  It was spot on. And his "I don't work without her" was so unbelievably sweet.  I'm glad Bella was able to hear that.

"Some slaves in Master/slave relationships didn't have any safeword at all.  The rationale was that a slave should never have that kind of power over her Master and wouldn't choose to serve a Master who she didn't implicitly trust to protect her from actual harm.  I'm sure that there was open communication in any safe, sane relationship, but the slave couldn't stop a scene with a word.  Other slaves had rules against using safewords during punishment sessions as it was felt it defeated the purpose of punishment if the slave could control its intensity or duration."

If you actually know anyone like that, beat them senseless.  It's never okay to not have a safeword regardless of your relationship and it angers me to no end.  Removing the safeword removes the "safe" out of "safe, sane and consensual", once you remove that there is the possibility or removing "consensual" without realizing it as well.  It is NEVER advised or recommended to not have safewords.  I hope people reading this realize this and don't ever try to play without one or let someone else convince them it's okay to not have one.

"He smiled and moved my hand, releasing the lock.  "Yes.  For this moment it is just us.  No commands, no contracts, no slaves or Masters.  Just you and me.  Just Bella and Edward.  Just love.""

This was absolutely beautiful. Almost enough to bring tears to my eye. Thanks for giving us this.

Yummy!  I loved it! I personally have never been one to share in my past relationships, I'm far to jealous of a person, however I LOVE reading about others. I can live vicariously without the jealousy. :D

I don't necessarily agree with how subspace is for you. There isn't a crash afterwards or subdrop and the crying is usually pretty cathartic.  It's actually what I aim for personally. 

 

I love the end! Glad she was able to rub it into that bitches nose a bit.

"I know some of you are uncomfortable with the lifestyle being portrayed in this story "

I don't understand why people continue to read stories they are uncomfortable with. This lifestyle, while not mainstream, is a pretty widespread one. It's probably one of the more common kinks and has such a huge umbrella of things under it. Hell, I'm involved in that lifestyle and there are things under that umbrella that even I'm uncomfortable with but I'd never complain about a story because of it. I just wouldn't read it.

"Being Master meant never having to say you’re sorry, so he didn’t apologize often."

I don't find this to be true. A GOOD master never has to say they are sorry. A master is not infallible. They are human and err like everyone else. He can read a situation or a need wrong or sometimes even push to far. Depending on the severity of that, apologizing does not lessen the position of master. If HE knows he fucked up, he shouldn't play it off like it was all part of the plan or it doesn't matter just because he carries the title of "master".  A good master who is on top of his game will read all these needs and situations right so there isn't (or rarely) a need to get into the realm of an apology. It shows respect and it shows he sub/slave that the person in power over them has realized where he made a mistake and needs to adjust. It can be very scary as a sub to have a master go to far in a session and then have no acknowledgment of that later. You don't know if you are safe or if that will happen again. A good master should be learning and growing just as much as a sub/slave and neither party should be ashamed or that or ashamed to admit that.

"followed up with the scariest four words in the English language.  “We need to talk.”"

Ugh..oh god, totally the scariest words in the English language.

So, are you going to write more cause the story was getting real good???

Love Edward!!

I am so tense that the boy is around every corner.  You've got me so worked up with tension.  Thanks!

Hot and yet sweet.

Great Chapter.  Reading on ...

This chapter was so intense.  It reaffirms the fact that we should not judge other peoples nature.  I'm sorry that slaves feel the need that they do.  And I am so glad that some of them find GOOD Masters to fulfill their need.  RATING = 20