She looked up at me, her cheeks smeared with mascara and tears. "I know you love me and you want the best for me," she said. "You would rather caress me than slap me like that." I grimaced. It's true. I would much rather thrill her with my tongue on her sex than apply the lash to her pretty ass. I've told her as much. Many times. "The fact that you brutalize me with straps and fists is proof of your love," she said. "I know it's the last thing you want to do, that it feels unnatural and wrong to you. But you do it because I need it, because you love me so much you want me to have that experience. And you wouldn't trust anyone who loves me less to give it to me." I hadn't thought of it that way, but she was right. I wouldn't trust anyone else to do it. It was, in a peculiar way, evidence of love. "So you beat me. And every blow hurts you more than it hurts me." Yes, sweet girl. Yes. It does. ...