The Bound Heart by Elsa Holland

Author:Elsa Holland [Holland, Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Gothic, Romance, Historical, Victorian, Historical Romance
Amazon: B018RLQXAE
Publisher: Elsa Holland Books
Published: 2016-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Olive sat at the table stroking the silk, running her fingers over the wisteria as Jamie strung the rope through the metal circle hanging from the central beam.

A lot of preparation was involved in working with the rope. He’d collected ropes and laid them out. He’d taken the large fat rope and made a circle like he had last time.

He did do that with Madeline.

“We’ll do a small suspension, nothing strenuous just so you can feel the beauty of it,” he said from across the room.

Olive got up and walked over to stand closer as he worked.

The silk slid over her thighs as she moved. This is what it felt like to be beautiful. She felt like another woman, a person she could be if she wasn’t living in Whitechapel, if she wasn’t looking for every penny to get by. Jamie’s world, Jamie’s acceptance of her strengthened her hunger for something different. To live her passions as he was living his. To be something in the world. On the inside things were shifting, about who she was, who she could be.

“Will it hurt?”

He scoffed. “No. What kind of a rigger do you think I am?”

“Well, I could be heavier than Madeline.”

“Olive, I could haul an elephant up and not hurt it if I didn’t want to. Now you are not heavy, you’ll feel pressure but I promise no pain.”

“Won’t the ropes dig in?”

“It’s my job to make the ties wide enough and your weight spread out evenly enough to make sure there is no pain or pinching.”

“Pinching?”

He finished with his preparations and walked over to her. He lifted her chin in his hand.

“Pinching means we could be damaging your body. So any strong discomfort you feel, you need to tell me straight away.”

She nodded and he bent down and kissed her.

Today, it felt like he was always touching her, always kissing her.

They’d gotten through his resistance to her, his rules and how he wanted to have sex. And today he’d shown her what his life involved and she was still here. With each of those layers something of his reserve was pealing back.

This Jamie, was relaxed. His body was fluid and his smiles came so easily she was dizzy with them.

“Let’s get the robe off you.” Her hands instinctively clutched it.

He saw and laughed.

She smiled back.

“Alright I can see the two of you have fast become friends, let’s tie you with it on.”

“I don’t want to damage it…”

“We won’t.”

He guided her to the center of the rope circle like before, pulled off his shirt but this time left his trousers on.

Her eyes went to them and he grinned.

“I need to stay focused if you are off the ground.”

Her face flushed.

He picked up the rope then came and stood behind her.

“Do you remember what we did last time? The breathing and the movement?”

She nodded yes.

“Good. We’ll start the same way to make sure we connect, calm down, and settle together.”

His arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her back against his chest.

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