"Mistress Deanna, are you ready?" "Yes, Miss Karen," the punishment mistress answered after she retrieved the strap from its repository. "You may begi...n," she stated. Deanna extended her arm and determined the correct distance and position, and, with her eye on the target, drew her arm far back and imparted a hard stroke of leather to the young man's bottom. He flinched as his ass cheeks jiggled from the force of the swat. A scant three or four seconds later, the next stroke landed. Deanna,. Now I had made Inspector. Along the way I had seen how some people would treat other people, I was no longer surprised at the depths of depravity to which human beings could descend. Yet I liked the job, purely because you could make a difference. When some utter lowlife who preyed on innocent people was banged up for a few years you got a great deal of satisfaction. The divorce was inevitable really. There was an adage in the Force, ‘Coppers should only marry in the family’. That is the. " Did you enjoy that?" She was all but taunting me.Regaining a fragment of my wits I replied, "Not nearly as much as you did, I should say."She laughed into the phone and mocked me playfully, "'I should say' only you would talk like that." Well, yes, I suppose. You've had your fun, so, good night." I replied, irritated at the prospect of being a punch line for a student prank."No, No, No!" She said a bit desperately, keeping me on the phone, "No, I like the way you talk. It really... gets to. I was hard all day with anticipation. The minutes of the day seemed like hours and finally the end of myworkday came. I hopped in my car and raced home. As I opened up the doorI called out for Megan but there was no answer just a note on the kitchencounter. I have drawn a bath upstairs for you and there you will findsome instructions. You must follow these instructions no exceptions orelse there will be big consequences. I set down my briefcase and walkedupstairs still no sign on Megan. I.