her Mistake

"Sir, i am very sorry, but i did break another rule today," she quietly confessed.

"And, what rule was that, My dear?"

"i forgot to tell you i had a meeting with Derrick today."

He felt His heart stop.

There are many types of men in the world, but Frederick was only concerned with three.

There was the type of man who lusted after women like His anastasia. Personally, He couldn't comprehend the idea of NOT lusting after a woman like anastasia, but the reality was that different men were attracted to different types of women. Oh well, He would think, their loss.

There was also the type of man whom women like His anastasia found hard to resist. Successful, confident, smart men who take bold action to be in control of any situation and get whatever they want. Frederick knew well that this type of man could trigger a response in anastasia, a subconscious willingness to submit, even if she consciously did not want to respond in that way.

Lastly, and the only genuine concern for Frederick, was the type of man who fit both categories. Men attracted to anastasia with the qualities she found hard to resist. This was the category into which Derrick fell.

Over the years, there had been a number of "Derricks" - men who actively pursued anastasia. For the most part, the efforts of these men had been seemingly innocent and, therefore, difficult to object to. A lunch invitation here. A little "harmless" flirting there. Pushing and prodding to see if anastasia was willing to take it a bit farther each time.

anastasia, of course, had never given in . . . much. she had been convinced to accept an occassional lunch invitation. she had found herself flirting responsively. It wasn't the lunches and the flirting that bothered Frederick, it was that anastasia sometimes seemed to be doing it despite herself. In the past, she had claimed she "couldn't" get out of a lunch date, that she hadn't been able to come up with an acceptable reason. she had claimed she "couldn't" help the flirting, that she didn't know how to ask a man to stop without fear of offending him. she did admit she enjoyed the attention and had a hard time not responding in kind to innuendo and double entendres.

Since His ownership of her, anastasia had become much stronger. If she accepted a lunch invitation or flirted a bit, it was her choice. she decided what she would and would not do. Nonetheless, He had long ago made it a rule that she notify Him when she would be in personal contact with certain other men. Derrick was one of these men.

Oddly, Frederick had not only permitted anastasia to engage in all types of sexual acts with other men, but had demanded it. These men, however, were only allowed to experience anastasia's talents under His direction. Even were He not immediately present (which He always had been), He would still have been in complete control. What He could not permit was for someone else, even temporarily, to be the least bit in control of His most prized possession. The fact she had forgotten to tell Him about this meeting told Him she subconsciously was concerned about the effect this other man might have on her. Fortunately, He was quite certain that, if Derrick had gotten the best of her in any significant way, she actually would have been much more quick to tell Him about it and beg His forgiveness. Today, He was simply faced with a beautiful girl who loved Him and was reluctant to admit a mistake.

His heart began beating again and he was ready to ask her, "How is it that you 'forgot' to tell me about the meeting, and what happened, anastasia?"