"You'd leave me blindfolded?" she asks, the words lined with a genuine flash of shock. "And tied up? I'd...that'd be so humiliating, Nick."

He pinches at her nipples, tugging at them in a way that gets her whimpering and squirming against the bed, the slight ache nudging her a little further into compliance. "But I...I'd do that for you, Nick. If you want me like that." She swallows hard. "Blindfolded, a-and bound, and on my knees for you."