My Groom Fled the Wedding, So His Father and His Guides Kept Me novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: Dock Line
Hank's room was above the big room, under the roof, and it had a window that looked down the whole length of the lake.
The bed was a huge log frame that his father had built, with a post at every corner.
He shut the door behind us and turned the lock.
"Strip," he said.
I stripped.
I took off my sweater, my jeans and my wool socks, and dropped them one by one on the plank floor.
He watched every piece fall.
He did not touch me.
He walked to the bureau and opened the bottom drawer, and he took out a coil of white cotton rope as thick as my thumb.
"Dock line," he said. "It's soft. I've washed it six times."
"You planned this."
"For four years."
He said it flatly, to the rope.
My knees went weak.
"Lie down," he said. "On your back. Middle of the bed."
I climbed onto the quilt and lay in the middle, naked, with the lamp on the bedside table throwing gold across my skin.
He took my right wrist and wound the cotton line around it, twice, firmly, and tied it to the bedpost above my head.
He did the left.
Then he knelt at the foot of the bed and took my ankle in his huge hand.
He wound the line around it, drew my leg out, and tied it to the footpost.
He did the other.
I lay spread open on the quilt, tied at all four corners, with the cool air on my wet skin.
I could move my hands a few inches and nothing else.
"Is the line too tight?" he said.
"No."
"Tell me if it is," he said.
"It's perfect."
His breath went out of him.
He stood at the foot of the bed and looked at me.
He took his time.
His eyes went from my bound wrists down my arms, over my breasts, my stomach and my open thighs.
He did not hurry and did not look away.
"Fifteen years," he said, "I have not made one decision about anybody. Not one. People said Hank will cope. Hank is fine. So I coped."
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