TO BE READ AFTER *SING* This ten page story was sent free to the mailing list on 11/14/13. MONICA I missed two things. I missed my freedom, and I missed slavery. I got myself caught in a nether region where I couldn't come and go as I pleased, and I didn't feel protected. I was being unfair and I knew it. What man could be expected to keep up Jonathan's intensity for any length of time? No human could continue to be a raging lion after having their heart ripped out. So, though we burdened each other with many things, I never burdened him with my longing for my dominant Jonathan. That man was gone. I loved the man who replaced him. He was everything I almost lost in that nightmare of a hospital. He was funny and thoughtful. Gracious and wise. He was still the best lover I'd ever laid my hands on. But he wasn't the lion of a man he'd been, until today. The day my king returned.... ———————————————— ***Be advised this is the roughest scene of intimacy in the whole series.***