Page 59 of I Know Your Secret


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Remain hydrated

If taken into town, speak to no one.

Do as you’re told without argument.

NoMasturbation.

Please direct all your needs to me, as I’ll be your sole provider.

Noclothes while sleeping.

Do not at any point and for any reason put yourself in danger.

Looking over the paper he’s typed up and printed, I can’t help but hover over the two most intriguing ones: No masturbation and no clothes while sleeping. Sleeping in the bed beside him inthe nude ensures my availability to him at any point in the night, which I don’t hate, but I also don’t love.

It might further my cause, though.

Even if I hate to think of myself as an animal merely trying to survive, I am. And my body is a tool I can use.

“I’ve broken most of these already,” I say sheepishly. “Will I be punished?” Fear skitters through my bones. Recallinghowhe punishes, I decide it isn’t something I want to go through again.

“Well, they didn’t exist until now. So, no, poison, you won’t be.”

I swallow, hating his knowing smirk.

“Alright, then.”

“So, you agree to them?”

“Do I have a choice?”

“No.”