Chapter 191

Gretchen arrived at 8:30, and I greeted her with a kiss. She was three weeks more pregnant than I was, and arrived with Ingrid, who was told that Gerhard would be here at ten.

“What’s all this shit?” Gretchen asked, seeing my collar, cuffs, and temporary tattoos.

“I’m in submission to Quinn during my trip,” I said, “except while I’m with you. He’ll be taking my collar and cuffs off once he comes down to breakfast.”

“That asshole hasn’t hurt you again, has he?”

“I’m in love with that asshole, and no, he hasn’t hurt me anymore. Things have been very good.”

“Are you going to marry him?”

“A wolf? I don’t think so. I’d like to marry someone I can grow old with, but we’ll hang until I do find someone to marry. Besides, I just admitted to myself that I am smitten with him, so I still don’t know where it will go. I’m still going to date other people. I hope that they don’t mind if I get some on the side, kind of like Carl, although I’m not sure I want to