<strong>Tsade ~ with chocolate lily</strong><br/><br/>Tsade listened to Lily’s confession and marveled at how she lit up a room with her smile. His life had been filled with business. He had emptied himself of everything else and poured the slick gel of profit and loss into the frame of his life. It hardened him. It fashioned a stone man of him.  He had evolved into a machine with eyes on the numbers and a heart that calculated human offerings for ability. It had taken a few years to chisel the rough edges in the right places. Some said the cost was his soul.<br/><br/>Tonight he knew better. Tonight in this secret place he was about to have a chocolate nub.  She was right, he was bad.  Tonight he would be very very bad to her for as long as she could stand it without surrendering to unconsciousness.<br/><br/>He returned that smile with one of his own. A knowing smile that had lots of promise.<br/><br/>“It might happen. You might find yourself bucking those lovely hips, but I don’t think you will fail to be punished,” He said as the chocolate clung to the lip of the container before a few warm drops fell in a line down her breast.