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After years of separation, Sarah and her old teacher, Daniel Carr, have gotten back together. He is divorced and single and she has moved in with him. And their deviant passion only continues to escalate, becoming so bizarre that the story begins to strain credulity for me, but remained interesting. I loved the first three-quarters or so and got lost near the end, but would still recommend the book to someone looking for a sexy, dark novel. In the excerpt below, Mr. Carr has introduced Sarah into choking sex, and she has asked what was that about.
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“Ever used poppers? Nitrates?”
“Yeah. This DJ I used to see was into that shit. Made me want to climb the walls, and not in a good way. But I was speeding all the time back then and I don’t think it was a good mix.”
“Jesus, Sarah.” Daniel frowned, his eyebrows knitted together. “Anyway what you experienced was the non-chemical equivalent of inhaling nitrate at the moment of climax. I restricted your oxygen supply and the cerebral cortex went to sleep and stopped inhibiting the areas of the brain which stimulate sensation.”
“You strangled me to make me come harder?”
“Basically.”
“Oh.” Sarah touched the tender flesh on her neck, glancing back at the mirror to see again the black marks his fingers had left.
“Don’t just say ‘oh’. You’re supposed to be terribly impressed. It cost me a lot of money to learn that technique. It’s considered a specialty.”
“What if I’d died?”
Daniel bared his teeth and spoke from the back of his throat. “I would have cut my throat and slowly bled to death over your corpse.”
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
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“Ever used poppers? Nitrates?”
“Yeah. This DJ I used to see was into that shit. Made me want to climb the walls, and not in a good way. But I was speeding all the time back then and I don’t think it was a good mix.”
“Jesus, Sarah.” Daniel frowned, his eyebrows knitted together. “Anyway what you experienced was the non-chemical equivalent of inhaling nitrate at the moment of climax. I restricted your oxygen supply and the cerebral cortex went to sleep and stopped inhibiting the areas of the brain which stimulate sensation.”
“You strangled me to make me come harder?”
“Basically.”
“Oh.” Sarah touched the tender flesh on her neck, glancing back at the mirror to see again the black marks his fingers had left.
“Don’t just say ‘oh’. You’re supposed to be terribly impressed. It cost me a lot of money to learn that technique. It’s considered a specialty.”
“What if I’d died?”
Daniel bared his teeth and spoke from the back of his throat. “I would have cut my throat and slowly bled to death over your corpse.”
-- “Taming the Beast” by Emily Maguire
