The physician corrects every ledger error with a private examination. Verity answers each summons without question.
Nigel and Verity must save the practice together or face foreclosure. Proximity turns their professional partnership into one of clinical discipline and measured punishment. Her obedience fractures his restraint more with each passing review.
She loosens her corset on command and holds position for his hand. The sessions grow longer and stricter each week as he calibrates her discipline to the errors found. He demands complete stillness as the discipline continues. The threat of scandal could end the arrangement at any moment and ruin them both. She stays anyway.
The examination room door closes.
