pleasant ones. I really should have been able to read him better. I'm supposed to be the one with the people skills, and Matt is the most transparent human being on the planet. He surprised me there. I also miscalculated how hard to hit him, or I let my anger get the better of me. I laid into him as hard as I could, with the horsewhip on his butt. I was expecting the safe word to come out, and Kennedy would be dead. There was some screaming, then he was quiet, unresponsive. I'd managed to send him right into sub space. That's an altered state of consciousness that submissives can get into when stressed. He usually gets there after going down on a lot of pussy. I really didn't know what to do, but I reasoned