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From: Dominic Laurent Subject: Saturday Confirmation

Dear Vera,

I have found a compatible match. He has reviewed your needs and limits carefully and is interested in meeting you.

Date: Saturday, October 11th | Time: Nine PM | Location: Suite 7.

Dress: Something that makes you feel powerful.

For your first session, I’d like to offer you something specific: a structured introduction designed to help you focus entirely on the experience itself, rather than the self-consciousness of being seen. Some members find that being blindfolded during their first scene, with a guided entry, allows them to access parts of themselves they can’t quite reach when they feel fully observed. It quiets the need to manage. Leaves only the feeling.

This isn’t about concealment. It’s about creating the conditions for you to actually arrive.

The choice is entirely yours.

You are safe here. Trust yourself. Trust the process. Trust him.

— Dominic

I read it three times, sitting in bed, coffee cooling on the nightstand.

This is real.

Saturday. Three days from now. A man who has reviewed my limits and wants to meet me. Not to use me. To guide me.

I think of storm-gray eyes and a voice that said careful what you’re asking for, and I put the thought away before it finishes forming, because that’s insane and also none of my business.

I grab my phone before I can overthink it.

To: Dominic Laurent Subject: Re: Saturday Confirmation

Dominic,

Saturday is good. I’d like the blindfold, the guided entry.

— Vera

His response comes within minutes.

Vera,

We’ll structure the session so you can focus on the experience rather than being seen. You’ll be guided through the room. You can choose how much you want to take in, and when. You remain in control of the pace at all times, including the moment you decide you want to see.

Your match knows this. He’s prepared for it.

— Dominic

I read it twice. Then I set the phone down and just breathe for a moment.

Then I type back: Thank you. I’ll be there.

Saturday. Nine PM. Suite 7.

2 Kane

Sunday, ten forty-nine AM

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