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For a brief while, time appeared to stop. She fell onto the laps of his. She was terrified to death. How was he going about it?

The room gradually filled with the musky smell of a guy ready to mate. The unfamiliar aroma continuously assailed her senses.

She was momentarily stunned before readjusting to reality. She tried to put some distance between them, resting her hand against his chest. "Let, let me go!"

He gave her a hard slap on the wrist and spoke in a cold voice. “Did your former spouse not show you how to take out a belt? Or are you just acting stupid so I can have to teach you?"

"What?"

"Well, if that's the case, as you wish." He took hold of her wrist, directing her motions to apply pressure to the latch on his belt. It snapped back with a loud click.

For a few moments, she felt as though her brain had frozen. His penetrating look caused her eyes to grow noticeably bigger and wider.

The dull sound of the belt hitting the floor snapped her back to reality. But f