Laura offers Alex a nightcap as thanks for help with a presentation to a prospective client. But they never order drinks, because the southbound train introduced a masochist to the first sadist willing to test her boundaries.
"Alex scrambled out and extracted the belt from her jeans. She knelt besides the bed and lifted it over her head, the knife in its scabbard still attached.
"Laura licked her lips. 'I will use whatever you give me.'"
