Chapter 7

A contract to take a beating in exchange for money. Hwani went rigid with tension, thinking she really was going through every strange thing imaginable. In the back of her mind, she thought she was getting swept up in the mood and doing something absurd, but Ezio was moving things along so quickly that stopping was out of the question. “…and so Miss Hwani shall cooperate in Ezio’s compositional work. Let us limit the blows to the buttocks. The marks will not show through clothing, and it should be the least painful place.”