Chapter 6

The air in the private back room of the science museum still hummed with the residual energy of the day, though the crowds had long since drifted out into the night. We had claimed this secluded nook, a small glass-walled enclosure originally designed for viewing miniature geological cross-sections, now empty except for the dim, ambient glow of the exhibit lights filtering through the frosted panes. It felt clinical yet intimate, like a laboratory for our own私密的 experiment. I was still wearing the silk dress he’d dressed me in earlier, though the bottom half was bunched around my hips, exposing my bare ass to the cool, conditioned air. My legs were spread wide, knees bent, resting on the plush velvet carpet that lined the floor of this little capsule. I could hear the faint, rhythmic thrum of the planetarium’s projector gears from the adjacent room, a mechanical heartbeat that underscored the pounding in my own chest. He stood behind me, a silhouette against the soft blue light, his silhouette imposing and dominant. I hadn’t even taken the time to look back at him yet; my eyes were fixed on the intricate diorama of tectonic plates in front of me, but my