"I understand," he said softly, thinking on his response. "If given the chance, would you like it to happen again? Hopefully not by inducing it in the same way. It's not supposed to be terrifying. If the Dom's doing it right, it's like falling back into their arms. Which means that I probably did it wrong."

He moved his hand up to the base of Shannon's neck where it met with his back and placed his finger on his spine. "That's not much of a surprise. Unless you're hiding things from me about your previous relationships, I doubt you were much into kinky things. Pain intended to hurt is a far different thing than pain intended for pleasure. For example," he said and then took his finger and started to scratch down along his spine, hard enough to hurt but not nearly enough to be outright painful, "there's this. How does that feel to you?"

There's a bit of a sigh from Eli as he looked at Shannon. "Exactly what I said. You'd switch and be a Dom instead of a sub. I did mentioned switches to you beforehand. I'm one and from our scene, I can tell you're one too because you went Dom on me."