Wow! I go have my stitches out and look what happens!
Welcome souxi, and littleguitar! I have been warned by a couple of other readers that they are "catching up and will be joining the forum soon" because they don't want to be tempted by spoilers. So our little family, cozy as it has been, is expanding. And I am just grinning stupidly with pleasure.
For any of you who have been out the wide world of the BBM fandom and run across some controversy or criticism of my work, however, the readers who have stuck with the 4 1/3 volumes so far feel very differently about Ennis finding his new sexual horizons and indulging in what they call "soft play." I have had a HUGE lot of positive feedback, and a little pleading from readers to go further with Ennis's adventuring. If it were Ellery and a different partner that might be believable, but as it stands at the moment, I think we've gone about as far into kinky as it's going to get. However, it would seem that post-shooting-contest-sex is a new horizon which is entirely in Ennis's purview.
I am cooking my dinner and winding down and here should be another chapter up after I get that underway.