He'd promised to provide more comfortable restraint for his reluctant hostess and kept his promise, at least from his own perspective. Stripped to her panties, still tape-gagged and lying on her back with her arms tethered separately to the bedposts, Alexis felt differently. Tugging vigorously against the rope-cuffs around her wrists and the bonds pinning her ankles to the bottom of the bed failed to loosen them, then Alexis's legs were spread wide so that all four limbs pulled in different directions during her ensuing challenge to bondage that was both frustrating and humiliating.