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Maddie loved Junior once. So did his best friend, her boyfriend Travis. Ten years later, a visit to the kink club and a tipsy bet involving a hogtie could change everything for all three.

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Ten years ago, my best friend Travis and I did something we shouldn't have, down by Buck creek. When my girlfriend Maddie left me for him, it felt like we were even. They moved to the city, and I became the best rodeo stock contractor in Kentucky. But now we're three beers in at a kink club. I ran my mouth, and they've gone and got me some rope. I don't know if the two of them ever talked about that night, and I don't know where this is going, but nothing counts when you're blindfolded, right? Unless all three of us want it to, when the lights come on...