Lexi was young to be in charge of one of the museum's main galleries, but she had her masters and was working on her doctorate. And her wealthy boyfriend Cole was one of the museum's more important patrons. She didn't tell them at the museum that she was in a dominance/submission relationship with him, of course, but the new stern-eyed new curator figured it out. Ms. Cutter then persuaded Cole to 'trade' her so she could improve her training. Lexi had always thought of the 'bondage stuff' as a mere game, as wickedly exciting as it was. But Cutter would make it real, and take it to a much deeper level, a breathless, shocking, outrageous level where Lexi's mind was drowned in passion, sex and hedonism. When she was returned to Cole, she had forgotten her submission was anything but reality.