Total pages in book: 84
Estimated words: 86510 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 433(@200wpm)___ 346(@250wpm)___ 288(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 86510 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 433(@200wpm)___ 346(@250wpm)___ 288(@300wpm)
“Why?”
“Ben is no longer in the lifestyle. He left it a while ago. He only comes to the club every now and then to see how things are going.”
News to me. And I don’t really care. It’s not my business. I’m just glad she had no intention of playing with him.
“Drink?” I ask when the music gets a little faster.
“Sure.”
I lead her to a small table in the corner that’s unoccupied and pull out a chair for her. “I’ll get it. What would you like?”
“Ronan, you don’t have to. The service here is impeccable. Someone will be here before—”
“What can I get you to drink?” a topless server asks.
“Hi, Kaylee,” Mary says. “I’ll have a lemon drop.”
“Macallan fifteen-year,” I say.
“Absolutely.” Kaylee walks away, her tits bouncing.
I sit across from Mary. “Is there any chance you’ll go to a private room with me tonight?”
She looks down at the table, examines her fingernails, which are painted a burgundy that matches her dress. Very sexy.
“If you want to do a scene tonight, Ronan, you’ll have to find another submissive.”
“I suppose I could do that.”
Her lips curve downward.
Interesting. She doesn’t want me to find another submissive. But she knows I’m a Dominant. She knows I’m craving a scene, and she wants me to have what I want, even if it isn’t with her.
“I can introduce you to a few if you’d like,” she says.
I raise my eyebrows. Perhaps she feels nothing of what I’m feeling—intense attraction, intense desire.
An intense desire to dominate.
Almost more than that, though. I might be satisfied just to kiss those lips.
“I’ll stick with my date tonight,” I say.
“Date?”
“Yes. We had plans to meet here.”
“And you were late.”
“Yes, I was. It was unavoidable, and I’m sorry.”
“You could have called Claude.”
She’s right. But I didn’t because I was dealing with Keira. I’m the Dominant here, though, and I’m done explaining myself. “This is a date, Blossom.”
“If you say so.”
I grab her hand, meet her gaze. “I say so,” I command in my best dominant voice.
Her lips tremble. Only slightly, but I notice.
Good. I’m having an effect on her. Perhaps not the effect I normally have on a submissive, but I’m happy to take what I can get.
So strange. I had Keira in my hotel room all day, and not the slightest desire to give her what she was asking for.
Tonight?
I’d play with Mary in a minute, but it’s not what she wants.
And because she doesn’t want it?
It’s not what I want, either.
Slow and steady.
I never thought I’d be one for that, but I can convince Mary to be my submissive.
I can, and I will.
Determination sweeps through me as I look into her brown eyes.
“Have you been in the back yet?” she asks me.
“I took a tour of the place when I made my application. But not in the way you mean. Last night was my first night here while the club was open.”
“Are you interested in seeing the rest of the club while people are playing?” she asks.
I take a sip of my scotch, let the smokiness trickle down my throat. “Are you?”
She looks down at her fingernails again. “I’ve been a member here for years, Ronan. I’ve seen it all.”
“Are you a voyeur?” I ask.
“Sometimes.”
“An exhibitionist?”
She shakes her head. “I’ve tried it, and it’s not my jam. What I do with a partner is private, and I don’t like other people watching.”
“Even if you like watching other people?”
“Only sometimes,” she says. “And yes. I prefer to play in private. But there are others who don’t, which lets me be a voyeur sometimes when I feel the urge.”
“Do you feel the urge now?”
She looks up from her fingernails. “Not really, but I will accompany you if you’d like to go to one of the exhibition rooms.”
I pause a moment, thinking. What is the best move here? She’s clearly not ready to play, and she doesn’t really have the urge to go to an exhibition room. Yet she’ll accompany me if I ask her to.
In a normal situation, as a Dominant, I’d say absolutely. Let’s go. Let’s be voyeurs for the evening together.
But this isn’t a normal situation.
“If you’re not into it, then no,” I say. “I don’t need to do anything you don’t want to do.”
“You’re an interesting Dominant, Ronan.”
She has no idea.
I’m looking for a true submissive. One who will bend her knee at any time. One like Keira, who was happy just to submit…until she wanted something more.
I ask a lot of my submissive, which is why I usually only play with one at a time. I don’t call it a relationship. I think of it more as an understanding between us.
We’re exclusive when we play together. Not only because it makes practical sense. Exclusivity means you don’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, which means condoms aren’t required. Personally I hate them, though I always use them the first time with a new submissive.