Page 13 of High Reward

Victor picks up my other hand and leads us through a series of doors until we reach The High Card where we go straight to Victor’s office.

The club doesn’t open for several hours, so we have time to kill according to Victor. Although he has work to do to prepare for a special guest. I’m not privy to the details, and that’s honestly fine with me.

“Grace, you can show Lili the club a little more in depth if you like. Enjoy each other, but your pleasure is still mine. Is that clear?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“And Lili is free to use your body for her pleasure as much as she wants. Clear?”

“Yes, Master. You are allowing Goddess to use your property.”

Victor grins and kisses her. “Good girl. Now go to the bar and wait for Lili to come and find you. I need to chat with her.”

Grace is quick to obey, and I’m alone with Victor in his office a moment later.

“What did you need to talk about?”

He pulls me close and kisses the top of my hair. “I just wanted to check on you. We haven’t had much time to talk since Wednesday. Not really.”

“I’m as good as I can be. I just hope Trinity recovers.”

Victor nods and cups my face in his hands.

Something seems different about him lately, but I can’t pinpoint the change.

“You mean something to me, Liliana. I hope you know that.”

The confession catches me off guard. “I’m glad, Vic. To be honest, for a while, I thought you just wanted me around for Grace’s sake.”

Victor steps back and shoves his hands into his pockets. “At first, that’s what I tried to tell myself.”

I drop to the sofa and look up at him. “What changed?”

“Watching you hit that pavement. Knowing the bullet that hit Trinity was meant for you.”

My heart twists. “That had to be so hard for you. But I’m glad you were there.”

“My devotion to Grace is important. But we both want and need you in our lives. I think it’s time you and I came to some kind of agreement about our dynamic.”

“You mean power exchange?”

Victor nods.

“Is that necessary? We’ve been enjoying ourselves so far.”

Victor leans against his desk. “We have. But I need clarity about what we are. You’re clearly a switch, but I am not. Are you OK submitting to me and dominating Grace?”

“Shouldn’t Grace be part of this conversation?”

Victor nods. “She will be. But she encouraged me to talk with you alone first. To… tell you how I feel.”

That makes me smile. “Fair enough. I’m not sure if I want to be submissive to you the way Grace is. I don’t want to be property.”

Victor comes to sit next to me. “That’s understandable, given your history. I wouldn’t ask that of you. But I enjoy making you squeal. I enjoy giving you pain that will wash over the memories of what that bastard did to you.”

“So perhaps we agree that while you don’t control me or my pleasure in the same way you do with Grace, I will still suffer for you. We can play with pain and intense sensation without me calling you Sir or obeying your every word. Grace gets off on that. I don’t.”

Victor grins. “She really does. And I’ll agree to those terms.”