I could’ve told the voice it had only been a few hours since she’d appeared in my club, but it was pointless. He had his own agenda, it seemed.
Cav smirked. “So you’ll take her out?”
I considered that for a moment, then shrugged. “I need a little time.”
He did not appear impressed. “For?”
What I didn’t tell him was that I needed a few days to get with Zeke, have a conversation. He was my friend and I wasn’t going to court his sister without letting him know.
A sigh of disappointment sounded from Cav. “Her brother.”
I nodded, shocked once again at how easily he could read my mind.
“Fine. I’ll ask her out first.” He grinned. “Since, you know, I don’t have any obligations to Zeke.”
“Her brother can’t know,” I declared. “Not yet, anyway.”
“I won’t tell him,” Cav said, his tone reassuring.
“Don’t you have an interview with him?”
“Sure. But that’s about business. Not his kid sister.” Cav grinned. “Although, if you ask me, she is definitely not a kid.”
No, she was not. She was most definitely a woman, the greatest of temptations. And I found she had quickly become one I wanted to have calling me … Master.
Fuck.
“And what happens after a few dates?” I asked, curious.
“It’s not obvious?” Cav’s eyebrows raised in that way that said I wasn’t thinking this all the way through.
I probably wasn’t. But in my defense, I had a beautiful, willing woman in a theme room right now and I was spending time in my office. “Clear it up for me,” I demanded.
“We take it as it comes.” Cav laughed. “Step out of the role, man. She’s a woman, you’re a man. Take her out, have some fun. Don’t think about what comes next.”
“And what about her request?”
Cav chuckled. “Well, I say we observe her, see if she’s even capable of being in a submissive role.” He cocked his head to the side. “If she is, then we can easily grant her request. Show her around, let her spend some time here, explore it with us.”
“And if she’s not?”
Cav’s face sobered and I knew he was thinking the same way I was. That it wouldn’t come to that, because the idea of having Jamie walk away when this was done, to write her paper at the same time she wrote us off … yeah, I didn’t want to think about it, either.
“Baby steps,” Cav said.
I nodded. “Fine. But you have to determine her submission level without any sexual interaction.”
Cav laughed.
I didn’t. “I know how easily you can sweet-talk a woman out of her clothes, Cav.” It wasn’t that I had a difficult time myself, but when it came to Jamie, I wanted her to remain fully dressed. Right up until the moment I ordered her to strip.
There he is. The big, bad Dom is back!
Cav’s smirk was sinful. “I say we get this show on the road.”
“Date first,” I reminded him. “One on one. Then we’ll discuss her options as far as officially becoming our student.”
“Agreed.”
When Cav went to remove his shirt, I took a step back and stared. “What’re you doing?”
“Well, I figured we could tease her just a bit. Before we cut her loose for the night.”
I dragged my eyes down his chiseled torso, then back up to his face. “Are you gonna play after she leaves?”
“Wasn’t in my plan.” A smile formed. “But if you’ve got somethin’ in mind…”
I glared at him.
He laughed. “Kidding. Fuck. Loosen up a bit. No submissives until we figure out the path we take with Jamie. Now, can we have at least a little fun?”
Fun? Sending Jamie on her way didn’t sound like much fun.
On the flip side, the idea of spending more time with her…
Yeah, that I could get on board with.
Jamie
HONESTLY, I HADN’T EXPECTED TO BE LEFT alone tonight. When I arrived, the woman at the front desk informed me that guests of the club weren’t allowed to be without supervision at all times, even warned me not to go off by myself or I would be escorted off the property and not allowed back. Thanks to that cold threat, I figured I would be kept under guard during my time here, if not by Edge, then at least someone.
That didn’t appear to be the case since Edge and Cav had disappeared a good twenty minutes ago and had yet to return. Not wanting to be tackled by a Storm Trooper lingering outside the door, I had stayed put.
Not that I’d been bored this whole time. Rather than sit idly by, I’d given myself a tour of the room. It wasn’t all that big, probably fifteen by fifteen with tall ceilings to accommodate the appearance of being in a barn. Yes. A barn.
Oddly enough, I liked the cowboy theme. Not generally my taste, but it certainly had its appeal. From the smooth wood floors to the rough wood siding on the walls, even the bale of hay in the corner, they’d gone all out. The loft with the rustic wooden ladder was a nice touch, although I hadn’t gone up there to check it out. I wasn’t all that fond of heights, so I kept to the floor.
