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Will was right about that, and I decided to let the remark pass.
I strolled out of the room on Will’s arm, glad to be anywhere else but in that room with all its amazing memories. We smiled kindly at people who we passed, and made pleasant conversation. I just needed time to settle in, and not feel impending doom. I was beginning to relax, and my drink made me lightheaded enough to calm my nerves. I watched Reggie for a while as he made his way through his crowded rooms, playing the dashing host. There was a ravishing creature on his arm most of the time. She was introduced to me as Maria.
“Is she Reggie’s next submissive?” I asked Will.
“I don’t think so. I’m not sure he’s doing much training these days. You probably scared him off of it,” he looked down at me with a nasty smirk.
I ignored the remark as we continued to mingle.
Wandering toward the back of the house, Will all of a sudden pulled me by the hand into Reggie’s private den, just off the larger library. He said he wanted a break from the incessant chatter and cigarette smoke.
As he closed the doors behind us the music playing beyond the room was nearly silenced; but the silence that settled around me had a very foreboding quality. It was enhanced all the more when I realized that Reggie was in the room, his lovely date somewhere else. It was just the three of us with the doors closed, a world away from the festivities in the other parts of the house.
I instinctively drew away from Will and stepped back, staring into two pairs of chilling eyes. The blood likely drained from my face at the very sight of that much cold focused on me.
“What’s going on?” I said, my voice nearly cracking.
“No excuses, Alexandra,” Reggie said, in the same clipped distinct tones that had demanded submission from me so many times.
“No excuses?” I repeated, trying to decide what he meant.
“No excuses, Alex,” Will repeated.
I raised my eyebrows to question him.
“You have no excuses not to be the woman of your desires,” my sometime lover continued. “You know who you are, you know your crimes, your cravings and your own manipulative heart. I think you’d be glad to have two men to keep you honest.”
“What are you going to do?” I asked.
“You think I was going to let you get away with lying to me tonight?” Reggie asked.
“Lying?”
“You lie again about your stunt, you’ll regret it.”
“Will did spank me before we came,” I said.
“That was because you wouldn’t get out of bed,” Will reminded me. “There’s a larger crime to pay for here. I told you this was a perfectly innocent party, and you didn’t trust me. Reg and I had no plans to put you on the spot, and yet you refused to believe me, as many times as I told you that.”
I fidgeted with my hands nervously, and looked away from him. I was guilty as charged.
“Alexandra!” Reggie snapped me to attention.
“And then you blatantly, and not very convincingly, claim you’re ill, just to get out of going. It was really lame,” Will said.
“I made a miscalculation,” was the only defense I could muster.
“You could have been honest, Alex,” Will said, as if that was simple.
“Tell me, how sick were you?” Reggie interjected, a rather light-hearted grin appearing on his face. That was the worst, what was behind it was pure disaster—and that was just seconds away.
I stood for some moments trying to decide exactly how much to admit to, how much I could get away with.
“You know it might help to tell the truth, the way you used to,” Reggie prompted.
“I don’t know why you’re putting me through this. I guess you must just love to see me squirm. Of course I wasn’t sick. Unless you call being scared to death, sick?”
“Well, at least we got the confession over with without a fight,” Reggie said. “Over the stool!” He pointed to a low leather stool, an exact duplicate of one in the outer library on which I’d had my very first punishment from the dominant Reggie. If they hadn’t planned it this way, the coincidence must have been fined-tuned by the gods.
