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“Janie Warren?” I asked.
“Yes. She’s been spending some nights here.”
Will had known Jane long before he met me.
“Then…” I was about to ask why he even bothered to go to the party the night before, but never liking to look foolish, I could only think about a hasty retreat. “I suppose then I shouldn’t bother you,” I said, as my churning stomach did one horrendous leap. I turned away, fearing I might end up getting sick all over him.
“Alex,” he called to me when I was still just a few steps away.
I turned back around.
“I’ll look at this,” he said. I had the feeling that he struggled to say it, just as he’d struggled to speak the night before. I wish I knew what was in his head, what was setting off his feelings, what conclusions he’d made about us. But at least for the moment I was destined to remain in the dark, nursing my aching bottom and my aching heart.
Chapter Ten
I saw the light gleaming in his office window. It was eight o’clock in the evening. Dinner with an old friend had brought me downtown at an hour when I’d have normally been home and cozy in my apartment.
Reggie was working late, and on the off chance that he was alone I went inside to see him. When I opened the door to his office, I was delighted to see he was alone.
“Hi,” I’d surprised him.
“Alex,” he said, as he turned around. He had a sheaf of papers in his hand. His blond hair was a little mussed, his tie pulled loose in a typical relaxed executive style. I’d never really seen him that way. My body quickened at just the sight of him, however, the expression on his face bothered me. It was emotionless, not a particularly good sign.
“This is really a fluke, my being down here,” I said. “I saw your light on.”
“Well this is what I do when I have no pert bottom to spank,” he replied flatly. There was no twinkle in the stunning blue eyes, just a predictable cold.
He sat casually on the corner of his secretary’s desk in the reception area, waiting for me to speak.
“You could have had mine,” I reminded him, letting him know I was feeling neglected. An entire week with no word from either Reggie or Will, and I was beginning to get desperate. I wasn’t used to being unwanted.
“Missing it, huh?” he commented, as he stared directly at my bottom.
“Maybe.”
“So, you think you can come down here and woo me into blistering your ass. Or did you just want it screwed?” he asked.
I shivered at his cold question.
“I haven’t heard from you, I haven’t heard from Will. It’s been nearly a week?” I explained, as I was wilting under his icy stare. I was thinking this whole move might have been a terrible mistake.
“You want to be in control again, don’t you?” he said. “Not getting enough attention?”
I was ready to stammer something, but nothing came out.
“So what will you do, find another personal ad to answer? Some poor longing dominant who’s dying for a submissive bottom?”
I was speechless. After almost enjoying being in bed with him the week before, he was now as heartless to me as he’d ever been.
“I told you I’d punish you on my time. I suggest you remember that. I haven’t wanted what you have to offer the last few days, so you’ll just have to pocket your spanking lust, unless you want to hire someone else to abuse your ass.”
“I’m sorry I came,” I replied, practically in tears.
“It’s control, Alex, it always has been. You’re so used to creating your sex life, that you can’t stand not being in charge, defining every little detail with that wildly creative mind of yours. It was a problem when you were first with me, and it’s a problem still. The truth? It’s the heart of your problem with Will. Of course by now, even you should realize that.”
There was a knot in the pit of my stomach that felt like lead. Truth does that to me. To think that I was still dealing with one of the same issues that originally brought me to Reggie in the first place.
“You go home and wrestle with that, and if I’m in the mood for you again, you’ll know.”
