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Porter replied, “That is not relevant.”
“To you,” Adrik replied with a dangerous smile. “It’s very relevant to me.”
Porter grinned harshly in return, letting all his hatred for this man be unleashed in his features. “If you want to know, only look into those you trust.” Porter then pressed a little harder against Kenzie’s back, wanting her far away from Adrik.
That was his final jab to Adrik. He knew the dipshit would spend the next days, weeks, and months trying to find out who had ratted him out. Porter got some satisfaction over that. This was over for Kenzie, but Adrik would be suspicious for long after that, questioning everyone and anyone he knew.
The group stayed silent as they left the office and entered the elevator. It wasn’t until they made it outside that Porter heard Kenzie’s sigh. They stopped by the palm tree at the curb and Kenzie looked from Porter to Sawyer and finally said, “I’m not sure I can ever have the words to thank either of you. What you’ve done for me—”
Sawyer interjected with a smile, “Done what friends do for each other, Kenzie.”
She all but jumped at him, wrapping her arms around him. “I hope one day I can do the same for you.”
Sawyer grinned at Porter as he hugged her, and all the heaviness inside Porter fled him. Kenzie leaned on her friends and saw the outcome of that. He hoped for her that she would do so more often from this day forward.
Once Sawyer backed away from Kenzie, he glimpsed at his wristwatch. “I need to get going. I’ll be working all weekend, since I took the last few days off. Enjoy Club Sin without me.”
Porter smiled in return, so grateful for Sawyer. He moved toward his friend and they shared a manly hug. “I owe you.”
“You don’t owe me shit.” Sawyer gave Porter a hard smack on the back, and then his expression lightened. “Well, maybe you could put in a good word for me with Chloe.”
Porter laughed, realizing what he had assumed had been accurate, as there had been an attraction there between them. “Consider it done.” Though he also knew Sawyer would have his hands full with Chloe. She wasn’t submissive, and he couldn’t picture her in the dungeon. She had once told him when they were investigating a man who was cheating on his wife with a Dominatrix that she thought kinky people were strange.
Porter hadn’t been insulted, as Chloe didn’t know enough about the lifestyle to truly make a judgment call on it. All she’d seen was one man who was interested in being a slave, us
ed as if he was simply an object for his Dominatrix to toy with. It wasn’t the right relationship to help a vanilla woman understand the specialness in a D/s relationship.
Sawyer strode off down the street lined with palm trees, and Kenzie said to Porter, “That went well, didn’t it?”
“It did, and I’m proud of you, Kitten.” Porter reached for her and liked how eagerly she came into his hold. “Let’s keep a low profile for the next couple days to make sure this is all smoothed over, and Adrik is telling the truth that construction will begin on the casino.”
Her brows furrowed in their cute way. “You do realize that it’s Club Sin this weekend and if we lie low we’ll be missing out on that?”
“Of course I do.” He brushed his knuckles across her cheek. “But the group is scattered this weekend anyway. Sawyer is working. Ella and Kyler are on their honeymoon.” He dragged his fingers through her hair, relaxed by the sensation. “A lot has happened in a very short time, and I don’t know about you, but vegging around the house and ordering Chinese food sounds like the perfect weekend to me.”
Her features softened, and it seemed to Porter that he had said exactly what she wanted him to. “You know, if you keep feeding me as much as you are, I’m going to explode out of my jeans.”
His fingers tightened in her hair, warmth sliding into his groin. That sight wouldn’t displease him. “I’m sure you could find a way to work it off with some vigorous exercise.”
She wiggled her hips against his hardening cock. “I might need someone to help me with such an intense workout.” She leaned in to him, offering herself for his pleasure this weekend. “Would you be up for such a challenge?”
His cock went from semi-hard to steel in two-point-two seconds. He pressed himself against her, arching a brow. “Keep looking at me like that and wiggling that sexy body against mine, I’ll do one better and fuck you right in my car, kitten.”
She stood on her tiptoes and licked his bottom lip. “Promise?”
He loved seeing the high-spirited spark in her face and hearing the snappiness of her voice, because now it wasn’t used to get something. It was simply her personality shining through. He yanked her against him, gazing down into her gorgeous eyes as the breeze fluttered her hair around her face. “You’re trouble.”
She grinned. “Damn right I am.”
Chapter Eighteen
Seven long days had gone by and Kenzie wondered with each passing day if Adrik or his goon would show up at her store, but no one did. The construction of the casino had begun, and Kenzie needed to close her shop for one day while they demolished the buildings next to hers. When the dust cleared, her store remained, and she heaved the longest sigh of her life before she and Porter laughed in relief. Later on in the week, she’d received drawings for the new front of her store, which modernized it. Kenzie didn’t mind. She thought the look suited her store perfectly.
It seemed that life returned to normal, or a normal that Kenzie had never known before. Porter had stayed with her for the entire weekend and they’d done just as he’d said they would, which wasn’t much of anything. They had slept more hours than Kenzie had slept in a while. He had played games on his iPad while she read the afternoon away, and they had sex just as much as she curled up with her book.
Last weekend had been wonderful. Now she wished she was frozen in that moment. The scent of sex and leather brushed through her nostrils as she scanned Club Sin, sitting on the couch near the entrance. She studied all the scenes going on around her, somehow feeling detached from it all.
Tonight was her final night with Porter and the end of their arrangement, and she knew what their scene tonight would mean to him. She needed to give Porter things she hadn’t given anyone in Club Sin because he, out of anyone, deserved the Club Sin Master status. He taught her to trust again. He got Adrik to leave her alone. He helped her come to grips with her mother’s and her sister’s deaths. Porter had helped her achieve so much, and now she felt liked she owed him.
