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His eyebrows go up further. “Serenity.” His voice is low and scolding.
“Miko, sometimes a girl likes to keep her secrets close to her heart. This is one of those times. I don’t ask for much.” I talk like that because I can with him. Although this situation has never happened before, he’s not the kind of person who will demand I tell him something if I don’t want to.
I imagine he’d get like that in a dangerous situation, which also hasn’t happened.
The tension in his shoulders loosens and when he nods, I'm reassured. He stands, comes closer, puts out his hands to take mine and gives them a gentle squeeze.
“Serenity, I’m only going to let this slide because I know you’re going through a tough time.” He holds my gaze. “I know it can’t be easy being back and thrown in at the deep end with this upcoming marriage. If your mother was here, she’d want you to have some happiness. So we’ll keep this between us for the moment. Okay?”
“Thank you.”
“If you’re going to be out all night, I need you to be very, very careful. I've never had any problems with you, but if anything happens to you, your father will have my head. Your dad has known me a long time, but he won't hesitate to get rid of my ass if I screw up and something crazy happens.”
Something crazy. Like me having this secret relationship with one of the heads of the Russian mafia? Yeah, that's something crazy indeed. But Dante wouldn’t hurt me.
“I understand and I'm safe. I assure you. The guy I’m with really takes care of me.”
He smiles at that. “That’s good. Then he’s okay in my books. But can we do this: send me a message when you're going to be away for the night or drop call me once. That way I’ve heard from you and I know you're okay.”
“We can definitely do that.”
“Great, I’ll leave you to get dressed. It's almost time for you to go to work.”
He glances at the clock. It's eight. I'm supposed to be leaving in an hour to get to work for nine-thirty. In actual fact, as the morning traffic is always horrendous, I usually leave a little earlier and get coffee if I get in too early.
“Thanks Miko.”
“Speak to you later. Please be careful.”
“I will.”
He leaves and relief washes over me. I know if that had been anyone else I would have been screwed. I need to be more careful.
In a weird way, it’s almost good Miko is aware I’m seeing someone because it makes things a little easier to sneak out and be away.
Quickly I jump in the shower and get ready. When I'm done. I grab my phone to message Harper.
I’m so excited and nervous about going to Risqué later.
I’ve never, ever been anywhere like that and I would never dream of it. The fact that I agreed is a big deal, but I have no idea what the hell to expect. Harper on the other hand is a seasoned veteran.
I message her the following:
Going to Risqué with Dante later, but I’m freaking out and I don’t even know what to wear. He's also making me wear a silver bracelet. Apparently all the girls who belong to Doms wear one.
As I read back the message several words jump out at me that I can’t even believe I wrote.
Domis obviously the most prevalent, because it means dom as in dom and sub. As in BDSM language.
As in Dante is a dom and I’m supposed to be his sub.
The safe word thing was a giveaway, but I just didn’t think about it.
Now we’re doing this.I’mdoing this.
It's supposed to be ten at night in Australia and Harper is still catching up on sleep, so I don't expect her to message me back until much, much later on.
However, within seconds of me pressing the send button, my phone rings.
