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“Usually, it just starts out as a vibe.”
“So… when did you know about me?”
“The first night. In the bar.”
She looked shocked now. She took a moment to sit with that one.
“How could you know about me when I didn’t even know about me?”
“Call it experience. There was just something about you.”
“Great. So I give off ‘good little submissive girl’ vibes or something?”
I smiled a little. Christ, she was cute. “Or something. It’s not a bad thing, Jolie. And don’t feel like you’re waving a freak flag for all the world to see or anything. It’s not something that everyone sees or that everyone is looking for. I pick up on it because… I’m looking for it.”
“And… how do you know when you’ve found it?”
“I guess it’s just like anytime you meet someone, and you take an interest in them, and you pick up on their interest in you. After that, usually I ask.”
“You didn’t ask me.”
“I did, actually. I seem to remember asking you if you liked following orders when we were sitting at the bar. You said yes.”
Her jaw dropped a bit. “And I was supposed to get from that that you’re a sex Dom? If Dani never made me watch theFifty Shades of Greymovie, I probably wouldn’t have even known what the hell that was. I definitely wasn’t looking for it.”
“You’re right. I could’ve been more upfront. I was a little newer to it back then. Nowadays, I’m a lot clearer when I meet a woman, if I want to go there.”
“So, you start talking to a woman, you get a vibe, and then you tell her you’re a Dom and ask her if she wants to be submissive for you tonight?”
“More or less. Or, she might ask me first.”
“Really?”
“Sometimes. Usually submissives don’t come on that strong unless they’re totally sure of what you are. Like maybe at the club.”
“They can tell you’re a Dom?”
“Sometimes. Because of that thing I said. Maybe they’re looking for it. Plus, there’s the ring.” I wore a few rings, including the pinky ring I’d worn for years, the one I was wearing the night I met her. I held it up to her. “This insignia is the club’s symbol. Anyone with membership can have one if they want to. This particular style of engraving, black on black, means I’m a Dom.”
Jolie’s wide eyes met mine. “You just wear that around? In public?”
“Well, you have to be pretty close to me to see what it is, right? And if you’re not affiliated with the club, you probably don’t know what it is. It’s just a piece of jewelry. But if you know what it is… maybe you’re someone I want to meet.”
“Oh. Right.” She bit her lip a bit, literally chewing on this. “But, if you can find submissive women yourself, why do you even need the club?”
I considered how to put it. How best to explain it.
God knew Dane and Lex never seemed to totally get it. But then I didn’t usually feel the need to totally explain myself or what I did at the club, to anyone. Besides that, it was a private club; I didn’t usually get too detailed with non-members. I wasn’t supposed to.
“This part might make you uncomfortable, but I’m gonna be honest with you. A lot of women enjoy being submissive with a man during sex. And a lot of men naturally like to be dominant. You can probably pick up whatever random jerk at the bar who’ll happily boss you around. But finding a great Dom, one who actually knows what he’s doing, someone you can feel safe with? That’s a whole other thing. And if you’re a great Dom… you don’t want just any submissive.”
She considered that. I had to give her credit for even sitting through this conversation, being open to it. If this was entirely new to her, which it seemed to be… could be a lot to ingest for some people.
Too much, maybe.
I didn’t have to tell her all this. But for some reason, I wanted to.
Maybe it was because of what she said. We had some serious misunderstandings last time that cost us four years. Maybe I didn’t want anything like that to cost us the few weeks we might have now.
