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Both of us turned around to look at Archer at the same time before the big scary guy responded to him. "It's not wise of you to allow your pet to just go off on her own. Like I told her, bad things can happen to her in here if she's not at her Dom's side where she belongs." With that comment, he let me go and turned to walk away.
Grabbing my hand, Archer dragged me down a hallway and into the familiar office that was fast becoming our place for meetings. Pulling me inside, he slammed the door behind us before he rounded on me. "Just what the hell do you think you're doing, Sloane?"
CHAPTER
17
Archer
Hearing Sloane, tellConnor off, was probably the best thing I had heard all week. That asshat had always been such an arrogant prick, and I would love nothing better than to just punch him in the face for even thinking he could talk about her like that. Even though in here subs were not meant to be heard, I should have known better than to think she wouldn't have any words with someone at one point tonight. This world could be quite an adjustment for someone like her. After she walked away, I gritted my teeth and looked at Connor. "You need to learn some fucking manners, you know that? Don't you ever speak to or about her in that manner again, you got me?" Heading off to find Sloane, I knew I needed to get to her before she got too far away from me. With all the attacks and murders here lately, I was seriously reconsidering my poor judgement in bringing her here with me tonight. But my need to keep an eye on this place and all its members until I found this animal, who was killing these women, had destroyed some of my common sense lately. Coming around the corner, I spotted Sloane in the grips of a man I'd never seen in here before and it set my blood to boil at the thought of him touching what wasmine.After a few choice words with him, I took her into the same office we spoke in before. "Just what the hell do you think you're doing, Sloane?"
Spinning around to look at me with her arms crossed over her chest, I saw she was ready to tell me off. "What the hell am I doing, Archer? How about what the hell areyoudoing talking about me and treating me like I don't exist on aman'slevel in here. Like being a woman means little to nothing to you jerks in this place. Is this how it's going to be with you in thistypeof relationship? That I don't exist until you say so? I thought I wasn't just a sub to you. You told me I meant more than that. I..."
Not able to hear the stream of accusations flowing out of her mouth any longer, I stalked closer, backing her up against the wall so she had nowhere to go and forced on me when I told her what I had to say. "Look, I told you what this place was going to be like and how a sub was expected to act in here, and if you didn't want to do that or be here with me under those conditions, you should have said as much. I didn't force you to come here tonight, did I Sloane?"
Looking down, she replied in a low voice. "No."
"Then what's really going on here?"
"I just didn't like how I was being talked about amongst you, like I wasn't really there. It all felt so surreal, like I was in a dream watching everyone around me interact, but I wasn't being allowed to like a normal person would. It made me feel like an object of possession with the way you and Logan spoke about me. Then that asshole Connor talking about training me as if I were a dog and part of somesub collectionyou have? I just couldn't take it anymore. I know I embarrassed you and I'm sorry for that, but it all made me just feel so minimal in existence."
I lifted her chin, forcing her to look at me. "Why didn’t you use your safe words before you flew off the handle? We could have discussed this."
"I didn't know that they applied to anything other than sex."
"They apply to everything that encompasses this part of our relationship. Anything about this world that makes you uncomfortable, you can use those words to let me know that something is going on with you before you freak out on me." I explained to her with a chuckle, trying to defuse the situation a little.
"Oh."
"I think you and I need to really sit down and I need to explain to you a little better what a sub really is to her Dom. I know you've gotten this idea in your head that being a sub means that we as Dom's value you less as a woman, but in reality, you are the ones who hold all the power in the Dom/sub relationship. As Dom's we have to earn your trust, not just take it. Youalwayshave the right to say no to me. But you need to know that in this world there are certain roles we each take on. Me being the Dom, it's my job to see to your needs and safety as well as knowing what is best for you in any situation. You as the sub, give me your total submission willingly and by choice because you want to please me. I can't force you to submit to me Sloane, that is not a true Dom/sub relationship. That's just straight up abuse. You must want to do that all on your own through me earning your trust first. Do you kind of see now how much power the sub truly holds?"
"Yes, I guess I can now."
"Good. Now do you think you will be able to go back out there or would you like me to take you home?" Cradling her face in my hands, I looked into her eyes. "Where are you?"
"Green. And I'm okay if we stay, but I just hope I didn't embarrass you too much."
