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Hey, he couldn’t help being an ass-man.
“Sorry boy-o but I think you’re out of luck,” Olivia said when he turned back to her.
“I thought you couldn’t tell.” He certainly couldn’t. Something about her called to him and he wanted to explore it. Especially after seeing how sweetly submissive she could be onstage. Part of him insisted that was an act—but what if it wasn’t?—a little voice in his head whispered.
The Domme snorted. “You did hear her call whoever it was on the phone ‘pretty boy,’ right? If I didn’t know she was into the scene I wouldn’t think anything of it, but since Mistress Angela was at Chained, I’d guess she has at least one submissive and that was him. Stop scowling at me, it’s not my fault.”
Damn. He was scowling. Rearranging his features, he tried to ignore the stab of disappointment slicing through him. Olivia was right.
“Well at least now you know,” she said pragmatically.
“Right.” Adam rubbed his hand over his face and through his goatee before looking around the room. “Let’s get out of here. Through a different door.”
Angel
“Hey pretty boy, give me another second to get outside... it’s crowded in here and I can’t hear a word you’re saying—no stop trying to talk to me!”
Wow, for a moment Angel thought she saw Mr. Grouchy from Chained...but it wouldn’t have been the first time she thought she’d spotted him and had been wrong. Any tall male with sandy blonde hair made her heart leap a bit before she’d look at his face and realize it wasn’t him.
Putting one finger in her ear, Angel tried to hear what Mike was saying as she practically bolted out the door.
“Okay, now I can hear you, what?”
“We need to work on your respect, darling,” Mike said in an exaggerated Southern drawl. He usually only had a tiny twang, but when he was talking to her—especially when he called her darling—he would lean on it. Cuz he knew she loved it.
“Kind of hard to give me a spanking from the other side of the country,” she teased. Not that Mike ever had. Their relationship wasn’t like that. Unfortunately. But she had a lot to thank him for, including pushing her into exploring BDSM. He was the one to take her to her first club, to encourage her to apply to Stronghold, and he gave her a sounding board when she needed it.
“Ah, but I’m not going to be on this side of the country for very much longer,” he said, and she could hear the wicked grin in his voice.
“You’re coming back to D.C.?!”
“Yeah, I’m not enjoying California as much as I thought I would.”
“I thought you were doing well.”
“I am. But I was doing as well in D.C. and I miss my family and friends and having all four seasons. I also miss doing the stage stuff. I don’t think television or film is for me.”
“Didn’t you just get cast in something?”
“I turned it down.”
He said without any regret, even though Angel was pretty sure she remembered him saying it was a fairly decent role in an actual movie. Then again, Mike had always been decisive when he’d put his mind to something.
“Well I’m so flattered!” she said. “I had no idea you missed me so much.”
“Pest. Anyway, I’m calling cuz Kirk has someone who’s willing to take over my lease here, but he wants to do it in two weeks, not a month, so I need to get out of here and my place in D.C. isn’t available yet because I didn’t realize I wouldn’t have a month...”
“So you need a place to stay.” Angel grinned. “Are you sure you want to invade the nerd castle? You remember what happened the last time.”
The last time Mike had visited he’d spent the weekend sleeping on Angel’s couch and had gotten absolutely no rest because he’d somehow gotten involved in one of her housemates’ marathon Halo games. They’d connected two televisions and two X-boxes and eight of them had battled it out the entire weekend. Mike had left more exhausted than he’d arrived and hadn’t left her house the entire time.
“Well Amy and I broke up last week when I told her I want to move back to D.C. so unless something’s changed with you since we last talked, I won’t have to sleep on the couch anyway.”
“Nope, still single, although I’m going to Stronghold next week for my Introduction Scene, so no promises,” she said teasingly.
“You’re going to Stronghold?”
“Yeah, they accepted my application! I could have gone this week if it wasn’t for the show.”
