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“You really think he’ll leave Charleston?” asked Alicia.
Seth nodded. “I actually think Fitz is trying to recruit him for something up here, and Miley loves Chicago. I overheard Damon telling Royce there’s a member of his club… Viktor something or other… who has expressed an interest in buying a piece or all of Carriage House.”
“That’s Damon’s club down there, right?”
“That’s right,” answered Brock. “Besides, Damon has black ops experience and if they worked as a team that would give a whole new dimension to what we can do.”
“That makes even more sense than what I was thinking,” said Seth.
“Were you thinking that with Knox Industries, Fitz might be thinking some kind of hardware installations?” she asked.
“While his company can certainly supply any kind of system we might need and has been for years, I think Brock has hit on the most likely scenario. I think Damon will jump at the opportunity, and Miley will be pissed.”
“Why? She adores him.”
Brock nodded. “She does. But brats aren’t always the best critical thinkers when the adrenaline gets going. Don’t get me wrong, Miley is as good as they come and better than most, but she also takes unnecessary risks with her own life, although never with the team.”
“So, he thinks with Damon as her Dom he can protect her? Isn’t that just a bit condescending?”
“Maybe, but Fitz doesn’t see it that way. I told you Cerberus likes to think of those who work here as family. Miley can be a bit reckless. Damon tends to keep that side of her in check, and she’ll listen to Damon when she won’t listen to anyone else.”
“So, you’re not being condescending when you call me baby girl?”
“Not at all,” interjected Seth, “and if it bugs you, you can list it as a hard or soft limit in that contract.”
“How do you know there are hard and soft limits listed?”
“It’s a D/s contract. There are always hard and soft limits,” he chuckled.
“And this is where you suddenly remember you have something to do in your office that requires your full attention,” said Brock.
“You’re mean,” Seth faux whined. “It was just getting to the good part.”
“Out,” growled Brock as Alicia laughed quietly. Once Seth had collected the remainder of his food and left them alone, Brock continued. “Let me state first, I handled last night badly and did little to try and fix it this morning. You should be able to expect better from me.”
“You aren’t perfect, Brock; nobody is. I was disappointed last night when we didn’t end up having sex, but I certainly could have behaved differently. It’s interesting because I really was mad at you even this morning. I felt like you touched the scar, and it repulsed you…”
“Repulsed? Hell, no. I’ve got plenty of scars. Intrigued, curious even, but never repulsed.”
“I realize that now.”
“Did you read the contract?” She nodded. “Do you have any questions or revisions?”
“No,” she said, handing it to him.
“You signed it?”
“Didn’t you want me to?”
“Of course I did, but baby girl, you don’t sign contracts until they’re finished out and we haven’t gone over your hard and soft limits.”
“But you covered that by indicating an Exhibit A to be attached and included as part of the entire agreement. I thought the contract spelled out the agreement in principle and as such I found it perfectly agreeable. I didn’t know how agreeable until I read it. In case you missed it, I can have a terrible temper. Most times I can control it, but if I’m feeling rejected at all—like last night—it can get the better of me. Maybe you can work on that with me.”
Agreement in principle? “I can certainly work with you around that. But you’re not the only one with a temper. The only reason I stopped last night is that I wasn’t sure how intoxicated you were, and I’m uncomfortable entering into a sexual relationship…” He flipped through the agreement to check that she hadn’t crossed that out and took a sigh of relief, causing her to laugh.
“What would you have done if I had lined through it?”
Lined through it? Another quasi-legal term. Seth had been doing a deep dive into Alicia’s background and wasn’t finding anything other than those things she had told them to begin with.
