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And waffling was not something Adam was used to.
There was a strange sound threaded through the delicate fingering of the guitar and it took him a moment to realize he was grinding his teeth. With a sigh he leaned his head back, resting his hand on the body of the guitar. He was losing it over a Domme. How had his life to come to this?
Opening his eyes, he looked up at the clock.
Damn. He needed to get ready to go to Stronghold.
Sighing, he set the guitar on its stand next to the chair he was sitting in. Patrick had decided the club needed more unattached subs and was accepting applications from a few newbies to the scene, which meant they needed Introduction Scenes. Subs with more experience in the lifestyle weren’t required to do the Introduction Scenes, although they were offered to get them used to the space and give them a Dom to relate to, but the newbies needed careful handling. It was something all of his group of friends had occasionally done, but since Justin, Chris, and Liam were now all in serious relationships and Rick never came to Stronghold during the week and Jared and Marissa were back together, the duties were mostly falling to Andrew, Olivia, and Adam.
Tonight was his night.
With a groan he got to his feet, trying to convince himself this was a good thing. A good way to meet new subs to the club and see if he had any chemistry with any of them. In fact, he was getting a jump start on the other Doms by doing the Introduction Scenes.
He needed to be meeting and thinking about submissives. Not about Angela.
Adam
The club was pretty quiet when he first got there, which is why Patrick chose Thursday nights for the Introduction Scenes. There were less people, even less were dressed scandalously, and overall it would be less intimidating for newbies. Allison was at the front desk, Jared at the door.
“Intro scene tonight?” Jared asked after they greeted each other.
“Yeah.”
Adam had read over the email Patrick had sent him before leaving his house; the sub was apparently interested in doing everything. She’d indicated she thought she was both a masochist and submissive but she had never tried anything so she was going based off of what she had read in books. Something must have made Patrick think she was more than a tourist though—the club had gotten a lot of those when BDSM erotica had first become big, but Patrick had weeded through them easily. Just in case, he still did interviews with each applicant before giving them over to a Dom for an Intro Scene. To tell the truth, Adam felt as though he would have preferred to introduce another Dom to the club tonight than a sub, then he could have stepped back and monitored, maybe done a little bit of teaching.
“She’s cute,” Jared offered, obviously seeing Adam was less than thrilled about his duties for the evening.
“She won’t be my type.”
“You don’t know that.”
“Yeah I do, she thinks she’s a masochist.”
Jared shrugged his big shoulders, before both he and Adam nodded a greeting to a passing couple. “She might be wrong.”
This time Adam slanted a look at the big man. He expected Jared to grin at him, but Jared was looking in the other direction, watching the main room of the club before the door closed after the couple who had just entered. Adam raised his eyebrow.
“Is Marissa here?”
The expression on Jared’s face went stony. “Yeah.”
“Do you want me to check on her?”
“No. She’ll do whatever it is she wants to do.” The bitterness in his friend’s voice made Adam wince.
He didn’t completely understand how Marissa continued to have such a hold on Jared, and he wished he knew how to break it. It was Jared’s life though and so far everyone except Olivia had pretty much stayed out of it. Marissa was the neediest and greediest woman Adam had ever met. She’d latched onto Jared and was slowly sucking the life out of him. And she had a bad habit of flirting with his friends, which was why Adam had been avoiding her.
“I’d better get in there before Patrick thinks I’ve blown him off,” he said. If he went in there and Marissa was flirting with another Dom, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to stay out of it.
Jared waved him through and he could feel the big man’s eyes following him as he entered. Fortunately for all of them Marissa was in the lounge area with the one unattached submissive currently in the club, chatting. No wonder Jared was on edge though; by being in the Lounge area Marissa made herself approachable to other Doms. It was a very Marissa-move, enough to make Jared anxious and upset while not pushing the line so far that neither he nor anyone else could do anything about it. If questioned she’d insist she was keeping the other sub company and become affronted at anyone suggesting she shouldn’t be there.
As her Dom, Jared could insist on it, but they all knew it wouldn’t work because Marissa would lay on the guilt if he tried to enforce it. And anyone else trying to interfere would have to deal with Jared’s displeasure since no one but him had the right to give orders to his sub. Patrick might be able to get away with it, but Patrick was busy with the sub Adam was going to be working with.
For a moment he thought about going over and looming over the two of them, to make his own displeasure with the situation known, but he was supposed to be in Patrick’s office by now. Waving to Andrew behind the bar, he headed over to Patrick’s office and knocked on the door.
Adam
“RED! RED!”
