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Except, if he wasn’t interested in her, then why had he gone to her show?
10
Adam
Something was up.
Every hair on the back of Adam’s neck was tingling, as if they were doing more than standing up straight, it was like they wanted to spring right off of his skin. The feeling had grown, from the moment he’d walked in and Lexie had given him a little smile that was somehow different from her usual. Then he’d walked into the club to see his friends all gathered around the bar. Granted, Andrew was standing behind it so that might have been why, but considering Adam had come a little later in the evening than usual he would have expected at least some of them to be off scening. Especially the couples.
Instead, every single one of them was standing around chatting. Jared and even Patrick, which wasn’t entirely unusual in and of itself, but combined with everything else...
Yeah something was up.
And he’d bet his favorite guitar it had something to do with Angel. Pasting a neutral expression on his face he walked over to his friends, who were all casually not looking at him. So casually they might as well have screamed that one of them had spotted him and told the others he was coming.
He figured it was better to confront whatever this was head on. Scanning his eyes over the group, he ignored the pang of disappointment he felt when he realized Angel wasn’t among them. That had been his first guess, after all.
“Hey Adam, want a drink?” Andrew asked loudly as soon as he was within hearing distance. Which, of course, gave everyone the excuse they needed to eyeball him and say hi. Adam asked for a scotch, neat. Normally he would have had a beer but he had a feeling that tonight he was going to want something stronger. Patrick was downright smirking at him. Bastard.
Adam was pretty sure he could wipe the smile off of Patrick’s face by bringing Lexie into the club for an evening, but he’d be risking life and limb and not just from Patrick. Besides which, the idea made him far too uncomfortable to consider as anything other than a way to irritate the big Dom.
“I hear you had a scene with your girl the other night,” Liam said, sidling up to him, Hilary tucked under his arm.
The conversation around them paused, not even trying to hide they were all waiting for Adam’s reaction.
“Wasn’t aware I have a girl.”
“Then why—“ Liam’s hand clapped around Hilary’s mouth before she could continue her question. The pretty blonde glared at him over his fingers but didn’t try to struggle or push his hand away. Nice. Adam sighed, a little enviously.
“You know we’re talking about Mistress Angela,” Chris jumped in, leaning against the table he was standing next to. Like Liam he was smart enough to avail himself of a submissive shield; he’d arranged his position so Jessica was between him and Adam. Hard to smack your friend when an innocent woman was standing in the way. Especially when she was looking up at you with big brown, curious eyes.
“That’s not her name,” he snapped back, hating the reminder of her deception. Chris grinned. Idiot.
Jessica placed a hand on Adam’s arm, her features serious as she looked up at him. “We thought Angel was cool.”
“We?” Something inside of his stomach sank. Angel had been here last night and at least some of his friends who had missed out on Thursday’s debacle had met her. He wasn’t sure what made him jumpier, the fact she’d been here without him and hooked up with who knows what Dom or the fact she’d met his friends without him. Again, events had spiraled out of his control and he didn’t like it at all. He’d thought she’d take a night off, most submissives wanted a night to assimilate things after their first scene. How very like her to be so much less predictable and so much more frustrating.
She nodded. “She was talking with Lexie when we got here, and then Lexie introduced us and Chris recognized her... and then she ended up hanging out with us for a little bit.”
“Who’s us?”
“Me, Liam, Jessica, Chris, and Justin,” Hilary jumped in, once Liam finally removed his hand from her mouth and whispered a few words in her ear. Probably warning her not to talk about whatever gossip was being said about Adam and Angel around the group.
Which was fine by Adam. He didn’t want to know.
“Great.” He wasn’t going to ask, he wasn’t going to ask... “Do you know who she scened with?”
“No one,” Olivia said, making him jump a bit. That went to show how distracted he was, he hadn’t even noticed her coming up beside him, he’d been so focused on questioning Hilary and Jessica. Their boyfriends were all amusing themselves by playing the part of an audience, knowing he’d be much nicer talking to their submissives than he would be to them. “Justin kept an eye on her until I got here and then she and I chatted for a bit before I showed her out of the club.”
A knot of tension inside his stomach relaxed. He hadn’t even known it was there until the damn thing unraveled. Adam gritted his teeth. Part of him wanted to take out some of his ire on Olivia, but he couldn’t. Not only had she stopped him from being a complete ass on Thursday, but he had to inwardly acknowledge he was grateful she’d kept Angel from scening with someone other than him. Even though his gratitude made him feel even more temperamental since he was getting all possessive over a woman he barely knew and who had lied to him from the moment she met him.
“What did you two talk about?” asked Hilary, with every evidence of surprise. Adam mentally blessed her impetuous nature, since he desperately wanted to know but just as desperately didn’t want to have to ask.
Olivia shrugged and looked away. “Oh, this and that.”
Jessica and Hilary looked as disappointed as Adam felt, obviously realizing their friend wasn’t going to expound any further. Both Chris and Andrew looked like they were about to bust up laughing, even Patrick was smiling. Only Justin and Jared were managing to keep reasonably smooth faces, although in Jared’s case that might have also been because he was apparently rather distracted. Every couple of minutes his eyes would slip back to the door of the club. Marissa was probably supposed to be meeting him here; Adam could only be grateful the disruptive sub hadn’t shown up yet, even if it was causing his friend some angst.
“I’m sorry I missed it,” said Rick, giving Adam a sidelong look. “She was a gorgeous Domme, I bet she looked even better as a submissive.”
