The area around his eyes tightened and Ihad a feeling Silas was trying not to smile. “I think it’s going to work.”
He glanced around the open space. “You’vemade more progress on the idea than I was expecting.”
“This isn’t something we’re playing with.”Tanner’s expression was all business. “This is very much a part of our life.”
Silas seemed to thaw slightly. “Most peoplearen’t familiar enough with the lifestyle to even begin to know where to startwith a club.”
“The business side of things is easy.” We’dall been entrepreneurs in different ways. “And while our personal preference isto submit, well, except for Shane”—I gave him a wink— “we’re not passiveindividuals.”
Wade snorted, then grinned sheepishly.“Sorry.”
I grinned back. “No point in hiding howfabulous we are.”
Bradley gave me a frustrated look. “I’m notfabulous.”
I gave him my sweetest smile. “You said it,honey, I didn’t.”
Silas actually smiled and shook his head atme. “You’re going to be trouble.”
I gave him a smile that was subtle butfilled with sex. “It’s my middle name.”
Silas chuckled. “Not according to thegossip channels.”
So he did know who I was. When we’d firststarted making introductions, he hadn’t reacted at all to my name or Tanner’s.Tanner liked to stay under the radar, but because his business was so importantlocally, there was no way Silas hadn’t heard of him.
Me, well, people forgot I was a businessmanbecause other things were so much more fun to report. If he didn’t keep up withthe social side of news, it would’ve been possible that he might not know me.Now the question was how much of what he’d seen did he believe.
“Gossip is fun, but you can’t believeeverything you hear.” I gave him a delicate shrug. “They make me soundterrible.”
Tanner rolled his eyes. “You are terrible.”
I gave him a teasing grin but followed itby a sexy pout. “I just need a big strong Dom to help keep me in line.”
Testing the waters, I turned back to Silasand sighed, giving him my pretty pout. “But it’s so hard finding strong, take-chargealphas these days.”
One side of his mouth twitched and I knewthere was a smile under the rough exterior. It just made me itch to tease himmore and see what it would take to get a reaction.
His response was dry, but there was justenough sexy teasing to send another shiver through me as he lifted one shoulderin a careless shrug. “Not everyone understands that sometimes a naughty omegajust needs a spanking.”
Fuck, he was panty-soaking hot.
I just wanted to throw myself at him andconfess I was a naughty sub who needed a spanking.
But Tanner and Bradley would kill me.
We were supposed to be professionals, and evidently,that meant we had to keep all our clothes on and our hands off the sexy alpha.
They were so boring.
I nodded. “Sometimes omegas are justnaughty subs who need an alpha.” If there was a purpose to the universe, he hadto be a Dom. “That’s what we’re hoping to help people find here. Doms and subsneed a place where they can be themselves.”
One eyebrow went up. “Are you going to beyourself here?”
“Oh yes.” Then going all in, I gave him aflirty grin and ran my hands down my sides. “I’ve even started picking out thecutest little nighties to wear once it’s open.”
Silas watched me and I could almost see himturning things over in his head. When he spoke, I wanted to melt into thefloor. “It sounds like we’re going to need to stock a variety of toys. Irecently saw a line of pink omega toys, and one of the cock cages was a sparklypink one that was designed to be shown off. There aren’t enough sales of thosekinds of things for me to justify stocking it in the store, but I might be ableto do a special order.”
He was going to special order a pink cockcage for me.
