Austin laughed.“Of course. And as long as it wouldn’t be too weird to see Shane and Tannerthere, you’re more than welcome to put in an application to join.”
It sounded likethey were really thinking it through.
“Great.” But asthey started to chatter and ask random questions about private playrooms andkinks, I started putting other things together.
If they werestarting a BDSM club that would need applications and careful screening, therewas only one person in the area I knew who would do that kind of thing…Eddie.So that led me to another question…who had I been emailing earlier?
Chapter 5
Bradley
“If you don’t stopbouncing around and driving me insane, I’m going to tie you to my couch.”Snapping at Austin didn’t help his behavior, but it made me feel better untilhe started giggling.
The lunatic only stopped his bouncing longenough to bat his eyelashes at me. “That sounds like fun. I didn’t realize youwent for omega-on-omega porn.”
“I’m almost done, but you’re makingeverything take twice as long as it should.” We were supposed to be headingover to Jonah’s, but I had one more thing before we could go.
I’d put off the email for too long alreadyand the website guy was going to think I was ditching him for some reason. Thatwasn’t the case. I just couldn’t decide how to answer his questions. On thesurface, I knew he was probably just asking about the site and the business.But every time I read the last line, I had a feeling he was curious about morethan just the site.
How much should I share about the club andabout myself?
“But you’re so boring and we’re going to belate. What’s so important?” He flounced over and leaned against the desk.“Who’s Michael?”
I sighed but gave in and pointed to theemail. “The name that the website developer goes by. From what your computerfriend said it probably isn’t his real name, but we’ve been emailing back andforth.”
Austin perked up. “Great. How much will thesite cost?”
“No idea yet. I wanted to get moreinformation on him before I explained everything to him.” When Austin snorted,I leaned back and glared at him. “I’m supposed to hand over personalinformation that could make our lives very difficult to a perfect stranger?”
“Eddie said he’s trustworthy.” Austinreally didn’t seem to understand why I was so cautious. “Stop playing gameswith him and just get everything started. At this rate, the club will be donebefore the site is up.”
Possibly, but I wasn’t going to rush.
“He answered my questions about himself,but now he’s asking for more details.” Something in my voice must have given itaway because Austin giggled.
“More details about you or the business?”
I shrugged. “Both, I think.”
“Well, is he single and a Dom like Simonseems to be? Because really, an alpha in the hand is worth two online.”
“That is not how that expression goes.”Rolling my eyes, I focused back on the screen. “Besides, you ambushing Simoninto sharing that he’s into BDSM is not grounds for assuming he’s some kind ofsingle alpha on the hunt.”
Getting more information about him wassupposed to have made it easier to ignore him. But it wasn’t working out thatway. I kept going over everything from the last party and I couldn’t get agrasp on the fact that the laid-back guy who didn’t seem to be overlyinterested in anyone was a single Dom who liked submissive omegas.
His knowledge of porn said he wasn’tjudgmental, but not that he was a Dom.
Why hadn’t he mentioned that when everyoneelse started dancing around the topic? Sure, we’d acknowledged we weren’t asvanilla as people assumed, but Austin wouldn’t have been able to hold himselfback if he’d known Simon was a Dom.
Just the jokes about Dom brothers wouldhave been too much for him to restrain himself.
“Oh, he’s on the hunt. You should have seenhis face when he said it had been a while since he had a sub.” Austin sighedlike he was in an old-fashioned romance novel. “He’s lonely and probably didn’twant to open up to us before because it’s hard to share with family and he’sbeen holding back for a long time. He doesn’t know how to open up.”
“He’s not a tragic alpha in a book.”Refusing to get distracted any longer, I replied to the email and startedtyping. “Just give me a minute.”
Huffing, Austin wandered out of my officeand toward the living room.
I will email youwith more details later when I have a moment, but here are some basic factsabout the business we’re establishing. We are a group of investors who are allin the BDSM lifestyle and have decided to set up a BDSM club under the guise ofbeing a social club for omegas. There are legitimate social clubs in almostevery major city, so those would be a good jumping off point to see what thissite should look like when someone brings it up. I have a meeting to attendshortly, but I will provide more details later.
