Then he seemed to realize we were missingsomeone. He looked around me. “Dakota?”
I snorted. “He went upstairs to wrangleAustin.”
“Good.” Tanner’s body relaxed. “He’s makingme nervous and I wasn’t nervous.”
“If you would’ve let him dress you, hewould’ve been much more distracted.” I pointed between them. “This is yourfault.”
Shane coughed, trying not to laugh. “Wecouldn’t come to a meeting of the minds about clothing.”
I rolled my eyes. “You just wanted to weara suit and not have to let anything show.”
He nodded, clearly still thinking he wasright. “Yes.”
“This is a BDSM club. You both look likelawyers.” They looked good…but slightly stuffy.
Tanner shrugged. “I wore what I like bestand I expect everyone else to do the same.”
“Then we’d all show up in pajamas with icecream stains on them or just naked. This is supposed to be a break from theboring real world.” Lecturing them was starting to make me feel better. “Nexttime, I expect to see you in something you wouldn’t wear to the office.”
Neither of them had a suit fetish, so itwasn’t reasonable.
Tanner chuckled. “We’ll see.”
I shook my head. “Nope, or I’ll tell Austinthat you put up a fuss because you didn’t think you looked good enough to dressin something skimpier.”
They both groaned and I knew I’d won. “Iexpect to see more appropriate attire next time, gentlemen.”
Then, leaning around them, I pointed to thegiggler. “You too. Those pants are very nice, but you look like my cable repairman.”
He gave a soft laugh and nodded. “Because Iam. I just got off work.”
I knew he’d looked familiar. “We’ll haveAustin fix you up, then. Dom, sub, or something else? I need to give him adirection or he’ll get distracted.”
That just earned me a startled blink.“Sub?”
I wasn’t sure if that was supposed to havecome out as a question or not, but I took it as a statement anyway. “Perfect.”
Turning back to Tanner and Shane, I smiled.“I’m going to head upstairs and make sure the masochists you talked intohelping with Austin don’t need rescuing.”
Tanner snorted. “Better you than me.”
Shane smiled and tried to distract me whenI shot Tanner a dirty look. “We’re almost done with the final checklist, thenwe’re going to relax and make everyone else start to enjoy themselves too.”
Wondering why all Doms seemed to think theycould dictate fun and relaxation like a chore on their to-do lists, I smiledand headed off to wrangle everyone. A bit of flirting and teasing would go muchfurther than orders when it came to getting everyone to settle down.
Chapter 2
Griffin
It was either going to be an uncompromisingsuccess or we’d all end up getting arrested. However, since I didn’t work forthe city any longer, that wasn’t as big a worry as it had once been. It wasamazing what going into business for yourself could do.
Like give someone the courage to step outin public being exactly who they were.
Well, almost public.
The BDSM club looked like an old-fashionedalpha’s club from back in the day, but with the excitement of a modern partythat everyone knew was going to turn wild at some point. However, the layers ofsecurity and background checks we’d all had to go through to get in made itclear there would be nothing laid-back or innocent about the venue.
Thank fuck.
