“What are you doing here?” Okay, maybe not thebest opening, but in my defense, when I opened the door of my apartment, I’dexpected to see Porter on the other side.
Not Laura.
She snorted. “What a loving greeting foryour sister. And honestly, what did you think would happen when you dodged mycalls for over a week?”
Maybe that hadn’t been the best plan.
“I didn’t dodge your calls. We’ve talkedthree times since Monday.” I’d just found reasons to hang up quickly when she’dstarted talking about the club.
That had her rolling her eyes. “Don’t getme started on the number of times you’ve hung up on me lately.”
Pushing her way into my apartment, she tookcharge like always. I sighed and shoved the door almost closed, hoping I couldget rid of her before Porter showed up. If I kept her in the doorway, that hadto make it clear we weren’t sitting down to talk.
I wasn’t sure why, but I wasn’t ready toshare Porter yet, and if we talked for long, I was going to start gushing overhim like a teenager after their first make-out session.
“Fine. What did you want?” I wasn’t feelingparticularly happy about being railroaded, so I decided I didn’t have to bepolite.
She ignored my tone and barged right inwith her questions. “Did you have fun? Did you meet someone? Did you get achance to explore being a sub? Did you figure out if you’re bi? Are you goingback?”
I didn’t think I should have to answer allof her questions…she wasn’t Porter.
“I enjoyed myself and met someone that Ihad a fun evening with. I didn’t do anything crazy, but he showed me around,and I think I made the right decision to go.” My answer had her turning tostare at me like she could see inside my head.
“Are you seeing him again? What’s he like?Is he a Dom?” When I just stood there, she huffed. “You can’t just leave mehanging like this.”
“Yes, I can. This is my life, and while Iappreciate you letting me talk things out before, that does not give you theright to barge in and pester me for details.” At least I was pretty sure that’show things should ideally work.
“Agreed.” Porter’s firm voice coming fromthe other side of the door had me sliding my blank face into position.
Turning back to the door, I opened it andmouthed “Sorry” before stepping back to let him in.
I had no idea what to say, but he must haveknown that because he took charge. “You ready to go? If we take too long we’regoing to have to wait for a table.”
It was said just casually enough that hecould have been talking about a date or about grabbing wings to watch the game.I appreciated it, but again, I still didn’t know what to do. I almost wishedhe’d taken the decision out of my hands.
But for the time being, I had to figure outwhat to say next. We’d talked about grabbing something quick to hang out for awhile before I worked on a paper, so I went with that.
“Yes, let me grab my stuff.” Turning toLaura, I raised one eyebrow. “I’ll talk to you later.”
She huffed but nodded, clearly not willingto badger me in front of Porter. Only because she wasn’t sure who he was, ofcourse. “Sure.”
But my relief was short-lived when shestepped around me and got a look at Porter for the first time. She turned backand gave me a smirk before reaching out to shake his hand. “Laura. Nice to meetyou. I’m his sister.”
Porter shook her hand politely. He lookedsexy and dashing like an old-fashioned movie character in the casual suit pantsand button-down he was wearing. “I’m Porter. It’s nice to meet you.”
When she realized he wasn’t going to mirrorher introduction and say any more about himself, she grinned and turned back tome. Her smirk said she’d guessed who he was because it got wide and wicked.“Have fun.”
I was going to get a thousand phone callstomorrow.
Fuck it.
Porter had said this wasn’t a casual hookupfor him either, and nothing he’d said made it sound like he wanted to be keptprivate.
“I will. But he’s staying over tonight, soyour inappropriate questions will have to wait until later this week.” Myanswer had her giggling and Porter’s neutral smile fading as his Dom sidepeeked out.
“I’m going to put my foot down and say noquestions Landon feels are inappropriate. He is allowed to have boundaries.”Porter gave Laura a long look that had her giggling.
“Yep, Dom.” She waved and nearly skippedout the door. “Have fun.”
