Who was he stalking?
No one he’d asked me to look at fell anywhere near kink levels of stalking.
He should know better than to make me curious even if he was crazy dangerous. But I had a better poker face than Silas’s troublemaking billionaire, so I wasn’t worried about it.
“We’re going to talk later, Trouble.” Silas was trying to look serious but I was pretty sure they’d just end up having sex…but again…it was anot my monkeyssituation too.
“So I can meet Shelby?” In person. At the club. But adding that wouldn’t move things in my favor, so I didn’t elaborate. “He’s due in about five minutes because we’ve been going round and round about this for a while.”
They were stubborn and startlingly narrow-minded about how friendships should start.
“If I can’t, I need to go change his GPS directions to send him to the bookstore.” He’d like that. He needed some new books. “He won’t be pissed. I’ll just have Austin put money on hisaccount to make up for the drama and I’ll figure out somewhere else to get his needs met.”
Because trying to redirect Shelby hadn’t worked.
In his defense, orgasms were important and he had terrible taste in men, so I could understand how he’d gotten to this point.
“I’m sure there are still some private dungeons in the area.” Yes, I wasn’t playing fair, but I was dealing with Austin, so I wasn’t worried about fair.
Just winning.
Austin’s face scrunched up earning a sigh from Silas.
Bingo.
“We have his background check.” Frowning, Austin looked down at his computer screen. “He seems like a nice sub.”
He was.
“He has poor choice in men when left to date on his own. Terrible.” No exaggerations were needed to make that point. “This is the safest place for him.”
Now Silas was the one frowning. “Maybe I misunderstood this but I thought you wanted to be his Dom.”
Technically I hadn’t said that.
“I know him better than he knows me.” That understatement had Austin giggling. “I’m not under any misconception that he’ll want me as his Dom.”
My expectations were firmly in the realistic category.
“But you want to be his Dom?” Silas wasn’t usually the nosy type even though he owned an adult toy store, but for whateverreason, my situation was making him curious. “You’re going to be okay if he wants to get to know someone else, though?”
Before I could answer, Austin jumped in again. “But we’re not supposed to try to introduce him to other people?”
They needed to be smarter if they were going to be this nosy.
“I’m going to show Shelby around the club.” Breaking it down into the obvious seemed to be the best plan. “If he wants to talk to someone we will. I think we’re going to spend time letting him get to know me but I’m playing that by ear.”
Because Shelby hadn’t seemed to realize he might have questions with that part.
He’d just been focused on the fact that Henry the Hacker could get him into a BDSM club and he could finally get tied up again.
“Does he know what’s on his limits list?” Austin was back to frowning at the screen. “You need to make sure he’s seen that first.”
So they were going to let Shelby join?
Silas made another dramatic exhale, but I waited to accept my win until Austin made a similar noise.
Perfect.
