Good night, Sir.
She’d closed and locked the door behind her when he replied.
Good night, sweetie.
She smiled even after climbing into bed ten minutes later, Barksley curling up with her.
* * * *
Skye texted Axel when she woke up the next morning after ten. It was nearly an hour later before he responded.
Sorry. Was mowing. :)
She spent the morning helping out around the house, tackling a few chores she could see needed doing. She wasn’t interested in mooching off her parents, and since they’d refused to let her pay for staying there, this was the only option she had. Even chipping in for groceries was refused, because after leaving five twenties on the kitchen counter, she’d gone to bed that night to find five twenties stashed under her pillow.
She’d tried again the next morning, and they reappeared that night in her underwear drawer.
On her third and final attempt, they’d reappeared in the medicine cabinet in her bathroom.
Skye could take a hint. Her parents hadn’t said anything, but she knew damn well they wouldn’t take her money.
The least she could do was take care of chores.
Before she headed to the club that night, Skye texted Axel one last time.
Going to the club, Sir. I’ll text you when I get home.
:) I like the Sir thing, sweetie. Have fun.
Me, too. And thanks.
Baby steps. It was about baby steps. Some guys who were vanilla, once the stigma of “abuse” was deprogrammed from them and they took to heart the fact that it wasn’t abuse if it was consensual, really could step into a Dominant role. She’d seen Axel DM. He wasnota submissive man, even if he was a very laid-back kind of guy.
Even better, she preferred subtle to hard-core leather dude. It was sexier, to her.
She barely had time to think about that, though. Before it was time to open the club, they had a line stacked up outside.
“Holy cow,” Cali said as she went to let people in. “This is nuts.”
Apparently, she wasn’t kidding. Skye and Cali frantically processed people and called Max into the office to handle newbie talks for all the new members they were taking in.
Then, a large man with a very tiny woman even shorter than Skye walked in.
“Hey!” Cali rounded the counter to hug them. “You here for fun tonight, she asks hopefully with an ulterior motive?”
The guy smiled. “Tilly told us you were looking to pad the volunteer roster.”
“Yeeesss!” Cali walked behind the counter and found their name badge lanyards, where they hung on a hook with the others. “Here you go. Scrye and June. Oh, and this is Skye. She’s a new volunteer. I’m starting her out here because until you showed up, I was the only other person I had here tonight who could run the computer and front desk. And I already have twenty people inside and we haven’t even been open fifteen minutes yet. Plus, Max is giving a newbie orientation to five of them in there, meaning Sean’s by himself on the floor.”
In fact, the outer office door opened, and four more people walked in.
Scrye and June put their badges on and June signed them in on the clipboard. “Daddy, if you promise not to lift anything and to sit down while you DM, I’ll stay out here and help Cali at the counter.”
He kissed her. “Good girl.”
As he headed inside, Cali called out, “Thanks, Scrye! I love you!”
He stuck his head back inside. “Love you, too—”
