Bound to be Tamed: Emergence, Book 2 (20 page)

She swallowed every drop Aiden offered while Dane shot deep into her pussy.

When Aiden was spent, he pulled out of her mouth and lowered his face to kiss her sweetly. “You have no idea how sexy you are all sprawled out here on the desk freshly fucked.”

She squirmed.

Dane pulled out next and reached across the desk for a handful of tissues. He wiped her pussy and thighs reverently and then cleaned himself off. She lifted her face to watch him as he tucked his length back into his pants and then leaned down and kissed her sex. “He’s right,” he said as he righted himself. “You’re like a painting. I love the way your skin splotches red in certain spots when you come.” He reached a hand toward her chest and tapped her breast. “Here…and here.”

Her nipples stood more erect as though they hadn’t just been through a great deal of handling. She moaned.

Dane pulled her body up until she sat on the edge of the desk. He kissed her lips. “Tired?”

She nodded.

“Let’s get dressed and go home.”

Dane helped her put her clothes back on. Thank God, because she couldn’t have done any such thing very quickly with her adrenaline pumping like it was.

As they left the restaurant and turned out all the lights, Aiden took her hand. “I’m exhausted. You wear me out.”

“Me?” She shoved him with her hip. “You exhaust the hell out of me.” And she loved it. Nothing could break this perfect arrangement she had with these two Doms. She was sure of it.

Aiden glanced down at her. “Dane and I are going to tour the new club tomorrow. Lori is going to come over to meet with you.”

He spoke so matter of factly. She’d only met Lori the one time. It felt strange befriending someone because your boyfriend, or boyfriends, told you to. The woman had seemed perfectly nice and all, but it gave Stephanie the heeby jeebies considering what she’d undoubtedly been told about Stephanie’s private experiences. Sexual ones.

Dane must have sensed her unease. “You need someone to talk to, Steph. Someone to confide in. If you don’t talk through what you’re thinking and feeling, you won’t succeed as a submissive. It’s a lot to take in all at once.”

She knew they were right, but she didn’t have to like it.

Chapter Thirteen

“Sir?” Jason lifted his gaze to find Carlton in his office. “Aiden and Dane are here to see you. I’ve already had then read and sign the club rules and the wavers.”

“Perfect. I’ll be right out.” He didn’t have a lot of time this morning. He had an appointment at one with another IT company. After two weeks lost working with Seabring, he was even further behind. He hadn’t needed that additional headache on a week he was leaving town.

Jason shuffled through the papers on his desk as Carlton walked away and found the page about the new members. Aiden Collins and Dane Whitman. Both relatively new Doms who had a female sub also new to the lifestyle. He hoped the men knew what they were doing. Even though Lori vouched for them, he was always uneasy having to monitor new Doms to ensure they didn’t cross the line with their subs or anyone else’s.

Jason stood and headed for the front of the building.

The two men he was about to meet were speaking with Carlton at the entrance. They turned toward Jason as he approached.

“Good morning. I’m Jason Garwood.” He extended a hand to the blond first.

“Aiden Collins.”

“Dane Whitman.” The dark-haired man introduced himself as Jason turned to shake his hand also.

“Nice to meet you both. I understand you had a bit of an altercation last Friday night.” He hated hearing about such things, but he needed to ensure both men were truly on the up and up.

Dane continued, “We did, Sir. It wasn’t pleasant for either of us or our sub.”

“I heard. I’m sorry you experienced something like that. Those two fools applied here also. Naturally we turned them down. I want you to know that we strive to keep disturbances to a minimum here at Emergence. I can’t promise we don’t occasionally get a crazy one, but our security is tight and we screen our applicants thoroughly.” Jason nodded toward Carlton. “Master Carlton mans my front entrance. He’s the best. He and his staff keep good tabs on everything happening in my club.”

Carlton nodded at the visitors. Jason knew he made an impression with just his size. He was taller than any of them and his shoulders were broad enough to fill a doorframe. When he put on his game face, no one fucked with him.

“Come on,” Jason continued, “I’ll show you around the club.” He turned toward the interior with Aiden and Dane close behind.

“Nice,” Dane commented when they stepped into the main open space.

Jason smiled. “This area is where everyone enters.” He pointed as he spoke. “The bar sits in the center. We don’t serve alcohol, but anything else can be found at the bar.” He turned to a cluster of couches. “This section can get noisy. Most people hang out on the sofas to socialize.”

He led them past the bar and into a wide hall. “This is where a lot of the scenes occur. Each room has a different apparatus. Some are very popular and reserved in advance, but anyone is welcome to use the spaces if they are available.”

Dane and Aiden continued to follow him down the row of rooms. Each room had a wide window to display whatever might be happening inside. “Viewers stand along this side to watch.” Jason indicated a platform on the wall in the hall.

Next he led them to a larger room with a hardwood floor. “And here we have the dance floor.” He smiled and turned to the two men. “This place can get packed on a good night.”

He watched as Aiden and Dane twisted around, taking in the room. “Impressive. How long have you been in business?” Dane asked.

“Oh, years. Almost twenty. But the scene has gotten more popular in recent years. I’ve only been in this location for five years. We needed more space.” He winked at them and smiled. “Come on back to my office.”

He led them back the way they’d come and then down a side hall to a row of closed doors. Some were for private scenes, but he’d show them those another time. His office was at the far end. “Please, sit.” He motioned to two chairs across from his desk as he rounded to his own chair.

“We really appreciate you fast-tracking our application,” Dane said.

“Well, if Lori vouched for you, I know you’re on the up and up.”

Aiden spoke next. “You’ve been warned about the bastards who propositioned our sub then?”

“Yep.” He shook his head. “I was stunned. I had been about to do business with those very same men. I got lucky I figured out what kind of assholes they were before I signed a contract with their company.”

“You did. Our submissive wasn’t so lucky,” Aiden said. “I still wish I could go back and change time.”

“I heard it wasn’t pretty, but you did leave before anything happened, right?” Jason narrowed his gaze at the men across from him. He’d assumed their submissive wasn’t harmed in any way.

Dane gave a snort. “Sure, but we had way bigger problems than that. Our submissive worked for those jackasses.”

Jason froze. “Wait. What? She worked at Seabring?”

“Yes.” Aiden nodded. “
Worked
being the operative word. There was no way she could go back into that office after the way those bastards treated her.”

“What’s her name? I don’t think you told me.” Jason leaned forward, gripping the desk. It had to be her.

Aiden’s brow furrowed. “Stephanie Parkins. Why?”

Jason leaned back in his chair, deflated. He ran a hand through his hair.

“Do you know her?” Dane asked.

Jason stared at him, unable to close his mouth for several seconds. Finally, he swallowed. “Yes.” Jason set both hands on the file in front of him. “Coincidentally I’ve been looking for Stephanie. When I went to Seabring initially for IT assistance, I was randomly assigned to Stephanie. The second I saw her name I wondered about her.”

“Why?” Aiden asked.

“It’s a long story, but she was my best friend’s daughter. I knew her when she was a little girl.”

Dane leaned forward. “Your best friend is her dad? The one that ran out on her and never came back?”

Jason gasped. “That’s what she thinks?”

“Isn’t that what happened?” Aiden asked.

“Hell no. Couldn’t be farther from the truth. Is that what that crazy woman’s been telling her all these years? I swear, I’m not sure I can keep my cool when I set eyes on that bitch.” Jason gripped the edge of the desk with both hands. A painful throb began behind his right eye.

“Well, you’ll be saved that confrontation because she died a few years ago.” Dane narrowed his gaze.

Jason sucked in a breath. Relief washed through him on the one hand. At least he didn’t have to deal with the repercussions of Colleen. On the other hand, he felt sorry for the little girl who’d been fed a pack of lies and then left alone in the world.

“Geez.” He rubbed a hand down his face. “Did she…? How did she treat Stephanie?”

“She didn’t ever win the mother of the year award,” Aiden offered.

A ball formed in Jason’s throat. Stephanie had been yanked from her father and raised by her crazy mother.

Dane exhaled and leaned back. “I guess we don’t have any reason to doubt your word, but how do you know all of this? Why now? And why haven’t you confronted Stephanie?”

The men were both sharp. Intelligent. Educated. Devoted. He liked them already. Though he shivered to think Stephanie was a submissive. Had she chosen the lifestyle herself or been led down the path unwillingly?

“It’s a coincidence really. When I hired Seabring and saw her name I wondered if it was her. My curiosity was piqued. I was hoping when I met her on Monday morning, she’d bear some resemblance to her parents and I’d know it was her.” He leaned back, slumping in the chair and crossing his hands behind his head before he continued.

“Stephanie was just two when her mother ran off with her. Her father, Stan, was in over his head. He already had one child with another woman when Colleen got pregnant. I never liked that woman. She was not quite right and I thought she was using Stan. Stan and I had been friends since we were toddlers, but he made some poor choices as we got older.

“He didn’t want another child messed up because of his bad decisions, so he married Colleen and tried to make it work. He did his best, considering Colleen never lifted a finger.

“She wasn’t ever stable that I saw. She was volatile. I suspected she was doing drugs. I think Stan turned a blind eye because he didn’t want to face reality, nor did he want to risk losing another daughter.

“One day he came home and she was gone, as though she’d never been there. All of Colleen’s and Stephanie’s things were missing from the apartment.

“He searched for a long time, but his resources were limited and he gave up. Unfortunately he never recovered from that loss and started drinking. A few years later he crashed his car head on into a tree and died instantly.”

Dane leaned on the desk, tapping his fingers in a rhythmic beat. “So you never saw Stephanie again?”

“Nope. I worked with her on the phone and by e-mail the last few weeks. I was supposed to meet with her on Monday, but when I showed up at Seabring, I was told she was no longer employed there. I nearly shit.

“Then I Googled her. I wasn’t positive she was Stan’s daughter yet. I found some photos of her easily on the Internet and that raised my suspicions even higher. It was just idle curiosity niggling in my head really. I compiled a stack of information and I’ve been sitting on it since I realized it has to be the same woman. I couldn’t think of a way to approach her. She’s a grown woman. I wasn’t sure she needed an old guy showing up at her door and meddling in her life with a pile of shit from her past. Maybe she’d rather leave her past behind.” He drummed his fingers on the desk.

“Why do you care so much?” Aiden questioned.

“Stan was my best friend. Like I said, I’ve always regretted not helping him more and I feel like I owe it to him to watch out for his daughters. The other one, I’ve always kept close tabs on. She’s like my own. Stephanie slipped through my fingers.”

“So she has a sister,” Dane stated. “Where is she?”

Jason inhaled and stared at both men before continuing. “You know her well, actually. Lori Polluck is her half-sister.”

Both men gasped.

“Are you serious?” Dane stood and began to pace. “Lori?”

Jason nodded. “It’s all so crazy. Do I have it correct that Stephanie was raised in Indiana?”

Aiden nodded. “Yes. Her mother moved her there. She lived there until three years ago when her mother died. When she went through Colleen’s belongings she discovered she had a grandmother here. That’s what made her move south. But her grandmother wasn’t well and she died soon after. Stephanie stayed. She was already working for Seabring.”

“So she’s been here three years.” Jason’s chest ached for the strange childhood she must have endured. He felt a pain inside. Perhaps he should have looked for her a long time ago. Stan’s sunny teenage face flashed through Jason’s mind. His friend wouldn’t have wanted Stephanie to have been raised the way she had.

Jason swallowed his musings and lifted his gaze. “After what I learned yesterday about the owners of Seabring, I’m not sorry she isn’t working there any longer. I can’t believe those bastards propositioned her last weekend. I heard they even touched her. Makes me hot under the collar thinking about it.