Keep the Faith (Bulletproof #1.5) (11 page)

Chapter 23

Sarah

Leo. I know it’s him. As soon as he spoke, chills ran up my body and filled my head with the same thoughts they were filled with before at the café. Only this time, I’m not surrounded by the comforts of the café. I’m in a whole new territory.

“Hello Sarah. How are you?” he asks but it takes a solid minute for me to respond. I’m too shocked by who’s in front of me.

“Leo? What are you doing here?” I ask. Leo is dressed head to toe in a slick black suit that hugs his whole body and brings mine to attention.

“Surprised to see me?” Leo asks in a low growl. He seems agitated. Anna slips up beside us and a look passes across her face. “So this is Leo?” she asks, fully turning to me.

Leo makes a face that resembles irritation and bows his head before walking away. Looks like he couldn’t wait to get away from me again.

“What the hell is his problem?” Anna asks and I’m wondering the same thing myself. The scent of his cologne lingers in the air and it’s mixed with a hint of coffee from his time in the café a little while ago. Looking up, I catch his form rushing through the crowd and I can’t let him get away. A split second decision has me rushing off towards the crowd of people after him.

“Where are you going?” Anna calls after me but it’s in the distance as my feet are hastily making their way towards Leo. My breathing gets heavier the quicker I run towards him. He turns a corner heading down a long hallway. “Leo, wait!” I call out. The ambience of the front club crowd gets drowned out in the distance as my feet finally make quick work to catch up to him. Grabbing him by the wrist, I pull hard but he pulls harder as he twists me around, pinning me against the wall of the dark hallway.

“What the fuck do you want, Sarah?” he growls low in my ear. We’re all alone away from the people and the allure of the club. This space is more intimate, more private.

“I want answers, Leo! Why the hell do you keep running away from me? I think I deserve that much since I’m not getting answers about anything else.” A sly smile forms on Leo’s face making him look sinister.

“You can’t get involved with somebody like me, baby cakes. I wouldn’t be good for you,” he tells me, which pisses me off even more.

“I don’t think that’s up to you to decide. What aren’t you telling me? What is this place? I want answers and I’m not leaving here until I get them.” Leo presses himself harder against my sensitive skin and I smile, feeling the roughness of his suit against my erect nipples. Why does having an almost complete stranger pinning me against a vacant hallway wall turn me on so much?

“Is that so?” Leo mumbles low and I feel it all the way to my belly. He knows what he’s doing to me. “Why do I get the idea answers aren’t the only thing you want from me right now, baby? I know you want something else from me, don’t you?” he asks as he brings his hands down and places one to brace himself on the wall then the other is running down the length of my body, making me tremble. God, I picked the wrong day to wear this damn short skirt.

“I…umm…I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Without warning, he hikes my skirt up to my waist and slips a single finger into my panties and into my soaked pussy.

“I know what you want.” He leans in and mumbles against my neck as his finger swirls around my throbbing clit. “You want me.” Leo speeds up as he slips another finger inside me, and the action has me squirming against his hand.

Soft moans fill the small space around us. “Please,” I beg. I don’t even recognize my own voice. 

“Please, what?” Curling his fingers upward, he dips in deeper hitting that spot he knows will make me crumble. My eyes shut in pure ecstasy as his fingers make work to bring me over the edge.

“Please, I’m so close.” God, I’m like some sex-crazed maniac. My whole body is humping his hand and he’s barely touched me. I am panting heavily as his magic fingers make quick work on my aching center. The orgasm is so close, I can fucking feel it. All he has to do is keep up that tempo for a few more seconds. This has been building since earlier today. The release I so desperately need is right there. God, so fucking close.

“Ask my permission for you to come. Beg for your release, cupcake. You know you want to come all over my fingers, don’t you? I want my name on those delicious pink lips just like I want those lips wrapped around my cock,” Leo’s dirty talk has me bucking wildly against his hand. My hands instinctively reach out to grasp onto his shoulders as I ride his rough, calloused hand all the way.

“Yes I do. May I come, please? I need to come.” I beg. Begging was beneath me. I never begged for anything. But fuck if his dirty mouth and his fingers didn’t have me begging for sweet relief. 

“Yes, come now. I can feel you clench around my fingers. So fucking wet for me.” With those final words giving me permission, my orgasm hits me like a tidal wave and I’m screaming out my release but Leo quickly covers my mouth with the hand that was inside me and I smell myself on his hand. Strangely, it turns me on.

“Quiet now, wouldn’t want anyone to know what we’re doing down here, don’t you?” He asks while releasing his hand from my mouth, smiling wickedly.

As my body fights to come down from the orgasm Leo just gave me, I lean against the wall catching my breath while he straightens up his suit that appears to not be wrinkled too much. His perfectly tailored suit is flawless and I’m standing here a ball of quivering mess. How the fuck is that fair?

“Good girl, now let’s get back out there. Your friend is probably wondering what happened to you.” Since the only thing I can do is nod, he smirks as he takes my hand and leads me back out to the main area of the club. Leo leans into my ear once again to say something. “And those were just my fingers, just think what it will be like when I have my cock buried deep inside you. Or better yet, my tongue. I can taste your sweetness right now.” To demonstrate, he brings his fingers up to his lips and sucks on them, making my eyes go wide with shock.

He leads us the rest of the way until we’re in public again. Anna comes rushing up to me just as Leo escorts us to a table in the back.

“Where the hell have you been?” Anna puts both hands on her hips in an authoritative stance.

“In heaven,” I say smiling. Leo chuckles softly beside me as we slide into the booth one at a time. The soft lighting hides my flushed cheeks thank god. I don’t want this whole club to know what Leo and I just did.

“Okay, ew. Too much information, you slut,” Anna says shaking her head. I smile at her nonsense. Like Anna is Miss Prude all of a sudden.

“Hmm, not a bad name if you ask me,” Leo whispers to me but Anna must have heard him because she starts gagging. “Don’t even go there. Gross.”

Leo and I start laughing at her prude behavior, if there even is such a thing.

“So what’s the deal? You’re the Leo Sarah has mentioned but what the hell are you doing here? And what’s with the mask?” Anna is asking a million questions which I can tell make Leo uncomfortable by the way he clears his throat and looks down.

“You ask a lot of questions and seem so tough for somebody so small,” Leo jokes, making Anna blush red. I stifle a giggle under my breath. He slips the mask off his face, revealing the beautiful chiseled face I saw back at the café.

“The mask is simply a staple, part of the theme.” He says. Of course, the logo on the card was a lion but I never put two and two together until now.

“That’s Anna, always asking questions. Giving everyone the third degree,” I say that last part in an agitated tone directed towards her. She quickly rebuttals and backs down.

“Well, he can at least answer one of my questions,” she mumbles under her breath. The waitress walks up to the table and smiles at all of us but when she gets to Leo, her expression changes and she bows her head. “Good evening sir, would you like your usual?” she asks.

“Yes, Sandra, that would be great. And get these lovely folks anything they want on the house.” He gestures to Sandra. I don’t like the way he is smiling at her. It makes a tiny sliver of jealously run through me.

“Of course, sir.” Sandra scribbles quickly on her notepad. “What would you all like?” she asks.

“A glass of red wine for me,” I say, leaning in a bit closer to Leo.

“Scotch on the rocks for me,” Anna speaks up. I look at her shocked as hell. Scotch wasn’t usually her drink of choice. She shrugs when she catches me staring. A few minutes later, Zac returns to our table looking very much out of breath.

“Where the hell have you been and why are you out of breath?” Anna asks curiously.

“I was in the gym on the third floor working out. Order me a beer, I’m going to go wash up.” I nod and watch as Leo and Zac exchange looks then Zac disappears again to only god knows where.

“There’s a gym here?” I ask turning to Leo, and he only nods.

“Yes, there is a gym here. Now will you stop with the questions?” He says a little more irritated than before. Nodding slightly, Sandra arrives with our drinks and I ask her to bring a beer for Zac and she complies before disappearing off again.

“Only when you start answering them,” Anna says, crossing her arms over her chest.

Leo looks at her with a challenging gaze in his eyes, takes a drink of his whiskey then glances down at the glass and begins his story. 

Chapter 24

Anna

“It all started about seven years ago when I was fresh out of high school. My life had zero direction and college was out of the question. My parents had owned multiple businesses from the time I was five to out of high school. So business was all I knew. From insurance agencies to dot com companies to everything in between. I kept out of it all, learning in the background and gaining my knowledge from the multitude of businesses they owned. My uncle had this building lot for sale that needed some serious renovations and upgrades. It took almost all of my inheritance to get it up to code, but I did it.” Leo stops talking to take a drink of his whiskey. Well holy shit, he owns this place. Who would have known?

“You own this place? This club,” Sarah asks as she looks around slowly.

“Yeah, I do,” Leo replies. “After I finished fixing it up, I was either going to sell it for what it costs to repair it or start up my own business. Being out in the middle of nowhere, there were limited options for businesses.” Zac comes back as Leo is telling us his story and slides into the booth beside me just as Sandra brings his beer.

“So anyway, I have always had an eye for the lifestyle and wanted to try it. I found a local Dom who taught me everything I needed to know about how to get started.” Sarah’s jaw drops to the table top and mine quickly follows at this new information.

“A Dom? You mean like you like to whip women and punish them?” Sarah asks curiously.

Leo chuckles under his breath. “Oh, there’s so much more to it than that, cupcake. Maybe one day, you’ll allow me to show you exactly what it entails. For now, I just want to get to know you better,” he tells her and even I get a small shiver down my spine at his words.

“So explain to me about this Dom who taught you how to be. Is he still around? Does he have friends who may need subjects to train?” I say, my curiosity certainly peaked. This shit is interesting and I need to know more.

“Well, I would tell you but he told me not to give out his identity. I’m not at liberty to discuss it.” Sighing heavily, I slump back down in my seat feeling disappointed. Even a letter would have given me some indication to who his teacher is.

“Well, that sucks. How the hell am I going to get me a piece of that if you don’t tell me who it is?” I say, trying my luck once again.

“Trust me sweets, you don’t want this one. He can be cruel when he wants to be, sweet and caring when he needs to be but overall, he’s a dick. You won’t like him,” Leo says raising an eyebrow slightly. A gagging sound comes from behind me and Zac chokes on his beer so I slap him on the back to clear it up. “You okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. What Leo said caught me off guard, that’s all.” Zac gives Leo an angry glare and it makes Leo chuckle when he catches it.

“Oh, by the way,” Leo speaks up. “I have some friends coming by to check the place out. They just joined recently and are learning the ropes of this place. Hell, they may be interested in taking it over one day.” Leo finishes his drink and Sandra is quick to bring him another one without even checking to see if he needs one. He fishes out his phone from his pocket and clicks a couple buttons before sliding it back into his suit pocket.

“Oh, they just arrived. They’re walking through the corridor right now.” Leo straightens up his suit and then Sandra arrives with his new drink. Once she sits his drink down, something catches her attention and when she looks up, her eyes go wide in shock.

“Good evening, gentlemen,” she says with a slight tremble to her voice but bows in respect to the strangers. It isn’t until the two figures make their way around the table to greet us when I get a better look at them.

Everything below my chest drops suddenly when two sets of beautiful brown eyes meet my own.