Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
“Hey,” Kala began. She’d known this would happen. The subs liked to gossip. Despite the fact that it was discouraged. Sort of. In theory. In practice, the club ran on it. “I can still spank you.”
She shouldn’t have let Cooper pick her up. It made her look weak. It made her feel so good.
It was expedient since she had an injury and there were many stairs that could exacerbate the injury.
Cooper started walking toward those dangerous stairs. She glanced up at him, allowing her arm to float around his broad shoulders. He wore his leathers, no shirt beneath the black vest on his chest so she could feel warm skin. His jaw was tight and with the barest hint of stubble.
“Kala.” Lou ran across the dungeon floor, TJ following after her. “What happened? Should I get one of the doctors?”
Oh, bestie. She’d kind of hoped they would get by her. Lou might be a sub, but she could be super stubborn if she thought someone could hurt a friend. “I’m fine.”
Cooper kept walking.
Lou followed. “What is going on? Did your knee give out? Was it the spanking bench in the red room, because I told Gabe I thought we should get another.”
“Lou, baby, I don’t think this is about a bad knee.” TJ put a hand on his girlfriend’s elbow. “We should give them some space.”
“Space for what?” Lou asked as though she couldn’t wrap her head around why Coop would be carrying her upstairs and toward the privacy rooms.
Cooper didn’t say a word.
TJ whispered something to Lou and then her eyes went wide and she watched them. Her best friend sent her a look of pure surprise. And maybe a little hurt.
She told Lou everything. Almost everything. Since the incident in Canada, she’d held a lot back. Or maybe it started when Lou and TJ got together and Kala realized how she could fuck things up for her friend and her cousin.
Cooper blew right past the bar where everyone was not paying any attention at all. Nope. They were all staring. Every single one of them. Daisy’s jaw had dropped, and she pulled her cell out of her boobs and started texting. So her sister would know in seconds.
It didn’t matter. This was what she wanted. What she needed. When they broke off whatever they were starting, everyone would think she was the heartless bitch who walked away from perfect Cooper.
“Three is open,” a deep voice called out. She glanced behind Cooper and his brother, Hunter, was standing at the entry desk to the privacy rooms, dressed in his leathers and a big old grin. He gave her a thumbs-up as Cooper simply walked on.
He got them inside the privacy room labeled three and closed the door behind them and stopped. For the first time since he picked her up, he looked at her, staring right into her eyes. A long moment passed.
“You can put me down,” she said quietly, the intimacy hitting her like a kick in the gut. She was in a room with Cooper and they were supposed to have sex. He was probably thinking she was incredibly experienced. Since that was kind of the vibe she put out.
“I’m worried if I put you down, you’re going to run away,” he admitted. “And I don’t want you to run away. I think we need this. Both of us.”
Yes, they needed to indulge so they could both move on. “I don’t care what they say, Coop. This is a private thing between the two of us. Which is why we should have stayed downstairs. No one would think anything of us holing up in a room together on the dungeon floor.”
“We should negotiate.” He set her on her feet, not taking those big hands off her until he seemed certain she was stable.
She was anything but. Her heart rate had tripled, and she could feel her stupid nipples hardening because there was every possibility that he was about to see them, and they wanted to put on a freaking show. “There’s nothing to negotiate. We have sex when we’re horny and that’s that.”
“We have sex when it’s convenient and we’re around each other, and we’re free to have sex with anyone else who catches our eye?” Cooper managed to make the question sound like an accusation.
Did he think she was trying to trap him? “I thought you said you weren’t sleeping with anyone else. If you want someone else, you should go for it.”
“I wasn’t talking about me.” His jaw was a stubborn line as he got into her space. “I won’t take another woman while I’m in your bed. I’ll be utterly devoted to you and your pleasure. I’m talking about you, Mistress Kala.”
She barely bit back a laugh. She’d obviously done an excellent job at building her reputation as a sexual powerhouse. It was good to know Cooper had an ego. Sometimes she thought he was far too perfect. He didn’t want anyone to think she was cheating on him. Which she wouldn’t be because they weren’t together, and he should have thought about that before he paraded them through the dungeon. “I’m not your girlfriend and I’m not your submissive. However, I can agree to not sleep with anyone while we’re sleeping together.”