Page 26 of Reignite

Paperwork is not a Safeword

Lilly looked tired, but healthier than ever. She had a bit of a glow about her that only Hawk seemed to bring out in her. “Hello, Lilly. Hawk.”

“Hey, Doll. Gray here’s been filling us in on your coup d'etat over the bureaucrats,” Hawk said.

Remember how wound up that pendejo had been still made me smile. “Yeah, that was good times. I hope to get our permits on Monday, but if not, I know whose balls to go stand on.”

Hawk rubbed his hands together. “We can start kicking recruitment into high gear now then.”

The two of them together made the perfect enticement to join the club. Hawk loved to use his charms and all Lilly had to do was bat her eyelashes and people would sign on the dotted line. The twenty-five thousand dollar VIP membership line if we were lucky.

“Yes. Start with Danica Chamonix.”

“The model?” Lilly asked.

“Yeah. I met her at a great coffee bar and gave her one of the pamphlets you made up. She’s not only interested, she’s excited and not shy about it. I think if you got her on board early she’d bring in some other new members.” Exactly the kind of people I wanted in my club. Curvy, sassy and a little badassy.

“Well, amazeballs.”

“Mistress Angelina.” Dominic’s voice rang through the door.

“Dominic,” Gray answered the door and welcomed Dom and his gorgeous curvy goth girl in tow.

“Angelina, I’d like to introduce you to Addison, also known as Mistress Addiction. Addy, this is Angelina.”

She reached out her hand to me. “Hi. It’s nice to meet you.”

“You too. This is Hawk and Lilly.” I introduced the rest of the room while I tried to figure out what to say next. “Hawk and Lilly are managing membership.”

And Gray is…what? I’ll never say the words silent partner out loud. I awkwardly left him out and turned back to Addison.

“Nice to meet you too. Mr. Baker, nice to see you again. Dominic’s told me all about everyone.”

“Addison. Glad you could come this morning.”

I guess I didn’t need to introduce her to Gray. They were apparently already buddy buddy. Hmm.

I glanced over to Dominic, but he didn’t see me as his eyes burned only for this dark beauty. “I have the feeling Addison isn’t here simply for introductions.”

“Addy has experience as a floor monitor at several other kink clubs and she’s damn smart. I want to hire her away and have her run our orientation classes, even train up our other floor monitors.” Wow. I’d never heard Dominic this excited about anything before.

Addison looked down at her feet, some sort of embarrassment coloring her stance. Interesting.

“That sounds promising. Why don’t you two put together a proposal for the orientation? Addison, the most important tenet I want new members to understand is safety.”

She glanced up at me. “Oh, yes, of course. Safe, sane, and consensual is always the key.”

She understood the lifestyle, but would she understand what I wanted? “More than that, the club has to be a safe place for people to come and be themselves. I’ve got a very tall order on hand for you, if you join our team.”

Addison glanced from Dominic and back to me. “I’ll do my best, if you’ll have me.”

She seemed quite sweet to me, and I wouldn’t have pegged her as dominant, or even a top.

Curiouser and curiouser.

“Great, then think about this. I want to imbue the club with the value that all people are accepted and even celebrated no matter their shape, size, skin, disabilities, abilities, and kinks. It’s too easy for people coming into this lifestyle to get taken advantage of instead of getting their needs fulfilled.”

Dominic grinned at Addison. “I told you she was building something special.”

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