Page 38 of See You Sometime
“Our pleasure, my dear,” Landry said. But the way he said it sounded sexy, not condescending.
Must be the accent.
“Just to be clear,” Cali said, “I personally vouch for both of them. I’ve known them for several years. Landry is a sadist, though, and can play heavy, but as a service Top he never violates a safeword. If y’all decide not to play, let me know, and I can see who else I can scare up for you.”
“Thanks, Cali. I appreciate it.”
Cali headed off to greet other guests.
“We’ll let you get to your negotiations,” Tony said with a smile. “Have fun.”
“Hopefully,” Landry said before returning his attention to Skye. “Well, I had a brief and interesting chat with Cali earlier. Perhaps you’d like to elucidate?”
“Ex-husband-slash-Master was a cheating asshole. Divorced and moved back to Florida. Just looking for a good, hard beating tonight. No orgasm play. No hand between my legs, but I’ll play naked and you can torture my breasts with hands or implements, or between my legs with implements. But no groping. Heavy impact is desired, restraints are fine. I have my own cuffs, collar, ball gag, and blindfold.”
“You’re single?”
“Um, it’s…complicated. Kind of. We’re sort of dating. We used to know each other when we were in high school. He’s not really vanilla, but he’s not kinky. He’s in the learning stages. We’re literally less than two weeks into whatever this is going to end up being. He has no problem with me playing, as long as it’s not sexual. He was going to come with me tonight but he had to be out of town at a seminar for work.”
“I think we just saved about ten minutes of negotiations,” Cris joked.
“Yes,” Landry drawled, “but let’s go talk anyway, shall we?”
They headed inside, Skye following the men to a far corner of the dining room area where people hadn’t yet filtered into. Landry tipped his head at Cris, who pulled out a chair for her, holding it while she sat.
She didn’t miss that while Landry sat, Cris stood behind him, to his right.
A wistful pang of envy curled through her.
He’s a good slave.
“Now then, my dear, let’s back up. What is your experience in the lifestyle?”
“I’ve been kinky pretty much my entire adult life, and I’m forty. Discovered kink was a ‘thing’ in college, and messed around for a while. Mostly up in Tampa. Then I met my ex, thought he was the Dom of my dreams, and…”
She shrugged. “Fifteen years later, I’m single again, back in Florida, and while I definitely want to play, I am in no hurry to find a ‘partner’ because Axel and I are still trying to figure out if there’s something more than just friends between us. I can take care of my own orgasms, thank you very much. I promise no boiled-bunny stalkage from me. I can give you the names of some people from Pennsylvania who’ve played with me or seen me play, although I’ll warn you now that I prefer you not reveal my current location or FetLife name, because I don’t want my ex snooping on me. My ex and I didn’t attend events together in the last year we were together.”
“Why’s that?” Landry asked.
“Because he was too busy screwing around on me and telling people he didn’t have a wife. If he’d shown up with me, I found out later, it would have blown his whole ‘I’m single’ story out of the water.”
“Ah. Yes, I suppose that would prove rather problematic.”
“Yeah. I always wondered why he was okay with me playing with others. I mean, I didn’t have a problem with him topping others. And he claimed he wanted to be ‘fair’ to me since he worked a lot, frequently on the weekends. I didn’t have a problem going to events, because I knew who I could trust to play with and who I couldn’t.”
She sighed. “I just never processed that he was actually cheating on me until I had to use his laptop one day and he’d left himself logged into FetLife and I saw messages from other women who were definitely not ‘just play partners.’ I think he was hoping I’d cheat on him with someone so he could kick me out without penalties from our pre-nup, but I caught him in the act. I do have my latest test results with me, though, if you’d like to see them. No STIs, no hep, no HIV. Got them last week.”
Working for a doctor did have its privileges.
Having a cheating ex also made for an easy excuse to ask for them.
“Well, we are also neg, although I don’t have results with us. Since there won’t be intimate contact, however, I don’t suppose that will be an issue, unless you’d rather wait until you can see those?”
“I’d rather not wait. If Cali trusts you, that’s enough for me. If we were sleeping together, yeah, that’d be different.”
“Sorry, but my dance card is already full when it comes to intimacy.” He smiled. “Second important point, would you mind if Cris also helps?”
“That’s fine.”
