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DANIIL: I hate you and if it wouldn’t make your beautiful wife a widow, I’d strangle you with my bare hands when I get back.
TSAR: Tsk tsk.Is that how you talk to your king?
DANIIL: It’s how I talk to my least favorite cousin.
TSAR: Well, I got a lead on Courtney.But you’ll have to apologize before I give it to you.
DANIIL: [middle finger emoji]
TSAR: LOL Close enough.She was spotted at a grocery store there in Vegas.
He sends a screen shot and I stare at it.
DANIIL: How did you get a picture when Joe couldn’t find any trace of her?
TSAR: Ace asked one of his friends in the CIA, got us some random surveillance tape.It was really an accident.Her face showed up in facial recognition because of her ties to the military.
DANIIL: She retired, though, right?
TSAR: Yes.No issues there.Her file has nothing but glowing reviews from her commanding officers.The men she served with.Her CO was actually shocked and disappointed that she left.
DANIIL: I’m really beginning to feel like it’s me she’s hiding from.
TSAR: Jesus.Just how kinky did you get?You know I love you, cuz, but sometimes you’re…wild.
I freeze, my heart skipping a beat as I stare down at the screen.
I am wild.
No doubt about that.
For years, I thought I was bisexual, but I think it’s more that I’m pansexual, because the adage ‘hearts not parts’ fits me better than any other description.I’m attracted to who people are, regardless of sex, gender, race, etcetera.The outside is usually what gets my attention, of course, but I forge bonds with what’s on the inside.
Generally speaking, I find myself more attracted to women.I like their softness, curves, everything that makes them feminine.But I’ve dated men too.Hell, I was married to one.I like their strength, muscles, the way they sound when they get off.It’s different.
I’m one hundred percent monogamous when I’m in a relationship, but I have some kinks.Like how much I enjoy group sex.Not having sex with multiple people at once but having the others in the room watchmehaving sex.
The first time I went down on Courtney was on the balcony just outside the ballroom where Sandor and Lennox’s reception was raging.It was late, so the elderly members of the family had mostly already left.And she was into it.
She was.
I asked her flat out—because I am many things but abusive isn’t one of them—and she stared at me with those mesmerizing green eyes as she whispered, “fuck yes.”
So, it wasn’t just yes, it was fuck yes.
The next time we were together I let some of the men I work with—single guys I party with sometimes when we need to let off steam—watch us.Again, I asked her first.She was hesitant, but when I promised her nothing that happened would ever leave that room, no pictures allowed, she was into it.
She’s as wild as I am, just a bit more conservative about admitting it.
DANIIL: I asked for consent every step of the way.I would never force a woman to do anything she didn’t want to do!You should know better.
TSAR: I know that, but some people have morning-after regret.
DANIIL: I’m struggling to believe that because we had a wild couple of nights, and then she left the military and went into hiding.I mean, what exactly was I going to do with that information?
TSAR: I don’t know but this feels strategic.The fact that Chains wouldn’t tell us where she is makes me believe there’s more to this story.
DANIIL: And Grim wouldn’t tell me anything either.I spoke to him early this morning.He was very clear that she’s started a new life and doesn’t want to see me.
