“So, you could be her Dom.”

“Wait, Maya… that’s crazy.”

“It’s not crazy. You like Lisa. She fits with us. Having her here has been great.”

“That’s all true, but that doesn’t mean we get to keep her.”

“Why not?”

“Because… because that’s not how it works!” It was a terrible answer, but it was all he had. Because now that she’d brought it up like that, he was kind of wondering why it couldn’t work that way.

“Well, it should be. I don’t want you having sex with anyone else, you’re mine. And, honestly, I’m not even sure I would like someone else calling you Daddy, because, well, you’remyDaddy. But Lisa doesn’t want to sleep with you and she’s not a Little. She just needs a Dom who can help her and spank her when she makes mistakes. And if you’re her Dom then she can stay and we can be like sisters.”

The logic of Littles. Everything was a happy-ever-after with them. It seemed like Maya had been percolating this idea for a while. He sighed. “Maya, you don’t even know that Lisa wants that. I imagine she’s happy to get back on her own. You know she hasn’t liked being dependent on us.”

“That’s because she was a guest and felt like a bother. If she was your sub, then this would be her place. She’d belong here.”

He was skeptical that it would work like that, but he indulged it for the moment. “What makes you think she wants to be my sub?”

Maya squinted, giving him a look that said he was completely clueless. “Daddy. C’mon. Every time you do anything bossy, Lisa stares at you like she’s starving.”

“Okay, then what makes you think I want any other sub besides you? Do you think you don’t keep me busy enough?” He let one eyebrow rise slowly as he stared her down.

It made her laugh. “No, but you need to be needed and you like taking care of people. I know you’d never go looking for someone else, but she’s here and she’s perfect so… why not? I definitely don’t mind. Actually I…” She trailed off, and he could see her cheeks darkening.

“Actually you what?”

“Nothing. I just… it’s nothing,” she mumbled and squirming a little and avoiding looking in his direction.

“Don’t make me spank it out of you, Little girl.”

“It’s just… I’ve been thinking about the benefits of having another person. Um, the watching and getting watched, and maybe getting into trouble together. It just seems like it might be… fun.” She cleared her throat and snuck a quick look at him.

He blinked, speechless for a minute and then a laugh burst out of him. “Maya, you… are a constant source of surprise. But again, we have no idea if Lisa wants any of this.”

“She does.” There was unshakeable confidence in her tone. “The question is whether you’ll do it.”

Was it something he could do? Maya did keep him busy, but Lisa wasn’t the handful she was. It would be a different dynamic with her, quieter. Maybe a chance to explore other aspects of D/s that Maya wasn’t entirely suited for. The idea was intriguing, and Maya had been right about one thing, Lisa fit with them.

“I’ll think about it.”

His wife squealed bouncing on the bed. “Yes!”

“That’s not a yes,” he hurried to correct her.

“It will be though. I can tell.”

She was probably right.

He held back a sigh. The situation would be complicated, and he wasn’t entirely sure Maya understood how the dynamics would change with a third person, but the idea had merit. He’d been tempted to be dominant with Lisa more than once, since she’d been staying with them. It wasn’t his place, so he refrained, but her submissive side drew that kind of response from him automatically.

Maybe it would work for the three of them. He wasn’t sure if he’d end up feeling like a parent with two daughters, or like part of a throuple with a non-sexual third. It would be interesting to see.

If Lisa was even interested. Maya could be reading the whole situation wrong.

CHAPTER 11

“What?” Lisa stared at them. It wasn’t that she hadn’t heard Rick. It was more that she couldn’t quite believe he’d said it.