Page 148 of Masters of Pleasure
On their right was a beautiful wood bar with erotic art hanging behind it and numerous bar tables scattered in front of it.Other than all the leather, it looked like it could be any dance club.He blinked as a woman walked by, leading a man who was crawling on a leash and wearing nothing but a thong and a hood that covered his entire head.
Okay, maybe not any dance club.
“Oooh, there they are!”Avery tugged on his hand, pulling him toward the bar.
Avery
Nerves hummed through her veins as introductions were made.Nick wasn’t the most social person, and she knew this wasn’t his kind of scene.Pretty sure he hadn’t been kidding when he said he’d be perfectly happy staying in tonight, she really appreciated he’d come out.Although it made her feel like she had to make sure he was having fun.
Thankfully, Mitch, Zach, and Kincaid were warm and friendly and seemed more than happy to add another Dom to their group.She was comfortable around Mitch since he was Domi’s boyfriend, but she hadn’t spent much time with Zach and Kincaid.They were both tall, dark-haired, and handsome and were in a relationship.She knew Kincaid was a detective, but she didn’t know what Zach did.
Thankfully, she didn’t have to find something for them to bond over.All of them had eaten at Marquis at one point or another, and them raving about the food not only gave them something to talk about but made Nick feel good.Starting out with a lot of compliments about his skills was a pretty great introduction.
“Aw, look at them making friends,” Rae whispered in Avery’s ear.“Did this feel like setting up a play date?”
Avery snickered.It had a little, and she imagined some of her anxiety was about whether everyone would get along.
“Shh,” she whispered back.“Don’t you dare let them hear you call it that.”
As if sensing they were getting into mischief, Kincaid glanced over at them and raised one eyebrow.Avery and Rae smiled back with their most innocent expressions, which probably didn’t fool him one bit.
The guys were having their own conversation, which had moved onto different kink, including Daddy Doms.
“Brian’s here tonight.When he’s done with his scene, he can explain better than any of us,” Zach said.
Beside Avery, Rae stiffened, but when she glanced at her friend, Rae had already pasted a smile on her face.It was very different from her innocent one, her ‘I’m perfectly happy and totally don’t care Daddy Brian is scening with someone else’ smile.This was the first time Avery had actually seen it, but she’d heard Domi’s name for it and knew that’s what she was seeing.
“Speaking of scening,” Zach said as he got to his feet.“Amy’s here.I’m going to see if she wants a scene.”He turned to Kincaid, who was sitting on the barstool next to him.Since Kincaid was normally a little taller than Zach, their current positions put them at the perfect height to kiss.“I’ll be back.”Kincaid gave him a little pat on the butt, smiling fondly as his boyfriend walked off to scene with the woman.
Whoops.Avery could almost feel the confusion emanating from Nick.She’d heard about Kincaid and Zach’s unique relationship but had forgotten to give him a heads up.He was probably confused as hell.
Turning back to the table as Zach hurried over to a petite, curvy blonde, Kincaid met Nick’s eyes and laughed.
“I guess Avery forgot to tell you about Zach and me?”he asked.
“Oh, uh, well, she told me you two were together…” Nick’s eyes darted around the table as though he was looking for someone to clue him in before he put his foot in his mouth.
“They are,” Avery said in unison with everyone else.Domi snickered, leaning into Mitch’s side.
“They’re complicated,” Domi teased.
“We are.”Kincaid smiled calmly, catching Nick’s gaze again.“We’re in an exclusive relationship, but Zach is a switch.He’s also a sadist.Doing scenes exclusively with me doesn’t fulfill all his needs, so he sometimes platonically scenes with other submissives.Amy is engaged, but her fiancé is vanilla, so they scene together fairly regularly since both of them are otherwise romantically involved.”
“That’s… a lot of trust.”Thankfully, Nick sounded more admiring than judgmental.
“Yes.”Kincaid nodded.
“Oh, hey, isn’t that Q?”Iris asked, going onto her tiptoes and distracting the flow of conversation.“I didn’t know he knew Adam and Angel.”
Avery had quickly discovered Iris knew what seemed like half the club.
“Let me guess,” she said dryly, “more of Andrew’s friends.”Iris’ big brother had a lot of friends at the club, though he wasn’t here tonight.Apparently, he had ceded Thursday nights to Iris, Friday nights at Stronghold were his, and they bargained for Saturdays.
“Of course.Well, Adam is.Angel’s his wife now, and she’s friends with him, too, but mostly with Kate.”Iris went up on her tiptoes and waved to the pretty brunette, who waved back before turning her attention back to Q.“I wonder how she knows Q.”
“Connor just walked in,” Nick said with amusement.“Seems like the entire class is showing up tonight.”
Sure enough, Connor had walked in, but he wasn’t alone.Master Law and another man were with him.
