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Alarmed, Nick was on her heels.From everything he’d seen with Iris, she was mouthy, irreverent, and pretty hilarious most of the time, but right now, she looked pissed.
“You need to back off,” the Dom said, his voice deep with threat as he loomed over Iris.
“You need to watch your mouth,” Iris retorted.Despite being half-naked in a corset that pushed up her breasts and a short skirt that barely covered her ass, she didn’t look at all submissive as she glared up at the bigger man.“You don’t call people fat!”
The Dom’s lips twisted in a sneer.“It’s called humiliation play?—”
Before he could finish his sentence, Avery was at Iris’ side, tugging at her arm and trying to pull her away.
“Iris, come on.You’re interrupting his scene.”Avery’s whisper was loud enough Nick could hear it as he came up alongside her.The Dom crossed his arms over his chest and glared at Nick as if this was all his fault, which he didn’t appreciate.He scowled back.He didn’t know what was going on and wouldn’t speak up unless he knew.
One thing he did know was interrupting someone else’s scene was not okay.
“But he called her?—”
“Did she say her safeword?”
“No…” Iris’ expression turned mulish.“But he called her fat and a piggie!And she’s crying!”
Glancing at the submissive in question, whose very curvy body was on display, thanks to the St.Andrew’s cross, Nick pressed his lips together.The Dom had said it was humiliation play, which was something Nick had put on his hard limits when Avery explained it.He had no interest in calling her names or making her grovel.
Seeing his look, the Dom scowled harder.
“I called her my fat little slut and my sweet piggie, both of which shelikes.”With more witnesses, his tone had turned defensive and louder, and more and more people around them were taking notice of the interrupted scene.
Shit.Nick hesitated.He didn’t know what to do in this situation.The submissive on the cross didn’t look as though she was in distress, despite her tears, and it sounded as if the words had been agreed on.She also wasn’t speaking up either way, and Iris was clearly upset.
“What’s going on here?”Master Law’s familiar voice cut through the rising chatter around them, and Nick’s shoulders relaxed in relief.He might technically be a Dom, but he didn’t feel equipped to handle Iris all puffed up with self-righteous anger in defense of another woman and a Dom who probably had every right to be upset that his scene had been interrupted.
Iris and the Dom started talking, then stopped as soon as Master Law put his hand up.Wearing leather pants and a leather vest, with what looked like a badge on the left side of his chest, it took Nick a moment to realize it was the Dungeon Monitor outfit that had been described to him.
“Iris, you do not interrupt someone else’s scene.Even if you hear the submissive use a safeword, you come and get one of us.”He tapped the badge on his vest.“I know you know that.Come on.We’re going to go talk to Patrick.”
Crossing her arms, Iris didn’t look as though she was going to do any such thing, but Master Law didn’t give her a choice.Moving to her side, he wrapped his fingers around the back of her neck, marching her toward the steps.Only then did her posture slump.
Nick shot a look of apology at the Dom whose scene Iris had interrupted, but he wasn’t looking at them anymore—he was already by his submissive’s side, whispering something in her ear.From the way she was looking up at him, Nick didn’t think they would have any problems getting back into their scene.
“Ah, crap.”Avery deflated next to him, more so than he thought reasonable.Yes, Iris was probably in trouble, but she’d been trying to help, though she should have known better than to interfere with a scene.She was one of the submissives in the new Doms class because she was supposed to have experience.
“What’s wrong?How much trouble is she in?”
“Probably a lot.”Avery’s worried hazel eyes turned up toward him.“She told us she was volun-told to be a submissive for the Dom class because she kept getting into trouble here.It was supposed to be a refresher for her on how things work in the club.”
“That girl, man.”Rae appeared beside Avery, shaking her head.“Did you see what happened?”
As Avery updated Rae, Nick looked around the room.Pretty much everyone had gone back to what they were doing, including the Dom and sub whose scene had been interrupted.He felt for Iris.Some of the stuff that happened here was outside of his comfort level, too.He didn’t think he’d feel good hearing someone being verbally humiliated, but that was what they liked, and this was supposed to be a safe place for them to indulge.
Stroking his fingers down Avery’s back, he couldn’t help but think Master Law was right to come down hard on Iris.It was difficult enough to admit to wanting to do some of these things.Being interrupted because someone thought you were abusing your partner’s trust instead of giving them what they wanted?
Nick’s insides shriveled.
It looked like the couple had made a good recovery—in fact, the Dom was already taking off his pants.Nick had to give them massive credit.He wasn’t sure he’d have been able to get right back into things so easily.It was a measure of how secure they were in their kinks and connection.
Even though he didn’t share their kink, it felt like something to aspire to.
ChapterThirty-One
Avery
