Page 84 of Masters of Pleasure
She wasn’t even sure she would enjoy the show, especially since she was hungry at the beginning of it.
When Will and Gina came out—Domi whispered their names to her—she got caught up in everything they were doing.It was a flogging demonstration, and by the end of it, Will was using a flogger in each hand, moving around Gina in a circle while she hung from her wrists, her body practically shaking with pleasure.
It was beautiful.
It made Avery ache.Not just between her legs but over her whole body.She missed being flogged.Spanked.Dancing on the precipice of pain and pleasure, her body so caught up in the sensation, she could no longer tell which was which.Jealousy was the wrong word for what she felt; it was pure envy.
She wanted that.
Not with Will or a faceless Dom she hadn’t met.
No, she specifically wanted it with Nick.
Who didn’t even know if he was into kink.
God, she was so fucked, and not in the fun way.Though… maybe she could be if Nick actually went through with the class.But what if it turned out he really didn’t like kink?Or he forced himself to do it because he thought it was what she wanted, then he resented her.
Just once in my life, could I choose the easy path?
Wouldn’t that be nice?
Past decisions showed that wasn’t usually how she worked, though.Heck, she’d moved to a new city, miles away from her friends and family, for a job.A decision none of them had understood.Though when it came down to it, none of them had really understood her.
She’d felt more accepted and supported by Domi and Rae in the first few months of their friendship than she had by her friends back home, who she’d known since high school.While she still loved those friends, they were leading completely different lives from her, and none of them seemed to understand why she hadn’t wanted the same for herself.
Maybe Avery could have been happy getting married young and having babies, but it wasn’t what she’d really wanted then, and now she was glad she’d made that decision.Instead, she’d gone to culinary school, started working in restaurants, and finally made the move up here to work at Marquis.Some of her friends back home seemed to take her ambition as a personal affront, as if they thought she was looking down on them for being stay-at-home moms, whereas she felt they started shutting her out when she hadn’t become one.
As the show finished with a bang—literally—Avery squirmed in her seat.Yup, she wouldn’t have missed out on this for the world.Olivia had been right—Avery was still kinky.She missed this.She craved it.In fact, she would have given anything to be in Gina’s position, with Nick working her over and finishing her off.
“Damn.”Domi fanned herself as the lights came up, indicating the end of the show if the empty stage hadn’t already done so.“That was… well, let’s just say, Mitch is getting lucky tonight.”
“Lucky.”Avery wasn’t kidding.Mitch, Domi’s boyfriend and Dom, was an accomplished sadist.The two of them were adorable together outside the kinky stuff as well.
“Hey, maybe you’ll get lucky, too,” Rae said, winking at Avery before scooting her way out of the booth.“You’re supposed to talk to Nick tonight after his shift, right?”
“Right…” Avery hadn’t really thought about getting lucky.They were going to talk about kink and go over the hard limits list Olivia had given him.Did she want to?
Yes.
Was it a good idea?
Ugh.That depended on so many things.
“Scoot,” Domi said, poking Avery in the side.Apparently, she was planning on following Avery out of the booth rather than taking advantage of the open side Rae had vacated.“Let’s go downstairs and get a drink, so we can talk.”
That actually sounded really good.It would be way too hard to concentrate on any conversation up here, where people still occupied several of the booths and were enjoying themselves post-show.The moans and gasps were a little distracting.That’s where she was supposed to meet Nick, anyway.
They could sit in one of the booths downstairs, where the noise of the crowd would help filter out any of their conversation.Restaurants could be gossipy places, and she didn’t want anyone overhearing what she and the others were saying.On the other hand… she looked down at her corset as they walked into the lobby.Dammit.She hadn’t thought it through when she’d agreed to meet Nick at the bar.
“I can’t go down there in this.”
Domi and Rae paused, looked at her, then looked at each other.All of them were wearing clothes appropriate for the second floor of Marquis, but not so much the first floor.Well, Domi and Rae could get away with it in the bar.At another restaurant.Avery might be willing to try but not atherrestaurant.
They’d done a good job of hiding her as they came in.She wasn’t about to sit in the middle of the dining room.
“Oh right… shit.”The look on Rae’s face was hilarious.“I can’t believe I’ve gotten so used to dressing like this, I sometimes forget it’s not the norm.”
“You all look gorgeous,” Freddy said from his place behind the host desk, sounding amused.Avery jumped.She’d forgotten he was there.“Olivia has some wrap dresses in her office in various sizes if you’d like to change.I’m sure she’d be happy to lend them to you.”
