Disciplined By The Dom (Club Volare)

by Cox, Chloe

  “Manipulative? Controlling?”

  “Well…yeah.”

  Lola sighed. “It’s not his choices that I have a problem with. I might have been completely on board if he’d given me the chance. It’s that he didn’t give me the choice. Like my opinion just didn’t…matter.”

  “It’s just, you both seem so unhappy. And I owe you both so much, and I want to see you both happy. Sucks.”

  “You make it sound like we were dating,” Lola laughed.

  Catie just shrugged, and raised an eyebrow. That thought had occurred to her before. Actually, it had occurred to everybody.

  And then Catie saw him, over Lola’s shoulder. She had planned to get them both here today, just to make them interact in a non-Volare context, but she hadn’t intended for Roman to be so…glowering. He was definitely glowering.

  “Lola,” he said, advancing down the aisle of the theater, “I need to speak with you.”

  Catie saw Lola close her eyes, and winced.

  “Lola,” he said again, coming up by her elbow. Lola didn’t turn to him.

  “You didn’t need to speak to me when you were making decisions that could have affected all of us. I highly, highly doubt that you suddenly need to speak to me now.”

  Oh, shit. This was not what Catie had envisioned. At all.

  “I’m just…gonna go…” Catie had never been great at gracefully backing out of anything, and it was pretty hard to tear herself away from this, even as she tried to walk away. Luckily, neither of them paid the least bit of attention.

  “Well, you are wrong,” Roman said.

  Lola laughed, though she didn’t seem happy, and finally looked at him. “You sure know how to win a girl over, Roman.”

  A flash of anger passed over Roman’s face, the first time Catie had seen anything actually get to him. “It is excellent that you think so, Lola. It will make it easier when you are my wife.”

  Unfortunately, the theater had excellent acoustics. Roman’s voice carried over a lull in Danny and Eileen’s arguing, and slowly all focus seemed to shift to Roman and Lola, who were still glaring at each other. Lola blinked, and eventually managed to close her mouth.

  “Your what?” she said.

  Catie probably would have stayed right there, frozen to the spot, staring in just as much shock as Lola, if Jake hadn’t grabbed her by the arm and led her back to the office.

  “Did you hear that?” she said.

  Jake shrugged. “It’s Volare business. Something to do with licenses. I am trying to help, but in the meantime…”

  “I mean, holy crap,” Catie said. “They have to get married?”

  “I know,” Jake said, and this time he couldn’t suppress a grin. He had a mischievous side that Catie was just beginning to discover. She loved it. Now he lowered his eyes and said, “I’ll tell you all about. Afterwards.”

  “After what?” Catie asked, but she was hoping she knew.

  Jake hustled her into the warren-like offices, and shut the door behind him. He looked at her, and stopped. His expression changed, playfulness replaced by that look of disbelieving wonder she was getting to know, and she couldn’t help herself. She darted forward to kiss him.

  When they finally separated, he said, “That does not change anything, you know.”

  “Oh?”

  “No,” he said. “Today is still Friday.”

  Catie smiled into his chest. She knew it was Friday. It had given her an opportunity to be deliberately…disobedient.

  “And suppose I’m not wearing them…?” she said, her words muffled.

  His grip tightened, and Catie felt a now familiar thrill as she heard him chuckle. “Then that means I need to get you home,” he said. “Immediately.”

  It was exactly what she wanted to hear.

  THE END…

  …But Roman and Lola’s story, Marrying the Master, is next! Look for it in April 2013, or you can sign up for my new releases list here and I’ll send you a link as soon as it comes out. And if you haven’t already, check out the other Club Volare books, Sold to the Sheikh and Tied to the Tycoon.

  Hi! Thank you so much for reading Disciplined by the Dom. I hope you enjoyed Jake and Catie’s story, and that it brought you a bit of happiness. If you liked it, feel free to lend it to a friend you think might like it, too. I specifically put my books out without any DRM for just that reason, so g’head. :)

  And I’d love to hear your thoughts on Disciplined by the Dom! You can connect with me on Facebook or email me at chloecoxwrites@gmail.com, or leave a review on Amazon or on Goodreads. I sincerely appreciate every review—I think they help other readers out, and I learn something with every review, too. If you do choose to leave a review, shoot me an email and I’ll add you to my ARC list.

  ‘Till the next book!

  Chloe