Hooked (Decadence Nights Book 1)

by Maddie Taylor

  “These are two of the owners, and Mistress Anne is a charter member, you pathetic putz,” Joseph’s rage hadn’t diminished and his voice, usually a soothing melodic tenor, had lowered to a harsh growl. “Not to mention this is a private club and they can throw out whoever they damn well please.”

  “I’m a renowned author and a PhD! They won’t choose me over a pathetic secretary. I want to see Master Dex.” Vaughn’s grating whine was cut off by an “oomph” and a sickening crunch.

  Livvy looked over in time to see Joseph’s fist connect with Vaughn’s middle age paunch followed by a vicious punch to his face. After that, he released his hold sending Vaughn to the floor with a loud thud, blood spurting from his nose. He groaned initially before squealing like the pig Mara had likened him to.

  “You broke my nose! I’ll sue.”

  “Excellent,” Joseph snarled. “We can bring to light how you prey on innocent young women from your classes, abuse your authority, subjugate them and crush their spirit. I relish the day I have you in a courtroom.”

  Mistress Anne murmured, “Obviously this rube doesn’t know he’s dealing with the finest criminal attorney in the state.”

  “Try to find a job after this goes public,” Sean sneered.

  “Or a club to play at,” Cap added.

  “Already taken care of,” Joseph put in.

  “You!” The bleeding worm accused. “It was you who had me blackballed. They cancelled my membership at the gym, too.”

  “I’ve only just begun. I have an appointment with your Dean on Monday at ten sharp.”

  “Your firm donates quite generously to UT Austin, don’t they, Joe?”

  “Indeed, Sean. It is five out of six of our partners’ alma mater, mine included.” He looked down at Vaughn coldly as he launched the final salvo. “You don’t have tenure, I understand.”

  “You can’t. I’ll be ruined,” came his wheedling whine.

  Joseph shrugged, smiling smugly as he straightened his sleeves obviously pleased by the thought of Vaughn’s career in the toilet.

  A soft blanket falling across her shoulders alerted Livvy that she was free of the cross. So wrapped up in the drama playing out in front of her, she’d barely registered anything else. She looked up into Master Dex’s sky blue eyes.

  “Are you all right?”

  “Yes, Sir. Just shook up a bit.”

  “I’m sorry this happened, Olivia. We’ll make sure he won’t bother you again.”

  “Thank you.” Her worried gaze returned to where Joseph still loomed over Vaughn looking ready to tear him limb from limb. “Do you think you can intervene, Master Dex? Make sure Joseph doesn’t kill him?”

  “I’m on my way to do just that, but I can’t say I’d be doing the club or the world as a whole any favors. The man’s an ass.”

  After giving Livvy’s shoulder a squeeze, Dex moved to Joseph’s side and weighed in. “You’re blackballed at Decadence too, Steros, and statewide after I make some calls.”

  “This is ludicrous. I demand a vote.”

  Anger emanated off Dex in waves. “Fine. Luckily, Joseph, Anne, Sean and Cap are all on the membership committee. All in favor of dismissal?”

  Four “ayes” rang out in the eerily silent room.

  “And my vote makes five, which is a quorum and all it takes, you miserable fuck.” Turning away in disgust, Dex looked to Sean and Cap. “If you two don’t mind taking out the trash, it’s beginning to stink.”

  Titters of laughter sounded from the audience now that the owners had the ugly scene well in hand, not that Joseph needed any help. He stood looming over Vaughn, not taking his eyes off him until the two big owners hauled him up roughly by the arms and escorted him none too gently to the exit. Only then, did Joseph turn and quickly return to Livvy.

  “Your taste in Dom’s certainly has improved, honey,” Mara said with a wink as she relinquished her hold on Livvy’s shoulders. Since her Dom had arrived and was providing her protection, Mara quietly slipped back on the other side of the ropes.

  Ignoring the applause and ‘Atta boys’ that ensued, Joseph scooped Livvy up and carried her to a nearby couch. As he sat with her cuddled in his lap, she could feel his body vibrating, his anger far from appeased. Her hand rose to his cheek.

  “Joseph, he’s gone. It’s over.”

  “Not until he’s across the border in some other state.” He glanced down at her. “But you let me worry about that, little one. Are you all right?”

  “Shaken a bit, but watching you go all kick ass alpha on his butt made me feel a whole lot better.”

  He buried his face in her hair, hugging her close. A moment later his lips nuzzled along her throat and he murmured huskily, “I wanted to choke the life out of him while I had my hands at his throat.”

  “I’m glad you didn’t.”

  “I know, you don’t think he’s worth it.”

  “That and because Texas doesn’t allow conjugal visits.”

  It started out low, a small tickle against her skin, turning quickly to a rumble of his laughter in his chest.

  She squirmed on his lap until her front was pressed against his, with her arms entwined around his neck. “Seriously, Joseph, thank you for defending me.” Against his ear, she whispered further, “Now that his nonsense is over, can we resume our play?”

  His head came up. “You want to continue the session?”

  “We came all this way to play and barely got started. Not to mention, David and Emma are enjoying the room we had reserved for ourselves for weeks in advance. Don’t let him spoil our evening. Please?”

  “You’re sure? That was quite a scare, and you were nervous before that. Maybe—”

  “It’s like falling off the wagon, isn’t it? You have to dust yourself off and get right back on, right?”

  That got her a small smile. “I believe you mean a horse; you’re mixing your idioms.”

  “A wagon, a horse, or a cross.” Pausing, she shrugged and grinned up at him. “I’m game for anything as long as it’s with you, Master.”

  Her smile was infectious, and he returned it fully.

  “You are so precious to me, Livvy. I love you.”

  “I love you too, Joseph.” Her lips brushing his as she spoke incited him to swoop in for a heated kiss. When he released her, she blinked up at him while sorting out her head enough to make sense. “Master, please say you’ll do whatever kinky stuff you had planned for me. Seeing you beat Vaughn’s ass made me incredibly hot.”

  A full throated laugh was her answer as he rose and carried her back to the cross.

  *****

  The lash fell across her breasts rousing a streak of pleasure that shot straight to her clit. She writhed in her cuffs, bowing her back off the cross. A teasing lick stroked her belly, the next striking in an upswing between her spread legs.

  “Master, please.”

  “Come for me, Livvy. Show them how beautifully you submit.”

  Her head strained backward as much as the cross would allow and her mouth fell open on a guttural cry of ecstasy. Her body hummed with her release as she felt Joseph move against her, his lips brushing her throat, her shoulders, her breasts, then his hardness was surging up inside her. His thick cock burrowing through her snug channel filled and stretched her deliciously. As he began pumping fast and hard, what had started to ebb resurged, the tightness low in her belly spreading, rising up to her swollen breasts and forward to her still tingling clit.

  “I’m going to come again, Master.”

  “Do it, Liv,” he groaned in her ear. “Squeeze my cock hard as you come, and I’ll be right there with you.”

  *****

  It was just past midnight. Joseph and Livvy were cozied up on a comfy love seat in the bar while chatting quietly with Sean and Mara, Cap and Megan, and Dex and Elena. They were all enjoying an après-play drink when David and Emma exited the playroom both with identical sated smiles on their faces. David, Livvy noticed, was using considerable strength to k
eep a loose-limbed Em on her feet. Cap hauled his petite wife on his lap to make room on the couch for them.

  Livvy grinned over at her friends. “So? What did you think of the Sultan’s Chamber?”

  “Words cannot express…” Em sighed. “This place is every D/s couple’s dream come true. I guarantee that no one had a more eventful night than David and me.”

  Livvy giggled, as did Mara and Elena, with Meg joining in. Soon they were convulsed into laughter as their Doms indulgently chuckled.

  Em looked at David. “Did I say something funny?”

  The End

  Maddie Taylor

  A lifelong reader, Maddie became a romance junkie as a teen with her first romance novel, The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss. From then on, she was hooked, and gobbled up everything she could get her hands on, whether contemporary, historical, paranormal or sci-fi. If there was romance to be found between a strong alpha male, and a sassy, adventurous and oftimes defiant yet loving woman Maddie was all over it. As an author, she stays true to those themes writing steamy erotic romance, with a side of kink, and adding elements of intrigue, danger and suspense to her plots.

  Maddie started writing as a hobby. Her stories stayed private while she raised a family and worked full time as a registered nurse. It wasn’t until 2012 that she decided to take the plunge and submit her first book for publication: Captain My Captain. She found acceptance at Blushing Books and published an impressive twelve novels the first year.

  She’s still juggling writing with her day job and you’ll find her working at her laptop into the wee hours of the night, scribbling plot ideas onto the notebook she always keeps handy, and working out the details of a scene while floating around in her pool with a lemon drop in hand. Don’t be surprised if you see her pulling over on the side of the road to capture an idea for a scene on paper, because as Maddie says, her best ideas always come when there isn’t a pen in a five-mile radius.

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