by J. S. Cooper
“I’m glad I pleased you, Sir.” I smiled up at him. “So what shall we do next?”
“Let’s talk,” he said and kissed me on the lips. “I think we need to talk.”
“Okay.” I nodded. “Can you take this jacket off me first?”
“Of course,” he said with a smile and undid the straps and I pulled the jacket off quickly. “So I need to tell you something.”
“Is it about you and Elizabeth?” I asked softly, my heart thudding.
“Yes.” He nodded and looked nervous.
“What is it, Aiden?” I pulled away from him slightly, scared about what he was going to tell me.
“It’s about Elizabeth and me and how we met,” he said with a groan and then looked around the room and sighed.
“Are you guys dating? Is she your girlfriend?” I blurted out.
“No, she’s not my girlfriend.” He grabbed my hands. “This is hard for me, Alice.” He groaned and shook his head. “Why is this so hard?”
“Just tell me, Aiden.” I stared into his eyes and I could see that he looked worried. “Are you guys in a Dominant and submissive relationship?” I asked him finally, unable to stand the silence any longer. “Just tell me, Aiden. Are you her Dom?”
He shook his head and then took a deep breath before speaking. “It’s worse than that, Alice, it’s much worse than that.”
Chapter Twelve
Who’s Your Dom?
My phone rang then because you know how life goes, you always get interrupted during the most crucial conversations. And because I’m me and totally stupid, I jumped off of the bed and answered the phone.
“Hello?” I said with a hesitant voice because I didn’t recognize the number.
“Alice, it’s Henry,” said a smooth voice.
“Hey, Henry,” I said and got back onto the bed with a smile on my face. Aiden lay there staring at me with narrowed eyes and a frown. “Can I help you?”
“Yes, you can.” He laughed and then cleared his throat. “I was hoping we could grab a coffee this weekend?”
“You want to grab a coffee with me?” I asked in shock, my voice rising slightly.
“Yes. I figure seeing as I’m Xander’s best man and you’re Liv’s maid of honor, we should get to know each other better.”
“I’d love to get to know you better—eek!” I screamed as I felt Aiden slap my bottom.
“Alice, are you okay?” Henry sounded worried.
“Yes, sorry, I uh, I …” My voice trailed off as Aiden’s hands came around my waist and pulled me back to him. “Sorry about that, I’m fine.” I gasped as Aiden’s fingers pinched my nipples.
“Oh, okay.” Henry sounded unsure. “So this weekend? What day is better for you?”
“Uhm, I can do Sat—oooh.” I moaned as I felt Aiden entering me. I closed my eyes for a few seconds as I felt him moving inside of me. “Henry, can I call you back, please?” I gasped into the phone.
“Sure. Is everything okay, Alice?”
“Yes!” I gasped and hung up. “What are you doing?” I moaned as Aiden flipped me onto my back and got on top of me.
“That was rude of you,” he murmured as he lowered his body onto mine.
“What was?” I gasped as he grabbed my hands and entered me slowly.
“Taking a call while we were talking.”
“Well, you were basically telling me that you and Elizabeth are—”
“We’re nothing, Alice.” He grunted as he kissed me hard.
“What do you mean?” I moaned as he continued moving his cock in and out of me slowly.
“Elizabeth and I are nothing.” He groaned and pulled out of me and then sat up on the bed. “I’m going to get blue balls.” He made a face.
“What do you mean you and Elizabeth are nothing?” I asked with a frown. I completely ignored his blue balls comment. “You’re not sleeping with me while you’re in a kinky relationship with her?”
“I’m not in a kinky relationship with her.” He made a face. “I hired her.”
“You what?” My jaw dropped. “She’s a prostitute?” I glared at him. “I knew it. I just knew it.”
“No, Alice.” He grabbed my hands and grinned. “I don’t mean she’s a prostitute—she’s an actress.” He made a face. “I know, I know, it was a stupid thing to do.”
“Actress?”
“I wanted to teach you a lesson.” He sighed. “Maybe it was a mistake.”
“Maybe?” I glared at him. “What are you talking about? Why did you want to teach me a lesson?”
“You and Liv are so immature,” he said. “After you hired Brock and Jock and pretended that the two of you were dating them, Xander and I figured that you both needed a taste of your own medicine.”
“Xander knew about this?” I was in shock. “What?”
“I thought it would be a good idea.” He sighed. “Like I said, I wanted to give you a taste of your own medicine.”
“My own medicine?”
“Are you going to repeat everything I say?” He grinned.
“I wouldn’t be grinning if I were you.” I narrowed my eyes at him. “Continue with your story.”
“After I saw you kissing Scott, I got really upset, but then I spoke to Scott and Xander, and I realized that perhaps you did like me, after all.”
“Well, duh. Hasn’t that always been obvious?”
“Not really, Alice.” He shook his head. “Not with all the silly games you and my sister play. I really didn’t know what to think.”
“I don’t play silly games.” I pouted, and he leaned forward and kissed my lips.
“Yes, you do, Alice.” His fingers ran down my cheek. “And for some reason, I decided that I needed to join you at your own game. So I hired Elizabeth.” He smiled at me, but I didn’t return his look of adoration. “We decided to do some fake Facebook flirting to trap you, then she sent me some fake texts, I talked about some fake dates, invited her to the football game, which was Xander’s idea by the way, and waited for you to take the bait.”
“I thought you were dating her as well,” I growled. “I was so upset and angry and confused and … Argh.” I poked him in the chest. “That was a horrible thing to do.”
“I just wanted to see if you would be jealous,” he said. “And I wanted you to see how stupid and childish it is to fake relationships and stuff to try and make someone jealous.”
“Whatever.” I looked away from him, still feeling angry, but also feeling overwhelmingly happy. He didn’t like Elizabeth! I was over the moon at the truth.
“I’m sorry, Alice,” he muttered. “Can you forgive me?”
“Why did you do it, Aiden?” I looked at him and searched his face. “Did you just want to have one over on me?”
“Are you dense, Alice?” He looked at me in shock. “I like you. I have feelings for you. I’ve had feelings for you for a long time. I had a feeling you felt the same, but I wanted to make sure you were mature enough for a relationship. And I wanted to make sure that this was something you wanted.”
“You like me?” I grinned at him.
“I maybe more than like you.” He grinned back and kissed me again.
“Maybe?”
“More than maybe,” he said with a laugh. “I just don’t want to be your best friend’s sleazy older brother.”
“You’re not sleazy—well, not very sleazy.” I grinned.
“Not very sleazy?”
“Well, you know.” I grinned again. “You are here with me, naked, in a BDSM store.”
“Alice, that goes both ways.” He laughed. “So, are you sleazy too?”
“Well, I only came here for you.” I blushed. “I wanted you to know that I’d be down with trying your alternative lifestyle.”
“About that.” He made a face, and my stomach turned slightly.
“Oh God, what now?” I asked, worried. “Don’t tell me you’re a member of a sex club for real?”
“What?” He laughed. “Not at all, Alice. Yo
u know you really have an overactive imagination.”
“So what is it you need to tell me now?” I poked him in the chest.
“So, I’m kinda not a Dom.” He put his hands up. “Don’t kill me.”
“What do you mean?” I frowned. “Xander told me that …” My voice trailed off as I realized that I’d been set up. “That was a lie as well?”
“Yeah.” Aiden nodded with a rueful smile on his face. “Xander thought it would be funny.”
“Funny?”
“Yeah.” Aiden laughed. “He thought it would be interesting to see what you thought up.”
“So I let you spank me for fun?” I groaned. “And I called you Sir.”
“I liked you calling me Sir.” He winked. “You can call me that whenever you want.”
“Uh huh.”
“And I can spank you whenever you want as well.” He reached over and played with my breasts. “In fact, we can do whatever experimentation you want.”
“Can I get a strap-on and—”
“No.” He cut me off right away and laughed. “Anything but that. There is no way in hell you’re using a strap-on on me.”
“Aww.” I laughed. “What other experimentation are you thinking about, then?”
“Well, I wouldn’t mind using a pinwheel.” He ran his fingernails across my nipples. “And maybe some anal beads.”
“Anal beads?” I raised my eyebrows at him and his eyes glittered at me.
“Anal beads and vibrators and anything else we want.” He moved back on top of me. “Anything you’re comfortable with.”
“I think I can be comfortable with a lot of things,” I whispered against his lips as he entered me again. I wrapped my legs around his waist, and he groaned as he moved inside of me, his cock seeming to go deeper and deeper with each thrust.
“Good, because I plan on us doing a lot of experimenting.” He slammed into me and leaned down and sucked on my nipples. “And who knows, maybe one day I’ll even end up being your Dom.”
“Or maybe one day I’ll end up being yours.” I growled and reached up and slapped his ass hard.
Chapter Thirteen
Text Sex or Phone Sex?
“Get out of town!” Liv looked shocked as I finished telling her about my night with Aiden. “I’m going to kill Xander. I can’t believe he was a part of this plan and didn’t tell me a thing.”
“Crazy, right?” I beamed at her. I was so happy that Aiden and I were finally being honest with each other that I couldn’t hide my excitement.
“Uhm, more than crazy.” Liz sat on my bed and giggled. “I can’t believe that Aiden did this. I knew there was no way in hell that he was a Dom.”
“Well, he could be one. Trust me.” I shivered. “You should have seen the way he took me over his knee.”
“I have to be honest, I’m not sad that I don’t have to see that.” Liv grinned at me. “Not trying to be mean, but it still freaks me out knowing you two are sleeping together.”
“We don’t do much sleeping.” I laughed and she groaned. “What can I say, but he’s dynamite in bed.”
“So what happened after he admitted he’d been lying about Elizabeth, which is pretty ingenious in a way?”
“Well, I told him off a bit.” I laughed. “And that’s when he told me that he made up the BDSM stuff as well.”
“Xander is so tricky.” She shook her head. “I bet he knew all along that you would tell me right away.”
“Yeah, I think that as well. I mean, it just doesn’t seem reasonable that he would think I didn’t tell you.”
“So that means he knew that I knew all along,” Liv groaned. “I’m going to get him back for that.”
“Oh? How?”
“I’m going to handcuff him to the bed tonight.” She grinned. “And then tease him. Let’s see how much he likes handcuffs then.”
“Oh, Liv!” I laughed.
“He needs to be punished.” She grinned again. “And what better way than from a budding Domme wannabe?”
“You don’t want to be a Domme, though.”
“He doesn’t have to know that.”
“Oh, Liv, you’re so bad.”
“I know.” She giggled. “I’m a bad, bad girl.”
“That’s what I said to Aiden last night.” I laughed.
“About me?” She looked confused.
“No, about me.” I grinned. “We really got into the role-playing. I think I’m going to ask him to rent a policeman’s uniform, and I’ll be the criminal he’s interrogating.”
“Uh, okay.” Alice laughed.
“And then maybe I’ll be an escort and he can be my John and we can meet up at a hotel bar and he can pretend he’s picking me up.”
“You do know that prostitution is illegal and if someone thinks you guys are for real, you might get arrested?”
“We’ll be fine. He’s a lawyer.” I grinned. “He can get us out of it if that were to happen.”
“You’re crazy, Alice.”
“Well, so is Aiden. And he likes my crazy. Well, some of my crazy, at least.”
“So what happens next?” She grinned and her stomach grumbled. “And do you want to go out to dinner?”
“Yes, let’s go and get some fried chicken. I’ve been craving it.” I nodded. “Hold on, let me change real quick.”
“Okay.” She nodded and followed me to my room. “So you and Aiden are official now?”
“No,” I said and sighed as I opened my closet door. “He didn’t really say anything about us being in a relationship. He didn’t ask me to be his girlfriend or his wife.”
“Alice, he’s not going to propose just because you had sex.”
“I know that.” I rolled my eyes. “He didn’t propose years ago, either. I guess I just hoped he would say something about us being more official, you know.”
“I know.” She nodded. “It’s hard to be sleeping with a guy and not really have anything confirmed.”
“Yeah, I feel like a bit of a slut if I’m honest.” I took my shirt off and pulled on a navy sweater. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the sex with Aiden, but I kinda feel cheap. And I don’t know why. I think that if men can have sex when not in a relationship then I should be able to as well, but it just feels wrong.”
“I think it’s because you want to be in a relationship with him, so you’re kinda in limbo right now.”
“Yeah.” I nodded as I pulled my jeans on. “I guess I just want that official title of girlfriend.”
“That’s understandable, Alice. I felt the same way with Xander. Well, kinda. I mean the first night was a one-night stand, but after I’d slept with him a few times, I did start to feel like ‘is he really into me and is this about more than sex or not?’”
“Yeah,” I sighed and sat on the edge of my bed. “I just want to know where this is going.”
“Why don’t you ask him?”
“You think so? It seems a bit forward, don’t you think? I mean, we barely just admitted that we had feelings for each other.”
“Yeah, but I think you’ve both had feelings for each other for a while.” She groaned. “Just ask him.”
“Maybe.” I sighed. “I don’t want to scare him away.”
“He’s Aiden. He doesn’t get scared.” Liv grinned. “If anything, he’s the scary one.”
“He’s a bossy bear, not a scary one.”
“I know, I know.” Liv groaned. “He’s the bossy bear who likes to tie you up and have his wicked way with you and you love it.”
“Don’t be jealous.” I giggled as we walked out of my room. “I can’t help it if my man has a kinky side.”
“Oh, I had a question for you,” Liv said as we left the apartment and headed to our favorite fried chicken place a few blocks away.
“What?”
“So what happens with Elizabeth now?”
“No idea,” I shrugged and then paused. “Though you wanna know something funny? When we were at the coffee shop and I sa
w Scott and Elizabeth looking at each other, it seemed to me that they had already met.”
“Oh, really?” Liv looked at me curiously. “Like, through Aiden?”
“No.” I shook my head and thought back to that moment. “It was as if they knew each other better than that. I don’t know. Maybe I imagined it, but I swear I thought to myself that they had a really intense stare for a few seconds and then it passed.”
“Ooh,” Liv murmured. “I wonder how they know each other?”
“Yeah, me too.” I grinned at her. “I’m going to see if I can find out.”
“Oh, Alice,” she groaned as we walked into the restaurant. “Can we eat first and then figure out a plan?”
“Sure,” I said as I took a deep breath and smelled the greasy wonderfulness that was fried chicken and French fries. “Let’s eat first.”
***
I lay in bed feeling full and happy. I was about to roll over and go to sleep when my phone beeped.
Hey sweet pea. I grinned as I saw the message from Aiden.
Alice: Hey.
Aiden: I missed you today.
Alice: Oh wanted to get some spanking in?
Aiden: Hmm. I’d use any excuse to touch your ass.
Alice: How was work?
Aiden: Good. I thought about you all day though. Had a big boner. :)
Alice: Aw, how special! I typed, but inside I frowned. Was this all about sex to Aiden?
Aiden: What are you wearing right now?
Alice: Why?
Aiden: I want to picture you.
Alice: Okay …
Aiden: So what are you wearing and where are you?
Alice: I’m at a costume party and I’m wearing a rat costume.
Aiden: Not sexy. :(
Alice: Where are you and what are you wearing?
Aiden: I’m in bed. Naked and thinking of you.
Alice: Oh Aiden, the words I’ve always wanted to hear.
Aiden: I wish you were here.
Alice: I’m sure you do.
Aiden: Take your clothes off.
Alice: At the party?!
Aiden: I know you’re not at a party.
Alice: Okay, stalker.
Aiden: Tell me when your clothes are off.
Alice: Why?
Aiden: Because then we can play.