She was sick of this.“Is my brother, not my father.Andhonestly, even if my father was here, I’m an adult.I have every right to dowhat I want in this club.Tell me something, if it was Devi or Bri coming outof a privacy room, would you be clutching your pearls and wondering how fastyou can bring the patriarchy down on their heads?”
Hunter’s hands came up.“I’m so fucking glad my sister is inLondon.Go on.I was only trying to look out for you.”
It was the whole problem with the club.The problem wasn’tthat someone cared about her, but sometimes their caring became questioning herchoices.If she had one more intervention…
“I’m great.Used a condom and everything.”She’d one hundredpercent protected her body.She wasn’t so sure about her heart.
Daisy strode away and didn’t look back.
* * * *
“Hey, how’d your night go, big guy?I asked around and noone said they saw you, but I noticed you weren’t home when we got here.”Aidansat at the breakfast table, a mug of coffee in front of him.
Nate needed way more than coffee.He needed to find Dee andtake his hand to her backside.He hadn’t meant to fall asleep.He’d meant toget inside her again.As many times as it took to get her to take the mask offand get real with him.
That was the problem.It had all felt so real.He’d spentone night with the woman, and he was fairly certain he would never forget her.
The good news was Aidan had been a member of The Hideoutsince its inception, and he tended to be pretty observant.When the dungeonmonitor had woken him up, the club had been closing and his Cinderella hadn’teven left behind one of her high heels.No clues to track her by except hername.Well, and a couple of facts.
“I met a sub.We decided to play in private.Look, mate, Ineed to find her.You know a sub named Dee?”Nate got right to the point.He’ddriven himself home and the house had been quiet, though he’d seen a light onin the room normally used by Cooper McKay.
Daisy O’Donnell was staying the night.Just yesterdaymeeting Daisy again after almost twelve years had seemed like it would be thehighlight of his week.Now he could barely work up the will to say hi.
Because all he fucking wanted in the world was Dee.
In the course of a few short hours, he’d become obsessedwith a woman for the first time in his life.
Aidan sat up.He was in sweats and a T-shirt, his hair stilldamp from a morning shower, and his gym bag was slung over his chair.“Dee?Wehave a couple of members with first names that start with D.”
“She said hernamewas Dee.”
Carys walked in from the kitchen.She was dressed far moreformally than her fiancé.She was in slacks and a pretty shirt, her hair up ina neat bun.“Who said her name was Dee?We don’t have a Dee.We have a Daisyand a Devon and Denise.But honestly, it was masquerade night so we had somenewbies, and almost no one goes by real names.”
“It’s kind of a free-for-all,” Aidan admitted.“The onlyrule is what happens at masquerade stays at masquerade.It’s a decadent,make-bad-choices kind of night.”
“It’s supposed to be fun.”Carys placed a plate of toastdown on the table.“I wouldn’t know.I’ve never been because I’ve pretty muchbeen engaged since I was five.”
Aidan’s lips kicked up in a grin.“She’s right.Tris and Imade this ring in art class…” He sobered as though remembering his partnerwasn’t here and wouldn’t be coming home any time soon.“Well, I’ve neverunderstood the appeal.I did hear Chloe dumped a beer on Seth’s head when hetried to hit on her.I kind of wished I’d seen that.”
Carys sat down beside her fiancé and put a hand over his.“You were far too busy playing doctor.”
“Damn straight I was.”Aidan gave her hand a squeeze beforeturning back to Nate.“So you got lucky last night?Good for you, man.”
Had he listened to a word he’d said?“That’s where you’rewrong.I’m not lucky because I’m the arsehole who fell asleep on the hottestwoman I’ve ever seen, and now I don’t know how to get in touch with her.”
Aidan chuckled.“Dude, you fell asleep on her?Seriously?Soyou want to find her again because you didn’t get a chance to play with her?”
“Oh, we played.We played for hours, and when we were doneshe went to clean up, and I was out like a bloody light,” he admitted.“Whenthe monitor woke me up, she was gone.Everyone was, actually.I managed tosleep until the club closed.”
“Damn, man.I wish I could help you.What did she looklike?”Aidan asked.
“She was fucking gorgeous.I mean that woman was sex walkingon two legs.Long, dark hair, gorgeous eyes.”The sight of her spread out forhis pleasure would haunt him until the day he died.Dee was… She was everythinghe wanted in a woman, in a sub.“I took one look at her and no one elsemattered.”
Aidan glanced Carys’s way.“There are a lot of pretty subs,and a whole bunch who don’t usually attend.I know Chloe brought some friendswith her last night.They usually play at The Club.It could be one of them.”
Carys was suddenly very interested in her phone.“Yeah, itreally could be anyone.She could have been wearing a wig and going by a fakename.A lot of the subs do.”
He didn’t think Dee had been lying to him, and there waszero way all that silk hadn’t been her real hair.“She was in all white.Shelooked like a fucking angel.And her mask had feathers around the eyes.She wasin these super-high heels, and her corset had all these rhinestones on them.”
