What kind of adult let their parents run their life to that degree?It was embarrassing.
They’d reached her car.The blush was still hot in her cheeks as she let out a long breath, the white cloud puffing out from her lips and dissipating into the darkness.
“Anyway.That’s not your problem.Sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry.Did you tell the others about how you feel?Any of them, especially Claudia, would be happy to set you up with someone to walk you through different aspects of kink.”His voice sounded rougher than it had before.Tinged with some kind of emotion.Jealousy?Or was she projecting because that’s what part of her wanted to hear?“Heck, Claudia might offer to do it herself.You could try things out with one of them.”
“I guess.I would be a lot more comfortable with someone I know and trust, like Claudia.I can’t imagine trying anything with someone I just met.I don’t know if I’d want to do it at the club, though… what if I did something wrong?What if I don’t like it?I don’t even know if I would like being spanked… what if I hate it?”The words were tumbling out of her now, and she found herself looking up at him as if he had the answers.
His face was mostly shadowed, but she could feel the light on hers and knew he could see her expression clearly, even if the reverse wasn’t true.Maybe that’s what made it easy to talk to him about this.
It wasn’t like she could see his reaction.
“Do you want to try a spanking to see if you like it?”he asked.
That was the last thing she ever expected him to say to her.Audrey stared at him because her brain had just come to a screeching halt, trying to figure out if he meant what she thought he meant.
“Platonically, of course.Nothing sexual involved.If you’re leaving because you’re worried, we could go to your place or my place right now, and I could demonstrate, and then you’d know.For next time.”
Oh my God.
He was actually saying what she thought he was saying.
He was asking if she wanted him to spank her.
In private.
Platonically.
“Sorry, I hope I didn’t just make things uncomfortable?—”
“Yes,” she interrupted him, feeling suddenly breathless; what if he was about to take the offer away?
Hadn’t she just been thinking about how her parents had stifled her?How she hadn’t done what she wanted to do, even when they wouldn’t know about it, because she’d known they wouldn’t approve?
Was she turning into a horribly selfish person?
No.He was making an offer—a non-sexual one—and she was not betraying girl code by taking him up on it.He’d just said, Claudia could do the same thing.But Audrey wanted to try it.Now.
Then at least she’d know if she was into it or not, and Mason had just offered, so…
And if she was being really honest with herself, she wanted her first spanking to be done by the man she kept picturing in her head when she was reading her books.
“Yes?”His voice had roughened again, deepened, and her stomach did a little flip-flop.
“Yes.Uh, please.”She cleared her throat.“Um, at my place, I guess?”
Before she chickened out.
“Okay.”He nodded.Audrey had already given him her address for his contact information, just in case anything from the bakery followed her home.It hadn’t so far, to her relief, and now it was coming in handy for an entirely different reason.“I’ll see you there in a few minutes.”
“Great,” she squeaked out, before turning and getting into her car, trying not to feel like she was fleeing.
Oh God, what am I doing?
Mason
Fuck.
