Her eyes fill with tears. “Please don’t make me, Tristan. Not in front of everyone. Don’t humiliate me thisway.”
“You know me, Claudia. I would never want to publicly humiliate you, but you give me no choice when you pull shit likethis.”
“Please go with me to one of the private rooms. I can remove it there where everyone isn’tstaring.”
“I’m not doing that.” I will never go behind a closed door with her ever again. I nearly lost Emma Lia the last time thathappened.
“Please, Tristan,” shepleads.
“My loyalty belongs to Emma Lia. I won’t go anywhere with you or any other woman that could bring my fidelity intoquestion.”
Claudia’s brow contorts into a mass of lines and wrinkles. “Yourfidelity?”
“Emma Lia is mine… and I amhers.”
Claudia’s face contorts as though she’s in pain. “You arehers?”
“Yes. I belong to EmmaLia.”
Emma Lia returns from the bathroom and steps between Claudia and me like a shield. “I should have known that you would swoop in like a vulture the minute that I wasn’t by Tristan’sside.”
Claudia’s face pales when she sees the exquisite collar around Emma Lia’s neck. “No, Tristan. You didn’t collarher.”
Mon bien-aimé places her fingertips against the platinum and diamonds, but says nothing, allowing my collar to speak forher.
“Bitch!” Claudia lashes out at Emma Lia, reaching for my collar but quick as lightning, my girl brings her arm up, successfully blocking Claudia’s assault like aprizefighter.
Easton’s arms come around Claudia in a bear hug from behind, restricting her movement. “Hey… hey. That’s enough of that,Claude.”
Easton nods, cueing me to remove the collar from her neck. And Ido.
“Nooo, Tristan. Don’t do it,” Claudiayells.
Easton presses his mouth to her ear. “Hush. You’ve made enough of a scene.” He looks at me. “And now, I have no choice but to punishyou.”
Her demeanor immediately shifts, her focus now on Easton. “What are you going to do tome?”
“You’ve been a very bad girl, and I haven’t made up my mind yet. But you’re going to go to one of the private rooms and wait there on your knees until I’ve decided what I’m going to do to you. And you won’t so much as twitch while you wait for me. Do youunderstand?”
“Yes,Sir.”
He releases his hold around her. “Go now andwait.”
“Yes,Sir.”
Easton shakes his head as she walks away. “I have a plan. You may not agree with it, but I don’t feel as though she is giving either of us a choice at thispoint.”
Easton can be a brutal Dom. I don’t expect his plan to be hearts and roses. “I’m open to anything at thispoint.”
“Jacob understands that she’s having a hard time letting go of you, but he still wants her. I like him, and I think he’d be perfect for her if she’d give him a chance. That’s why I’m going to send him into that room and let him initiate a scene. See what happens. Maybe he can spark an interest in her while she’s primed and ready togo.”
Claudia is a submissive, but she’s also a true masochist. She needs pain and punishment and discipline or she goes off the rails. I don’t think that I really realized the degree until now. “Hell, that idea’s not halfbad.”
“I need her the fuck out of my house. I haven’t had a submissive in months. I’m ready to find my next one, but there’s no point in pursuing that until she’s settled into another Dom’scare.”
Every decision I made about ending my relationship with Claudia was wrong. And I’m not the only one paying the price for my mistake. “I fucked up with Claudia. I know that, and I also know that I owe you big time for taking her in and helping her get back ontrack.”
“I’m glad to have your approval on Jacob. Hopefully, this shit with Claude endstonight.”
