“Come meet my family today.”
“What?!” He was trying to have a conversation with menow?
“My mom is in town and she’s coming over with my brothers later. Come meet them.”
“You bastard. That’s not part of our agreement.”
“Neither is this.” He bent his fingers slightly and found my G-spot, triggering a spectacular orgasm. When I could form words again, I panted raggedly, “Why do you want me to meet your family? That makes no sense.”
“I think you’d like them. And I need to give my mom a heads-up about you being a dominatrix. She avoids gossip because she likes to pretend we’re normal and hear things straight from me, but it’s inevitable it’ll get back to her eventually. I should’ve thought about it before.”
I got off the arm of the couch and stood to face him, trying not to ogle his nakedness and failing miserably.
“So talk to her about it. Why do you want me to be there?”
“So she can see how awesome you are?”
“As opposed to thinking you’ve lowered yourself with a trashy whore?”
“Whoa there. Somebody is projecting.” He took me by the shoulders and kissed me on the forehead in a completely perplexing move. “I think you’d like her. That’s all. She’s a force of nature. Like you.
I blamed the afterglow of what he’d just done, but I sighed and said, “Okay. But you’ll owe me.”
He looked down significantly at the proof he hadn’t yet been satisfied.
“Oh, I’m aware of the score there. But I have plans to even that out.” I slid to my knees breathless at the sight of him. It didn’t seem fair that one human could be this genetically blessed, but he was magnificent…everywhere. I stroked him a few times, reveling in the power I had to make his muscles tense and his breath catch with only a few movements of my hand. In no time at all, I’d brought us back to even.
I’d never been in a relationship with someone who’d taken me home to meet their family. What the hell had I just agreed to?
29
Alex
“I’m going to throw some spare clothes and stuff in a bag,” Elena told me as we got ready to leave for my place.
“Inviting yourself for a sleepover?” I asked, trying to hide how pleased I was.
When Zane had suggested inviting her over to meet the family, I’d been so uncertain of where we stood. Since then, we’d pretty much demolished the professional boundaries and entered into territory that went beyond a client relationship. But I still didn't know if Elena just saw us as friends-with-benefits while we were fake dating or whether she was also starting to wonder what it would be like if we didn’t end things when we were supposed to. I’d been surprised she agreed to come, but didn't want to read too much into it.
“I most certainly am inviting myself for a sleepover," she said. “I’m charging a premium for having to play the girlfriend routine outside the bounds of our contract. I’ll accept my bonus in orgasms. It might take you days.”
“Days, huh?” I leaned down and kissed her neck, making her squirm. “Just how many are you charging me for meeting the fam?”
“I haven’t decided yet. I’ll keep a tab and let you know.” She turned to kiss me deeply but briefly, then murmured, “Now fuck off and go wait in the living room or we’ll never get out of here.”
“So who’s goingto be there?” Elena asked on the way over.
“Rami.” We both smiled, remembering the last time we’d seen him. “Both of my younger brothers, and my mom.”
“You said your dad passed a while ago. Is your mom still single?”
I nodded. “They were married for thirty-five years and she says she'll never love anyone like that again. That’s part of the reason we want my her to move out here. She’s all alone in that house now that my youngest brother is leaving for school.”
“I’m sorry you lost your dad. That must’ve been tough on all of you, but especially her. Do your brothers act too? I suppose I could google all of this instead of grilling you if you want.”
I laughed. “Please don’t. It’s nice to pretend every detail of my life isn’t online for once. My middle brother is in a band and the youngest is still figuring it all out. There’s a bigger age gap between the two of them, so he’s still in college.”
“And Rami fits in this picture how?”
