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works if I can trust you. And I don’t think I can now. I’m not here to be your rage fuck when you’ve had a bad day.”
    “I know. I...can we talk when you get out of the shower? The three of us?” The hope and bared fear in his face, the way he almost hugged himself as he waited for her answer cracked through the wall she was trying to erect against him.
    “Okay.” She grabbed conditioner off the shelf and put a generous amount on her hair. “All three of us.”
    “We’ll be in the kitchen. I’ll make something to eat.”
    The door snicked shut, but she heard him over the water.
    “I love you Ronnie.”
    ***
    T he hard wood was cold and unforgiving under the soles of Gavin’s feet. He descended the stairs like a man about to be thrown off a speeding train into an oubliette.
    Without a doubt, he knew he’d single handedly fucked up his relationship...their relationship...with Ronnie.
    Luis lounged in a chair at the table, his feet propped up on the one opposite him, pretending to read the paper. An untouched cup of coffee rested near his elbow. He’d gone to the club for a short time and handed off the responsibility for the night to Nate, his oldest and most trusted monitor. After checking on Ronnie, he’d come into the kitchen and sat waiting for her to wake up.
    Gavin had a feeling that Luis was gearing up for a monumental lecture about how bad he’d fucked up.
    I hate this crap. Waiting on him to kick the shit outta me.
    “Let’s hear it. Lay it out for me.” He yanked one of the free chairs out from the table and plopped down into it. “I know I fucked up royally.”
    “More than just that. You abused her. That is not the way a Dom behaves.” Luis fixed a dark eyed furious glare on him and he wanted to crawl under a rock and die. “She accepted what you gave her, because she has a soft heart and she loves you. But I am deeply concerned about you. And her. Anyone else did that...I’d beat their face in.”
    “I know.”
    “You both must be supervised from now on. You cannot have sex alone. I won’t allow it, Gavin.” A bang resounded through the room and Gavin jerked in his chair. Luis had slammed his palm down on the table. “You’re going to therapy. You’re changing your phone number. And you will agree with whatever terms I set for your play with Ronnie.” Luis dropped his voice an octave. “I can’t trust you alone with her. I love you both too much to let you hurt her, or yourself.”
    Years of memory stretched between them. Only Luis knew the secrets he carried, of the abuse he’d suffered at his mother’s hands. At the hands of her johns.
    “How’d you know my mother called?” They hadn’t spoken about the incident, Luis had been largely silent since he’d come downstairs and discovered his best friend sitting at the table drinking coffee.
    “Gavin. We’ve been friends for too many years to ask me such an inane question.”
    Ronnie padded into the room, her wet hair slicked back from her forehead, her breasts jiggling beneath the shirt he’d given her. She looked beautiful, all fresh and rosy from her shower.
    He offered her a smile he knew looked sickly and weak. She cocked her head to one side and smiled back, stopping a few feet away.
    Luis got to his feet and offered her a chair.
    “No thanks. I think I should be going.”
    “No. You will sit. We need to talk first.” The Dom in Luis came to the forefront and she wilted a little under his stare, sinking to perch on the edge of the chair. She made a small pain sound in the back of her throat. “Gavin, go and get Ronnie some ibuprofen.”
    Even he couldn’t withstand the force of Luis’s personality when his friend wanted to turn up the part of himself that demanded control and to protect the more submissive people around them.
    When he returned with a glass of water and the pill bottle, Luis had Ronnie’s slender hands clasped in his and was bent at the waist toward her, talking in low tones. Luis raised her