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tap was confident and well-aimed. He knew what he was doing—not that I’d had any doubts—and as Smurfette’s skin began to show signs of rosiness, he took a few moments to check in with her.
    After he’d gotten her reassurance, the fun started. Josh slowed down the frequency of his strokes, but made every one count, until her ass was practically glowing pink. His focus on her was absolute, yet his posture was casual, leaving no doubt that he was enjoying himself. Just imagining being the subject of that distinctive gaze got me hot.
    He rubbed away Smurfette’s pain after each set of blows, but his touch was never overtly sexual. I wondered if he was saving that for me, or if that was just the way he played in public.
    Once she was barely flinching at the crop’s impact, anaesthetised by endorphins, he set the instrument aside and checked in with her again. She was flying high by now—I could tell by the way she was lounging against the frame. I must be crazy for keeping Josh from doing this to me… I wanted to be in her position so much that I could almost taste it, but it was my own fault that I wasn’t.
    Josh held a paddle up in her line of sight, and I remembered his words a few weeks ago. Was this one of the paddles he made himself, in his garage? It was beautiful—some kind of dark wood, sleek and shiny and unyielding.
    When Smurfette nodded, he took up his position behind her, ready to bring it down. And when he let her have it, I winced in sympathy as she began to react to the pain again. She flinched and tensed and finally yelled out in pain, loud enough to be heard over the background music in the dungeon.
    He rubbed the pain away, and his touch was more tender now—not intimate, but concerned. She trembled at it—she hadn’t given her safeword, but it was clear that she was almost at her limit—and he carefully pulled her skirt back up over her hips, then untied her, limb by limb.
    The whole scene had lasted around forty minutes, and at some point Heidi had left me to watch alone. I watched Josh lead Smurfette to the recovery area, where she curled up with a bottle of water. He remained standing for a moment longer, shrugging on his shirt with a glance my way.
    With a tiny wave and a grin, I headed back through to the social area, almost running into Mel and Ben on the way. “Hey, guys. Playing a scene?”
    “ Hoping to catch the end of Josh’s, first,” Mel said. “We too late?”
    “ He put his shirt back on, and everything,” I told her, trying to keep a straight face.
    She sighed. “Damn. Guess I’m just gonna have to wait until you two go for it.”
    Ben cut in, “Any idea when that’s gonna be, by the way?”
    Mel rolled her eyes. “Tactful, honey… We were thinking of going to Spain for a couple of weeks in the summer, but we don’t wanna miss the Scene of the Century.”
    “ Like I have it scheduled on the calendar?” I shrugged. “If you’re gonna play, you better get started. Not long until closing.”
    They continued on their way, and I danced a couple of songs with Danny and Izzy, pushing thoughts of Josh away for the moment. After a while, I saw Smurfette’s blue hair out of the corner of my eye, and headed over to join her.
    “ Hey,” she said, moving over with a slight wince so I could sit down. “Enjoy the show?”
    Josh arrived with drinks for all three of us as I replied. “I’ve seen worse. Did you enjoy being the show?”
    “ Seen worse?” She pouted. “I’m offended. Josh, are you offended?”
    He regarded me steadily, the slightest curve to his lips. “Not really. But then, I could see her out of the corner of my eye while we were playing. She looked pretty impressed, to me.”
    Ooooh… touché. I hadn’t known he’d been watching. Hoping I wasn’t blushing, I told him, “I was thinking you’d look great with a tattoo on your left shoulder-blade. Maybe a dolphin or a rose…”
    There was a sharp glint of a warning in his answering smile,