Waking Kiss

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Author: Annabel Joseph
didn’t have to pretend to be okay with all the hedonism she’d just seen. I’d exposed her—nonconsensually—to some pretty hardcore shit. “Go sit on the couch,” I said when we reached the first floor. “I’ll be right back.”
    I stormed down the stairs and did something I never allowed anyone else to do at my place. I interrupted a scene in progress. I grabbed Ruby from behind just before he drew back to throw a whip stroke.
    “You fucking prick,” I said, taking his feet from under him and pinning him to the floor. “Why’d you invite her here?”
    His play partner grinned over her shoulder, her back a canvas of red-pink whip bites. Ruby grinned too, like this was some kind of joke. “I did it for fun,” he said. “She was standing there in the hall and I brought her. What, she’s not kinky?” He tried to throw me off but I wasn’t having it.
    “I thought you knew her,” I said. “I thought she was a friend of yours, that she was in the lifestyle.”
    “Oops. No. I never see her before tonight.” He took in my embarrassment, my disappointment in one perceptive glance. “You like her, huh? I hate to tell you, she’s a shitty dancer.”
    I wanted to punch the snark right out of him but I’d tried it before and it never worked. I let him go instead and apologized to his partner for interrupting. My energy would be better spent debriefing Ashleigh, if she hadn’t already fled my place and called the cops. But no, she was sitting on the couch like I’d told her. Like a good sub…only she wasn’t a sub.
    I got a fresh Coke for her on the way over. She shifted to make room for me.
    “Here,” I said, thrusting it into her hands like a peace offering. I’m sorry, Ashleigh. Of all people, I know what’s seen can’t be unseen.
    “So…” I leaned forward to catch her gaze. “I gather you ended up here by mistake.”
    “I— Well—” She shrugged. “Yes.”
    “When I asked you about the lifestyle you thought I was talking about…?”
    “Ballet.”
    “And when I mentioned a play room, you thought…”
    “Pool tables, maybe. Pacman.” She rubbed her forehead. “I’m disappointed about the Pacman.”
    And I’m disappointed that I won’t get to play with you tonight.
    I didn’t dare tell her that. She might decide to give it a go, and there was nothing worse than breaking in a vanilla girl. Well, I assumed there wasn’t. I hadn’t been with a vanilla girl in…well…ever. I clicked into concerned-friend mode. “I’m sorry. I wouldn’t have taken you down there if I’d known you weren’t into the lifestyle. Honestly, I thought you were a sub. I mean absolutely no offense by that.”
    “Uh…” She put down her Coke and rubbed her forehead again. “I’m not even sure what lifestyle you’re talking about. Or why I might be offended. What’s a sub?”
    Sigh. “A sub is someone who submits. A submissive likes to surrender and let another person take over. There’s, you know…” I paused, spreading my fingers. “A dominant counterpart. Who does things to the sub.”
    “Like Rubio?”
    “Yes, like Rubio, but Ruby’s a top, not a dominant.”
    “Oh, I see,” she said, even though I could tell she didn’t see at all. How to condense everything down into understandable sound bites?
    “See, tops are mostly into the sensation and pleasure of it. They play casually, for fun. Dominants are more serious about roles and rules, and usually more into the power exchange.”
    “Power exchange?” she asked, wrinkling her nose.
    “It’s complicated to explain.” And pointless, at the end of it. I watched her luscious, non-kinky lips while she took a drink. What a waste of those lips. I frowned and scratched the back of my neck. “I’m afraid our mutual friend may have brought you here to be cruel.”
    She looked around and I wondered what she was thinking. There was almost no one left in the room now. A few people idled near the top of the stairs. From below, I heard
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