Truth or Dare; The Dominator II (31 page)

“Thanks. Ditto.”

She gave me a kiss on the cheek. I saw her to the front door and then I went back out and had a cigarette, astonished. The authoritative tone Lisa had taken and telling me she was a switch, meaning she could be domme or sub was a mind fuck for me.  But it was obviously my good fortune because Lisa’s insight could maybe help me get Angel better.

I went back into the bedroom. Angel was asleep. I glanced at the clock and saw we didn’t have to be to Luc & Ed’s for dinner for hours. That whole event was fucking exhausting. How did I even get hard in the middle of that? How the fuck could I be her Master, her actual Master? Was is possible to do that, be that to her and slowly wean her off that behavior? How long would it take? And at the end what would I be left with? I had to try. I’d get her better, wean her off that slave mindset, and maybe it’d mean I could also get some of the information I needed, too.

I shook her gently, “Baby?”

“Yes, Dare?” she answered sleepily.

“Tell me right now who Donavan Frost is. Do not freak out.”

“Dare, please, I…”

“Tell me. Right the fuck now. Don’t ‘Dare, please’ me. From now on when I ask you questions I need answers. I know you’re having trouble but that’s how it’s gotta be. I’ll be as gentle as I can, baby, but tell me. Now. Right now.”

She didn’t hesitate, “I was his full-time personal slave for my first seven months at Kruna.”

“Seven months?”

“Yes.”

“In seven months you were only with him?”

“It wasn’t always just him but he was always there, always making me---” she stopped.

“Okay, I’ll be back.”

I phoned Lisa from the living room.

“She was his personal full-time slave for her first seven months at Kruna.”

“Oh my fucking god.”

“Yeah.” I put my palm on my forehead and squeezed my eyes shut tight. Then I let out a long sigh. “Leese, I need you to be there tonight for this dinner so we can have another chat, so you can give me some more tips.”

“Maybe she needs to not see me again so soon. After this afternoon…”

“No. Be there. She needs to start healing. She starts tonight.”

“Dare, that’s really really bad.”

“Yeah.”

Angel

He climbed back in bed a few minutes later and held me close.

“Okay, here’s the thing.”

I braced.

“We’re gonna work on fixing you. I want you. I want us. I want you better. I told you I am in this, all in, but I’m telling you now, it’s for the long haul. You got that?”

“Yes.” Oh god. Long haul? My heart swelled.

“We need to get you better so we need to turn the clock back and get you in a different mindset. Right now you forget about Donovan Frost and everything else you and Lisa talked about today. We’re taking an hour and a half to nap and then we’re getting up, we’re getting a shower and going to my sister’s for dinner. No freak outs tonight. You be my perfect Angel and we’ll have a good night, okay? No freak outs. No anxiety. You’re my perfect Angel. We’ll have fun. You won’t feel embarrassed or anything when you see Lisa, and we’re gonna just chill out, have some good food, and some laughs. Okay? Then we’ll come home and if you pull all that off… I’ll make you come
real
hard, baby. Alright?”

Whoa. What?

“If tonight doesn’t go good, if you aren’t a perfect Angel, maybe we’ll just go to sleep and you won’t get to come. How about that? Will having that in your head help you get through the rest of today?”

Wow. Oh my god. I felt a gush in my panties.

“Master?”

“Yeah?”

“Master.” I sighed and nuzzled into him. I felt this overwhelming peace surround me.

“Yeah.” He pulled me closer and kissed my temple, “We get to play the master and slave game for a bit to see how that goes, baby. We do this with you knowing that I won’t ever really hurt you. You mean something to me. You mean a fuck of a lot to me already. What I think we can have, if we get through all this shit, which we can and which we will, it means everything to me. But Lisa and I talked and she gave me the lowdown how she acclimated after Kruna and we’re gonna give her method a try. Do you trust me with this power? Is this okay with you?”

“100%. I’m all in, too.” My voice was laced with emotion.

“Good. I don’t know yet that it’s okay with me, Angelbaby, but I’ll try. For you. For now, nap. Then we wake up, get a shower, and maybe you straighten your hair for tonight. Okay?”

“Good idea, Dare.” That was a good call. He was intuitive.

“Sleep, baby. When we get up you’ll be my girl, my good girl, and we’ll go out and have fun. Okay?”

I nodded.

He pulled me closer and I closed my eyes and took a nap. It was a really really good nap.

Tia

It was weird being back. It was weird enough being back on home soil but even weirder was being in Tom Ferrano’s house, the Tudor style mansion that was where, on my high school graduation day, I found out my Dad sold me to Tom Ferrano and where I found out that I was to be presented to Tommy as potential marriage material. It had only been a few months since that day but it sort of felt like a lifetime ago. It was also the place where Tom kissed me in front of his whole family and then kidnapped me from the driveway. I shuddered in memory of all of that.

It’d been tense with Tommy and me for the past few days. I felt really stupid for putting us in danger because of connecting my Facebook account with a stupid game in order to get to the next level of the game. I didn’t realize how that small move alerted people who were watching for me to exactly where we were. He yelled for a little while after my phone call with Mia but in the end he said coming back and dealing with shit at home would be good for both of us. It wasn’t easy to keep my distance from him when we were under the same roof with nowhere else to go, especially considering he didn’t let me leave the place without him.

The night of the phone call to Mia was the first night in a long time that we hadn’t had sex. But in the morning when I woke up I had my arms wrapped around him, my head on his shoulder, and my leg draped over his thigh. I could feel that he was hard and so I woke him up with my mouth. I made him come and then leaned up, kissed his owl tattoo (like I always did every single morning when I woke up where he was still in bed with me), rolled away from him to get out of bed and he caught my wrist and pulled me back and with a tender look on his face he used his hand to make me come, not letting me look away, holding my eyes with his the whole time.

That day was quiet, with him in his shop and me in the house getting ready to pack for home and as I went through the motions of feeding the houseplants, clearing out the fridge of whatever might spoil in the next few weeks, and getting things done I thought about what I’d say to the girls. I had to say enough to get them to back off without revealing too much. Tommy didn’t ever want me talking about him to anyone. His rule #2 was to not discuss him with anyone. But he’d have to bend enough to let me get the people that cared about me to chill out.

I felt bad that they’d worried all that time and went on a campaign to rescue me. I felt more than bad about that. I wished I could rewind things so that they didn’t have to worry about me like that. I was so conflicted between feeling selfish for taking off like that but after everything that’d happened I had just hoped the note I’d sent Rose and Cal would be enough and took it for granted that they’d handle things with my friends. I never should’ve assumed that Mia and Beth would sit back and take Rose’s word for everything. Ruby would. Mia and Beth? Nope, as evidenced by the fact that we now had to fly home and that my totally awesome but sassy and tenacious friend Mia had demanded that my husband produce me by a certain deadline.

Somewhere down the road, when all this was behind us, I might look back and laugh that my badass Dominator got bossed around by one of my besties.  I wasn’t ready for laughter yet, though. He certainly wasn’t.

Dex and Nino’s twin brother Tino (who was identical to Nino but not bald, not bearded, and not the biker type, more the burly Men-in-Black suit / goon type) had picked us up at the airport with Tommy’s BMW convertible and then they left together and followed us back. Tommy and I drove to the house and got settled in a guest room that Sarah had directed us to. Tino and Dex were on duty outside. Tommy had said that they’d hired a few guys back from before plus were using a few of Zack’s guys because security would be important for now, while everything got analyzed for risk mitigation.

It seemed that no one was home but Sarah, who lived here with Tess, her boys, & Lisa. She’d greeted us enthusiastically, grilling me to ask how soon we were gonna have babies. While she was doing that Tommy kissed me goodbye and he left me there with her in the kitchen while he went to meet Dario at the office. It was the first time I was without Tommy other than my brief stint at the fruit market since before we left, the day he’d gotten my name tattooed on his chest.

I was pleased about getting a minute apart from him but I wasn’t pleased about being left for an inquisition. Sarah and I hung out drinking sugarless coffee, which she was very proud to gloat about, the fact that she’d gotten me off my 3-sugar coffee habit, and we chatted for a while until I went upstairs to get unpacked and get a shower so I could get ready to go to Luc & Eddy’s for dinner. Bianca and Nino, Dare and Angel, Lisa, Tessa, and Sarah were all coming, too. 

As I passed the master bedroom I heard noise so I knocked. I guess Sarah and I hadn’t been here alone after all.

“Lisa?”

She opened the door. Her eyes were bloodshot.

“Oh! You’re here. Sorry I didn’t greet you. Welcome back.”

“What’s the matter!?”

She waved her soggy Kleenex, “I’m just having a moment. I’m gonna skip the dinner thing. Sorry.”

“Oh no! It’ll be fun to have everyone together. You should come.”

“I’m gonna stay in, honest, Tia. It’s not a good day for me today. I’ve had some stuff to deal with and…” she hiccupped and then tried to pull herself together.

I reached for and then squeezed her hand, “I know. Tommy told me. And no worries. I’ll just tell everyone you’re a little under the weather. Blame it on morning sickness. Do you need anything?”

Her chin trembled and she shook her head.

“I won’t tell anyone, don’t worry. You can talk to me if you ever need to.”

“I need to talk to Tess and Luc eventually but Dare wants me to wait. God, what’ll they think of me?”

I nodded, “They’ll be shocked at first, it’ll rock their world. But they love you. I think after the shock wears off you guys’ll work it out. You can talk to me any time, okay? Don’t be afraid to reach out to talk to me. It’s not good to hold it all in.”

“I talked to Dare’s Angel today and I messed up. He asked me to help her and I went over there and started making it about me and then I upset her and she had a panic attack. It was fucked up.”

“I’m so sorry.”

“Yeah. I feel awful. I think holding all my stuff in the last two years made it easy but now it doesn’t feel so easy anymore.”

“You are allowed to feel upset, Lisa. Just because you’ve had more time go by doesn’t make what you went through less than what she’s going through. And you’re dealing with the loss of your husband. I’m sure she probably understands.”

She nodded.

“Do you want something to drink or eat? I can make something for you before I get my shower?”

“No, Tia. You’ve gotta be tired from all that traveling. And I’m okay. I ate a huge lunch a few hours ago with Angel.”

“What’s she like?”

“She’s gorgeous. She’s nice. She’s broken. Understandably. But Dare is head over heels. It’s good to see. I think he can help her heal.”

I smiled, “I’m happy for him.”

“They have a long road ahead of them.”

“I bet they do.”

“How’s your and Tommy’s road? Things okay? You take your own advice and talk it out if you need to, too, babes. Okay?”

I waved my hand, “It’s not exactly okay but it will be. For better or for worse, you know.”

She nodded, “Till death do us part.” She choked on a sob.

I hugged her. I felt so bad for her. She was so young and beautiful both inside and out and she’d been through so much in her life so far.

“I’m gonna go lie down,” she finally pulled away.

“I’ll check on you when we get back.”

“Don’t. You guys’ll be exhausted by then, especially with how full you’ll be. Ed really knows how to feed people.”

“That, he does.”

“See you at breakfast.”

“Okay, Lisa. Feel better.”

She nodded.

I went to grab a shower and unpack what we’d brought. The rest of our things were here, the things we hadn’t gotten rid of or brought with us, our clothes were in the closet and Sarah had stocked the bathroom with toiletries for us. Tommy’s cars were here, my personal things. It was nice to be close to those things but it felt weird.

Tonight we were doing this dinner thing and tomorrow I was going to be calling on Mia and the gang at the Crenshaws. She said Tommy and I were expected for dinner at six o’clock.  I’d talked to her before we’d left for the airport and she sounded skeptical but yet excited at the idea of my coming to see her. I was both looking forward to and dreading that at the same time.

Dare

We got to Ed & Luc’s and Lisa hadn’t shown up. I was asking about her when Tia embraced me at the front door and I introduced Angel to her.  Two seconds into that introduction Luc and Tess grabbed Angel and brought her to the family room and Tia hung back and told me Lisa wasn’t feeling good but when I asked if she looked like she’d been crying Tia nodded with concern etched on her face.

I texted Lisa.

“You need anything? You ok?”

She answered right away.

“I’m fine. Sorry to bail on you tonight but it was a bit much. I’m okay, though. Just wanna have a quiet night alone. I’m gonna eat some ice cream and watch a comedy.”

“Ok. You need anything, you tell me. Ok? You sure you’re ok?”

“Yes. Totally fine. Have a good night.”

I went into the family room and Angel was sitting on the sofa getting passed a crying baby Nicky. He settled instantly. Serena and Katrina were both playing with her hair.

She smiled at me. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. She was gorgeous all the time but right now, a baby in her arms and toddlers all over her? Fuck.

Tommy clapped me on the shoulder and jerked his chin toward the other room for us to step out and talk.

Angel

Almost as soon as I was in the door Luc gave me her fussing infant son so she could check dinner and the gorgeous chubby baby boy stopped fussing instantly and was all gummy smiles and cooing. Her two girls were all over me, too. Kids flock to me like flies to horse poop; it’s always been that way.

The place was a bit of a madhouse. Luc and Tessa and Eddy and Sarah in the kitchen bickering. Not really fighting but arguing over who gets to do what, who does what better, the right way to grate the parmesan, the right way to slice the bread.

Tessa’s boys were on the floor like total angels doing a large wooden alphabet puzzle together and Luc’s girls were all over me talking a mile a minute.

Dare came in from talking to Tommy’s wife Tia by the front door (Tia is a knockout but she has a sweet demeanor about her. She puts me at ease completely, despite the fact that I can tell she knows the truth about me. It’s obvious in the way she smiled at me. But it’s like she’s not judging me. And I know that she can kind of relate to my and Dare’s unusual situation in a way.) And then Dare looked at me with the baby in my arms and got this sexy and intense expression. Wow… if a look could get you pregnant I’d be pregnant with quintuplets right now. Boom! Pregnant. I’ve got goosebumps all over me.

And Dare’s brother Tommy is there. He said Hi to me and kissed my cheek when we first got in. He is really tall, dark, and looks a bit like Dare in the facial features but has light brown eyes and light brown hair. After Dare and Tia came into the room Tommy pulled Tia into his lap on the sofa and started whispering quietly to her, making her smile and blush. By the way he’s touching her and talking to her, I’m getting a little bit damp in the panties.

Dare’s brother is hot. Like hot hot hot. Oh my. I can tell by just looking at him and seeing how he and his wife act toward one another that he’s 100% Dom. Phew. Is it hot in here?

He looks at her the way James Deen looks at the women he’s fucking in his porn movies.
Such
intensity. James Deen isn’t all that much to look at, pretty average really, but the way he fucks? Holy moly. I bet Tommy fucks like that. Okay, I need to stop thinking about Dare’s brother and his wife fucking. I shifted in my seat.

Another couple came in. He is a mountain of a man, a bald biker type with a reddish beard and she’s a tall brunette with a killer body and a great sense of style.  They’re introduced to me as Nino and Bianca. Bianca and Tia embraced and then I stood, still holding the baby, shook hands with Bianca, and then her husband kissed me on the forehead and gave Dare a high five, glancing at me with approval. Bianca rolled her eyes but smiled good-naturedly. They have a little boy, maybe in first or second grade. He smiled at me, gave me a hug around the legs, told me his name was Joey, and then he dashed to the kids playing on the floor. Luc’s girls rushed to him, fawning over him.

Then Eddy called out “Dinner is served”, from the kitchen and we made our way to a big eat-in kitchen with a huge table for the adults and a small table set up for the kids.

It’s a big and open-plan new house and it’s a not just a house, it’s a home. There are kindergarten paintings on the refrigerator and in frames hanging on the walls, there is a colorful kids’ table with the two girls and the three boys and the baby was put into a swing. We all sat down and Eddy said grace over the meal. The meal ensued with laughing and joking and shenanigans, and there was almost a food fight between Luc and Tessa who giggled uncontrollably about something I missed with Sarah holding Tessa back from dumping a dish of parmesan cheese all over Luc.