I decided right then and there that I would let him do all of the talking. This was a completely new playground for me.
“Drink?” Adam asked.
I nodded.
We wandered to the bar.
Adam leaned against the polished wood, looking like he was immersed in his natural habitat. Everything about him exuded a quiet confidence.
Big Dick Energy for sure.
I beheld him for a moment there, still unable to completely believe that he was mine. He was in a deep red fitted button-down that hugged his muscular torso just right — I’d bought that shirt for him. His legs were in black jeans that bunched ever so slightly near his boots, which I’d also picked out for him.
And his face in this low light couldn’t have been more handsome to me. He looked like the most handsome guy in the world to me under any light, I had to admit, but there was something about tonight that made him downright irresistible.
“You checking me out?” he asked me with a smug smile.
“You know it, daddy,” I said, snaking my hand under the bar to squeeze his ass.
Adam grinned and shifted his weight onto his other leg.
While he ordered me a sweet drink along with his Old Fashioned, I took another look at the crowd and felt the thrill of excitement curl through me.
How was I supposed to even talk to strangers about this kind of thing? What were we supposed to do here?
“Hey, Luke,” said a familiar voice to my right.
I nearly jumped out of my skin and turned to see Lily standing there, her stark white hair almost glowing among all the black.
My eyes immediately combed down her body and lingered on her neck. A thin collar was wrapped around it, meeting in the center of her neck around a shining silver heart.
“What, you’ve never seen one of these before?” Lily asked with a smirk, following my gaze.
“It means she belongs to me,” said a woman to Lily’s right.
She was tall; her hair styled into a platinum blonde high-fade haircut, the long parts of which fell just over her eyes, and was drop-dead gorgeous. She was beautiful in an androgynous, otherworldly way. Like the way she was attractive was beyond what could be possessed by men or women.
“This is Victoria,” Lily said with a loving gaze.
I extended my hand. “Hi Tori—”
“No. Victoria.”
I was taken aback as her hard gaze landed on me. That gaze was just like Adam’s when I was being a disrespectful little Bossy Bottom Boy. “S-sorry, I didn’t—”
Victoria’s face cracked into a wide grin, revealing sparkling white teeth. “I’m just messing with you!”
Lily grinned at me as well, and for a moment, I was stunned by how freaking good they looked together.
I’d lived enough life to know that sometimes, even if you were a stranger, you just got the feeling that two people were soulmates.
I wondered if anyone had ever thought of me and Adam like that…
“Why don’t you have a collar?” Lily asked. “I thought you said you were a sub.”
“Me and my partner don’t do the whole collar thing… though, I’m kind of curious about it,” I admitted.
It felt like even though I’d only known Lily for a few days, I could trust her with that information somehow. A part of me knew that I was desperately trying to accelerate our friendship by revealing that to her, but hell, she seemed like she could be trusted.
“That’s cool. Not everyone does collars; I’m just giving you a hard time,” Lily said. Then she leaned in close and whispered, “At events like these, good-looking subs like you will be singled out by the Doms. They’ll try to chat you up.”
“But I already have a Dom,” I said.
As soon as the words left my lips, a large shadow appeared behind me.
Adam pressed his chest against my back, then reached around and handed me a bright orange drink.
“Thanks, babe,” I said, tilting my head back.
He leaned down to plant his lips on mine, kissing me like Spiderman.
“Wow, you are officially too cute for this,” Lily said.
“You jelly?” I taunted.
“Not at all. It’s refreshing, that’s all. There’s a lot of prowling that goes around in here,” Lily said with a flick of her platinum hair. “I mean, most of the time it’s pretty low-key. But there are always Doms looking for subs.”
Because my back was to Adam’s chest, I noticed him shift his weight.
He was on high-alert mode.
I scanned the crowd, trying to figure out what he was looking at, but it was impossible.
“I’m going to head to the bathroom, Luke. Hold my drink.”
“Yes, sir,” I said, wrapping my fingers around his amber glass.
Adam’s eyes were hard and dark like a predator’s as he scanned the crowd on his way to the bathroom.
“What’s up with him?” Lily asked.
I sighed. “Adam's just protective of me; that’s all.”
I jingled the ice cube in the glass. “So… I want to know more, I’m pretty new to the scene, but I don’t know what to ask.”
Lily and Victoria exchanged a glance.
“Oh my, where to begin…” Victoria started, running her fingers through her white hair. “Actually, I’ll leave you to it. I’m not a sub, and I don’t want my presence to color Lily’s responses.”
I was secretly thankful that Victoria was leaving me with Lily. It was hard enough to open up to one new friend about this, let alone two. And Victoria, like Adam, carried this overwhelming aura of control with her. It was as though with a single look, she’d be able to make anyone in this room bow to her.
She was a leader: Magnetic, but a little bit scary.
I bet she made a great Dom.
“Sure thing,” Lily said, brushing her lips against her partner’s.
“I’m going to chat with Fenwick about the chandelier.”
I returned my eyes to Lily’s full of questions.
Lily looked me straight in the eye and said, “It’s not a regular chandelier.”
I was curious, but I was too nervous to ask her any more questions about it. So instead, I stammered about her collar.
“Can you tell me more about… about
