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We went to the Stringer’s Ridge trailhead and ran the trails. I’ve come up with a loop that includes some or all of three trails — the Blue Loop, Hill City, and the Double J. All are smooth without too many roots and give a nice variety of steep up-and-down sections with a few gradual elevation changes. In total, it ends up being around seven miles. No way could Davy have managed the entire run when he first came to me, but we only stopped once to take in a gorgeous view of the city for a few minutes, and he mostly kept up. I had to jog in place and wait for him at the top of a couple of steep sections, but he did good.

Mac ran ahead of us and Ranger followed behind, and I’m pretty sure both of them have to slow down to hit my pace. Bugs me because I like to think I’m in top shape, but it’s good my security guards are in better shape, I suppose.

On the ride back to the Beast Castle, Davy was telling us a story from the Girls’ Night Out he’d gone on with the ol’ladies, and when he told us about Bethany dirty dancing with the pros on stage at the end of the show at The Diamond Club, I told him, “I’m going to assume Bethany’s men know about this or she wouldn’t do it, but it’s probably still bad form to tell tales about her in front of two of her men.”

“Fuck.” He took a breath and looked to the front. “I’m sorry, guys. Bethany’s cool, and I’m not into boobs, but if I was, then, well,damn.”

Ranger was driving, and he chuckled and looked in the rearview mirror. “We are well aware of what Bethany can do on a dance floor, and she has permission to dirty dance as much as she wants on those nights so long as the clothes stay on and she doesn’t have any orgasms with random strangers.”

“We eventually decided to tell her she can orgasm with the pros though,” Mac said. “We don’t always allow it, but when she’s been especially good, we do. Clothes still have to stay completely on, though.”

Davy looked at me with his brow furrowed. “I had the idea that poly groups are rare, but first Heather, and now your bodyguards? I mean, I already knew about Bethany and her men, but that’s two poly groups.”

“Kirsten’s in one,” Ranger said. “And Bud down in Atlanta. I can’t think of anyone else you might know.”

“Cam goes onGirls’ Night Out,” Mac said.

“Oh,” Davy said. “I actually knew about Cam. Cassie goes with us, too, and then their two Doms pick them up at the end of the night. I’m surprised about Bud, though. I’ve met him and Nicki, but never their other people?”

“Their third is agoraphobic,” I told him. “He rarely leaves the house. My designer, Dana, is a switch, and she has both a Dom and a sub, plus another Dom for her sub, whom she’s close friends with, but there’s no sex. A more complicated poly group. She’s married to her Dom, and her sub is married to his Dom, but they’re a whole lot more than two couples.”

“Moira goes on Girls’ Night Out sometimes, have you met her?” Ranger asked.

“I don’t think so,” Davy said. “It’s a lot of people, and I stick with Matty, which means we are mostly with the ol’ladies and their closest friends. There were three stretch limos full of people in the last one! Ours had twelve women, and I think the others were full, too.”

“Thirty-four women, so not quite,” Mac said.

At Davy’s surprised look, Ranger said, “We weren’t assigned to Bethany, to give her some space, but we acted as security.”

Davy was tired from the run, but that’s an excellent time to work out, so I pushed him through yet another workout before we finally showered and got ready for our date with Micca.

I knew what I was wearing, but what did I want to put Davy in? We’d be in disguise, and he looks like someone else when he plasters his hair back, so perhaps I’d let him meet her with his hair normal, and then put the gel on later? Yes. She should meet him with his hair looking all sexy as fuck.

Also, the super-low jeans that made his ass look mouthwatering from behind, and made you wonder all kinds of things about his cock from the front.

No, I’d be in a suit, and Davy should be in one, too.

But it was important he didn’t realize how much thought I was putting into this, lest I make him nervous with my own anxiety. These two already knew each other, so it wasn’t like they were meeting for the first time, but it would presumably be the first time Micca would look at Davy as a possible sex partner, and it was important she see the possibilities when the door first opened.

Chapter 10

Micca

I was doing laundry when my phone rang with the Drake ringtone, meaning it was likely work related. I was surprised to see Nathan, one of the two owners, was calling me, and I was more than a little alarmed when he told me, “Aaron and I are on the way to your place. Can you clear us through the gate?”

“I can make it happen. What’s up?”

“We need a face-to-face with you, preferably sooner than later. Is now not a good time?”

“No, it’s fine. It might take me five or so minutes to get through to whoever’s in the control room.”

“We’re ten minutes out.”

When we first moved in, Razor bought property just under a mile from the MC’s neighborhood. It’s on the approach road getting there, but wasn’t originally inside the gates. Over the years, the MC has bought every house except one on that road, and the gate now encompasses us. The only couple left are in their seventies and have no intention of leaving the house they’ve lived in for over fifty years. They liked the idea of being behind the gate, though, which means now I have to let the MC know when I have company coming. My car goes through, but if I’m in a Drake-owned vehicle, I have to get the control room to let me through.

Matty can contact the control room because he has the RTMC’s app on his phone, but since Drake Security has accessto my phone, I can’t have the bikers’ app on it. Not sure what’s up with that, but it means I don’t have a direct line to the control room. I texted Matty and Brain that Aaron Drake and Nathan Pierce were on their way to see me and would need to get through the gate, and McGyver called me a few minutes later. “Everything okay?”

“I assume it is. Nathan called me and didn’t sound pissed, but I don’t know why they need to see me. It’s probably something work-related though, which means I won’t be able to talk about it.”