Page 58 of Danger and Dominance (Black Fox Security Doms #1)

Cassidy

The plug in her ass shifted as she walked through the doors to the Outlands, Master David’s hand on the small of her back.

It was their first night back at the club since Don’s attack.

They knew everyone wanted to see them, but they weren’t planning on scening there.

They were going to hang out, see people, then go home, where he was going to replace the plug with his cock.

She was really looking forward to it.

Especially since his sister was arriving tomorrow, and Cassidy wasn’t sure how either she or David would feel about having kinky sex while his sister was in the same apartment.

She didn’t know if Audrey even knew David was kinky.

It wasn’t something she imagined siblings would talk about.

At Stronghold, Master Patrick’s submissive, Lexie, was also the sister of his best friend, and both Jake and Lexie made sure never to see each other naked. They played on separate nights.

With how private David was, she couldn’t see him admitting that he was kinky to his sister.

“Oh my gosh! You’re back! How are you?” Eben ran around from behind the front desk. She skidded to a halt in front of both of them, beaming widely, hands held up as she hesitated. “Can I hug you? What’s safe to touch?”

“Me, yes; him, as long as you’re careful with his left shoulder,” Cassidy opened her arms, and Eben eagerly stepped in and squeezed tightly.

“I’m so glad you’re okay.”

“Me, too.” Cassidy clung to the hug. It wasn’t like she and Eben knew each other that well, but the other woman cared. It reminded her of being at Stronghold, where everyone had come to support her without knowing her at all.

She might miss her friends there, but she was stepping into a really similar community here. One where she wouldn’t feel any guilt over Don having harassed them. Even though she knew no one at Stronghold or Marquis blamed her for his actions, she still felt the guilt.

This was a fresh start, but it was a fresh start in a place that felt a lot like home.

Finally, Eben let her go, then turned to David and gingerly hugged him, too, making sure to be careful of his shoulder.

“Okay, you two kids go have fun. There’s a lot of people waiting to see you and do this,” Eben said, grinning.

“Oh, I can only imagine,” David said with a sigh, which made both Eben and Cassidy giggle.

Eben was right, of course. They had to pause at the door, where a grinning Master Aiden was waiting to say hello to them as well. He hadn’t left his post, watching them with Eben since they had to walk by him, anyway.

After that, almost as soon as they were in the club, they were mobbed. There were some people who hung back or who didn’t hug Cassidy but just waited patiently for Master David to introduce her to them so they could welcome her. No one seemed to blame her that he’d been hurt, which was a relief.

As the crowd thinned out, she could see glimpses of the Black Fox Doms and her friends over by the bar.

They were hanging back, probably because they knew David and Cassidy would make it over to them eventually—which they did.

There was a new addition to the group this evening, and he’d brought his girlfriend, just like David had warned her.

Cassidy had met Zeus very briefly. He was incredibly intimidating, though it didn’t seem like he was trying to be; he just had that aura.

Tall, broad-shouldered, with a completely smooth head, eyes that were so dark brown they were nearly black, slightly tanned skin from the summer sun, and a full beard, he looked even more intimidating than usual in his leather pants and vest with an earring hanging from his left ear.

He had his arm around a blonde woman, whose back was currently to Cassidy so she couldn’t see her face, and the woman was talking animatedly to Claudia, Naomi, and Yasmine. That was good. Maybe if she could make a connection to the other women, everyone would be nicer to Zeus.

She knew David was wary of the other man, but if he was a spy sent by Marshall, he was a terrible choice.

It was way too obvious. But maybe he could be turned into one if everyone was mean to him and never accepted him.

Cassidy didn’t know him well enough to automatically trust him, but she wasn’t going to be outwardly skeptical, either.

As she and David approached, everyone perked up, happy to see them coming.

Yasmine looked as elegantly gorgeous as always in a navy-blue corset with black lace edging, her hair pulled back into a half-up, half-down style, and her makeup stunningly flawless.

Beside her, Naomi was dressed in a cute pink teddy that Cassidy would be willing to bet included a ruffled skirt, hidden under the table at the moment.

She’d changed her hairstyle again, and it was now in a puffy braid that wound around her head, impossible to tell where it started and where it ended, with the ends neatly tucked in.

Both of them were obviously in good moods.

Claudia was clearly feeling more suspicious, sitting back in her chair rather than forward, her arms crossed under her breasts.

Her black vinyl corset came to two high points above her breasts, dipping into a deep V between them to show off her cleavage.

Her dark hair was pulled back in a high bun, and black beads dripped down from her ears.

There was something about the ensemble that made Cassidy think of Catwoman.

Zeus’ girlfriend was wearing a slinky red dress rather than a corset, something that she would have been able to wear on a date to any restaurant before coming to the club.

Her blonde hair waved around her shoulders, curling over her upper back.

The red skirt of her dress fluttered around her thighs as both of them turned to see who everyone was looking at.

Cassidy and the blonde’s mouths dropped open at the same time.

“Cassidy?” the other woman squealed in apparent delight.

“Noelle?” Cassidy was utterly bewildered, though she didn’t have time to do much before Noelle threw herself at Cassidy and hugged her tightly.

“Oh, my goodness, it’s so good to see you! I’m so glad you’re okay. I didn’t realize you were the one everyone was talking about tonight!” Noelle kept hugging her, and Cassidy didn’t really feel like she had much of a choice but to hug her back as her mind raced.

She hadn’t thought about Noelle since she moved up here.

She hadn’t gotten to know Noelle at Stronghold, though they’d been introduced.

There’d always been some gossip around the other woman, but she’d had a group of friends at the club.

One of who she’d been the bridesmaid for before eloping with the groom.

Shouldn’t she be married?

Also, Cassidy had thought she’d gotten kicked out of the club for some reason. Maybe she’d been mistaken, though. Maybe Noelle had decided to leave because of all the drama after she’d eloped with Jeremy.

There had been a lot going on in Cassidy’s life when that was all happening, and she’d only ever gotten peripheral gossip, although she knew that Amy—the bride—had ended up moving in with Zach and Kincaid. She and Zach were good friends.

“Um, hi,” she managed to say finally. “I didn’t expect to see you here.”

“Oh, my gosh, I know. I’ve had the most awful time of it,” Noelle said, releasing Cassidy and shaking her head.

“I got married, which was the worst mistake of my life, and we’ve already gotten the marriage annulled, but I needed a fresh start, and I asked my job if they could move me to a different office, and then I found out there’s a club here and, well…

here I am.” She opened her arms wide, smiling at Cassidy, but it wasn’t entirely genuine. There was something in her eyes.

Fear, maybe? Uncertainty?

Cassidy didn’t know the full story of what had gone down at Stronghold, and she’d definitely never heard Noelle’s side of it.

Granted, marrying her friend’s fiancé was a pretty shitty thing to do, but it was even shittier of the fiancé.

And it sounded like things hadn’t worked out after all, so maybe Noelle had learned her lesson.

Plus, if she was Zeus’ girlfriend and Cassidy wanted David to be nicer to Zeus…

She smiled back at her.

“It’s good to see you again,” she said, even though that was an exaggeration.

It wasn’t like she and Noelle had ever interacted, and she wasn’t sure how she felt about the other woman; on the other hand, she didn’t have anything to base her opinion on other than hearsay, which didn’t seem fair.

The brief statement seemed to be all Noelle had hoped for because that hint of unease disappeared entirely, and Noelle beamed at her.

“I had no idea you would be here,” Noelle said. “When did you move up here?”

“Oh, um, a few weeks ago… it feels like a lot longer.” A lot longer. But she wasn’t going to get into all of that right now if Noelle didn’t know anything about it.

Cassidy’s presence and greeting seemed to make both Yasmine and Naomi feel a little more comfortable with the woman, and even Claudia started to thaw. She wasn’t sure how she felt about that, but Noelle seemed perfectly nice. Maybe she had learned her lesson.

Any man who was willing to cheat on his fiancé, then marry another woman on their wedding day must be a terrible person.

Cassidy herself was proof of how a woman could get involved with an awful man without realizing it.

It seemed Noelle had gotten herself out of it, too, though.

Now, she was with Zeus, and she was exerting herself to ingratiate herself with everyone and to make things easier for him, as though she could sense he wasn’t entirely welcome, and she wanted to change that for him.

So, they had a goal in common, too.

As things went, it was a pretty enjoyable evening, though the plug in her bottom meant it wasn’t an entirely comfortable one.

David

Being back at the Outlands made David feel more settled. Being there with Cassidy made him feel like everything about his life was coming together.

Zeus was a possible complication, but everyone slowly relaxed around him throughout the evening.

The presence of his girlfriend helped. No one on the team was enough of a dick to want to make a man look bad in front of his date.

There was something about her that was unsettling Cassidy, though.

She hid it well, but David had gotten to know her well enough at this point that he could tell.

He waited until they were back in the car to ask.

He'd been hoping for sexier talk before they got home, but he didn’t think he was going to be able to move to sexy discussion when he was wondering what was going on with his new teammate’s girlfriend.

“So… Noelle. You knew her back in Maryland?”

Cassidy nodded, looking out the window, which was another indication that something about Noelle was bothering her. It was late and dark, so there wasn’t much to see other than streetlamps and businesses that had closed up for the night.

“Did you not like her or something?” he asked.

That hadn’t seemed to be the case, but one thing he’d learned about Cassidy was that she would rather make herself uncomfortable than make anyone else uncomfortable.

And he knew she wanted him to be nicer to Zeus, so she would definitely bend over backward to make him comfortable over herself.

“I didn’t really know her. I just knew of her and…

well… a lot of what I knew wasn’t that great.

But it was all second-hand and from people who didn’t have a lot of reason to like her.

I also don’t know many details because, well…

” She hunched her shoulders. “I kind of had a lot going on at the time. By the time things were going on with her, Don had started showing up around me and around the club, so I’d basically stopped going to Stronghold and Marquis.

I don’t really know exactly what happened, but I could probably ask and find out. ”

It didn’t sound like she was too keen on doing that, though.

“Some people just don’t get along, I guess,” he said with a shrug. That was just a fact of life, and not everyone had to get along.

“I do know that she was sleeping with one of her friends fiancé, and that’s who she ended up marrying… on the day that he was supposed to marry her friend,” Cassidy said. “They eloped to Vegas.”

David blinked.

“Well, shit.”

“Pretty much. So, yeah, I can understand why some people wouldn’t like her, but…

he’s just as much, if not more, to blame.

And she got the marriage annulled. Maybe she’s just a woman who made some bad choices.

” Cassidy was looking out the window so determinedly, it was obvious she wasn’t just thinking of Noelle.

Reaching over, David put his hand on her thigh and squeezed. She immediately put her hand over his, curling her fingers around the edges of his palm, and he could feel her relax under his touch.

“You don’t have to ask anyone what happened with her if you don’t want to,” he said.

“There’s no pressing reason to. People make bad choices all the time, and she did say she was here for a fresh start.

It wouldn’t be fair to bring all the baggage from other people to her here if she’s trying to create a new life for herself. ”

Letting out a long sigh, Cassidy leaned back in her seat and looked over at him. He glanced back at her, happy to see that she was smiling, and he gave her leg another little squeeze.

Good, they’d gotten what was bothering her out of the way.

“Are you having a good night?” he asked. “It wasn’t too overwhelming with everyone wanting to welcome you back?”

“I did,” she said immediately, then glanced at him. Her fingers stroked along his. “It wasn’t too bad for you with all the hugging? No pain?”

“Nope, everyone was very careful.” He chuckled. “Don’t worry, little spark, my arm is just fine, and when we get home, I’m going to make your night even better.”

He couldn’t wait to bury himself in her sweet little ass and claim the final part of her. Neither could she, by the way she started squirming in her seat.