Friends with Benefits (Club Risqué Book 5)

Chapter 20

She was going to do it. She was going to honour the contract.

The following day, Trinity sat in her office, closed her eyes and sighed at the inevitability. Whether it was right or wrong, she couldn”t quite decide, but she was curious.

She was curious about the kind of Dom that Christian was. It was a side of his character that she had never been privy to in the past. And, when all was said and done, she relished the chance to give their reality a new emphasis and not keep thinking back on the heartbreak of the past whenever she thought about him.

Or, more accurately, when she tried to avoid thinking about him.

This temporary contract would give her the opportunity to do that. This time, their time together would be finite, so there would be no possibility of any unrealistic expectations. Everything would have an end date, which she could accept and prepare for.

They were well matched as far as limits and specific interests were concerned. Both of them liked a little bit of everything, and neither of them was particularly extreme in their lifestyle pursuits.

And as far as accompanying him to functions, well, escort was a role she had a lot of experience playing and was more than comfortable with. Despite happening in different parts of the country, these things were pretty much all the same. The venue might change and there may be a few new faces, but for the most part, it was likely to be the same players as usual and it was likely that Trinity knew quite a few of them.

It gave her a slight pause to realise that they would probably remember her as Tara, but she”d cross that bridge when she came to it.

She wasn”t Tara; she never really had been. That girl had just been a figment of Christian”s imagination, a perfect persona to fit into his world.

Trinity had no interest in becoming that person again. She wasn”t the same na?ve, malleable woman-child she’d been back then. She was Trinity now, and she was happy with the woman she had become—strong, resilient, still ready and willing to serve, but strictly on her own terms.

If Christian didn”t like it, then that was tough. He could take it or leave it.

Since it was Friday and a full club night, she had a lot on her plate, but on top of that, Christian would be back tonight to see what her decision was. That had been deferred last night because things had been too emotional and raw for both of them. It wasn”t fair, to either of them, to make a decision under those circumstances.

But after much deliberation, she had finally made her choice.

Tonight, if Christian still felt the same way, they would have their first scene together.

The thought had a swarm of hornets buzzing around in Trinity”s stomach and she wasn”t altogether sure whether it was from anticipation or nerves. Maybe a little bit of both?

In the meantime, there was work to be done before she could come out to play.