CHAPTER 54
Theo
“There you are, Kitten.” Leon held Sutton in Dominic’s office chair, gently stroking her back and kissing the top of her head as she came to. “Such a pretty, sleepy Kitten.”
She yawned and stretched and then just curled up even tighter in his lap.
“Is it morning already?”
“Oh, sweetheart, it’s not even midnight.” Leon’s grin stretched so wide that it seemed like I wasn’t looking at the same man I’d known for years. After everything that happened with Grace, he wasn’t much for smiling but it was clear that Sutton had changed that.
“Are we still at the club? Why? I should be sleeping in my bed. When school starts back I won’t be able to stay up so late.” She hadn’t even opened her eyes and she sounded almost drunk. “I usually go to bed at nine on school nights.”
A jolt of panic struck me. When school started back?
Was she planning on leaving? I knew we’d only hired her for the summer but…
she couldn’t leave. I wasn’t sure I’d survive without her.
And her safety. What about her safety? I couldn’t surveil an entire school.
Not easily, anyway. I had no moral objections to spying on a bunch of kids to keep my family safe but I knew Sutton wouldn’t be okay with it.
Me murdering a fuck ton of people to protect the kids?
Fine with her. Me invading a school to keep tabs on her? I just knew she’d take issue with it.
Even though I could do it all without her ever knowing, I would never rest easy being so far away from her. If something happened, she’d be in danger and all alone. Unless I put a guard on her…
“Theo? Theo!”
I looked up at Leon and frowned. “What?”
“You’re breaking the chair, man.”
I looked down at the arms of the chair and realized I’d cracked the wood in multiple places. I forced my hands to release the chair and ran my them down my thighs.
“It’s a shitty chair, clearly. Anyway, as soon as you’re feeling more awake, we can go home. Dominic is walking the floor with security again but he’ll be back soon.”
Leon was still frowning at me.
“Do you need to go ahead? You don’t usually participate in scenes on the floor.”
Sutton tried to get out of his lap but her legs were still shaky so Leon picked her up and brought her to me. She immediately wrapped her arms around me and rested her head on my shoulder.
“I’m sorry, Theo. Are you okay?”
I ran my hand up and down the outside of her thigh and kissed her forehead.
“I’m fine. I liked joining you tonight. I was just thinking of something else.”
Dominic let himself in and stood next to us so he could stroke Sutton’s hair.
“How are you feeling, Angel?”
“Wonderful.” She tipped her head back so she could caress her cheek with his hand. “I think I was promised a virginity plundering tonight.”
“You’re not up for it. When it happens, you’re going to need all your energy, Kitten.” Shoving his hands in his pockets, Leon winked at her. “It’s our job to take care of you. We wouldn’t be good masters if we took you just because we were dying to.”
Sutton was back in full on pout mode when she climbed to her feet. Even as Dominic helped her into her cardigan her frown deepened.
“This feels unfair.”
I brushed my thumb over her lips and nearly lost my control when the sneaky little minx stuck the tip of her tongue out to taste me. I had to close my eyes to keep my hands to myself.
“Home. Let’s go home.”
Dominic walked out first with Sutton tucked safely behind him. Her cardigan wasn’t long enough to hide the bottom curves of her ass and each step was torturous to watch. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to fuck her or cuddle her and that in itself was a brain fuck.
Leon groaned from beside me.
“Virginity plundering. Jesus.”
A guard stopped Dominic with a question and Sutton kept going without paying attention and when a couple of women stumbled out of the bar they bumped into each other. Sutton, perpetually sweet, immediately started apologizing while the other two women scowled at her.
“I’m so sorry. I wasn’t paying attention and—” She cut herself off. “It’s you.”
I leaned against the wall behind her, waiting and watching to see what was happening. Sutton didn’t seem happy to see the women. At all.
“Oh, my god. I can’t believe you, Sutton!
I saw your little performance earlier. Wow.
I mean…just wow. It only took you a few weeks to go from prude to whore, huh?
” The woman who was actively endangering her life was the taller of the two blondes and the look on her face was pure bitch.
“I sent you here to interview for a nanny job, Sutton. Imagine what the parents at school will think.”
Leon and I were both at her side in a second. Sutton took a deep breath and blew it out slowly.
“Hilary. We’re at the same sex club. How would you tell anyone you saw me here without admitting that you were here?”
“Yeah, we’re at the same club but you didn’t see me spreading my thighs on top of the bar and—”
“Hey, Theo?” Sutton gripped my arm and stretched up to whisper to me. “If I hit her will you make sure I don’t get in trouble for it?”
I let out a pleased growl. “Fuck, yeah.”
Sutton was majestic in her baggy cardigan and bare thighs as she pulled her fist back and let it fly. The force of the hit knocked the woman into the wall behind her. She slid down it while cupping her nose, eyes comically bulging like she couldn’t believe her luck.
Leon let out a bark of laughter.
“That’s right, Kitten. No one fucks with you anymore.”
“I’ll file charges! You can’t just hit me!”
Sutton put her hands on her hips and bent forward.
“Try it and see what happens. You see these men behind me? They would never let anything touch me. The way I see it, this was your karma. You’ve bullied me and treated me like trash from day one.
I let it go over and over again but trying to shame me for being sexual at a sex club is ridiculous.
This place isn’t for judgmental jerks who kink-shame others. ”
“What do you know about what this place is?” The woman climbed up from the floor and raised her fist like she was going to hit Sutton but the moment I stepped forward she screamed and huddled with her friend against the wall.
“I think I know plenty, considering my boyfriends own the place.” Sutton managed to stand even taller. “I just have one last thing to say to you before you scurry out of here. Fuck you.”
Dominic chose that moment to make his presence known and stepped forward with his trademark snarl.
“Sutton, Angel, do you want them banned for life? From this property and all the other businesses we own?”
She cocked her hip out to the side and smirked. “Yep.”