Page 10 of Leland

Hiding my laugh behind another swallow of beer, I nodded.

“Poor baby, come here and give Auntie Kay a hug,” Kay commanded.

Axel helped Paisley off his knee and we enjoyed watching Kay soak up the babygirl snuggles.

“I am going to see what’s taking so long,” Smoke grumbled before asking Axel if he wanted anything and heading to the bar.

“Did you hear Leland got his head out of his ass and finally told Rouge how he felt?” Blade asked Axel.

“Well he kinda told her how he felt; he did it with a proposition,” Kay amended.

“A proposition?”

“He asked her to be his submissive for six weeks,” Blade said, filling him in.

Axel stretched his neck and looked like he was thinking. “It’s not a bad idea. I mean, our relationships are far from normal and it’s not a weird way to start,” he said after shrugging.

“And I think the important part of the story is that Ididtell her how I feel about her.”

“Finally?” he asked, turning to me with a shit-eating grin on his face. “It took you long enough.”

“Fuck you,” I laughed. He was right, though. It had taken me far longer than it should have. Damn nerves.

“Hey! Hey! No. Don’t say that to my Daddy,” Paisley scolded from Kay’s lap. She waggled her finger at me. Kay laughed at her antics.

“I’m sorry, Little one. I won’t say ugly words to your Daddy.”

“Fank you,” she said, pleased I complied.

I snagged my phone from my pocket and typed out a message to Axel. I told Paisley I wouldn’t say ugly words to her Daddy, but I was definitely going to text them to him.

“Uh, Leland?” Smoke said, interrupting my witty messaging.

“Yeah?”

“Did you know Rouge is working here? As a bartender?”

“What? No fucking way.” I stood up so quickly, I tipped over the bottle of beer I’d been working on. There was no way thatLittle girl was working fifty-plus hours a week at Daddies Ink and then working here.At a fucking bar.

I stomped up to the bar and wedged between two stools scanning for my sugar. She looked up from the drinks she was handing out and immediately saw me. I could tell by the way her eyes widened.

I crooked my finger and summoned her to me. She obediently came and my cock hardened.

Dammit.

“What are you doing here, Rouge?”

“I’m not Rouge.”

Well, that certainly wasn’t what I expected her to say.

“Oh, really?” I asked, entertaining her for the moment.

“Yes. I get called that a lot.”

“Who are you then?”

“Kelly.”

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