Page 130 of Sunrise

“Just so I’m clear… I can fuck you both, and you’ll fuck me, in front of anyone who wants to see?”

“It doesn’t always have to be full on sex,” Sophie explains. “We can just tease each other. Punish and reward. I’d want to be your Mistress for most nights, but… I want to submit to each of you sometimes, too.”

My back hits the wall and I almost slide down it. “You’d keep it just us?”

“Yes, Knox. Absolutely.”

My heart’s going to crash out. My gaze flicks back and forth between the two of them because this is wayyyy too fucking perfect to be real. “You’d love me in front of everyone?”

Sophie’s hand covers her mouth, but I don’t pay her as much attention as I do the hardness in Vault’s gaze. He silently opens his desk drawer and pulls out a black gift box.Thegift box. The one I thought was going to be my birthday present, but… didn’t he give it to Sophie?

I think I’m losing my goddamn mind.

Vault works his way around the desk and stands in front of me. “I’ll love you… and I’ll let you love me… with or without an audience, Knox. You don’t have to agree to this compromise to keep us. You can say no, and we’ll be okay with it. We’ll respect and understand and honor your decision.”

“He’s right,” Sophie says. “This isn’t a deal breaker at all. I only want to dominate, and you both give me that already. And yes, I love working withcouples, but that’s a bridge we can cross later. I don’t ever have to touch them, or them touch me. I just want to help others find their strength in sexuality.”

Without her, Vault and I wouldn’t be at this point now. She’s worked miracles with us. How could I possibly deny another couple a chance at finding what we have? And… I’m honestly okay if she touches them with some things. I just don’t want them inside her. She’s mine. She’s ours. As a Domme, she runs the scenes, and they can’t get to touch her without her permission.

I don’t think she’s ever let anyone touch her, now that I think about it. It’s why I’ve always been okay about her being the most famous woman at the Monarch.

Vault’s been her only exception, and we all see how that’s going.

I can definitely do this. “I want you to stay as a Domme here. Only if you want. And… I think I can get on board with exhibitionism.”

Vault always teases me about being an attention whore. He’s not wrong. I’ve just never worked myself up to this next step. The only time someone’s watched me fuck was on my birthday here, with the two of them. And honestly? I secretlylovedknowing someone was always watching on the surveillance cameras. It was easy to allow an audience because it was Ryker and Dmitri, who I trust.

But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t fuck in public for a stranger to see. I’ve just never had the opportunity.

Damn, my dick is throbbing.

“I want to try.”

Sophie’s eyes light up, and Vault’s shoulders sag with what Iassume is relief.

“If I don’t like it, I’ll call Red.”

“I’m so proud of you for being this honest and open, baby.” Sophie kisses me like I’m made of iron, not glass. Her confidence seeps into my system, fortifying me. Pride fills my chest with warmth.

I’ve made them happy.

And I’ve made me happy too because I stuck up for myself and voiced what I wanted instead of going with the flow, regardless of how I felt.

Vault hands me the black box. “Open it.”

I turn it over and stare at his block handwriting.To My Sunrise.

It’s like the whole room shrinks into the size of this small package in my hands. I peel off the gift wrap, and a very painful memory flies to the forefront of my mind.

Alex’s high school graduation.

Letting out a shaky exhale, I slowly open the box and freeze.

The Rolex I’d stomped on gleams up at me. Beautiful, shiny, and still broken. Its hands are stuck at eleven-fifty-two and the face is shattered, but still intact.

“Turn it over,” Alex says.

I pluck it out of the case and it’s like the floor under my feet opens up and swallows me when I read the words inscribed on the back of it.

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