Page 122 of Danger and Dominance
“No, it wasn’t anyone’s fault except Don’s.Or maybe that asshole in the hallway who watched Don drag Cassidy away and did nothing.Though, even if he had tried to intervene, he might have gotten shot, and maybe Don would have had better aim.So, everything worked out the way it was supposed to.”David finished tucking his gear into his bag and straightened up, hefting the strap over his right shoulder.
Silently watching him, Drew appeared to be thinking about what he said.
“I just keep thinking I missed things.The flat tire.The tailgating.Then letting Cassidy go to the bathroom by herself.”He scrubbed his hand over his face, his overwhelming guilt clear as day.It had its talons in deep.
“She wasn’t by herself; she was with Jennifer and Yasmine.”
“Neither of who could protect her if Don had come up to all three of them.”
“Don’t let either of them hear you say that.”Jennifer might not train with the team, but she was a black belt at the all-woman karate studio she’d been attending for years, and Yasmine had started Brazilian jujitsu a few years ago.David would bet on either of them over Don in a fair fight.
“He had a gun.”
“Which we couldn’t have known, just like we couldn’t have known he was there.He shouldn’t have been.It had to have been pure luck.”They still hadn’t figured out how Don knew where she was.The only thing that made sense was that he hadn’t known, he’d just somehow come across them or been in the same place by chance.
Not knowing got under David’s skin a little, but he’d long ago accepted that sometimes there were things that were never explained or that he didn’t get to know the answer to.That was just life.
The important thing was that Don was never going to bother Cassidy again.
Drew blew out a long breath.“I’m not going to let you down again,” he said heavily.
“You didn’t let me down this time,” David told him, and Drew nodded, but David could tell he didn’t really mean it.
Hopefully, over time, he would start to believe it.Until then, David would drop a word in Mason’s ear to make sure to talk to Drew about it.
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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 womancared.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.
