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There’s laughter from inside the room. Everyone is listening.
And I’m feeling feisty. “I doubt you’ll die of thirst in less than a minute.”
The sounds of amusement shift, like I’m being naughty, like I’m challenging Levi.
Someone says quite clearly, “Takes some guts, talkin’ back to Boss.”
And I say… Yes, I say it. “He’s not the boss of me.”
There’s some hooting and more laughter. I flush and quickly walk inside to bring Levi his water, wondering what the hell got into me.
He’s the boss of everyone around here. Including me. He’s literally keeping me alive, and he can stop doing so at any moment.
Plus my acting sweet and submissive in front of the others was part of our deal.
Shit, I really messed up.
The laughter fades into silence as Levi rises slowly to his feet. He’s not smiling. He’s not… anything.
He takes a fistful of my hair and uses it to push me forward, toward the door of the lounge.
“I’m sorry!” I burst out, partly for effect to make up for my slip but partly because I mean it.
He keeps walking me to the door.
The laughter erupts again as we leave the building. I hear more than one raunchy comment about how Boss is going to show me who the boss really is around here.
Levi doesn’t say a word as he guides me upstairs and into our room, which is directly above the lounge where the group downstairs is gathered. He bars the door behind us.
I gulp, my skin blazing hot all the way down my neck and to my chest. “I really am sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
Levi shakes his head and sinks down into his chair. He won’t say anything, so I have no idea what he’s thinking.
I start taking off my top.
“What you doin’?”
I freeze. Lower my top. “I thought you were going to fuck me to show me who the boss really is. Isn’t that what?—”
Something weird happens. His shoulders shake with a series of choppy huffs.
He’s laughing.
He’slaughing.
“Fuck, girl, I appreciate your faith in my sex drive, but I’m over forty, I’m fuckin’ exhausted by this shitty world, and I justhad the best blow job of my life three hours ago. You really think I’m gettin’ it up again so soon?”
I giggle. Cover my mouth with my hand and giggle again. “I thought…”
“I get it. I didn’t know what to do, so I played along with what everyone was thinkin’. We’re not gonna fuck. We’re gonna sit here and let them think that’s what happened.”
I’m still overwhelmed with giggles. I sit on the bed since it’s closest to where I’ve been standing. “I’ll act all wide-eyed and submissive for the rest of the week so everyone thinks you really gave it to me good.”
We sit and occasionally smile at each other for about ten minutes. I’m not sure how long we need to wait for everyone to be convinced he gave me a good fuck, but it’s got to be longer than ten minutes.
Inspired, I start rocking on the bed.
Levi frowns. “What you doin’?”
