weren’t supposed to sleep with the clients,” West said, his voice hushed but absolutely audible to everyone in the damn room. “Not that I want to. The one client I’ve had was an old dude.”
“Yeah, it’s going to stay that way until you’ve completed your training.” Wade put a hand on his brother’s shoulder. “Come on. I’ll walk you out.”
They strode out of the room.
Michael looked at Kyle. “How did you manage to avoid your stepdad showing up for your first day of school?”
Kyle shuddered a bit. “Sean and I have decided to completely avoid even talking about this subject. Look, I know some of you have brothers and sisters who play here, but she’s my mom. My mother. I do not need to know anything.”
“You know moms can have sex lives,” Theo pointed out.
“Do you want to see your mom get spanked? For that matter, do you want to see her in a thong?” Kyle replied.
Theo grinned. “Absolutely not, but I will say yours looks spectacular.”
“I might need to vomit,” Kyle said with a groan.
Hutch looked up at him. “Anyone else back there?”
“Are you asking me if there’s anyone else you can threaten?”
“Yup.”
Kyle shook his head. “Nah. It’s almost time. I think we missed the first couple. And West isn’t her training Dom. I might have taken a look-see. Noelle’s paired with a guy named Jeff.”
Theo frowned. “Jeff? Are you talking about Jeffrey Sinclair?”
Kyle shrugged. “That sounds right.”
“Huh,” Theo began. “I’m surprised. I didn’t like him during the orientation. He was in the group I oversaw.”
Hutch didn’t like the sound of that. “What was wrong with him? He’s not an employee.”
“No, he’s a favor for a friend of Tag’s. Not a friend, exactly,” Theo explained. “But his dad has done some big favors for the company, and he thinks his son needs to learn discipline. He got through Kai so he must be solid.”
It was Michael’s turn to frown. “Kai didn’t have time to pair up this group. He let one of his partners do it because he and Kori are on vacation. They went out to see Jared and Sara for their little girl’s birthday. They go every year. Kai did the psych evals, but the new counselor did the pair ups.”
“She’s the family counselor, right?” Hutch didn’t like the idea that Kai hadn’t paired up the partners. Kai Ferguson had been in charge of that for years. It was important to pair up training partners properly.
“I’m sure she knows what she’s doing,” Michael assured him. “She would take into account what the trainee says she wants out of the class. I remember my training partner.” A smile hit Michael’s face. “I’m pretty sure we both said something about wanting to explore the lifestyle through tons of fairly casual sex. We were perfect together. She would high-five me after an orgasm. Sometimes I miss her.”
“You are not helping,” Kyle admonished. “Hutch, I think you’re fine. I’ve been hanging with her all week, and she talks about you constantly when you’re not around. She’s cautious. Keep up your I’m-the-best-boyfriend-in-the-world bit and she’ll come around. Now I would like to feel like I’m not stuck in a bad rom com, so I’m going to head out. You guys dry his tears, get him a glass of Chardonnay, and convince the man to chill. She’s still into him. I’ll make sure her training Dom isn’t too big of an asshole.”
“I’m not in tears, and at least you’ll know a big old ass when you see one,” Hutch shot back.
Kyle’s lips tugged up as he opened the door that led out to the hall and the stairs that would take him up to the dungeon level. “It takes one to know one.”
“Hey, she’s using her heavy braces.” He hadn’t even thought about that. “Can you make sure she gets upstairs okay? She might not want to use the elevator because no one else will.”
Kyle sobered. “Yeah, I’ll make sure she’s okay.”
“Thanks.” He hated the thought of her standing at the bottom of those steep stairs and wondering how she would get up them. She might not know where the elevator was. Subs didn’t get the same orientation that the Doms did. There was a reason for that. Doms were supposed to conduct a tour for their subs. It was a test to see how they treated their partners and how seriously they’d taken the initial class.
He wouldn’t be the one to show her around. He would be the dude she saw across