“Hey, you!” Serena Dean-Miles waved her way as Lisa walked through the ladies’ locker room. The locker room at Sanctum was a posh space with everything a submissive or Domme could need to pamper herself silly. Serena was sitting at one of the vanities, brushing out her brown and blonde hair.

Lisa waved back, moving out of the dressing area and into what she liked to call the “primp station.” Here there were a bunch of beautifully lit vanities where a woman could perfect her makeup or dry and curl her hair.

“Good to see you’re back,” Avery said with a wink as she moved a flat iron over her dark hair.

“I’m happy to be back,” Lisa replied.

And she was. It was incredibly good to return to Sanctum. And to have a job. And a Dom waiting for her in the lounge. That was a completely new situation. In all the months she’d played at Sanctum before, she’d never had a Dom who was hers.

Three days into their “relationship” and she still hoped he didn’t catch her drooling. Life was looking up. She had a job she hadn’t gotten fired from on the first day, one where the vents didn’t spit glitter at her and there was no public food for her to fall into. She was required to wear comfortable shoes. There were all kinds of things to eat in her refrigerator because her Dom believed in regular meals and they’d made a deal. He bought the food stuffs and she turned it into something he wanted to eat. And yes, she did put those quote things around the word “relationship” even in her brain, but damn he was fine.

“Where have you been?” Serena gave her a quick hug before sitting back down. “The kids have missed you.”

She hadn’t even met the baby yet. Serena had a new baby girl, but it had happened after she’d left Sanctum. “I got way too busy with my old jerk-face boss’s money laundering, and then it turns out when you’re associated with money laundering, no one wants to hire you even though you were the good guy who turned the boss in.”

“That’s rough,” Avery said. “I heard you’re working at Top now.”

Remy had gotten her the interview. Hell, Remy had gotten her the job. She’d interviewed with Deena Vail, who was running the business end of Top while Sean Taggart was on some mysterious mission in Fort Hood. She switched between bartending and waitressing. “Yes. I know Will is going to say I’m wasting my degree, but I actually love it there. I might have made a horrible mistake going with the accounting degree. Turns out it’s kind of boring.”