Plus, hopefully by the time Marquis opened, his and Ellie’s relationship would have moved forward a little more, but if not... well, being able to sleep over at the club might make her feel better than going back to either of their places together. It was kind of like a compromise.

13

The week seemed to crawl by, slower than usual.

Despite what she’d said to Michael, Ellie did end up touching herself, multiple times.

While she was in the shower and feeling hot and frustrated.

While she was in bed, struggling to fall asleep as memories from their last scene ran through her head.

When she woke up in the middle of the night, her pussy throbbing from the dream she’d just had...

She’d had sex with Doms before. She’d had amazing scenes with Doms before. But she’d never had a lingering reaction like this before. Then again, she’d also never been in a club contract or had a Dom tell her she couldn’t orgasm until she saw him again. In the past, any control a Dom had over her ended the moment the scene did. She’d expected things to change a little, having a club contract, but she hadn’t realized how much it would affect her outside of the club.

It didn’t help that Michael didn’t exactly stay away during the week either. They weren’t talking on the phone, but they still exchanged texts nearly every day. Mostly pictures of Marquis and Watson, but also little conversations about their day or things that were happening. He was the one who told her Andrew and Kate were now looking at houses, which she ended up knowing before Lexie, who seemed both a little put out and highly interested that she was not Ellie’s main conduit for gossip anymore. She’d probably be passing on the word to everyone else about how Ellie and Michael were talking a lot outside of the club.

On Thursday, Angel texted her.

Hey are you free next Saturday? During the day?

Ellie automatically glanced at her calendar even though she knew it would be blank. Before the Stronghold girls had started pushing her into going out with them, her main social activity had been going to Stronghold and interacting with people there. Her weekend daytime activities usually involved cleaning house, calling her parents and brother at some point, and maybe going to a Zumba class at the nearby studio.

Yes, what’s up?

Oh good! We’re taking a trip to the zoo. Sharon’s been dying to go. Want to carpool to the metro?