“So what now? Are you going to have a big, beefy man dominating you for the rest of the class?” teased Nick. To his credit, Nick hadn’t teased Luke too badly about any of this. Luke had been a little worried his brother might not be understanding about Luke wanting to be bossed around in the bedroom, about being sexually submissive—hell, he didn’t understand it himself and he was living it—but Nick had just listened and said Luke should go for whatever would make him happy.

“No, she says she’s going to find another Domme to come in and work with me.” He couldn’t quite keep his disgruntlement out of his voice.

Nick just laughed again. “She’s really good at thwarting you, isn’t she? So what are you going to do now?”

Because Luke wasn’t the type to give up and they both knew it. He might be submissive sexually, but he definitely wasn’t anywhere else. If he really thought Olivia didn’t want him, he would back off... but she’d admitted her hold up was his position as part-owner in the club. Luke couldn’t give that up at this point, he had too much money invested and there was no one else in a position to buy him out, but he could show her it didn’t matter. Find a way to convince her the attraction they felt was worth exploring.

“I’m working on that right now,” he said.

“Well when I meet her, I’ll put in a good word for you,” his brother joked.

“Thanks so much,” Luke said dryly.

He and Nick chatted for a few more minutes, so Luke could tell his brother about Michael and Patrick’s reactions to seeing the whole club finally finished. Luke was already pretty sure his brother was going to end up going to one of the newbie classes. He tried not to think too much about what that would mean, since Olivia taught both the newbie Doms and the newbie subs. From what he understood, the new Doms had to experience every single thing they’d marked an interest in on their survey before they were allowed to do it to someone else.

Which made sense.

But Nick was a total ass man and he really didn’t need to think about how Olivia would teach that portion of the class with his brother as one of the students.

After hanging up, Luke checked his text messages again. He knew Adam had texted him back several times because he’d heard the distinctive beeps.

Sure enough, the other man had come through for him.

Luke grinned.

Round one... well, he’d probably count tonight as a draw.

Round two was going to start tomorrow.