The smile he received in return was enough to make his hands twitch where they were resting on his thighs—her stated preference—because he wanted to reach up and touch her. But he knew doing so would be unappreciated. Probably even punishment-worthy. Which might not be so bad except he didn’t want to disappoint her.

Not even because he was pursuing her and he wanted to prove he could do this, but he just didn’t want to see her expression change to displeasure and disappointment. That would be worse than any physical punishment she could administer. Was this part of what it meant to be submissive?

“Good boy,” she said, and then chuckled as the expression on his face changed. He might not want to disappoint her, but he didn’t really want to be called ‘boy’ either. He was a man, dammit. “You’re doing very well, cupcake.”

With another stroke of her fingers through his hair, she released him as she straightened up again and Luke tried to decide whether or not he liked ‘cupcake’ better than ‘boy.’

Olivia made herself remove her hand from Luke’s head because it was far too tempting to keep stroking the silky strands. Far too easy to imagine gripping his hair exactly like that as he laved his tongue over her pussy. Basically, touching him only made her want to touch him more.

Thank goodness he couldn’t touch her back.

Because she really, really wanted him to.

She was also relieved this was a class setting. If this had been happening a year ago before the classes started and she’d been the one to do an Introduction Scene with him, where they could be in private and sex might have been on the table... Olivia wasn’t sure she would have been able to resist.

Clearing her throat, she made herself step back. “Good. Everyone up.”

Rae was starting to look a little mutinous, Morgan was as graceful as she’d been since they’d started this exercise, Samantha anxious to do everything perfectly already and even more anxious when she couldn’t, and Domi was practically vibrating with excitement. Interestingly, when Brian put his hand on the back of Rae’s neck and murmured something in her ear, she looked pleased for a moment... and then a little startled and then a bit mutinous again. Olivia had a feeling she was struggling with submitting just as much as Luke was. Maybe more than. Brian seemed to calm her more than Mitch had last lesson though.

“Now, everyone on your bench. We’re going to use leather cuffs on your wrists and ankles and everyone will receive a light, erotic spanking.” Suddenly, all of the subbies—including Luke and Rae—looked both anxious and anticipatory. Mentions of bondage and spankings could do that. Grins flashed around the room as her Baby Doms exchanged glances.