“Hello everyone,” Olivia said, smiling broadly at her class. She gave Lisa a nod of greeting. “As you can see, we have two new faces here this evening. This is Mistress Lisa and her submissive Karen. Mistress Lisa is going to be taking charge of Luke’s instruction and Karen will be on hand to assist wherever help is needed, and she’ll also be a good resource for any submissives with questions or concerns.” Karen smiled and waved cheerfully as Lisa looked over the submissives with a measuring glance, although she did give the Baby Doms a small smile. Since she spent some time working behind Stronghold’s bar, she was already familiar with all of them.

It definitely did not tickle Olivia’s jealous bone to think about how familiar Lisa was going to get with Luke.

The woman had a collared sub, for crying out loud, and Lisa was devoted to Karen. She wasn’t the type who wanted a harem.

Thank goodness Lisa had been available to come in for the classes. If Olivia was struggling this much with passing Luke off to her, she hated to think of how she’d deal with passing him off to an unattached Domme.

“We’ll start off by doing our negotiations up here, in the lounge area,” she said, gesturing to the low seats. “While there are no official areas for submissives or dominants, unofficially submissives who want to play usually spend their time in the lounge and dominants make use of the bar tables. If you are approached by a dominant you don’t wish to play with, that’s fine, you are always allowed to refuse a play partner. However, if you do wish to play, you should always negotiate beforehand up here.”

Submissives could feel pressured to go through with more than they might necessarily be comfortable with once they were in different surroundings where they were expected to be submissive. Up in the lounge, surrounded by other submissives, Olivia had noticed they tended to be more confident discussing what their own needs and wants were. So now she always encouraged negotiations to happen there.

“Tonight we’ll be scening on the St. Andrew’s crosses in the dungeon,” she said, grinning widely at the little stir her announcement caused among the subbies. Her Baby Doms also looked properly appreciative of the subbies’ excited and nervous reactions. “Make sure you talk over the state of undress you’re comfortable with, whether you’d prefer to be facing towards or away from the cross, and any hard or soft limits you’ll have for the scene and your partner. Luke, you’re with Mistress Lisa, Rae with Zach, Samantha with Brian, Morgan with Kincaid, and Domi with Mitch.”

Right. Luke was officially in Mistress Lisa’s care now. That hadn’t been so hard right? And if her chest felt a little tight, it wasn’t because she was feeling possessive.