She just hoped he’d still want to see her at the end of it. Which made her grimace a little. It seemed like every time she turned around, he’d dug himself under her skin a little more.

Watching him with Lisa tonight had been torture, especially because it was obvious he wasn’t having fun submitting to a woman he wasn’t actually sexually interested in while the one he was interested in watched. Granted, not all the submissives were interested in or even attracted to all the dominants—Mitch seemed to have given up on Rae already—but they, at least, weren’t also in the presence of someone they did want to get to know better. To impress.

Sighing to herself again, she punched in Jared’s name on her phone and leaned back in her chair, listening to it ring as she waited for him to pick up.

“Hey Olivia. Everything okay?”

“Yes, yes, I’m fine,” she said a little brusquely. Even though it had been days since ‘cunt’ had been keyed into her car door and nothing else had happened since then, everyone seemed to expect something would at any moment. “Nothing bad has happened.”

Jared’s deep chuckle at her impatience made her smile a little reluctantly. Although she was close with all the guys, she’d always been closest to Jared. Maybe because he was so quiet and nonjudgmental, easy to talk to, or maybe because she felt he needed looking out for the most. Maybe a combination of all three.

“What can I do for you?”

That’s what she loved the most about Jared. No nosy or digging questions, just a simple query about what she wanted from him. Of course any of her friends would give her anything she asked for, but they’d be prying the whole time. Gossip queens. Something she benefited from usually, but she wasn’t a fan of when it targeted her.

“I’m just feeling antsy,” she said, keeping one foot on the ground while she started twisting her office chair back and forth. She didn’t let it spin all the way around, but she had it moving in a semi-circle, giving her the slight feeling of moving through the air. As usual though, even if she was feeling hesitant, she jumped right into her problem at hand. “I think I might like Luke.”

“Well, I like Luke too.” Amusement colored his voice.

Olivia scowled. “You know what I mean. And this is just between you and me, no telling your girlfriend. You know she’ll tell Angel, and then Angel will tell Adam, and then it’s off to the races.”