After college she’d become involved in the BDSM scene when she’d finally gathered the courage to step offline and try some real, in-person experiences. She’d ended up at Stronghold for one of their open houses and had ended up signing up for an Introduction Scene. One week later, she’d actually orgasmed with another person, for the first time, and they hadn’t even been having sex. And she hadn’t been even a little attracted to the Domme topping her, Ellie could appreciate an attractive woman but she was only attracted to men. Mistress Lisa was a sadist though, and it turned out Ellie was a masochist.

She’d played with just the Dommes at first, without much of a sexual component to her scenes since she was straight. After talking with them, the other subs, and finally feeling completely safe in the club (especially down in the Dungeon where there was always a monitor on-site and everyone could see everything), she’d tried her first scene with a Dom.

The only problem with scening with Doms was they knew she was straight, and so some of them became hopeful something more would come out of scening together. Unfortunately for them, she wasn’t interested. And she didn’t do scenes in private rooms until she met Andrew, and they had only clicked because neither of them wanted a relationship. He’d been safe, emotionally. Fun, outside of the scene.

Ellie had even started to make real friends at the club. She was friendly with plenty of the subs, but she hadn’t been hanging out with them outside of work initially. First was Lexie, the sweet, extroverted receptionist, who seemed to take Ellie’s standoffish demeanor as a personal challenge. Then Ellie had taken the self-defense class with Angel, a pretty brunette who now engaged to Adam – Adam also being a friend of Andrew’s. Angel, unlike Ellie, drew people to her and, if she liked them, didn’t let them go. Or, as Angel put it, decided to ‘keep’ them.

Not long after Angel showed up, so did Michael - all grown up and gorgeous, and the only person who called him Mike now was Angel. The first time Ellie had seen him, her past had come rushing back in an instant and she’d panicked. Immediately avoided him, even when he’d try to seek her out. The shame that had welled up inside her hadn’t been anything new, but it had been something she’d thought she’d gotten past.