“Owned?”

“Yeah. Exactly. Like she could order us to do anything we’d do it. And in bed, we’d do anything she told us to. It’s not kinky. It’s just love. All guys feel like that.”

The Mistress studied him as streetlamps cast their glow through the Rolls window. His face went from dark to light, dark to light, with every lamp they passed.

“Do you ever feel that way when you aren’t in love?” She stretched out her leg and rested her booted foot on his thigh. He looked down at her foot but made no attempt to remove or even ask her to take her dirty shoe off his pants.

“What do you mean?” His eyes narrowed at her.

“I mean...do you ever think you’d like to do that, I don’t know...every day of your life? Maybe with a woman you weren’t in love with. Maybe just a woman you found attractive. Maybe all women.”

“I told you, I’m not one of those guys.”

“What guys?”

“One of those guys. Kinky guys who want to get used by Dominatrixes, who want to crawl on their hands and knees for a woman, who want to get ordered around and treated like a fuck toy. That’s not me.”

“Really? Wonder why you have an erection just talking about it then...”

Dante glanced down at his lap and laughed.

“I don’t. You can’t even—”

“You looked down to see if I could see it through your pants. If you weren’t hard right now, you wouldn’t have needed to look.” She raised an eyebrow at him. “Would you?”

“Maybe I’m just—” he paused midsentence to take her leg by the ankle and move her foot back onto the floorboard “—turned on because I’m in a fucking Rolls-Royce with a beautiful women with black hair, amazing tits, wearing a leather skirt and corset. I think about any guy on the planet would pop one in this situation even if he is vanilla.”

“Which you are, right?” She batted her eyelashes at him.

“Yeah. Right. I’m...vanilla.”

“Don’t feel bad. Happens to the best of us. Anyway, the club we’re going to is called The 8th Circle. It’ll give you a boner, too, but don’t get excited. You can’t film there. King has a couple other smaller kink clubs that you can use for a location shoot if you want. But The 8th Circle’s off-limits. It’s his baby.”

“Why are we going there then?”

“Because that’s where my dungeon is. It’s where I see my clients. Thought you’d be interested. Aren’t you?”

“Why would I want to see your dungeon?” He shifted in his seat.

“Research for your video, of course.”

“Yeah, of course. Research.”

On the way to the club, Dante asked her a few questions about her background.

Q: How did she become a Dominatrix?

A: Created by God. Trained by Kingsley.

Q: Is it hard being a Dominatrix?

A: More wet than hard.

Q: Is it fun?

A: Define “fun.”

Q: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done as a Dominatrix?