The Mistress took a step toward him and stared him right into his hazel eyes. He started to glance away but she took him by the chin and forced him to meet her gaze.

  “I’m giving you shit because no one else in this wide world would dare to,” she said. “Right?”

  Slowly he nodded his agreement. “I can’t help it,” he said, raising his hands in surrender. “You get to the level of fame and money I’m at, and you’re surrounded by nothing but Yes Men.”

  “That’s why women like me exist.” She flicked the end of his nose hard enough he flinched. “We’re the antidote to Yes Men. Come on. I’ll show you my dungeon. You’ll like it.”

  She dragged him by his shirt collar down the hall.

  “Hey, this shirt was expensive,” he protested at her rough treatment.

  “So is my time. You don’t hear me bitching, do you?”

  At the end of the hallway she stopped in front of her dungeon door and pulled out a key.

  “We’re all mad here?” Dante said, reading the words on the door.

  “Cheshire Cat,” she explained. “Alice in Wonderland. You should read it. It’s trippy as fuck. Better than LSD.”

  “I don’t do drugs.” She heard a note of pride in his voice.

  “I’ll get you a medal. Now...welcome to my Wonderland.” Throwing open the door, she took a step back and let Dante in first. Newbies to the dungeon were usually a little surprised at the sight that greeted them. Dante was no different.

  “This doesn’t look like a dungeon. It looks like a bedroom. A nice bedroom.” He nodded his approval at the king-size, four-poster bed, layered in red and gold brocade sheets and pillows, the oil lamps, the erotic art on the walls. “No whips and chains?”

  “Plenty of whips and chains. That’s behind door number two.” She led him past the bed and into the second room of her suite.

  His eyes went wide as dinner plates as he took in the view. “Fuck.”

  “I don’t fuck on the clock,” she said, giving him a sly wink. “That’s a St. Andrew’s Cross. I put people on there to flog and whip them. Among other things. I’ve got the hospital bed over there for my medical fetishists. That’s a rack. The throne is a lot of fun for bondage.”

  “That’s a coffin, right?” Dante pointed to the far wall.

  “Yeah, I have some clients into sensory deprivation. I don’t even think it’s sexual for those guys. I think they just want to be left alone. Anyway, they come in, I put them in the coffin, I sit and read a book. They get out an hour or two later, happy as clams. Easiest grand you could ever make.”

  “Nice. I don’t get the pain thing. I mean, I’m covered in tattoos but they hurt like hell and no part of me was turned on during the process.”

  “Well, you’re not a masochist. People like pain for a lot of reasons. I have clients who suffer from chronic pain, and getting a good full-body flogging helps their body produce more adrenaline and other pain-fighting hormones. I have some clients who can’t get aroused unless you hurt them first. One’s a cop. One’s a doctor. Takes all kinds.”

  “I guess so. I mean, it makes sense. I know some musicians who really can’t perform unless they’re on drugs. They need the rush.”

  “I’m a lot easier on the body than coke. Not all my clients are into pain, though.” She turned off the lights in the dungeon and returned to the bedroom. “I have some male subs who are nothing but subs. They just want to take orders from a woman. They come here and worship my feet and fetch things for me and masturbate for me.”

  “So you can be kinky and not like pain?”

  “Oh yeah, I know a lot of female subs especially who love submitting but don’t like to be hurt. Their masters or mistresses will tell them to go suck some stranger’s cock and you’ll think they just won the lottery. You get a flogger near them and they curl up in the fetal position and cry.”

  “Weird. I thought all kink was, you know, the whips and chains.”

  She shook her head. “This world is much bigger than that.”

  “Hmm...” He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned back against the bedpost. “Maybe I am kinky.”

  She raised her eyebrow at him as she sat in a large, ornate chair and threw her leg over the arms. “Do tell.”

  “I...it’s kind of weird.” He grimaced. “You probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

  “I lost my virginity to a Catholic priest, and that’s one of my least weird sexual encounters. Trust me, I’ll believe you.”

  His eyes went wide again, and she could only smile. She loved shocking the newbies.

  “Okay...here’s the story, and it’s all true. It’s gonna sound like something out of Penthouse Letters. But it happened.”

  “Try me.” With all the wild sex that surrounded her on a daily basis, his story would have to involve alien anal probes to get her to question his soliloquy.

  “I learned to play guitar pretty young. Natural musician. Guitar and piano. Bass too. I was really shy, though, so I didn’t play much outside of the house. My older sister, Cate, she was super popular. Like no one in our high school even knew we were related because I hid in the background so much and stayed quiet. Cate had these three friends—Polly, Amie, and Mona. They’d been best friends since they started high school. They were their own clique.”

  “Pretty girls?”

  “Gorgeous. And nice too, believe it or not. Nice to me. Cate and I got along great at home. Our dad died when we were pretty young and Mom dated a lot. My sister and I sort of stuck together. She was protective of me. And her friends liked me too.”

  “Oh, this is already getting interesting.” The Mistress grinned at him.

  “Just wait.” He took a ragged breath. “I was a sophomore. Sixteen. Cate and her friends were seniors. Mom was staying over at her new boyfriend’s house. Cate had the girls over for a sleepover. She wanted to sneak out and stay with her boyfriend, too, and her friends were helping cover for her. So it was me alone in the house with these gorgeous girls. We got into the liquor cabinet and drank a little. But none of us were drunk. Just buzzed. Happy. Talkative. Amie asked me if I had a girlfriend, if I’d ever had sex before. I don’t think I’ve ever been so embarrassed in my life. But I told her the truth, which was no. The girls all looked at each other...then they looked at me...”

  “Why am I hearing porn music in the background?”

  “Exactly. So Amie hears that I’m still a virgin, and she leans over the coffee table and kisses me right in front of the two girls. Amie was the ringleader. Wherever she went, the other girls followed. So then Mona kissed me and then Polly. I nearly came in my pants. But it wasn’t just kissing. Amie stood up and crooked her finger at me, motioning me to follow her. She brought me to my own bedroom and...”

  “Fucked you? I’m guessing she fucked you.”

  “She fucked me. And it was amazing. Amie was very take-charge. She was all ‘kiss my nipples, suck my clit, put your fingers in me...’ She liked giving orders and I loved taking them.”

  “Then what happened?”

  “She kissed me goodnight and left the room. I thought that was it. I was just lying in bed naked and smiling at the ceiling and thanking God for inventing women. But then the door opened. Mona’s turn. Amie must have told her how well I took orders because she was just as bossy in bed. After that, Polly came in.”

  “You fucked three girls in a row the night you lost your virginity?”

  “I was sixteen. I could have fucked twenty girls that night. Anyway, after that, sleepovers at the house got a lot more interesting. After Cate fell asleep, at least one of them would sneak into my bedroom. The girls had all dated jocks and jerks. And yeah, they ignored me at school, acted like I didn’t exist. But it was for the best. I loved being their little secret. Amie told me one night I was the only guy she’d been with who could make her come. I loved going down on them. Loved it.”

  “Powerful memories.”

  “Very,” he exhaled, his skin flushing with remembered desire. “The girls...they never called me by name. They always called me Rock Star. ‘Hey Rock Star, come play a song for us...’ I would have done anything they told me to. Anything.”

  “Rock Star, that’s cute. You loved that they used you like a fuck toy.”

  “God yes. I don’t get that anymore. Backstage the fans, they worship me. The women are too nervous just being around me to give me any kind of order. They lay there in bed like it’s some kind of honor to be fucked by me. I remember what it felt like with my sister’s friends. I was the nobody they’d deigned to fuck. I loved worshipping their bodies. That’s what I was into. Not being worshipped. I get enough of that shit every time I walk out the door.”

  “So let me get this straight.” The Mistress stood up and came over to him. “You love worshipping the female body, being treated like a sex toy to be used for a woman’s pleasure, and pleasuring multiple women in one night? You don’t want to be worshipped. You want to be treated like an object, a sex slave, a piece of property who exists only to give women pleasure?”

  Dante didn’t answer at first. He couldn’t even seem to look in her eyes. “I fantasize about it a lot. About being with women who own me so much they won’t even let me come.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “Is that weird?”

  “No,” she whispered back right into his ear. “It’s sexy, it’s erotic, and it’s so not vanilla.”

  “I always felt weird about it. Unmanly. It’s not very manly to want women to...I don’t even know the word.”

  “Top. You feel weird because you want women to top you. And there’s nothing unmanly about giving a woman orgasms and putting her pleasure before yours. Nothing wrong with being a male sub. You don’t have to be a chest-thumping alpha to find the clit.”

  “Trust me, I know where the clit is.”

  “Now that is the sort of thing that would win you a medal down here. Want your medal?”

  “Yeah,” he said, laughing. “Sure. I’d love a medal.”

  “Are you STD-free?”

  “Um, yes. Had to get a full physical two weeks ago for insurance for the new tour. Got tested for everything.”

  “Do you have a girlfriend?”

  “No. We broke up two months ago. She was just another Yes Man.”

  “Good. Go wash your face. Get rid of the eyeliner. Take off the rock star boots and for fuck’s sake, comb your hair like a normal person. No more costumes. I want to see the real you. Bathroom’s over there. I need to make a phone call.”

  When he came out of the bathroom, Dante looked like the handsome, nice, sweet male submissive she knew lurked underneath all that eye makeup and hair gel.

  “There’s our girls,” she said when she heard a tentative knock on the dungeon door. “You stand there. I’ll get this.”

  “What is this?” he asked, looked humble and nervous, and surprisingly young.

  “Turns out I’m all out of medals. I got you this instead.”

  She opened the door and ushered two lovely young women inside. One was a tall beauty with tattoos and rainbow-striped hair. The other was pale and petite, with lustrous brown hair that fell halfway down her back in soft waves.

  “Simone, Cassie, this is my friend—”

  “Devon,” he said. “My name’s Devon.”

  The Mistress raised an eyebrow, but he ignored her. Either he was trying to be incognito, or he’d finally become comfortable enough to let his real name slip.

  “Ladies, ‘Devon’ is a new friend of mine. A submissive. He’s looking to explore some of his fantasies. One of them involves being used as a fuck toy. A little birdie told me that Devon here loves giving women orgasms. He’d rather give orgasms than have them himself. Isn’t that nice?”

  “I love male subs,” Cassie signed, leaning her head on Simone’s shoulder.

  “They really are handy to have around.” Simone kissed Cassie on the top of the head.

  The Mistress gestured at the bed. “Well...shall we?”

  Cassie looked Dante up and down. “He’s gorgeous.”

  “He really is. Looks familiar too. You come to the club before?” Simone asked.

  “No. I just...I have that kind of face.”

  “Girls...” The Mistress clapped her hands. “Condoms in the drawer. He’s all yours. I’ll be over here supervising. Let me know if I can assist.”

  Cassie and Simone came up to Dante and kissed him on the lips, one by one. As Cassie deepened the kiss, Simone raised his arms over his head and pulled his shirt off. Simone ran her hands all over his back and shoulders while Cassie brought his hands to her breasts. The two women pulled him gently to the bed and laid him on his back. The girls were submissives, both of them. But they loved sex, they loved men, and they loved submitting to her. Being on The Mistress’s good side meant being invited into Kingsley’s inner sanctum. And right now both girls were definitely on The Mistress’s good side.

  Simone slid off the bed and stripped off all her clothes apart from her elaborately-laced high heels. She sat with her back to the headboard of the bed and spread her legs wide.

  “Fingers first,” she said to Dante and he seemed to have no problem taking that sort of order. Cassie took off her clothes while Dante slipped two and then three fingers into Simone. Whatever he was doing seemed to be working because in less than a minute, Simone the submissive gave an unmistakable order. “Tongue now.”

  Simone spread her folds and gave Dante better access to her clitoris. He’d said he loved going down on women, and he certainly showed incredible enthusiasm for the task.

  Cassie crawled back onto the bed and began caressing Simone’s breasts, teasing her pierced nipples while Dante lapped at her vagina, sucked on her clitoris. All Simone could do was grab the bars of the headboard and moan and moan until an orgasm seized her with body-wracking force.

  “Wow...” With that one word Simone collapsed tiredly onto the bed. “Your turn, Cass.”

  “You don’t have to tell me twice,” Cassie said as she pushed Dante onto his back. The Mistress wondered if this was like his first time with Amie. On his back, nervous, aroused beyond comprehension, wondering what the hell he was doing while a beautiful older girl touched parts of his body no one but he had touched before. She had to wonder where that trio of girls were now. Beautiful, erotic, and loved giving sexual orders to men? They sounded like perfect additions to The 8th Circle. Kingsley was always looking for a few good dommes.

  Cassie brought Dante’s mouth to her breasts and he latched onto a nipple. He caressed her other breast while she straddled his lap and ground her hips against his. Once Simone recovered enough from her orgasm to see straight again, she did Dante the favor of opening his jeans and freeing his erection. Simone took a condom out of the nightstand and rolled it onto him.

  Dante stretched out onto his back as Cassie took him into her hand and guided him inside her. With her hands on his broad, tattooed chest, she rode him with long oval undulations of her hips.

  “I know it feels good,” The Mistress said to Dante from her chair near the bed, “but don’t forget, no coming. Just the girls, not you.”

  “I promise I won’t. As long as she comes, that’s all that matters.”

  “Oh, she’s coming,” Cassie said as she bucked her hips harder against him, using him like nothing more than a dildo that just so happened to be attached to a human body. Dante cupped Cassie’s breasts as she moved on him, teasing her nipples until they were bright red and swollen. “She is definitely coming.”

  “Take your time,” Dante said from underneath her. “I can stay here all day...”

  He moved one hand between their bodies and found her clitoris. He pressed up against the tight bud and Cassie gasped. She’d promised she was coming and she hadn’t been lying. With a cry they probably heard in the dungeon at the end of the hall, Cassie climaxed on top of him.

  She rolled onto her back and lay there panting. Pointing from Simone to Dante, Cassie rasped, “Go get him.”

  Simone required no more encouragement. “Did you come?” she asked as she straddled Dante’s chest and sat on his stomach.

  “No.”

  “He doesn’t have permission to come,” The Mistress chimed in from her chair. She should have brought her book with her to work on while the kids played. She’d remember that for the next gangbang. “He hasn’t earned it yet.”

  “You heard the lady,” Dante said, smiling up at Simone.

  “Good. I want to fuck you too. Now.”

  “Yes, Ma’am.”

  Even from her corner of the room, The Mistress could hear the happiness in his voice. Not pleasure. Not desire. Happiness. Being used by women made him happy. And the ladies weren’t complaining either.

  Simone stripped him of the rest of his clothes. “Can we tie him down, Mistress?” she asked, fishing a new condom out of the box.

  “Not this time. He’s a newbie. Gotta save something for the sequel,” she said. She and Dante hadn’t discussed his feelings about bondage.

  “Oh, fine.” Simone sounded playfully disappointed. “Cassie can hold him down then. That okay, Devon?”

  “You won’t hear me objecting.”

  “Good boy.” Simone gave him a patronizing couple of slaps on the cheek like a proud Italian grandmother. Looked like Simone might have a bit of a switch-side to her.

  She pushed him into her and started riding him while Cassie held him by his wrists, pressing him into the bed. As strong as he was, he could have easily escaped the clutches of the girls, but The Mistress had a feeling that getting away hadn’t even crossed his mind. After a minute, Simone pulled off him, turned around and started to ride him reverse-cowgirl.

  “Do you actually enjoy that?” The Mistress asked. “That is my least favorite position. I feel like the cock’s poking my damn ribcage.”

  “It’s kind of weird,” Simone admitted. “But he’s a good size for this position. Not too big, not too small. You have to tilt just right or it does hit the wrong spots.”

  “Are you enjoying it?” The Mistress asked Dante. A trick question.

  “Doesn’t matter,” he said. “As long as she is.”