Free Dominque (Knights to Remember) by Nicole Colville Page A

He’s still not got over that fact. He’s very…”
    “Eager to please.” Jacob finished off when she paused.
    “Sensitive. Easily hurt. You rejected him. I’d rather not book you for him again.”
    “I didn’t reject him.” I craved him so deeply it physically hurt to be next to him . “You’re his friend I take it?”
    “ Best friend,” she said smugly down the phone.
    “Right, so… How about this, if Dominque can fit me in, I swear to be better behaved.”
    “How much better?”
    Jacob tutted loudly. “Percentage-wise?”
    “Ugh. You're hard work. Also, this bondage thingy?”
    “The bondage thingy? It was a bad joke. You bothered me.”
    “That's not funny.”
    “Surely it’s not the most… exotic thing someone has requested.”
    “Well, no. I’ve heard everything, and I mean everything . But we have specialist escorts for those types of things. Dominque’s not on those lists anymore.”
    The word ‘anymore’ rang loud and clear in his ears but he didn’t mention it, quickly moving on as if he didn’t care. “So, you’ll be contacting him?”
    “Yeah, I’ll call him. Give me an hour.”
    An hour. Jacob sat down at his laptop, looking around his sitting room and sighing. It would be a very long hour.

D ominque was sitting in the back of a taxi with Angelique after a very stern discussion with her headmaster. “I can’t believe you’ve been knocking off. I mean, how much do I pay for you to go there, and you just don’t turn up? I could have saved a grand with the time you missed. How could you, Angie? You’re lucky they’re letting you sit the exams.”
    “I hate it there.”
    “No, you love it. You just hate actually doing work. You're so lazy it’s unreal. Well, get this, there’s no trip at Christmas with your friends, and there’s no holidays or spending money coming your way. Not until you get your grades up.”
    “No way! You can't do that.”
    “I will. I mean, I just did.” The car pulled up and he watched as she stormed off, slamming the door behind her. “I'm sorry,” he apologised to the driver. “She’s… seventeen.”
    “Yeah, got one of them at home.” The driver took the cash from him, giving him the once over as he did. “Young to be her dad, aren’t you?”
    “Brother.”
    He nodded, handing over his change. “Good luck.”
    “Thanks.” Dominque smiled as he got out. “I think I’ll need it.”
    Angelique was in her room when he got inside, and shouting at her to come down didn’t do any good. He decided to let her cool off while he made a cup of tea. Maybe she’d be all grown up about it and see the error of her ways. Dominque snorted loudly. Yeah, right!
    He checked his messages as the kettle boiled. He saw two from Suzie and sighed. Despite cutting down his future bookings, they were still pushing him to do more, but with everything going on at home, he couldn't take the amount of clients he wanted to.
    He paused seeing who wanted to book him. Jacob.
    The man had been on his mind since they last met, but the last thing Dominque expected was to see another booking. He sent a one word reply back. Why? Then he waited as he made his tea. He got a quick reply back.
    Date only. Down to your new BFF Bettina hassling him.
    Oh. Dominque understood immediately. He’d wondered if she would call Jacob up pressing him to meet up again. Bettina had talked to him regularly over the last two weeks, and despite the fact he liked her, he couldn't be honest and meet up with her knowing how things were with Jacob. He thought he would give it another month then say they’d split up, but now there was this date. The date he didn’t have to take.
    I don’t know. This Saturday? It’s so soon. No time to plan and no sitter for the evil one
    I’ll do it if you want to fit him in
    Let me think about it xxx
    Dominque thought hard for half an hour, and then decided to do something he only did when he had to play a specific role. He asked for Jacob’s direct