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his lips a breath away from her
own. The sharp tang of citrus filled her nostrils and she imagined
he’d just come from a break where he would have eaten an orange.
Did he realize even the way his hands peeled the skin from an
orange could turn a woman inside out?
    Katie sucked in a slow
breath, afraid to move. She worried he would kiss her as much as
she worried that he wouldn’t. She was in a mood tonight, and
watching the play stations hadn’t helped but instead stoked the
flames inside her until, now pressed against one of the men of her
nightly dreams, she wanted nothing more than to submit to his every
whim. She ached with the desire to be touched, to be tied, and to
be fucked by Quinn and Leo.
    He edged a little closer,
but instead of kissing her like she expected, he stroked her lips
with his tongue. A gentle touch that was more like a taste than a
kiss. He leaned into her until they were pressed together from hips
to breast, and his erection was unmistakable pushed against her
belly and pelvis. His hot tongue licked at the corner of her mouth
and along the seam of her lips. She opened farther on a soft sigh
but he only continued his exploration.
    Her own arousal went off
the charts as she rolled her hips against his. A low growl sounded
in his throat and he pulled his head back from hers. “Careful,
Katie. For a girl who professes to being happy alone, your body is
quickly making a liar out of you.”
    She clamped her mouth shut
and tried to pull back, but there was nowhere to go. He had her
against the railing and his arms still held her in place. “I think
we should stop this, people are starting to stare.”
    Quinn glanced to the side,
looking at the crowd surrounding them. “Since when do crowds bother
either of us? That’s common around here and no one really cares
what we do. In fact, they probably wish we would do more. I think
inside everyone here lies the heart of a voyeur.”
    She couldn’t argue with
that. Even she got excited watching some of the activities going on
in the private play area. Especially the flogging. It had been so
long since a flogger kissed her skin she might not remember the
sensation, but every time she came to the club and watched, she got
turned on as hell seeing the red streaks on bare flesh after a
session in a booth. She enjoyed every flinch and emotion that
crossed the faces of the submissives.
    She loved the crackling
sound of leather slapping a bare back or bottom. Oh yeah, she had
it bad tonight, and there was never a shortage of people willing to
put on a show.
    “ I can admit I enjoy
watching, but I’m not sure I want to be the one on
display.”
    The corner of his mouth
turned up in a wry smile at her words. “We’ll see about that.” He
pushed away from her and grasped her hand. “Come with
me.”
    She looked down at his
hand covering hers. The heat and desire enveloped her further from
the simple movement. His rope roughened hands scraped against her
wrist, igniting a flame deep inside her belly, the kind of thing
that she hadn’t felt in a very long time.
    “ Where are we
going?”
    “ I have to get back to work
and I don’t want you far. I wasn’t kidding when I said it was
time.”
    Not giving her a chance to
answer, he turned and pulled her into the crowd. Warm and pulsing
bodies rubbed against her as they made their way through the throng
of people clustered around the play stations. When they passed by
the last St. Andrew’s cross, a glance to the left showed her a new
girl getting flogged by Dan, a Dominant who more than knew what he
was doing. She was bare from the waist up and there were a variety
of red, criss-crossing welts on her naked back. Despite Quinn
leading her, she slowed her pace enough to take a look at the
girl’s face. Her black hair partially covered her features, but
Katie managed to catch a glimpse of cobalt blue eyes glittering
with tears. Despite the tears, or because of them, the naked
emotion glowed from her