Roped, Eliza Gayle [hardest books to read .txt] 📗

women of the club, she’d been forced to admit that her plus-size figure might not measure up for most of the men here. But she had no intention of letting that deter her from enjoying the atmosphere of the club and spending a few hours a week with like-minded people who at least wouldn’t consider her thoughts and desires perverse or disgusting like her ex did.

“Katie, are you okay?”

She jerked her head up, surprised to find herself standing next to Quinn and Leo’s private table and Quinn’s gaze boring into hers with concern.

“Yeah—uhm—I’m fine.” She tamped down her nervousness as best she could and gave him a small smile.

“Good, then you can sit here and watch while you wait, if you would like.”

She looked at the table of women all waiting for their turn at the ropes and her stomach fluttered all over again. She didn’t want to be one of their groupies, she just wanted to watch. This up close and personal, she didn’t think she could hide just how turned on she would get. Nor did she want to be compared to the bevy of women who hovered here, hoping they would get picked next.

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“Quinn—I’m not so sure—”

He pressed his fingers to her lips to quiet her words. “I am sure and Leo is sure. You have to start trusting sometime, Katie.” With that he turned and walked over to the platform to join Leo in tying up their latest volunteer for the swing. Leo glanced over to her and smiled at Quinn with the wickedest looking grin she had ever seen. The kind of oh, shit look that made her realize how serious they were about this.

* * * *

Two hours later, Katie still waited at the table but had begun fidgeting in the chair. Her fingers tapped out the rhythm of the song against the edge of the table, and her gaze darted everywhere in an attempt to not look at the ropes. Quinn and Leo had tied girl after girl without another word to her and her patience had run out. She wanted to either scream in frustration about being left waiting so long or stomp from the club like a child. She’d told Quinn that she wasn’t ready for this yet, but he and Leo had apparently been discussing her at length. She’d watched and waited for weeks and couldn’t be more surprised that they’d done the same. But this waiting was killing her.

She wanted to let her guard down and give them a chance, but the longer she sat there thinking about it the more she wanted to bolt. Doubts continued to plague her as she watched each new girl approach them. Why would they want to be the ones to teach her? It had been far easier to stay on the sidelines at a good distance and just watch. She glanced down at her cell phone for the umpteenth time to check the clock. Things would be winding down before long, so maybe they wouldn’t put her on display. She could hope.

Earlier in the evening when she walked through the VIP

doors, the first person she’d noticed was Leo leaning against a barstool dressed in a navy blue tee and looking through the crowd with a watchful eye. She couldn’t resist staring at him.

She’d heard many women in the club say that his bald head and tribal tattoo around his neck made him look scary. She couldn’t disagree more. The man was sexy as sin from top to bottom.

Given half the chance, she’d rub all over him like a cat in heat.

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When he caught her watching him she had immediately become self-conscious. Maybe wearing her new slim skirt and a simple black corset hadn’t been such a great idea. She had decided to leave her hair down tonight, thinking the red of it against the pale color of her skin and the dark as night corset would look good. She brushed her hands down the fabric covering her torso—she loved the new corset she’d bought. It made her feel feminine, not to mention it took several inches off her waist. If she hadn’t known better she could have sworn the look in Leo’s eyes said she looked good enough to eat.

“You look really nervous sitting there. Have you never done this before?”

Katie looked at the woman sitting across the table. “No, this is my first time.”

“You don’t have anything to worry about. Quinn and Leo there know just how to handle a woman.” The way the words rolled from the woman’s mouth sounded like experience, and sexy as hell. The dreamy look in her eyes as she watched the two men grated on Katie’s nerves. She so didn’t belong here.

She glanced again at the time, then at the tiny blonde woman with enormous silicone tits that were completely bare except for two X’s of tape covering her generous nipples. The club would be closing soon, making the blonde the last customer of the night.

So much for it being her time.

She shook her head and turned back to the woman at the table. “Yes, I just bet they do.” The woman must have caught the sarcasm in her response because she swung her head to look at Katie with a sharp, laughing look in her eyes.

“They have been eyeing you for a long time, sweetie, just waiting for you to be ready.”

“Uh huh.”

She flashed a quick smile. “You have no idea what you’re in for, do you? Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter. They’ll be sure to let you know when they are good and ready. The question you have to ask yourself is, are you ready?” She stood and walked away from the table and up to Leo and Quinn. She 11

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kissed them both soundly on the mouth and told them good luck.

She stopped again at the table on her way to the door. “Tonight you are the envy of every woman in the club.” She walked through the