Find Me in Pleasure by Julie Kenner

Author:Julie Kenner [Kenner, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Dark, Romance, Erotica, BDSM
Published: 2015-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

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After the meeting, I borrow a skirt and blouse from Callie, then hang out with the girls in the members area at Dark Pleasures.

“The VIP room is the place if we want to just kick back,” Jessica says as the waiter brings us each a glass of scotch. “But for people watching and catching up on gossip, it’s way more fun in here.”

She’s right, and while we sip scotch and chat about everything from the various jobs of the members who are scattered about—including two actors I recognize from a recent run on Broadway—to our own careers, I can’t help but think how nice it is to just sit and talk with other women. Jessica is smart and funny and really did go to med school. Harvard, actually, class of 1945. The very first year that Harvard Medical School admitted women.

“I’d been a healer before that,” she says. “But for a long time I was considered a charmer or even a witch.” She shrugs. “Those were fun times. Not.”

“Jessica was actually burned at the stake once,” Dagny says, to which Callie and I reply in unison, “Seriously?”

Jessica nods. “Laying low is not my strong suit. Drives Liam crazy.”

“The hell it does,” Dagny counters. “Like he’d want a woman who’s quiet and demur.”

Jessica’s brows rise just slightly. “Are you suggesting I’m not demur?” she asks, and we all laugh.

“I know Callie’s a lawyer,” I say to Dagny. “But what do you do? Other than Phoenix Security, I mean.”

“That’s it,” she says. “But it’s more than you think.” Her smile is thin and very smug. “A few of us—including Mal and Raine, by the way—have put in time with various intelligence agencies. Honing our skills, you know. I’ve worked at the CIA, done a stint at ATF, did the Pinkertons thing for a while, but back then I had to be the office girl. And,” she adds, falling into a British accent, “I put in a full ten years with MI-6.”

I glance at Callie. “Did you know that?”

“Not a clue.” She narrows her eyes at Dagny. “How do you deal with the background checks?”

“Oh, please. You live long enough you figure out how to do all sorts of things. Not to mention, these days people believe anything that’s in their database. And Raine can fix any database to match any situation.”

I sit back and finish my scotch, astounded by the world I’ve fallen into. “It’s amazing.”

“What is?” Dagny asks.

“This. You guys. Well, us.” I frown, because I’m a part of this too, now. “It’s the stuff of fantasies. Or psychoses,” I add sardonically.

“You’re not crazy, Christina,” Jessica says, and her voice and smile are so soft and gentle that I can’t help but wonder if she knows about my mother. Even as the thought enters my head, I realize that she must. Because Jessica is a doctor, and as far as she’s concerned, I’m her patient, and she would have gone out of her way to find out everything she can about me.

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