Black Widow (Duet) by Lena Austin

Author:Lena Austin [Austin, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009901-03212
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2021-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“You -- you -- what?” Brad sputtered and sat down heavily. He rubbed a hand across his sweating forehead and reached for a cigarette. His fears redoubled like some logarithmic formula with each passing moment.

Calder choked on a laugh, leaned forward to take the lighter from Brad’s trembling hands and lit the smoke for his old pal. “You know, you say that a lot to me,” he commented, his tone soothing.

Brad took a long, sucking drag on his cigarette and swore to himself for the umpteenth time he would quit someday. Even he, “Mr. Numbers” as his clients called him, had lost track. He regarded his latest irritation with narrowed eyes. “Then stop doing the unexpected, Shrink,” he muttered. “Geezus Christ, Calder! What do you think you’re doing? One good fuck with BW and I figured you’d have enough for your article. Aren’t you supposed to be disappearing into your hole to type by now?” He tapped his ashes into the little glass ashtray Angie kept for him on his desk.

Calder returned to lounge in the large brown leather armchair and didn’t bother to smother his chuckles this time. “Never figured I’d have the stamina to keep up with Kelly?”

Calder’s arms were folded across his chest, betraying to his old buddy that he was hiding more, much more.

“Quit trying to distract me. I know damn well you’re capable of a week in Vegas with a dozen women if it pleased you.” Brad took note of the fact that Calder used BW’s name with the casual air of long use. He shouldered aside the image of Angie’s face saying she hoped for orange blossoms. Brad refused to believe it.

Calder stared at the coffered ceiling of Brad’s well-appointed home office. “Then what’s your issue, Brad? So Kelly and I are enjoying each other’s company. We share a lot of the same interests.” He caught sight of Brad’s worried face and winged an eyebrow up. “I’m not using her, old man. I’m really liking this BDSM stuff, even if Kelly is keeping it light.”

Brad stifled a groan. So Kelly was hooking Calder and reeling him in to be a sub. It was what Calder deserved, in a way, but the results could be disastrous. He decided to play it cool until he wormed more out of Calder. This would take the patience of a full corporate audit. He took another drag. “Okay, I admit that was a concern. I should have thought better of you. Tell me how your research is going.”

Calder accepted the apology with a nod, but his green eyes lit up like yacht lanterns. He planted his feet on the floor, and leaned forward. “I’m getting all I need, Brad. There’s a huge amount of psychological factors, as well as physiological responses, to BDSM that bears something even bigger than one little magazine article.” He gestured expansively. “Why, there’s a whole book of shit I could write, and more sympathetically than some old prude’s guesses based on lab results of pain studies.

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