Elancer (Ironside Academy Book 6) by Jane Washington

Author:Jane Washington [Washington, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

12

Put Something In His Little Worm Hole

“Perhaps the doctor was right about you, Carter,” Yulia said, striding ahead down the polished marble corridor.

Isobel glared daggers between the other woman’s shoulder blades, but her tone was neutral and matter-of-fact.

“Oh?”

“Don’t act dumb,” Yulia snipped. “It no longer suits you. I’m saying you did well tonight. You may prove useful to us yet.”

“I live to serve.”

“You live for the attention, Carter. But no matter, that also suits you.”

How such intelligent people could be so glaringly stupid at times was beyond Isobel. Unless … they were playing her again. She sighed, carefully examining the idea that she had been building inside her head since Yulia came to fetch her from the private box.

It seemed like the best way forward, but it was risky. Still, she needed a way to make contact with Amina, which meant she needed a way to open those doors during a performance entirely based around the premise of those doors never opening.

“I was thinking …” she ventured, “what if I don’t dance?”

“Too bad. They’ve paid to watch you dance.”

“What if I give them something better?”

Yulia shot her a look over her shoulder. “Like what?”

“I’ll need one of the professors,” Isobel said, swallowing hard.

“Another trade?” Yulia shot her another look, but this time, she laughed. “Look how far you’ve come. Well, go on, I’m listening, and you have exactly three minutes before I get bored.”

“I don’t know … kink,” Isobel forced out, her stomach clenching uneasily. “But the professors do. They can instruct me—in the room, I mean.”

“Instruct you in what, Carter?”

“Domination.” She expected the word to make her sick, but instead, it sparked the barest sense of power. She liked the notion that she might be able to walk into a room intended to strip her of autonomy and put her on display, only to flip all of that around on the assholes paying to be there. “You could give them something and tell them to slip it beneath the door if they want to be dominated by me.”

Yulia stopped walking, turning to face her completely. “I like this,” she said plainly. “But as clever as you are, you don’t exactly scream dominant.”

“That’s why I need one of the professors. They’ll tell me what to do. I’ll do it.”

“The ultimate cuckold fantasy.” Yulia looked like she was about to pee herself over the person-shaped stack of riches wrapped in Isobel’s dress and standing in Isobel’s shoes. “Goddamn, I really like it. Fine, you can have Mikel Easton. I was beginning to think I would have to pay his clients to take him instead of the other way around, anyway.”

Isobel trailed her with a frown, imagining bludgeoning her with every painting and statue they passed until they were outside the same dressing room Yulia had shown her to earlier.

“Wait in here,” Yulia ordered. “Your performance begins in twenty minutes, and I have a lot to prepare. I think … yes, golden slips of paper. Golden tickets.” She smirked. Isobel had no idea what she was talking about.

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