For Real (SPIRES #3) by Alexis Hall EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Laurie
“Look, I’ve come straight from work, and I’ve had a really long day, and I
simply haven’t had time to slip into a spiky collar or a mesh shirt or
whatever else you deem necessary to get into your haven of safe, sane, and
consensual depravity.”
That was me, making an arse of myself on the door of Pervocracy, the
club that was supposed to be different, and inevitably wouldn’t be.
But everything I’d said was true. It had been a really long day. And I’d
always hated the requirement to dress up. It was almost as if the Scene ran
on fairy-tale logic: A pauper in a ball gown was a princess. A wolf in a
nightcap, a grandma. A wanker in a pair of leather trousers, a dom.
The alternative-lifestyle pixie (otherwise known as community volunteer)
didn’t look very impressed with me. I couldn’t really blame her. Even
putting aside my lack of interest in communicating my sexual inclinations
by wearing a silly hat, I’d been unnecessarily rude.
I tried for a more conciliatory tone. “I’m on the list. Dalziel.”
She fingered her iPad. “D-e-e-l—what?”
“D-a-l-z—”
She gave me an Are you fucking kidding? look.
I could have said “Like Dalziel and Pascoe,” but there was such a
frighteningly high possibility she was barely alive in 1996 that I decided to
give up instead. The universe clearly didn’t want me to go to a BDSM club.
Which was absolutely fine with me because I agreed.
“Forget it.”
I turned to make my escape, when the door to the gender-neutral toilets
behind her burst open, and the two—for want of a better term—friends who
had insisted I come out tonight tumbled into the corridor. Sam seemed to be
dressed as a steampunk pirate. Grace was wearing a rainbow-patterned
corset and extremely frilly knickers. They had no problem at all
communicating their sexual inclinations by wearing silly hats.1
“He’s with us, he’s with us! Laurie, come back.”
I came back.
The pixie hesitated. “He’s with you?”
“Yeah, I vouched for him. Look.” Grace leaned over in a squish of
breasts and lace and tapped the screen.
“But”—the pixie pouted—“costume is mandatory. It’s important to the
culture of the club.”
“I am in costume,” I snapped. “I’m in costume as a really tired and pissed
off trauma doctor trying to get into a BDSM club in the vain hope of
meeting a not-too-cack-handed stranger who’ll whip him into some
semblance of satisfaction before he goes home again.”
“It’s a good effort,” said Sam, deadpan. “Very convincing.”
“Fine. Fine.” The ALP gave a despairing wave, green-painted fingernails
gleaming. “Go on in.”
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