"Hey you!" Elizabeth beamed as she came out of the plane. Alex smiled a happy smile and hugged the woman.
"How was New Orleans?" Alex asked her.
"Boring!" Elizabeth laughed. "There is only so much statistics a person can handle!" This got Alex to laugh. She seemed to be hovering just off the ground and Elizabeth wondered why. Alex was almost skipping down the walk.
"So what have you been doing with our man?" Elizabeth asked her. She assumed it was Gavin as the girl was just head over heels for him. Her eagerness showing her desire for him.
"Whatever he wants!" Alex laughed.
"Good girl!" Elizabeth nudged. "I take it he is on a call?"
"Yes," Alex frowned.
"You will begin to hate that as much as I do after a while," Elizabeth warned with a deep exhale. She wouldn't miss that at all. Gavin leaving for a call. She hated that he would drop everything and go when the cell phone rang.
"I'm there," Alex huffed.
"How was the dinner with Pavel?" Elizabeth asked with disdain remembering one of the reasons she was happy to be on a business trip instead of here in Chicago. She didn't have to put on a fake smile and tolerate the uncouth Russian! She
hated
the way Gavin was with Pavel! Hated that she had to endure the way the men acted with one another. Hated that Gavin would change completely when the Russian was around. That and the fact the man was just flat out rude!
"Fantastic!" Alex raved. "He was so funny!"
"It must take little to impress you," Elizabeth frowned with a shake of head. Simpleton. How could she like Pavel? The girl may just be one step up from common.
"Come on!" Alex laughed. "The man is utterly brilliant!"
"If you say so," said an unimpressed Elizabeth. "Did he drink too much? What am I saying, of course he did!"
"He doesn't get to do that over there," Alex defended. Elizabeth was ruining her buzz of good news. She was excited for opportunity of the show. Excited she got to see the real Gavin. Excited to have met the two people Gavin loved in his life. That meant the most to him. That was an honor for her! It was like meeting a guy's parents for the first time! "I would let my hair down too!"
"So you didn't have to bail them out?" Elizabeth teased catching the tone of the woman by her side and decided to not to push.
"No, it was actually very educational," Alex shrugged. She could tell Elizabeth didn't like Pavel, and she didn't like Gavin with Pavel either.
"So what else has happened?"
"Gavin has arranged a show of my work at Maole's!" Alex gushed almost dancing on her tip toes.
"Really?" Elizabeth stopped walking and Alex turned. She nodded with a smile that needed its own runway.
"I'm super excited!"
"I can see that," Elizabeth forced a smile.
"What's wrong?" Alex asked when Elizabeth didn't seem to like the fact she had a show.
"Nothing," Elizabeth assured. "Just tired."
That was a lie. What was really bothering her was that she let Royce take advantage of her. Granted it wasn't her fault he was the way he was. That he was a user. That he used her drug induced state to fuck her. Part of her was horrified, part excited. Not about being taken. That she would never approve of. It was a chance to push Royce into what she truly wanted. To move up in the world of power. Royce was a vehicle for that. He used her, she would use him right back. He fucked her for sexual power. She would fuck him for political power. She knew she could twist him the way she wanted.
Still there was a tinge of regret that she broke a vow she made to Gavin. Granted the use of drugs was also a violation but she didn't consider it the same. The drugs were just Gavin's hang up. If he would just try them he would enjoy them. Then maybe he wouldn't be such a stickler about them.
"How was your trip?" Gavin asked kissing her temple as she sat at the dinner table.
"Boring," Elizabeth told him. She had been stewing since Alex told her about the showing.
She wondered why Gavin was helping her when he wouldn't help her in her endeavor of moving up in the lobbyist world. Months ago she wanted Gavin to use his contacts to get her in touch with some of the political elite that Gavin knew and took care of. He had told her at the time that he was a doctor, not a politician. He was there to take care of them not use them for political favors. It would have helped her career but he didn't use his influence to do so. Yet he did for Alex?
"Nothing of note happened?" Gavin asked as he kissed Alex on her temple before running his fingers across her neck. He sat and poured himself a glass of wine. Alex got up and left the table disappearing into the kitchen.
Elizabeth looked to Gavin, and for a fleeting second she worried that Gavin already knew. Knew she had gotten high. Knew she had been fucked by Royce. Yes he took advantage of her while she was out on the heroin. Not able to give her consent. But would Gavin still hold her responsible because she shouldn't have taken the heroin? Would he say if you were clean as I command that would have never came up? He wouldn't have taken advantage of you while you were off her drug induced state in the land of Nod?
Alex came back and set a plate in front of him before sitting down herself to her plate of dinner. Gavin looked to the plate for a second before turning his eyes to Alex.
"What?" Alex asked him noting a tinge of anger in his eyes.
"You don't have to serve me dinner like a common slave," Gavin said brusquely.
"I didn't," Alex told him sharply. "I brought you a damn dinner in." She tried to reel in her anger. Why would this upset Gavin? Why was everyone trying to ruin her giddy buzz of her show?
"I can serve myself dinner," Gavin told her. "I'm supposed to take care of you."
"Jesus!" Alex gasped. "It's a dinner plate!" Gavin closed his eyes before exhaling deeply.
"Sorry," Gavin admitted as he picked up her hand and kissed it before brushing his lips over the knuckles causing her to melt. "I know a lot of Doms treat their subs like slaves, I don't want to get lazy in my obligations."
"Your obligations are more than fulfilled," Alex told him as she went back to her dinner.
"Alex," Gavin began again sensing her anger. This caused Elizabeth to lift her eyes from her dinner plate. Shocked that Gavin would address her so common.
"Alex?" Alex asked not looking at him. She left her head down as she stared at her plate.
"Shit," Gavin laughed as he realized what he said. "I'm fucking up all over!"
Elizabeth looked on with an anger welling in her. Now she could see what Royce meant when he said he would forget her and turn to his new pet. Gavin was letting his guard down with Alex, something he never did with her.
"Alexandria," Gavin began again. "I'm sorry."
"So am I," Alex smiled at him. "I know I used to hate being called Alexandria, but when you say it...it means so much more now."
"I understand," he smiled. "My Alexandria." She nearly danced out of her chair.
"
So the cleanup effort is making progress?" Gavin asked looking back to Elizabeth who did her best to hide her burgeoning jealousy.
"Yes," Elizabeth frowned. "It's still leaking, but it's under control."
Gavin nodded as he began eating.
"Alexandria seemed to like Pavel," Elizabeth pointed out watching Gavin eat.
She would have to end this arrangement soon. That would make Royce happy. She looked to Alex and the new girl was stealing glances at Gavin through a sideways glance of her eyes. Looking at him but not turning her head to him to look at him.
Part of her was happy she brought Alex in, but this was still her man. They were obligated to one another. He's not supposed to move on until she gave him his out. That was his promise to her. She would always be first, now she could see that position slipping from her. Then she remembered, Gavin hadn't broken his vow. She had. Multiple times.
She liked her business trips. They allowed her the freedom to play with her drugs. She loved the feel of them. She never understood why Gavin was so against them. The worst punishment she had ever received was when Gavin found out she had snorted a line of coke. He threatened to kick her out of the condo, to become the first sub he had ever kicked out. He would not tolerate drug use. She didn't understand it. This went beyond legal worry about drugs for him, but she couldn't figure out why he hated it so much. She figured it was just a power play.
Alex and Elizabeth sat side by side in the submissive position. Gavin looked at them as he came in from doing the dishes.