Aryn's Desire: A BOLD Security Novel (Finding Submission Book 1) by Zoey Derrick Page B

black BTUs and a black t-shirt. Not much different than I am and she too is packing. “Dex wants to leave. I’m trying to find my way back to the house.”  
    She laughs, “This way.”  
    She turns around, leading me back the way she’d just come. “Thanks,” I tell her and she nods.  
    “I was just coming to get you.”  
    “Oh, for?”  
    “Dex wants to go out,” she laughs.  
    I roll my eyes.  
    “Here you go,” she says as she turns toward me and ushers me down the hallway that leads into the kitchen area of the main floor.  
    “Thanks.”  
    She gives me a sweet, knowing smile before leaving me to find my way.  
    I walk down the hall until it opens into the kitchen and now I need to figure out what direction I need to go. The kitchen is bustling with four different people, all dressed in white chef jackets and black pants. I look to my left and see where I need to go and I go there.  
    Stepping into the great room, everything is… “What the hell?” I turn around, thinking I’m in the wrong place, only to see the front door and the grand staircase and I realize that I’m in the right room. But it is practically empty of all the furniture that was here yesterday.  
    “Big, huh?”  
    I look at Dex who’s walking toward me from the other side of the staircase from where I’m at.  
    “You can say that again. Where’d it all go?”  
    He smiles. “Into the basement. The party will be held in here tonight.”  
    I nod in understanding. “So, where are we going?”  
    “Just into town. Cotah says that there is a nice little boutique there and Raine wants to look around.”  
    I give him a questioning look. “We’re in the middle of nowhere. What could this shop have that Los Angeles doesn’t?”  
    He gives me a knowing smirk. “You’ll see.”  
    “We ready?” Raine says as she comes bounding down the stairs, Cotah in tow.  
    “I am,” I tell her.  
    Derek comes out of a room off the great room. “Afternoon, Beck,” Derek says. “Can I talk to you for a minute?”  
    “Of course,” I say, leaving Dex to return to Raine and Cotah.  
    “Everything alright?” I ask Derek as I approach.  
    “Absolutely. Cotah would like to go with, do you mind?”  
    “Not at all. Anything I need to know?”  
    He shakes his head. “Nah, she’ll behave. She wants this play party more than anything, and she knows how to be a good girl.” He chuckles slightly. “I know the shop owner and I usually let Celeste stay outside while she’s inside, but you might want to investigate the store yourself, you know, for tonight.”  
    “What kind of store is this?”  
    “To the public? A clothing store. To a select few, well, I’ll let you guess on that one. I’d like you to drive.” He hands me a set of keys. “The car is gassed and outside. I had them program the GPS, but Cotah knows the way.”  
    “Yes, sir.”  
    My acknowledgement causes him to give a little upturn of his lips. I’m not really sure I understand it, so I let it go.  

    We pull up in front of a shop in the center of a small town near Derek’s estate. I don’t know the name of the town, but I imagine there isn’t a whole lot to do in this town on a Friday or Saturday night.  
    “Cotah, this looks like a clothing store,” Raine says. “I don’t need…”  
    “Hush, looks can be deceiving,” Cotah says with a tease as she opens the door and climbs out.  
    Irritated that she beat me to it, I climb out of the truck and scan the streets. There are people milling about, but nothing seems suspicious and I escort the three of them into the shop.  
    “Hello Dacotah,” an older woman greets her.  
    “Hello Mistress Sara,” Dacotah responds with a bow of her head.  
    Mistress?
    “Who are your guests?” Mistress Sara asks.  
    “This is Master Dex and his slave.”  
    I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to Dex and Raine being referred to like that, but Mistress Sara comes around the