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dealing with any men.  Firm, confident, poised.
   
    "Rick," said the blonde
without facial hair.  He shook her hand too.  
    "Well now I feel left
out," complained Chris, and he claimed her hand as Angel laughed. 
Chris was fun.  
    Turning to the gorgeous blonde
with the well-trimmed mustache and goatee, Angel held out her hand, arching her
eyebrow.  He took it slowly, deliberately, almost as if he was testing
her.  The easy confidence of his movements took her breath away, and the
warmth of his hand wrapped around hers was almost enough to make her knees
buckle.  All of them were deliciously authoritative, but unlike the other men
there was something about the way he was looking at her, touching her, that
wasn't quite flirtatious but was definitely sexual.  Covering her
immediate response, which was arousal, Angel raised her eyebrows at him and
pulled her hand away.  
    "Adam," he said, after
she'd removed her hand from his.  He rubbed at the sides of his mustache with
his thumb and forefinger, observing her so intently that for a moment she
worried that he knew she was wet, just from his handshake.  Geezus he was
extremely alpha and she was a little shaken by how much he affected her.   It would probably blow her cover to drop to
her knees and beg him to teach her everything he knew, right?
    "Ignore him," Chris
said, fortunately taking her attention before she did something stupid like
confess she was actually a submissive.  "He's been in a bad mood all
night."
    Adam glared at him.  "Would
you like to join us?" he asked, as if trying to prove his friend wrong.  
    "Um."  She glanced
around.  Yeah at first she had come over because she was hoping to ask them
questions but now that she’d met them she was starting to feel a little
unnerved.  Especially by Mr. Grouchy whose intense blue eyes seemed to search
her own, as if he could see into her head.  Which, considering the situation,
was more than a little unnerving.  "This is my first time at a club, I was
thinking about taking a look around."
    They all nodded understandingly.  "Feel
free to come find us later," said Chris.  "And ask any questions
that you want.  None of us are new to public scening."
    Angel smiled and thanked them,
since that had been her excuse for approaching them in the first place, before
heading off to see what else the club had to offer.  Too bad she hadn't come in
as a sub, she was actually feeling like she would have been able to trust one
of them pretty quickly.  Especially Mr. Grouchy – there had definitely been a
spark of attraction there.  
    But they seemed to have bought
that she was a Domme and they all seemed experience even though none of them
had subs with them, so hopefully she could get some good information off of
them after she’d had a look around.
    ******
    Watching Angela walk off through
the club, Adam couldn't help but notice what a fantastic ass she had.  Not just
curvy, but the kind of J-lo bubble butt that a man wanted to cup with his hands. 
The kind of cheeks that would give a man a solid grip as he pounded into her.
    Shifting a bit uncomfortably in
his seat he turned his attention back to his friends to find that they were all
staring at him.
    "What?"
    "What was with the power
play man?" Rick asked, looking at Adam a little askance.  "You don't
usually pull tricks like that.  I would have expected that from Chris but not
from you."
    "Hey," said Chris.  "I
was perfectly polite to the lady."
    Rick rolled his eyes.  "Mostly."
    All three of them looked at Adam,
even Andrew who normally didn't get involved in the interrogate-your-friends
sessions.  Since he didn’t like to talk about his own issues, he rarely got
involved in trying to talk about others unless they indicated that they wanted
to.  The fact that Adam's actions had aroused even Andrew's curiosity meant
that he'd been less subtle than he thought. 
    "I wanted to see what she
would do," he said simply.  It was the truth, but not