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that response. “Um, can I ask why?”
    “That’s somewhat forward, isn’t it?” He raised an eyebrow at her and saw her bite her lip. Ben continued, “Didn’t you know submissives are not supposed to take the initiative? That is precisely why Laurette failed. I like my subs to be totally into the lifestyle twenty-four seven.” He grimaced to himself rather than at Kat. “She had a habit of going off and doing her own thing, not being there when I needed her. There was a time I used to think Jon liked his women like that, too.”
    Visibly bristling before him, Kat sat up straighter. “You don’t like my sister?” she asked coolly. Her voice was suddenly very authoritative and icy, the mother hen protecting her family even if she was the younger sister.
    Chuckling, he crossed his arms. He could “do” commanding, too. “Rebecca is very lovely and she and Jon are very much in love, but I have to admit to being somewhat disgusted at how easily she has prized him away from a lifestyle he was fully committed to, or at least, I thought he was.”
    He could have sworn her back straightened even more as if she had an iron rod suddenly thrust up her. Her hands were tightening on her papers.
    “Surely their lifestyle is just as valid as anyone else’s. If it works for them, why dismiss it?” It was her turn to nearly shout back at him.
    Getting annoyed with their conversation now, he felt his face tighten in anger at her response. “You clearly don’t know that arguing with a Dom is unacceptable. That is if you want to become a submissive, although I seriously doubt you do.”
    She jumped at this.
    He frowned pondering her reaction. Was it from my tone of voice, or does she have her own doubts? “And to refer back to my previous question, why are you here and not with the other women?”
    Flushing at his abrupt return to this question, she admitted, “Um, I’m finding it a bit overwhelming to be honest.” All the fight seemed to have gone out of her.
    Ben uncrossed his arms and stood, shaking his head as he did. “If you are overwhelmed by the induction, then this is not for you. I suggest you go home back to your vanilla boyfriends.” He had tempered his tone of voice, but the wince on her face told him that the words still hit her, hard.
    He turned away from her and left the room, wondering if that was the last time he would see her. Part of him was sad, and that surprised him, but he wasn’t prepared to consider why he was sad. He just knew she was not right for him. He just had to tell that to his cock.

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    She sat stunned. Her jaw dropped again by his sudden exit.
    Go home ! How dare he suggest that? He didn’t really know anything about her or why she was here. And in any case, surely this type of event was to try it out and relieve any doubts?
    And another thing—how dare he criticize her sister! It was one thing for her to have doubts about what her sister was getting into being married to a Dominant but quite another thing for someone else to do so. She only had her sister’s best interests at heart.
    Then she laughed ruefully. Of course her sister might say the same thing about her coming to an event like this without telling her. She and Ellie had kept it secret from their respective sister and brother.
    That brought her thoughts back to why exactly she was there in the first place. She bit her lip. It all led to Ben. Glancing in the direction he had gone, she sighed deeply and threw her head into her hands. That meeting had not gone well. In fact, she couldn’t recall any time when she felt good about meeting him, but that didn’t stop her wanting him—desperately.
    She realized he was the reason she had let Ellie persuade her to attend this conference, contrary to everything her conscience told her. She knew some of her attraction was lust but another element was the dominance he exuded which called to parts of her she’d never analyzed before. And now he thought she was totally