Russian Roulette: Family secrets [2021 version]

Ch. 42: You have a really big...

They sat in silence in the car.

Mackenzie waited for Gareth to tell her whatever it was he had difficulty saying. She could wait. They had two days before they were to meet up with Cracker and Alyssa again, though she would have preferred waiting somewhere a little nicer than in a rental car.

"I want to explain how this is going to work." Gareth finally found his words and turned in his seat to face her.

"I'm listening."

"I'm a member of The Chateau. I have my membership card and profile, and I'm registered as a Dom and a VIP member."

"I figured as much," Mackenzie smiled at the less-than-shocking information.

Gareth reached to the backseat and pulled out a little box he handed to her. "You'll need to wear that from we exit the car until we're back here again. The club is incognito. Everybody wears masks, and everybody has signed a non-disclosure agreement."

Mackenzie opened the box and found a black masquerade half-mask with featherwork and bling on it. It was beautiful. It would make her look mysterious and sexy, she was sure. For somebody who hated shopping, Gareth knew how to shop.

"There are different ways for non-members to enter. You can enter on a guest pass as a single and fend for yourself."

Gareth had barely finished the sentence before Mackenzie shook her head and gave him an 'are you nuts?' look. He laughed lightly at her, happy she did not like that option. It was his job to inform her of everything, including the parts he was not happy with.

"You can enter as my guest. I would be responsible for you, but you could at any point in there decide to place your care with somebody else, and I'd be obliged to render your guest pass to them."

"Gareth, can we just get to the one where you tell me you claim me or whatever the Chateau term is?"

Chuckling at her impatience, Gareth pulled another box from the backseat and gave it to her.

"There are other options where you are under my care. But if you wear that, you'll enter as my sub. You'll get recognized as an owned submissive, and you'll be mine fully."

"Aren't I already?" Mackenzie opened the jewelry box and gasped at the content.

It was a shiny, half-an-inch-wide silver collar. It had a small D ring the size of the collar welded to the front. On one side of the ring was a small dragon engraved, and on the other side of the ring were the words 'The Dragon'.

"Malyshka, you're mine. My wife, my friend, my lover. And sexually, you're my sub. But you're not my slave, you're not property. I'll never own you. In there, the lines are not grey and fuzzy where we know something, and they don't. It's black and white. Wear the collar and they'll recognize you as owned by me, in every sense of the word."

Mackenzie touched the collar in awe and frowned a little at his words. "Is that bad?"

"For me, no. I'd be honored and proud. For you, in terms of safety from others, no. But Dolly, you'd give me ultimate power over you. Nobody in there will help you if you say no, or if you ask me to stop. Only if you call out your safe word repeatedly, and I don't acknowledge that, somebody will step in."

The way Gareth explained it made Mackenzie's heart swell for him. She loved him so deeply for letting her know where she stood, and how things worked in there. He could easily have kept half of it from her and let her enter, unaware of what the rules were.

"Gareth," Mackenzie smiled at him, reaching to caress his cheek before she played with his hair and smoothed it back. "I've already given you ultimate power without the collar. Do you think a piece of metal changes anything?"