He's Fire and She's Playing with It - Mafia Version

Chapter 4: Gangsta

Leo and Ally were sitting on the opposite sides of the sofa, drinks in hand, and fully engaged in conversation.

"That's your worst story?" she asked and laughed.

He took a sip of his drink and nodded. "What? How was that not a crazy story? She threw the pack of screws right in front of my feet. She was an old lady!"

He waited for some kind of surprised reaction but Ally hadn't stop laughing. It was a sweet sound. Infuriating because she was laughing at him, but sweet.

"It's just that that's my every day! I'm a woman, men try to scare me all the time. Maybe not by throwing things at my feet, although that has happened, but by making themself tall and coming closer, or scream in my face."

His smile faded while she talked. "That's not funny. That's abuse"

She leaned back and sighed. "I don't know if it's abuse but I have to look at it with humour, otherwise I'd be going crazy."

Ally was dressed in a hoodie and a black lace thong. She nervously pulled on the edge of the hoodie to try to cover up. He had noticed that it was something she did when she felt emotionally exposed. He decided that it was time to change the subject.

"What did you think about tonight?"

She raised her eyebrow. "What do you think about tonight?"

He put down his drink on the living room table and moved closer to her. His hand caressed her neck before finding her chin and forcing her to look him in the eyes.

"Don't answer a question with a question."

She drew a quick breath. He liked that his touch affected her. Maybe this could be the start of something interesting.

"I had fun", she replied. "Did you?"

He kissed her, slowly and deeply.

"I enjoyed it", he mumbled against her lips before letting her go and pulling back.

It was time to come clean. "I'm a dom."

She didn't seem all too surprised by the announcement.

"You knew?" he asked.

She shrugged. "Not that you're a dom, but dominant, sure." She tilted her head. "You're dominant full time."

It wasn't a question but he replied anyway: "Yes, and preferably I would have someone to control."

"And you think that should be me?"

Leo took Ally's drink and put it down on the table. His eyes had darkened.

"Yes."

The word sent chills down her spine.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea."

He was taken aback by her answer.

She put a hand up. "It's not you", she reassured. "I just can't have someone control my whole life. What are you going to decide, what I wear? No, thank you."

He seemed relieved. "That's not what I want."

"It's not?"

That put the whole situation on a spin.

"We would put together a list of rules. What you accept, what I would do if you broke them, and what's a big no no for you."

She looked at him. Was this really a good idea?

"We could try it out, see what you think about it."

He kissed her, carefully and calming. Before she even had time to think about it, she whispered "Yes." against his lips.

He grinned.

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Ally was trying to find a customer the right kind of screws for his walls. She was talking sweetly but he seemed to lose his patience. He had walked into the situation with a bad mood and had snapped at her to get her attention.

Leo didn't like what he saw, but he let her control it. Like she had said the night before, she was used to it. He worked in the warehouse today so he had barely seen her expect when passing through her department on his way to lunch. He had smiled at her and her cheeks had turned pink before returning the smile.

He shifted his focus back to the situation. It was escalating ever so slowly.

"What do you mean you're out of stock?" The customer shouted. "I just saw someone walking past with it."

She was beginning to lose her patience. "That was the last pack. I'm sorry."

The customer took a step closer to her. Leo tensed up.

"Then take it from her", he said referring to the woman who had gotten the last pack of screws especially made for wooden surfaces.

Ally crossed her arms over her chest and stood her ground. She wasn't going to let this man scare her.

"I can't do that."

"I was here first!"

And there it was, Leo noticed, the end of her patience. "Even children know how to behave in a situation like this."

Before she had time to react the customer closed the distance between them.

"You don't know what I could do to you."

Leo acted fast.

Ally was surprised when a set of big arms closed around her waist and moved her away. Leo put himself between them.

"Walk away." He spit out the word as if they were poison.

His whole body was burning with rage and when she tried to put her hand on his shoulder to calm him, he caught it and pressed it to her side. His right arm still hadn't let go of her waist.

The customer seemed to have an inner battle, which the flight ability won. He raised his hands to show that he gave up and walked away. Leo watched him until he was outside the registers. Then he grabbed Ally's hand and dragged her with him so that a shelf was blocking them from view.

"Are you okay?"

She smiled a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. "Yes." He let go of her. "What are you going to say? That I put myself in danger?"

He shook his head. "No. It's good that you stood your ground. If you hadn't he would just come back and do it again."

She relaxed. "Good." She wasn't ready for her first punishment after just a day. She knew it would come soon enough. Breaking the rules was more often than never a choice of hers, but usually no one was observing her in the process. It would be hard to change the habit.

He lifted her head up. "What are the rules?"

He had made her repeat them several times the night before. She could still hear his voice.

"Don't put yourself in danger.

Take proper care of yourself. Eat, sleep, etcetera.

Use your safe word if I ever push you too far.

Be respectful.

Don't lie."

"Doesn't seem too hard." She smiled sweetly even though it would definitely be a challenge.

"I'll punish you if you break them."

The sentence made her stomach jump. "How?"

"Whatever I feel like. Could be spanking, could be fucking, could be withholding orgasms, or something completely different."

She liked the sound of that. "And your rules?"

His eyes narrowed and he used her hair to drag her closer to him.

"I can't decide what you wear, who you hang out with, or where you go."

Ally listed their rules to Leo. He smiled.

"Good."