The Sassy Submissive

Ch. 17 - Master Adam Does A Little Groveling

It took longer than Adam expected to sort out the chaos which had exploded around Patrick, Lexie, and Trevor. Especially when he and his friends were having to get third hand accounts from the witnesses rather than any of the three who were actually involved. Patrick had shut down and gone stoic, Lexie was huddled in Hilary's arms crying, and Trevor was icing his jaw. And eye. And ribs.

And the kid was damned lucky it hadn't been more than that.

From what Adam could understand, when Lexie had refused to try and sneak out of the main floor with Trevor and head to one of the private rooms, her idiot boyfriend (and Adam really hoped the kid was an ex-boyfriend now) had decided the middle of the dance floor was just as good a spot to try and push things a little farther with their relationship. After all, wasn't everyone else around them? Lexie had told him no.

He bet Lexie hadn't wanted to get any extra attention and she'd probably thought Trevor, not being active in the scene and waiting for a safe word, would take the no as it was meant to be. Instead he'd kept pushing, and unfortunately for him 'no' was a pretty easy word to lip-read, which meant Patrick was there about two seconds later.

It probably would have all ended there except Trevor had chosen to get into Patrick's face about it and had accidentally ended up pushing Lexie, at which point she tripped and fell on the ground.

Exactly at what point and how Trevor had ended up with a black eye, swollen jaw, and bruised ribs, no one had been quite clear on. The punk was lucky he hadn't gotten more. Justin was guarding him with a grim look on his face, Patrick had shut himself in his office, Jessica was standing over Hilary and Lexie and not letting any of the Doms get close enough to question her, and to top everything off, Angel seemed to have disappeared.

Unfortunately, Adam wasn't able to do anything about that until they got everyone on the main floor calmed down, decided Andrew would do the spanking demonstration while Rick took over his bar duties, at which point Olivia came storming up the stairs practically breathing fire as she headed straight for Trevor.

Which meant Adam spent another twenty minutes playing "keep-away" with Olivia and calming her down.

So by the time he was finally able to go to the front desk and find out whether or not Angel was in the club, it had been over an hour since he'd left her by the wall with orders to stay put. Which, apparently, was exactly around the time she'd left.

Dammit.

He wouldn't have minded if she hadn't stayed in one spot for the time he'd been distracted. He did mind her leaving the club without talking to him, almost immediately after he'd told her not to do exactly that.

Trying to storm Patrick's office for her information proved unsuccessful, Lexie had already left with Jessica, Justin, and Chris, and Adam was reduced to texting Michael to ask for Angel's number. Which didn't help his mood any.

Deciding it was too late to call Angel, it was time to cut his losses and go home. The club was back on track and he didn't have to stick around for any further duties. Seeing yet another sub looking at him speculatively, Adam high-tailed it to the door. He didn't know what was going on with the submissives tonight but he didn't like it one bit.