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Kala snorted. “I know you have physical needs. I also knowdamn well you didn’t shove your pussy in his face and tell him to eat his fill.You are way more subby than that. Again, something he didn’t take into account.There’s a difference between being sweet and being truly submissive. Needing adominant sexual partner to bring out your nasty side. Oww.”
Kala leaned forward because her dad had gently smacked herwith a rolled-up newspaper.
Big Tag frowned down at his daughter. “No using the word sexualin my presence. Bad Kala. Bad.”
He kept moving toward the back of the plane.
“That’s right. Run away, you crotchety hypocrite,” Kalashouted.
“I should have brought my water spray bottle,” Big Tagshouted back. “All the puppies need training.”
Kala growled. “If he wasn’t my boss…”
“He’s your dad.”
“Wouldn’t matter,” Kala replied. “He did teach me the fineart of survival of the fittest. I would take him out in a heartbeat.”
She wouldn’t. Kala loved her dad, but the obnoxiousness wasone of their ways of communicating, and she wasn’t going to let that get in theway of this seemingly important discussion. “We don’t know that I have a deeplysubmissive sexual side. All of my play at The Hideout has been for demopurposes only. It never got emotional or really sexual. I never found a top Iwanted to do more with. I guess it seemed weird to even try to play in front ofTJ. He didn’t play in front of me, though I know he does at the other club.”
“I think he blows off steam at Lodge’s place, and he triesto make sure Seth doesn’t get murdered. Seth has a love-hate thing with ChloeLodge. I can’t tell if he loves to hate her or hates to love her. Either way,he could die.”
Chloe Lodge was the daughter of the infamous Julian Lodge.Who might or might not have mob ties. Probably not. He probably put that outthere to scare the crap out of everyone, but he was an intimidating man, andnot in the lovable Big Tag way. The fact that Kala’s brother had a weird thingfor her was interesting. “I’m voting on death wish. But that doesn’t change thefact that he does play. Do you know if he’s ever had a sub?”
“No,” Kala answered. “TJ never plays with anyone for morethan a couple of nights from what I’ve gotten out of Seth and Lucas.”
And that was what she really wanted to know. “So you watchTJ to make sure he doesn’t hurt me. Kala, you have to stop that. You have tolet whatever happens happen. I need to know that you’re not going in behind myback and threatening the guys I date.”
“I haven’t done that since high school.”
Lou stared at her.
Kala sighed. “Okay, college. But nothing since then. Ishowed remarkable restraint not introducing myself to that douchebag professoryou were seeing that first year teaching.”
He was only partially a pretentious blowhard. But they’d hadso much in common. He’d understood her when she talked about abstractmathematical structures. He got her science jokes. He’d been her intellectualequal in every way. So why had he bored her? And she wasn’t a fool. She’d knownwhy Kala hadn’t pushed to meet him. “You knew it wouldn’t last long. You knewyou were close to getting your team and bringing me on. Did you have a singledoubt I wouldn’t leave everything I’d worked for to follow you?”
“It wasn’t about following,” Kala argued. “It was aboutjoining, and everything you worked for led here. We worked for. I guess Ithought once you were on the team, he would see you differently.”
Lou felt her jaw drop. “Are you telling me you want me withTJ?”
Kala shrugged in that nonchalant way of hers. “Nothing’s changed.I still want you in my family.”
She leaned forward and took Kala’s hand in hers. Sometimesher best friend could be standoffish. She wasn’t the most physicallyaffectionate person, but she needed it. “I am in your family. Me not having thelast name Taggart doesn’t change that. I am never going to leave you. It’s youand me for life, and no man is going to change that.”
“Tash is already moving out.”
“Of course she is, but she’s still your sister.” She hadn’tbeen thinking about how poorly Kala handled change. Tasha had lived with themfor the last couple of years. “She’s never not going to be in your life. Justlike I won’t. But that isn’t a good enough reason for me to force TJ into arelationship with me.”
“Force?” Kala growled a little, a sure sign she was gettingannoyed with all the emotional stuff. “Who do you think was right by my sidewhen I threatened to ruin Dennis?”
“I know TJ was there, but that was high school.”
“Was it? Do you know why Fred broke up with you?” Kalaasked.
Fred. He’d been a guy she’d seen for almost two years atMIT. She’d actually considered he could be a good partner. Again. Lots ofinterests in common, and he seemed like a genuinely nice man. He’d explainedthat he’d found another woman and couldn’t stay away from her. “He was cheatingon me.”
“Oh, if only it was that easy,” Kala mused. “That feelssadly normal. No. He was planning on using your theorems as his senior project.I know because I hacked his system and monitored his ass the whole time youdated him.”
Shock hit her. “What?”
