"Awww."

He grins. "What can I say, Isabella is my one weakness, which the villain will have to somehow exploit, and then it turns out the sub will rescue the dom, and we can all pat ourselves on our backs for being so subversive."

"Truly a love story never before told."

"Well, the bit where the 'everyone lives happily ever after' part actually includes everyone is pretty new."

"Oh, we're leaving out the love triangle?"

"Who would we even triangle with?"

"In a movie? Jackson, probably, he'd be competing with me for your affections and defect to the villains when you 'discovered you were a sub'."

"Uh, yeah, there's no way, shape, or form that I'd ever be Jackson's dom. If I'd never met you I'd probably have dommed him a couple of times, but nothing remotely longer term than that."

"And then he'd probably follow you around like a sad puppy literally all of the rest of your life, I can't see that being a good idea."

"Well, maybe I could order him to go to therapy and take care of himself, then, and he'd actually get a personality and such and not be a sad puppy forever."

"Maybe. With any luck his new dom will straighten him out."

"Yeah. He hasn't been kneeling at anyone lately, and seems to really like wearing the collar." Sadde knows what that last part feels like.

Isabella laughs and reaches out and flicks Sadde right in the nameplate.

He beams! "Yes, I can definitely understand what that feels like, it feels great. I'm yooooooours!" And he leans closer to Isabella.

"All mine."

"Do I need to leave?"

"If it comes up we'll just go to Sadde's room. Sorry, Alex."

"Mmhm, and don't, I've been hers for a bit but I've only just met you."

"All right, but tone it down, I just ate."

"You did not."

"I metaphorically just ate."

"You can't just put 'metaphorically' in front of random statements and thereby make them true!"

"What would 'metaphorically eating' even look like?"

"It means that if you overdo the adorable reveling in ownership thing too much I am going to metaphorically lose my metaphorical lunch."

"Not a romantic type, huh?"