"I definitely need to see that. I have the most adorable dom."

"Aleeeeex."

"This is totally my job description!"

"It totally is! Ma'am, could you ask Alex to cover his eyes again?"

"Oh god," says Alex, covering his eyes again. "What'd I do. No. This is terrible."

Isbaella raises an eyebrow at Sadde. "Apparently it would be redundant."

"I would very much like to kiss you, is what I meant," he clarifies.

"Is that what you'd like."

"Put me out of my misery!"

Isabella laughs and kisses Sadde and then tells Alex, "Coast is clear."

He does make a soft whimpery noise when she looks at him that way, though, and is grinning happily after the kiss.

"You people are impossible," pronounces Alex.

"Hmmm, I think of all things we'll end up doing, 'being a couple' is probably the least impossible."

"Bleah."

"You'll understand when you find a nice sub for yourself," he laughs.

"I don't really date."

"...why the present tense?"

"I have ever dated? And now I don't."

"Right, but I mean... Never mind."

Scritch scritch.

"I've technically been on more dates than Bella, actually, but never collared anybody."

"Isabella's my first, uh, everything."

"Lucky find."

"Serendipity," he repeats.

"That's not really an explanation, it's just a description."