The honeymoon had been without doubt the best two weeks of Alexa's life. Somehow, she had come out of it loving Clementine even more than ever. Married life, especially married life without having to work, was very special. Clementine had felt the same way, leading her to bring up the subject of Alexa giving up her career as an escort.
Retiring to be with Clem a lot more often had always been the plan. Ten years had been the original number Alexa had estimated for how long she needed to go on. By then, she would have made enough money to be in a position to never need to work again. Now, there was a different business model to consider.
"You have Bayley working for you now. She's doing a great job, making good money for the company," Clem had pointed out. "Might it be possible for you to step back and have other girls out there making the money instead of you? You could stick to running the admin side of it."
Alexa liked doing what she did for a living. On the other hand, it was understandable that Clem struggled with the idea of her wife being fucked by other people most nights of the week. Who wouldn't find that hard to deal with?
"Maybe there is something in that idea," Alexa had conceded. "I wouldn't have thought so before Bayley came in and did so well. But now? Maybe you're right. Even if I go with this idea, I'm going to have to keep working for a couple of years or so at least while Bayley and whatever other girls I employ gain experience."
"That's fair enough," Clem had said, banking the potential huge win while it was there for her. Two years was a hell of a lot better than ten. "Do you have anyone in mind who might hire?"
"Actually, I do," Alexa had said, smiling.
In her car, on her way to her first post-honeymoon booking, Alexa made a call.
"Hello?" the recipient said, the voice coming through the car's speaker system.
"Hi, Nikki," Alexa said cheerfully.
"Lexi! Hi! How was your honeymoon?" Nikki cried, obviously delighted to hear from her.
"It was wonderful. Truly wonderful. Without a doubt the trip of a lifetime."
"I'm happy to hear that," Nikki gushed. Then her tone became sultrier. "Do you have nice tan?"
"Oh yeah," Alexa assured her. "You would love it."
"I know I would," Nikki purred.
Alexa wasn't all that far from her destination, so she told herself to get to the point. She had already planned ahead with regard to how to put what she was about to say. "I was talking with Clem about how well Bayley has been doing since she started with A Moment of Bliss. Having other ladies out there making money is a business model I had avoided, but it's working well. I'm looking to take someone else on, and I know someone who would be literally perfect for it."
"Who? Wait, you mean me?" Nikki asked as it dawned on her.
"Yes, I mean you," Alexa said, grinning at the reaction. "You're beautiful, confident, outgoing, and you love kinky sex. I couldn't pick anyone more suited to this line of work than you if I tried. I know you don't need the money, so I can only ask if it's something you would enjoy doing?"
"You're serious about this?" Nikki asked, and for a moment Alexa wondered if she had offended her friend and client. Asking someone if they wanted to be a hobby wasn't exactly a usual thing to do. "There's no way I'd work with ugly, sweaty men, Alexa. But being paid to tie up and gag sexy ladies? That I could get on-board with. I'd be making money to have the time of my life."
"I'm prepared to give you a yes or no decision on any bookings you get, and we can make sure they're only ones involving bondage if that is what you would like. I know you won't be full time; you have other business interests. What I'm offering is for you to take bookings when you want them, with whoever you want to accept."
"Let me have a think about it," Nikki said. "I'll come back to you, and we can maybe discuss the money side of it."
"Take as long as you need," Alexa said, now confident that the answer was going to be yes. Adding such a glamorous beauty as Nikki to the Moment of Bliss line up would be quite a coup.
They said their goodbyes, and Alexa ended the call. It was time for her attention to shift to the booking that she was about to start. Thankfully, it looked like being a fairly simple one to ease her back into business mode following her break.
Shortly, she was pulling her BMW onto the driveway of a large house in what was evidently a fairly wealthy neighbourhood. She parked up next to some kind of big American muscle car, the make and model lost on her. The client was a boy who liked his noisy toys, it seemed.
Before getting out of the car, Alexa took off her wedding ring and stashed it in the glove compartment for safe keeping. It wasn't nice to have to take it off, but the fact was that no one wanted to think about the escort they had hired being married to someone. Besides, for tonight's booking, the wedding ring definitely wouldn't be appropriate.
Getting out of the car, Alexa didn't need to go to the trunk. Her travel case wasn't going to be needed this time. All she had to do was straighten out her sparkly silver dress. The skirt was very short, so it wasn't a difficult task.
Happy with her appearance, she walked up to the front door and rang the bell.
The door was opened about twenty seconds later by a real mountain of a man, wearing an expensive grey business suit and a white shirt. He was handsome too, Alexa thought, despite being significantly older than her. "Hi. Please, come in," he said, speaking a bit more softly than she had expected based on his appearance.
"Thank you. I'm Alexa. Nice to meet you," she said, giving him one of her best smiles as she walked into the house. It was brightly lit, in contrast the late evening darkness outside.
"Nice to meet you. Dave Batista," he said, although she obviously already knew his name. "You look even more beautiful in person."
"Thank you," she smiled. "You look great too. That's a very nice suit."
"Thanks. Please, go through," he said, motioning her down the hallway.
At the end of the hallway, Alexa could see a living room. The closer she got, the more it stood out as very modern in terms of architecture and furnishing, and very clean for a bachelor pad. Dave probably paid someone to come and do his housekeeping, she assumed.
"Have a seat," Dave said, offering her either of the two dark grey leather couches.
Alexa sat, knowing that she wouldn't be there long. They would soon be leaving for the club that he owned, where the substance of the booking would begin.
"Can I get you anything? Coffee, or something stronger?" he asked.
"I'm good until we get to the club, thank you," she said pleasantly, looking up at him.
"Okay," Dave said, sitting down beside her. "Let's talk about what I need to happen tonight."
"Sure," Alexa said agreeably. "As I understand it, there's a woman, Dana Brooke, who regularly comes into your club. You've made advances to her, without much success."
"Without any success, pretty much," he clarified. "I've chatted to her and found out a bit about her, but any time I try and go further than that I get nowhere. I'd think she wasn't interested if she didn't keep coming back. It's so frustrating, I didn't know what else to do."
"But she does keep coming back," Alexa commented.
Dave nodded. "Yes. Every Saturday night, Dana comes in. Tonight, I want her to see me flirting with you, and getting lucky. We're going to chat at the bar, I'm going to buy you drinks, and we're going to make sure she sees us end up in a booth, where we'll be making out and stuff. Also, if the chance presents itself, I want you to talk to her before things get going between you and I. Big me up to her, and see if you can find out what she thinks of me."
"So, you're hoping that by seeing you with me, this Dana girl will feel jealous and realise what she was missing out on?" Alexa asked. It wasn't exactly the best idea she had ever heard, but if that was what the client wanted, it was what he would get.
"I mean, in an ideal world it wouldn't get that far. If I could just score with her, I'd be happy. Make that happen, and we can call the booking completed. I know you're not a matchmaker, but..."
"I'll see what I can do," Alexa promised.
"Great," Dave said happily. "Uh, we should probably get going. Dana is probably already there by this time. She usually is."
"Alright, let's go," Alexa said, getting up. "I'll follow you in my car. When we get there, I'll wait ten minutes or so before I follow you in. We don't want to show up at the same time."
"Good thinking," Dave said, also getting to his feet. "Okay, I'll lead the way. It's not all that far. I'll have a word with the doorman so that he doesn't charge you to get in."
"It's a shame I've got to drive later, otherwise I could have free drinks, too," she grinned.
"I should have made a longer booking," Dave said, and they both laughed as they headed for the front door.
A/N: Special thanks to everyone who left a review on the previous chapter.
Alexa has another recruit lined up. Do you think Nikki is going to accept the offer?
What do you think will happen at the club? Is Batista going to get lucky with Alexa, or with Dana?