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“Okay, so…” Chloe took a breath before getting to the heart of what she wanted to talk to Porter about today “Can you and Kenzie take ?”

Porter’s brows shot up “You want to go to a BDSM club?”

She shrugged again, trying to appear casual, even if she felt anything but “I want to see the lifestyle for myself The only BDSM I’ve seen is from the cases I’ve worked, which involved a mistress who treated the married man like a horse” The exact reason she needed to understand Sawyer’s type of BDSM was that what he said see that seeing it for myself is easier”

Porter took a sip of his coffee “Why don’t you ask Sawyer to take you?”

“Because that’s…well, aard” Chloe flipped her hair over her shoulder, gathering the strands in one hand “I don’t even knohere things are going with hi myself into”

His head tipped to one side “Why are you asking me to take you?”

“Because I trust you and I don’t want to go by myself”

“You trust me?” At Chloe’s firm nod, he added with a smile, “I’m happy that you do” Softness filled Porter’s eyes as he continued, “I want you to know that you’re right—the only reason I don’t involve you in my private life is because I wasn’t sure how you’d feel about my lifestyle” His tone of voice told her that the BDSM lifestyle made him proud “It’s kind of a relief this is out in the open now, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, I suppose it is” It alained a friend that she’d wanted for two years, and she couldn’t help but smile in return “But I don’t knohy you didn’t think you could tell me this”

Porter gave her a measured look “What if it bothered you? You do work for me, Chloe”

She half shrugged “I guess you’re right”

There was another pause as his eyes became curious “But my lifestyle doesn’t bother you?”

“No I’m not bothered at all,” she replied easily “Ityou and Kenzie to take me to understand it all better”

Porter inhaled a deep breath, then let it out slowly; the sunbeahted the blond in his hair “How does Sawyer feel about you going to a BDSM club? Have you talked about it?”

“Kinda” She told the half-truth breezily “He said he didn’t expect o” She left out the part where he’d said he didn’t want her to go to a club