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she could grab onto the ring while he belayed her down. Then he got her seated on a towel while he unwound the suspension ropes from the harness and started untying the harness itself.
    Smiling, she kept either a hand on his leg, or her cheek pressed against him, wanting that contact, loving the buzz still humming inside her, through her, around her and him, both.
    Completion.
    Once he had his ropes stowed, he grabbed her bag, and her blanket, and swaddled it around her before effortlessly scooping her up into his arms. He carried her into the living room, to the couch, and settled there with her curled up, her head in his lap.
    She groped for his hand, squeezing when she found it.
    “Good?” he asked, sounding amused.
    “Mm-hmm.”
    Not just good…
    The best .

Chapter Six
     
    Cali, her arms crossed over her chest, eyed the Doom. “I don’t like the color, guys,” she said. “I thought we agreed on a nice dark blue.”
    The portable bondage frame that had been assembled in front of her was not a nice color. It was not a blue color.
    It damn sure wasn’t a dark color.
    “It’s visible,” Max said. “You can see it.”
    “They can see it from the International Space Station,” she said. “That’s just downright jarring.”
    “Told you,” Sean said to Max. “Nooo. You wanted to save a few bucks.”
    Max smacked Sean’s shoulder.
    “What?” Cali asked, looking back and forth between them. She uncrossed her arms and pointed at Max. “What did he mean, save a few bucks?”
    The neon green bondage frame almost cast its own glow from where they’d set it up in the middle of Seth and Leah’s living room.
    “His friend had a batch of this color that someone else had ordered and cancelled,” Sean said. “It was custom-mixed. Not like he could return it. So he offered to give us half-price on it.”
    Cali crossed her arms over her chest again and glared at Max.
    “Hey, it looked okay in the spray booth,” Max mumbled.
    “ Un believable,” Cali muttered.
    “Told you,” Sean said.
    She smacked Sean’s shoulder. “And why did you let him do it?”
    “Hey, I thought we were on the same side?”
    “We are. We’re not going to sell any of them looking like this. I can’t put a picture of this on the website. It’s horrible.” She hadn’t seen the color until they’d unboxed it upon arrival.
    Now she understood why Max had been so keen to keep it from her the past several days.
    “Can’t you Photoshop it?” Max asked.
    “Photoshop can work miracles. This, however, needs an act of god to fix.”
    Tilly walked into the living room and pulled up short at the sight of the Doom. “Wow. That’s…bright.”
    Cali smacked Max on the shoulder. “See?”
    “She said bright,” he protested.
    “She was being nice.”
    “She’s right,” Tilly said. “I was being nice. That’s a butt-ugly color.”
    Max glowered but didn’t reply.
    “Sometimes, a deal isn’t a deal,” Cali told him.
    “I bet we can find someone who’ll pay for a bright green one,” Max said. “Maybe a rigger or something. It’d show up good on film.”
    “Meanwhile, we’re going to need a second prototype, painted the right color this time,” she emphasized, “so I can shoot it for the website.”
    The men’s side business making paddles and other implements had exploded upon Cali and her cat, Baxter, entering their lives. Baxter had become an accidental Internet bondage star, and Cali now ran their successful BDSM implement and accessories website out of their home.
    A website she’d had to rebuild from the ground up when they first got together because their original site sucked.
    But now she made her living running their business for them fulltime.
    Well, now it was her business, too, because they’d added her to the corporation once they had their official collaring ceremony.
    “I call Max on the bottom,” Cali said.
    “Seconded,” Sean quickly said.
    “Hey! Don’t I get a vote in this?”
    “No,” Cali