Chapter Three
Grant would admit, at least to himself, that the last few minutes had been a bit of a confidence shaker. He was not used to being rejected so quickly and thoroughly. Stephanie had practically run out of the apartment while he’d stood there gaping like an i***t.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t been turned down before. But never by someone he was that interested in or at least, not without a reasonable understanding of why. The person was already involved, or turned out they weren’t a sub. Something!
Now that they’d realized what had happened, he felt back on even keel. Mostly.
The door to the stairway opened and he stepped back, letting Jesse go out into the hallway to encourage Stephanie inside. He only had a minute to decide how he should play it. Sheepish? Stern? Amused? It wa
