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impressed by your poise under the circumstances.”
    “Thank you. I wasn’t feeling poised on the inside. As you can imagine, if anyone in that group chose to talk to the board of the organization I work for, I could be dismissed.”
    “Rest assured everyone in the group was vetted by Brad Anderson. He’d hold our feet to the fire if anyone spoke out of turn. The man is purported to be very protective of his students and the school.”
    “Which makes me wonder why he’s selling,” Gunnar said.
    Kristoffer had forgotten about his cousin for a moment. “From what I gathered, he’s moving out of the area.”
    “Ah. Understandable then.” Gunnar nodded. “Now I suppose I have to decide if it makes sense for me to buy the place.”
    Kristoffer wasn’t sure it was a sound decision for him. “My biggest concern is the time element. You’re a busy man with a lot of irons in the fire already. When would you find time to run the school—or do you know of someone you could put into the role of director or headmaster to take care of the day-to-day operations?”
    “I haven’t given any thought to who would run it, but point taken. I’m going to have to think long and hard about it. Perhaps I’d prefer being on the board of directors under whoever else decides to purchase it.” Gunnar turned toward Pamela. “Your thoughts about the school?”
    “Well, I haven’t been there a full two weeks yet, but from what I’ve experienced so far, they do a very good job at helping submissives explore the lifestyle to the fullest extent in a safe environment.”
    Kristoffer leaned toward her. “One of the hallmarks of their program is the auction nights. What did you think of that aspect? As I understand it, you’ve been through one now, right?”
    She smiled and picked up her water glass to take a sip before answering. “It was…interesting.” The blush made the freckles on her cheeks fade. “The Dom who bid on me was excellent at anticipating my needs, but…I just didn’t feel any chemistry with him.”
    Gunnar pushed his plate away. “There are just as many ways to be dominant as there are to be submissive.”
    Pamela smiled. “Undoubtedly. But figuring out where you fall on the spectrum can help rule out the incompatible ones, although it’s hard to connect with anyone given my travel schedule. I’ve had about a dozen assignments overseas in the past three years.”
    Kristoffer couldn’t stop himself. “Meeting the perfect person to spend your life with isn’t easy whether you’re looking for kink or vanilla. Sometimes they show up when you least expect them.”
    “How’d you meet your wife?”
    A sharp pain pierced his chest as he remembered the first time he laid eyes on Tori. “In college at Penn. We were both nineteen and wound up working late one night on a team project in our introductory finance course.” He reached for his glass of water and drained it, hoping to put an end to the subject of his personal life.
    Pamela refilled his glass from the pitcher on the table. “So you’re both interested in finance.”
    No such luck. Obviously, she couldn’t know what had happened to Tori. Still, better for her to think him happily married if they would be working together. He trusted her to remain professional, but given his penchant for remembering how she appeared last night, he no longer trusted himself. He hoped Gunnar would keep his mouth shut, though.
    “Not really. It was an elective for her, and she soon found she wasn’t all that interested in the flow of money. But she did have an interest in me.” He smiled. “We later decided that fate had used that class to bring us together. We had a lot of other things in common, fortunately.” And that was all he intended to say about that.
    Time to steer this conversation back to business. “Don’t say more than you’re comfortable sharing, but you didn’t have a problem with being auctioned off to a stranger?”
    She shook her head but looked