I frowned, unsure. I still didn’t like the idea of them spending money on me.
“Juliana,” Darren said quietly, “I need you to get some shopping done, baby girl.”
“I don’t like you spending money on me,” I quietly told him.
He tenderly smiled at me. “What is mine is now yours, Juliana. I didn’t collar you for just a little while. I collared you forever. You’re mine now. I want to take care of you, baby girl. Let me do that.”
Sighing, I nodded, but my heart rate sped up in my chest at his sweet words. He grinned before looking down at his watch. “I need to go, baby, but if you need me, let Emmaline or my brother know, you hear me?”
“Okay,” I whispered.
James took his phone back and quickly left the room, saying something quietly to Darren that I couldn’t hear. Emmaline smiled at me, a hopeful look in her eyes. “So, shopping?” she asked.
Smiling just a little bit, I nodded.
~*~*~
I was almost asleep when Emmaline softly woke me back up. I groaned, looking up at her through slitted eyes. She handed me her phone. “Darren wants to talk to you before you go to sleep,” she whispered.
I slowly took the phone from her, lifting it to my ear. I made a humming sound in acknowledgement.
“Sleepy, baby girl?” Darren asked me.
“Yes,” I whispered, slipping off the bed to go to the closet so I could speak to him in private. I had spoken a couple of words to Emmaline today, but it still made me nervous to speak to anyone but Darren.
“I won’t hold you up long then, baby. Just wanted to call and tell you goodnight and that I’ll be home soon,” he assured me. “I miss you like hell.”
I smiled a little, my chest aching in his absence. “I miss you, too,” I whispered.
“When I get home, I will wear your sweet little body out for being so damn good for me while I’ve been gone,” he promised. Every part of my body began to ache for him. “My cock is hard just thinking about it, little girl.”
“Think of me?” I bravely asked him.
He growled. “Always,” he rasped. “Go back to bed, baby. Get some sleep. I’ll see you soon.”
“Goodnight,” I whispered.
“Goodnight, baby girl.”
I handed the phone back to Emmaline when I stepped back into the room. I crawled beneath the covers, and she lay on top of them with her own blanket. Under both Darren and James’s orders, she was sleeping here in the room with me, and honestly, I was thankful for it.
I felt extremely alone and unsafe without Darren by my side, but Emmaline’s presence helped soothe that.
But I still couldn’t wait for my dom to come back home to me. I needed him.