Looking back he should have known from their first date. The way she ignored his attempts to bait her for information, the way her eerie gray eyes stared him down when she choose to look at him, but especially when he went to get the check. She had reached for her purse and he had reached across the table as if to stop her, saying "no, let me". She had stopped and stared at him for a moment, thinking about it; causing him to pause and hold his breath, as if waiting for her permission. She looked him in the eyes, smiled and said "ok, thank you". At the time it seemed like nothing more than an awkward moment, but thinking back on it that was his first sign she was Dominant. The way she made him feel like he needed her permission to pay the check, it was infuriating now, but at the time it had been so subtle he hadn't noticed.
Even asking her to dinner he realized, he had been asking her permission. She had always been in control. Always making the decisions and he couldn't stop kicking himself for it. He was a man damnit! Not just any man, a Dominant man. He took control, he TOOK women on dates and then he TOOK what he wanted from them in bed. Not her though, he craved her and she had no interest in submitting to him at all.
It had started off so innocently. He saw her in a grocery store, tall, slender, elegant and very different from the usual bleach blonde type of pretty. She had dark brown hair, pixie cut, high cheekbones, very pale white skin and gray eyes. She looked sweet and severe at the same time. When she smiled though, you would have thought she was submissive. She was quiet, almost mousy. With her button up shirt, flats and skinny jeans she looked very young and kind of adorable. It was a different story when you spoke to her, she was intelligent, almost scary smart and very well spoken. She had a thoughtful, old world quality that made you think of ancient kings and queens, or vampires. It made her a bit intimidating. It made him want to own her.
He was intrigued and had hoped to find out more about her at dinner, but she had revealed very little. She spoke about her job and volunteer work, and while she was obviously successful he could tell it was all small talk. She had more interesting secrets that she was hiding behind those clear, gray eyes.
She had insisted on a casual place and dressed so simply - a long black dress, sleeveless. The kind that would look like a towel on the hanger but on her the simplicity highlighted her curves, especially her hips and voluptuous ass. It was sexy and made him wonder if she knew how much it turned men on. Judging by the smirk he saw on her face when she caught him looking he was guessing she did. All through dinner he had fantasized about ripping the flimsy fabric off her, hurting her, forcing her to kneel and making her satisfy the needs she had created with her teasing.