Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 76523 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 76523 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Gareth gave him a beaming smile. “I’ll tell him and he’ll tell you no. That has to be something a Dom does.”
Probably.
Bates was still grinning but he nodded. “I think that’s a very good reason to have a Dom around.”
He always had the best responses to Gareth’s logic.
“Okay.” I liked that plan. “It’s just…I keep worrying about what will go wrong and I know you don’t see it the same way.”
Gareth didn’t see anything the same way I did, and sometimes that drove me insane.
Sometimes I liked it though.
It’d gotten us a Dom after all.
“We’re supposed to see things differently.” Bates sounded utterly confident as he quietly gave both of us soft kisses. “That’s how we complement each other.”
Nodding along with our Dom, Gareth curled back into him and reached over to wrap an arm around me. “I like complementing you.”
He was such a dork.
“I like it too.”
Just like me…and Bates.
“You’re both so cute. Alright, kisses to make up and to make your Dom smile.” Because he thought we were sexy together.
“We can’t kiss until he answers my question.” Gareth had his stubborn face on even though he was watching my lips like he was waiting for them to do something weird. “Then we can kiss and make you very happy.”
By giving him another blow job?
By making out together in front of him because he liked that?
The questions bouncing around my head were so distracting it made it easier to answer his. “I want to complain and wish you’d asked me something easier but I can’t think of anything that wouldn’t have been stressful.”
Gareth gave me a yeah moron kind of look but didn’t say it out loud and actually waited patiently.
He was definitely trying to get the better reward and it was driving me insane.
I’d never seen myself as someone who was competitive but it seemed like it just had to be the right circumstance to bring it out.
“Part of me knows it’s going to make me nuts but part of me knows it’d make me even more crazy not to know what was going on.” Me? Insane? “So I’m going to say I want to do it with you and I’ll need Bates to push me and just do it.”
Did that make any sense to him at all?
When he cocked his head and stared at me for a few seconds like I was an alien, I wasn’t sure how it’d come across. His words didn’t help me figure that out, either. “So I’m supposed to let our…our Dom, I guess, push you into something that’s clearly making you uncomfortable because him not pushing you would make you more uncomfortable?”
Okay, maybe it did sound insane when he put it that way.
“Yeah?” I managed not to hide or avoid his gaze as he processed it but he was still looking incredibly confused.
Finally turning to Bates, he sighed. “This is like that spanking thing, right? It’ll hurt but it won’t hurt and no doesn’t always mean no?”
Bates was trying to take the conversation seriously, but I could see him fighting not to smile at the very least. “Exactly.”
Gareth sighed again and shook his head. “I’m glad I didn’t start looking this stuff up on my own.”
Good point.
“Okay.” Snuggling against Bates, Gareth let out a breath. “I don’t get it but I understand the rules and what you want.”
Really?
“How are you feeling about it, though?” Understanding what I said didn’t mean I hadn’t hurt his feelings. Hell, I could’ve made him angry and I just hadn’t realized it.
Part of me did realize how insane that all sounded but I couldn’t help myself as the silence dragged out.
When he finally shrugged, the nervous tension in me wanted to explode, but Bates seemed to get that. “My curious boy, he needs more words to reassure him that you’re not frustrated with him or upset.”
“I don’t know if I’m upset. It feels a little like he doesn’t trust me.” Gareth’s words stunned me silent and all I could do was sit there as he worked through it. “I wanted to do the spanking stuff with him because I thought we do everything important together and that’s kind of important, but he’s got all these fantasies that he’s not going to share without worrying.”
Fuck.
I was an idiot who had no idea how to respond or what I was supposed to fix, but luckily our Dom’s brain worked faster.
“No, don’t think of it that way.” He kissed Gareth’s head again before nuzzling him so Gareth would look up. Bates’s hands were kind of full of us at the moment so he had to wait for Gareth to shift. “Kiss.”
That was one order Gareth was eager to obey and I got to watch them slowly come together. It was soft and romantic and over before I was ready, but Bates took charge immediately. “His everything important is you. You’re the most important thing to him. That’s why nothing else mattered as much as keeping you with him. The rest is fun and sexy, but it’s not you.”