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Peter made an angry sound and started to move away from me, but I held him in place for a moment longer.
“Breathe,” I told him.
He looked like he wanted to tell me off, but he did as I’d asked and took a deep breath.
“Now, promise me you will listen,” I said.
Peter took another breath, clenched his jaw, then said in a grudging voice, “I promise I will listen.”
I smiled, then darted in for a quick kiss. “Good. That’s all I ask.”
I shifted to take his hand, and we walked into the cottage together. I was smiling, but Peter continued to give me the side-eye, as though he resented the promise he’d just made.
A moment later, I burst into laughter. I hadn’t been talking to Peter for more than two minutes, but already Lefric had stripped down to nothing.
“I know, I know,” he said, stepping out of his trousers and tossing them over the nearest chair. “You’re all together with someone and my poor little ass will probably spend the meeting alone, but I really, really think we all need to be bare-ass naked, for this meeting especially.”
I’d missed Lefric. Not for the past couple of days, because we’d all been together on the boat to Hedeon. I’d missed him for the last two months. Only Lefric could speak the truth while sounding ridiculous.
“I’m game,” I said with a shrug, glancing to Peter and starting in on the buttons of my jacket.
“You know I’m always up for taking it out,” Jace said as he removed his clothes too, begining with unfastening his trousers and lifting is cock out.
Gennadi grinned at him, shook his head fondly, and started undressing as well.
Peter and Sebald followed the rest of us, both of them just a bit reluctant. I knew Peter well enough to know his reluctance was born from irritation, but the way Sebald glanced to Avenel with an apologetic look hinted to me that he was concerned what his pup would think.
Avenel was the only one who didn’t rush to undress. He stared at all of us with a slack jaw, his face quickly going red. He was a handsome man, now that I thought about it. The way he blushed made it look like someone had spilled fruit juice across his face.
“You don’t have to undress with the rest of us,” Sebald explained to him. “It’s just something we do whenever we get together.”
“It most certainly is,” Jace said, winking lasciviously at Avenel as he pulled his shirt off over his head, revealing his perfectly muscled chest.
Avenel suddenly looked terrified. He started breathing shallowly and moved to put Sebald between himself and Jace.
“Jace,” I scolded, “don’t do that. Avenel doesn’t realize you’re joking.” I turned to Avenel as I peeled off my own shirt. “He’s just joking, Avenel,” I reassured him. “Jace would never touch you without permission or hurt you.”
“Unless you want him to,” Lefric added with a grin for Jace. He turned that grin on Peter. “You like it when he hurts you, don’t you?”
It would have been a hilarious question, but given the upset of the day, it only made Peter scowl.
Lefric peeked at me, his expression asking me if he’d done something wrong. I sighed and shook my head, hoping he would see that as an admission that Peter was hopeless right now and required careful handling.
We all finished undressing. It was far more awkward to suddenly be naked in someone’s main room than it had ever been to be naked in the yurt where we’d had most of our other Sons meetings. Jace had no problem with flaunting his body, of course. He splayed himself across Sebald’s sofa, spreading his legs wide so that we could all see he was just a little bit hard, then gesturing for Gennadi to come to him. If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought the gesture was an order for Gennadi to drop to his knees and suck Jace’s cock.
Instead, Gennadi finished folding his clothes neatly, set his and Jace’s clothes on an end table, and gracefully moved to sit on the sofa between Jace’s legs. Jace immediately folded his arms around Gennadi, kissed the side of his neck, then whispered something in his ear.
I actually found the actions endearing, even though Jace oozed sex as he made them and Gennadi radiated submission. It gave me ideas. I waited as Peter folded his clothes and put them on the small chair near the fireplace where I’d put mine, then I held out my hand to him.
For half a moment, Peter looked at my hand, then met my eyes. His brow furrowed in confusion, as if he were trying to figure out why I was asking for his hand. He gave it to me, though, which felt like a vote of confidence for the feeling that was building in me, and the ideas I had about how I could keep Peter in line during the meeting.
I pretended I wasn’t up to anything as I walked with Peter to a large, stuffed chair that sat beside the sofa. I sat, then pulled Peter to squeeze into the chair with me. We sat side by side, but I think we both knew it would have been easier if he sat across my lap. The moment he started to lose his temper, I planned to shift him over me so I could hold him steady.
Sebald moved to the other end of the sofa from where Jace and Gennadi sat. He glanced to Avenel—who was still frozen in his spot closer to the kitchen, fully dressed.
“Avenel?” He raised his eyebrows, drawing Avenel’s attention away from the rest of us. “You don’t have to undress. You don’t even have to stay, if you don’t want to. You can go upstairs. But if you do stay, you should sit with me.”
Avenel nodded and instantly moved to do Sebald’s bidding. Sebald sat as Avenel came near. For a moment, I thought Avenel would kneel on the floor beside Sebald, like he’d done several times already since we’d arrived. Instead, with a shallow breath, Avenel started to undress. Sebald smiled approvingly up at him, and Avenel smiled back, but he still seemed really tense.
