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“Good. Damon’s looking for a place for you, and it’s pretty pricey here.”
“What if…it’s not allowed? I think I’ll…”
Ryan held him in the backseat, and Theo took my hand over the console.
“I am officially working back with Burke, just not as a bodyguard myself. If your family is worried, we can send as much security as they’d want.”
“We’ll propose it, Hud, thanks,” Ryan said before kissing Brett’s head. “I think my beautiful boy wants to stay more than he’s wanted anything in a long time.”
“The mural, I felt like I was home the minute I saw it. See, when Xen came into the fold of our little Denver family, I wasn’t well-liked by many of them. Bennett, PJ, and Sebastian were the only ones who spoke to me. I did some things to help out when they learned about Xen and his putrid mother. After that, I was taken into the fold, and…they became my real family. More than the one I learned about later, though I love them.”
“Well, you already feel like part of ours. The people here they’re great. Eli and Joel took Theo in, pretty much the same; he had made some bad decisions early on?.”
“In other words, I was a completely vile asshole.”
“But you’re already different,” Brett gave him. “Hud, this place, your tenacity, whatever it was, I’m glad for you, Theo.”
“Thank you.”
Brett was on the phone with his family in the guest room for over an hour, and Ryan paced the living room the entire time. “What the fuck could they be talking about? It’s a yes or no question.”
“It may be a good thing,” I reasoned. “They may be discussing details.”
“Or Brett might be begging; if he is, I’ll whip him silly.”
Ryan was a primarily quiet man and kept things close to the vest. The worry he was showing wasn’t him; I could tell he hated it. He kept trying to explain while Theo opened more wine, hoping to calm some frayed nerves.
“Brett, he was like Danny. Hearing that story, it struck home for Brett. He never knew he was part of this huge mafia family until he exited prison. I knew before he did, and I still try to make up for that.”
I couldn’t imagine a family I didn’t know that was kept a secret. “I’m sorry, Ryan. That’s got to be hard on both of you.”
“Brett? He’s so much stronger than I am. I’m big, you’re big, but those tiny men we love, they’re by far stronger than we are. I can see it in Theo in the dungeon; he has things inside him that will eat at him if he lets them. Brett too, but they face them; they fight them. I don’t know if I could do the same. I fought other things, other people, did things that…well, they’d never do.”
I thought over my life and how reckless I’d been and had to agree. “I did too. Nothing that could have me thrown in prison, but things…in the war, in battle, and at home too. Fights, breaking up with guys for stupid shit, hurting them that way. Theo, he…is amazing. He’s trying so hard.”
“So, you’ll try hard for him, being a good Master. If this doesn’t work out, with Brett and me staying here, we’ll do some double time on the instruction. First off, you all need to set your boundaries, and that’s with pain, with the lifestyle in general, and if you’re going to fuck other men, well, those are some big ones.”
Theo brought the wine back and asked me, “Are we?”
“Only if you’re okay with it, Theo. If it would bother you at all, then it’s a no.”
“It won’t bother me. I just pictured you as a Neanderthal jealous type.”
I searched my heart, knowing that in there, deep, I was precisely that. “Theo, how I feel about things is complicated.”
“Maybe I shouldn’t be here for this,” Ryan said and started to move from the couch.
“No, it’s okay, Ryan. You’ll know pretty much everything if you’re instructing us, so Theo and I should let you in on some things. This is going to be fluid, I think. I feel like I am strictly monogamous in our relationship. Right now, anyway, I can’t see us with a third or anyone else living with us, loving with us, but that could change. I don’t know what the future holds, so I’m not saying that it’s a hard limit for me. Right now, it’s a limit, though. As far as sex, I think we should keep it between the two of us for the time being to get used to one another, to explore a bit; then, we’ll discuss it further.”
Theo was smiling behind his wine glass. “Wow, that was well thought out and succinct.”
I growled, “Fucking brat.”
Ryan was chuckling at us both. “You two are going to be fun to watch.”
“Watching?” Theo snarked. “Is that allowed, Master Monster?”
Ryan laughed, then said, “You definitely have a handful.”
