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“Master, and yeah, I’m calling my slave short. At least, too short for this mess.”
“Sorry, Master,” he said a little sarcastically.
I sat back on the lid and scowled hard. “I think you might need the paddling with the brush still.”
“No! I’m sorry. You know I wake in a foul mood!”
“That seems to go right away after the brush.”
Grinning, he admitted, “Well, it does wake me fully.” His head came up as he looked afraid. “Joel! Eli! We should call and check on them!”
“Very thoughtful, babe, but I’m sure they’re okay. Joel and Noah are used to this weather, even if Burke and Damon aren’t, or us. I’ll call, though, to check-in, and you may call them after you’re dressed and have breakfast ready. No skimpy shit today. That teal sweater, jeans, some clothes of substance today, warm socks. Got it?”
“Yes, Sir. No playing today?”
“Not until much later, if we do. Both of us need a break.”
“Good. You’re right, of course. Our libidos may say one thing, but our bodies say the opposite.”
“I’ll leave you to your bath, but no playing with your dick, no matter what your libido says. If I catch you, the flogger will feel like rose petals.”
“I will obey, my dear Monster Master,” he said before playfully splashing water at me.
I went to start the coffee, which I needed like the air that morning, and found it already on and some missing. That was before I saw Brett sitting at the table, casually sipping. “Good morning, Brett.”
“Morning. How do you feel this morning?”
“About how you’d expect,” I said, laughing as I got a mug out of the cabinet.
“Ryan’s still sleeping. Where’s Theo?”
“Bath. Soothing the sore muscles. I plan on being next in there unless you’d like a turn.”
“Maybe later,” he said, and I noticed he was already dressed in a sweater and jeans.
I also saw something else, he was rubbing a thumb over the handle of the mug, staring into the dark coffee.
I sat with my coffee and asked gently, “Something wrong? Did we go too far?”
“Not at all. I’m glad it’s just you because…I wanted to talk to you. I don’t know how Theo would react.”
I stared at him and said, “Well, we have a few minutes if that’s long enough.”
“It is. Should be. I don’t know, but the thing is Hud…it’s so hard to gauge, being we’ve been gone at the dungeon for so long, and…you two just took us in and befriended us, and….”
“You’re developing feelings for us.”
His eyes moved from the mug to me. “Yes. Was it obvious?”
“It’s just because we feel the same. We talked it over last night, not that we resolved anything. As you said, it’s hard to gauge. Theo and I are just starting. Like we barely knew we were in love before you all got here, and…things with the sex and all, it could be screwing with us. We’re both fearful and unsure, being so new, so…”
“And we’re just getting back to the real world. I can’t say if the friendship added with the sex, or maybe it’s real, or we’re so happy to be free…the point is, I feel it, Ryan does, although,” he began, laughing, “he’s hard pressed to speak much at all about emotions. I know him, and he feels it too.”
“Then, we should all talk about it.”
“I think that’s wise, but we must step away, too. When we move, we’ll be alone for the first time in our relationship. We had prison and the dungeon. Then…we’ll revisit this, whatever this is.”
I felt a pang in my heart for him, rivaling the one I felt for Theo. “Brett…you’re strong and vulnerable. Two things hard to be at the same time.”
