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Whatever he saw on my face made him laugh quietly as I got a kiss too. “Poor Cashel. Come on. Cuddle time.”
“And I still haven’t gotten an orgasm yet, but I did get a shower.” Randomly torturing me by letting out every thought in his head, Gareth just kept going as Bates let us into his apartment. “It was weird waiting, but I liked your plan and I liked that you gave us a plan.”
“Thank you.” Bates seemed to be delighted over the whole thing and took it in stride, closing the door and taking charge again. “Alright. I’m almost ready for bed, so you two are going to go climb in and wait for me.”
We each got cheek kisses as he led us toward the back of his apartment into what was a bigger bedroom than I was expecting. It fit a king-size bed. How?
Nope.
Refusing to get distracted, I just followed and tried to turn off my brain. Thinking hadn’t gotten me out of this so I wasn’t going to worry about it anymore.
“Pick a side. I’ll get the middle and then we’ll turn out the lights and cuddle.” Bates made it all sound completely rational. “My boys get their orgasms and we’ll all have that first together.”
Gareth nodded, kissing Bates’s cheek before nearly jumping up on the bed with his pillow. “I’ll take this side. Cash, you take the chargers on that side.”
Obeying as he threw the mess of cords at me, I peeked over at Bates who was still smiling. “He said you had a safeword and he meant it.”
Instead of answering right away, Bates wrapped me in a tight hug as Gareth set our toothbrushes on the nightstand and started reorganizing the pillows on the bed like he’d been sleeping there forever.
Something about the situation tickled Bates, but he managed to keep his delight down to a soft puff of laughter. “I think I should be reminding you of that.”
Before I could figure out a response, he kissed my head and continued. “But just to make sure you don’t overthink this all night long, I’m touched that he wanted to make sure I’m included in all your firsts, and I’m very grateful you’re stepping out of your comfort zone. It makes me feel very special.”
Hiding against his neck, I sighed and got another quiet laugh from our confusing new Dom. “He had a good point and…and it felt stupid coming down here but not wrong.”
Chest jerking in silent laughter, it took Bates a second to catch his breath as he rubbed my back. “I can see where you’re coming from and why you feel that way, but you made me wonderfully happy sharing this with me and trusting me enough to come back.”
I hadn’t really thought about it that way, but as he kissed my head again and stepped back to shoo me onto the bed, I felt slightly less stupid. “Up you go. I’m going to brush my teeth and be right back.”
“Yes, Sir.” The words popped out before I could even think about it and I could feel my face heat up as he let out a quiet moan.
“Oh, sweet boy.” Something about the way his voice dropped sent a shiver through me. Gareth was watching us with wide eyes but when he reached down to adjust his dick under the covers, I realized he was turned on…and probably confused.
Mumbling something about distracting him, Bates headed back to the bathroom in the hallway as I headed around to what seemed to now be my side of the bed and plugged in the charger. “Hand me your phone.”
Getting them organized gave me something to do and made it all feel more normal as I climbed into bed. But once I was sitting there with the space for Bates between us, my nerves started coming back. Of course, that somehow made my dick spring back to life too, but it was just stupid and probably confused.
He was supposed to be worried over everything that had happened, not turned on. But the confusion was probably Gareth’s fault because he was looking ridiculously excited and wigging like a kid with ants in his pants. “I knew this was right. Bates was really happy to see us.”
Bates shouldn’t have rewarded stupid behavior even if he thought Gareth was cute.
“Yeah, he was.” There was no point in lying about that when he could probably hear us. “You were right.”
Ugh, now I was rewarding stupid behavior too.
“And tomorrow we’ll work on the details like we said. We’ll figure out how to do all the firsts together and what order they should happen in.” Gareth looked like he was ready to make notes for a term paper. “I’m not quite sure how that should go, though, but you’ve done research and Bates seems to understand a lot about what’s going on. So he’ll probably have a plan.”
I could almost picture Bates trying not to laugh while he was brushing his teeth.
“Youwere talking about firsts together.” I hadn’t brought it up. “You keep forgetting that part.”
Gareth waved his hands around like that wasn’t important in the slightest. “You said I was right and you were probably thinking the same thing. You were just too nervous to mention it.”
How he managed to be insane and right at the same time always managed to impress me.
Luckily, Bates saved his life by coming back in the bedroom and I didn’t get the chance to smother the insane lunatic with the pillow he’d brought down. I was too polite to use one of Bates’s. That would’ve been rude.
Besides, Brady’s mom had said we should bring our own tools to a murder and not use someone else’s.
