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As he walked past Brody’s office at Callahan Security, he saw the younger man slumped over his desk.
“Brody? What are you still doing here?” he asked as he walked into the room.
Brody sat up suddenly, causing his arm to fly out and knock over a half-full bowl of ramen noodles.
“Oh. Shoot!” Getting on his knees, the younger man started scooping up the noodles.
Stone shook his head as he crouched next to him. “Leave it, man. I’ll clean it up. You should go home.”
Brody straightened, banging his head on the underside of his desk. “Ouch. Crap. Owie.”
That had to hurt.
“Be careful.” He winced at the note of scolding in his voice.
Fuck.
Brody wasn’t his sub or his Little. But he often triggered Stone’s Daddy Dom instincts. It didn’t help that Brody wasn’t very good at taking care of himself. And that Stone liked taking care of other people.
“Here, let me help.” He grasped hold of Brody’s forearm and pulled him up.
Stone felt his presence before he heard him.
A whisper of darkness.
The promise of pain.
“Don’t touch what belongs to me.”
Fuck.
This is why he needed to stop letting his Daddy instincts overtake him around Brody.
Because Callahan Security’s tech guy already had a Daddy.
A psychotic assassin Daddy.
Ethan stepped slowly back from Brody, who huffed out a breath.
“Fox,” Brody scolded. “Don’t scare Stone.”
“I wouldn’t need to scare him if he wasn’t touching you.”
“He was just helping me. I fell asleep while I was working. And when Stone woke me up, I accidentally spilled noodles everywhere. I was trying to clean them up, but I banged my head and, well, here we are . . .”
Ethan wasn’t sure if Brody was trying to help or hinder him. Ethan had never directly interacted with the Fox, but he knew enough to be concerned.
“You banged your head?” the Fox asked.
The other man didn’t step out of the shadows and Ethan didn’t fully turn to look at him.
It was safer not to.
For Stone.
He was pretty sure the Fox was now to his left rather than behind him. Although it was hard to tell. He hated not being able to see him clearly.
“Yeah. It hurts.”
