Page 49 of Love Unlimited

Absolutely not. All for you.

Ash rubbed their belly with a look of exaggerated bliss. With each circle, they pulled their shirt up more.

Was it a good or bad thing that Landon thought that Ash was kissably adorable? Maybe not in a sexual way, but he kind of wanted to kiss their belly and make them laugh. Their skin just looked so soft and creamy that he wanted to bury his face against it.

Hey, do you wanna help me do my makeup? Landon asked instead.

Ash looked up. I thought you didn’t want makeup since you’re not Lena.

Landon had let Ash paint his toes earlier, but anything more than that hadn’t felt right. Not that kind of makeup. Something edgy.

Ash’s eyes lit up. For Danger?

Yep! The name signified his middle space, though he wasn’t feeling particularly dangerous and edgy right now. If anything, he felt cozy and a little silly. It was more that he wanted to explore this big brother thing, and it helped him to have the external signifiers of his teenaged Danger persona.

It was still difficult for him to slip into the role most of the time, and he was still teetering in and out of it. Ash made it much easier, though. Come on. Finish your ice cream and I’ll show you all my stuff.

Ash tilted up the bowl and swallowed the rest of it in an enormous gulp.

Disgusting. Seriously.

Then they tried to wipe their mouth on their arm.

Landon intercepted them. Nope. You need to wash your face.

OK, they agreed happily, holding out their sticky hands.

Wow. This was what Zhong was talking about when he said that Ash was the leader. There would have been ice cream everywhere. And now… Landon got to be the responsible big brother who helped them clean up. Come on.

He led Ash to the bathroom in the bedroom that he shared with Dustin. He guided them by the elbow because they were so busy looking around that they would have walked into the walls otherwise.

There wasn’t a ton to look at, since Dustin and Landon both liked keeping things pretty neat and didn’t own a lot of stuff. There was a king-sized bed with a cozy tan comforter and a wooden dresser in a glowing cherry color that was probably an antique. There were a few pieces of art on the wall, and some scattered pictures, mostly of Zhong and Dustin, though Landon had been ecstatic to discover two pictures of himself with Dustin that showed up on the wall a week after he moved in.

Most importantly, the bed had Landon’s special pillow with the lavender pillowcase next to Dustin’s plain white one, and his two terrariums from Daddy were hanging in the windows.

It was still mostly Daddy’s room, but it felt like he belonged.

Landon guided Ash into the bathroom, where the minimalism ended. Landon’s stuff had exploded everywhere, and it was a good thing that Dustin only had about four toiletry items because Landon’s products took up all the rest of the space. Even after he’d snagged the things they needed for spa night.

Ash was still holding their hands out straight, so Landon figured he was supposed to wash their hands. That was kind of fun, too. He got the water warm, soaped up their sticky fingers, and then rinsed them off while they squirmed and laughed. Thinking of what he would do with his niblings, Landon ran his wet hand over Ash’s mouth a few times to clean off the ice cream. On the last pass, Ash stuck out their tongue to lick off the water.

It was cute and, yes, sensual. It was both exactly like taking care of a real kid, and charged in a way that felt much more intimate because Ash was a grown adult who was entrusting this special part of themself to him.

No wonder the Daddies got such a rush out of this. Landon felt like he was floating, buoyed somewhere between Ash’s trust and the knowledge that the Daddies would approve. He dried off Ash’s hands while they gave him a tender smile.

OK, give me a sec to grab my stuff.

His stuff was actually just two wide leather wrist cuffs with metal studs. No matter what else he wore in the dozen or so times he’d tried out being Danger, these were the constant. Everything else could change.

He debated putting on a more revealing shirt and some torn jeans, but he didn’t feel like it. In fact, there was something illicit about wearing his leather cuffs with his cozy unicorn PJs. A little bit innocent, a little bit dirty.

He snapped them on while Ash watched, wide-eyed. Ash petted the cuffs reverently, running curious fingers around them. It would have felt invasive from anyone else, but with Ash it was both sweet and tantalizing.

Come on, let’s do my makeup and then we can cuddle. That felt right. The Daddies could snuggle, so it made sense for them to cuddle, too, right?

Yay! Ash raced out of the room.

That was how the Daddies found them a few hours later, snuggled up together in their nest. Landon was still awake, but feeling relaxed and not in any hurry to go anywhere. Ash hadn’t signed anything for a while, and was either asleep or close to it.