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No, not thinking about that with Kodi’s arousal poking right at him. Lennon darted for the bathroom and locked the door. Pressing his back to it, he heaved out a ragged breath.

What the hell have I done?

That question remained after the flight home and the conversation he’d had with Bowie and Isley in the car when they’d dropped him home. When he’d said Kodi needed a good spanking, he’d not mentioned that he wanted to give it to him, or that he’d already done it. He wasn’t ready to talk about that with his friends, but his brother? Yeah, he’d be talking to him. As Lennon saw it, it was Jonny’s fault for putting the idea in his head!

The rest of the afternoon he’d spent with Emmy, Frey’s daughter, and his friends, which had given him no time to consider the ramifications of his actions. Kodi hadn’t been in the cabin when he’d gotten the courage to go face him and had kept his distance on the plane journey back to Hazardville. He had acted like nothing had happened back in the cabin, and that was okay when Lennon didn’t know what to say.

Alone in his apartment later that evening, after a shower and sorting his things, he sat on the couch with a glass of wine to call his big brother. Jonny was a Daddy and in a relationship with someone who was a boy. They had a slightly unconventional relationship but Lennon, like his family, accepted Jonny for who he was. If he liked to be called Daddy, then who were they to judge, if it made him happy?

“Squirt, what's up? I thought you were away playing cowboy,” Jonny answered, laughter in his voice.

“We got back earlier today,” Lennon explained.

“What did Mr. Overreactive do this time?” Jonny gave a resigned sigh, and Lennon rolled his eyes at how predictable he had become.

“I could have been ringing for another reason,” he stated indignantly, because he was.

“You’re not long home, I’d say he was what was on your mind, like always. So, what happened?”

Lennon curled up on his seat, bringing his legs up to rest his chin on his knees. “I spanked Kodi when he accused me of going out and being a horn dog, all because you put the idea in my head!”

Jonny’s laughter lasted a full minute before he managed to get himself under control to answer Lennon. “First off, you…a horn dog? He does know that you haven’t been laid in over a year, right? Heck, it could be longer than that. And you’ve got very little chance right now with how many hours you’re working since the big cheeses retired.”

“You’re missing the point, I spanked him. My boss! I manhandled him and assaulted him,” Lennon groaned at the full weight of what he’d done.

“You spanked him once before, if I recall correctly. And my suggestion was just that, a suggestion. What you do is all on you, squirt.”

“Thanks! It wasn’t like that the first time. I told you that was more of a bottom slap to get him out of my way.” It was certainly not the same, and that time Kodi had laughed it off.

“How did he react? Did he fight to get you off? Threaten to disembowel you?” Jonny sounded interested, more than horrified that his baby brother would do something against someone’s will when he was all about consent.

Despite himself, Lennon giggled at Kodi threatening him. The man was mostly all bark with no bite at all, but that didn’t stop the over reactions being very wearing. “He didn’t do anything.”

The silence at the other end of the phone had Lennon ask, “You still there?”

“Nothing? He didn’t fight to get you off?” Back was the intrigued tone.

“No, I think I shocked him, then…”

“Then?” Jonny prompted.

Glad his brother couldn’t see him blushing, Lennon admitted, “He kind of made a noise like maybe he liked it, then melted into the bed.”

“Is that all?”

Lennon debated for a second whether to say about his erection. As this was Jonny, the person who knew all his secrets, he replied truthfully. “He got hard. And before you ask if anything happened, I skipped into the bathroom and when I came out he was gone. I suspect I’ll be sacked on Monday when he comes to his senses.”

“I bet you won’t be. I think you should invest in a paddle and set some ground rules for you and him at work. This might just be the answer to getting him to behave that you’ve been looking for. Help him release the valve in a healthy way.”

The conviction Jonny voiced, Lennon wasn’t so sure about, but minutes later he had agreed to go shopping on Sunday for a… paddle.

Whatever am I thinking?

That you want to see if you can—

Stop right there, it’s a paddle. We might not even use it.

Yep, you keep deluding yourself.