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He was punishing me because I’d been logical about the problems he could’ve run into with his Daddy.
Was this because I hadn’t been able to drop everything at work just because he felt like pie the other day?
“I wonder if your Daddy knows where you’ve got that other stash of toys.” Leaning back in the booth, I lifted one eyebrow and didn’t bother trying to whisper. “I should take the time to get to know him more.”
“I told you that was going too far.” Alick shrugged as I turned to glare at him. “What? I’m not the one who’s supposed to be wrangling them. I was just there to make sure they didn’t overwhelm the librarian.”
They’d invited Stefan to the next playdate party.
He was new to the area, human, and possibly not kinky at all…and they’d invited him to play toys with the littles in town.
“We need better marketing.” Kenzie ignored how close I was to shaking him. “He didn’t realize that he didn’t need to know what kind of sub he was to come hang out.”
Wait.
“Did he actually say he’s a sub?” Had anyone clarified that with him? “You can’t just go around assuming shy men are subs.”
That wasn’t how submission worked even if I was pretty sure he was a sub.
“I know what he’s reading.” Kenzie rolled his eyes. “He’s not vanilla.”
“That’s like saying because he readLord of the Ringslast month that he’s a fucking elf.” That wasn’t how reading worked and he knew it.
Lorne leaned his elbows on the table and sighed as he rested his head in his hands. “He reads grown-up books really fast, but he said he wants someone to read him fun younger books. It was so cute.”
I looked at Alick to see if the conversation had actually happened or if it was a figment of Lorne’s imagination.
“Really.” Alick nodded as Lorne pouted at my disbelief. “The actual conversation wasn’t quite that smooth. But he talked about wanting someone to read to him, and his body language said he agreed with those two when they talked about fun books and little stuff. He might not be able to talk about what he’s curious about but he liked the idea of being read to.”
“Did he say he was coming to the playdate?” I was still unsure about how much to take at face value.
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
“No.”
And I was right back where I’d started.
Staying focused on Alick because he seemed to have been the only one paying attention when they’d gone to talk to the librarian, I sighed. “Please explain.”
When Kenzie opened his mouth to complain, I glared at him. “I’m polite when people aren’t trying to deliberately fuck with me. You keep it up and I’ll tell your Daddy that you’re angry at me for trying to watch out for you.”
Lorne leaned toward the dramatic dragon. “Does your Daddy know about the biker you dated?”
Kenzie’s groan said no.
“Then maybe stop messing with Boyd?” Lorne’s helpfulness got another groan from Kenzie and his head fell back against the booth. “Good idea. Quiet time might be best right now.”
Since Lorne seemed to have decided that meant Kenzie was going to behave, I turned back to Alick, who was trying not to giggle.
I really wished Alick was my type…he was sane.
“We explained what would happen and who would be there.” Alick started the story at just the right point for my stomach to stop churning. “He wasn’t too shocked or weirded out. He just didn’t know what to say.”
Alick gestured across the table toward the troublemakers, who were always at the center of every ridiculous story. “They were kind of overwhelming and pushy but he handled himself very well. No signs of safeword behavior even if he didn’t know what that was.”
“But he does because I know what books he’s been reading.” Kenzie was either trying to be helpful or was still pissed I’d been polite to Alick. “He also knows about limits lists and several different kinds of kinks. But he doesn’t like very traditional kind of Doms because he thought the wonderfully badass werewolf alpha was kind of mean.”
