Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 76523 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 76523 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
“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.
“You were 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.
“How are my fascinating cuties?” He raised one eyebrow as he leaned against the door, almost daring me to say something else snarky.
“Horny.” Gareth’s overly honest answer got a laugh from both of us. “And I feel like I’ve been patient all day long.”
Because he kind of had.
Bates chuckled. “You’ve been very patient, my curious boy.”
That got another wiggle from Gareth, and his desire just radiated out from him, drowning out every other emotion in the room. It was impossible to feel nervous when he was so excited and didn’t seem to have any worries at all. “I have been. Brady says he gets rewards when he’s been good.”
Oh.
Bates’s grin got wider before he flicked off the light and plunged the room into darkness. The lights outside in the parking lot kept the room from being pitch-black and gave off just enough glow around the curtains to outline him walking across the room. “Brady has a lot of interesting ideas.”
But they always led crazy places…so what did that mean for our night together?
I probably should’ve worked on that question a bit faster but nothing in my head was moving at the right speed as Bates climbed up on the end of the bed and slowly inched his way up between us. Logically, I knew he was giving us time to safeword or say anything but it was all so crazy.
I didn’t want to stop him, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted or what would happen or what Gareth would say next and the number of unknowns was giving me heartburn. I clearly wasn’t hiding that very well either because as soon as he stretched out between us under the covers, he wrapped one arm around me and kissed my head.
“Come here, my nervous boy. We go at our own pace and there’s no right or wrong.” He nudged me closer, making it clear what he wanted and I jumped at the chance to curl into his side and hide against him. “That’s perfect. No matter what we do, I’m so glad you’re here with me.”
Gareth only managed to stay quiet for about five seconds. “But I still get to come, right?”