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)
And they went still again.
Oh, had they not realized they were subs of some sort?
Somehow that always seemed to surprise a large percentage of people.
Cash licked his lips as his eyes darted back to Gareth, but Gareth was staring at me like I’d said something scary or brilliant.
Both?
They were my favorite neighbors for a variety of reasons, one being they never woke me up at six in the morning on a Saturday singing about Barney or Winnie the Pooh. They’d also never let bugs escape into the building and they didn’t glare at me every time I said hello…that actually applied to several guys in the building, oddly enough.
Yep, the fact that they were both sexy in different ways was the icing on the cake.
“I probably shouldn’t offer to spank you since we haven’t known each other in person very long, but Brady’s the type to share. So I don’t think he’d mind letting Jude spank you as long as clear boundaries were set up beforehand.”
Because that was one kinky cutie with questionable logic and he could talk himself into just about anything.
“Would you like me to help you ask them?”
What else were neighbors for?
Chapter 2
Gareth
The building was filled with nothing but insane people.
On some level I knew that included me, but I wasn’t going to focus on that part at the moment.
“I’m not sure that’s a good idea.” I wasn’t sure that was what my response should’ve been, but focusing was hard, so I was just glad I’d gotten some kind of answer out.
“He’s not attracted to Jude. I think that would have to come first for the spanking demo to work.” Cash’s answer was smooth and logical in a weird way.
He was also not wrong.
But it also seemed like kind of an odd way to answer the already weird suggestion.
Right?
“He frowns a lot and he’s just not a happy person.” The why Jude wasn’t my type topic seemed easier to answer than everything else. “He makes me anxious even when he doesn’t realize it.”
Downstairs Neighbor Guy nodded and didn’t think the statement was weird. “Yeah, a lot of…people need someone happier to make them feel…confident.”
I wasn’t always the brightest when I was stressed. My nerves made my brain cells vacate the premises pretty quickly, but even I knew he hadn’t been going to say that to begin with.
But what had he been going to say?
He was so weird…but in a friendly way?
Friendly was nice.
It also seemed to make Cash stupid too because he started nodding again. “Yeah, happy is important in a lot of ways.”
What the fuck?
How had this conversation gone so off the rails?
Our possibly overly friendly neighbor just gave Cash a pleased smile like he was really proud of him for something. “It really is. So let’s figure out someone else to help Gareth walk through his research.”
Research?
Oh, the spanking.
Wait.
“I think I’m fine. It’ll be fine.” Yes, it would all be fine.
Downstairs Guy cocked his head and looked disappointed in me for some reason, and that had my stomach knotting up. “Don’t back down now. You’ve got questions you need answers to. Your family here would want to help you.”
How did he know I had questions?
Did he just mean about the spanking thing?
There didn’t seem to be a way to ask that without admitting that I had questions, so I just stayed silent. When in doubt, say nothing. Sometimes it made me appear stupid but most of the time people didn’t question looking stoic.
Downstairs Guy sighed. “Not good, cutie. We don’t block our feelings. That’s just not helpful in the long run.”
Who was he and how did we always get ourselves in situations like this?
“At least it’s not a spider.” Cash’s quietly whispered answer seemed to say he was reading my mind…which was frightening in a lot of ways.
“Thank you for trying to help.” Yes, Brady said being polite was important and would get us out of most situations.
It seemed to just make Downstairs Guy smile, though.
Was that helpful?
“You’re welcome, but I’m not sure we’ve done enough to ease your mind.” Looking serious and sweet, he glanced between us and sighed. “I think we’re going to have to handle this amongst ourselves to do that. You and Cash here are already close and look super sexy together, honestly, so I think that’ll be the best option.”
I felt my jaw drop open but nothing else came out.
Cash seemed to be in a similar state, but I’d kind of expected him to at least tell the guy politely that he was nuts.
Nope.
Downstairs Guy seemed to take that as permission to keep going. “Great. Alright, first step is going to be to get everyone comfortable together. If you’re going to understand spankings, and probably submission in general, you need to be relaxed around all of us first and I’m not family yet.”