“I have a few secrets of my own. Are you ready?” Gideon asks, and he can’t help but let a smirk flash across his face.

That stops Nix immediately.

“Please,” he whispers.

“You have two choices, but in both instances, you will wear this.”

He shows Nix the vibrating cock ring with an attached vibrator that stimulates the perineum. He hadn’t used one on Nix before, but Nix had played with them while Luca wore one last fall.

“What else?”

In his fascination, he’s forgotten the snark, and he holds out his hand so Gideon can place the V-shaped vibrator attached to the thin ring in his palm.

Gideon shows him the new prostate massager. It’s the same kind Luca had worn the night Nix had claimed them, and he’d been so curious that Gideon had bought a matching one for reasons .

Nix goes to his knees and claps. “For me? My very own? Thank you!”

Gratitude and enthusiasm are so natural to him that he has to wrangle it back to re-assume his bratty persona.

“Uh…and fuck you,” he says with an exaggerated frown and a pout.

Gideon can’t help it. He bursts out laughing. This boy will never understand the depth of how much joy he brings to Gideon’s life, nor how much he wants him to be laughing, smiling, and satisfied.

“Oh, Kitten. You don’t have to fake it. Please don’t. This time, I’ll give you what you want without the sass. ”

“You will? Okay. But next time?”

He wiggles like a little puppy, and the effect is amazing with his hard dick bobbing and his beautiful flushed cheeks.

“You can be as nasty as you like, but for now, you still have a choice to make.”

Gideon shows him the massager again.

“You will wear the ring combo and have the massager while I spank you. Or you can wear the ring combo and I’ll fuck you…while I spank you.”

“That’s not fair. How can I decide?”

“It’s the rules, remember? Hard decisions help you make better choices.”

Nix sits up, arms still crossed. “But I want to try the one like Luca’s and I really like your dick. Can’t I have both? They’ll both fit. You know they will.”

He does know that, and the memory slams into his wolf brain like a train. It wasn’t a massager they’d made fit back then, though, no siree. Fuck. Sometimes he wishes he could change his mind.

Sighing, he shakes his head. “Not this time.”

Next time, though, Gideon will let him fuck Luca in his cock-cage, while wearing it pressed right up against his prostate on the highest setting, making him shake and cry while Gideon fucks him slow and easy.

Make sure he knows Luca has to come first before he’s allowed.

Maybe he’ll dig out his Shibari ropes again and tie them together first. A bit of predicament bondage.

“Hey!” Nix says loudly—and for what seems to be the second time, because he had allowed himself to get lost in all the possibilities.

“Sorry. Was thinking about next time.”

Nix raises his eyebrows and looks right at Gideon’s hard dick, leaking droplets of pre-come on the floor.

“I can see that. But I’ve decided: your dick is way too good to pass up.” He swipes his finger out lightning fast, catches a drop before it falls, and brings it to his mouth so he can lick it off like ice cream. “I choose you. Now, fuck me.”

Isn’t that what everyone wants to hear ?

He can only return the favor. “I choose you, too, Kitten.” Over and over again.

“Kiss?” Nix whispers, heart in his eyes and a small, sweet smile at Gideon’s romantic words.

“Always.”

Nix throws his arms around Gideon’s neck and leads with his tongue, licking into Gideon’s mouth. Nix kisses like he does everything now—like this is both the first time and the last he’s going to get to do it—with enthusiasm and teeth .

He’s purring around Gideon’s tongue when he remembers he’s got plans. Before it can escalate further, Gideon pries him loose, because he’s here to teach his saucy Kitten a lesson about using his nice words.

“Ready, Kitten? Color?”

“I was enjoying that.”

“You’ll enjoy this more, no? Now, color?” Gideon pushes him down on his back and stops for just a moment just to see his love smile.

“Hands up over your head for now, and do as you’re told.”

“Green.” Nix raises his arms and arches his back a little. It pops that round belly up, so Gideon just has to bite a little mark just under his belly button.

“You look so pretty, round with our babies.”

Gideon licks a line down and catches the tip of his cock, then slides the cock ring down, using his saliva to ease the way. It’s not a tight fit, as it’s custom-made for Luca, and Nix is smaller than his Honey. But Nix still arches up and moans at the grip and pressure.

“Oh god, does it get better than that?”

He has always been a bit more of a “show” than “tell” person, so he makes sure the triangle-shaped piece is in place behind Nix’s balls, then flips the small switch to a low hum.

It’s gratifying to see Nix’s eyes roll back with a deep groan.

“On your hands and knees. Show me where you want me.”

It takes a slap to his silky thigh to get Nix’s attention back on the task at hand .

“So pretty, Baby.”

The praise makes Nix moan again, and a stream of sugary, vanilla-scented slick slips down his thigh.

“Head down and ass up, arch your back. That’s it.”

Gideon lifts his ass-cheeks and lets them fall; they’re still so small, but the plushness the babies have added is appreciated. There’s a single handprint left over from his spankings outside, and he wishes he could tattoo it right there for eternity. Alas, he just has to keep refreshing it often.

“Are you just going to stand around all fucking day? I said fuck me.”

That tone does things to Gideon’s wolf. Make him want to thrust in hard until his omega begs and cries, but he forces the urge down.

He will not be provoked into finishing this too soon, and instead sits back on his heels. Gathering his mate’s slick in one hand, he uses it to smooth the glide on his aching cock with a groan. The silence stretches between them until he’s sure Nix is going to snap.

Just as the tension might break, Gideon slides two fingers of his other hand into Nix’s winking hole up to the last knuckle.

“Show me how much you want this, Kitten. Move on my fingers. I’ll tell you when to stop.”

Nix moans a yes , rolling his hips back and forth, trying to get the digits in deeper, to get some satisfaction from this small amount of penetration.

A sheen of sweat beads on his spine, glowing in the low light from the bedroom window.

The filthy sound of his slick fills the near-silence of the room.

Gideon rewards his efforts by curling his fingers down and finding Nix’s prostate from the inside, while the vibrator does the same from the outside.

“I–I thought you were going to fuck m–me. Is this all you’ve got?”

In the next blink, Gideon is on his knees, with the head of his cock pressed against that inviting hole. He hadn’t any conscious thought about doing it, but his wolf must have had enough of his omega’s lip.

He pops just the head of his cock in, to feel the heat and the clench. To feel Nix bear down and moan so deep, his voice is virtually subsonic.

“Does it feel good, omega? My cock stretching your tiny hole? ”

Nix clenches hard this time, and his hand has slid under himself like he’s going to touch his dick.

“No. You haven’t earned it yet. You still need your spanks.”

He wails then, caught out.

“Hands up over your head, that’s right, perfect. Drop your belly down and spread your legs a bit more. Now I want you to count, so I don’t lose track of where I am, or I might have to start over.”

Sliding home, he doesn’t wait for Nix to brace; he just uses his left hand to land a solid smack to Nix’s already-pink ass.

“Ow! That’s harder than before!”

“Count, or I’ll start over.”

Nix moans, because he likes it when Gideon is just a bit mean; nothing so far as humiliation, but demanding and stern? Sign kitten up.

Just before Gideon lands the second slap across his other cheek, Nix shouts, “One!”

From that point on, Gideon sort of loses track—because every time he smacks Nix’s butt, his mate clenches down as he pulls out. He then pushes into the impossibly tight heat, and the pattern repeats itself.

His omega’s sugary slick is flooding out with every push, and Gideon’s knot is almost catching on every thrust. The heat of his mate burns, the clenching softness pushing him closer and closer to the edge.

Nix has gone from shouting the numbers to whimpering them.

“Tw-twenty-sevennnn. Please. Need to come. Please.”

“You’re being so good for me,” he says, and smacks him three times in quick succession—for the nice round number—before rubbing the hot red flesh and scraping it with his nails.

“You can come, Kitten.”

Nix howls, legs shaking, the muscles visibly convulsing as his toes curl.

He fucks into him over and over, pistoning in past the tightly clenching hole until he can finally push his knot in past his mate’s rim.

Pleasure shoots from his core, straight out to his fingers and toes. It’s all he can do not to collapse on Nix’s back for fear of accidentally pushing him onto his belly, but he instead rolls them to the side in a heap—he’ll just rest a minute.

“Ring! P–Please, turn it off.”

“Oops, sorry.”

Gideon turns the vibration off on the cock ring but takes Nix’s mostly hard dick in his hand. It’s still leaking; with Gideon’s cock pressed up against his prostate, he’d be more surprised if it weren’t.

“I’ll stop when you come again, Kitten. Come on.”

“Sensitive!”

“I know, Baby. You can do it. Give me one more.”

He wouldn’t have pushed if Nix hadn’t said how much he loved to be dragged into another orgasm through oversensitivity. Rowan and Nix had managed to get caught in yet another feedback loop not even two weeks ago.

Or so Leo had told him. By text .

Because he had been in a filthy bar, waiting for information. Not at home, witnessing his mates reach the pinnacle of their connection.

Nix comes again, and Gideon misses it, but Nix pulls his hand away and brings the hot, sweet release to his mouth.