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Grady

“You look tense, baby boy. You’re not worried about our discussion, are you?” He nearly jumped out of his skin when I wrapped my arms around him as we walked into the house, but I was an incredible Daddy and didn’t laugh.

I also had fabulous reflexes and didn’t get knocked on my ass, either.

Alick didn’t seem to have any idea his head had almost slammed into mine, so I didn’t point it out as he let out a deep breath and started working on relaxing his muscles. “No, Daddy. You’re…you’re my mate.”

Huh?

It was a fascinating response, so I kissed his head and wrapped him tighter so I could kiss his cheek. “I am. I’m also your Daddy and your Dom and the monster who’s going to get you.”

That reminder earned me a shiver and a little whine. “Daddy, don’t confuse…don’t confuse my dick. He’s not sure what we’re doing.”

Keeping my laughter inside almost killed me, but I managed to do it because I was incredible. There wasn’t even a smile in my voice as I stroked one hand down his chest to cup his bulge. “Oh, is he being naughty? Yes, he is.”

Alick’s groan said he was aroused but embarrassed. “Daddy…”

That didn’t convey as much information as he thought it did, so I just ignored his whiny tone and focused on his erection. “Naughty stiffy. You’re not supposed to get hard before discussions. What if you’re not good and you don’t get your reward at the end?”

Emotions were flashing through Alick faster than I could track but they seemed to be mostly bouncing between desire and worry, so it seemed like his orgasm was his primary concern. With that in mind, I kept fucking with that idea since it was making him nearly lightheaded with need.

Giving his cock a squeeze, I made a tsking sound. “If you’re like this, you might even try to have your fun before our discussion is over. That would be very sad.”

The implied threat of a punishment if he came too quickly had his knees going wobbly. He was very lucky his Daddy was stronger than average and I was very lucky that my arms had already been wrapped around him. But I kept him upright and I was still playing with his erection, so it was all good.

Massaging it again, I kept playing with his hard toy. “You want to be good for our discussion, don’t you?”

He couldn’t seem to figure out how to answer that.

His cock jerked like it was excited to tell me it had no ability to behave at all, but Alick’s brain was trying to make sure he told me he could behave based on how hard he was working to get the words out. “I…I can…I’ll be…I’ll be a good boy.”

I wasn’t sure that was an answer to the question I’d asked, but it gave me a reason to keep jerking him off through his clothes. “You want to be a good boy for our discussion, right? You’re going to make sure this naughty stiffy doesn’t have too much fun before I’m ready?”

Alick’s body seemed to be at war, but he managed not to orgasm or die of embarrassment, so I was proud of him. “Yes, Daddy.”

He moaned as a shiver went through him and derailed his words for a few moments. “I…I’ll make sure it doesn’t have too much fun. I’ll keep it under control.”

I knew he could only keep that promise if I stopped jerking him off or gave him a cock ring, so I gave it a pat and kissed his cheek again before moving my hand up to his belly. “Good boy.”

Letting out a long breath, his body jerked like it was doing a hard reset and wasn’t sure it could get going again. It took him several long moments of just breathing and leaning against me before he seemed to find his balance and his brain.

It made him feel much steadier, but he didn’t move away.

No, he rested his head back onto my shoulder and I could feel the mate bond peeking open. “You…you know nothing can make us rush.”

It was technically a sentence but it felt like it wanted to be a question, so that was how I took it. “That’s right.”

Sending the desire and contentment I was feeling through the bond, I turned my head and kissed his cheek. “We’re mates but we’re just going to keep going in ways that work for us.”

It didn’t matter if that was spanks or weddings or the penetrative sex he’d started to crave.

No one had ever told me that they could see their mate’s dreams through the bond, but that didn’t surprise me since I hadn’t been told a lot of things.

Alick slowly nodded, but before his brain could find something else to focus on, I turned him in my arms and took his mouth in a long, slow kiss. Taking my time, I made love to his mouth and kept him trapped tightly in my embrace just the way he loved.

When his moans turned into sighs and he was barely tugging against me, just enough to feel imprisoned, I knew he’d slip into subspace if I wasn’t careful. So I gently reduced the desire I was letting him feel and eased back on my kiss enough to let him catch his breath.

His gaze was hazy with need and I knew we’d pushed the worries to the back of his mind again, so I kept him close as I started moving us to the bedroom. I wasn’t sure if words would be good or not, so I sprinkled kisses over his face and made soft sounds to let him know I was pleased with him.

It wasn’t until we reached the bed and I shifted one hand between us to release the button on his jeans that some of the fuzzies started clearing from his mind. But instead of being replaced by his overeager thoughts, desire and submission filled his eyes. “Daddy…”

“That’s right.” Releasing him just long enough to get his T-shirt over his head, I ran my hands over his sculpted chest before wrapping my arms around him again. “Daddy’s going to take good care of you.”

His head moved up and down like he was nodding but I wasn’t sure what he was actually thinking when he stayed quiet and curled into me again. Everything I was getting from him was shades of relaxed desire, though, so I slowly slid his pants and briefs down his thighs and was glad when there was enough thinking going on for him to help by stepping out of his shoes and clothes.

When he was naked, I went back to slowly caressing him and almost dancing us back and forth as I soaked up his soft emotions.

Dancing.

“We need dancing at our wedding.”

I hadn’t meant to send the words but he made a happy sound that said he’d gotten them loud and clear.

“We’ll have friends and family around us, and then when I bring you home, it’ll be a night you’ll never forget.”

Sitting back on the bed, I pulled him with me and picked him up just enough to help him climb on the bed with me. He was still snuggled as close as he could but he knew where we both wanted him to be.

When I was leaning against the headboard and he was draped over my lap, face resting against the mattress with his eyes closed, I ran my hand over his smooth, round ass and teased his imagination again.

“When you’re partied out and we’ve come home to hide, I’ll bring you back to our room and slowly take your clothes off.”

He made a soft sound and buried his face into the bed, but I could feel the happiness spiking through the desire.

“I’ll keep playing with the collar I put around your neck and I might even put a cage on your sexy cock to make sure you last all night.”

That got a wonderful moan and it just got even more perfect when I brought my hand down for his first spank and he sucked in a breath. As I found my rhythm and went back and forth on each cheek, he shivered and whimpered as his ass tightened.

There was something like frustration coming through the bond but I had a feeling that was because he was fighting the urge to fuck my lap. It was hard to be good, so I rewarded him with more spanks that had desire growing stronger.

“That’s right. Such a good boy and such a sexy sub. You’re fighting so hard to be good for me. I’m going to make you ache, baby boy.”

That got more whines and had needy sounds filling the room, but he flooded the bond with pleasure and pride, obviously loving that he was making me happy and that he was being good.

“Let me feel how much you need it. Let me feel how much you love the ache.”

Whispering softly through the bond, I focused on the seat of his ass for a few spanks so that he’d feel it later.

“Such a good sub. Do you remember what a good sub gets?”

Slowing my pace until the spanking had almost stopped, I caressed his ass, squeezing and teasing around his hole in between spanks.

It took my subspace-addled boy a while to get words out but that seemed to be because his thoughts felt thick and slow.

“Rewards…Daddy…”

Something about hearing the words through the bond as they mixed with his emotions made them even more intimate.

“That’s right.”

Giving him another spank before trailing a finger down the center of his ass, I couldn’t help smiling as he groaned and his ass pushed up, begging for more.

“Does my boy want to come?”

Instead of being an easy question, it had his brain stirring and I could feel him trying to push through the fog. I kept up the soft touches but didn’t spank him again. I was his butthead, but I wasn’t going to fuck with him when he was deliberately trying to tell me something.

“Make love to me, Daddy?”

Single words and things that felt more like ideas flashed through his head and I knew he was ready for me. That made his long bathroom trip before we’d left to go run errands make sense, and it said this wasn’t just a mid-scene need that he’d regret later.

“Yes, baby boy. I’m going to show you how much I love you.”

Reaching for the lube in the nightstand with one hand as I kept up the slow caresses with the other, I pushed love through the bond and thought about how good he was going to feel around me. When my fingers were slicked up, I teased around his hole and thought about all the sexy sounds he would make for me and imagined him crying out as he came.

He made the neediest sound as I slipped one finger inside him and I knew it was the mix of everything that was getting such a wonderful reaction from him. Rewarding his sexy noises with more thoughts of sliding into him as I pinned him against the bed, I slid deeper into him and brushed over his prostate.

Alick gasped and clenched around me, but as his need sparked, an image of him being bent over on the bed filled my head.

“Does my sexy boy want to be pinned against the bed as his Daddy makes love to him?”

I knew the answer before he moaned and nodded, but the way his ass thrust up again and he milked my fingers made it even more obvious.

And since clear answers should always be rewarded, I eased my finger almost all the way out and added a second one to get him ready for my cock. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to fuck with him a little, so I filled my mind with the clearest picture of him that I could, head down on the bed with his ass up and restraints wrapped around his wrists and a spreader bar at his thighs.

The mate bond lit up like the Fourth of July, and his ass clenched around me like he was being fucked hard and fast.

“Daddy…”

There was a desperation in his voice that said he wasn’t going to last, so as he shook and moaned, passion still filling the bond, I gently slid my fingers out and picked him up so I could lay him beside me on the bed.

Alick scrambled to pull his knees under him so he could push up his ass, and even though he was pressing his face into the bed, that time it was to muffle his moans, not hide his embarrassment.

“Such a good boy. Arch your ass up for me. Show me how much you want me.”

He obeyed, pushing his ass higher and spreading his legs as he shook, whimpers filling the room and my mind. “Please.”

I couldn’t decide if he knew he’d spoken the plea out loud, but I could hear how close to the edge he was in that simple word. “Yes, baby boy.”

Moving behind him as I quickly stripped off my clothes, I was naked by the time I moved between his legs. I spread the last of the lube on my cock as I ran my other hand up his back and down over his gorgeous red ass.

“You’re so beautiful, baby boy.”

Running the head of my erection over his slicked hole, I focused my thoughts on how much I loved him and how I’d dreamed of this moment with him. When I finally pressed the head just inside him, the bond lit up again and the bright vine that wound through my head looked almost neon as his emotions flooded through.

It was perfection.

There was nothing more incredible than being as close as two people could get when the bond was at its peak, and as I sank deeper into him, I knew without a doubt that he felt the same way. There were no barriers between us, no emotion I didn’t understand.

I could feel his love and his need…his fears and his almost innocent eagerness at the idea of being mine.

And it all got even more vibrant as I made love to my mate and filled him with my body and my desire.

By the time I had him completely pinned to the bed and I was thrusting in and out as his pleas for more filled my mind, I wasn’t sure where he ended and I began. We were so tied together that when he finally exploded and his orgasm fired through both of our minds, I fell over the cliff with him without even realizing it.

As I collapsed onto him, his body still quivering around me, I heard soft, happy sighs fill my mind.

“Don’t move, Daddy. This is…this is perfect.”

Since I happened to agree and I could feel how good it felt to him, I kissed the back of his head and his shoulders and wrapped myself even tighter around him.

“Everything with you is perfect, baby boy.”

Nuzzling against him, I kept him cocooned between the bed and me, sending soothing sounds and feelings through the bond.

“Because mates are always compatible, Daddy.”

Kissing his shoulder, I tucked my face into his neck and nodded, taking in his scent and just marveling at my mate.

“Mates are incredible, baby boy, but the most wonderful magic in the world is love.”

With a bit of mischief and magic, love would always find a way.