No, we weren’t going to stop there if Icould help it.
“No, don’t downplay it. I want tounderstand.” I did my best to make him see I was serious.
He seemed to decidefuck it, but Iwasn’t sure why he continued to open up. “I’d gotten to know Austin because wewere in the same math class. If you think he’s nuts now, you should have seenhim in high school. Somehow he knew we had more than just math in common and hekept pestering me until one day after school I just admitted I liked dominantalphas.”
He chuckled low and gave a genuine grin. “Ithink I ended up screaming at him something like fuck off, just because assholealphas were hot didn’t mean I had to talk about it.”
Laughing, I nodded. “Oh, I can see thatnow. I bet Austin didn’t let you get away with that comment, though.”
Bradley rolled his eyes. “Yeah, I gotlectures for weeks on how alpha dominant doesn’t mean asshole.”
That must have driven him nuts.
But before I could tease him, his faceclouded over again. “Most of the kids weren’t assholes about my being ascholarship student. The standards for regular kids to get those scholarshipswere so high that we improved the overall scores of the school a lot.”
He snorted. “And I think they were gettinglectures about how important smart guys like me would be in helping them run theirempires. But whatever, they were just a bit standoffish, not assholes.”
Yeah, from what I’d seen about Tanner’s dadand Austin’s parents in the news, that would have been their take on thesituation.
“But you got a good education out of it.”
Bradley nodded. “Yeah, and through Austin,I met a lot of people.”
We were veering off-topic. “What about yourdad?”
His face tightened, but he didn’t push thetopic away completely. “Let’s do the rest of this back at your place?”
“Sure.” We’d been done with dinner for awhile and were just relaxing over coffee and dessert. I squeezed his handagain. “Let’s go home.”
Chapter 19
Bradley
The drive from the restaurant to his placewasn’t nearly enough for me to be ready to talk. Somehow Simon must haverealized that because as soon as we walked in the door, he wrapped his armsaround me.
“I’ve been waiting to do this since ourlast date.” The kiss he gave me when he picked me up was nothing compared tothe way he claimed me now.
He alternated between nibbling at my lipsand using his tongue to make love to my mouth. By the time he pulled away, wewere both breathless and hard. But just because he needed oxygen didn’t mean hewas done.
His hands stroked down my back to cup myass and as he kneaded my cheeks, he began kissing my neck. I couldn’t hold backthe moan that escaped as he stretched my hole with his wicked fingers. He musthave known how good he was making me feel because he chuckled and bit down justunder my ear, making my knees weak.
“You made me wait for days before I couldtouch you again.” More nibbles accompanied the husky words. “I think I’m goingto have to punish you. You should know you need to put your alpha first.”
There was just enough honesty in his wordsthat I knew he was at least subconsciously sharing how he was feeling throughhis teasing.
It didn’t make me feel guilty. I hadn’tdone anything technically wrong, but leaving work early a few more times a weekwouldn’t kill me. And there was truth to what he was saying. If I wanted a relationship,that meant I had to put more effort into it.
Moaning as he bit down on the juncture ofmy neck and my shoulder, I had to fight to sound even remotely normal. “I’msorry you have to punish me, Sir.”
He let out a low growl that sent shiversdown my spine. “It’s the only way you’re going to learn. But it’s going to haveto be something creative. I don’t think a simple spanking is going to work onmy naughty boy.”
Oh, that sounded…perfect.
I didn’t want to think. I didn’t want toworry or plan. I just wanted to let everything go, and if it drove me crazy andleft nothing to think about but Simon, that would be even better. “Thank you,Sir. I want to be good for you.”
Simon let out a wicked chuckle. “You mightnot want to thank me later, but you’re going to have to if you want to come.”
Something in his words or the tone of hisvoice had me flashing back to our first scene where he’d tied me to the bed andused his magnificent flogger all over me. If his punishment was anything closeto that perfect, it would end up being a wonderful evening.
