Shaking my head, I grinned. “I can just seeit now. You would have looked so innocent, but I bet you talked him into allkinds of things.”
“Hey.” He huffed. “I was that sweet.Matthew was the wicked one.”
Wade paused then looked over at mecuriously. “You’re sure you want to hear about this? I don’t want to make youfeel…I don’t know just—”
When he started to flounder, I spoke up.“No. We’re both coming into this with pasts and we both knew Matthew, so it’snot like you’re telling me about a stranger you dated a few times. I want tohear what your life was like and I don’t ever want you to feel like you have toignore that part of your life. I’d like to think that he’d approve of us and Idon’t want to forget him.”
I hadn’t realized how good of a friend he’dbeen until he was gone.
“He would have.” Wade smiled and leanedinto my touch. “And he’d be proud of me for finally living again.”
“I’m proud of you, but I’m also glad to seeyou doing so much better.” I caressed his cheek as he smiled.
And I was grateful he’d let his friendsstay close during that time, but I left that unsaid because I didn’t want torehash his guilt over pushing everyone else away.
Thankfully, we pulled up in front of thehouse, so I was able to smoothly transition away from the somewhat sad topic.“Are you coming in? I still owe you dessert.”
He grinned as he put the car in park andturned off the engine. “Yes, I would love to come in.”
Then he turned and his grin faded tosomething happy but more serious. He leaned over and kissed me briefly. “Anddessert sounds wonderful.”
I returned his kiss, still keeping it lightand easy. “Now, I need to know what you want. Do you want to take things slowor more than that? This is not a leading question. I just need to understandyour expectations.”
He swallowed and nodded slowly, but it tooka few seconds before words came out. “I would like to go faster than slow. I’mnot saying I want a full scene where we’d go all out, but I would like to…Imean, I want to.”
Wade took a breath and tried again. “Iwould like to touch you at the very least and I’m not worried about thingsgetting physical between us.”
Smiling, I gave him another kiss. “I wouldlike that too. Now, do you want to keep this vanilla or do you want to trysubmitting to me?”
That got another pause and several moreseconds of swallowing and nodding. Since that seemed to be his default statewhen he was thinking, I just waited. “I would like to submit to you.”
“And you remember what safewords we weregoing to use?” As I spoke, I was going through what I knew and what I thought Icould assume about his limits. Getting naked didn’t seem like it would be aproblem since he seemed comfortable with nudity and I knew he liked at leastmild pain because of the flogging, so that gave me a place to start.
“Yes.” He grinned, looking more excited andless nervous. “Stoplight colors.”
“Good.” I ran my hand over his head andthen trailed my fingers along his neck, smiling as he shivered. “Then let’s gosee about dessert.”
He made a quiet moan as my fingers strokedaround his ear, but something in him seemed to settle because he smiled at me.“Yes, Sir.”
Giving him another kiss, this timelingering and slow as my lips and tongue stroked his, I finally pulled back andsmiled. “I bet you’re going to be a very good boy for me.”
He always appeared to be so innocent, butnow my sweet omega looked needy and like he was silently begging to bedebauched.
He wanted his Dom.
Chapter 13
Wade
If my heart pounded any harder, I had afeeling I was going to pass out…not faint gracefully like Austin, but just tipover like a tree and crash.
I thought I was hiding it fairly well, butas we walked in the door to Griffin’s house, he wrapped me in his arms andleaned against the closed door. Holding me tight as I rested my head againsthis chest, he kissed my cheek. “Now, I have a real dessert for you and some funways to spend the rest of our evening, but we can’t even begin to start untilyou tell me what you’re so worked up about.”
“Worked up?” I didn’t want to look nervous.I wanted him to see that I was calm and ready to submit because that was what Iwanted to be.
He chuckled, then gave my ass a swat thatsent waves of nostalgia through me. Closing my eyes, I found myself relaxinginto him. “Now, would you like to try that again?”
I shook my head. “No, I’m clearly naughtyand need to be punished.”