Easing out of him, I just let my handsstroke over his body, holding him tight as he floated, drifting away with thepleasure. He was absolutely beautiful…so trusting and open as he gave meeverything, and I knew no matter what, I wasn’t going anywhere.
Chapter 6
Niall
“I think I need to explain a few things toyou and then you might end up being frustrated with me.” Keegan barely took abreath before he charged back in and I had to stare at the phone for a fewmoments just to make sure it was him.
When the phone had rung, I’d picturedflirting with the sexy boy, not having him explode with some kind of curiousapologetic explanation.
“This really isn’t my fault, though, so I’mnot sure I think blaming any of this on me would be a reasonable way to handlethe situation, and so far you’ve proven to be very logical, which I find cute,so please don’t change that.”
What?
I was cute?
I’d been accused of being a lot of things,primarily an unfeeling asshole, but never cute.
“I won’t be upset.” I was fairly certain Icould promise that.
Hopefully.
Before I could ask some clarifyingquestions, because I had quite a few at this point, he charged back in again,and from the sounds I was hearing in the background, he was pacing around theroom. “I like both of you even though you’re very different and makingdecisions has never been my strong suit, but Julian says I have to talk to youabout all this before we can have sex, so I’m assuming we have to talk about itbefore I should really have sex with you either.”
What?
“Julian?” My question stopped Keegan’srambling right in its tracks.
He made a low agreeing sound that had meclosing my eyes and shaking my head. It had to be Julian. I must have beenquiet for longer than I’d realized because Keegan’s voice came out hesitantly.“Niall? Are you mad at me? Because I still want to sketch you and date you…andthe whole submission thing too.”
That had a bark of laughter jumping out ofme and I heard him sigh. “Oh good, you’re not mad. For some reason I got theimpression from Julian that you might be frustrated about this, but I’m gladyou know each other. That will make it all so much easier.”
All of what so much easier?
Looking over at the clock, I did somemental gymnastics with my schedule and decided I could make it work. “Keegan, whatdo you think about coming over to my place tonight? Have you eaten yet?”
Out of everything, that was the piece thatseemed to stump him. “Um, I don’t think so?”
I could almost picture him looking aroundthe room for clues. Over the past few days, I’d come to realize just howdistracted he could be with his work…and it really did seem to be his career,which was fascinating.
Rephrasing the question, I tried again.“Are you hungry?”
The only reason I was hungry at nine atnight was that my last meeting of the day had run incredibly late and thenthere’d been a thousand other details to tie up before I could leave.
This question seemed to be easier to answerbecause his cheerful reply came quickly. “Yes.”
“All right, then.” I thought for a momentthen charged in. “I’m going to order pizza and we’ll eat when you get here.Bring a change of clothes and whatever you need to stay overnight. You can stayin the guest room.”
He sucked in a breath, but I cut him offbefore he could say anything. “We are going to talk and then I am going to talkto Julian and only then will we have sex. Is that clear?”
A huff came through the phone, but hequickly hid his frustration. “Yes, Sir.”
After a moment, I heard, “Why are Doms allalike?” He probably thought that whispered comment had been too low to hear,but it was good to know that he’d gotten a similar lecture from Julian. “Butdoes that mean you’ll spank me? Because I was good and on my date with Julian theother day he spanked me, but he said no sex until I talked to you. I justwasn’t sure how to talk to you.”
With anyone else I would’ve thought theywere trying to manipulate me, but Keegan said it all so matter-of-factly that Iknew it was just a quest for information.
How was I supposed to answer that, though?
“Julian said that there would be no sexuntil you talked to me?” There had to be more rules than that.
