“Does it hurt?”
He nodded, bottom lip trembling.
“Do you enjoy it?” I whispered into his ear, then sucked on the pink lobe.
“Fuck. Fuck, yes. Daddy, yes.” A tear rolled down his cheek, and some twisted part of me was delighted to have caused it.
“If this hurts too much, say red light. What will you do if it hurts too much?” I drew back the ice.
He blinked down at me as if he was coming out of a wonderful dream. “Red light, Daddy.”
“Good. What do you think you say if everything is fine?” I tapped the ice cube on his nipple, and his eyelashes fluttered.
“Green light, Daddy.” He gasped as I put a fresh cube on his ignored nipple and squirmed in place, fingers flexing in midair. I hadn’t told him he couldn’t touch me, but he seemed to have an instinctive understanding of the game.
I melted a cube by taking it on a meandering path up his bicep, then walked around to his back, tracing it over his shoulders, then around again to tease his nipples once more.
My gut tightened with a sizzle of electricity that had my cock on fire. He was rock fucking hard. I wrapped my hand around his cloth-covered hard-on, and he grasped my shoulder to stay upright.
Adrenaline surged through me, the kind I didn’t get unless I was slicing open a victim. I almost felt delirious with the power of having such a strong man ready to fall on his knees for me.
“Bedroom, boy.”
“Yes, Daddy.” He stumbled toward the stairs. My heart leaped, this time with a tinge of worry. I set down the mug and followed him with my hands out in case he actually did fall. There was no way I was allowing anything bad to happen to him. As soon as we were in my room, I bit back a grin because my eager boy shoved down his pants and kicked them away. Fuck, I loved that he considered boxers a suggestion.
“I didn’t tell you to do that, boy.”
“Please, Daddy.” A shiny thread of precum leaked to the floor from his cock, which was straining toward the ceiling. It was mesmerizing.
“Go lie on the bed on your belly. Boys who don’t listen get punished.”
His eyes practically sparkled as he went over to the bed and flopped on his front. I didn’t have the heart to punish him too harshly after we’d had such a nice day, but a little waiting never hurt anyone.
“Daddy!” he cried out, sounding more vulnerable than I’d ever heard him as I made my way toward the door. “Don’t go.” The sad wobble in his words tugged on my heartstrings.
“Stay still, boy. Since you didn’t obey me earlier, you have to wait to feel good. I need to take care of your sunburn first. And I will always take care of you. That’s a Daddy’s prerogative.”
A small furrow formed on his brow.
“It means that’s my chosen duty to you. Keeping you happy and safe and well cared for.”
He moaned and ground his cock against the bed. “Thank you, Daddy.”
An emotion I couldn’t identify clogged my throat. My dick ached as I strode over and slapped his ass once, leaving a vivid red mark in the shape of my hand, branding him as mine. Would I ever get tired of seeing my handprints on him?
“Did I say you could do that?” I made my words gruff, but inside I was close to losing it and fucking him right here and now.
“No, Daddy.” He held so still he might’ve been asleep if I didn’t know better, eyes squeezed shut and chest heaving.
“Don’t move,” I growled.
The small sound that left him made me want to drape my body over his back and pound his P-spot until he spurted on our sheets.
But, no. As his Daddy, I also had to show restraint and do what was best for both of us. I left him there, a delicious quivering mess stretched out on my bed. I ran for the bathroom the second I was in the hallway because I couldn’t stand the idea of being away from him longer than necessary. I grabbedthe aloe with lidocaine in it—along with some pink nitrile gloves—from the closet, then bolted back to him, only slowing to compose myself right outside the door.
Sweat gleamed on his skin as I shut and locked the door. He quivered. The battle to stay still was taking its toll.
“I fucking love seeing you this way.” My breath caught. I could never lose this or I might finally go completely crazy. I shook off the thought.
