Page 25 of Better Together


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“It's a figure of speech, asshole,” I remarked.

“And it's one you're not going to use anymore, are you?” He glared at me.

“No.” I slumped back in my seat, crossing my arms tightly over my chest.

“That's another thing,” he remarked. “Once we start this, the appropriate response is yes Sir or no Sir.”

“What in the hell is this? Some sort of kinky ass, gay, Fifty Shades of Grey shit?” I squirmed around in my seat, hoping he didn’t see that my dick was somehow getting even harder. I wasn’t down for full-on dungeon and torture freaky ass shit, but some of it might be hot.

“This is nothing like that,” he ground out. “That was a bunch of predatory bullshit. But I suppose there aresomesimilarities.”

“Like what?” The inquiry slipped past my lips before I could stop it. No one would ever know that I had found a version of the books online and read them. Purely in the name of research, of course. When you're pretty sure you are the broke dick of the school because everyone else is going crazy, trying to sneak out for sex whenever their parents weren't looking and you had no interest, you sometimes went to desperate lengths. And that was a fucked up scenario, let me tell you what.

“Everything we do to you will be because you want it,” Colin promised me. “But there are times you'll be forced out of your comfort zone. You’ve been trying to be the playboy everyone expects you to be and that hasn’t been working for you. Even if you think I’m a sick bastard, I want you to be honest with yourself and think about how bad you want it before you tell me no. Is that going to be a problem?”

“No.” Colin raised an eyebrow. “You said once we started, and I haven't agreed to anything just yet.”

Colin patted my leg. “Good boy.”

I sat up straighter, feeling like I had just passed a pop quiz. I stared at him, trying to figure out how to ask the question I couldn't get out of my head.

“It bothers you that you like hearing me say that, doesn't it?” Colin observed.

I nodded, my cheeks burning bright red.

“That's okay,” he reassured me. But if you decide you honestly don't like it, will you tell me?”

I nodded again.

“And you want me to keep pushing you?” I was starting to feel like one of those funky bobblehead dolls Chase was obsessed with. “Good. When we get home, I want you to take a shower and get comfortable. Unless you say otherwise before Daniel pulls into the parking lot, once we’re inside the suite, you’ll do what we tell you to do. You’re not going to overthink things; you’re going to let go and let yourself feel for a change.”

“Yes…Sir.” I wasn't sure why I used the honorific. I wasn't going to overthink how right it felt. The only thing that mattered was that Colin saw through me and realized something I had never told another soul. I couldn'tnotsee this through.

“Daniel, is it okay with you if I borrow your car?” he asked as he turned back to the front. Daniel didn't let anyone drive his baby. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was the first expensive purchase he’d made on his own. The only time I’d even driven it was one time when Daniel wasn't feeling well and asked me to take him to Campus Health. That it been enough of a shock that I worried he was critically ill and asked if we should head right to the Emergency Room instead.

“If you need to stop somewhere, tell me where I’m going. I don’t mind making a detour,” Daniel offered. Colin glanced back at me, his brow furrowed. He obviously wasn’t thrilled by Daniel’s lack of agreement but didn’t want to tell us—or probably more like tellme—where he needed to go. “What did you need to pick up?”

“I just wanted to grab a few things for tonight. And since Chase is over at Jayden's mom's, I don't have a set of wheels,” he explained.

“We can stop, it’s not a big deal,” Daniel repeated. Colin pursed his lips. When Daniel pulled up to a stop sign, the two of them seemed to have a silent conversation. Daniel turned to face Colin, his eyes went wide, and a devilish smile took over his face when Colin turned the phone so Daniel could see the screen. “Oh, that’s going to be fun. We definitely need to make this a field trip.”

Oh hell, this couldn’t be good.

“Anyone want to fill me in?” I asked as Daniel made a U-turn at the next intersection.

“No, this is one of those things I think will be better as a surprise,” Daniel teased. “If we tell you now, you're just going to sit there and overthink things.”

“Give me a little credit, would you?” I scoffed. “You’ve already thrown a lot of shit at me and I haven't freaked out yet, have I? How many guys would be cool with their best friend, and a new friend, discussing their sexuality behind their backs without laying one of them out? Not many, that’s for damn sure. And then the two of you start teasing me, keeping me hard all day but not letting me do a fucking thing about it, and I’ve just gone along with it. I’m cool as a motherfucking cucumber.”

Okay, so nearly shrieking by the end of my monologue might not have proved that I was calm…

“That's exactly why I'm not telling you where we’re going,” Daniel explained. “At some point, it's all going to be too much, and I don't want your head to explode. Well, not the big one and not just yet.”

Colin burst out laughing at the sophomoric humor.

“Very funny, assholes. You're not the ones with a raging case of blue balls.”

“Are you sure about that?” Daniel reached between his legs and gave his cock a squeeze. “Some of us are just better at not showing how much pain we’re in.”