He braces his hands on my shoulders, fingers digging in. I grin up at him. “Shut me up then, babe.”
I start to move without waiting for Em’s next command. My handssliding his pants off.
“Stan,” Em says, sharp enough to stop me dead.
I freeze, sighing dramatically. “You’re cruel,” I tell her. “Beautiful and brilliant, but so fucking cruel.”
Lix’s mouth twitches, shoulders shaking with a silent laugh.
“Oh, of course you love it,” I accuse him.
He doesn’t even deny it.
“It’s my birthday, babes!” I cry out. “Let me have my fun!”
Em watches us, eyes ice cold behind her glasses. “Stan, behave yourself.”
Oh. My dick disagreeshard.
I point my pout at her. “Em, tell me what to do next, or I’ll take over.”
“If you do, you wouldn’t get rewarded,” she says so easy for the jumpstart it gave to my twitching cock.
Licking my lips, I whisper, “Oh, yeah, what reward, Em?”
Em tilts her head, considering me like I just presented a mildly interesting hypothesis. “If you comply,” she says, “I could offer more positive reinforcement.”
I perk up. “Okay, now we’re speaking my language.”
“Compliance could be incentivized further,” she says. “Creative positions you can dictate.”
I snort. “Gorgeous, I love you lots, but you’re describing a typical post-dinner threesome.”
She giggles, covering her smiling lips with her hand. “Understood. Perhaps I could also permit physical affection in public.”
“Wow,” I deadpan. “Be still, my dick.”
Lix lets out a laugh, while I shake my head.
“You’re gonna have to do better than that, doc. I’m engaged now. Raise the stakes.”
Em hums in thought, eyes flicking between me and Lix like she’scalculating. “There is another non-sexual option.”
My brows go down. “Huh?”
She adjusts her glasses, far too calm. “I could marry you in another country.”
The words hit me so hard I swear my soul blue-screens.
My mouth opens. Closes. Opens again. Nothing comes out.
Lix absolutely loses it. Full-on laughs, throwing his head back. “Holy shit,” he manages. “Stan, you’re turning red.”
“I amnot,” I choke out, which is a lie because my face feels like it’s on fire, and my heart is doing laps around my ribcage. “You can’t just—”
Words are not doing their thing. I’m going speechless, and I can’t do that ‘cause if Em is offering forever too, I have to fucking take it!
“Em, you can’t—” I sigh, trying to breathe through my crazy heartbeat that feels like it’s beating me up from the inside. “You can’t just say things like that, like you’re booking a dentist appointment.”
