The next morning as he and Vixen sat at the breakfast bench and watched Shadow, in a pink frilled apron and butt plug and nothing else, cook bacon and eggs at the stove, Raven sipped his orange juice and wished it were coffee as he admired the view. “You knew that I would have a moment, last night,” he accused Vixen. “It is not unusual,” she replied. “You are very new, and very f-ked up, Raven. There is bound to be a few times that what you want clashes with what you think you should want, and the vacuum left when you cross those boundaries will leave you feeling a bit raw.” “How many broken boy toys have you fixed?” He asked her suspiciously. “One and one eighth,” she replied with a smile. “The first one was also very f-ked up when I started.” “Extremely f-ked up,” Shadow agreed. “So, I am boy toy number two?” Raven clarified. “It is not something a Domme undertakes lightly,” she told him. “It would be irresponsible to start someone down this path, and then abandon him or her
Shadow was right. As he had followed up the cases from the missed calls, Raven’s mind began to dwell on everything from the night before and pull it apart, turn it around, make it sordid. “I am not a f-king girl,” he told himself sternly. “I am not being taken advantage of by some f-ked up high school golden boys. I am making decisions as a consenting adult, doing nothing illegal, and have nothing to be ashamed of.” He did not listen to himself, and by the time Shadow called to say that band practise was done, Raven had worked himself into a dark place. He would f-king take them to Vice and Victor’s, he decided, and then he was out and done. He had gone too far down that f-king rabbit hole, he needed to get out now, before he started f-king rabbits or blowing smoke rings with stoned caterpillars. Vice and Victor were his best friends, but f-k, this was going too far for the sakes of friendship. He needed to do this one last thing, tell them he was done, and then find a pretty, whol
Raven released Shadow and accepted the hand that the other man offered, letting Shadow pull him to his feet. Shadow handed him the beet and Raven took a swig before handing it back, watching Shadow’s adam’s apple move as he took a swallow. “This is just the way I like to see my kitchen,” Vixen purred. “With my two boys half-dressed and hanging out after giving each other head jobs. Very nice.” She wore a curly blonde wig and tossed it back as she sauntered over and slid between them, placing her handbag. “Come here, left or right? I am thinking you are a leftie,” she said to Raven, tucking him away and doing him up before fishing into his jeans pocket for his phone. Shadow did himself up, sliding the last of the beer towards Raven. “I will be right back,” he strolled back into the bedroom. Raven tilted his hips towards Vixen to assist her retrieval and grinned as she patted him down in all sorts of enjoyable ways in her search. From the flick of her eyes under her eyelashes, she kn
Vice and Victor were waiting at the front door as the Ferrari parked, looking, Raven thought, their intimidating best. He did not doubt that it was deliberate. They wanted to frighten Vixen, before taking her in to meet Mirage.“They are better looking in person,” Shadow observed. “If that is possible. It must be torture to be friends with them. They say, let’s go for a swim, and you get an instant hard on.” He grinned at Raven as he slid the chair back to let him out.“Yeah, it has happened,” Raven confessed, and could not believe he had done so as it was something that he had barely been able to acknowledge to himself.“Maybe they will go swimming today,” Shadow added hopefully and went around the car to open the door for Vixen.Raven walked over to Vice and Victor. “Hey.”“Raven,” Vice nodded. Normally he would kiss Raven on both cheeks and grab him by the shoulders in Vice’s version of a male embrace, but today he was not willing to show any softness. All three men turned to watch
After the argument in the car, Raven was surprised to receive a text message with an address and time for the gig. He debated whether to go as he changed shirts three times in front of his bathroom mirror, finally settling on a plain black t-shirt and jeans. He shrugged on his leather biker’s jacket and ran a comb through his hair.“Shit,” he told himself in the mirror as he fidgeted with his hair and ran his nails through the stubble on his cheeks contemplating the value of shaving. “You are like a nervous virgin dressing for her prom date.”His phone rang, and he scowled at the display, before shrugging. “Hey Claudia.”“Raven,” Claudia Callahan replied. “I got word that you were asking around about Gregory Holmsworth?”Raven tensed. “Yeah, Claudia. I have been asked by a client to dig into him.”“What client?”“What is it to you?”“Hey, you scratch my back, I will scratch yours.”“Shit, Claudia, could you be any more cliched?”She laughed. “If it works, Raven. C’mon, man. Who are yo
“Alright,” Vixen had removed the band t-shirt and wore a black studded bra. Her feet were bare. She jerked her head towards the bedroom. Shadow was already moving across the room. “Strip and get into position.”She did not follow them in, going instead to the fridge.Shadow pulled off his clothing in the walk-in-robe.“Position?” Raven copied him. The playroom door was open, offering a tantalising glimpse within.“Kneeling.” Shadow had stripped to the skin. “Hurry up man.”He kneeled to one side of the door, and Raven knelt beside him. “This feels weird,” Raven murmured.“You’ll get used to it.”“Why are you guys so sure I’m a sub?”“I guess we’ll find out for sure tonight, but…” Shadow trailed off as Vixen closed the bedroom door. She closed the door to the walk-in-robe behind her.Raven felt his skin crawl. There was something about the gradual closing off the rooms that heightened his awareness of the contraptions in the playroom. As Vixen closed the playroom door, he flinched. He
In the morning, Vixen left the two boys curled up in bed. Raven’s eyes opened briefly as she left the shower, before he closed them again. Shadow wrapped an arm around his waist, pulling him closer, and snuggled into Raven’s dark hair.“Aww,” she leaned over to deliver them kisses, breathing in the warm scent of their skin. “Snuggly boys.”“Don’t go,” Raven tried to pull her back into bed, but she laughed and eased away with lingering kisses.“I must, my pet.”Raven heaved a sigh. “It’s not even eight.”“Do you have to work today?” She wondered as she sat on the edge of the bed to lace up her boots.“Should do,” he muttered, lured to the edge of sleep by Shadow’s hot body against his. “Have a surveillance job that gets active around ten.”“Should I set you an alarm?” She offered.He groaned pressing his face into the pillow. She took that as a yes and programmed the smart device on the bedside to wake him at nine thirty.She paused in the doorway in order to look at them with a feelin
Kissing Shadow was no different to kissing a woman, at least the mouth part, Raven thought. Sure, there was a slight prickle of stubble where there was not normally, but Shadow’s lips were soft, and his mouth hot, his tongue against Raven’s was no different.But Raven was used to being the taller partner, to leaning over someone, being the one to lean back in order to kiss was new. To grip a man’s hips and tug him closer was new too. To feel Shadow’s hard on against him, different.Shadow could kiss as well as he gave head. His hands cupped Raven’s face, the big palms warm against his skin, and he sucked on Raven’s tongue in a way that made desire curl up from the soles of Raven’s feet into his groin and his heart pound faster against his ribs.It was like being bound to Vixen’s bed, the balance of power had shifted in the experience, and Raven’s responsibility diminished. Shadow might be a sub, but his experience and size made him dominant between them.Shadow eased the kiss, brushin