Page 14 of His Theo

He wasn’t wrong but I didn’t want either of us thinking at the moment.

“Your increased desire has made it difficult for your brain to keep track of important information.” Giving my bottom one more light spank, he shifted me around on his lap until I was sitting up on two of his larger limbs. “Without clear consent, human rules dictate I must not provide sexual pleasures in public.”

Looking around the employee lounge, he had a thoughtful expression on his face. “This may be considered public. I am not certain of that fact when it comes to how humans see privacy, but on my ship, I would consider this…what is the word…half public?”

“Semi-public. But half works.” Shit.

Crashing my face into his torso, I sighed before straightening. “Yes, this is at least semi-public and we shouldn’t be doing…sexual stuff in here.”

I’d started to just give a euphemism, but decided at the last minute he wasn’t the kind of guy I should be vague with.

“I am pleased I understood human customs in that regard.” One smaller limb stroked over my head and it took me a second to realize his nubs were fixing my hair. “Social etiquette seems to indicate that we participate in the ritual consumption of food before we can leave.”

He didn’t seem pleased with that idea either, but as the captain-ish person, I was pretty sure he’d gone to a lot of events he’d wished he didn’t have to.

“Yeah, you’re right.” And logically, I knew I should get to know him more before I asked him to spank me.

An hour would be enough time for that, right?

“Then we can have privacy and…” How should I say it? “Um, and explore domination-based pleasures?”

Hmm, being clear was important.

“And I would like to be spanked.” Yes, I couldn’t die of embarrassment if he needed the words to be confident.

I was his first human…well, it seemed like his first human anything. And since their submission was complete and kind of crazy-sounding, I told myself again that communication was going to be very important.

“To some human submissives, spankings provide a combination of pain and control-based caretaking, as in boundary setting and punishments.” His Humans for Dummies tone made me want to smile. “To other humans, it provides pleasure, pain, and invokes control-based caretaking that has a happy, owned undertone.”

I knew where his question was going but I still let him ask it anyway.

“Based on your physical signs and vocal tone, I have made an educated guess, but please indicate which category your desire for a spanking falls into.” Jerker waited, giving me a look like he knew he was smart and he wanted me to confirm it.

He was going to be a pain in the butt once he could read my mind.

Well, read my emotional and physical responses.

But I’d seen Larry do it to Nicholas and there was definitely mindreading involved, no matter how they described what they were doing.

Trying not to sigh or give him mixed signals so early in our relationship, I did my best to keep my tone even and not dramatic. “I like spankings in the happy owned way.”

Yep.

Well, in for a penny and all that… “It makes me aroused.”

His body shifted and if he’d been human, his chest would’ve puffed out. “I am glad to see I have already started being able to reliably read your signals.”

I’d seen Larry have similar looks when he was right about stuff, but Jerker took it up a notch. I had a feeling I was going to need to remember that captains were just a bit more interesting than the average alien.

“Me too.” There was no point in ignoring how fabulous he thought he was, so I kissed his cheek. “It makes me feel special that you’re learning to read me so quickly.”

He was nearly floating he was so proud of himself.

“Keeping you safe, happy, and physically content are the most important things to me, my Theo.”

My?

I was already his my?

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