Page 5 of His Stepdad Wears Leather

“White or brown rice?”

“Ah… whatever’s easier.”

“Easy. Yeah,” the waiter said, dotting the order pad viciously. “I’ll go put that in.”

Stacey laughed at Brody as soon as the waiter was out of earshot. “You don’t remember him, do you?”

Brody shrugged, his face going a bit red. As owner of one of the most popular gay clubs in the area, he meta lotof men. A lot. And he enjoyed his time with each and every one of them. How was he supposed to remember all of them?

“I don’t know if I’d eat whatever he places in front of you,” Geena said before busting out with a laugh.

“Thanks,”he replied sardonically.

“When did you start going after twinks?” Geena asked.

“What’s a twink?” Parker asked.

“Damn it, Geena,” Stacey mumbled before gazing at Parker. “I’ll tell you when you’re eighteen.”

“As if the internet doesn’t exist,” Parker said, lifting his cellphone in one hand.

Brody snatched the cell from his son’s hands and rested it on the other side of his silverware. “Not at the table.” He might not be able to stop him from searching eventually, but damned if he wanted to be sitting beside the boy when he figured out what a twink was—as there would most definitely be many more questions to come after.

“That’smyphone,” Parker cried.

“And you’ll get it back when I leave,” Brody replied.

Parker grumbled under his breath. He lifted a handheld console and put his new game into a slot.

“Is this the new one?” Brody asked.

“Yup,” Parker replied, already tuning them out and playing the game.

“You gave him his gift already?” Brody asked. The boy’s birthday wasn’t for another three days.

“Well, if you’d given him the game first, it’s not like he wouldn’t have guessed what else was coming,” Stacey said.

They were doing birthday dinner early because of Brody’s schedule. Weekends were hard for him to get away from the club – it was their busiest time—and now that the boy was getting older, he was more interested in hanging with his friends than his part-time dad anyway. Brody appreciated them celebrating early for his sake. “Yeah, I guess so.”

Brody sighed and eyed Parker playing away before he turned his sights back on Geena and Stacey. “I thought it was one that hooked up to the TV?”

“It does both… it’svers,” Geena said with a wink.

Fuck me. The game’s aliteralswitch.He shook his head.

“Will you stop giving our son things to look up on the internet?” Stacey whispered loudly.

Parker’s head popped up. “What? What else do I need to look up?”

“Nothing,” all three adults said as one.

Parker glared at them before once again becoming engrossed in his game.

Geena pulled out her cellphone and typed something. Brody’s phone vibrated. He fished it out and gazed at his screen.

The twink?? Are YOU playing daddy now?

“Maybe,” Brody answered. “Why not?” He wasn’t. Brody didn’t do the whole daddy thing, but it was no one’s business but his own.

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