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He didn’t have to like my answer but I wasn’t going to be unreasonably punished for something he’d asked me to confess.
“Alright.” Shifting on the bench and wiggling his toes, Shelby didn’t seem as concerned as part of me thought he should be. “No unreasonable anger if I asked a question to begin with.”
“You don’t have to like my answer but you just can’t go off on me if I didn’t say something infuriating to begin with.” I’d dated a few guys who liked to ask hypothetical questions and then go absolutely mental when I hadn’t answered them correctly, and I wasn’t built to play that game and keep my sanity.
“Deal.” Shelby went back to studying me as I made him stand up again. “You thought I was cute, right?”
“You were the sexiest thing I’d ever seen.” Brushing my lips gently against his, I answered as honestly as I could. “I loved how much you were enjoying being restrained and thought you looked beautiful.”
I just hadn’t liked that the pictures had ended up online without his consent but that’d been easy to fix.
It’d also been easy to make his ex’s life…difficult…but I’d done that just for fun.
“Good.” Looking relieved, Shelby straightened and radiated confidence. “I was worried about that since you never complimented them.”
“I wasn’t sure I could.” People’s reactions weren’t always easy to predict, so I’d taken a cautious approach when it came to anything like that. “You also never asked or hinted about that, so I didn’t want you to feel uncomfortable.”
“I don’t.” Beaming at me again, Shelby kissed my cheek. “You’re special too but those pictures turned out really good even if the photographer ended up being an asshole.”
That was an understatement.
“You are incredibly photogenic but how about we not tell anyone about this part of our conversation?” For some reason, I could see everyone being okay with the helpful watcher stuff but this was the part I wasn’t sure they’d be okay with.
Shelby scrunched up his face but nodded as I released the button on his pants. “Okay. People are kind of weird, and I want my new friends to like me.”
“They’re going to love you, but I just don’t want any…misunderstandings.” Shelby and I were going to see a lot of things differently than other people, and there was no point in courting drama. “I don’t want you changing anything about your personality, though.”
Sliding his pants down, I lowered myself to the floor again so I could trail my fingers down his thighs. “You’re sweet and funny and wonderfully open-minded. We’re going to meet a lot of people who are going to love you.”
And if they were mean to him, I’d just delete their entire online presence.
Chapter 5
Shelby
Not-Henry was really sweet.
“They’re going to love how funny you are and how sexy you are.” Not-Henry’s gaze heated as he helped me step out of the jeans he loved. “Definitely how sexy you are.”
That would be really nice but we’d already had the sexy versus cute discussion.
Either way, though, as long as Not-Henry liked how I looked that was what was important.
“Do you like the underwear you picked out?” The nearly sheer, tiny light blue briefs had shown up randomly after I’d complained that all I owned was the dude version of granny panties. “They’re kind of small.”
Wiggling my hips got a smile from my…well, from the Dom I was now dating.
“They’re perfect.” Stroking his hands up my legs, he teased his fingers around the edge of the leg holes. “They decorate my toy perfectly.”
Me.
I was his toy.
That was never going to get old and I had to fight the urge to wiggle and do a happy dance.
It didn’t seem like the right time for that even though I didn’t think Not-Henry would mind. He already knew everything about me and liked me anyway.
Maybe even because of it.
