Page 42 of Collin: Episodes 13-15
Mr. Moreau reached for the lube on the counter and slid his hand around the back of Collin’s neck. He pressed Collin down on the counter, bent over at the waist.
“Sir!” Collin yelped. The counter was cold.
“Hush, pet.”
“Hmm…do you have plans, Émeric?” Mr. Reevesworth inquired.
“Just helping you, mon amour. You said you needed somewhere warm to sleep?” Mr. Moreau slid a slick finger into Collin’s hole. “Spread your legs, boy.”
Collin obeyed, his tummy turning to happy, embarrassed gelatin.
Alice devoured breakfast in the morning, speaking in broken French with both Mr. Reevesworth and Mr. Moreau. Evidently, her language classes in college had stuck. Then she joined Collin with Holden to head over to the office in the SUV.
“What do you mean, Ash is at the office? Doesn’t he have the weekend off, or does he need to work today?”
“Ash lives there.” Collin sighed and dropped his head against the back of his seat. “I’m trying to help him find a place, but he doesn’t like living in an apartment, doesn’t see the point.”
“So, he just…lives in his office?”
“Yes.”
Alice raised both eyebrows.
“He has some good reasons.” Collin sighed. “Like legitimate ones. He doesn’t like having a commute, and he doesn’t like the work of an apartment. Everything he feels he needs is there, so…” Collin held out his hands palms up. “At some point, it becomes a legal issue, I think, but we’re trying to give him until his birthday to come up with a solution.”
Alice tapped her lower lip with her finger. “I’m guessing he’s not like most people where he just wants to get away from work and not be bothered. Like, it sounds like all of his friends and family are there, you, Carrie, Damian.”
“Damian’s a new addition, but yeah.”
Ash was waiting in the lobby in a coat with hat and gloves. He bounced from one leg to another. “I hope you don’t think I’m going to be good at this. I do things on screens, not in real life.”
“It’s not a test.” Alice slipped her arm around his and latched on with both hands. “Come on, let’s go. Bye, big brother. Don’t let the hanzi hurt your brain.”
“It already is.” Collin sighed. “Ash, you owe me one!”
Ash shook his head and hid behind Alice. “I studied, I promised! Make sure Zhou Laoshi updates the buttons!”
Collin waved them off. It was the first class Ash had missed, and if anything, he was doing better than Collin. The buttons seemed to be really working for him. Maybe he could get something like that for himself? But he was in different locations all day. Perhaps there was an app.
Collin girded his resolve and made his way to the conference room for class. All Zhou Laoshi’s attention was going to be on him.
Ash and Alice were over the moon with excitement when Collin caught up with them at the natural history museum three and a half hours later. He’d gotten there early with Holden trailing him, but Ash and Alice were running late. Evidently, they’d smashed through the first escape room so fast that the establishment had offered them the second one to see if they could break the record, which they had. They were both wearing little medal emblems on ribbons announcing their status as record holders.
“You just have to think like them,” Alice said. She squeezed Ash in yet another hug. “And he’s really good at strategy.”
Ash crimsoned. “You’re good at solutions.”
“Team.” Alice slapped her hand into his. “Okay, Collin, what are we doing here? I want to see old things. Dinosaurs.”
Collin grinned. “Dinosaurs coming right up. We even have some ancient sloths, if you like.”
“I want tigers,” Ash said.
“We have those too.”
Damian met them for lunch at the museum café. He pulled Collin aside. “I can show Alice and Ash more of the city if you like. Our doms would like to take you shopping. Their tailor has a cancellation in an hour.”
Collin glanced back at Alice and Ash. They were currently pretending to have a ninja fight with stuffed animal dinosaurs from the gift shop. This was everything Alice had been wanting: getting out, seeing the world, playing, being carefree. But he really did want to spend more time with his doms before the weekend was over. And Alice didn’t need him hovering.
