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“Hn.” Geun swiped Su-jin off the floor and tossed him over his shoulder, moving toward the stairs.

Su-jin kicked his feet and laughed, not resisting at all. He smiled from his upside-down position and waved goodbye as Geun carted him off.

“Geun really does like him.” Jaewoong sighed, looking after them. “He just can’t say it.”

“He’s doing it.” Yohei shrugged. “Does he have to say it?”

“I don’t think Su-jin knows he likes Geun,” Jun said.

Damian, Jun, Yohei and Jaewoong cleaned up. Yohei offered to play a board game with Jaewoong, and they disappeared.

“I think they’re giving us space,” Jun said, looking around the kitchen.

Damian wrapped his arm around Jun’s waist. “Do you not want them to?”

“No, space is good.” Jun nuzzled into Damian’s cheek, returning his embrace. “I can hang with them tomorrow.”

They put out food for Artemis and a bowl of water, then left, leaving the door open to the kitchen so the cat could get in.

Damian

It was only once they were upstairs that Damian remembered he’d given permission for one of the guys to take his room. Housekeeping had moved his personal effects out of it and into Richard and Émeric’s suite. He paused for a moment, and Jun looked at him with a question in his eye.

“Do you mind sleeping in Richard and Émeric’s room?”

“Wouldn’t that be Richard, Émeric, and Collin’s room?”

“Collin’s only stayed here once, so he hasn’t really established himself in any particular room.”

“If they don’t mind, I don’t mind. I’m guessing your room is taken?”

“It is. And that’s fine. Richard and Émeric had my things moved in here. The bed is a bit different.”

Jun frowned but followed Damian into the door. There was an entryway with a closet to one side and a bathroom to the right of that, and then the door straight ahead was the bedroom proper. Damian shut the outer door and dropped the suitcases. Jun put down the bag of their stuffed animals and looked around. “Bedroom?”

“Through here.” Damian opened the door and let Jun get a full look at the bed.

It was a thing of awe: black, textured metal, king sized with four posters and a canopy of matching curtains and gold retaining ropes. The entire thing was set up on a cage, divided with bars down the middle to make containment areas beneath the thick mattress. There were attachment points and rings set in all the pillars, the headboard, and the footboard.

Jun stared at it, his mouth starting to fall open. “Their room in the city doesn’t…it’s nothing…not like this.”

“I think their mentor had a bed like this. They enjoy it.”

“Do you?”

Damian rubbed his face, feeling a blush coming. “I’ve spent quite a few nights in the cages underneath.”

“Oh.”

Jun dropped to his knees and took a closer look at the space beneath the bed. “You slept there?”

“If you join in group play where I’m submissive to Richard, you may see me sleep there again.”

“You would let me see you be submissive?”

“I’m not ashamed of it. If it makes you uncomfortable, though, Richard and I will keep it between ourselves.”

“No, I don’t want you to not have things that are important to you. But I don’t know the rules. Who would tell me what to do if you’re being submissive but I’m there?”