Jun looked down at his abs. “What?”
“Nothing.” Collin looked away, cheeks flushed.
Jun chuckled. He ran a hand over his body. “I know you’ve seen naked men before.”
Collin coughed, cheeks darkening. “We, um, need to get this cave built. Then someone else can drag you off and play with you.”
“You sure?” Jun sauntered forward, fingers caught in his waistband.
Collin shook his head and laughed. He threw work gloves at Jun. “Stop flirting.”
“Stop blushing.”
“Can’t.” Collin spun around, his back to the wall. “Damian says I have permanent embarrassment.”
“Is that so?” Jun leaned into Collin’s space. “You know, we have a contract now, all of us. Going to tell me what it takes to call you Kitten?”
“Ask Émeric.”
Jun groaned, pulling back. “The scary one.”
Collin chuckled, eyes crinkling up in mirth. “Émeric isn’t scary. Richard is the one who bent me over the desk of his office today and caned me.”
Jun winced. Someday he was going to have Damian or Richard to cane him so he knew what it felt like. It only seemed fair, considering how often Collin experienced it. “What did you do?”
Collin shrugged, looking down. “Got up in my head. Thought something was my fault when it wasn’t.”
“He punishes you for that?”
“Yeah.” Collin looked up, still flushed but not ashamed. “It helps. A lot. Cuts the loop in my thoughts. But…he’s going to have another reason to cane me if we don’t get this done.”
“Do I get to watch?”
“No, I’ll tell your Alpha you made me late! Then I might get to watch you get spanked.”
Jun cursed softly, still smiling. “I’d rather be whipped.”
Collin shivered. “I’d rather be caned.”
Jun chuckled. “Tell me what we’re doing.”
The frame was already in place. About two meters long and a meter and a half deep. Inches and feet were way more confusing than the metric system, but Collin had used those words when describing the plans, and now Jun could only guesstimate. The mouth or entrance was about as wide as a normal door, large enough for a grown man to crawl through on all fours easily. Either side of the entrance, however, could be folded back for even easier access to the inside of the cave. Collin had been insistent on that. It would need to be cleaned, especially if anything vigorous and sweaty happened inside. The interior was filled with nooks for storing toys and other items, and there were steel attachment points hidden throughout. Once it was fully built, all of the mattresses and pillows would fill the floor, making it as comfortable as a bed.
Collin unrolled brown suede material, double sided, with batting.
Jun ran his hand over it. “Soft.”
“I figure there will be a lot of bare skin on it.” Collin pulled out a metal tool that looked roughly like a heavy-duty set of pliers except the ends were flat and odd looking. “I already put the other end of the snaps up on the frame. This is the part where we need two sets of hands. You hold it in place, and I’ll find where we need to attach the snaps on this side.”
“We’re using snaps?”
“So it can be taken out and washed. They’re really strong.”
Getting the inner wall covered took an hour. Jun stroked the surfaces as they finished. “You’re fucking brilliant.”
Collin shook his head, smiling. “Not really. Got this idea from someone else.” He started to crawl out of the cave.
Jun grabbed Collin’s ankle, dragging him back in. Collin yelped. Jun stared into Collin’s eyes. Collin’s mouth snapped closed. He stared back. Jun reached up like a stalking cat. He wrapped his fingers around Collin’s pants by his hip, pulling him deeper into the cave, then crawled over Collin’s prone body.