Page 54 of Dream Mates
“Also…” I didn’t even know how to broach what happened in the nest. Things between Jett and I seemed fine. But I felt like maybe Brenn and I should talk about it?
“Grace?” He stopped, facing me, body close but not touching. “You confuse the shit out of me.”
“I’m not that different from other girls.” I snorted.
“No. You’re not. You’re just not like the kind of woman I’m used to being in my life. Take this–you broke a pack rule. You should get punished. But I can’t punish you like I’d punish anyone else in the pack.”
“Punish? I’m not sixteen.” I looked up at him, way up, eyebrows rising. “You ground Spencer, right?”
The idea of punishing Spencer, or anyone, except possibly grounding Riley, seemed funny. But I also understood that breaking rules had consequences. Especially ones about trust.
He laughed. “Yeah, no. We have an understanding. And well, he might just make donations to my family’s foundation to support all the scholarships Evan gives away.”
“Who punishes you?” I blinked.
“Spencer and Wes.”
“Oh. They ground you?” My head cocked as I smirked.
He laughed. “Only Riley actually gets grounded.”
“Well, you can make me eat plain vanilla ice cream for a week instead of cookie dough? I don’t like punishments.” I shrugged.
“I’m sure you don’t.” Brennan snorted. “But youhaveto follow the same rules as everyone else. Understood?”
“Okay.” I closed my eyes. A little sound rumbled through my chest, greater than a hum.
“Oh.” His head leaned down to touch mine, our bodies very close. “That’s it, you’ve almost got it. You should work on that with Evan. blowjobs, too,” Brennan teased.
I play-punched him in the chest. He grinned and grabbed my wrists.
Panic filled me and I froze. Immediately, he let go and pulled me into his arms. His chest rumbled in a very soft purr, and I relaxed.
“Sorry,” he whispered in my ear. “I wasn’t trying to trigger you. They tied your wrists in that bad place, didn’t they?”
“It’s okay. Sometimes I don’t know what’s going to affect me.” I closed my eyes and leaned into him, letting his pine scent comfort me.
“You’ve been through a lot. All this is probably dredging things up. We’ll find someone safe for you to talk to, okay,” he assured.
I nodded, knowing I really needed that if I was to move forward.
“Is everything okay?” Evan joined us.
“We’re okay,” I said quietly, letting go of Brennan.
Evan put his arms around us as we continued walking. “Okay.”
“I was teasing her that she needs purring and blowjob lessons,” Brennan said, as we reached the edge of the back downstairs yard.
We could either go inside to the bottom floor, or up the stairs to the gazebo or the porch.
“You can purr?” Evan kissed my temple. “Aww, you tried to comfort Bren. So cute.”
“Is that what I did? We need to practice blowjobs on actual alpha dicks.” Even though I’d play smacked Brennan for his tease, I wasn’t going to deny the need for more blowjob lessons. Usually, I practiced on Evan.
Evan nodded. “We can do that.”
“We’re okay, Grace?” Brennan asked.
