Page 28 of His Wilde Little
On occasion, I’d caught a glimpse of Jace’s underwear appearing above his jeans, and at those times, I saw little stars or hearts on them. I thought it was just a quirk, but this was a lifestyle for him. That much I was certain of now, squatting in front of him, my hand gently on his knee as he reacted to my words, soft from my lips. “Good boy,” I said once more and there was something carnal behind the slight welp and moan. He chewed on his bottom lip for a moment. “I think I see you now, Jace.”
“I—I—”
“Or I guess not.”
“I should do my morning rounds with the goats and chickens,” he said, standing with the lid of the thermos as a cup in hand. “I—I—I’ll be back later.” He quickly adjusted his crotch region with a thumb and finger right in front of my face before rushing off.
It was just me and the horses now, all of them looking at me over their stalls. I didn’t know what to say to that, or to them. I didn’t know what I’d expected from the interaction, but possible something else entirely, maybe an admission from him, and perhaps something from me. I wasn’t new to dominance or Daddies, I was always that side of it, but maybe I’d misread the entire thing. Jace could’ve been completely innocent, more innocent than being a sub, if he didn’t know anything about it.
I talked things out with the horses, but they were not responsive to anything I said, probably because they cared moreabout their daily exercise and feed habits I’d been helping to create with them. I couldn’t wait until I could let them all out into the field without having to worry they would lose themselves or get spooked.
An hour passed as I worked on giving the horses a little morning exercise, just a gentle trot around the stable before giving them some of the high nutritional feed they still required to bulk out with. Jace waltz back in through the stable doors with more confidence than I’d seen him in before, walking right up to me at Ashwind’s stall, readying him for a walk.
“Everything ok?” I asked him.
He shook his head. “I want to know what your plan is,” he stopped a foot like a little brat, his Stetson jumping slightly on his head. “I need to know if you actually like me, or whether you’re just fucking around with my head.”
The smile on my lips faded. I’d have been lying to myself if I told him I hadn’t been thinking about it. And I didn’t want him to think I was just playing him, because I wasn’t. Although playing with him had been on my mind, but since the horses arrived, those ideas had been pushed a little further back. “Of course, I like you,” I told him. “If I didn’t, I don’t think I’d keep asking you to come spend time with me here.”
“I thought that was because the horses need around the clock care.”
“They did, the first couple of weeks,” I admitted. “But they need less of it now. Although, I’m still staying here during the night, I think that’s more because I don’t want them to get spooked by any of the storms that hit around this time of year.”
He shrugged. “They don’t happen all that much.”
“More so than where I’m from,” I said. “I’m naturally worried, and you—”
Jace licked his lips before screwing them shut. “Yeah?” he offered up in the quiet as I stared at his face, mapping out theway the light fell gently across his cheeks. He dipped his head, hiding his face with the rim of his hat.
“You’re a comfort,” I said. “You know stuff about me.” Placing a hand on his shoulder, he looked at me, the light from the open shutters behind me splashing across his face once more. Illuminating the glow in his smile as it appeared for me. “Can I kiss you?”
He stumbled over his words. “Can you?”
“I think I can.”
“Then do it.”
I went in for the kiss, the softness of his lips against mine had me closing my eyes as if to embrace them wholly, like I hadn’t been sleeping on the floor of the stable for the past month, and pretend I’d been sleeping in the plump comfiness of his lips instead.
We were pulled away from the kiss when Ashwind let out a noise, wanting me to stay on track and get him outside for his morning walk.
“What does that mean then?” he asked, raising a hand to his mouth and caressing his lips.
“It means you have an answer to your question. I like you, but I don’t know what to do about it. And I should take Ashwind out, if you want to join us on the walk, maybe another gold star for you if you do.”
Jace’s eyes lit up for a brief second before glancing to Ashwind’s head over the stall. “Maybe I should go get breakfast instead,” he said. “I can grab you something as well, or if you want, I can sit over there and you can go grab food, and I’ll wait patiently until you’re back.”
I cradled a hand at his cheek, feeling the soft stubble. “You should go eat,” I told him. “I’m going to start giving these some space, but only because we’ve got a security baby monitor type situation coming in soon.”
He nodded. “Oh, is it—”
“It’s not in yet, but Olivia said she’d ordered it.”
Huffing, he planted a hand on his chest “Ok, good. Well, I’ll go eat and come back. And then I want to talk to you.”
“We can walk and talk,” I suggested.
“No, no, you should deal with the horses, and I’ll—” he paused, keeping eye contact with the horse as he stepped back. “You know, come back later. Do you need more coffee? I can bring more.”
