Page 78 of Learning to Run

“I’m learning to be Gareth’s Handler. For his pup side, Imean. We’re still figuring that part out, but I like taking care of him.” Cashseemed to think that was everything because he finally leaned back in his chairand waited.

“That makes sense.” Brady nodded like that cleared upeverything before turning to me. “Does your pup want to play with me? Big orlittle. Either would be fine. I like dogs.”

“That sounds like fun.” Little Brady would be fun to playwith. “I think I’d like to play with you when you’re little and I’ll make sureto wear shorts.”

Jude’s eyes went wide for some reason.

Brady shrugged. “My little side wouldn’t care about youbeing covered, but thank you for wearing clothes. I saw pups online and theylike wagging their tails.”

“Yeah, tails are fun.” I thought I was just agreeing withsomething obvious but Jude’s mouth was hanging open. “Bates said we needed totalk about who could see my naked pup side, but I’m not sure your Daddy wantsyou to see my penis.”

Turning to Jude, Brady studied him and frowned. “Yeah, youmight be right.”

I was glad he was confused too, but it probably wouldn’thave been polite to ask why Jude was acting so weird.

We all had penises, so it wasn’t like he’d never seen one.

“Some people like privacy and are shy. It’s okay.” I wasbeing nice, but Jude groaned as Bates finally lost the war with his giggles.“And some people are kind of strange.”

That didn’t help either of the two Doms, but it made Bradynod. “You’re right, and that’s okay too. Not everyone is logical.”

Wasn’t that the truth.

Cash was the only one not giggling or confused, but he wassmiling and shaking his head. So he was definitely being weird too, but Ipreferred his brand of strange. “Is this something you guys would like to do inthe future…or is this hypothetical?”

That was a good question.

I didn’t have an answer for it, though, so I turned toBrady. “What do you think we were talking about?”

He frowned but was able to answer the question quickly.“What to do after dinner.”

So he was frowning because he thought we were all stupid.

Got it.

“That sounds good to me. We got my outside tail the otherday and I haven’t tried it yet.” How should we work it, though? “Whichapartment has more space to throw the ball and play?”

“Bates’s probably?” Brady squished up his face like he wastrying to picture both apartments. “But I haven’t seen Bates’s enough and nowhe keeps the curtains closed a lot, so it’s hard to imagine.”

“I kept giving him blow jobs with the shades open, so wedecided we had to be more careful with the curtains.” I wasn’t sure it would bepossible to shock the neighbors, but Bates pointed out that we actually hadsome women in the building who might not want to see penises just popping uprandomly.

“That’s probably a good idea.” Brady leaned back in hischair and frowned. “You know, I wouldn’t have thought about that being one ofthe hard parts about living on the first floor.”

“It really is.” Shaking my head, I picked up my water. “Andit makes it a lot easier for people to hear in. Some people are very nosy.”

Sometimes that was helpful, though, so we had to be polite.

“Manners are very important.” Sighing, Brady shook his head.“We’re all very lucky that my mother taught us good manners.”

Absolutely.

“Right, Daddy?” Brady seemed like he was just being nice byincluding Jude in the conversation, but he also might’ve been checking to seeif Jude’s brain was working yet or not.

“Yes…I…yes, good manners are important.” Jude managed toanswer the question, but I was going to vote not working on the wholebrain thing.

Bates wasn’t much better, but he’d almost stopped giggling.

So I turned to Cash because he was still the onlyfunctioning Dom-ish person. “Is that a good plan?”

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