Page 80 of Learning to Run

“He likes being spanked best and that wasn’t anywhere on thelist. He’s trying to include everyone.”

We had such helpful neighbors.

They even helped Bates start to snicker again.

“Thank you for noticing how nice I was being.” Gareth beamedas he called up to the random voice. “We’ve got really nice neighbors.”

That was one word for them.

But since I wasn’t ready to have a discussion about that inperson, I shoved everyone into the apartment before Gareth could ask our chattyneighbor to come throw the ball for him. “You’re going to drive me crazy oneday.”

Gareth rolled his eyes as I shut the door and put the keyson the small side table near the door. “We’ve already hit that point.”

“You guys have got to stop being so cute if you want me tostop laughing.” Bates pinched his lips together before taking another deepbreath. “Yes, no more adorable insanity. We’re going to have a nice evening andwatch the cuties play.”

Sure we were.

“Yes.” Gareth was up for promising anything that made Bateshappy, believable or not. “We’re going to be cute and then have orgasms andcookies and lots of fun.”

I was really hoping he’d gotten the order of that list mixedup.

“Yes.” Bates didn’t seem like he’d mind either way. “We’regoing to have lots of fun, but first, pup time. Why don’t you and Cash go intothe bedroom and start getting ready, and I’ll get everything organized for thecookies.”

“Cookies and ice cream and pup time.” Gareth bounced again,giving Bates a kiss on his cheek. “I’m such a cute pup that Brady is going tolove playing with me.”

“You’re adorable.” Giving Gareth a quick peck, Bates beamed.“The cutest pup ever. So go have fun with Cashel.”

“Cookies and ice cream and tails and toys.” Gareth probablycould’ve kept going, but he distracted himself as he started dragging me towardthe bedroom. “What do you think about people seeing my inside tail?”

I couldn’t stop my eyes, they just rolled on their own.

“I think the question is what do I think about people seeingthe erection your inside tail gives you.” He shrugged as I started to take offhis shirt and really think about the question as much as we had time for.“Okay, starting over. If you were actually talking about the important bitsbeing covered while having your inside tail in…I guess I’d be fine with thatbut you’d end up orgasming and making a mess.”

Gareth cocked his head, clearly picturing the scene as Itook off his pants and shoes. “We’d have to cut a hole in my shorts for mytail…and yeah, I’d still make a mess. So yes, your version of the question wasright.”

That wasn’t a surprise.

When he was naked, I gave him a quick kiss and tried to takethe question as seriously as he meant it instead of being a smart ass.

It was painful, but I did my best as I got his gear out of thecloset.

“Well, I don’t know exactly what my limits are with this,but the first thing that comes to mind is that I’m comfortable with you notbeing body-shy. I wouldn’t want to be naked in front of…well, most people? Idon’t know about that part, so I’m going to focus on you.” The conversationjust kept getting weirder and weirder.

“You’d be fine with strangers but not people we know.”Gareth was surprisingly confident about his answer as I started pulling out hisgear and setting it on the bed.

“You might be right about that.” I couldn’t help runningthrough a few odd scenarios in my mind. “I think something like a club witheveryone else being interesting too would be fine, but I have to think aboutthat.”

People I knew were out of the question, though.

“Shorts on.” Focusing on him and nothing else for themoment, I helped him step into the tight biker shorts that were going to keephim modest enough that Jude wouldn’t have a heart attack.

“Kneel for me.” Kissing his cheek, I tried to show him howspecial he was and how cute he was going to be, while not getting sidetracked.“You’re the cutest pup ever and I know you’d be comfortable with a variety ofpeople seeing how cute you are.”

As Gareth got down on all fours, he nodded and wiggled sideto side. “Yeah, if they’re fine with me being naked and no one is going to doanything stupid, then I don’t see the problem.”

Anything stupid seemed to mean things like grabbingbits they shouldn’t be touching, so I nodded as I picked up his mitts andcrouched down beside him. “There are a lot of people who feel that way. I thinkBates probably leans more toward that side because he doesn’t seem to mind youliking to be naked.”

Gareth nuzzled against me, rubbing his cheek against mine.“I think he’s trying to figure out safe limits and ways to make us both happy.So maybe you need to tell him your limits and that will help him figure outhis.”

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