Page 51 of His Master

“Maybe Victor could borrow that machine?” I asked, feeling so, so much better.

Hayden laughed and thumped my arm. “I’ll ask.” He paused, then said, “You got any fun tech that we could borrow?”

I laughed. “Not tech, but Victor has this amazing shower in his apartment in Norwalk with super powerful jets. He had me stand in front of it, restrained, while one hell of a powerful water jet punished my cock and balls while he calmly took a shower.”

Hayden’s expression lit up. “That does sound like fun.” He brightened even more, then said, “Hey! This is great! We’re both dirty, deviant kinksters! We can totally swap notes and ideas.”

I laughed as loud as I dared with a sleeping baby right next to me. All this time, I thought Hayden would think less of me for the things I wanted. It suddenly occurred to me that embracing my darker side might actually bring us closer together.

Another thought struck me as we headed back into the hall, and my face dropped.

“I don’t want Dad and Papa to know about any of this, but they’re going to ask questions when I tell them I’m quitting thelaw firm, effective immediately. And they’re bound to notice the way things are between me and Victor, Master, eventually.”

Hayden snorted. “They’ll understand.”

“Will they?” I asked, slowing the pace of our return to the kitchen to join our alphas.

“Simon, I hate to break it to you, but Dad and Papa are filthy-dirty kinksters, too.”

My eyes went wide. “Are they?”

Hayden also gaped at me. “You’ve never stumbled into their dungeon down in the basement?”

I was so shocked that I just stood still for a second.

But come to think of it, our parents did have a room in the basement that we’d never been allowed into. I’d accidentally caught a glimpse of it once, when I was about eight. I’d seen the black leather furniture, what I’d thought was a ladder, and some chains hanging from the ceiling. My childlike brain hadn’t had any explanation for that, though, so I’d pushed it to the back of my mind and forgotten about it.

“No way,” I said in awe as we walked on. “Dad and Papa, eh?”

“I tell you, it’s in the DNA,” Hayden laughed as we stepped back into the kitchen.

“What’s in the DNA?” Mason asked.

“Being a raunchy, kinky, sex fiend,” Hayden answered with a shrug, then walked straight to the table and sat on Mason’s lap.

“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Mason said with a smile. He cupped a hand blatantly over Hayden’s milk-swollen chest, then kissed him hard.

I didn’t know Mason well enough to be certain, but I kind of thought his gesture was intended to show that whatever I wanted to do with Victor in the moment was okay.

Because of that, I moved smoothly up to Victor’s chair, then sank to my knees beside him, gazing up at him with a smile.

Victor raised a hand to stroke my head and smiled back at me. “I take it you and your brother had a good talk?” he asked quietly, completely focused on me.

“Yes, Master,” I said. My heart still quivered with worry at displaying our relationship so blatantly with Hayden and Mason right there, watching us. But if I was going to be the kind of slave for Victor that I wanted to be, I had to trust that he would defend me if anyone said anything bad about our roles.

“Good boy,” Victor murmured, leaning down to kiss my forehead, then grabbing my jaw the way I liked and tilting my face up so he could kiss my mouth.

Mason’s complete non-reaction made me wonder what else he and Victor had talked about, besides the situation with Victory Holdings, while Hayden and I had been sharing in the nursery. His show of acceptance made me feel much better, and I was so unbelievably happy to know that Hayden and Mason’s house would always be a safe place for me to be myself.

“Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way,” Victor said, letting me go and turning his attention back to the table again. “I’ve caught Mason up on everything going on with Victory Holdings.”

“As someone who has been in the corporate world his whole life, and who went through a bad company break-up just last year, I think you’ve got your work cut out for you,” Mason said. “Especially if your uncle is as unscrupulous as you’re telling me he is.”

“To be honest, Simon is my number one priority right now,” Victor said, making my heart flip in my chest. “You’ve probably noticed that we’ve bonded.”

“Yeah, it’s glaringly obvious,” Hayden said teasingly.

Mason poked his side and frowned, but there was nothing but love in his eyes.

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