“Mean for making sure my boy is okay?”

Ev scoffed. “Forticklingme.” He squirmed around until he could fold his arms and rest his chin on his hands, then he met Gabe’s eyes. “Hi, Daddy.”

“Hey, tiger,” Gabe replied, brushing his hair out of his face. “You good?” He tapped Ev on the end of his nose.

Ev’s eyes crossed as he watched him do it, and then he snickered. “Yes, Sir.” Then he paused with a thoughtful frown. “Well…”

Gabe’s chest tightened. “Well?”

Ev hummed. “Well, my butt is a little bit sore, and I think you fucked my brains into next Thursday.”

The hint of worry evaporated, and Gabe narrowed his eyes. “Am I supposed to apologize?”

Ev shook his head. “I didn’t need those brains anyway.”

Gabe coughed on a laugh. “And your butt?”

“You can make it more sore next time if you want,” Ev said, his green eyes brightening. “That way, I’ll be able to feel it all day at work, and when I can’t sit down, you’ll know why.”

Gabe wasn’t sure if he should be amused or exasperated. Instead, he rolled them until Ev was pinned under him. “Watchwhat you wish for, little boy. Daddy might dish out more than you can handle.”

Ev grinned up at him in response. “Bring it.”

Ev

Ev woke up inthe absolute best way possible. With Daddy’s hot, wet mouth wrapped around his cock. He was coming before he was fully awake, his fingers tangled in Daddy’s hair, his orgasm rolling through him in sleepy waves.

“Happy birthday, tiger,” Daddy said after pulling off with a final slurp.

Ev giggled, still trying to catch his breath. “Oh my god. Best birthdayever,” he told the ceiling.

“Well, that was easy,” Daddy said, crawling up and stretching out above Ev, his weight braced on his elbows. “I guess I can cancel the rest of our plans, then.”

Ev gaped at him, trying not to get distracted by just how handsome he looked this morning with his mussed hair and swollen lips. Ev kind of wanted to kiss him, but he knew better. As wonderful as this was, it was still just kink. Kisses were forboyfriends. He dragged his focus away from Gabe’s mouth. “We have plans? What about work? And how did you even know it’s my birthday?” Because Ev had been careful not to mention it, not wanting to put Gabe in a weird position. Again, just kink.

“Yes. No. And a little bird told me. In that order.”

Ev huffed. Finny was such a brat sometimes. He knew Ev was keeping birthday-related things on the DL. Finn and Xavier weren’t even coming up to celebrate with him until the weekend. “I’m gonna tell his Daddy he deserves a spanking.”

Gabe chuckled. “I’m not going to speculate on Finn’s feelings about spankings, but I happen to know my little tiger doesn’t see them as punishment.”

Ev scrunched up his face and poked out his tongue. Fine. That was valid. Nothing got him hotter than being put over Daddy’s knee. Not that he and Gabe had done very much of that, no matter how often or how blatantly Ev hinted.

“Which is why it’s our first order of business this morning.”

Ev’s brain screeched to a halt. Wait, what?

“You can’t have a birthday without a birthday spanking, can you?”

Oh. Oh! Despite the fact that he’d come like thirty seconds ago, Ev’s cock was very much taking interest. He licked his lips, unable to look away from Daddy’s eyes. “I suppose you can’t.”

Daddy’s lips twitched up in a smile. “So, my question for you, birthday boy, is do you want your spanking now—or later?”

Ev flicked his piercing. That was a no-brainer. “Now, please,” he replied. “I want to feel it all day.”

Daddy’s eyes darkened, and, in a moment that was happening more and more, Ev thought Daddy was going to kiss him. But then the moment was gone, and Daddy was sitting up against the headboard and patting his thigh. “Up and over then, tiger.”

Ev giggled. Daddy was so silly sometimes. He scrambled into place, draped over Daddy’s thighs with his upper body on the mattress and his head pillowed on his hands.