Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 78043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 390(@200wpm)___ 312(@250wpm)___ 260(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 78043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 390(@200wpm)___ 312(@250wpm)___ 260(@300wpm)
His mother exhaled softly and nodded slowly. “I told him that I wasn’t surprised it was taking two partners to keep him in line.”
Huh. I hadn’t died.
Tate must’ve decided not to test that theory because he took over again. “We each bring different things to the table, so it works for us. And Joel is very good about explaining what he’s thinking and feeling. You’ve done a wonderful job instilling good relationship habits in him.”
Thankfully, the one thing they did like everyone else was to love being praised for how they raised their kid. Tate’s amazing conversational turn had them going off on stories about how Joel was as a kid and all the things they’d talked about together.
It was mostly stress-free except for when Joel would roll his eyes and try not to smile as his mother recounted his antics. I was being careful still, but they didn’t get weird again until dessert was finished and we were helping to clear the table.
“Joel says you rotate chores, but one thing I read is that there are subsections of submission where the sub takes on additional chores as part of his role.” Allen had decided to try to kill me that time, but luckily, he seemed to understand that Tate was more confident about those kinds of conversations and had aimed the question at him. “Is that something you have planned for your relationship? We weren’t sure how it might play out in situations like this.”
They’d been wondering if we’d make Joel clear off the table because he was our sub?
Tate barely hesitated before he shook his head. “Nothing he’s said at this point indicates he’s interested in exploring a service kink of any kind. If he gets an interest in that we’ll talk about it, but I don’t think that will be a form of submission we delve into.”
He really was just as good with parents as he’d said he was…even weird ones.
“Doing the dishes is not sexy or something that will ever make me submit.” Joel didn’t have any issue stating that fact as he took the leftover pasta back into the kitchen. “My bathtime with Daddy and being spanked by Tate are much more fun.”
Both parents opened their mouths, but I knew what their frowns meant. “We do not plan on using corporal punishment. We’ve already had that discussion and are coming up with other options for times that his behavior needs to be corrected.”
Still not dead.
“My hiney is for happy things not sad ones.” Joel didn’t stumble over that either. “I told you that they’re taking very good care of me.”
It was like we’d ended up in Oz, but the second scary one, not the first weird one with the bright colors and weird horses.
“Joel is not afraid to explain his views on topics like spankings and we’ve been working our way through several variations of limits lists.” Tate realized I’d gotten to the end of how helpful I could be and took over again. “When we get to a topic we need to talk about more or research, we put that one on hold until we can come back to it.”
There really was a good reason he was head Dom.
“Like the pain.” Joel came back to the table, giving his mom a peck on the cheek as he walked past her. “He’s not going to break my penis or anything. We’ve been talking about learning from some of the Doms in town. I think that math teacher that got on my nerves so badly is a sadist or something. Like literally. It makes so much sense.”
Oh.
My brain was stuck on just how accurate that was but Tate laughed. “That wouldn’t surprise me. The campus draws a variety of interesting people, staff and students.”
Understatement of the year right there.
“I’m glad you’re making educated decisions when it comes to Joel’s penis.” His mother said that with a straight face and even his dad nodded.
“They seem very resilient, but the research we’ve done said you have to be very careful.” Allen finally managed to stump Tate but it only lasted a few seconds.
Before I could take a breath, or panic because I might have to take over the conversation, Tate blinked and he was back online. “I’ve seen the same research and I promise to take care of any delicate bits of his body.”
I really hoped we were going to stop there but I never got my wish on that kind of stuff.
For god only knew what reason, Tate kept going. “Dean’s more cautious about that kind of thing, so he’s keeping us in check and making sure we’re not rushing.”
“It’s not going to break if he smacks it harder.” Joel’s eye roll gave me a hint about why Tate had kept going.
“You honestly don’t know that, so we’re going to do some research and talk to a specialist.” That was just logical.