Authors: Joyee Flynn
“Are you singing the theme from
Beauty and the Beast
?”
Austin
asked softly as he walked towards the bed.
Dante’s head snapped up, the color draining from his face before it turned bright red with embarrassment. “Garreck likes Disney movies. He saw a few as a kid, and that’s about the only thing he remembers of his childhood before he was kidnapped. I sing the ones I know to him when he’s upset or no one’s around.”
“You have an amazing voice,”
Austin
said with a sense of awe. “Have you ever had lessons? Or are you naturally talented.”
“No, no lessons.” Dante chuckled and then shrugged. “I don’t do it much. I mean, I didn’t want to give the guys who had us or the other slaves any reason to think I wasn’t a tough son of a bitch.”
“It was one of the only things about that place that made me happy,” Garreck said sleepily.
Austin
looked down at his beautiful mate as Garreck gave a soft smile as those big blue eyes shined up at him. “Whenever I came back from a job or someone was mean to me, Dante always sang to me. Though normally he doesn’t hold me like this.”
“Never wanted to show how much I cared in front of them,” Dante admitted quietly. “If they knew how much you meant to me, they’d use that against both of us.”
“Is that why you pretended to rape me? So they’d think I was just your property?”
“Yes,” Dante whispered, and a lot of the puzzle pieces fell into place for
Austin
on the dynamic of their relationship.
“Are you guys hungry?” he asked, breaking the awkward silence as they both got out of bed. “Kelley’s a fantastic cook, and I saw her popping breadsticks in the oven. That normally means lasagna.”
“Food would be good,” Dante answered as he handed Garreck one of the T-shirts
Austin
had given them earlier. It was big enough that it almost came down to the smaller man’s knees. “I think you guys need to do some talking, too, when Garreck’s ready.”
“Yeah, I have questions,” he said as they headed to the kitchen. “For both of you.”
“I’ll answer whatever you want to know,”
Austin
replied as Dante and he exchanged a glance. The other man looked confused, but
Austin
had a good idea about what Garreck was going to ask the Dante. He just hoped the answers wouldn’t push Garreck over the edge after everything that had happened.
* * * *
They sat down at the kitchen table after they got there. Garreck had so many questions he wanted to ask, although he was still trying to wrap his brain around everything. But the silent tension between the three of them was almost strangling him.
Kelley had made lasagna, which she served with salad and breadsticks. She sat down to join them after
Austin
got everyone drinks. The silence continued, and it was enough to make Garreck almost lose his appetite. Except, all those years being held prisoner taught him to eat when food was available since he didn’t know the next time he’d be fed. After about fifteen uncomfortable minutes dragged on, Kelley broke.
“Enough of this,” she said loudly, throwing her hands up in the air. “I know you are all men, but you can talk to each other about what you’re feeling.” She pointed at
Austin
first. “Say you are sorry again and give them their presents.” Then she turned to Dante. “And you need to admit that you love Garreck.” And lastly, she turned to him. “And you need to tell them that you want them both and ask the questions I know are swirling in that pretty little head of yours.”
“Kelley,”
Austin
groaned as Dante blushed.
“You don’t love me, do you?” Garreck asked Dante, his eyes going wide in shock.
“With all my heart,” the man admitted quietly.
“What about presents?” Garreck squeaked out, his mind going a hundred miles an hour at Dante’s statement.
“Kelley got you guys a bunch of stuff, clothes and a few presents to try and show that I’m sorry,”
Austin
said, looking like a kid that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Garreck followed his gaze to the back corner of the kitchen as his jaw dropped. How had he missed that one? There had to be at least thirty large shopping bags overflowing with things.
“That’s all for us?” he asked, glancing between Kelley and Austin. She smiled widely and nodded, while he looked nervous. Then she elbowed him and gestured to the counter.
Austin
bounded out of his chair and picked up the largest bouquet of flowers Garreck had ever seen.
“I know this doesn’t make up for what I did, sweetheart. I just wanted to show you how sorry I am for mating you without your permission and that I will treat you like you deserve if you let me,”
Austin
said as he placed the flowers on the table after moving Garreck’s empty plate away. “I’ll do whatever I can to make you happy, my mate.”
“I-I, y-you—” Garreck sputtered as he looked between the two men who were melting his brain. “You just told me you loved me after all these years.” Then he turned towards
Austin
as he stood and back away from the table. “And you just pretty much bought me a store after maybe getting me pregnant.”
“Breathe, baby,” Dante said softly as he started to hyperventilate.
“I can’t,” he panted and kept backing towards the door. “This is too much. You are both too much.”
Garreck spun on his heel and ran before they could say anything, and he didn’t stop until he got upstairs and in his room. Once there, he sat down next to the bed and put his head between his knees as he tried to calm down. He heard both men enter the room but ignored them until he controlled his breathing.
“Why tell me you love me now? Is it because you don’t want me mated to
Austin
?”
“No, baby, that’s not why,” Dante answered, shaking his head as Garreck got to his feet. “I admitted it to
Austin
earlier, and he made me realize that you had the right to know. I was willing to just keep my mouth shut and hope you were happy with being with him.”
“How long, Dante?” he asked, getting angry at the man for admitting it now after the years he wanted Dante. “How long have you felt this way?”
“From the first night we met,” Dante whispered, his eyes filling with tears. “I knew if I told you or acted on it that it would kill me when they sent you out to fuck other men. And I had to keep it to myself so the others didn’t use you against me or hurt you just to get me to do what they wanted.”
“All those times I tried to touch you or be with you,” he replied, his heart hurting. Garreck rubbed the heel of his hand over his heart to try to alleviate the tightness in his chest. “All the times I threw myself at you or begged you to want me, and you pushed me away. You lied to me and said it wasn’t like that. How can I believe you now?”
“Remember that guy you hated going to, the animal guy?”
“Yeah, he made me dress up like a pig,” Garreck answered, his body shivering in disgust at the memories. “He’d fuck me while I made noises like a pig and then rolled me in mud.”
“Ewww, that’s just gross,”
Austin
growled.
“You never went back to him after you told me how much you hated him, did you?”
“No,” he said slowly as the light bulb went off. “You made them stop sending me to him.”
“Yeah, I told them I’d go in your place and do what he wanted without complaining or fighting him,” Dante whispered. “I couldn’t stand to see you upset.”
“So you took my place?” Garreck asked, his eyes going wide with shock. He watched as Dante nodded and blushed. His mind raced as he thought back to the years he’d known Dante and all the things the man had done for him. The man he lusted after and secretly fell for made sense with his explanation, but Garreck needed more. “Prove it.”
“Prove what?” Dante asked, tilting his head to the side in confusion. “Prove I love you? How?”
“Yes,” he answered, crossing his arms over his chest. “Give me a blow job.”
“What?” both men exclaimed.
“I’m not sure I’m buying this explanation, and I’m not ready to let you kiss me. But if you really love me and want me like you say you do, you’ll jump at any chance to touch me. I’m stressed, and you’re one of the causes of it, so you should be the one to relieve that stress. You know I’m like a relaxed wet noodle after I come. I’m saying I’m okay with you being the one to do it if you want to.”
He expected Dante to balk at his suggestion, to tell him where to shove his idea. What Garreck wasn’t ready for was the soft growl Dante gave before yanking his shirt off. Garreck didn’t get a chance to say anything before the man dropped to his knees and swallowed Garreck down.
“Holy fuck, I didn’t think you’d do it.” He gasped and put his hands on Dante’s shoulders before he fell over. Glancing down, he saw the love and trust in Dante’s eyes that left him speechless. His cock instantly filled at the attention, and the reality of Dante touching him intimately was so much better than he could ever have dreamed.
“Fuck this is hot,”
Austin
moaned, and Garreck wanted to glance over at his mate. But he couldn’t. He couldn’t look away from the intense longing in Dante’s eyes as he stared up at him.
“Is this what you’ve wanted all these years?” Garreck asked as he ran his fingers through Dante’s soft black hair. The man hummed and nodded as he sucked on Garreck harder. Garreck hissed when Dante reached up and started massaging his sac. “Are you willing to share me with
Austin
? I’ve already mated with him and may be carrying his child. Can you live with that?”
Again, Dante made confirming noises as he nodded. Garreck was getting close to coming, and the rest of his questions were melted along with his brain. Dante deep-throated him, using his tongue on the underside of his cock as he bobbed his head up and down.
“Coming, I’m coming,” Garreck grunted, giving Dante the option to back off. He didn’t, doubling his efforts instead. Garreck came hard, crying out as he tumbled over the edge into his climax. He held on to Dante’s head hard as he pumped the last of his cum down the man’s throat. Dante licked him clean when it was over, seconds before his knees gave out.
“I’ve always loved you, baby. I’m so sorry you spent any time thinking otherwise. I did it to protect you.”
“You guys gotta stop fucking with my head,” he mumbled as he snuggled up on Dante’s lap. “I won’t be of any use to either of you if I end up in a padded room.”
“Just tell us what to do, sweetheart, and we will,”
Austin
whispered as he moved to sit in front of Dante. “What do you need, Garreck?”
“I don’t know,” he answered honestly. “I’ve always just wanted to be loved and desired. Now Dante admits he feels that way and you want me. It’s a lot to take in, and my head just keeps kinda spinning. I don’t know what comes next or what I need.”
“How about we start small, baby? Let’s go see what
Austin
got us, okay? We can leave the rest of the heavy stuff until tomorrow.”
“Are you really okay with sharing me? Because I don’t think I could survive without you taking care of me and always knowing what I need. You are a butthead for hiding how you felt from me, but I’m going to forgive you as long as you never do it again, Dante. I need you.”
“I swear it, Garreck. And Austin and I will work it out, okay? If you want me, I’m not going anywhere, and I have a feeling he’s of the same mind on that.”
“I am,”
Austin
said as he cupped Garreck’s cheek. He saw the look that passed between the two men, and he felt a thrill go through him. What if the three of them could all just be together? There was so much heat in the look
Austin
gave Dante, and vice versa, that there was something there. Maybe them all being a couple or threesome was the answer.