Whether Grimm is oblivious to the woman we destroyed as he is to the fact that Rourke could squash him like a bug, he continues to search and fiddle with the dozen gadgets he’s juggling.
“Thanks Sarge, just need a sec to get started,” Grimm finally acknowledges Daddy, but doesn’t offer his full attention.
So rather than pull out the stool Rourke put behind him further, the Titan kicks it under Grimm’s knees.
I may be reading too far into it, but there’s still a considerable level of frustration when the oblivious kid goes about whatever he’s doing.
Idea is, that with so many new players, Rourke is having Grimm set up a program that most intelligence agencies around the world have.
Something that allows Rourke to record if not tap into live phone calls whenever keywords are said. Proving that no matter how young he looks, Grimm has black level access.
Rourke again, suffers in silence, helping himself to whatever breakfast Grimm brought with him rather than outwardly pouting.
It’s not until Grimm opens an energy drink with his teeth that Rourke bites into the sandwich to suppress the Daddy reflex.
The last thing his new hyperactive puppy needs is caffeine.
I’m no Daddy, no caregiver either.
I may spend hours talking someone into something, but once I nut, I’m out, period. I have learned to handle the soft things Rourke and my brother enjoy, but not outside of their sexual needs.
Other than the initial proposition, my partners handle the physical health, emotional stability, and after care elements required of dominant submissive relationships.
They provide a softness, I just can’t.
My father made sure that his heir to the Morretti family legacy that I had all the emotions trained if not beaten out of me by the I reached kindergarten; when a rival gang put a hit out on me.
Being what I am. Who I am isn’t a right by birth or any other means. I earned my title with blood, sweat, hard work, and determination.
Rourke, just like Nico, may be of the few that own the fact we weren’t born to this life.
We all chose it.
They still maintained a sense of compassion and tenderness I’m not sure whether I was born with in the first place.
Being ignored is a pet peeve the giant and I share more so than Nico, and Rourke’s growl joining his first bite of breakfast says the attraction isn’t a figment of my imagination.
Daddy wants Grimm’s attention, but doesn’t get it until he tears into the bagel stacked with eggs, cheese, veggies, and meat.
The woman I’d nearly forgotten watching the unprecedented interaction between my partner and a man, groans in tune with the puppy tilting his head up to the giant.
“Daddy?” The question from the loft matches Grimm’s blink perfectly.
Not to mention makes the kid flush all the way to the tops of his ears before looking down again. Purposefully ignoring Rourke’s glare this time, when Grimm falls back into the pings and bings of whatever equipment he’s setting up.
I give the moaning call even less attention than Daddy does.
Odd for him.
Rourke’s never ignored his title by anyone he’s been with, regardless of being in contract with them or not.
All of our noses twitch to the smell of burnt eggs, and those broader shoulders lift.
“Sorry, Sarge,” the oops face from Grimm is another hit of the sweetness Rourke leans to, and Rourke opts to finish his coffee to keep the inner Daddy coming out again. Having already polished the sandwich he was using as a buffer between them.
Even if something is there, Rourke hasn’t admitted to himself, let alone Grimm yet. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so passive-aggressive.
Rourke and I are similar in the fact that we don't take action of any kind until we have a basic map of how things will go in our head. Besides, I'm sure I'd be the first to know if he'd made that step, regardless of the Elena situation.
Right now, he's feeling it out if not battling with his own strict hetero status.
I knew I'd get backlash, but was entirely unprepared for the extent of Nico's bitch fit, and needed a break. It's why we're doing this here rather than with him at my place.
Not like Rourke and I did much talking after I dropped the engagement bomb on him.
A discussion we've tabled just like the one I'd like to have, with Grimm gobbling a breakfast sandwich the size of Rourke’s fist in it in practically one bite.
With both hands busy, Grimm’s knee still bops and bumps while he clacks away on the laptop with more than a few other gadgets tacked on to the device.
Puppy’s mouth must be attached to the same motor as his leg as he talks us through all the tech crap he’s doing. “Fuck me kid...” I know Rourke’s about to demand the same thing I am ‘English’.
Daddy barely gets out the correction he can’t bite down before Grimm lands a comeback with a wit as fast as the rest of his hyperactive parts.
“Forgot my lube, and you’re missing a few zeros on my check before I deep throat a King Kong cock," my coffee flies out of my nose as much as my mouth.
In a lightning quick response, the paper bag that Rourke discarded is snatched to block the modded brick Grimm’s working on, before one drop of my outburst lands on it.
Guess the puppy is like every other hard ass Rourke employs. Nothing other than Reapers and bullets move that fast.
“Oh shit,” Grimm’s honey gold eyes blink at the screen, before he tries to fix whatever he’s clearly broken.
“I have so had a one-night stand!” A female voice shrills from Rourke’s phone.
We’re clearly tapping into a live conversation rather than listening to a recording.
I have no idea which key word the infuriated woman used to have us connect. Only that whoever is on the other end of her phone call is in for it with the tone she’s using.
“My not getting laid since you set me up with a married man is no excuse, Roman!”
“I....” A presumably male voice comes back, and rather than let the kid clack away to cut off whatever conversation we happened on, I hold my hand in front of the screen.
I could use a distraction, and besides, just because women and kids are off limits to my people, doesn’t mean they don’t get involved in things they shouldn’t.
“My not returning your calls has nothing to do with the fact I haven’t had sex in months!” Rourke’s darker brows lift while mine draw, and even the puppy is engaging, tilting his head.
“I do understand that if I don’t get off three times a week, I’m a total brat, but I also have a trusty vibrator and an imagination to take care of that."
All three of us mirror the ‘did she just say what I think she said’ face. At least Rourke and I, considering he demands at least three times that in a single session.
“What I don’t have is a frizzing job because you decided to send me a dildo with a flash mob demonstrating in song and dance how to properly prepare and use the demonoid King Kong cock on my first day!”
Well this just got interesting. Not even the puppy is tempted to turn it off, with that being said. Odd as that is, what she says next......
I definitely figured Rourke was in for some weird shit, with his tech genius hacking us into the communication towers to record any conversation when keywords are said.There’s a reason every other country in the world uses the spyware program, and with all the shit that’s been happening the last month, any edge we can get is a benefit.I just never expected the first conversation we happened upon, being blasted through Rourke’s kitchen. Let alone that it would be as interesting as it is.“Lunch hour or not, having the porn dole’ performer butt pump the wolf man is not explainable in a pediatrics office Roman! Even if the painted lady used her feet to do it!” The raring kitten roars at the man on the other end of her call.Rourke has the drop jawed stare I might share, deciding on how to process the most bizarre situation I’ve heard in a while. “You do not get any points for it being the only time you’ve ever pulled something like this, being behind closed doors!”“You said you were h
…. Three Weeks Later …… It’s my first day as a runner for Blue Jay Courier Service, and this time the Witch can not thwart my attempts at stable employment! Not with me constantly on the move, and his low jacking system on the fritz, since I tattled to Alex on him. I love that the job will keep me active. Not to mention give me a feel for the city that’s changed so much in the years I’ve been absent. It’s my last delivery of the day, and I’m really considering nixing my morning work out routine. Mid sixty-story walk up, my thighs are screaming at my head, and it’s unreasonable hatred towards elevators. When I reach the top of the landing, I can’t find the ‘penthouse’ suite, so of course I go searching rather than set foot in one of a dozen tin coffins.I’m not ‘all there’, but I do have a basic understanding of emergency protocol and there has to be stair access to every floor as a means of fire safety. A little burst of victory inflates when I find the otherwise nondescript door.
“I didn’t tell you to move,” without taking a step, the warning growl is all I get before the Incubus is towering over me, and I’m suddenly spun with him binding my wrists at the small of my back.Before I can yelp or process the too fast motion, a large, hot hand comes down in a stinging strike on my right back cheek. I mean to scream, but it comes out as a whimper with my inability to process the wild mix of shame, indignity, and confusion. My cotton boy short panties no better than a burst water pipe failing to contain the lust his power and presence flood my lower regions with. “Be a good girl for Papa. Yes?” His voice is right on the shell of my ear. So close that I can feel the rumble of satisfaction as I wiggle against him. Praying that the friction of my slick thighs will ease the still echoing pulse I can’t process, let alone dignify, what’s happening with the hard and harsh slap on my other cheek.The Italian’s black clad knee slipping between mine to stop the only prayer
Regardless of the fact that she’s using the right entrance and is early, I’m still off put if not pissed at the obvious slight by my twin, who runs entertainment. The still legit, but less legal half of our empire.I know my call was last minute, and that Nico is still having a tantrum over recent events. Still, the rainbow-haired and somewhat thick girl coming in the back entrance was not what I had in mind when I said I was in the mood for a service type role play.No doubt that with his mood Nico wouldn’t be joining me, but Rourke too……It’s not like I’m incapable of having one-on-one or vanilla interactions, but given the fact that the last one landed me with an infant I didn’t know existed …….The day I announced my engagement to Rourke, was the day I came home to a nine month old infant on my doormat. Literally. Nex to the stripper who’d tried to leave him. I can only assume she knocked herself running into a wall she was so doped up. Coming to, she raced away from me and the c
Moving to her rhythm as I pull my hand back to get me out of the too constricting slacks, and into the honey cavern, clenching as hard as it is screaming. I’ve never lost control with a sub. Never been so out of my mind that I haven’t planned at least ten steps ahead on how to get exactly what I want.If I spent one more second rubbing the kitten, she’s going to cum, and fuck if I’m not going to feel every spasm of it clamping me while she does it. I’m a Master, but have been with Rourke long enough I can fake the Daddy her rainbow hair, and shining innocence is screaming that she needs.While it was just an adaptation to fuck her brains out at first, this is different. She’s so much more little than pet. I read her eyes, her want, her quivering jaw as I pull out of the kiss, and the safe word all Nico’s people have is nowhere in it. A spell of lust, and glittering passion I almost give. Almost. Letting the collar of my grip on her neck fall and massaging her silky hair and strokin
Nothing, and I mean nothing can erase or excuse the fact that I just creamed my pants from dry humping the largest dick I've ever seen on the most gorgeous man I've ever sort of met. However, if there ever has been or will be a trigger for me, it's someone like him screaming Italian. It's been a long time since I was exposed to the language, but I'm still fluent. Either way it doesn't matter. Call it prejudice or paranoid, but it is what it is. I've personally been involved with Mafioso's in this city. So no one can tell me the Mob doesn't exist on our fair streets. Somewhere in my more rational brain, I know that not every one with an accent and or money is linked to some nefarious organization. It’s equally unfair that I have a weakness for Italians, given my history. Unlike most of my other idiosyncrasies, there is a real reason for that. Dramatic as my calling Dominic ‘he that shall not be named’ may seem. I assure you my ‘ex’ deserves to be linked with one of the most evil an
I’m a control freak, I admit that, and the very reason I was against having kids is unraveling before my eyes. Reminding me why I’m the last person in the world who deserves him. From the moment I held Tio, I was vulnerable and devoted. For the first time in my life understanding what true love was. An emotion my father did his best to train out of me with all the rest of them. It's something of a requirement for a leader, especially in our world. I never had the same issue with that as every one else did. It wasn't until my beating heart looked up at me, holding my one finger in his whole hand that I worried. Really worried about all the feelings I'd stripped to hold the seat. Kids need love. Plain and simple. They need softness, emotions, comfort, things that I never knew how to give. Outside of sex, even in that arena, I'm a hard and unforgiving bastard. I don't know how to process, let alone express the things that Tio needs. He's just been with us for almost a month, and hasn'
Something about Nyx rang inside of me like a tuning fork. The immediate and obvious interest from both my partner and the guy I still can’t admit I’m interested in only enhanced it.I tell myself I stopped looking because I can’t afford to be divided with the professional, as much as personal attacks on my family. That all my attention needs to be on the here and now with the kid, I just pseudo adopted via my partner.Regardless of my resources, I don't have the time to sift through a city of nine million, and tell myself now as much as I did then to drop it. Even if I found her, Nyx isn’t the type I could keep at a distance. Vince has made it clear that he’ll never keep someone long term, other than the female he has engaged himself to.I’m also not the
Waking up in a strange though lavish cabin, doesn’t help my disorientation when I come to. I’ve been loaded down with painkillers, that I have to vomit out of my system. I pull myself up between one good arm, and an opposing good leg to lean on the balcony and let the cool forest breeze take care of the sweat, and dim the icky feeling.Taking stock of my busted head, stitching in my reset shoulder and the unique aftermath of a bullet in my leg. We’re not in the city. It’s way too quiet. No traffic. No sirens. No bustling.Even though there is nothing left, the new throb of my skull tells me I have a concussion that has me woozy again. And wouldn’t you know, I find a way to topple over the hip-high railing and roll down the branches of a thick tree. Stuck right in at the base of an upper limb, worse than a bad wedgie.The more I blink, the longer I get a clear focus before I go underwater again. All things considered, I seem to be okay……. No not okay. Definitely not okay, Nyx.For a
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It takes me a minute to come to. I slept well, I think, but am jolted by the sensory overload of a large empty room. I remember having an absolute fit, but not much else. It's so..... fuzzy, and hurts the more I try to remember things..... I don't know what I did or where I am. Just that my head hurts, it smells great, and I feel awful.I also have this sense of grief. Like my heart’s broken. I know the feeling because regardless of the one beating being on the wrong side, this feeling happens in the left. Or the whole of my chest cavity.I know that I’ve been crying in my sleep. Where some part of me remembers what is so big. What in the schnitzel happened? The only thing popping up in the void of my bandaged noggin is that I was at a bar and a demon saved me from getting married to Jonathan……Holding my throbbing head, all of my thoughts turn to goblty gook again. Every thought that comes in flies right out again, and I reach..... search for those comparisons I need and..... Ooof,
….......Vince........Mid-meeting with one of the family heads I semi trust enough to take intel from, I'm alerted to an emergency situation at the hospital. Normally, I deal with the board, rather than handle things directly, but according to the frantic woman on the phone, a psychopath is making death threats.It’s a new habit, but a habit nonetheless to pull up Tio's location. Needless to say, I move faster than a bat out of hell tugging along Vance, who's every bit the size but nowhere near the personality as Rourke is. Apparently there is another in house problem with Ana, like we don't have enough on our plates. Getting into the doors every one might as well cross themselves and fall to their knees. I only get half the story, with Nico pacing in the hallway rather than in a room with our kid. It's a whole new level of red, hearing fragments of the fact that my son was denied treatment. That mixed with Nico hiring a nanny rather than staying with Tio as agreed just to get som
I’m already out of sorts as is by the time I get to the ER in North-Point. Thankfully I didn’t get lost, and the Witches tracking spell has failed. Otherwise, I have no doubt he’d have arranged a meet cute with the corner apocalypse man for the way I left. I’m not so far gone though, that I don’t recognize the staff letting someone else back while RJ is fighting for breath. “Let's go,” I grab Ryan Senior's arm dragging her through the swing doors into the triage station. She either knows the look in my eyes or is too frantic about her sick baby to care about things like the No Admittance without a medical attendant, signs. I can also guarantee there will be ‘no hair on my tongue’ when I lose my stuffing with these people. No matter how well we dress or behave, Hollow are less than people to Northside prats.I can't really say if it's mom mode, that I'll never truly get to use like I wanted. A threat and insult to my Doctor sense and Hippocratic oaths or flat out soldier bitch perso
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Hard to say why I always get a zing during pandemonium every year, but far from home or not, I still feel the unique energy that comes with the parade of a thousand demons.Must be a Fey thing.Still, it’s weird that whenever I’m not on assignment during Harvest Fest, I always find myself drinking in a random public place waiting for something inexplicable to happen.A bottle in, I could really care less about the evil eye the little old Cantonese lady is giving me.In a half devil’s mask, I happily tip my head in a happy internal jig, drinking straight from the bottle I didn’t buy from the floor to ceiling bar she’s eyeing me from.Being plastered is one of the few breaks my brain gets being a genius, and sorry, but no five dollar bottle of swill she’s got is going to do the trick, no matter how high she up-charges for it.Grouchiness aside, I’m a good guy.Or at least I’m trying to be. New lease on life and all that. I’ll leave her a hundred before I make my way out into the crowded
After about three days, Nicky relents to cutting me off from the anti-psychotics. Dr. Cross is more than aware that I'm not taking the sleeping pills any more than the mood stabilizers that might as well be elephant tranq darts.I don't like how they make me feel. I would say I don't like how they make me think, if I had the ability to process more than two plus two equals four while on them. I won't say that I didn't consider meds with how weird my life was getting, but a bit of anxiety is worth the ability to feel the wind, and appreciate rather than blur the world around me.The sleeping pills may have stopped the night terrors, but even without the other suppressors those little white dots made it impossible to function the following day. I was sleeping between twelve and fourteen hours rather than the usual four or five I needed every night.Those things make me just as tired as the rest and are just making my icky stomach even more unbearable. I have a sprained ankle, burns on
I know I may look like an over grown gorilla out of the dark ages, but fuck. There's only so much a man can take. Even my big ass. Even though I was more rabid beast than a kid, Gio adopted me regardless. It was Georgie, who got me to live again. Girl got it in her own way, was adopted same as I am. Her parents died in a car crash, and Pop didn't trust the rest of his cousins to step up. That and it was pretty obvious that she belonged to Gio rather than the brown-eyed brute who'd adopted Rico anyway. I'm not stupid and did have a decade's worth of education between eleven and twenty when I went into the allied forces. It was pretty clear, even if it wasn't what Gio intended adopting me, that the pits would never really be out of my system. I was a fighter plain and simple, and in his mind I needed all the structure and honor that went along with that. It was the best and hardest thing that could have happened. Just because I don't believe that numbers and letters will ever belo