Total pages in book: 157
Estimated words: 145088 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 725(@200wpm)___ 580(@250wpm)___ 484(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 145088 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 725(@200wpm)___ 580(@250wpm)___ 484(@300wpm)
Relief made Hammer sag, but he smiled and pinched the boy’s cheek. “Maybe you should help me write the conclusion once we catch up with Ryker?”
Dex grinned in a way that appeared oddly sinister. “Fuck yes! I think Executioner needs a sidekick. He could be doing the cleanup and always complain that they should set up sheets of plastic first.”
Hammer found himself chuckling. He’d kind of hoped for a positive reaction but this showed real engagement. “For sure! And they’d kill between one blowjob and the next,” he said without thinking. When Dex’s eyes darkened, he wondered how the kid would react to Hammer’s brief rendezvous with gay erotica, but he wasn’t ready to share any of that yet. Not when he remained all sorts of confused about where his sex life was going.
“Ohh, so they’d be murder boyfriends. I like it. You know, I’m not a very good reader. And I don’t mean the reading the letters part, but I just get easily distracted. But this,” he pointed to the phone, “I could really get into. We need to come up with the sidekick’s name.”
Hammer’s face was boiling as he stroked Dex’s head. He hadn’t even realized how much he’d missed being around someone who understood him. “I think you should be the one to name him.”
Dex nodded, sitting up on the bed again and pushing off his boots. “Okay, it’s gotta be a good one. Let me think about it.” It was so cute how seriously he approached the task, and this mixture of bloodthirsty and adorable was doing something strange to Hammer’s chest. His mouth itched for kisses, but he needed to gather his thoughts before indulging that need, so he rose.
“Take your time. Gonna take a shower.”
“On your own?”
When Hammer nodded, Dex laid down with a deep sigh. For a moment, Hammer was tempted to descend on him and fuck him on the comfortable bed, but his mind was scrambled, which always meant he needed some time on his own.
He fled into the bathroom and found it equally gaudy as the rest of the suite. The massive corner bathtub had vents, like a hot tub, but the interior otherwise committed to the same aesthetic as the bedroom it was adjacent to and featured many unnecessary trims, including plaster cupids holding up the mirror, and a relief of a thinking philosopher above the toilet.
Ha ha. So funny.
Exhaling, Hammer dropped every single piece of clothing, itching to feel warm water cascade down his skin to wash off not only the sweat and grime of the day but also the worries growing alongside all the good things Dex brought into his life.
What if he was overcommitting to the kid? They might have known of each other for a while, but the first time they spoke was just over two weeks ago, on the day when Hammer had abducted Dex. And now suddenly Hammer only had eyes for a man, took him on as an apprentice, and vouched for him despite knowing how chaotic Dex was.
He’d even fucking established a relationship with him just because he needed to make sure no one else got a slice of Dex without his permission. And what if this was all a fleeting fancy, and they’d end up stuck together due to circumstances?
He wasn’t usually this reckless, yet the moment Dex seemed to lose interest in him, Hammer ran back to him like a good dog and did what the kid had wanted all along.
He’d have to assess this somehow, both in terms of the club and his own feelings, which were hard to digest at the best of times, let alone when his life was in such turmoil.
He put his head under the warm water to silence the buzz in his mind. Thinking was difficult with Dex around, because his mouth rarely closed, which led to Hammer needing to divide his attention.
This shower was his opportunity to gather his thoughts.
So Dex was a guy. He was always horny, seemed confident but his meltdowns and eagerness to please, were signs of low self-esteem. While Hammer loved the worship he got from the kid at every step, he needed to make sure Dex didn’t violate his own boundaries or neglect himself to make him happy. Other than those few points and his over the top nature, Dex was easygoing and accepted Hammer’s every quirk. He was also very sex and food motivated and therefore easy to handle.
But analyzing Dex was one thing, figuring out his own attitude, another.
How did Hammer feel about all the tender gestures? His body was at ease with them, maybe even longed for the hugs and kisses which Dex so freely offered. Hammer still wanted to wreck Dex, slap him, and bruise him in sex, but that was a different dimension of their… relationship.