“What?” Bear asks. “If he’s old enough to make these kinds of choices, then he’s old enough for me to tell it like it is.” There’s a harshness to his voice I haven’t heard in a very long time. It doesn’t bode well for how this conversation is going to go.
“Don’t be so crass,” Otter admonishes him lightly.
“And besides,” I say, “you were only one year older than me when you and Otter started fucking.”
“That’s… you don’t….” Bear sputters. “You can’t… you watch your mouth!”
“Are you sure you want to be in this?” Otter asks Dominic. “It’s too late for me, but you still have a chance to run.”
“It really is too late for you,” Bear agrees. “You try to escape, I’ll go Annie Wilkes on your legs.”
Otter sighs. “It’s good to know that even after all this time, you can still make my heart jump with romantic threats of violence.”
“I figured that out a long time ago,” Dom says to Otter. “I probably couldn’t get away even if I tried. He’s surprisingly resourceful.”
“They both are,” Otter says. “It’s scary. You just wait.”
I scowl at Dom. “You think you’re being funny, but you’re not.”
“We’ll talk about that later,” Bear growls at Otter.
Dom and Otter share a look I can’t even begin to decipher, but I’m sure is full of shit.
“Things were different for Otter and me,” Bear says to me. “You can’t even begin to compare the two.”
“How?” I ask. “How is what you and Otter have any different?”
“For one, we’ve been together a long time.”
“Yeah, but you had to start somewhere.”
“It certainly wasn’t with fucking!”
“How in God’s name did you get there, and why is that the only thing you’re fixated on?”
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bsp; “Do you want to get chlamydia?”
“I don’t have chlamydia,” Dom say.
“I’m not stupid,” I say to Bear. “We used protection.”
Bear’s eyes narrow. “So you did have sex.”
“Yes,” I retort. “And it was fucking awesome. As a matter of fact, I’m thinking about doing it again tonight!” I’m not, actually. I’m pretty sure my ass is going to be sore for days.
“Not here you won’t!”
“Well, then it’s a good thing Dom has his own house!”
“Dom,” Otter says. “Want to go have a beer in the backyard?”
“Sure,” he says. “This is probably going to go on for a while, huh?”
“It’s just getting started,” Otter says. “Come on. I’ll give you some insight as to what you’re in for.”
“I heard that!” Bear and I say at the same time.