by A. C. Katt
“You know that the only opinions that matter here are mine and yours.” Caden pulled him closer on the banquette.
“I have my opinion, Sir. The subs only reinforced what I already knew,” Masato said sadly.
“And what is that, baby?” Caden kissed the side of his mouth.
“It doesn’t matter, Sir. Can we go upstairs?” Masato sat up straighter.
“Anxious for my cat?” Caden gave Masato a last sip of water.
“Anxious for you, Sir.”
Caden laughed out loud and pulled Masato up and into his arms. “I’m carrying you up to Room One so that there is no mistake as to where you’re going and who you’re going with.” With Masato in his arms he headed to the elevator, the second floor and Room One.
Caden had set up Room One earlier that afternoon. His gym bag with his cat o’ nine tails and flogger was on the floor. As soon as Caden set Masato down, Caden gave a one word command, “Strip.”
Masato stripped off completely, folded his clothes and got down on his knees bending over and pressing his forehead to Caden’s boot. Caden drew him up for a kiss.
“Let me examine your back and see if you can take the cat tonight.” Caden made a thorough examination of Masato’s back, checking the bruising. It wasn’t bad. He could take a light warming of his skin with the cat.
“Do you want to put on a jock?” Caden was hoping the boy would opt to be naked for him.
“No, Sir. If it pleases you, Sir.”
“It would please me to see you naked, waiting for my cat. Kneel up.” Masato knelt up on his knees, back straight and hands behind his head.
“I’m giving you only ten because you’re still bruised from Monday.” Caden leaned over and ran his hand lightly over Masato’s back.
“You may get up on the cross and hold on to the rings. Tell me your safe words.” Caden began to snap his cat in the air.
“Red for stop, yellow to slow down and green for more, Sir.” Masato moved from side to side to steady his stance.
“Are you ready? This will sting, not thud. You will count each strike.” Caden snapped the cat twice. “I’m going to begin.” He pulled back his arm, made the first strike, and saw Masato wince.
“One, Sir, thank you, Sir.
Caden struck a second time. “Two, Sir, thank you, Sir.”
The boy was in subspace after the second strike.
“More Sir, please, Sir. Three. I’m floating…it’s nice.” Masato was babbling.
It didn’t take long to give out ten strikes of the cat. He helped his baby down off of the cross and looked at his back. There were long scratches where the thin kangaroo hide had landed on his skin. Caden took Masato over to the bed and lay him down on his stomach. “Baby, I’m getting some anti-bacterial soap, a washcloth and water. I’ll be right back.”
Caden went into the bathroom and filled the wash basin he found under the sink with lukewarm water. He took the mild soap and soaped up the washcloth. Caden came back to the room and set the basin on the nightstand. “I’m going to wash the scratches on your back. This may sting a bit.”
“Sir, I will take anything you give me. You make me feel. You see me.” Caden dabbed Masato’s back with the soapy cloth then rinsed it in the basin. He washed Masato’s back again, kissing the angry welts.
Caden went back to the bath and got another clear basin of water and another clean cloth along with a hand towel. He rinsed the soap off of Masato’s back and gently patted it dry then took the water and cloths and left them on the nightstand in the basin. He went into the drawer for the arnica cream.
“I’m about to rub in the arnica cream,” Caden told the floaty boy.
“Yes, Sir, thank you, Sir. When you are finished may I take you out and suck you, Sir?” the boy asked. Caden was dumbfounded. He thought they would have many more jerk off sessions before he actually asked to do this.
“You may, boy.” Caden rubbed the cream lightly on Masato’s sore back. “The next time I’m going to spank those cheeks.”
“May I take you out now, Sir?” Caden’s cock was already leaking precum. Monday was for Masato. Tonight was for him.
“Yes, boy, take me out and suck me dry.” Caden stood tall and waiting.
Masato put his hand into the fly of Caden’s leathers and removed his cock from the built-in pocket. “So hard, Sir…So big.” Masato couldn’t fit it in his palm. Caden was a bit over eight inches.
Masato’s mouth moved over Caden’s cock and then he took it deeper. He ran his tongue around the rim and tried to take Caden to the root. As he licked, he tried to hum. He rolled Caden’s balls in his hand. Caden could tell he was inexperienced, but inventive and enthusiastic.
“You don’t have to do everything all at once, baby,” Caden laughed. Brown, lust-filled eyes looked up at him.
“I want to please you, Sir.” Masato joyfully licked and sucked using his tongue, hands and throat. Each time he took Caden down, he managed to take him deeper.
Caden put his hand on the top of Masato’s head and grabbed his chestnut hair and pushed him to his pubes. “I’m coming,” he cried.
He felt it come from deep inside him and pour out of his cock into Masato’s waiting and willing mouth. Masato swallowed and keep licking until Caden’s cock got so sensitive he had to pull away.
“Boy, you do that so well.” Caden ruffled his hair. “Come home with me, I’ll take care of you tonight.”
“Wait, please, Sir, I have to make a phone call.” Masato went into the bathroom.
“While you do that, I’ll call the chef and arrange for our dinner to be boxed for take out.”
§ § §
“Aubrey, it’s me. I don’t need a ride home tonight.” Johnny waited to hear what Aubrey had to say. Johnny never stayed out all night unless he was working. His finger tapped on the case of the phone.
“Will you need a ride in the morning?” Aubrey asked, worry evident in his voice.
“No, I’m going to have him drop me off at the club and then I’ll call you.” Johnny heard Caden moving about the room.
“Be careful, John.” Aubrey was the only person he allowed to call him John.
“I will Aubrey. I’ll call you in the morning.” Johnny pushed the end call square on the LED display.
Johnny quickly did his business and flushed the toilet hoping that would stop Caden from asking why he made the call from the bathroom.
“Are you ready?” Caden asked, knocking on the bathroom door.
“Yes, Sir.” Masato came out of the bathroom. “I just called to tell Aubrey I didn’t have to be picked up.”
“I would have taken you home on Monday.” the pout Caden made with his mouth mimicked Danny’s.
“I know, Sir, but Aubrey was already there,” Masato told Caden as he put on the clothing he’d folded before the scene.
“Don’t you drive?” Caden fastened the last two buttons of Masato’s oxford shirt.
“I do, Sir but I don’t like to drive in the snow. Aubrey drives me when it’s bad outside.”
Caden slipped Masato’s sweater over his head. This time it was black cashmere. Masato must have a mother who liked cashmere.
“May I go to my locker and get things to wear tomorrow, Sir?” Masato stood before him in what Caden would call parade rest, but Bull taught as standing presentation. Caden stopped himself before he said, “At ease.”
Caden followed Masato to the membership’s locker room and Masato pulled a duffle bag out of his locker. Caden noticed that his locker was three down from Masato’s and remembered that Jim gave out the locker assignments. Caden chuckled. The Doms were right. Both he and Masato were being buffaloed.
Caden opened his locker and removed his leathers. He put on the grey oxford shirt, along with his grey sweater and black slacks. Caden slipped the grey and black patterned tie in his pocket. He was really going to have to get himself more clothing, especially if he was going to be dating. The truth is, if I had the money, I’d dress like Bear. May
be some day. Caden shook his head.
“Get your coat,” he told Masato. “I hope you have a hat, scarf and gloves.”
“Yes, Sir. I do. Tonight I intended to wait outside for Aubrey to come.” Masato looked up at Caden and Caden couldn’t resist his beautiful lover’s lips and bent down to give him a light kiss that soon turned passionate.
“Come, before I can’t rein it back in and I take you here in the locker room.” Caden held out his hand and Masato grabbed it and followed Caden through the kitchen where Caden picked up their dinner. He gave the dinners to Masato to hold and opened the kitchen door then pushed a button on his key fob to remotely start his car. By the time they got out to the car, it was warm. Caden opened the door for Masato and turned on the seat warmer. Masato held the dinners in his lap. Caden settled him into his seat and fastened his seatbelt, then Caden got behind the wheel, fastened his own belt and they drove off into the night.
CHAPTER TEN
It was silent in the car on the way to back to Caden’s home. “You may speak freely for the rest of the evening.” Johnny appreciated the consideration but wondered if his speaking freely would lead to a slip up and Caden would find out who he was before Johnny was ready to tell him or when Caden was ready to hear it.
“What do you do for a living?” Caden braked to take a curve on the narrow road.
“I write software for computers and electronic devices.” Johnny wiggled nervously in his seat.
“Is the seat too warm? I can adjust it.” Caden reached for the consol.
Johnny put his arm out. “No, it feels good.”
“So, where do you work?” Caden grabbed for Johnny’s hand.
“I work as a consultant to Adroit Systems. I used to work directly for them but now I’m a consultant.” They were getting too close to Johnny’s real identity for comfort.
“What do you do for Adroit?” Caden was curious and that wasn’t good. Not yet.
“I wrote some scheduling software. It crosses the divide between business schedules, personal schedules and even production schedules and keeps them straight across multiple devices. It allows others you designate changes to your schedule, while at the same time it notifies you of the change and takes care of conflicts by rescheduling items in order of their importance.” Here Johnny told the truth. He didn’t know if Caden was aware of Adroit, having been gone so much during the last ten years, but even though Johnny intended to skirt the truth for a while, he refused to outright lie to the man he was coming to love.
“Sounds like something the Army could use to get their act together. There it is mostly hurry up and wait.”
Johnny giggled. “Maybe I’ll try and work on a version for the military, sounds like they need one.” Caden squeezed his hand.
“Do you have a smartphone?” Johnny asked Caden, thinking about the one he would get him.
“My brother-in-law, Gary, got Danny an iPhone.” Caden made a right turn to Route Twenty-nine. “But my phone only does text.”
“I do mostly Android work now. That’s the Google operating system for phones. I use a Samsung Note Three. Sometimes I write software that can cross platforms and runs on the iPhone but mostly Android.”
§ § §
God, this kid is crazy smart. What would he want with the likes of me? “So why aren’t you still working for Adroit?” Caden wondered if he was fired and in need of funds.
“I work better in my own home and don’t get bothered by the bureaucratic bullshit. Oh, excuse me, Sir.” Masato turned red and Caden chuckled.
“I’ve said worse but if you were mine, you’d get a stroke for that.” Masato slouched down in his seat. It was obvious he was afraid he’d offended Caden. “Hey, it’s okay.” Caden stroked Masato’s hand. “I’m not a real hard-ass like Bull. We’re all different. I’m somewhere between Bear and Cisco. My boy would definitely be treated like the pet he is, but I would expect more discipline from my boy then Bear does from Brian.” They pulled into the driveway of the cottage.
The grounds lit up with security lights as soon as the car crossed from the street to the drive. Caden used his remote to open the garage door and disarm the system. After parking, he walked over to the passenger side and opened Masato’s door.
“This is temporary housing for me. Bear owns the property and rented it to my brother-in-law for Danny. When Gary came out he moved Danny to his house. That left this property vacant. I sublet from Gary until I can find my own place.”
Caden opened the door to the house and both men went inside. Caden turned on the light in the mudroom, wondering how Masato would see the house.
Masato looked around. “Sir, this is beautifully done.”
“My brother put in the basics. The furniture came with the place. It’s brand new. Gary intended for Danny to stay here for at least six months until he changed his mind and took Danny home instead. Their interview with Joe Menendez was big news. I saw the whole thing on the commercial flight home from Germany.”
“Yes,” Masato said, “I remember that it caused a great deal of excitement at the club.”
Caden changed the subject. “I have some nice things in storage. When I came home last, I rented a furnished apartment so Danny would have a place to stay and furniture when I left. I kept my own things in storage so he could move without a problem if he found a Dom and wanted to do so. As a matter of fact, I want to borrow Bear’s RAM so I can move my French wingback chairs to my office at Indiscreet.” Caden put his keys down on the kitchen counter while Masato looked at the living room, dining nook and kitchen.
“It’s pretty basic.” Caden was embarrassed. Caden removed his outerwear then helped Masato out of his coat, scarf and gloves. Masato took off his hat and stuck it in his pocket. He looked handsome with his hair all mussed.
“It meets your needs, albeit temporarily,” Masato said. “May I sit down, Sir?”
“Yes, but I warn you. You won’t be sitting long. I intend to ravish you tonight. We’ll have to get up early though. I need to be at work by nine and I’ll have to take you home.” Masato’s face blanched white. “Is something wrong?” Caden came over sat down and put his arm around his beautiful man.
§ § §
Johnny began to panic. When he went home with Caden, he didn’t even think of the ramifications the morning would bring. “Sir, I think I told Brian I’d see him in the morning at the club. Would you mind taking me there?” Johnny knew Brian and Jim met in the kitchen everyday at ten. He’d ask Brian if Junior would drive him home. He couldn’t let Caden see where he lived yet.
“Oh yes, I forgot, the infamous sub club. I thought you met on Mondays?”
“Uh…we do. But we made plans to go shopping.” Johnny hoped Caden would forgive him the white lie. He wanted Caden to get to know him better before he sprung owning Adroit Systems and his obvious wealth on him.
“As a matter of fact, would you mind if I used my phone to call Brian and tell him I’ll meet him at the club, before it gets too late to call?”
“Bear made no mention of a shopping trip. Is Junior driving?” Caden looked a bit upset. “It would displease me if you didn’t let me take you home, unless Junior was driving. I know that Junior’s taken several defensive driving courses given by a former FBI instructor. It’s too icy outside to take chances.”
“If it pleases you, Sir, I’ll call Brian to make sure.” How am I going to get him out of the room to make the call? Hopefully, Brian will guess what I’m doing and play along.
“Hello, Brian, this is Masato.” Johnny nervously fingered the back of his phone case.
“You’re at Caden’s.”
“How did you know?”
“That’s the only reason you would call at nine.”
“Too true. Caden offered to take me to the club in the morning so we can still go shopping. Is Junior going to drive? Would he mind taking me home afterward?” Johnny hoped that Brian would catch on. He stopped himself from pacing the floor by sitting on the plaid sofa.
/>
“Sure, but only if Jim and I get to see your house. I’m curious. I think I’ll call Danny and Greg. Jamie will be here.”
“Uh, okay.”
“It will look more natural if we all go. We can say we’re going out to lunch and then to Quakerbridge Mall.”
“Sounds good to me.” Johnny breathed a sigh of relief. Now he wouldn’t be telling Caden a lie. He had a suspicion that Caden wouldn’t tolerate lies, but with Brian’s compliance, he hadn’t lied to Caden about anything yet. He hung up just as Caden came down the hall from the bedroom.
“Do you want your lasagna now?” Caden picked up the white box he’d carried in from the car and put on the kitchen table.
“No, Sir. I’m full from what we ate earlier. I try to watch my weight. Sitting at a computer all day doesn’t allow you the exercise necessary to maintain your body.” Caden put the white box in the fridge.
He grabbed Johnny’s hand and pulled him up from the sofa. “Come with me. I’d like to make love to you.”
“Yes, Sir, oh yes.”
Caden lifted Johnny into his arms. Johnny was surprised that Caden insisted on carrying him to the bedroom. He was no lightweight but he lost all rational thought as Caden started kissing his neck.
Once they got into the bedroom, Caden placed Johnny on the bed and started to undress him.
He took off Johnny’s Doc Martens and his socks. “I’m glad to see you wear sensible shoes for this weather.”
“They keep my feet warm. Like Brian, I’m not too fond of the cold. On the other hand, I love this area and don’t want to leave, so I suck it up and dress for the weather.”
Caden nodded his head in apparent approval. He sat Johnny up and lifted the black cashmere sweater over his head. “Stand up.”
Caden lifted him from under his arms. Johnny stood while Caden undid his belt and the fastening and zipper to his slacks. They fell to the floor. “Step away from them. I’ll fold them so they won’t crease.”
“Okay,” Johnny said. Caden folded the slacks over a suit hanger and stuck them in the closet.
Caden attacked the buttons of his shirt which he removed swiftly. Johnny was left standing in his boxers. Caden pulled the boxers to the floor, kneeling to take them out from under his feet. On his way back up, he kissed Johnny’s cock which immediately sprang to attention.
