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am I, but it isn’t the end of the world.”
    I jumped as he landed a stinger of a slap to the side of my left thigh. It made my eyes spring water. Shane often targets my tender thigh area, but not Dick.
    “Take that sullen look off your face and go and get ready. Go on.” He turned me towards the door and gave me a little push. “Do as you’re told and do it without arguing for once or I’ll take a paddle to your bare backside.”
    Dick’s gentle exterior hides a seam of grittier material. He looked and sounded like he meant what he said. I hastened upstairs to shower.
    I was drying off in the bedroom when my mobile heralded the arrival of a message. It was from Shane: stop sulking, enjoy the evening, don’t drink over quota.
    X. It wasn’t exactly a sugarcoated apology for snapping my balls off and for failing to be at his own party, but all the same it made me feel better. It was attention and I like attention and if that makes me immature so be it. I don’t give a rat’s rectum.
    Dick came into the bedroom. He still looked cross so I offered an apology of my own. “Sorry for being a grouch, Dick.”
    His expression softened. “I know you feel let down, hun, but it’s just one of those things. Your trouble is you invest far too much emotion in things and you don’t allow for any margin of change or error.”
    He came over to me, slipping his arms around me, pulling me into a hug. “Shane wouldn’t have cancelled if he could avoid it. He enjoys sharing his birthday with us.
    He isn’t exactly having fun down there you know. From the sounds of it Penny has been giving him a hard time about our ceremony again.” He patted my bottom. “By the way be nice to Leo tonight. I don’t want you taking out your disappointment on him.”
    “I’m always nice to him.”
    “No, Gilli, you’re not. You often take grievances you have with Shane out on him by proxy, because you know he can’t deal with you in the same way Shane can.”
    “I don’t.” I frowned, determined to maintain my role as underdog when it came to Leo. “It’s him who winds me up.”
    “Only because you wind him up first. I mean it, Gil. If you give Leo any hassle or lip I’ll punish you. Don’t think you’re going to get away with murder because Shane isn’t here.”
    I changed the subject. “What’s going on with his pappy anyway?”
    Dick shrugged. “Penny has got it into her head he’s developing Alzheimer’s. She says he’s been a bit confused and forgetful lately. He says she’s talking nonsense. She wants him to see a doctor, but he’s refusing.”
    “Being forgetful is natural for older people, it doesn’t mean he’s got Alzheimer’s.
    She always has to get hysterical over nothing.”
    Dick raised his eyebrows, saying dryly, “I know someone else who gets hysterical over nothing.”
    “Yeah, you’d think a man of Shane’s age and status would have learned to get a grip by now.” I gave a shout of laughter as Dick slapped at my arse and then wrestled me onto the bed flat on my back, pinning my hands above my head and straddling my body with his knees.
    “Such impertinence deserves serious penance.” He grinned down at me, the light of kinkiness shining bright in his eyes, making the trouser pup squirm with fearful yet delicious anticipation. “How shall I punish my naughty northern boy?” He produced a thoughtful look. “Perhaps I’ll teach you your place by putting you in cock bondage, the seven gates of hell, or maybe I’ll make you wear a chastity cage all evening.”
    I smirked, safe in the knowledge he wouldn’t do either. “You’re not allowed to use bondage or chastity devices on me, not without Shane’s permission and supervision. I doubt he’ll appreciate you calling him at his father’s house to ask if you can cage my cock.”
    “True.” He looked thoughtful again and then gave a wicked smile accompanied by a lecherous wink and a sexy thrusting of his pelvis against mine. “Then it’ll