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hands and kissed the backs of both.
    “Gavin, come over here.”
    I am such an asshole.
    He reached the couple and stood, uncertain, and ashamed.
    “Kneel next to Ronnie.”
    Everything in him quailed at the order, resisted it. He didn’t kneel. He was a Dom, for fuck’s sake.
    And then he saw Ronnie peek at him from under her lashes, and he knew if he didn’t do this, he’d lose her forever. She might still have sex with him, and play with him, maybe even be his friend.
    But her love would change into something else, and she’d put him on a shelf or a box, where she’d put a dog that had bitten her. A dog she liked, but no longer trusted fully.
    Luis rose to his feet, tugging Ronnie up with him, and he met both their eyes before sinking to his knees. No way in hell he was lowering his head, but he could do this for her.
    For all of them.
    “From now on, Ronnie, you are not allowed to play alone with Gavin. If you wish to have sex with him, and I am not there to supervise, it has to be at the club. Nate can be trusted to monitor you both.”
    “But—” Her cheeks flamed red, her words cut off when Luis shook his head.
    “You have a responsibility as a submissive to know you limits and use your safe word. You’re new to the lifestyle, and I think your love for Gavin clouded your judgment.” Luis turned his attention downward to Gavin. “And you, as the acting Dominant, have an even greater responsibility to care for your sub. Our sub. She should never have marks that last for more than a day or two. But what bothers me most of all is that you did not spank her because she enjoys the pain. You spanked her because of your anger. You were out of control and you abused her.”
    “I know.” He dropped his head and stared at the floor. The pit of shame in his gut would swallow him whole. “I don’t—”
    The pressure of slender fingers under his chin tipped his head back, and tears pricked his eyes. “Gavin. Shhh...Luis is right.” She closed the gap between them and wrapped her arms around him, cuddling him in close to her belly. “I was thinking about leaving here and never looking back. But I love you both too much to do that.”
    “Gavin. Hermano . Promise me you will do as I ask.”
    He looked at the both, the two people he loved the most in the world and nodded. “I promise. I’ll go to therapy. I’ll change my phone number. And I won’t play with Ronnie alone. Not even vanilla sex until you feel that it’s safe.” He took Ronnie’s hand and kissed her palm. “Someday, I’ll tell you about my...my mother. Can you wait until I’m ready?”
    “Of course.” She dipped down and kissed him, an almost chaste press of her lips to his, but a wave of relief so powerful he trembled swept over him.
    He surged to his feet and crushed her to his chest in a hug, picking her right up off the floor. “I thought for sure that you’d leave and never come back. I was prepared to sleep outside your door until you forgave me.”
    High pitched giggling filled the room and she kissed his nose. “You’d make a very sexy doormat.”
    Luis cleared his throat and they turned their heads. For the first time in his life, Gavin thought his ultra-confident and self-possessed friend looked very uncertain.
    “Ronnie, Gavin and I bought you something. We were going to give them to you after dinner the other night, but we got distracted.”
    Distracted with a whole lot of mind blowing sex.
    He smirked and Ronnie crinkled her forehead. “What are you guys up to?”
    “Come with me.” Luis left the room, and rather than put her on her feet to follow, he shifted his grip and carried Ronnie in his arms.
    “I’m too heavy for this.” She wound her arms around his neck and shifted.
    “No you’re not.” He knew now what Luis was going to get, and a thrill of anticipation flitted around, making his heart beat faster.
    Luis met them in the living room, a long flat box in his hands. He lifted the lid and Ronnie