Thorns And Roses

Chapter Twenty-seven

Theo slowly blinked his eyes open as the sun streamed in through the bedroom window. He knew it was late but he didn't care. Staying up all night and having sex just made you tired the next day. There was no stopping it. He tightened his arms around the pillow at his head and buried the tip of his nose into it. It smelled like Demi. They must have switched out pillows sometime in the night.

Theo reached over and felt the bed for his mate but wasn't too concerned when he didn't feel Demi there. He could hear the shower running in the other room. Theo pulled his face away from the soft cotton and grabbed his phone off of it's charger on his nightstand. He lay on his stomach as he scrolled through emails, text messages, and phone calls. None of them seemed too important.

He didn't hear Demi come from the bathroom as Theo was too busy replying to an email that was a little important. He grunted in surprise and some pain when his Omega came over and laid on top of him. Demi peeked his head over Theo's shoulder to see what he was doing.

"Well, that looks boring as hell." Demi so graciously supplied, his voice muffled from the skin he was kissing on Theo's back.

"It is. But it has to be done. How else am I supposed to buy you all the shit you want?" Theo shivered at the lips on his flesh and groaned when Demi licked him. Demi bit at his shoulder blade in retaliation for his remark.

"I don't want a bunch of shit. Well, there is one thing I want." Theo ignored the pleasure thrumming through his veins and tried to write out the email as he gave Demi a hum that he had heard him.

"I want to go on a date." That had Theo's fingers halting on his phone and he turned to look at Demi as best as he could in the position they were in.

"Why? We can just stay here and do whatever you want." Demi groaned in irritation and thumped his head down on Theo's shoulder.

"Because, my beautiful, amazing, Alpha-."

"Flattery will get you nowhere." Demi bit him again and Theo tried to buck him off. It didn't work.

"I want to watch this movie that just came out. Please." Demi whined in his ear, knocked his phone out of his hand, and replaced it with his own. Theo glared down at it.

"Just watch the trailer and tell me if we can go watch it. Besides we haven't been on a date in a while." Demi pressed play on the video as Theo sneered at him. He became pale as he quickly realized that it was a horror movie. With blood and guts and jump scares. Theo hated scary movies.

Before the video was even halfway done, Theo paused it and said, "Absolutely fucking not."

"But why?" Theo laid Demi's phone down so he wouldn't have to see it and picked his back up to finish the email. It was swiped out of his hands once again. Theo dropped his face into the pillow and sighed.

"Wait. Don't tell me you don't like horror movies." Theo didn't bother answering. "But you're a hitman. You see this shit every day."

Theo lifted his head and spoke, "Just because I see it every day, doesn't mean I like it."

"I guess that's true. But still. I want to watch it." All Theo wanted to do was send that fucking email. That's all. He didn't want to go watch a stupid scary movie.

"If I say yes, will you give me my phone back?" With a happy laugh, Demi tossed Theo's phone down on the bed and jumped off of him.

"Thank you. Thank you so much. I love you. We leave in an hour." Demi kissed him and left the room. To do what, Theo didn't fucking know. He's kind of happy that he was able to make Demi happy though. It made him feel good.

An hour later, they weren't standing in front of the movie theater that the mall in Authfield held. No, they were staring at a white font sign with a black backdrop for the adult toy store that the mall also had. Theo admittedly thought it was better than the movies, but why were they there?

"I thought we were going to see a movie." He watched as Demi pulled out his phone, checked the time, and smiled at him.

"We have about forty-five minutes before the movie starts and I wanted to get a few toys for us." He knew what Demi really meant. Demi wanted to get some toys to use specifically on Theo. He wasn't dumb.

"But I don't want to." He sounded whiny even to his own ears. Demi stared over at him with a skeptical look, like he can't believe what Theo was saying.

"Someone's in a bratty mood today." That had Theo shutting up real quick. After he had allowed Demi to take some control in the bedroom a few days ago, he's done nothing but tease and be mean to Theo. And he fucking loved it.

Theo never pegged himself as the masochist type. Someone who liked being humiliated and given pain. But Demi has been proving him wrong at every turn.

Theo liked being talked down to like he was some dumb puppy and he liked being smacked around when he did or said something that Demi didn't like. It was liberating. He just never saw himself in that position before. Not until Demi came into the picture.

"Sorry." Theo quietly said as he tried to please Demi.

The Omega grinned at him and took his hand, then pulled him into the store. Theo instantly wanted to pull the hood up of his hoodie and hide his face. As if he was worried someone might question why an Alpha was in an adult toy shop with his Omega. He felt stupid at his own thought.

Demi let his hand go to wander around on his own and Theo reluctantly did the same. He questioned most of the toys in the shop because a lot of them were ridiculous. Like who would need a penis enlarger? He most certainly did not.

Theo was looking at a variety of cock rings, trying to figure out which one he wanted and if it was something he would like to try. There was a rubber one, a plastic one, a metal one, and one that vibrated. He set that one down. He wasn't really into overstimulation. It wasn't something he enjoyed very much.

"Puppy, come here." Theo tensed at the pet name and dropped whatever he was looking at. It wasn't said very quietly, he might add.

Theo didn't feel very comfortable being called that in a public place, even if it was just them and the sells person up front who didn't even greet them when they walked in. Theo looked around the store, trying to find a mop of white hair, and went to Demi when he found him.

He paused when he caught sight of Demi standing in the aisle holding a baby pink leash and collar combo. Theo felt himself flush, and he tried not to look at Demi or the thing he was holding. Demi turned towards Theo and held up the items to his neck as if he were measuring him for a tailored suit. It made Theo turn even redder.

"No. It's not really your color. Maybe a black or a dark blue. Oh, what do you have there?" Theo tore his gaze from the floor he was intently staring at and looked at the things in his hands. He thought he had put them back, but apparently not.

"Um..." Theo had to clear his throat in order to get rid of the rasp in his voice. "Cock rings."

"Let me see." Theo handed them off without complaint as Demi put the leash and collar back. Theo glanced at it for a minute before he looked back at Demi.

"I like this one." The blush Theo was sporting became a little less bright as Demi held up the vibrating cock ring he thought he had put down. This man was out to kill Theo, there was no doubt about it.