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Good Boy

A Harlan Ranch bonus scene by Jace Wilder

The scene too hot for any retailer. The night Finn earned the word.

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This scene is hotter and more detailed than anything I could publish at a major retailer. Extended negotiated D/s, the earning of the word Daddy, edging, praise kink, cum play, full power exchange, aftercare, subdrop. Written for the reader who came here on purpose. If you have not read The Rancher’s Three Hands, please read that first — this scene is richer when you know these men. Intended for readers 18+.

Takes place between Chapters 3 and 4 of The Rancher’s Three Hands.

This is the night Finn earned the word.

Too hot for the retailer edition. Yours, because you came here.

I lay in my bunk at ten o’clock that night with Wade Harlan’s cum still inside me and the word good boy still ringing in my ears from the hayloft, and I could not sleep.

I had tried. I had been trying for forty minutes.

I had come down the ladder from the hayloft at nine-fifteen. I had gone to the wash basin in the barn. I had splashed cold water on my face and my chest and between my legs until the shock of it had gotten me the rest of the way back into my body. I had dried myself on the rough old towel that hung on a nail by the door. I had pulled my clean shirt on — I had kept a clean one in my duffel, because my grandmother had taught me at twelve to always keep one clean shirt folded at the top of a bag, because a drifter who looks ironed gets hired over a drifter who looks slept-in, Finn Patrick, you remember that — and I had walked across the dark yard to the bunkhouse in my socks with my boots in my hand.

Jude was already in his bunk. Reading.

Of course he was reading. Of course the man who had, in the course of three days, established himself as the quiet seer of this ranch was going to be in his bunk reading a paperback at ten at night when the new hand walked in with hay still in his hair and Wade’s beard burn on his thighs and a look on his face that had to be — I could only imagine — fully legible in the lamp light.

Jude looked up over the top of the book. He did not comment on me. He took me in — slow and thorough, the way Jude took things in — and then he said, quiet, “Good, cowboy?”

“Yeah, Jude.”

“Water’s in the jug. Drink some. Sleep.”

He went back to his book. I almost cried right there in the bunkhouse doorway. Because Jude had just handed me the single kindest thing a stranger could hand a man who had been loved hard and sent back to his bunk — which was I see you, I am not going to say so, go lie down.

I walked past him. I drank from the jug. I undressed in the dark and climbed into my bunk. Riley was turned to the wall, pretending to be asleep — his breathing was wrong, too shallow, the breathing of a man who had heard me come in and had not wanted to be caught looking.

I lay on my back. I stared at the slats of the bunk above me. I breathed. Wade.

I saw the hayloft. I saw the packet of lube Wade had brought up the ladder in his breast pocket — he had brought it. I saw his hand on the back of my neck. I saw his face when I had asked to call him Daddy and he had said “You earn it,” slow and steady, like he was quoting a law.

I had not earned it yet. My body knew. My body wanted to get up.

I lay there for twenty minutes trying not to hear my body — which kept saying: he is still in you. you kept him in you on purpose. you did not clean up when he offered. you wanted to come back to the bunk full of him, and now you are, and now you have a problem, which is that you are hard again and you are his and you are across the yard from him, and you are going to have to do something about it.

I opened my eyes. I looked over at Jude’s bunk. Jude had not turned a page in four minutes. Which meant Jude was not reading. Which meant Jude was waiting.

Jude, without looking up from his book, said, very quiet: “If you’re going, cowboy, go now. He’s up. The kitchen light came on ten minutes ago.”

I got out of the bunk. I dressed in the dark. I stopped at the door. Jude, without looking up, said: “He’s been waiting for you. Don’t keep him.”

“Thank you, Jude.”

“Mm.”

I opened the door. Riley, from his bunk, turned to the wall, spoke one word very soft into the pillow: “Go, cowboy.”

I almost cried again. I did not. I closed the door behind me.

The yard was colder than I had expected. The porch of the main house glowed yellow at the kitchen window. Wade had left the light on. I walked across the wet grass in my socks, my boots in my hand, because I was not going to put my boots on to cross thirty feet of grass at ten at night on the way to ask a man to call me his boy.

I climbed the back steps quietly. Put my boots down beside Wade’s big ones on the mat. Stepped into the mudroom. The screen squeaked. I winced. Nothing moved. I stepped into the kitchen.

Wade was at the stove.

In his undershirt — ribbed, white, sleep-wrinkled across the shoulders — and his jeans were open at the fly, not a flirt, just the way a man stands at his stove at ten at night when he has been halfway back to bed and has decided to come back down and put a kettle on instead. Hair loose. No hat. Bare feet. The chain out over the collar of his undershirt, the copy ring warm against his sternum, catching the kitchen light.

He did not turn. He said, without looking: “Reilly.”

“Wade.”

“Come here.”

I crossed the kitchen. Wade turned the way he did everything — slow, inevitable, the way weather comes in. He reached up and pinched a piece of hay out of my hair. Held it up between us.

“You couldn’t sleep.”

“No.”

“Why didn’t you come to the house tonight.”

“I didn’t know if I was allowed after.”

Wade closed his eyes for one second. He opened them. He said, very quiet: “Baby. You are allowed to come to this kitchen any hour of any day for the rest of your life. Say it back to me.”

“I’m allowed to come to this kitchen any hour of any day for the rest of my life.”

“Good.” He turned off the kettle. Turned back to me. Said: “Down. On your knees. Right there.”

I went down on my knees on the kitchen floor between his bare feet. The floor was warm from the stove. Wade said, quiet: “Hands on my thighs. Keep them there. Mouth open.”

I put my hands flat on his thighs. I opened my mouth. Wade pressed his thumb into my lower lip. I closed my mouth around it. Tasted salt. Tasted him. My tongue moved against the pad of his thumb without me telling it to.

He said, “I know, baby. I know. I’ll give you what you need. But you are going to earn a thing tonight first, and we are going to do it here before we go upstairs, because I don’t want you in my bed without having earned it.”

He took the thumb out. He said, “Tell me what you want.”

“Can I — can I call you the thing Riley calls you.”

“What thing is that.”

“…Daddy.”

Wade took my jaw in his hand — broad warm palm, thumb under my chin — and he tipped my face up.

“Reilly. I told you you earn it. Here’s the earning. First, you suck my cock right here on this kitchen floor and swallow every drop without me asking. Second, I carry you upstairs because your legs are going to be shot and because I want to. Third, I open you up on my bed and I edge you for as long as I want until you are crying and begging. When you finally come — that is when the word is yours. If it comes out of your mouth before I say, the scene stops and we try again another night. Safeword is brisket. Clear?”

“Yes, Wade.”

“Good boy.”

I opened his jeans the rest of the way. Pushed the denim open. Pushed his briefs down — gray cotton, soft with age — and took him out.

He was already hard. Already hard, in the kitchen at ten at night, before I had even kneeled down. Which meant he had been standing at this stove with his jeans half-open and his cock half-hard and the kettle on, waiting for me to cross the yard, with the certainty of a man who had decided how tonight was going to go and had the patience to let it come to him.

He said, low: “Good boy. Open.”

I opened. I took him in my mouth.

Wade made a low sound when my lips closed around him — not a groan, something quieter, the sound of a man whose want has been patient enough to be permitted — and his hand came to the back of my head. Not to push. Just to rest. His thumb stroked behind my ear, slow.

I worked him slow on purpose. I had been thinking about this since the hayloft — he had not come in my mouth up there, he had come inside me, and I had wanted this, wanted to taste him, wanted to give him back the patience he had given me. Hand at the base. Tongue on the underside, where he was veined and thick. Hollowed cheeks. Pulling off every thirty seconds to breathe and mouth down the side of him, to drag my tongue from his balls up to the head and back down, and each time I came back up Wade’s hand in my hair tightened a notch and his thigh trembled under my palm.

I gagged once. Pulled off, wiped my mouth. Said, hoarse, “Sorry, Wade.”

Wade, above me, wrecked: “Don’t you dare be sorry. Take what you can. I’ve got you.”

I went back down. Four more minutes. His thighs trembling. His hand fisted in my hair now, not pulling, just holding. I was drooling openly, chin wet, and I did not care.

Then his hand tightened. “Reilly.” I hummed around him. “Close.” I hummed again. “Swallow it, baby.”

I did not pull off. He gave me the dignity of one warning and I gave him the dignity of staying where I was, and he came — hot, thick, hard, the muscle of his thigh locking up under my palm — and I swallowed. All of it. I kept working him through it, gentle now, milking him through the last pulses. A thin line ran out the corner of my mouth. Wade caught it with his thumb and pressed it back between my lips and I licked his thumb clean.

Wade closed his eyes. Said, rough: “Good boy. Good boy. Good. That’s my good boy.”

I rested my forehead on his thigh. I was shaking. Not crying. Close. He stroked my hair. Slow. Patient. Let me stay there with my forehead on the front of his thigh and his cock softening against my cheek for a full minute. The kettle ticked on the stove. Somewhere far off a horse in the corral blew out its lips.

Wade said, eventually: “Up, baby.”

I tried to stand. My legs did not do it. I laughed — wet, embarrassed — “Wade, I can’t, my legs—”

Wade: “Okay.”

He bent down. Put one arm under my knees and one arm under my back. Stood — his bad knee gave him a complaint, he did not comment — and lifted me off the kitchen floor. Bride-carry. Fifty-four years old. He tucked his softening cock back into his briefs without breaking stride, and I buried my face in his neck. Clean sweat and leather and castile soap and, faintly, himself. I made a small sound into his throat I did not have a word for.

Wade said, quiet, against the top of my head: “I’ve got you.”

He carried me up the stairs. His bad knee complained on the third step. He did not stop. Shifted his grip once on the fifth step. Kept going. I pressed my face harder into his neck and clung. I had not been carried by a man in my life. I did not know my body could fit into a man’s arms this way.

He kicked his bedroom door open with his heel.

He set me down on the edge of his bed.

The big pine-frame bed. Kate’s quilt across it. The standing lamp on low. The framed wedding photograph on the dresser — Wade and Kate in front of a Methodist church in black and white, her head thrown back laughing, his hand in hers — and I saw it. I saw it because he was looking at it.

Wade crossed the rug to the dresser. He turned the photograph face-down. Slow. Deliberate. Without apology. The way he did everything — with a patience that was a whole sentence.

He came back. Sat beside me. Said, “The word you asked for tonight. I haven’t heard it from a man in three years. Not from Jude. Riley is the only one. Riley asked me for it a year into his time here, and I made him earn it for a month, and when I let him have it he cried for ten minutes in this bed. I am telling you because it’s a weight in this house. I want you to know what you are asking for.”

I took a breath. I said: “I asked for it because I know what I want it to weigh. I don’t want it to be a bedroom thing only. I want it to weigh what Riley’s weighs. Or what it’s going to weigh, eventually, when I’ve been here long enough to earn that much.”

Wade closed his eyes. Opened them. Said, rough: “Baby. That was the right answer.”

He stood. Pulled his undershirt off over his head. Unbuttoned the rest of his fly. Stepped out of his jeans. Left the chain on — the copy ring swinging against his sternum — and he stood in the lamp light naked, the gray silver of his chest hair and the weathered tan and the big broad shoulders of a man who had been on a ranch for fifty years.

He said, “You.”

I reached for my shirt. He said, “Slow.” I slowed.

I took my shirt off slow. Unbuckled my belt. Pushed my jeans down. I was wearing briefs — blue, old, elastic gone at one hip — and Wade, seeing them, said, dry, “Hm. I liked it better when you weren’t wearing them. Something to aspire to, Reilly.”

I flushed from the collar up. Pushed the briefs down. Stepped out of everything. I stood naked in Wade Harlan’s bedroom in the lamp light, and my cock was already hard again, and Wade walked me three steps back and laid me down on his bed on the window side — Kate’s side, though I did not know that name for it yet — and he kissed me.

He kissed me for a long time. Slow and deliberate and thorough. Mouth on my jaw, throat, collarbone. He dragged his beard along the skin and I shuddered.

He moved down. Put his mouth on the horse-skull tattoo over my left pec. He said, against my skin, “Tell me about her.”

My breath went out of me. “Wade—”

“Yeah. You don’t have to. But I want to know.”

I told him. In broken pieces. My grandmother in Torrington. The double-wide. The bread she had taught me to bake. The hearts games in the evenings. Her stroke in the kitchen when I was seventeen and finding her on the linoleum and the four days in the hospital after. Wade listened with his mouth on the skin over my heart and his hand splayed on my hip and he did not interrupt.

When I was done he lifted his head. Said, “Thank you, baby. She would have liked you being here tonight. I know that about a woman I never met. A woman who taught a boy to bake bread was looking for him to end up in a house like this.”

He said, “Good. Turn over.”

I turned over. Onto my stomach. On the quilt. Wade climbed up behind me. He put a hand on the small of my back and pushed lightly — I came up onto my knees, ass up, face in the pillow — and he spread me with both hands.

He went very still. He said, low: “Baby. You are still full of me. Did you clean up.”

“No.”

“Why not.”

My face went hot into the pillow. “I wanted you — I wanted you still in me when I came back.”

Wade stopped breathing for a whole second. Then, rough: “Finn Reilly. That is the filthiest thing I have ever heard out of a man’s mouth.”

“Good, Wade?”

“Yeah, baby. Yeah, that was good.”

He put his mouth on me.

Slow. He used his tongue — flat, broad — to lap up the slick of himself that was still inside me from the afternoon, and he made a low sound at the taste of his own cum still in me. He worked his tongue into me. Held me open with his thumbs. His beard dragged along the insides of my thighs, and every time his beard moved my cock bounced against my stomach.

I bit the pillow. I made sounds anyway. By the third minute I was begging — Wade. Wade. Please. He did not stop.

When my thighs started shaking I said, broken, “Wade. Close.”

He pulled off. Immediately. Kissed the back of my thigh. “Breathe, baby. Four in. Six out.”

I breathed. Four. Six. Again. Again.

Wade: “Good boy.”

First edge. He went back with his mouth, slower, calibrated now — and I said “close” and he pulled off. Kiss. Breath. “Good boy. Again.”

Second edge. His fingers this time. Three, slicked from the bottle in the nightstand drawer. Loose from the afternoon and loose from his tongue, three went in easy. He curled them up and pressed the spot he knew I had in me and I bucked against his hand and sobbed into the pillow — and he pulled his fingers out before I could come on them. Kiss to the small of my back. Breath. “Good boy.”

I was starting to cry. Not from pain. From the patience. Every edge landed harder than the one before because my body had been on the edge longer cumulatively, and he was riding my body like a horse he had a lifetime to gentle.

Third edge. He turned me over. Onto my back. My face was wet, tears running freely now. Wade climbed up between my thighs. He took me in his mouth — first time he had ever done that — and I lasted twenty seconds. He pulled off, kissed my hip bone: “Good boy. Breathe.”

I was sobbing steadily now. Wade’s face was soft. He said, “You are doing so well, baby. You are being Daddy’s good boy tonight. You hear me?”

He said the word. Himself. First. Before me. As a permission, as a promise. Daddy’s good boy.

I sobbed harder. I did not say it back. I clamped my teeth down on it. The rule was: not until he lets me come. I held it.

Wade: “Good. Good boy. Hold the word. I see you holding it.”

Fourth edge. He slicked himself. Lined up. Pushed into me — first time this scene — and it was, God, it was — I was so sensitive by this point that I made a sound like a sob on the first inch, and Wade stopped with his cock halfway in and said, “Breathe,” and held there. I breathed. I nodded. He sank the rest of the way.

He fucked me slow, face to face, and he kept one hand on my jaw and the other under my knee, and his forehead came down to press against mine, and he kept murmuring — low, quiet, steady — “Good boy. That’s my boy. You are doing so well. You are being so good for me. I have you. I have you, baby. I have you.”

I was crying through the whole thing. Silent. Wet. Tears running into my hair and into the quilt and into Wade’s beard when he leaned down to kiss my jaw. I nearly came twice. Both times I said, broken, “Wade — close — close—” and both times he pulled out and knelt up and waited.

Fifth edge. He pulled out. Stood. Said, “Up, baby. Knees. Here. In front of me.” I got up, shaking. Knees on the rug at the foot of the bed. Wade standing over me, wrecked, flushed, the chain still swinging against his sternum, his cock slick and flushed dark and pulsing between us.

“Open.” I opened. He slid into my mouth. Three, four, five long slow strokes. I hummed around him. Felt his thigh trembling. He pulled out. Said, rough: “Not there. Not this time. Up, baby. Back on the bed.”

I got back on the bed. On my back. Head on the pillow. Wade climbed up over me. He lined up. He sank back into me.

I whined — a thin high sound I had never made before in my life — and Wade, above me, face gone soft in a way I would not see again for weeks, said:

“Baby. Look at me. I’m going to let you come, Finn.”

I broke.

I started saying please on every breath. Please. Please. Please. I was not saying the word. I was holding the word. The word was behind my teeth the way he had asked me to hold it, and I was crying, and I was begging, and I was not saying the word, and Wade watched my face and watched me not say the word and his eyes went wet for one second.

He said, “Baby. You earned it. Come with me. Say it.”

He wrapped his hand around my cock between us — first time he had touched it all night — and stroked me slow, one, two, three, in rhythm with his thrusts, and on the third stroke something broke in me and I was going.

I came.

Hard, back arching off the bed, mouth open, and the word came out of me — not once. Not twice. It poured out of me like water:

“Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy, please. Daddy. Daddy.”

I did not stop. I could not stop. I had been holding it behind my teeth for an hour and the dam had broken, and the word came out of me over and over, and Wade fucked me through it, his face soft, his mouth open, his rhythm steady and deep. He kept saying — low, rough — “Yeah, baby. Yeah. That’s it. Say it. Say it. That’s my good boy. Say it, Finn. Say it.”

I said it thirty times. I lost count. I was coming the whole time, in waves, untouched on the first stroke and then under his hand and then a third time dry and shuddering, and the word was still coming out of me, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, and Wade was kissing my mouth through it, taking the word on his tongue.

He held off the whole of it. He wanted me to finish first. He wanted me to say the word enough times that it would be mine forever. And he waited — God, he waited — and when I was finally fading from Daddy, Daddy, Daddy to a whispered daddy against his mouth, Wade pulled out of me — fast, I whined at the loss — and knelt up, and wrapped his hand around himself, and finished over me.

He painted me. It went on a while. He came across my chest, the horse-skull tattoo, my collarbone, my mouth. I opened my mouth. I caught what hit my mouth. Tears still running. Chest heaving. The warmth of him landing across my skin in pulses.

When he was done he sat back on his heels. He looked down at what he had made. He was quiet for a long moment.

Then he said, low: “Look at you. Daddy’s good boy.”

I shuddered. I said, barely a breath: “Yeah.”

Wade: “Say it for me one more time. Just once. So I hear it clear. So it’s yours.”

I looked up at him. I said, clearly, quietly: “Yes, Daddy.”

Wade closed his eyes. He breathed. He said, rough: “Mine. You are mine.”

“Yours, Daddy.”

“Forever.”

“Forever, Daddy.”

He stayed on his knees over me for another beat. Then he said, quiet: “Clean yourself up for me, baby. With your hands. With your mouth. Take what I gave you.”

“…Yes, Daddy.”

I brought my fingers up to my own chest. Scooped a little. Put it in my mouth. Swallowed. Did it again, from the horse-skull over my heart, where my grandmother lived. Got it on my fingers and put it in my mouth and swallowed.

Wade watched me. Did not say anything for thirty seconds. Watched me clean my own chest slow, swipe by swipe, spot by spot, and each time I swallowed he made a low sound in the back of his throat that was not a word.

He said, eventually: “All of it, baby. You earned it. Take it.”

I cleaned all of it. Finished with the spot over my heart.

Wade, low, wrecked: “Good boy. My good boy. Finn, baby. Good boy.”

He reached for a washcloth I had not seen him bring up. He wet it from the pitcher on the dresser. He cleaned me.

Slow. Careful. Thorough. Face first — he wiped the tear tracks, the wet at the corners of my mouth, the sweat from my temple. Then my hands. Then my chest. Then between my thighs, where I was still a mess, and he cleaned me there the slowest, the most careful, like a man cleaning a new colt after a foaling.

He got a second cloth. Cleaned himself. Pulled the quilt up. Turned off the standing lamp. Climbed into the bed with me. He pulled me against his chest — the silver chest hair, the chain warm against my cheek — and he held me.

I started shaking. Not the scene-shake. The after-shake. The crash. Subdrop. And Wade — who had been through this with Jude and with Riley and with himself — knew what it was. He did not panic.

He said, quiet: “I’ve got you, baby. I’ve got you. You’re safe. You’re in my bed. I’ve got you.”

I said, broken, “Daddy—”

Wade: “Yeah, baby. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. You’re here. You’re in my bed. You belong here. I’ve got you.”

He stroked my hair. My back. The horse-skull over my heart with the palm of his big warm hand.

After a minute he started humming. Quiet. Under his breath. A slow tune in a minor key, old-sounding — I did not know it yet — and he hummed it through once, and then again, and I realized halfway through the second pass that he was humming a song he was not fully sure he knew, and that he was humming it anyway, and he was humming it to me.

I settled against him. The shaking slowed. The crying slowed. My breathing evened.

I was exhausted. I was the calmest I had ever been in my life, and the two things were sitting in me at the same time and not fighting.

I said, very small: “Wade.”

“Yeah.”

“Can I sleep here.”

Wade: “Baby. You are sleeping here. Tonight and every night you want it. I am not letting you out of this bed until Jude comes up in the morning and tells us to come to breakfast.”

“Okay, Daddy.”

Wade, rough: “Okay, baby.”

I fell asleep on Wade’s chest. Probably midnight. My face in his sternum, the chain against my cheek, his heart beating steady under my ear. I was half-conscious enough to feel him stay awake a long time, his hand in my hair, stroking slow. I felt him, once, press his mouth to the top of my head and breathe out slow.

He said, quiet, to nobody — he thought I was asleep; I was, mostly — “Thank you, Kate.”

I did not move.

He said, quieter: “I’m going to be all right.”

I slept.

I woke up at five a.m. to the sound of Wade’s boots going down the stairs. Wade was not in bed. On the pillow beside me was a note. Small, square. Pencil on a page from his ledger pad. It said, in Wade’s tight cramped rancher handwriting:

Baby — stay as long as you want. Coffee on. Kitchen. Wear one of my flannels off the hook in the hall, it’s cold. Don’t wake the others. You and I are going to make Jude’s tea together. — W.

I took a flannel off the hook in the hall — one of his, soft, worn, gray — and pulled it on over my bare chest and walked down the stairs in my bare feet.

Wade was at the stove. He did not turn. He said, without looking: “Morning, baby.”

“Morning, Wade.”

He turned. He looked at me in his flannel, freckles at my collar, his shirt too big on my shoulders, my hair a mess. He said, quiet: “Come here.”

I came. He wrapped an arm around my back and kissed the top of my head. He said, quiet: “Good morning, good boy.”

I smiled into his chest. I said, quiet back: “Good morning, Daddy.”

The kettle clicked. He started Jude’s tea. I stood in his kitchen in his flannel in the gray dawn with my body sore and my throat rough and the word Daddy finally earned and mine, and I thought: I am going to live here.

Wade put Jude’s mug on the counter. Then he put a second mug down. He looked at me. He said, quiet: “Yours goes here. From now on.”

I said: “Yes, Daddy.”

He smiled. He poured me coffee. And — just in time — we heard Jude’s boots on the stairs.

Thank you for reading. — Jace Wilder

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