Chapter 2
It was quite late, and the studio was dark and empty.
“You’re sure about this?” Hugh asked.
“Fool-proof,” Charles replied.
Hugh froze as he heard the creak of a floorboard. “Seems like we’re the fools. Someone else is here. Under New York law, we could be—“
But Charles was unflappable. “Not someone else, two someones. I hope you don’t mind that I’ve invited Jane and Marjorie,” Charles said, waving them over.
“H’lo boys,” Jane said, smiling. “Should be quite a night.”
“But, I don’t understand, I thought that you and Marjorie—“
“Oh, you thought right,” Marjorie said. “But if anyone else shows up, you’re the one paired with Jane, understand? And I'm the one with Charles.”
“So, what’s your pleasure, Hugh? Fancy being taken on the high seas?” Charles asked him, a devilish look in his eye.
“If you’re doing that,” Marjorie said, “then Jane and I can take turns walking the plank.”
“We aren’t going to.... not, all of us, in the same room at once, are we?” Hugh asked nervously.
“It’s a full-sized set of a pirate ship— it’s a lot bigger than a regular room,” Jane said, giving him a reassuring hug. “And don’t worry, Hugh, we won’t be staring at your dangling bits.”
“I can tell you at least one part that won’t be dangling for very long,” Charles smirked.
Jane laughed. “No, I suppose not. You know you did cause us a great deal of agonized nights, Hugh. Charles thought for certain you were interested in him, but that cock of yours— there were a few scenes between the two of us where you were so hard that we began to doubt our intuition.”
Hugh felt his mouth go dry. “I—I— why were you looking there anyway, Jane?”
“When it’s so erect, that even I noticed it—“
“Yes,” Charles said, “it made me concerned that perhaps you weren’t flirting with me after all. Not that a man can’t like both, but you’d never given me a cockstand like that.”
“That’s because I always had to fight my arousal when I was filming scenes with you.”
“Well, we did figure it out,” Jane said. “It was Marjorie who realized that you always got excited during the scenes where I was tied up.”
Hugh felt his face burning up. “Some friends you are to have all these discussions about me behind my back.”
“It’s okay, Hugh. Plenty of people like a bit of rope play,” Marjorie said.
“With another man?”
“Well, not that part for us,” Jane said, “but I think Charles is more than willing to oblige you.”
He turned to Charles, not certain what to say. Charles however knew exactly what to do, putting one arm around his waist, the other around his shoulders.
“I’m not certain oblige is the right word,” Charles said thickly, his lips pressing against Hugh’s throat, but I am going to give you a night that you’ll remember for the rest of your life.”
“A night that we will always remember—“
Charles chuckled. “Sometimes it takes a villain to make a hero’s wicked dreams come true.”
“And the villain?”
“Don’t you know he only kidnaps Jane for a chance to fight the hero? Don’t you know all the decadently villainous things that he dreams of doing to the hero?”
“On that note, boys, I think it’s time we gave you some alone time,” Jane said, giving them both a quick buss on the cheek. “Grab those coiled up chains, Marjorie, I think we’ll need them.”