13. Jace

He pulled the bedding back as Zane picked her up, carried her to the head of the bed and settled her onto the mattress. Both of them took time to adjust the pillows and tuck the blankets around her.

After her orgasm, Ruby had fallen asleep almost instantly, which had been what they were hoping would happen. Jace knew Zane was most likely already working out a sleep schedule for her in his head.

“I’m going to grab a stuffie and a baby monitor from the nursery,” Jace told him.

Zane nodded and sat on the edge of the bed stroking her hair as he stared down at her.

The two men had been with a lot of women over the years and Jace was pretty sure neither of them had ever felt something for a woman like they felt for Ruby.

Even though neither of the men had pulled their dicks out during their play session with her, Jace sensed that the experience was one of the hottest that any of them had ever experienced. It definitely was for him.

Walking into the nursery he and Zane had designed, he smiled to himself. He could hardly wait to bring Ruby in there and see what she liked to play with. He wondered how young her Little was. They’d prepared the nursery for any age because both men enjoyed it all. Whatever age the Little felt most comfortable in was where they wanted her to be. Based on what he’d seen so far with Ruby, he guessed she was probably around two or three when she was in that headspace.

Grabbing a stuffed kangaroo from the twin bed, he carried it toward the door and then stopped near one of the dressers that held different supplies. He remembered seeing a pacifier attached to her dress the night she’d been at the club. Opening the top drawer, he grabbed a pink pacifier that was still in the package and then picked up the baby monitor receiver from the top of the dresser before leaving the room.

When he went back to the bedroom, Zane was still staring down at her, stroking her hair. Even though Zane was the more logical one of the two men, he cared deeply for others, and Jace wondered if Zane was feeling a bit more for her than he’d expected to.

“Here’s a stuffie. I brought her a pacifier, too.”

Jace sat on the other side of the bed and tucked the kangaroo into her arms. Ruby squeezed it to her chest and then rubbed her cheek on the fur before letting out a contented sigh. Unwrapping the pacifier, he quickly took it to the bathroom and rinsed it off. When he returned to her side, he pressed the device up to her lips and smiled when she instantly accepted it into her mouth and began to suckle.

Glancing across the bed at Zane, he wondered what his friend was thinking because the only thing Jace could seem to think about was wanting to keep her forever. He had a feeling there were many layers to Ruby that would take some time to peel away, but they were both patient men and she was too damn precious to let go.

“Why don’t we let her sleep and go into our office? I have the baby monitor turned on,” Jace whispered.

Zane looked at him with a torn expression. “What if she wakes up and gets scared? Or tries to leave? Or has sub-drop?”

“The baby monitor has a camera so we’ll be able to see if she’s awake even if she isn’t making any noise,” Jace reassured him.

Zane nodded and stood, following him out of the bedroom. The club didn’t open for several hours so she would have plenty of time to nap before anyone else showed up. Jace sat down at his desk and leaned back in the chair. His cock was finally starting to soften, but he had a feeling he would need to take a shower in the near future to release his pent up arousal.

Setting the baby monitor on his desk so he could see the screen, Jace looked over at his friend, trying to read what was on his mind. Unfortunately, Zane was a hard man to read most of the time.

“She needs us,” Zane muttered.

Nodding his head, Jace let out a sigh of relief that they both seemed to be on the same page.

“We know nothing about her,” Zane added.

“So, we take the time to get to know each other. Ease her into having two Daddies while we learn about her. There’s something in her eyes. Something sad and lonely. Maybe even a little lost.”

“I noticed that, too. But you know I’m not someone who can be half in and half out. Slow isn’t exactly my style,” Zane replied.

Yeah. There was nothing subtle about Zane.

“You’ll have to figure out how to move slow. I’m not saying we will be half in, but we can’t just move her in with us and run her life from the get-go. We have no idea what her needs or wants are yet.”

His friend grunted. “What she needs is a red butt and a list of rules.”

Yeah. So much for slow.

After two hours of watching her sleep on the baby monitor, Jace was getting worried. They didn’t want to wake her up because of how wiped out she’d seemed, but he wasn’t sure it was good that she was sleeping for so long. Maybe they should have a doctor check her out.

Zane was just as anxious. After the first hour, he had started pacing the office, and then started going to the bedroom every ten minutes to make sure she was still breathing. The poor woman didn’t stand a chance with them.

“We need to wake her up. Otherwise, she’ll never go down for bed tonight,” Zane said.

Jace waggled his eyebrows. “We’ll just have to tire her out again.”

He was awarded a smile from Zane, but his expression quickly changed back to concerned and before he knew it, they were both heading toward the bedroom to wake her up.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, Jace stared down at her for a long moment, feeling a warmth inside of him that he couldn’t ever remember feeling. She still had the kangaroo clutched to her chest and the pacifier he’d given her was still in her mouth. Her face was relaxed, and she looked more peaceful than he’d ever seen her.

Reaching out, he stroked her arm while Zane sat on the other side of the bed and stroked her hair.

“Baby girl, it’s time to wake up,” he said softly.

Her eyes fluttered open and closed for several seconds before she looked up at him and then back at Zane and smiled. Reaching up, she pulled the pacifier from her mouth and studied it before setting it beside her on the mattress.

“I didn’t know if you wanted it or not, but I remembered seeing one attached to you the other night,” Jace explained.

Ruby looked down to the stuffie she was holding and examined it and then muttered something under her breath.

“What was that?” Zane asked.

“Hop. Her name is Hop,” she said in a small voice.

He couldn’t help but grin. She was in Little Space. He wondered if she usually woke up in that headspace or if it was because they were there coddling her.

“Hop is a good name for a kangaroo. Especially since they go hop, hop, hop,” Jace said, tapping his finger on her nose with each hop.

She giggled and ducked her head away from his finger, hiding from him behind her stuffie.

“Uh oh, where’d Ruby go? Zaddy, where’s Ruby?” Jace asked.

Zane scowled at him, but his question made Ruby giggle even more, so the scowl quickly turned into a smile.

“I don’t know. I thought I saw her earlier under the covers, but I don’t know where she went,” Zane said.

“Hmmm, what are we going to do if we can’t find her?” Jace asked.

“I guess we’ll cry a lot,” Zane replied, making a crying noise.

Ruby lowered the kangaroo and pushed the blanket away from her.

“I’m right here, silly gooses!” she said loudly.

“There she is! Tickle fest!” Jace announced.

Both men started tickling her under the covers, making her squirm and squeal with delight.

“Stop! Mercy! I’s gonna pee!”