Gregory was directed to sit on his knees on the ground by Rachel's feet. On her lap, she arranged her containers of takeout, filling the room with the sugary smell of pancakes and syrup, and the savoury smell of bacon and sausage patties. Her choice of dinner was a little heavy for Gregory's preference, but it had been some hours since he'd eaten, and he could sense himself salivating.
On the TV, Rachel had hit play on her dating show, and happily started on her dinner.
It needed saying again: this was not entirely how Gregory had seen the evening going, kneeling passively at his girlfriend's feet while she ate a dinner for one and watched TV, seemingly ignoring him. He cock was still straining against the cock cage he was locked into -- and he hadn't counted on being in that situation either. Even if his hands weren't trapped in these leathery puppyplay mittens, the dangling lock behind his balls only had one way out of it, and that was through the key that Rachel was wearing.
Rule-making had been haphazard. Gregory knew that Rachel did not want him to talk -- certainly not like a person, with words, but seemed to delight in him making humiliating dog sounds. She'd broadly told him she wanted him to behave like a good doggie or she might not let him out of his cock cage -- and he took that to mean that her emphasis was on
doggie
more than
good
. No talking, no standing on two feet. Stay in character.
What that meant for right now, Gregory didn't know, torn between watching the TV show along with her as he might have done normally, or watching her for clues. He found himself doing the latter, and absently tracking the movement of her fork and knife as she worked through her dinner.
"Hungry?" Rachel asked, and Gregory snapped his focus up to her face, startled to see her focus set on him and not the TV. "You want some?"
He stomach immediately rumbled.
Setting aside her fork, Rachel delicately picked up a piece of sausage between her fingers, holding it up. "Here you go," she said, raising it up. "Up, come get it."
Gregory looked at the food she was holding, several inches over his head from where he had knelt and sat on his heels. Uncertain, he unfolded himself up, still on his knees but stretched, tipping his head back. Rachel teased the piece of food just out of reach, giggling.
"That's it," she said, voice pitched high. "Beg. Tongue out, paws up. Come on, you know what begging is."
Reluctantly, Gregory drew his hands up to fold them up near his chest like begging paws, opening his mouth and sticking his tongue out. For good measure, he whined needily, and then tried not to flinch as he felt Rachel drop the piece of sausage into his mouth, barely saving himself from choking.
"Good boy," she enthused, her hand ruffling his hair. "Now, sit."
Swallowing his reward, Gregory settled back down again. Over the course of her meal, Rachel fed Gregory bits of food -- a scrap of bacon, a small piece of pancake, nothing substantial. When she felt his teeth brush her fingertips, she drew her hand back with an
ah!
sound, making him beg again for these scraps to show his obedience.
And each time, just a little pulse of arousal clenched around the base of his cock. It was a low-grade feeling, intensity waxing and waning, but always re-sparking at each little measure of control she exerted. Each time he knelt up, and felt his harnesses constrict over his body, or the nametag dangle at his collar. The slender harness around his head and face, constricting and pulling at the motions of chewing.
He wondered what was going through her head. To be fair, Gregory often wondered this -- they weren't winning any prizes for ideal communication even when one of them had been forbidden from speaking human language. In lieu of being able to read her mind, he swept a look over her. Her nightdress was opaque enough that he couldn't see through it, but he could see the subtle outlines of her nipples pressing against the thin fabric. Her cheeks were still warm, and he could see that she was keeping her thighs closed tightly together -- maybe because she was managing food on her lap, or because she was conscious of how he was sitting where he could get an easy view of her up her skirt, but maybe also it was because she was also feeling this and was trying not to show it.
This tension, this constant simmer of interest. Just the thought of her possibly slick beneath her lace and between her pressed thighs made his cock twitch helplessly in its cage.
"Here you go," she said, finally, offering him her empty fork. At first, Gregory was puzzled, until he realised what she was asking him to do -- clean off the thin sheen of syrup collected there. He leaned in, keeping his eyes locked on hers as he darted his tongue out to press the flat of it against the tongs, licking up the sticky residue. He felt a small curl of satisfaction as she bit her lip, turning the fork around so he could get at the other side.
Maybe now she'd be done fooling around, Gregory thought -- but his hopes were quickly dashed as she lay the plastic containers on the ground at her feet. Syrup, grease, and a few errant pieces of uneaten food lay at the bottom.
He glanced down at it, then back up at her, letting uncertainty manifest on his face. Her own soft expression hardened just a little, tipping her head as she made hard eye contact.
"Go on," she said, voice dipping back down out of that cutesy high register. "Clean mommy's plate."
The smallest sound left his mouth, the beginning of a word, of a protest -- but it halted at the end of his tongue when Rachel fingered the little key she was wearing in silent, implicit warning. If he was asked the question, Gregory knew he'd express doubt that she'd really keep his cock locked up against his wishes -- but it was as though his body didn't believe that. As the tip of her nail toyed with the key, he felt a wash of hot, physical longing.