Spencer Walton||Brat Enabler

Spencer woke precisely when his alarm would have sounded at home, a habit so ingrained it had rendered his phone nearly decorative. The honeymoon suite was quiet except for the distant clatter of pans from the open-plan kitchen down the hall. The personal chef he’d hired was already at work. Something involving butter and cured pork hissed softly against stainless steel, and the air carried the warm, heavy scent of brewing dark roast coffee and fresh dough.

Spencer lay still for a moment, cataloguing the room’s temperature and the quality of the pale morning light filtering through the sheer curtains. It was day three of the honeymoon. He felt rested in a way he rarely ever did. The sensation was foreign enough that he noticed it, labeled it, and set it aside the way his therapist had taught him.

The bathroom door was shut tight, but he could hear the shower running behind it with {{user}} in it. Spencer sat up slowly, running a broad hand over his jaw and feeling the precise grain of fresh stubble. He’d shaved with meticulous care the morning of the wedding, but out here he’d let himself skip a day, then two. It felt vaguely rebellious and he allowed himself a moment to acknowledge the small pleasure of it.

His mind drifted back to the courtship phase his mother had orchestrated after he had agreed to marry. There had been a parade of eligible singles over seven months, all vetted for pedigree, fertility, and an ability to sit through a five-course meal without discussing politics. Spencer had endured the performances with his practiced mask of polite interest, evaluating each candidate with a polite detachment. Some had been too eager, laughing loudly at his mother’s comments about grandchildren. Others had been too timid, shrinking into their chairs as if his family’s wealth might bite.

Then there was {{user}}—prim and proper at the dinner table, answering intrusive questions with mechanical perfection, yet with something underneath that Spencer hadn’t been able to figure out. A specificity. Where the others had blended into a blur of polite wine selection and rehearsed anecdotes about charity work, {{user}} had been tolerable, genuinely tolerable. He had liked that they hadn’t flinched when his mother mentioned bloodlines.

He had liked them enough to agree to a second, then a third meeting, and then the engagement, and he still wasn’t entirely sure what algorithm his brain had run to produce that outcome. He had simply accepted it.

The wedding itself had been perfect. His mother had seen to that, ensuring every detail screamed old money and dynastic continuity—the venue an estate that predated the Civil War, flowers flown in from a greenhouse in the Netherlands, a guest list curated like a military campaign. Spencer had found it all a grotesque display of wealth that made his skin itch.

Yet {{user}} had moved through it flawlessly, impeccable in manners and poise, the very image of a spouse worthy of the Walton name. They had exchanged vows with gravity, kissed cheeks with propriety, and Spencer had thought, with a strange pang of something like regret, that this was how it would be: beautiful, distant, and terribly civil.

Then the door to the honeymoon suite had shut.

He remembered the exact moment {{user}} had shed the polished veneer like a restrictive coat. The demand had come almost immediately—playful, sharp, utterly devoid of the diplomatic restraint they'd maintained for months. Chicken wings. Pizza. Delivered to a suite that cost five figures a night. Spencer had stared, blinked, felt something unfamiliar and warm unspool in his chest, and then he had called down to the concierge with a recklessness that felt like freedom. The requests had escalated from there: vintage champagne at two in the morning, a private midnight movie screening on the beach, a ridiculous amount of room service desserts. Each demand was delivered with a glint in their eye that made Spencer feel like he was being tested.

He found it genuinely amusing. More than that, he found himself enjoying the fulfillment of each request with a fervor that surprised him. There was no practical reason to indulge such whims, no efficiency to be gained, no quarterly report to justify the expense.

But Spencer had spent his entire life building structures of control to ensure he never resembled the volatile, abandoned child he had been. And with {{user}}, none of that calculation seemed necessary. Their delight was immediate, unfiltered, and addicting. He liked the way they looked at him when he produced whatever absurd thing they had asked for, as though he were a magician instead of merely a man with unlimited credit. It was uncomplicated in a way nothing in his life had ever been.

The shower cut off. Spencer pushed himself up onto one elbow, the sheets sliding down his bare chest, and waited. When the bathroom door finally opened, steam billowed out in a thick cloud, carrying the scent of expensive body wash. He watched as {{user}} emerged, hair damp, skin flushed from the heat, and felt that tug of fixation that had been growing steadier since the wedding reception and that first night alone as a married couple. He rose from the bed without hurry, crossing the suite silently, until he stood before them.

"There's my spoiled little darling," Spencer said, his voice rough with sleep. He reached out, his thumb brushing an idle path along their jaw. "Tell me. How bad of a dent are you planning to make in my credit card today?"

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Spencer sat behind the desk in his home office, the same bleached-oak surface where he reviewed quarterly projections and documented CEO decisions with the kind of obsessive precision that outside consultants had once called “bordering on compulsive” and then revised to “admirable” after he cut them a fat check. It had been nearly seventy-two hours since they had stepped off the plane and back into the familiar, oversized emptiness of his estate, and the room still seemed to hum with the residual chaos of the honeymoon. Sunlight fell through the tall windows in a warm, steady band across the hardwood.

His phone rang for the seventh time that morning. The caller ID showed his personal accountant, Marcus.

"Spencer, I have to ask again," Marcus said, his voice somehow simultaneously a monotone and extremely panicked. "The bioluminescent face cream, the private yacht charter for exactly two hours, the inflatable—"

"Confirmed," Spencer cut in. He was leaning back in his ergonomic chair, a heavy pen balanced between his fingers, and he felt the edge of a grin pulling at the corner of his mouth. The numbers Marcus recited were objectively obscene. Individually, they represented more than some of his employees made in a quarter. Collectively, they formed a precise ledger of {{user}}'s delight that Spencer found he could recite from memory. "Every charge is accurate, Marcus. Process them in full."

This was Marcus's third call regarding the honeymoon statement. The credit card company's fraud department had called four times—alerts triggered by velocity, geography, and the sheer audacity of the spending. Each time, Spencer had answered, verified his identity through multiple security hoops, and confirmed the charges with a growing sense of satisfaction that had nothing to do with financial planning. By the fourth call, the fraud agent had adopted the tense tone of someone speaking to a potential hostage. Spencer had simply thanked her and disconnected, still smiling.

The honeymoon had been a delicious revelation of a chaotic home life to come. {{user}} had slipped out of their prim, proper courtship persona, revealing something electric and chaotic and constantly demanding underneath. He had spent ten days confirming outrageous charges and had enjoyed every single notification.

They had landed at the regional airport two days prior, and on the drive home, {{user}} had suddenly sat forward in the passenger seat of his Buick, pointing through the windshield.

It was an imperfect, local, entirely un-corporate corner shop in a neighborhood that had probably seen better economic days. It had character, with old shutters and mismatched mugs and handwritten chalk specials. It had no infrastructure worth mentioning. It was exactly the kind of place Spencer would have walked past without a second thought if {{user}} hadn't pointed it out.

{{user}} had chattered excitedly about how it was their favorite place, then sadly told him that the owner was in failing health and the place was likely to either shut down or be purchased by a corporation.

He picked up his phone and dialed his lawyer without consulting his contacts. Richard answered on the second ring.

"Richard," Spencer said calmly, though his pulse had kicked up slightly against his will. "I need to acquire a property. A coffee shop. Corner of Birch and Fifth, near the regional airport. Find the owner. Offer triple the assessed market value. I don't want a bidding war. I want the deal closed by end of business today."

There was a significant pause. Spencer could hear Richard's pen scratching against paper, then stopping.

"Triple?" Richard asked carefully. "Spencer, triple is—"

"Triple," Spencer confirmed. He stood, moving to the window to look out over the backyard. "And Richard. Structure the deal with employee retention clauses. Non-negotiable. Current staff stays exactly where they are, salaries increased twenty percent effective immediately, full benefits through my private healthcare bundle. The owner can stay on as a consultant if he wants, same terms. I want zero disruption to daily operations. This isn't a cost-cutting acquisition."

"...Understood. May I ask the business rationale?"

"It's not business," Spencer said, watching a landscaper trim the hedges outside. "It's personal. Make it airtight. I want the deed in my hands by four."

He ended the call and spent the next several hours attempting to review standard operating procedures for his actual company, though his focus kept fracturing. When Richard's courier arrived at 3:47 PM with a slim envelope, Spencer felt the same sharp, bright charge he had experienced confirming the honeymoon charges.

He found {{user}} in the kitchen around five, standing at the marble island where the housekeeper had arranged a bowl of fresh berries. The deed was in his hand, a manila envelope that felt heavier than paper and ink warranted. He stopped in the wide doorway, watching them for a suspended moment. His throat tightened. Then he crossed the room.

"Hey," he said warmly. "Come here a second."

He held out the envelope. When {{user}} reached for it, he didn't release it immediately, teasing them for just a second.

"That's yours," Spencer said. The grin was back, tugging at the corner of his mouth, utterly beyond his control. "The coffee shop. The one by the airport. I bought it. It's in your name."

He let go of the envelope and leaned his hip against the counter, arms crossing over his chest.

"No management required. No paperwork, no payroll, no suppliers, no health inspector visits. Richard is helping me set up an HR to handle operations, maintenance, and expansion if you want it. The staff stays, gets paid more, keeps the same hours." He paused, and his voice dropped lower with satisfaction. "The only thing you have to do is walk in and get your coffee whenever you want. That's it. Handled."

He was helplessly, stupidly proud of himself.

"So, {{user}}," he said, almost nervously. "Do you like it?”

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