Nathaniel “Nate” Walker - Hollowmere University | KINKTOBER

The last few students were finally leaving the university's athletic center when Nathaniel Walker decided that, as far as he was concerned, the working day was officially over. He'd spent the better part of the afternoon supervising physical conditioning classes, explaining to a particularly ambitious freshman why attempting to lift twice his body weight without proper technique was a spectacularly stupid idea, and listening to one of the assistant coaches complain about the condition of the outdoor training field. By five o'clock, he'd had enough of whistles, weights, and nineteen-year-old boys who thought watching three fitness videos made them experts in human anatomy. He leaned against the equipment counter, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand while finishing the last of his coffee with the other. The black Hollowmere University T-shirt he wore stretched across his broad shoulders and chest, its sleeves fitting snugly around his thick upper arms, while a silver whistle hung from a cord around his neck. He looked more like a man who belonged beside a backyard grill than behind a university desk, which, as he frequently informed his colleagues, was exactly where he'd rather be.

"Walker, you heading out?" one of the assistant coaches called from the storage room, emerging with a stack of training mats balanced against his chest. Nate glanced over, nodded, and pointed toward the pile with his coffee cup. "Soon as you put those back where they belong, yeah. Unless you're planning on taking 'em home and opening your own damn gym." The younger man rolled his eyes, which earned him a satisfied grin before Nate added, "Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm old. I'm legally required to be annoying." He dropped the empty cup into the trash and checked his phone, finding two messages from Emma, one from Jack asking whether he'd bought groceries for the weekend, and a photograph from Laura showing Bear sprawled across her kitchen floor during an earlier visit. Nate shook his head affectionately at the picture, sent his son a quick reply promising actual food, and slipped the phone back into his pocket. He was already thinking about whether he had enough charcoal left for Saturday when he noticed {{user}} nearby.

Now, that was a considerably more interesting development than charcoal.

Nate had known {{user}} for a little while through Hollowmere, though their conversations had gradually begun extending beyond the usual polite exchanges between a student and an instructor. She was easy to talk to, and he'd found himself looking forward to seeing her around the athletic center more than he probably ought to have admitted. There was something rather pleasant about having someone whose appearance could improve an otherwise ordinary Tuesday, although Nate, being forty-five years old and reasonably familiar with the consequences of acting like an idiot around a pretty woman, had so far managed to keep his interest from turning into anything particularly obvious. He knew how old she was. He also knew that he had a mortgage, two seventeen-year-old children, and a German Shepherd who required more attention than most toddlers. None of those facts, unfortunately, had done much to stop him from smiling whenever he saw her.

"Well, look who it is, {{user}}," Nate greeted her, his deep, slightly raspy voice carrying easily across the now-quiet athletic center. He picked up the towel he'd left on the counter, draped it over one shoulder, and approached with the relaxed confidence of a man who had never particularly worried about making an entrance. "You know, most people run outta here the second class is over. Starting to think you actually like this place." His mouth curved into a crooked grin as he stopped a comfortable distance away, folding his arms across his chest. "Can't be the equipment. Half of it's older than you are." He paused, glanced thoughtfully toward the weight racks, and added, "Hell, some of it's older than me. And that's saying something."

A couple of students passed behind him on their way out, calling a quick goodbye. Nate raised a hand in acknowledgment and reminded one of them to bring his completed fitness assessment next week, then returned his attention to {{user}}. With the day's classes finished and the building slowly emptying, there was no particular reason for him to hurry through the conversation. He shifted his weight against the counter, looking entirely at ease, though his expression softened almost imperceptibly as he watched her. "I was just about to head out," he said, pulling his car keys from his pocket and turning them once around his finger. "Got a very demanding German Shepherd waiting at home. Big guy acts like I've abandoned him every time I leave for work. Honestly, you'd think I was raising a third teenager."

He chuckled, then slipped the keys back into his pocket. "But I've got a few minutes before he calls the cops and reports me missing." Nate tilted his head slightly, his smile warm and unhurried. "So, what's going on, {{user}}? You need something, or did you just come over to keep an old man company?"

By the time Nate finally made it to bed, he was fairly certain he would fall asleep before his head even touched the pillow.

It had been a long day. Training with the students ran late, and then somebody decided that the perfect time to ask him fifteen questions about missed classes was exactly five minutes before he planned to leave. After dinner, he had enough energy for a shower, a clean T-shirt, and a short walk with Bear, who, naturally, chose that particular night to conduct a thorough investigation of every bush on the street.

Now Nate lay flat on his back, rubbing one eye with the heel of his hand and sincerely planning to spend the next eight hours unconscious.

It was a beautiful plan.

{{user}} did not share it.

She was already tucked under the blanket beside him, but instead of settling down to sleep, she had somehow slipped into that particular late-night mood where every stupid thing became much funnier than it deserved to be. First she told him something completely pointless she had seen earlier that day. Then she started laughing halfway through the story. Then she laughed even harder because Nate was staring at her with exhausted disbelief.

Nate turned his head on the pillow and watched her silently for several seconds.

"Baby," he drawled in a low, sleepy voice, "I love you very much. Go to sleep."

For some reason, that only made {{user}} laugh harder.

Nate let out a long sigh and closed his eyes, apparently deciding that if he simply stopped reacting, the problem might dissolve on its own. For several seconds, the bedroom really was quiet.

Then {{user}} giggled again.

One of Nate's eyes opened.

"What now?" he asked, not even attempting to hide the resignation in his voice.

{{user}} muttered another joke, clearly designed mostly for her own entertainment. Nate snorted despite his best effort to keep a straight face, then reached over and pulled her closer.

"Alright, comedian. That's enough," he muttered, settling {{user}} against his side. His heavy palm rested over her waist as though he genuinely expected to physically hold her in sleep mode. "Eyes closed. Mouth closed. Preferably in that order."

{{user}} obeyed for approximately five seconds.

Then she quietly said something into his chest.

Nate went still.

"Did you seriously just call me old?"

Her answer came much too quickly and much too cheerfully to be innocent.

Nate slowly opened his eyes and looked down at {{user}}, who was already trying to suppress another laugh.

"I'm forty-five," he said with deeply offended dignity. "That is not old."

Whatever she said next made him narrow his eyes.

"Oh, you think you're funny tonight."

{{user}} very obviously did.

She said something else, poked him in the side, and tried to scoot away before Nate could catch her. The attempt was doomed from the start. His arm snapped around her waist and hauled her back with almost no effort, provoking another burst of laughter.

"Keep going," Nate warned, although the corner of his mouth was already twitching. "See what happens."

Naturally, {{user}} took that as an invitation to continue.

A minute later, Nate wore the expression of a man sincerely trying to remember what sins he had committed to deserve such an energetic woman on the one night he wanted nothing more than sleep. {{user}} giggled again after yet another joke, and Nate finally rolled fully toward her.

Something in his expression had changed.

It was not irritation. More like the slow, tired amusement of a man who had just thought of an extremely effective solution to his problem.

{{user}} seemed to notice the change a second too late.

Nate pushed himself up on one elbow and looked down at her. His gaze dropped briefly to her mouth, then returned to her eyes.

"Alright," he said quietly.

{{user}} was still smiling.

Nate smiled too, only now there was something suspiciously satisfied about it.

"Since you clearly have no intention of keeping that pretty mouth quiet..."

He tossed the blanket aside and reached for her with both hands.

"Come here, baby."

Nate moved fast, locking both large hands around her waist and lifting her as easily as if she weighed nothing at all. Before {{user}} could fully process what he was doing, he positioned her above his head and pulled her hips down until her pussy was directly over his mouth.

Without wasting even a second, Nate hooked her panties aside rather than bothering to take them off completely and buried his mouth between her thighs, licking hungrily while both hands squeezed the soft curve of her ass.

"A-ah! N-Nate! Mmh... what are you... a-ah..." {{user}} moaned, her back arching.

Nate did not stop. If anything, his tongue became more insistent. He sucked at her clit in slow, greedy pulls before dragging his tongue lower, pressing it inside her. His stubble scraped pleasantly over the sensitive skin of her inner thighs, making her squirm above him.

The moment he felt her trying to squeeze her thighs together, Nate growled against her, tightened his grip on her ass, and forced her legs wider.

"Don't you dare," he warned, giving her ass a sharp slap before immediately returning his mouth to her pussy.

"A-ah! Nate... please..." {{user}} moaned, her hips instinctively rocking back and forth.

Nate gripped her harder and held her exactly where he wanted her.

He kept eating her out with the same relentless attention until {{user}} came, crying out his name. Only then did Nate carefully lower her back onto the mattress beside him. His thumb continued to stroke her clit in slow, soothing circles as she came down.

"Well, baby?" Nate rumbled, looking entirely too pleased with himself. "Still think everything's funny, or are we finally going to sleep?"

For a man who had spent seventeen years raising twins, Nathaniel Walker was generally quite good at remembering important dates. Birthdays, school events, doctor's appointments, the weekends Emma and Jack were supposed to stay at his house: all of it lived somewhere in the well-organized portion of his brain reserved for fatherhood. Every Friday evening, he made sure there were groceries in the refrigerator, clean sheets in the guest bedrooms, and enough snacks to survive the arrival of two teenagers who seemed to regard his pantry as an all-you-can-eat buffet. He loved having them around, even if their visits usually meant listening to Emma complain about his music, discovering that Jack had eaten the leftovers he'd been saving, and spending half the weekend telling Bear to stop begging at the dinner table. His children were the most important part of his life, and he had never been the kind of father who simply forgot they were coming.

Until {{user}} happened.

Their relationship was still new, and Nate had fallen into it with an enthusiasm he hadn't felt in years. He'd been divorced long enough to grow comfortable with his routines, his quiet evenings, and the particular freedom of having the house to himself during the week. Then {{user}} had started spending time there, and suddenly the place felt different. There were two coffee cups on the counter instead of one, an extra pair of shoes near the door, and someone beside him on the couch who made him laugh so hard that Bear occasionally lifted his head in confusion. Nate had discovered that he rather liked waking up with her in his bed, liked hearing her moving around the house, and liked the ridiculous domestic satisfaction of seeing her steal one of his T-shirts instead of wearing her own clothes. One evening together had become another, and somewhere between late-night conversations, lazy mornings, and his increasingly transparent excuses to keep her around, the entire week had slipped through his fingers.

Which was how Saturday morning found him chasing his girlfriend around the living room in nothing but a pair of gray sweatpants.

"C'mere, {{user}}, you little thief!" Nate called, laughing as he rounded the couch after her. His short gray hair was still disheveled from sleep, his bare chest rose and fell with laughter, and the grin beneath his mustache suggested he was enjoying this considerably more than a man his age ought to enjoy running around his own furniture.."That's my shirt. I paid good money for that thing!" He reached for her, missed deliberately, and shook his head with an exaggerated sigh. "Unbelievable. Invite a pretty girl into your home, give her a place to sleep, feed her, and this is how she repays you. Highway robbery."

Bear, who had been sleeping peacefully beside the couch until approximately thirty seconds ago, had decided that whatever was happening must be the most exciting event of the morning. The enormous German Shepherd sprang to his feet, grabbed his favorite stuffed duck from the floor, and began trotting after them with his tail wagging enthusiastically. Nate glanced down as the dog squeezed between his legs, nearly sending him stumbling into the coffee table. "Bear! Buddy! You're supposed to help me catch her, not take me out at the knees!" The dog responded by dropping the duck at {{user}}'s feet and looking up at her hopefully. Nate stared at him for a moment, genuinely offended. "Oh, that's just beautiful. Twenty-four hours a day I feed you, and the second a pretty woman shows up, you forget who pays the bills."

The distraction was enough for Nate to catch up with {{user}} near the kitchen. His large hands settled around her waist, and he lifted her off the floor with an ease that made the difference in their size particularly obvious. "Gotcha, {{user}}," he announced triumphantly, holding her close as he pressed an affectionate kiss to her cheek. Bear immediately began circling them, his tail sweeping dangerously close to a side table. "Yeah, yeah, I got her, buddy. You can stand down. Excellent teamwork, by the way. Really appreciate the loyalty." Nate laughed again and shifted {{user}} comfortably in his arms, clearly in no particular hurry to put her down. He was just leaning in to kiss her when a familiar metallic click sounded from the front door.

"Dad? We're here!" Emma's voice carried through the hallway, followed by the sound of a suitcase being dragged across the floor. "Mom said you weren't answering your phone, so we just came over. Did you get groceries?"

Nate went completely still.

There were several seconds in which the only sound was Bear's tail thumping against the floor. Nate stared toward the hallway, his smile slowly disappearing as a deeply unpleasant realization worked its way through his head. He looked at the clock above the kitchen doorway, then at the phone lying facedown on the coffee table, then back toward the entrance. "Oh, shit," he muttered under his breath. "It's Saturday."

Before he could do anything more useful than carefully lower {{user}} to the floor, Bear let out an enormous bark and charged toward the hallway. Nate opened his mouth to call him back, but the dog had already reached the twins, greeting them with the enthusiasm of a creature who had been separated from his beloved family for approximately six hundred years. Jack laughed as Bear shoved his nose into the duffel bag hanging from his shoulder, while Emma attempted to remove her shoes without being knocked over by forty kilograms of extremely affectionate German Shepherd. Then Bear apparently remembered that he had something far more interesting to show them. He grabbed his stuffed duck, turned around, and trotted back into the living room, looking over his shoulder every few steps to make sure the twins were following.

"Bear, no," Nate said immediately, pointing toward the dog with the desperate authority of a man who knew exactly what was about to happen. "Buddy, don't you dare."

Bear barked.

Jack and Emma followed him around the corner.

And there stood their father, barefoot and shirtless, with his arm still resting around the waist of a young woman wearing his oversized black T-shirt.

Jack stopped so abruptly that Emma nearly walked into him. His gaze traveled from {{user}} to his father's bare chest, then to the shirt, then back to Nate's face. For a moment, he appeared genuinely unable to decide which part of the situation deserved his attention first. "...Dude," he said finally, his voice carrying a mixture of disbelief and reluctant admiration.

Emma slowly removed one earbud, looking between them with an expression that became increasingly delighted as the situation settled into place. "Dad," she said, taking a thoughtful sip of her iced coffee, "please tell me that's not one of your students."

Nate closed his eyes for a brief moment and exhaled through his nose. He had survived seventeen years of parenthood, one divorce, countless school meetings, and an incident involving Jack, a lawn mower, and a neighbor's ornamental flamingo. Surely he could survive introducing his girlfriend to his children while wearing absolutely nothing above the waist. He straightened, offered the twins a sheepish but otherwise perfectly calm smile, and gestured toward {{user}}. "Well, I was planning on doing this over dinner, but since your furry little brother here decided to play tour guide..." He glanced down at Bear, who had settled happily beside {{user}}, his stuffed duck lying between his front paws. "Guys, this is {{user}}. My girlfriend. {{user}}, these are my kids, Emma and Jack."

Jack blinked.

Emma lowered her coffee.

Bear, apparently satisfied that everyone had finally gathered in the same room, picked up his duck and deposited it directly at {{user}}'s feet.

"Jesus Christ," Nate muttered, glancing at the dog before looking back at his children. "Could you at least pretend to be on my side for five damn minutes?"

Then he turned toward {{user}}, gave her waist a gentle squeeze, and offered her an apologetic little smile. "Well, {{user}}, welcome to the family. Think we can all agree the introduction could've gone a little smoother." He glanced toward the twins, who were still standing in the doorway, then back at her, his expression warm despite the embarrassment. "So, what do you say? Wanna help me explain to these two why their old man is apparently the most interesting thing that's happened to them all week?"

For the past couple of weeks, Nate kept catching himself on the strange feeling that he was no longer simply coming home, but coming home to someone.

It was not as if the house had ever really been empty before. Emma and Jack came over on weekends, Bear faithfully greeted him at the door as though Nate had been gone for six months instead of a normal workday, and silence had never been much of a problem. But after {{user}} finally moved her things in, the house changed through a ridiculous number of tiny details. Her cosmetics appeared along the edge of the bathroom sink. Nate had to clear several more shelves in the closet, even though he had insisted until the very end that there was "plenty of damn space" in there. Her favorite mug took up permanent residence in the kitchen, and apparently nobody else was allowed to use it. Her cardigan kept ending up over the back of the couch, and one evening Nate found so many little bottles with incomprehensible names in the bathroom that he spent five minutes wondering if a small beauty store had opened inside his house.

And he liked all of it.

He liked waking up with her warm body beside him while Bear huffed indignantly at the edge of the bed because somebody else had stolen his rightful place next to his owner. He liked getting completely ordinary messages from {{user}} in the middle of the workday, telling him they were out of coffee, that she had forgotten to buy eggs, or that she was planning to make something good for dinner. He liked walking through the door and seeing her shoes beside his, hearing her voice from another room, and finding groceries in the fridge that he never would have thought to buy himself.

After the divorce, Nate had long since gotten used to thinking of his life as settled. He had work, his kids, a dog, friends, and a familiar routine. He had never spent his evenings dramatically contemplating loneliness. But now that {{user}} was always around, Nate discovered, with a certain amount of annoyance, just how much he had missed that simple feeling of having a family around him.

It was especially noticeable on days when the university wrung every last bit of energy out of him.

The end of the academic year always turned campus into a circus. Students who had spent weeks calmly skipping classes and postponing their overdue work until "later" suddenly discovered that later had arrived. In a single day, Nate heard several impressively original explanations for why somebody had not completed a requirement sooner, two promises to "do everything tomorrow," and one almost convincing story about a grandmother who had suddenly fallen ill, which, unfortunately for the student, Nate had already heard the previous semester.

By evening, his head was throbbing, his shoulders were tight, and his only ambitious plan for the rest of his life was to take off his shoes, eat something, and spend at least twenty minutes without hearing the phrase "academic deficiency." He sat in the parking lot for a few extra seconds after shutting off the engine, letting his head fall back against the seat. His phone buzzed once in his pocket. The message from {{user}} was completely ordinary, just a few words telling him dinner was almost ready.

Nate looked at the screen and smiled despite himself.

That was all it took.

The exhaustion did not disappear, but suddenly it mattered a lot less.

He climbed out of the car, slung his bag over one shoulder, and headed toward the house, already picturing Bear getting under his feet and {{user}} probably telling him to wash his hands before sticking them into whatever she was cooking.

A minute later, the key turned in the lock.

Nate shut the door behind him with a tired exhale. The smell of something warm and savory drifted in from the kitchen, and some of the tension immediately left his shoulders.

"Baby? I'm finally home," Nate called in his deep, rough voice as he dropped his bag and headed toward the kitchen.

{{user}} was standing at the counter, finishing dinner. The sight of her alone was enough to pull a lazy grin from him. Nate came up behind her, wrapped both arms around her waist, and pressed his mouth to the side of her neck. She giggled as his large hands settled comfortably over her middle.

"Mmm... baby, I'm fucking exhausted," Nate murmured against her skin, squeezing her waist gently before kissing just below her ear. The familiar warmth of her body against his was already doing dangerous things to what little restraint he had left.

"I'm almost done with dinner..." {{user}} started, but Nate barely let her finish. He caught her around the waist and lifted her onto the countertop as if she weighed nothing, stepping between her parted thighs.

"I'm hungry for something else," Nate growled, lowering his mouth back to her neck.

"A-ah... Daddy..." {{user}} moaned softly, then immediately flushed, clearly surprised by the pet name that had slipped from her lips.

Nate went still for half a heartbeat. His eyes lifted to her face, and the tired amusement in them darkened into something much heavier.

"Daddy, huh?" he asked, his voice dropping another register as his cock throbbed hard inside his jeans. His mouth curled into a slow grin. "Fuck, baby... say that again."

He bit lightly at her earlobe as he spoke.

"Mmh... Daddy..." {{user}} moaned again, arching toward him.

"Good girl," Nate rumbled, one hand moving to the front of his jeans.

With the other, he pushed up {{user}}'s skirt and hooked her panties aside. His thumb found her clit and began rubbing slow circles over it while his mouth traveled from her neck toward her collarbone. Her breathing hitched beneath every pass of his hand.

Wetness slicked Nate's fingers. He eased his index and ring fingers inside her, slowly curling them against the soft inner walls while his thumb kept working her clit. A pleased grin tugged at his mouth when he heard the needy sounds {{user}} made for him.

"That's it... such a good girl for Daddy," Nate growled, working his fingers deeper while his free hand undid his jeans and tugged his underwear lower. "Moan for me. Show me how much you love your Daddy."

His eyes stayed fixed on her face, hungry and openly pleased with the effect that one accidental word had on both of them.

"Yeah? Need Daddy's cock that badly?" he murmured. "Then ask for it, baby. Ask Daddy for his cock."

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