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“Joey.” His voice shows his surprise and the background is loud.
“Help me.” Tears are running down my face and I’m barely keeping myself from a full-blown meltdown. “I-I-I—” I can’t fucking breathe.
“Joey.” That demand in his voice cuts through some of the panic. “Where are you?”
I close my eyes and slide down the wall until I can pull my knees up to my face.
“Ho-hotel.” I hate how broken my voice is. How weak.
“Are you alone?” The noise in the background is gone suddenly and I can hear his breathing.
“Yes,” I whisper. So very alone. Even when I’m with my teammates, I’m alone. I don’t have friends, not really, not anyone who knows me. Only Nick.
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“Yes.”
That trembling, whimpered word breaks my heart.
My poor boy. I don’t know how to help him in the long run but I can get him out of his head for a few minutes. That he reached out to me when he needed it means he still cares about me, right? We can’t be over if he still needs me, right?
“Switch to video.” I’m not sure he’ll agree but something in my chest loosens when I see the screen loading, only to be heartbroken when his wet face appears. He’s rubbing at his eyes, making his face redder than it was. “You need a release, baby?” he nods his head. “You worked hard today, so it’s time to relax.”
He sniffles and clears his throat.
“Please.” His voice is that small tone he uses when he’s close to coming. The one that turns me into a feral beast.
My balls tingle and my dick thickens as I duck into an alley for privacy. What I wouldn’t give to sink into him right now when he’s needy and salty from crying.
“Do you have lube?”
His breathing shudders but he shakes his head.
“Lotion? There’s usually some from the hotel.” He hasn’t let go enough to blindly follow directions yet. “Go find it.”
He looks at me in the screen for a second then everything is blurry as he stands and walks.
“I found lotion,” he mumbles and looks down at the phone.
“Good.” I smile at him. “Strip and get comfortable. I’m not leaving until I see you come.”
He shudders and his breath catches. It turns my smile predatory. Fuck, I wish I were there with him right now. I would use him until he’s too exhausted to think and passes out against me.
Joey bites his lip and moves back to the bed. I stare at the sky while he undresses and the camera bounces a bit when he gets back on the mattress.
“Okay,” Joey says, still using that little voice that makes me ache.
“Show me.”
I see a little peek of a smile before the camera switches and his bared body is displayed for me. Long legs and perfect skin that I swear I can smell through the phone.
“How much time do you have before your roommate comes back?” I want to draw this out but I doubt I have that kind of time.
“I don’t know.”
“Are you being a dirty boy, Joey? Trying to get caught playing with yourself?” Is he into exhibitionism or is the threat of getting caught a turn-on? God, I want to explore all the facets that make him, him.