Page 66 of Say It Again
“Holy stop?” Daniel asked, swiping his tongue over his lips as Aaron laughed and stumbled away. “That’s a new one.”
“Jesus.” Aaron’s breath bucked his chest. “You want it to end before it starts?”
“I think I would enjoy anything it did.”
“Your mouth.” Aaron lifted him from the floor and sat him on the bed to cup his face and smear a thumb over his bottom lip. “I was wondering.”
“Mm-hmm.” Daniel nodded; then he shook his head. “No, that doesn’t make sense.”
“Sorry,” Aaron chuckled and dragged a hand down his face, his wild gaze heavy on Daniel’s lips. “I was wondering how it’d look afterward.”
“Oh?” Daniel batted his lashes and pouted his lips. “How does it look?”
He was expecting an answer like hot, sexy, bangable, but Aaron leaned in and kissed him long and tender. He whispered, “Precious. You’re so precious.”
That was the difference, wasn’t it? Some guys saw black and white. Hot or not. Sexy or not. Bangable or not. Aaron looked at him and saw shades of precious.
He melted back onto the bed while Aaron undressed him, then riffled through the nightstand drawer like he was taking inventory of its contents. “Condoms in here? Lube?”
A part of him knew better. It knew sleeping with Aaron was only going to muddle things further. It was taking an already complicated maze and redefining the layout halfway through.
“You’re so flexible.” Aaron pretzeled Daniel’s leg around himself. “Look. You’re like Gumby.”
He chuckled, scrunching his nose. “Can we maybe pick someone hotter than Gumby?”
“No.” Aaron grinned. “I’ve always had a thing for Gumby.”
It was taking a complicated maze and lighting that shit on fire.
“Hey, I want you to know something.” Aaron was suddenly close to his face. “I want you to know how excited I am to be here. How excited I am that you want me here.”
Daniel pushed a strand of chocolate hair away from Aaron’s eye. It was taking an already complicated maze and maybe never finding his way out.
“But I don’t have any expectations for tomorrow.”
Daniel raised his eyebrows.
“If tonight’s the last time I see you, then tonight’s the last time I see you.” Aaron raked both hands through Daniel’s hair and held his face stable. “But I’m going to enjoy the hell out of it.”
Daniel’s breath caught in the back of his throat. He couldn’t tell if it was something he needed to hear or if it just jumbled things more. But maybe it was for the best. If tonight was the last time he saw him, then tonight was the last time he saw him. Either way, he should also enjoy the hell out of it.
“Look at me,” Aaron said. He wet a finger with his mouth, then wedged it between Daniel’s legs and slowly pushed it inside him.
He couldn’t stifle the gasp or the way he gripped on to Aaron’s shoulders.
“Into my eyes, kid,” Aaron whispered. He grinned a little as he pushed a second finger inside him. “Nowhere else.”
It was easy following his command. It was easy getting lost in the depths of blue ice. So heated to be so frosty. Like the bottom of an iceberg or the center of a flame, either one delivering a burn if touched.
Aaron grinned fully now. Attentive. Mischievous. “Oh, you’re mine now.”
God, yes.
Then it was happening. It was happening in the condom Aaron ripped open with his teeth and lube he drizzled in excess. It was happening in sharp whips of tingling tenderness and wide eyes and even wider gasps, and damn, he was tight, but he was alive with adrenaline, and Aaron was so… controlled.
“Now, see, I had a hunch.” Aaron smiled as he gripped the flesh on his hips, slowly pushing himself deeper, one disciplined inch at a time. “I had a hunch you might feel the way you feel.”
Daniel wrapped his legs around Aaron’s waist, a little dizzy, a little lost in frosty blue. “How do I feel, mister?”