Page 57 of Heat Transfer
My heart thumped hard, the rawness in his tone drilling right into me. Sweat beaded on my forehead, and my balls grew heavier and fuller, the tension unbearable. The crispness of the water surrounded me, mingling with the loam of the forest and the light decay of the leaves. All of it elevated me further as Felix took me apart just to build me back up again. He drove into me, and a flare of pleasure stole my senses. A low, wounded moan escaped me.
The slap of our skin meeting echoed, and his thrusts grew a little faster, a little more desperate. The breaths sawed from me, and my eyes blurred from the sting of sweat. I closed them and surrendered to the sensations. To the feel of his hands around me, to the safety he brought—even in the wilderness.
The taut thread inside me stretched tighter, on the cusp of snapping, as he railed me against the side of the bridge, where anyone could see. My whole body quaked under the onslaught of pleasure, and my cock hung heavy between my legs. All it would take was a few quick strokes to send me flying.
“I’m close.” Felix nipped on my earlobe. He thrust in, moving his hips with a piston efficiency that had us both breathless. Every time I thought I could collect my senses off the ground, he fucked into me hard enough to send them scattering.
“Come for me, gorgeous.” He reached around and wrapped his palm around my cock. I moaned long and low. His touch was electric, lighting up my synapses. He gave my length one stroke, two, and I couldn’t hold back any longer.
The taut thread snapped.
My release zipped through me like a bullet through the barrel of a gun. Cum splattered onto the edge of the bridge, and my hole spasmed. White flashed before my eyes, despite the surrounding dark. Sheer ecstasy stole me away, to the point my teeth numbed and my body shook, and I just floated along in that space. Fucking hell.
Felix thrust in a few more times, then stilled, buried deep inside me, and his cock pulsed as he unloaded inside the condom. He sagged across my back, resting his weight against me, and I remained braced at the rail. Our breaths were harsh and ragged in the quiet of the nighttime forest.
“Fuuuuck,” Felix groaned.
“You’re telling me.” An unparalleled giddiness roared through me.
He peeled off my back and extricated himself from my hole, which spasmed in protest. The idea of letting him linger there was something I tucked in my back pocket for the future. My body creaked as I pushed up to a stand after being bent over with my grip on the rail.
Felix tied off the condom and popped it into his pocket. He sank down on the wooden planks of the bridge and rested against the side. “Come sit with me.”
“Might not be as easy for me,” I said, delivering an arch look.
His smirk set off a torrent of butterflies in my chest. I lowered myself next to him, a slight sting shooting through me.
Satiation filled me, a hell of an addictive drug, and I leaned in so our shoulders brushed. Felix inched a little closer until our legs pressed against each other too, and he rested his palm overthe back of my hand, threading our fingers together. A bone-deep contentment settled inside me, as quiet and intense as the surrounding night.
“When did you realize you were attracted to me?” I asked, curiosity overtaking me.
Felix snorted, his shoulders giving this cute little jump. “When you got trapped in the changing room, trying on your suit. Fucking random because I’d seen you shirtless a million times during drills, but something in my brain clicked.”
I shook my head and tugged at my beard with my free hand as if I could hide my stupid grin.
“How about you?” he asked.
Embarrassment flushed through me. I remembered the moment as clear as day. I tilted my head back and stared at the canopy of darkened branches and leaves, glimpses of the night sky peeking through. “You showed up to the sword fighting class, and when we were pairing off for drills, you walked right up to me and said, ‘Hey, big guy. Think you can take me?’”
Felix’s eyes gleamed with amusement. “Little did we know…”
“I love you.” The words slipped out unbidden, and his hand tightened over mine. He tipped the side of his head on my shoulder, just leaning against me, communicating with his body—the way he had been before his mind had caught up.
From the start, we’d been two magnets drawn to each other, destined to end up together. I stared out at the forest ahead of me, at the curving creek that trickled over stones. Illuminated by the scraps of moonlight, it left jagged edges, like it clawed its way across the landscape. And maybe that was a little of what we all did. Just tried with all our might to leave our marks. To find the person who made us feel like we mattered.
And even though it had taken some time, I’d found mine.
Felix’s words came out hushed, ones I’d never get tired of hearing. Ones I hoped to cherish for the rest of my life.
“I love you too.”
Chapter twenty
Felix
I’d been dying to talk to Cor all day.
Only a few days had passed since we’d made things official, but my parents were chomping at the bit to meet him. Marco and the entire Brannon family already thought we were dating, so we didn’t have a whole lot of big announcing to do, though maybe down the line, we’d confess how it had been fake at first.