“HERE… TAKE your pills.” Travis handed David two tablets and a glass of water.
“What? No beer?” David teased.
“Not with these. ’Fraid not.” Travis looked like he meant business, and David decided he liked how Travis acted all concerned and possessive, as if he had rights to David. As far as David was concerned, Travis did.
David swallowed the pills and washed them down with a long drink. He handed the glass to Travis, then leaned against the mound of pillows Travis had insisted on piling behind his back. David was naked under the covers, and he stretched one arm over his head, exposing his chest to his lover. Well, the part not covered by the white bandage that wrapped over and around his shoulder, or the sling supporting his arm.
“I was wondering. Could you find me another pillow?” David raised his eyebrow.
“Too many?” Travis grimaced.
“No, honey. It’s perfect.” David patted the bed. “Sit with me. Can you stay long?”
Travis sat on the bed. “I took the rest of the day off.”
“Did you? Anticipating something?”
“Hoping is more like it.”
“Well, now I’m shaved and showered and back in my own house, I feel like I could tackle anything.” David gave him a wicked grin.
Travis’s eyes turned a deeper shade of blue. “Anything?”
David nodded, slid his good hand up Travis’s leg, and brushed his thumb over Travis’s stirring cock.
Travis groaned.
“You’re not the only one who’s ready.” David took Travis’s hand and placed it on his erection. “I need you, honey. I’ve needed you this last week, so bad. So bad.” Holding Travis’s hand in place, David humped against it.
“Shit.” Travis groaned. “You’re not fit for what I want to do to you.”
“I am. Try me.”
Travis shook his head. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“You won’t.” David leaned forward and bit Travis’s ear. Then he rolled onto his side, his wounded shoulder up. “Take me. Like this. See? No pressure on my shoulder at all.”
Travis’s eyes rolled back in his head. “Damn, baby, do you know how hot you look like that? Offering your ass to me?” He rubbed his stiff prick with his hand.
“So, are you going to take what’s yours?” David licked his lips.
“Fucking tease.” Travis stood, stripped off his clothes, and slipped under the covers.
OH GOD, David’s body was so warm, his skin so soft. Travis wrapped his arms around his partner and kissed the back of David’s neck, working his way up, licking the spot behind his ear, then nipping his earlobe.
David gave a soft moan and thrust his hips back against Travis.
Travis’s cock slipped between the cheeks of David’s ass, a sweet, softly furred valley. David sighed with such contentment that Travis had to sigh himself.
“You feel it too?” Travis asked.
“Yeah. It’s right, honey. You and me. We’re supposed to be, now and forever.” David bumped Travis again, signaling his eagerness.
Travis couldn’t help but tighten his hold on David. “I almost lost you.” His voice broke.
“Shhh. Come on. I’m here, and I’m fine. Okay?”
Travis nodded, then buried his head between David’s shoulder and neck. “I know,” he whispered. “It just gets me.”
“I know, Travis. Gets me too, when I think about it. But, honey, now’s not the time for such thoughts.”
“No?”
“Now’s the time for only thoughts of love, of what you’re going to do to me, and what I’m going to do to you.”
“God, I love how you rile me up.” He ran his hand over David’s side from chest to flank, avoiding the bandage but enjoying the smoothness of his skin, the hardness of his lanky body.
“Get the lube and fuck me.”
Travis rolled over, opened the drawer, and pulled out the lube. “No condoms?”
“Do we need them? I’ve had negative tests for several years.”
Travis swallowed. More than anything, he didn’t want to feel a barrier between his cock and David’s tunnel, but since he’d been with Billy, he hadn’t been tested. “Yeah. We do. At least until I can get tested again.” He hated to admit it, but there was no way in hell he’d ever put David at risk, so he took out a condom.
“Because of Billy?” David whispered. Travis felt David’s body tense, and he stroked David’s hip again to reassure him.
“Yeah. He was a slut, so I didn’t believe him when he said he used them. I never fucked him without a rubber, but I want to be sure. I’d never put you at risk.”
“Okay. There’ll be plenty of time for that.” David took Travis’s hand and pulled it to his mouth. He kissed it, then licked and sucked each finger.
“Oh fuck, baby.” Travis groaned.
“Like that?”
“You know I do.” Travis had to grab his cock and squeeze it. With a mind of its own, it wanted to be buried in David’s channel right then and there.
“I’ve been thinking.” David brought Travis’s hand to David’s hard shaft and guided Travis’s fingers around it. “I want you to move in here. Live with me.”
Travis rose up to look into David’s eyes. “What? You do? I was going to ask you.”
“You were?” David laughed. “Great minds think alike.”
“My lease is up in two months.”
David nodded. “As soon as I get Dad settled, I want you here. Let’s not wait two months.”
“Okay. Now, I don’t want to wait any longer, baby. Got to have you.”
David humped backward. “Fuck me.”
Travis shivered. “God, I love it when you talk dirty.”
His lover chuckled. “You make me lose control, Travis. When you’re with me like this, the only words I can think of have four letters.”
“Fuck.” Travis tore open the condom and slid it on, then squirted a small mound of lube onto his fingers. “Shift, honey.”
David rolled more onto his belly, bent his leg at the knee, and moved it higher to give Travis full access. Travis painted David’s tight bud with the lube, then worked his fingertip inside. Travis sucked in air. It felt so good.
“Damn.” David exhaled and pushed back.
“Fuck, you’re so tight, baby.”
“Do it. Do me. Fuck.” David’s whimper was so needy Travis couldn’t stand it. He pulled his finger out and guided the tip of his cock to David’s opening.
David pushed back. “Ready.”
Travis eased forward, taking more of what was his—David’s tight, scorching hot ass.
“Oh God, it’s so good.” David moaned.
Travis moved forward, sinking deeper, holding David’s hip with his hand.
“Touch yourself, baby. I want to feel you come on my cock.” Travis slid out and thrust back in.
David moaned.
Travis built up the speed of his thrusts and changed his angle, searching for that special place inside David’s body. He canted his hips and thrust in again.
David howled.
“Found it, huh?” Travis gloated.
“Fuck. Yeah. More.” There were those four-letter words. It made Travis nuts to know what he did to David.
“More?” Travis slammed into David’s ass, taking him hard and fast.
David gave back, humping back into each stroke of Travis’s cock, each gliding, deep, cock-burying thrust.
Travis looked over David’s shoulder, avoiding the bandage, and watched as David jerked himself off. He was close but holding back. Travis wanted David’s complete surrender.
“Give yourself to me, baby. All of you,” he whispered.
David threw his head back, his body went slack, and he gave it up for Travis. Travis bit David’s neck and held on as he reamed David’s willing, sweet ass. Travis felt the ring of David’s muscles relax, letting Travis in deeper, the friction and the slide sending them both straight to release.
David’s hand flew over his cock; then, with a grunt, he came. “Travis!”
David shuddered, his channel clenching with each shot of spunk that spewed from his cock onto the sheets, and Travis lost it.
“Baby… gonna come.” Travis slammed home one last time and emptied.
David lay beneath him, quivering, as Travis filled the rubber.
“Good. So good.” David sighed and pulled Travis’s arm around his chest.
They snuggled together, warm and sated. Content.
“I can’t believe I found you,” Travis said. “I can’t believe I almost lost you.”
DAVID TURNED in Travis’s arms and gazed into his face. “Shhh. Let it go, Travis. I’m here and I’m not going anywhere.” If there was one thing he knew for sure, it was that Travis was the man for him, and he’d do anything to keep him.
“But….” Travis looked away. “Are you sure you want me to live with you?”
“Yes.”
“But what about….”
“What? Your hours? I can deal. Your problems being a cop? We’ll deal with that together, if you want.”
“That’s not all.”
“Those dreams?” David reached out and ran his hand over Travis’s face.
Travis nodded.
“We’ll just make sure your gun is out of reach.” David chuckled. “Okay? We’ll handle it. Together.” He stared into Travis’s blue eyes. “I love you.”
“I love you too.” Travis smiled. “I’m a mess.”
“And I’m not?” David laughed. “Look, before I met you, I didn’t think I’d ever have a life again, much less a life with an incredible man like you, Detective Hart. I was so lost.” He shrugged. “Then you came along, and all I knew was I’d found the one person in this world I’d been needing all along.”
“Shit, you talk so pretty.” Travis grinned at him. “I’d been wanting more than just hot sex for a while.”
David frowned.
“Believe me, what we do together is so much hotter than anything I’ve ever experienced. It’s because I love you, baby. Because you’re my best friend. My lover. It doesn’t get better than this.”
“Those are some pretty fine words, Detective Hart.” David leaned forward and kissed him.
Travis shrugged. “Just what I feel.”
David smiled. “What now?”
“Now? Now we bask in the glow, baby. Bask in the glow.” Travis rolled onto David, pushing him down and claiming his mouth in a delicious kiss.
David put his hand over his head and surrendered to the detective.