Any Closer

He was my friend and my confidant and a man I trusted with the company that was my life. My whole future was tied up with him already. Why would I say no to more?

“I know it’s a lot to ask, but this is a first for me, too, Leo,” he told me, his eyes pleading, his bottom lip quivering. “I’ve never had anything that was all mine, just mine, but I really want that to start and end with you.”

I couldn’t take it anymore.

Rolling over on top of him, I pinned him under me to the bed. The sound he made, the moan of anticipation, made me want to ravage him. I held myself firmly in check.

“No,” he told me, his gorgeous eyes locked on mine. “I want to feel all the power that lives inside you, all the heat I know is there—don’t you dare do that, not give me everything. That’ll kill me if you hold back. I need to feel the weight of how it’s gonna be with us. If you’re not honest, then someday you’ll want to give that part, the urgency and the strength, to somebody else.” His voice dropped low. “I don’t want you to do that. I want every part, even if it’s scary or ugly or demanding. I know Ethan broke your heart, and you’ve been hiding out too. Don’t hold back. Give yourself to me.”

My heart hurt. “God, Charlie, how do you know I’m worth all this faith?”

“Because it’s all you’ve given me for three years, jackass.”

“You’re the jackass, jackass.”

He grunted. “Nice comeback.”

I bent and took rough possession of his mouth, and he arched up into me, whimpering in the back of his throat. There was no more thinking—we were too close, too hot, and when I pulled back, he tried to keep me there, biting down hungrily on my lower lip.

He was shoved back hard as I hurled the comforter off of us and crawled down the bed, yanking on the tied drawstring of the pajama bottoms he was wearing. They were too big for him, and when the bow released, they slid from his hips. With a brush of my hand, his penis sprang free of the material, bobbing up and hitting my chin.

“Wow,” I teased, and Charlie’s face lit up like I had never seen.

“It likes you,” he replied, giggling.

“I can see that,” I said before I bent forward and took his long, cut, beautiful cock down the back of my throat.

“Fuck!” he yelled loudly, one hand fisted in my hair, the other digging into the sheet, scrambling for purchase.

I smiled around the hot velvet shaft in my mouth before I sucked from head to balls in one ravenous stroke and then back. I missed nothing. I swirled my tongue across the flared tip, under the head, and down the thick, veined length over and over, taking my time, ravaging him, my hand, after long moments, finally closing around the base, pulling back only to suck him back inside, slowly but firmly, loving the taste of him, the smell, the feel of him on my tongue.

“I’m gonna come!”

I lifted my mouth, and the slippery saliva still coating his cock allowed me to stroke him hard and fast. He was writhing under me for seconds before his head lolled back, body jolting as he came, spurting over my hand, my wrist, and onto his sculpted abdomen.

“God, Charlie, you really do trust me,” I breathed out, releasing him slowly, rising up off the bed to go to the bathroom.

I came back with a warm washcloth and a towel, and I cleaned him up gently, tenderly, and then covered him with the comforter so he wouldn’t get cold. I went to the kitchen after I dropped both cloth and towel into my hamper and brought him a glass of cold water.

“What’re you doing?” he asked when I put it down on the nightstand for him.

“Getting you some water.”

“Are you kidding? Leo, get in bed and fuck me!”

It was hysterical, and I was too tired not to laugh. He was so indignant, and his eyes were a blazing green fire, and God, he was gorgeous.

“Are you laughing at me?”

I flipped off the light and pounced on top of him, crushing him under me, the comforter between us as I buried my face in the side of his neck, kissing hard, my bicep curling around his head, holding him tight.

“Leo.” His voice cracked on my name.

“We’re both gonna get tested, ’kay? Because I really want to taste your cum next time and suck you dry. I would fuckin’ love that.”

“Jesus, I thought I was gonna die. You didn’t tell me that, along with a body to die for, you have the hottest mouth on the planet.”

I smiled into the hollow of his neck. “Yeah? You think I’m pretty?”