Nikos looked around the cabin they’d been given, impressed by the digs. The cabin was mostly one large room with a huge bed in the very center. There was a small seating area to one side with a sofa, coffee table, and oversized chair, before a lovely fireplace with a television on the wall above. A small kitchen lined one side, across from the sitting area, and it had lots of stainless steel, granite, a bar with stools, and was large enough that they could actually make a meal, though it might be tight quarters. “Swanky. I mean—for a cabin at some random inn.”
“This place is far from random,” Ari said.
Instead of taking a ride to the inn, they’d opted to walk—since Ari had been given a clean bill of health from the doctor. After learning the inn wasn’t all that far from the center of town, Ari had suggested they check out the village and get a feel for where they were. “I know you’re going to give me the eye—but I like it here.”
Ari did just that, but it wasn’t as harsh as he’d expected. His brother bear sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed. “It was amazing. To see a whole town of shifters… but nothing is ever perfect, Nikos.”
“I know,” he said, crossing the room to sit beside Ari. “Nothing is, but damn if this place doesn’t feel right.”
“Why don’t we call that guy Tyler and ask for that tour?” Ari said. “Maybe we can grill the tour guide and see if we can find any dirt.”
Nikos smiled. “Ah, there’s my cynical man.”
Ari grinned before leaning closer. “You know… we were interrupted the night before last.”
“Uh-huh.”
Ari glanced over his shoulder before turning to meet Nikos’ stare. “There’s an awfully big bed here, just waiting to be used.”
Nikos could already feel his body tightening in all the right places. “You just got out of the hospital.”
Ari leaned in close, his lips a whisper away from Nikos’. “I should’ve been let out the day before… and I was told I was a-okay.” He closed the gap and pressed his lips to Nikos’.
He felt Ari’s hand glide up his back before coming to rest at the nape of his neck. His brother bear seemed hungry, starving for this embrace—as much as he was. He melted into his bear and took everything the man gave.
“Ari,” he whispered lustily as his brother bear’s lips trailed down his throat.
Ari began opening the buttons along his shirt and kissing the flesh that was slowly exposed. “I’ve thought of nothing but this…” he paused to lay another kiss, “while lying in that hospital bed.”
Nikos shuddered against Ari’s roaming fingers and lips, not realizing just how much he’d needed to finish what they’d started before the attack. Or maybe the attack itself was the reason why he wanted so frantically.
They’d survived.
They were alive, and they needed to celebrate that fact. He reached down to open the tie at the front of Ari’s cargos, desperation taking over. Nikos shoved the pants just over Ari’s hips, freeing the man’s cock.
It was hard and heavy, already throbbing with need. Nikos forcefully pushed Ari onto his back and scrambled down the man’s body, starving to taste him.
“Whaa—” Ari said before he went silent.
He went silent because Nikos drew in a few inches of his cock, sucking madly. Soon after, the groans and moans came, and a hand threaded through his hair. Nikos urged his brother bear higher, wanting to see Ari explode.
After a few more strokes, Ari tugged on his hair, hard enough to make him stop.
“What’s the rush?”
Nikos let Ari’s cock slip from his lips. “I need you, Ari.”
“I need you, too—but if you keep at it, we’ll be done in five seconds.”
Nikos trembled against Ari. “We almost died.” He swallowed thickly. “I could’ve lost you.”
“Woah, woah, woah,” Ari said, dragging Nikos back up. “You didn’t lose me, nor I you. We’re good.” Ari caressed the side of Nikos’ cheek. “We made it through—together—just like we always do.”
“I couldn’t imagine this world without you at my side,” Nikos whispered.
Ari trailed his thumb over Nikos’ lips, a slight frown to his handsome features. “I don’t even want to imagine a time or place without you. You’re my everything.”
Nikos tugged Ari closer, and their bodies melded together as one. In Ari’s arms, he could now breathe, truly breathe, and know they were going to be okay.
They lay there for what felt like forever, just holding one another…
Until the need took over again. Nikos slid his hand under the hem of Ari’s shirt and felt the fine hairs along his brother bear’s chest tickling his palm. He could still feel a few of the faint lines marking Ari’s abdomen from the wounds, but they were almost gone. Ari had always healed quickly, even quicker than other bears.
Ari leaned up and pulled his t-shirt over his head before returning to the buttons on Nikos’ shirt. Once they were both bare from the waist up, they embraced again, kissing and holding one another skin to skin. The rest of their clothing disappeared not long after…
They lay in the middle of that big bed and took advantage of the space. Ari kissed and massaged every inch of his body, all while Nikos did everything in his power to do the same between moans and cries of pleasure.
Ari paused before he reached down beside the bed and grabbed the bag Nikos had snuck from their house. “I know clothes weren’t the only thing you took.” He rifled through the bag for a moment before pulling out his empty hand. “No lube?”
“I was in a hurry. Clothes and a few personal items was all I took.”
Ari grinned as he took out the family bible. “Really?”
“It’s our history.”
His brother bear smiled before replacing it and laying the bag back on the floor. “Let’s see if there’s anything here in the room we can use,” he said, rising to sit on the edge of the bed. He opened the nightstand first and reached in. “Aha! A full service innkeeper.” Opening his palm, he showed Nikos a small bottle of lube. “Now we can call them swanky.”
Nikos chuckled. “I don’t know that you understand that term.”
“Oh, I do. My opinion of what fits the definition might be skewed,” Ari said as he climbed back into the bed. “My mind is often in the gutter.”
“Ahh.”
When Ari flipped him onto his stomach and knelt behind him, he stiffened in excitement.
Ari leaned against him and laid a kiss on his shoulder. “I’m going to use what’s in this bottle to get you nice and slick,” he whispered against Nikos’ ear. “I’m going to slide my fingers into you and open you up to take my cock. And then I’m going to ride you hard…”
Nikos’ lids closed of their own accord. He licked his suddenly dry lips. “You’ve forgotten one thing.”
“Oh, have I?”
“Before we were so rudely interrupted, you had me bound to our bed.”
“Ahhh,” Ari said before leaning in to bite Nikos’ earlobe. “How could I have forgotten?”
Nikos tensed as he felt Ari moving behind him. Before he could see what his brother bear was about, he felt his wrists gathered and his body yanked up the bed. Ari was strong, strong enough to toss him around like it was nothing. He gasped as he felt his briefs twisted around his wrists before they were bound to the headboard.
“Better?” Ari asked as he relaxed against Nikos’ body.
Nikos nodded, unable to speak. What Ari did made it hard for him to have a coherent thought, let alone voice one.
Ari rose from the bed and before Nikos could complain, he was flipped again, spun to his back and pinned to the bed. His brother bear’s large, muscled frame hovered over him, the welcome weight holding him down making him shudder with delight.
“I’m going to claim your body… over and over again…”
Nikos sighed, as excited as if it was their first time. Each embrace always felt new and drove him insane with need.
Ari slid down his body. He felt the swipe of lube against his anus seconds before his brother bear drew the tip of his cock between his hot lips. His back arched as Ari took him inch by inch, swallowing him whole. Not done, Ari inserted a single thick finger before drawing his mouth back up to the tip of his shaft.
As Ari’s mouth circled the head, he could feel the slick slide of the finger withdrawing from him. The moment he felt the tip of a second finger against his hole, Ari’s head descended, taking the entire length again.
Nikos cried out, shaking from the rising need. Ari’s fingers entered him, stretching him wide. That, along with the suckling mouth, drove him insane. He tugged at the bonds around his wrists, wanting to urge Ari faster, but being completely at his brother bear’s mercy left him unable.
The more he twisted and pulled, the tighter the knots seemed to grow.
Heat filled him. Sweat dotted his brow and the nape of his neck. His body tensed and tightened, aware of every slight caress and overwhelmed by the harder strokes. In his ears, he could only hear the throbbing of his own heart, the whh-mph, whh-mph raging louder than any other sound.
Underneath that, he could hear the echoes of his own moans.
He became one single nerve ending, raw and heated to the touch. There was only those sounds and the sensation of Ari’s tongue, lips, and fingers.
Nikos felt the fire raging within. It quickly grew to a fever pitch, his body tangled in the bedding and pinned under Ari’s strong shoulders. His back arched as he cried out in pleasure, needing more…more… more.
Ari quickened his pace not long after, and Nikos couldn’t breathe. His chest burned from the lack of oxygen…
He felt his body tighten, every muscle stiff.
A scream rent from his lips as he shattered, his cock erupting his passions into his brother bear’s mouth. He came harder than he could ever remember, and suddenly heard a true roar come from his lips.
After the screams and roars died down and his body came back down from the heavens, he chuckled slightly. “What the hell was that?”
“You shifted slightly,” Ari said as he moved up Nikos’ body.
“I did?” Did his bear spirit already feel safe enough to make an appearance like that? “Whatever it was… it was incredible.”
“Glad to hear it,” Ari said, capturing his lips. Nikos could taste his seed on his brother bear’s lips and moaned at their mixed flavors. “But we’re not done yet.”
* * * *
Ari pressed the head of his cock against Nikos’ anus, ready to find the same bliss his brother bear had. His control was at its breaking point—and after seeing Nikos come apart—he knew he wouldn’t last much longer.
Nikos’ body was made for him. They fit together like two pieces of a puzzle… as they always had. He pushed the head past the thick band of nerves and smiled at the groan of pleasure that rose from Nikos’ lips.
Inch by inch he slid deeper into his shifter, his eyes struggling to remain open at the utter intensity of the sensation. Yet he kept them open, so he could look at the spot where they were made one.
He pushed Nikos’ legs back, folding his lover in half, all while watching his cock planted in the snug hole. When he began to move, he rolled his hips, still looking at their bound bodies, watching his slick cock slide in and out.
Ari knew no better pleasure than when he was right here, deep inside his Nikos. He trembled, remembering Nikos’ fear—that they’d nearly lost one another. He’d said they were good, that everything was okay, but he felt the same emotion his brother bear had. They’d been lucky…
He leaned over Nikos and stole a kiss… and another… until they were feasting on each other’s lips. He loved this man more than anything in the world…
Ari’s body stiffened…
“I love you,” he whispered seconds before a scream rose from his chest.
He came, shooting a thick load deep within his lover. By the second wave of his orgasm, he kissed Nikos, giving his cries to his brother bear, sharing his pleasure.
Once he was emptied in more than one way, he languidly reached up and removed the bonds around Nikos’ wrists. Rolling, he moved to his back, taking Ari with him. He was still implanted deep inside his lover—and still hard.
Nikos rose slightly, now straddling Ari’s hips. “My turn,” he said with a smile.
Ari clutched Nikos’ hips, the sensation too extreme on the first two strokes of the bear’s downward thrusts. By the third, he moaned, chuckling. “And I’m the one who’s insatiable?”
“You are,” Nikos said with a smile before his expression twisted in pleasure-pain. “And now you’ve made me just as bad.”
“My kinda bad,” Ari said before moaning with pleasure.