CHAPTER NINETEEN
Blaze
The drive to New Netherlands Penitentiary from the city took a couple of hours. When I’d arranged to go, I’d asked Shirley if she’d like to go with me and visit Elvin. She’d agreed, so Ax and I picked her up on the way.
When I’d awakened that morning, Lake had been fast asleep in the bed above the trundle. I’d sat looking at him a long time, wanting more than I would have thought possible a couple weeks ago to crawl in beside him and press my mouth to the soft skin of his neck. Instead, I’d dragged myself up and got dressed.
Pushing thoughts of Lake firmly to the back of my mind, I concentrated on the day ahead.
Nothing was pleasant about visiting a prison, especially when someone you love’s inside, and I felt for Aunt Shirley when I left her with Elvin. A guard led Ax and me to a small, bare room where two other uniformed guards stood by the door and window in front of a steel table. Sniper sat chained by the wrists to a metal loop in the middle of the table. Ax and I took seats across from him.
The former leader of the Hogs didn’t look any worse for wear for the two years he’d spent in prison, and I assumed he had enough clout inside to make sure his stay was moderately comfortable. His head was shaved, and he wore an orange prison uniform that couldn’t hide the muscular bulk of him.
“This is a surprise,” he said when we’d settled, light blue eyes running over first me and then Ax. I was sure it was. Although not exactly enemies, the Hedonists and the Hogs didn’t mix.
Not wanting to tip off the guards in any way, I spoke casually but carefully.
“Sorry it’s taken us so long to visit. You know how things are. I’m afraid we have some bad news, though. Uncle Pete has passed.” Pete was the name of the guy who had taken over the Hogs while Sniper was behind bars and had recently been murdered.
Sniper’s beady eyes went from mine to Ax’s and back again.
“That so? Was it…a hard passing?”
“Yeah, I’m afraid so. It came on very sudden. We thought we’d come tell you ourselves before the news got to you another way.” I didn’t break eye contact with Sniper, and I could tell by the look in the man’s eyes he was following me.
Sniper narrowed his beady eyes. “Who’s taken Pete’s place…at the farm?”
“Can’t remember his name, but not family. I can tell you I know you wouldn’t approve. You can expect a visit from one of your cousins soon. It’s supposed to be a surprise, but I know how you hate those.”
“You’re right about that. Any idea when exactly?”
“No. Sorry. Just soon.”
“I’ll be ready. Anything I can do for you? Thought I heard one of your brothers was in the hospital.”
“Yeah. Adam. Knocked in the head on the job site. One of Eugene’s crew was responsible. You have some clout over there—maybe a word from you would get someone to clean things up.”
“I’ll see what I can do.”
Visit over, Ax and I headed back to the visitor’s waiting room to meet up with Shirley. Her eyes were red, but she smiled at me.
“It was good seeing him,” she said.
We stopped for a late lunch, dropped Shirley off at home, and made it back to the clubhouse just after dark. I walked in to find Lake curled up on the couch with Morgan watching some show about men in drag. I went looking for Zeke and found him in the kitchen. “How’d it go?”
“Pretty well. I don’t know if Sniper can do anything for us, but I’m sure he appreciated the heads up.” I walked into the kitchen and got a beer from the refrigerator. “Everything quiet here?”
“Not a peep,” Zeke said. “Morgan and I have decided to head to Greece tomorrow for a little vacation. We hired a couple guys to escort us and meet us when we get back.”
I nodded. “That’s probably for the best. Heard anything about Skitz?”
“Matteo went back to the hospital after picking up Lake from work. He says Skitz may be released tomorrow.”
“I hope so. Poor guy. I hate this happened to him, but I’m so glad it wasn’t Morgan who walked in there.”
“You and me both,” Zeke said.
Back in the living room, I sat in the chair and watched Lake like some kind of creeper, but I couldn’t help it; the guy just did it for me. I’d gone from women to men as easily as switching shoes, and I wasn’t bothered by it. All I wanted was more time alone with the guy sitting across the room. My guy, I hoped. Only, Lake was about as difficult to anticipate as a feral animal. Remembering what we’d done the other night, I couldn’t doubt Lake wanted me. Then again, I’d been pretty sure of it when I’d kissed him outside Dante’s house, and then he’d chosen to ride home with Ax instead of with me.
Morgan was snoring softly when Zeke lifted him off the couch and headed for the bedroom. Lake met my eyes, and what I saw there lit a fire in me.
“I’m going to get a shower,” I said. “I’ll see you in a bit.” I felt his gaze follow me as I walked out of the room.
Anticipation’s a heady thing. Thinking about how I was minutes away from touching Lake the way I wanted to had me rock hard in seconds. First I wanted to kiss him. Suck on that full bottom lip. Then I wanted to touch him all over his body, ending up with my hands on those two, round globes of an ass. Venturing past that got me leaking, so I hurried through my shower and barely dried off before wrapping the towel around my waist.
Lake was already in bed when I walked in. I shut the door and locked it. When I turned back around, he’d lowered the covers, revealing his naked body.
My cock twitched and dripped as my gaze ran over the hard planes of his torso and down to the patch of blond hair around his erect cock. God, I wanted him so bad and realized with a jolt that J had never sparked this amount of lust in me. I’d seen J naked plenty of times and there’s no doubt I’d gotten hard, as it had taken everything I had to hide it along with my feelings for him, but the sight of him had never once set me on fire like the vision of Lake lying there, one knee bent, waiting for me.
I took off the towel and threw it to the floor, then approached the bed, hoping it had only been seconds and not the long minutes it felt like I’d stood there gaping at him. My cock stood out from my body like a homing device pointed right at him, the tip wet and leaking. Lake’s eyes zeroed in on it and before I could take a breath, he had his lips wrapped around the head, cleaning it off with one long suck that made a popping noise when he let go.
Pleasure washed over me, and I staggered before Lake grabbed my arm and pulled me over him. The touch of his skin against mine set off another tremor, and I had a moment of panic that I was going to shoot my load before things even got started.
When Lake spread his legs and wrapped them around my waist, I thought for sure I was a goner. I groaned.
“All the times I’ve been with a woman and never once came so close to embarrassing myself,” I whispered in the half-light of the partially open curtains. The moon cast an ethereal glow over Lake’s pale body as he stared up at me with wide, confused eyes.
“You mean you…”
“Are fucking close? Yeah,” I said through gritted teeth.
Lake made a noise like he was in pain before surging upward and kissing me in a way no woman ever had. Fingers gripping the back of my head, he thrust his tongue into my mouth, exploring every inch of it.
I sucked a breath into my nostrils and fell to my elbows, too wrapped up in the kiss to do the exploring my fingers itched to do of his tempting body. Finally, when Lake showed no indication of letting up, I pulled back and fell to my side.
“You want this to end before it even begins?” I asked, panting like I’d run a marathon uphill. In the snow.
Lake sank back against the pillows. He looked debauched, hair disheveled and mouth red and swollen. I wanted to put a part of myself in every single one of his orifices. “Turn over.” The words came out on a growl, and Lake didn’t waste any time flipping onto his stomach, arms raised and tucked under the pillow.
The sight of his smooth back, narrow waist, and gorgeous ass brought all thoughts to a halt for a moment until my brain restarted and signaled my limbs to move. Straddling one of his legs, I pushed the other so it bent, admiring the swell of his ass and the two indentations just above it. Reverently, I ran my fingers over Lake’s broad shoulders, down his back on each side of his spine. He was shaking, and knowing he wanted me so much turned me on something fierce.
The rhythmic sound of a bed squeaking down the hall told me what Zeke and Morgan were up to in my room and was an appropriate backdrop for what I was about to do. My first time fucking a man.
“God,” Lake murmured into the pillow. “Please.”
I lowered my head and pressed my lips to the spot between his shoulder blades, kissing the skin before running my tongue over it while my right hand skimmed down his side, making him moan and squirm. I let my mouth explore, slowly descending the length of Lake’s body, pausing to nip and bite at the swell of his ass, holding him down with one hand while I repositioned him with the other so I was in between his long legs.
I’d never done with a woman what I was about to do to Lake—never wanted to taste this part of anyone’s body until this moment. Lake smelled of soap and sweet skin, and I wanted to devour him—to claim this part of him with my mouth before I did it with my cock.
Settling low on the bed, I parted the round cheeks of his ass and let out a breath over the star revealed there. I was a little surprised to find he shaved that area, and insanely jealous to think it might have been for another man. Lake panted and made sexy sounds into the pillow while my dick created a wet spot on the sheets. Fuck, he was sexy.
With my right hand, I tugged Lake’s cock between his legs, marveling at how it looked there with his fat balls resting over it. There was something incredibly sexy about how his ass was shaved clean but he’d left a little patch of hair around his dick. My mouth went dry with need as I leaned down and sucked one of his nuts into my mouth.
Lake jerked beneath me, but I held him steady, not pushing enough to keep him down if he wanted to get up, but asserting enough strength to let him feel my control over him. I swapped for the other nut, moving my tongue over the soft skin, sucking gently while marveling how much I was enjoying what I was doing. The enthusiastic responses coming from Lake fueled my need, and after I let his ball pop out of my mouth, I pushed his cheeks open again and gazed my fill at the little, twitching pucker.
Panting into the pillow, Lake stilled the movement of his hips, as though wondering what I would do next.
Starting at the tip of his cock, I ran my tongue up the length of him, swirling over the orbs of his balls before gliding a zigzagging path up his perineum to my intended target.
Lake gasped and shook as I twirled the tip of my tongue over his hole. I grabbed hold of my twitching dick when the aperture clamped down on me. I was certain I’d never made such animal-like sounds in bed as I was at that moment, eating ass like I’d been born to do it. Nothing about the act was distasteful. He both smelled and tasted delicious to me—simultaneously clean and like dirty, dirty sex. I was so hot for him, and sucked and bit at his most private area with abandon while he writhed and begged.
“Fuck, please, Blaze, God, I need…I need…”
I knew what he needed, and I was going to give it to him. I didn’t think I could stop if he asked me to, so I prayed he wouldn’t. Thank God there were condoms in the goddamn drawer. I jerked it open, almost yanking the whole thing out, and grabbed hold of a strip, ripping one open with my teeth without disconnecting it from the others. Ribbed and lubed French ticklers. I didn’t know if that did anything for a guy, and I guessed I was about to find out.
Lake eagerly spread his legs in invitation, and I pressed the sheathed head of my cock to the little opening, now lax and glistening from the attention I’d lavished on it. When I pushed in, I thought I’d explode with the pleasure of it. I’d fucked a woman in the ass before, but not one who eagerly pressed back against me like Lake did. There was something very primal about doing this with a man, a push and shove kind of dynamic that turned me on unbelievably.
“Holy shit,” I breathed. “Holy shit shit shit shit shit.”
Lake grunted as he took me all the way in until our groins were plastered together. I lay down on him, covering his body with mine, not an inch between us anywhere. I smiled when he wrapped his ankles around mine. Holy fuck, I was so close to exploding then and there. I closed my eyes and counted backward from one hundred until I knew I could move without blowing a nut. I got to seventy-four and started thrusting.
“Okay?” I asked Lake, and he nodded vigorously against the pillow. I kissed his ear and his jaw while gently gliding in and out of his body. Lake moaned, low and long, and I paused, a tremor of need running through me. Pulling all the way out, I thrust in again. And did it again. And again—jabbing my cock inside him faster and faster until I was on my hands and knees, lifting him off the bed with every thrust.
The women in my life had called me a good lover, gentle and caring, always attentive to their needs. I’d never taken my pleasure beforehand, but right then I couldn’t think of anything but chasing the swelling orgasm that had started in my balls and grown with every thrust of my cock inside Lake’s tight hole.
Leaning forward so that my words fell directly into his ear, I said, “I’m inside you.” I wasn’t normally one to talk during sex, but with Lake I couldn’t seem to help myself. “Deep, deep inside you.” I got onto my toes, pushing as far in as I could until I was sure I was poking some vital organs. Lake had his knees spread as far as they would go, his ass an open invitation to me. His body was covered in sweat, as was mine, and his fingers gripped the bedsheets like they were the only thing keeping him from spiraling away into space. I wanted to impress myself onto him until he was ruined for any other man, and I was sure the possessive intensity of my feelings would have frightened me if I hadn’t been utterly and completely delirious with lust.
My cock tingled at every swipe through Lake’s passage, hot walls gripping me tightly and taut rim tugging overly-sensitized nerve endings until I knew I was only seconds from release. Adjusting my position, I must have hit something important, because Lake suddenly cried out and bucked beneath me. I homed in on the area, fucking him hard and fast until he lost control and his walls gripped my dick in a vice that pulled my orgasm from me like a high-powered vacuum.
“Fuck!” I yelled, not caring who heard. Let the bastards be jealous of the un-fucking-believable orgasm I was experiencing. Lake’s every breath came out in hard grunts, and I squeezed my eyes shut and bit my lip at the image of his cock pulsing onto the bed beneath him. I filled the condom with my spunk, a fizzy afterglow spreading over me like the froth of ocean on sand after the break of a wave.
I gripped the rim of the condom and eased out, watching Lake’s body reluctantly give me up. I flopped down on the bed on his other side and would have toppled off onto the floor if Lake hadn’t grabbed hold of me at the last second.
“You sure that was your first time with a guy?” he asked when I’d recovered enough to realize he was staring intently at me with his feline-shaped eyes.
I nodded. “Positive.”
“Pretty impressive,” he said, and smiled.
I half-heartedly slapped at his ass, as weak as a newborn kitten. I still gripped the condom between my fingers, and I held it up and tied it off before tossing it onto the window sill.
Lake seemed to have melted into the bed.
“You okay?”
“Why wouldn’t I be okay?” he asked, voice raspy and sex drunk.
“I went at you pretty hard. I’ve never had my ass plundered, but I’d imagine it would hurt.”
“It was good,” he said.
I groaned. “Throw me a bone, would you? Good?”
“Okay, very good.” Lake pushed himself up and winced before settling on his ass. His stomach glistened with spunk, and I swiped my finger through it. Curious, I brought it to the tip of my tongue. Salty, like seawater, but thicker. Lake’s eyes smoldered as he watched me.
“I want to suck you off sometime, if you’ll let me,” I said.
“Might as well—you’ve sucked everything else tonight.”
I chuckled. “Man, that was good. Is it always like that?”
Lake let out a huff. “Hardly.”
I wanted to ask if he’d been with a lot of guys, but I thought better of it. I knew if he said he had, it would make me crazy.
Gingerly, I climbed off with bed and picked up the used condom. “I’ll just go flush this.”
When I returned, Lake had put my towel over the wet spot and pulled on his underwear.
“Sleep with me,” I said and tugged him down onto the trundle before he could refuse. I told myself it was the gentlemanly thing to do since we’d messed up his bed, but the innermost part of me that my lies couldn’t reach knew it was more than that.
As exhausted and sated as I was, I immediately fell into a deep sleep.