“For what?” Bas scowled, looking more confused than upset, which waspromising.
“Well, you remember our conversation down in your lair the other day? When Cort joked about us knowing someone who would testify against Alexei?” Drew shrugged. “I figured it was worth a shot to askhim.”
Bas nodded slowly. “And?”
“And, it pretty much went exactly the way you thought it would. He refused to even mention the subject to his SILA contacts at first. I told him that our lives were on the line - in fact, I essentially told him everything we knew about Alexei and the plans he had to neutralize us, including the auction Saturday. I even told him I didn’t expect him to volunteer information that was given to him in confidence, just that I’d really appreciate it if he could contact his sources and see if anyone was interested in talking.” He shook his head. “Said he’d think aboutit.”
Bas looked at him evenly, his fingers drumming on the sides of the chair. But then he lifted one shoulder. “I’m sorry, babe. I know that must have beendisappointing.”
Drew blinked. “That’sit?”
“What did you want me tosay?”
“Nothing. I don’t know. I mean, last time we met with Gary, you had a fit. And even when I brought up his name Sunday, you didn’t seem to want me to have anything to do withhim.”
Bas raised an eyebrow. “So you thought I’d be jealous, and you decided to call him anyway in a sneakyway?”
Ouch. Trapped by his own words. Way to go,counselor.
“It wasn’t sneaky,” he defended himself. “I just didn’t want to spoil our time together because you were jealous. And I also didn’t want to get your hopes up if it didn’t turn out.” He gave Sebastian a rueful grin. “And itdidn’t.”
“Drew, I told you that I was making a choice by being with you. I trust you’re doing the same thing. I don’tlikethe way the guy flirts with you, because I swear to God part of the reason he does it is just to provoke areaction.”
Drew nodded. He suspected the samething.
“But Gary can’t touch what we have. And even if I massively disagree with you on something, we can’t hide things from eachother.”
“I promise,” Drew said. He stood and walked around the desk to sit on Bas’s lap. “Notagain.”
Bas wrapped his arms around Drew’s waist and pulled him to rest against his chest. “Good. And in the interest of being open and honest about allthings…”
Drew snickered. “Yeah?”
“I can’t stop thinking about New Year’sEve.”
Despite burying his face in Bas’s neck, Drew could feel himself blushing.Blushing!Thank God he wouldn’t encounter Peter or anyone else for a while. “Is that right?” he croaked. “Whichpart?”
“Mmmm. All of it. But especially right at midnight. I hadn’t really understood how hot that position could be, but taking you from behind likethat…”
Drew ran his hand up Sebastian’s chest and around his neck, his memory thrown back to that epic night. With the emotional one-two punch of learning Alexei’s schemeandfinding the flash drive, all coming right on the heels of them admitting their feelings for one another, the sex they’d shared was like nothing he’d ever dreamed of. Bas had reached for him over and over again, ringing out the old year, and ushering in the new in the most life-affirming and love-affirming way possible. But the time Bas was referring to, when Drew had knelt on the bed with his hands braced on the headboard, and Sebastian had taken him from behind, destroying him slowly and methodically until he’d been a babbling mess… Drew was pretty sure he’d never, never forgetthat.
“I want to do that,” Bas said. He gripped Drew’s hair and repositioned his head so that he could run his teeth along the side of Drew’sthroat.
Drew shivereduncontrollably.
“We could lock the door,” heoffered.
And yeah, discretion was totally flying out the window if he was considering letting Bas fuck him in the office, but he was already half-hard and he wanted Basnow.
“I have a better idea. Let’s justleave.” He pulled Drew’s hair again, a sensation that Drew had already begun to associate with incredible arousal, and his blue eyes bored into Drew’s. “The first time I feel your cock in my ass, I want us to be at home, in ourbed.”
Drew blinked. “My… your… Your ass?” herepeated.
It was a good thing he’d already had the Tekko meeting today, because his mind was obliterated to the point where he might have given away the whole company if he’d had to speak coherently afterthis.
“You heard me,” Bas said with a nod. He leaned in and whispered, “Your cock. My ass.Now.”
Drew swallowed hard and forced himself to stand, adjusting the front of his pants. “I’ll get mycoat.”
