“Where’s your car?” he shot back.
“Who is he?” Cherry snapped, looking at Arsen over Ever’s head. “Does Jericho haveanothergay brother?” Arsen didn’t speak, trying to figure out what the hell was happening. To Ever, she said, “Who areyou?”
“I’m Ever,” he said, taking Arsen’s arms and wrapping them around his waist, then tilting his head.
“That’s your name?” Cherry parroted meanly. “Well,Ever,is it? The adults are talking. Why don’t you go find your brother. Maybe he can help you scrape that gunk off your face. You are a boy, right?”
Okay, that was enough. Arsen opened his mouth to tell her to be nice, but before he could say a thing, Ever hissed at her. Just opened his mouth and…hissed. Like a cat. Like a feral cat.
Cherry jumped back. “What the fuck? Is he special or something?”
Arsen grinned, tipping Ever’s face up then kissing him square on his frowning mouth. “Very,” Arsen murmured, unable to stop himself from kissing him again. Then once more for good measure.
Arsen heard the door open behind him, and then Jericho was leaning against the wall beside him. “What’s up, Cherry? You’re here a lot lately,” he said, tone bored. “Let me guess. Another mysterious flat tire?”
She folded her arms under her breasts. “Yeah,” she said, tone defensive. “I think I ran over a screw or something.”
Jericho stared her down for a long minute. “You said that last week,” he finally said. “But it looked almost like someone had slashed it. Deliberately. With a knife. Seems like someone has a grudge.”
Her gaze floated away from Jericho’s. “What?” she mumbled.
Felix suddenly appeared, leaning over the counter, voice obnoxiously loud. “My brother said, it sounds like someone doesn’t like you. Make any enemies lately? Stick your stubby little fingers in someone else’s pie?”
“What?” she said again, sweeping a nasty look over all of them. “You know what? Never mind. I’ll just take my business somewhere else.”
Felix cupped his face. “Oh, no. Wait. Please, don’t go,” he mocked, deadpan.
She gave him the finger and stormed off, Arsen assumed in the direction of her car.
When she was gone, Jericho shook his head. “Good riddance. That girl is trouble.”
“She’s ugly,” Ever said, voice sullen. “And stupid. And I don’t like her hair. And her boobs are too big.”
Felix snickered, patting Ever’s head. “Easy, killer. You don’t have anything to worry about. Even if your man wasn’t already obsessed with you, he’s been strictly dickly for as long as I’ve known him. The closest I ever saw to him having a crush on a girl was Nala fromThe Lion King. So, unless Cherry sprouts fur, I think you’re safe.”
Arsen was only half listening. Ever had been jealous. Of Cherry. He’d come to stake his claim.
He spun Ever around and slanted their mouths together, his dick twitching at Ever’s surprised whimper. His lips weren’t just sticky, they tasted like strawberries.
“Okay, you two. Take the show upstairs or I’ll have to start charging the customers extra,” Jericho said around a laugh.
Arsen didn’t break the kiss, just spun them, walking Ever backwards to the stairs before letting him go, smacking his butt gently to prompt him to keep moving. If Ever wanted some reassurance that Arsen only had eyes for him, he’d happily give it.
As soon as the door of the apartment closed behind them, Ever wrapped his arms around his neck and jumped, legs going around his waist like he was a koala. His lips found Arsen’s, whispering, “Fuck me.”
“I—” What was Arsen going to say? No? He’d planned on spending the morning buried inside him anyway. “Yeah, okay,” he said before kissing him once more.
Arsen carried him towards the bedroom, but Ever broke their kiss, shaking his head. “Not there. The other room.” Arsen frowned but opened the door to the computer room. “Not the bed. The chair.”
Arsen huffed a laugh against his mouth, but it quickly died as Ever’s tongue slipped past his lips to tangle with his own. “We can slow down,besenok. We’ve got all day.”
Ever ignored him. As soon as Arsen collapsed into the chair with Ever in his lap, his hands were unzipping Arsen’s hoodie, pushing it out of the way, his head dipping to lick over his nipple. Fuck. Ever knew how quickly that got him going. Not that he wasn’t already hard enough to hammer a nail through a board.
Arsen gripped Ever’s ass dragging him closer to grind their cocks together with a groan. Ever made a happy sound, then moved to give Arsen’s other nipple the same attention.
Arsen’s hands slid up under his shirt, forcing Ever to sit up just long enough to pull it over his head. Ever moaned, rolling their hips together as he sucked a bruise onto Arsen’s neck directly over his pulse. He was marking his territory. Where everybody could see it. Ever was jealous. That shouldn’t have been the turn on it was. He didn’t want Ever to feel insecure, but he did love how much Ever loved him.
He gave a shuddery breath, his hands sliding into Ever’s pants, fingers dipping to tease over his hole. Ever hummed his approval into Arsen’s ear, nibbling at the shell of his ear. “Finger me.”
