“Stop rushing me, or I’ll take twice as long.”
“You always were a bastard.” Mason grunted and stroked himself faster.
“You have no idea.” Jude took his wrist in his hand and pulled him away from touching himself. “How’s this?” Jude wet his fingers, then licked around the crown of Mason’s dick, moving up and down the warm, pulsing shaft, while his fingers teased along the cleft of his ass, playing around the rim of his hole. With Mason quivering beneath him, Jude slipped one finger inside him, another joining it moments later, loving how Mason’s passage closed around him, holding him tight. Jude shifted his mouth from Mason’s cock to his balls, keeping the tips of his fingers busy inside Mason.
“So. Damn. Good.Ahh,” Mason cried out when Jude engulfed his entire cock in his mouth and sucked hard. “Can’t help it.” His hips thrust up, and Jude tasted the first spurt of his come before Mason’s orgasm hit him fully. He swallowed everything, loving Mason’s echoing cries as he came.
“Mmm.” A long, luxurious sigh escaped Mason, a dreamy smile on his lips. His eyes remained closed, but he reached out a hand and Jude took it, lacing their fingers together. “That was pretty incredible.” His eyes fluttered open to meet Jude’s. “There was a time today I was worried I’d never see you again, never mind make love to you.”
“I’m not sure I could stand to be in this apartment anymore without you.”
Mason curled up by his side. “Yeah? Well, maybe you should’ve told me that earlier? I wouldn’t have signed a lease on my place. Saved me a bundle.”
Jude kissed him, their tongues rubbing and playing hide and seek with each other. Mason sucked his and hummed his pleasure.
“I like tasting myself on you. But I like tasting you better. Now let me have my fun.” His eyes gleamed, and Jude rose to his feet, just as his phone buzzed. At the flash of Ilana’s name on the screen, his vision swam. “Shit.”
“What?” Mason grabbed him. “You’re white as chalk.”
He didn’t answer, instead swiping open the phone and putting it on speaker. “What’s wrong? Are you okay? Is Doug?”
“He just woke up.” Her joyful voice rang out in the apartment. “The doctors are in with him now.”
Dizzy with relief, Jude sank to his knees, and he heard Mason’s cry of, “Thank God,” right behind him.
“He’s okay? He’s going to be okay?”
“He has no memory of the accident or that day even. The doctors say that’s normal and he might regain bits and pieces of his memory or he might not. But I don’t care.” She was crying, and Jude was too. Mason ducked under his arm, and Jude held him tight. “I don’t care if he doesn’t remember. He’s alive, and that’s all I care about.”
“But he knows you, right?” Jude was almost afraid to ask.
“I ran out of the room to get the doctor immediately, but I’m sure he does. I had to call and tell you.”
“Thanks for calling. I can’t wait to talk to him.”
“Well…I’m sure it’s going to be a while. Let the doctor examine him first.” She laughed, but the strain was evident in her voice. “You know what we were talking about the morning of the accident?”
“What?” Jude could only imagine Ilana’s need to unburden herself after all the stress she’d been under.
“You two. Doug couldn’t believe you were working so well together. He was sure Jude would want to kill you.”
“They do call it the little death,” Mason murmured, and Jude elbowed him hard in his side.
“Shut up,” he growled. “Ignore him, please.”
“Too late.” She giggled. “I heard it. And I approve. God, I was hoping this would eventually happen, but I never thought you’d—”
“Get his head out of his ass? Me neither,” Mason interjected, cackling like a hyena, and Jude shook his head in disgust. “But he couldn’t resist me.”
“I thought you and Doug had a more interesting life than talking about me.”
“Oh, we’re good, don’t worry about that,” she said, snorting with laughter. “But eventually we come up for air. And we knew if you’d stop worrying about me, you’d learn there was so much more to live for and find someone. Mason is perfect for you—he gives you the fun and joy for life you’d been missing, and you give him the stability and calm to balance his crazy. As much as you need to loosen up, Mason needs to grow up and stop running away every time he doesn’t like something or if things get rough.”
“Nice to know you had our lives all worked out for us,” Jude grumbled.
“Not like you didn’t have mine, big brother,” she shot right back, and Jude chuckled.
“Touché. And as far as Mason and me, we’re…figuring it out. I don’t want it to affect work, so it’s tricky.”
