My heart couldn’t swell any more or it would break free from my chest and fill the whole house.
I nodded again, this time a bit firmer than the last. “I’ll try.”
Jeremiah pushed off the bed to stand before me, then he cupped my cheek. “That’s all I ask . . . and Theo, I meant every word I just said. My life is better with you in it. We just met a few weeks ago, and I already know that. I might not be book smart, but I know good people when I see them. You’re the best.”
Before I could fidget or object or deflect with some ill-timed joke, his lips were on mine, and his arms were pulling me close. His kiss was all strength and hope and beautiful intention—and a thousand things I’d never felt—not fromanyman. My skin prickled and burned as it met his, and I wanted that moment—that beautiful, simple moment—to last forever.
If that was what falling in love felt like, I wanted to leap off that cliff and never find the ground again.
My fingers traced the lines of his muscled back as we kissed, and another flame brightened and flared between us, my cock twitching so hard I was sure he felt it against his. The way he moaned in my mouth confirmed as much.
“I need to be naked with you. Now,” he breathed.
So I reached down and unfastened and then unzipped his jeans. They slipped free more easily than I’d expected, revealing a blond bush and pulsing cock who apparently hadn’t bothered with a Hulk of their own. My hand brushed his shaft as I lowered to help pull his pants free from his feet. It was so thick and veiny, so incredibly hard and throbbing and—
“You can have him if you want,” Jeremiah said, a hint of amused arousal in his voice.
As I lifted my head from prying his jeans free and tossing them aside, I froze. His cock was right in front of me. If I stuck my tongue out, I’d lick it. It was that close.
So I did.
Tentatively at first.
Then I couldn’t stop myself.
What began as a gentle exploration devolved into an insatiable hunger that only one thing might sate: Jeremiah as far down my throat as I could manage.
I gagged immediately.
He jerked back. “Are you okay?”
I took him in my mouth again, swirling my tongue around his head while gripping his balls with one hand, pulling everything taut.
“Oh, shit. You’re definitely all right,” he said, staggering back a step before bracing himself with a hand on my dresser.
I grazed my teeth along his shaft, so gently they were little more than a tease, a tickle, and was rewarded when Jeremiah shivered.
Encouraged, I craned my head so I could take him all the way down, relaxing my throat as best I could, while letting his thickness slide inside me. When my nose pressed against a furry patch, I drew back.
“Well, damn, Theo,” Jeremiah said, a little breathy. “You’ve been holding out on me. All this time I thought you were just—”
I dove again, swallowing him whole.
There was no more pesky gagging.
When the first of his pleasure leaked into my mouth, I redoubled my effort, squeezing his balls and sucking with the force of a hundred vacuums.
“Oh, shit, Theo. That feels so good, but you gotta stop or—”I jerked back, letting him flop free. When I looked up, I found his eyes slightly glazed and a pleased grin parting his lips.
“You’d better not. I didn’t cook glazed pork so you could only last two minutes.”
Jeremiah’s sudden barked laugh was so out of place with what I’d just been doing that I couldn’t help a chuckle of my own.
“Come here, you,” he said, reaching under my armpits and pulling me up to face him. With one hand, he smoothed out my hair, while the other pulled my body into his.
“I’ve never wanted to be with someone so much, Theo. Will you let me take care of you tonight?”
For the hundredth time that night, I was stunned into silence. All I could do was stare at the beautiful man before me and nod.
