But Mark was moving with surprising speed,leaving the bedroom and heading for…somewhere.Lucas trailed afterhim at a distance, and watched as Mark opened the front hall closetand stretched up to reach a large cardboard box on the top shelf.“I have some from one of the community centers,” he said proudly.“They gave me the box to distribute to kids, but then the churchsaid I shouldn’t do it, but I kept it…” The box fell from the shelfand Mark caught it easily, then reached inside and pulled outseveral small plastic envelopes.He held one up and squinted at it,then grinned triumphantly at Lucas.“Not past its expiry date!Still good!”
“Nice,” Lucas said.“We’re stealing sexsupplies from horny children.”
“I’ll pay them back,” Mark promised, and hedropped the box on the floor after grabbing a few more envelopesfrom it.He returned to Lucas’s side and pressed the packages intohis hand.
Lucas looked down at them.“Six,seven…eight…I don’t want to disappoint you, but—”
“We can save them for later,” Mark saidarchly, and headed back to the bedroom.
Lucas trailed along behind him.The condominterruption had been good, he figured.It had helped him relax alittle, made it easier for him to contemplate the slow, patientmanner in which he’d have to progress.In jail, it hadn’t matteredmuch whether someone was new to the game, hadn’t mattered all thatmuch if the other person was enjoying himself.It had just beenabout speed and power and base desires.Lucas had enjoyed that kindof sex, but it wasn’t what he wanted for Mark.Not at all.
He got back to the bedroom and tossed thepackets on the bedside table.Mark was looking unsure again,standing by the foot of the bed, his hands back to cupping hiscock.Lucas ignored him for a moment, pulling the comforter and thetop sheet back to the foot of the bed and then smoothing his handsover the mattress.He knew Mark was watching him and tried to lookas if everything was casual and normal.Nobody needed to beself-conscious about anything, not here.He straightened and noddedtoward the bed.“Lie down,” he said.“In the middle.On yourback.”
Mark obeyed and Lucas felt something in hisgut tighten pleasingly.Damn, he liked telling Mark what to do.Lucky for everyone that Mark seemed to like being told.
Lucas climbed up on the bed next to Mark andstretched out beside him, propped up on one elbow.He ran his freehand down from Mark’s armpit to his hip and watched the goose bumpsrise under his fingers and subside as he moved on.“I really dolike your skin,” he said quietly.“It’s so soft.”
“And white,” Mark added.“I look like aghost.”
“Nah,” Lucas scoffed.He bent over to kissMark’s shoulder and worked his way down to his nipple.Mark’s gaspsuggested that this was a sensitive area so Lucas spent a littletime there, sucking and nipping until Mark’s breath was ragged.“You like that?”Lucas asked as he kissed his way back up to Mark’smouth.His hand found Mark’s cock, hot and hard again.
“You know I do,” Mark said gruffly.Theykissed for a while, nothing complicated, and then Lucas reachedback from Mark’s cock, back past his balls.Mark took a deep breathand obviously tried to relax but the muscles were still tight underLucas’s gently probing fingers.
“We don’t have to—” Lucas started, but Markcut him off.
“I want to!I do!I’m just nervous.”
“About what?”Lucas asked casually as hereached behind him and found one of the little packets.He pulledit around so Mark could see what he was doing.He didn’t think thiswas the time for any smooth seductions.Better to be casual andmatter-of-fact, he hoped.“Do you think it’ll hurt?”He ripped openthe little foil package of lube and smeared a generous dollop ontohis finger.Mark watched the proceedings as if hypnotized, but whenLucas brought his hand back down Mark lifted his leg a little togive more room.
“No,” Mark finally said, “I don’t think it’llhurt.Or, maybe a little, but that’s okay.I’m fine with that.”
“If it does hurt, tell me and we’ll stop, orslow down, or whatever you want.”Lucas kissed Mark and slid histongue forward at the same time he eased in with his finger.Histongue made much better progress.“But what else?”he asked, hisfinger still playing gently around the opening.
“I guess I just…I want to make it good.Iwant to not mess it up, and then I get nervous and that does messit up!”Mark flopped dramatically backward on the pillow and Lucastook advantage of his distraction to slide his finger furtherinside.The passage was tight, but looser than it had been justmoments before.
“Mess it up?”Lucas laughed gently, stillplaying with his finger, and then he gave a quick suck to Mark’sclosest nipple.“No way.You’re making me feel like a total stud.Captain Capable, here to help you out.”His finger was movingsmoothly now, slow thrusts and equally slow withdrawals.“I’m likea sex therapist or something.A total expert.”
“And I’m the one who needs therapy,” Markgroused, then his breath hitched and his back arched a little asLucas slid his finger in deeper.
“I don’t know what that face means,” Lucassaid as he peered at the man beside him.“Is that a happy face, ahurt face, or did you just swallow another bug?”
“Bug,” Mark said.His gaze found Lucas’s.“And happy.I just…I forgot how intense it is.”Even as he spoke hewas squirming subtly, his body adjusting to the intrusion.
“Do you trust me?”Lucas asked.He wasn’tsure what the answer would be, but he knew that it was importantfor him to hear it.
“Yes,” Mark said without hesitation.Hecaught himself, frowned as if double checking, then smiled up atLucas.“Yes,” he said again, and Lucas could feel him start torelax.
“It’s not a test,” Lucas murmured, kissinghim on the temple.
“If it was, we’d pass it.”
Mark seemed to enjoy the process more afterthat but Lucas still kept it slow.He knew what he was aimingfor—he didn’t just want the preparation to be adequate, he wantedMark desperate and begging to be fucked.And he was pretty sure hecould get that far if he just took his time.So he teased, and helearned all the tricks of Mark’s body while ignoring his ownthrobbing, aching need.A kiss here and a nip there, pressure andrelease, stretching and then withdrawing to leave a void that Markwould want filled.He knew he was on the right track when Markstopped talking in anything other than grunts and moans, knew hewas almost there when every gentle touch made Mark surge toward thepressure, looking for more stimulation, more contact.It wouldprobably be easiest on Mark if Lucas entered him from behind butafter all his work he decided to be a little selfish.He wanted aclear view of his partner’s face at the moment they joined.So heeased himself between Mark’s legs and felt the muscles tense asMark realize what was going to happen, then toyed with him againuntil that realization had faded back into the blur of sensationand need.
When Lucas finally slid himself inside thestill-tight channel, Mark’s eyes fluttered open and he lookedalmost confused before he rolled his hips up a little higher,instinctively seeking deeper penetration and more contact.“Lucas,”he moaned, and Lucas kissed him as their bodies moved together.
“It’s good.I’ve got you.”Lucas wasn’t quitesure what he meant by that, but he couldn’t make himself worryabout it.He was finally letting himself go, finally freeinghimself of his responsibility and taking what he’d wanted for toolong.His thrusts were long and hard, Mark stretching up to meeteach one.Their breath came in gasps and sweat rolled down Lucas’sback and tickled his ass.“Come on, come on,” he urged, althoughagain he wasn’t quite sure what he wanted Mark to do.Mark justwrapped his hands around Lucas’s ass and pulled him in harder witheach thrust, both of them straining toward the same goal,together.
Mark reached it first, his whole body jerkingand tightening as he shot thick white strands up over his chest.Hestared at Lucas as he came as if he were memorizing every detail ofhis face, of the moment.Lucas kept his hips working, straining tobury himself deeper and deeper in his lover’s body, until finallyMark reached up and pulled him down for a rough kiss.That was whatpushed him over the edge and he came with a gasping roar, jerkinghis torso back and hefting Mark’s body for just a few more deep,perfect thrusts of completion.
