Butfuck, was itsatisfying.
As his knot grew beyond the point of comfort, Adrian dropped down onto Sterling’s hips and worked himself in shorter, shallower bursts of movement. Their lips locked, and Adrian stole each panted gasp from Sterling’s lips. Sterling was still coming, filling Adrian as their bodies reached totalbliss.
Adrian came across his chest, the wet splatter landing in strips that were promptly dispersed as Adrian toppled down onto Sterling’s chest. The kiss broke. Adrian laid up on top of him, unable to go anywhere else. The knot would hold him in place for the next fifteen minutes while Sterling’s seed workedintohim.
“I’m sorry,” Adrian whispered. The words were so tiny that Sterling almost didn’t hear them. “I’m so sorry. I… I didn’t meanto,and…”
“It’s okay.” Sterling lifted his head so he could press a kiss against Adrian’s forehead. “I liked it. I liked every part of it. Do you want to play like thisagain?”
“Yes.”
There was no doubt in Adrian’s voice, nor was there any more argument. He didn’t fight Sterling for dominance—trust had been established, and Adrian had learned that Sterling was safe. Now, coming down from orgasm, they’d found their pathforward.
A total power exchange wasn’t going to happen. Adrian wasn’t suited for it, and Sterling wasn’t the kind of man who would force Adrian’s hand. He didn’t want to be. What they shared needed to be organic, and this? Thiswasit.
Pain. Pleasure.Versatility.
Sterling had never given the reins to anyone as freely as he’d given them to Adrian, but he didn’t regret his choice. This wasright. They wereright.
He wasready.
Adrian lifted his head and reignited the kiss, but the embers had burnt low, and only residual heat kept it alive. It was languid and heartfelt in a way it shouldn’t have been, but it hooked Sterling right in the gut and made him wish it would never end allthesame.
Twenty-five days of exploration. Twenty-five days ofbliss.
It would betheirs.
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Adrian
By the timeSterling’s knot deflated, Adrian was exhausted, but he couldn’t keep himself from claiming kiss after unhurried kiss from Sterling’s lips. In the quiet following their coupling, fuzzy affection made its claim on Adrian and erased the anger that had once flowed so liberally through hisveins.
Sterling’s cock slipped from his body. Adrian sighed softly and kissed Sterling again, then rolled onto the bed and stared at the ceiling. The room was still dark, but light leeched in from thehallway.
“We don’t need to get you the morning-after pill, do we?” Sterling asked lazily. He dragged Adrian into his arms, and Adrian snuggled close and closed his eyes. For now, while his worries were distant and his body was relaxed, he wanted to enjoy himself. In Sterling’s bedroom he didn’t have to worry aboutfamily.
“No. My heat isn’t until next month. We’re fine.” Adrian shifted his hips back and forth, his body still sensitive from how Sterling had stretched him. “The last week we’re together, we should avoid unprotected sex. Sperm is viable for what, a few days once it’s outside of you and inside of me? So just to make sure we’re not in the danger zone, we’ll wrap it once we’re closer to ourenddate.”
A pang of regret shrunk Adrian’s stomach thinking about the end of his twenty-five days with Sterling. Not even an hour ago he’d been so enraged by Sterling’s behavior that he’d been willing to call the deal off, but after what they’d just shared? If Sterling could keep that up, Adrian had no reason to want to go. He wasn’t suited for submission, but now that he’d gotten the message through to Sterling, maybe they’d bealright.
Or maybe it was just the afterglow of orgasm tinting the world in rosecolor.
Whatever the case, Adrian relished the now. The scent of sex hung in the air around them, Adrian’s familiar omega signature mixed with Sterling’s alpha. Adrian had been with more men than he cared to admit, but this was the first time he’d found someone he smelled sogoodwith.
Enamored, he rolled over and buried his head against Sterling’s chest. Sterling chuckled and ran a hand through his hair, holding him loosely. In the fifteen minutes following the release of his knot, Adrian had undone his restraints and given him his freedom, but Sterling’s cheek had only just lost itsredhue.
“Sterling?” Adrian wasn’t sure why he was prompting conversation. It wasn’t like him to stick around and cuddle after sex, much less engage with his partner, but if he was going to stay, Adrian knew he needed to make his thoughtsknown.
“Mm?” Sterling’s fingers ran in loose patterns through his hair, massaging his scalp and relaxing him further. Adrian couldn’t recall the last time he’d been cherished like this. “Whatisit?”
“I don’t wantaTPE.”
“Iknow.”
There was no disappointment. Sterling didn’t try to redirect the conversation or beg Adrian to change his mind. The statement was so simple, in fact, that Adrian couldn’t be sure that Sterling wasn’t mocking him. He lifted himself up from Sterling’s chest only enough to look at Sterling’s face, but he found no sign of derisionthere.
Sterling was beingsincere.
