“You’re different, and you’re misunderstood, and that’sokay.” Sterling’s fingers kneaded Adrian’s ass, kind instead of cruel. The same wild chemistry between them when they’d first met was present now, but it was changed. No longer was it frantic and greedy—over time, it had mellowed and grown stronger, but it was far from understated. It vibrated in Adrian’s heart and tightened his stomach. But best of all, it unraveled and expanded in his mind, pushing the limits of his universe until he was as broad and vast as eternityitself.
All because of Sterling, the way he touched him, and the thingshesaid.
“You don’t have to bottle it all up. You don’t have to be so strong. Let me be strong for you. Let me share the weight. You deserve so much more than what you give yourself. You deserve tobefree.”
“I deserve to be free.” Adrian’s mouth tasted like tears, and he swallowed back the saline bitterly. He’d said the words, but they still didn’tfeelreal.
If he could just let go, if he could justacceptit…
Sterling’s hands gently tugged the globes of Adrian’s ass apart. The bed shifted. Sterling nuzzled against the inside of Adrian’s thigh with his cheek, then moved again. It wasn’t until Adrian felt the wet, firm pressure of something warm against his entrance that he realized what washappening.
With a breathless cry, he buried his face into the pillows and squeezed hiseyesshut.
Sterling’s tongue worked in slow circles around Adrian’s hole. Sometimes it pushed, creating pleasure so tantalizing that Adrian had to stop himself from thrusting back and riding Sterling’s tongue. At other times, its presence was so light it almost wasn’t there. The wetness Sterling left behind chilled Adrian’s skin when he drew breath, then heated with each exhalation. The temperature play was subtle, but Sterling had coaxed Adrian’s brain to pay attention to his body, and now he felt every little thing like it was something much larger thanitwas.
“Say it again,” Sterling uttered. His voice warmed the slick alongAdrian’sass.
Adrian shivered. “I deserve tobefree.”
“Again.”
“I deserve tobefree.”
“Again.”
“I deserve tobefree!”
The pillows dampened Adrian’s scream, but nothing could hold back the fire in his soul. It scorched the pain to ash and cauterized the open wounds he still suffered from. The blaze consumed, eating him up from the inside out, spreading from the clenched point in his stomach until he was full of it, and it was fullofhim.
Sterling’s tongue pushed, and pleasure exploded behind Adrian’s eyes. He gasped and groaned and pushed himself into the bed, too strung out from ecstasy to care how much noisehemade.
What he needed now—allhe needed now—wasSterling.
“Take me,” Adrian begged. His voice was foreign to him now, too desperate and unchained to belong to his throat. “Please,pleasetakeme.”
Sterling’s tongue didn’t stop. Adrian crushed his face into the pillows and screamed. Legs spread, body struggling between utter relaxation and total tension, his cock jerked, andhecame.
“Sterling,” Adrian squeaked. His balls tightened, and cum leaked from his slit and dripped onto the bedding. “Sterling, please.Please.”
Orgasm had arrived, but Adrian wasn’t satisfied. An emptiness filled him, taking up space beneath his too-tight stomach and the unending bliss in his groin. Until it was filled, hecouldn’trest.
He needed to share with Sterling the same satisfaction that Sterling hadgivenhim.
“Sterling!”
The hot tonguedidn’tstop.
“Master.” Adrian croaked the word, delirious with pleasure. “Master, please.Please. I need you. I need yourightnow.”
The tongue stopped. The bedshifted.
Adrian got what hewanted.
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Sterling mounted Adrian.His broad hands found their way to Adrian’s hips and propped Adrian into position. Beneath him, Adrian cried out in fragmented, nonsensical ways into thepillows.
