Heart in his throat and cock half-hard from the sight of him alone, Ezra slid to the floor.
11
Titan
“You,” Ezra gasped from the floor, which he had slid onto for reasons unknown. “What are you doing in my room?”
“What am I doing in your room?” Titan arched a brow and bit his lip in the seductive way of the “fuck boy.” “I thought it would be obvious—I am here to mate with you.”
Ezra groaned and dropped his head against the door with athunk!
“Oh, yes, you have an aversion to the word ‘mate,’” Titan remembered upon seeing Ezra’s reaction. “I forgot this. I mean to say that I willfuckyou, Ezra, and I have come to your room so that fucking may occur.”
“Notbetter,” Ezra grumbled. “Just… dude. Why are you doing this to me? Why can’t you just leave me alone?”
A curious question.
Wasthere a way to fuck without occupying the same place at the same time?
Humans did not have psychic abilities, so surely Ezra spoke in jest, yet there was no humor in his voice. It was, Titan concluded as he stood from the bed and approached Ezra’s position, a simple mistake. Ezra had surely meant to use a joking tone, but had forgotten.
It was of no matter. Titan was agreatinterpreter.
“You do not wish for me to leave you alone,” he said as he dropped to his hands and knees, straddling Ezra’s thighs. Their noses were close enough to touch, although Titan purposefully did not let them. He let his eyelids lower until his eyes were nearly closed and spoke in a low whisper—the kind reserved for those who shared bedsheets. “You desire me… and I desireyou.”
“Why me, though?” Ezra asked, voice small and somehow fragile. “I mean it. There are nearly eight billion human beings on Earth, but here you are in my bedroom. You can literally turn yourself into anyone’s greatest fantasy. Your personality? Well, there’s not much you can do about that one, but there have to be plenty of people who are into that whole ‘arrogant piece of shit’ thing you’ve got going on…”
“What is the point of your words?”
“My point is that you’re putting all your horny eggs in my basket, but you don’t have to. We would both be much better off if you found another human to screw around with. Save us both the trouble.”
Titan cocked his head to the side, considering.
“But I want to put my horny eggs in your basket,” he said earnestly. “I have mated—fucked—many times in my life, and I am wanted by many beings across the galaxy because I am very appealing as a mate?—”
“Good god.”
“—but you are also very appealing. You are a beautiful creature—the most beautiful of your kind—and you have intelligence, and status, and are well above average in mat—fuckingability. I do not desire to put my eggs in any other human. I only desire to put my eggs inyou.”
Ezra stared unblinkingly at him for a long increment, his cheeks a delightful pink color. Hislips parted slightly and Titan internally preened, sure that Ezra was soon to give in to lust and surrender himself with a kiss… but instead, Ezra pressed the base of his palms against his eyes and groaned out something that sounded as though it might have been English had only his teeth not been so tightly clenched.
“I cannot understand you,” Titan helpfully informed him. “May I put my eggs in you now?”
Ezra dropped his hands and gave him a flat look. “Listen, clearly we have sexual chemistry. It’s stupid of me to pretend like we don’t, okay? I get it. Just the thought of you putting eggs in me makes me want to tear your clothes off and push you down right here on the floor so I can put them there myself. Which is fucked up, but we can unpack that later, when you aren’t trying to seduce me. The point is, as hot as you make me, you’re also the dickhead brother of one of my best friends. I already feel like shit for not telling him about what we did before, and I can’t add onto that or I’ll go crazy. I can’t be with you again, Titan. The guilt will eat me alive.”
“Guilt is an emotion. It is not capable of consumption.”
“It’s a turn of phrase, dude.”
“There is no need for formal titles here.” Titan, wishing to put Ezra at ease, slid a hand up Ezra’s leg.
Looking pained, Ezra swatted his hand away. “I can’t do this. Al?—”
“Our union does not concern my brother,” Titan interjected before Ezra could finish. “We are mature beings, and are capable of making our own decisions. He should understand this. After all, he has found a mate of his own.”
“No, that’s not it.” Ezra drew a shaky breath and lowered his eyes, although what good that did him, Titan didn’t know, as it seemed to him that Ezra was now gazing longingly at his lips. “Maybe it doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, but it’s a betrayal of trust to me, and I can’t go through with it.”
Was that it?
