“I assume you need to do human things in the bathroom,” Valac said.
Julian groaned. “Yeah, I should.”
“I’d help, but I don’t think I can brush your teeth for you.”
Julian snorted. “No, that’s okay. I can manage that much.”
Most of their stuff was still boxed up, but the boxes were at least in the right rooms. He found everything quickly, nudging the box out of the way with his foot, then brushed his teeth and washed his face. He stripped on his way to the bedroom, leaving his clothes in a trail through the hallway from the bathroom to the bed. Valac was already in bed, sitting against the headboard, and he drew the blankets back when Julian approached, hopping from foot to foot as he pulled off his socks. Valac’s violet eyes trailed appreciatively down Julian’s body.
“I should thank Shadrach for getting you those,” he said, eyeing Julian’s jockstrap.
Julian plucked at the waistband with a chuckle. “I put it on this morning thinking maybe we could christen the house after everyone left, but that might have to wait until tomorrow.”
“I’ll let you get a few hours.” Valac’s voice was laced with dark promise, and a shiver rolled through Julian. “And then you’re all mine.”
“I’m always all yours,” he replied, flopping down beside him and burrowing under the blankets.
Valac curled around him, his naked body snug against Julian’s own, filling every gap with heated skin. His cock nestled between Julian’s cheeks, hard but not pressing, and Julian murmured his appreciation for the sensation even as his mind drifted between awake and asleep. Everything went fuzzy around the edges, and he fell asleep with Valac’s lips tracing his neck and shoulder, warm and feather-soft.
His dreams were static, a satisfying haze that morphed languidly from nothingness to pleasure. His body reacted,arching toward it, seeking more. When awareness returned, he was flat on his stomach with Valac’s weight pressing him against the mattress. The room around them was still dark, and Valac straddled his hips. The blankets tangled around Julian’s feet. The slick rod of Valac’s cock notched against his hole. He arched his back, trying to raise his hips, and moaned sleepily.
“Valac,” he murmured, trailing off into a groan as the head of his cock popped past the ring of relaxed muscle. Had he slept through Valac prepping him?
“I couldn’t wait any longer, my jewel,” Valac said, mouthing at his neck. “I waited for hours, watching you sleep. You didn’t feel my shadows wrap you up, tease your cock and your little hole to get you ready for me.”
“Nnnng,” Julian whined as he began to pump his hips, driving his own hard length against the mattress.
“You’re so tight, my jewel. Always so tight, like you want to suck me in and hold me there forever.”
Julian panted, reaching out for something to hold on to and tangling his fingers with Valac’s. He loved this. There was no one else in the world he trusted to pin him down like this, but he knew without a doubt that Valac would never harm him. He liked knowing he could give up control of his own body and let someone else take care of his needs. Trusting another was difficult after all he’d been through, but he never doubted Valac.
HelovedValac.
The realization hit him at the same time as his orgasm. His body tensed as it pulsed through him, his eyes rolling back in his head. Behind him, Valac grunted, shoving in deep and hard and filling him with a rapturous sigh. He dropped down onto his elbows and rained kisses on the back of Julian’s head and neck.
When Julian had control of his tongue again, he slurred, “That was fantastic. Only wake me up like that from now on.”
Valac chuckled in his ear. “Don’t tempt me. I want you all the time. Sometimes, like tonight, I lie beside you while you’re sleeping and imagine all the things I want to do to you. And my powers manifest according to what I want. Sometimes that means attacking my enemies. In this case, it reaches for you, wrapping around your cock and filling you up the way I want to.”
Julian shivered. “No complaints here.”
Valac growled.
Julian turned his head, offering a smile. “You can have me whenever you want, y’know. If I don’t want to, I can just tell you. Odds are good I’ll be up for it, though. I want you all the time, too.”
Valac smiled, dark and pleased, and Julian’s cock twitched in the wet confines of the jockstrap.
He’d thought his love for his friends and the guild was strong. They were nothing compared to the feeling that squeezed his chest when he looked into Valac’s violet eyes. “Valac…”
“Yes, my jewel?”
“I…” Would he understand what it meant? Would he say it back? Julian had no doubt that Valac’s feelings for him were real, but did demons understand the concept of human love? If not, he’d just have to make him understand. “I love you.”
Valac stared at him for a long, inscrutable moment, and then his face broke into a grin that made him look almost boyish. He lunged forward and captured Julian’s mouth in an off-center kiss, and Julian laughed into it.
“I love you, too!” Valac crowed. He disentangled their bodies and rolled away.
“What—where are you going?” Julian asked, raising up on his elbows. “You’re not supposed to leave someone right after you say that for the first time!”
