Kai hesitated, eyes searching his.A war flickered there, but then something steadied.He gave the smallest nod.“Yes.”
Hogan’s relief hit like oxygen.He kissed him again, urgent, and they stumbled back up the path together.Every few steps, Hogan shoved Kai against something solid—first a tree trunk, bark rough against Kai’s shoulders as their mouths clashed, then the side of the van, the metal cool against overheated skin.Each time they broke apart only to crash back together, arms tangled, teeth scraping, mouths hungry.
Inside the van, Kai had already pulled the bed down, covers waiting.Hogan went straight to it, yanking the blankets back with impatient hands.“Strip,” he ordered, voice rough with need.“Then get in.”
Kai’s eyes darkened, but he obeyed, pulling his shirt over his head, skin gleaming in the low light.Hogan’s breath caught.He forced himself to turn, to hit the shower, the fastest one of his life.Water sluiced over him, but it wasn’t enough to cool the fire roaring under his skin.
Still damp, half-dry, he came out with a towel around his waist, grabbed the lube from the drawer, and stalked toward the bed.Kai was waiting, sprawled and watching, every line of him taut and ready.
Hogan’s chest ached with something deeper than lust.This is mine.He’s mine.The thought burned through him as he dropped the towel and climbed onto the bed.He leaned over, pressing his forehead to Kai’s for a breath.“I don’t remember everything,” he whispered, “but I remember how this feels.How you feel.And I’m not letting it go again.”
Then he kissed him once more, slow and devastating, before everything else fell away.
Kai chuckled against his mouth, breathless.“You boss me around a lot, you know that?”
“Yeah,” Hogan muttered, lips brushing his jaw.“And you love it.”
Kai smirked, dragging his nails lightly down Hogan’s back.“Always did.Still doesn’t mean I’m letting you have all the fun.”
Hogan groaned when Kai rolled his hips upward, hard and insistent, and bit out a laugh.“Smart-ass.You always were trouble.”
“Guess that makes us even,” Kai shot back, catching Hogan’s mouth again.Their kiss broke into laughter when Hogan slipped on the sheet, nearly losing his balance.He swore, then laughed, too, and Kai pulled him down hard against his chest.
Hogan put his mouth against the sensitive skin of Kai’s neck, loving the way he arched his head, giving him more room—an offer he made the most of.He nuzzled, kissed, bit, and sucked against him until Kai writhed beneath him.Then he was on the move, kissing his way down the lithe strength of him, only to pause when he reached the gauze covering the knife wounds on his side—a stark reminder that he had almost lost him.
“This is a fucking abomination,” he growled, then leaned in to press two kisses to the wounds, savoring the sharp inhalation Kai gave at the act.His man was a romantic, and Hogan had a feeling he always had been.
“Are you going anywhere with this?”Kai asked, sounding a little breathless.“Or are you just hanging out there for a while?”
Romantic, but impatient.
Hogan threw him his most arrogant smile, and from the roll of Kai’s eyes, it was one he had seen before—perhaps many times.“Why don’t you reach out and hold on to the edge of the bed.”
“And why would I need to do that?”Kai asked in his haughtiest tone, making Hogan’s body twitch in anticipation.
“Because,” Hogan said as he continued moving down the bed, “I am about to rock your world.”
And with that, he took Kai to the back of his throat, reveling in the shout of his name from Kai’s lips and the way the man’s hips lifted off the mattress helplessly.He reached down to play with Kai’s balls as he continued, alternating between swirling his tongue around the tip, then pushing down to the root, then dragging the flat of his tongue along the sensitive underside.In a shorter time than he had wanted, Kai was trembling against the mattress, calling his name, cursing him in the next breath, and from the way his cock was swelling in Hogan’s mouth, he knew his man was moments away from release.
A sudden plan came to mind, and Hogan reached for the tube of lube, clicking it open, and then using it to coat his fingers.He slid that hand down past Kai’s balls and started to press against the muscled ring of his ass.Hogan loved the tremble that rocked through Kai at the move, and not wanting to finish this part too soon, he pulled back from his oral ministrations.
“Goddamn you, Ace,” Kai growled.“Fucking finish me.”
Hogan pulled off with a pop and a grin.“Not yet, Rip.I’m not done with you.”
He saw a flicker of surprise and then joy cross Kai’s face, and he would think about the why of that later.For now, he pressed his fingers against that ring of muscle once more and didn’t stop until he had entry.
“Fuck, you’re tight, lover,” Hogan moaned, as he worked to add a second and then a third finger, stretching Kai until he could move easily within him.He scissored his fingers, gently working him open for what was to come.
“It—it’s been a while for me,” Kai admitted, his voice shaking.
Hogan locked his gaze with Kai’s.“How long?”
Kai smiled, reaching out to palm Hogan’s cheek.“Since you, baby.You may not have remembered me, but I sure as hell remembered you.I don’t expect that you’ve been celibate these past three years as well.Like I said, you—”
“I haven’t been with anyone since the accident,” Hogan admitted, suddenly feeling very vulnerable.Kai’s eyes widened in shock, and they lay like that for a moment.“Believe me, love, please.My mind may not have remembered you, but my body sure as fuck knew who I belonged to.I found absolutely no one attractive until that day I saw you on the screen in the conference room.”
“Yeah?”Kai asked softly.
