“Appreciate it,” Joshua murmured. He slid his thigh over Colin’s and pressed his body against his husband’s side. He felt Colin’s arms tighten around him, and he dipped his head to drop a line of slow, wet kisses from his shoulder to the center of his chest. He lifted his head and saw Colin grinning broadly.
“You’re wearingwaytoo many clothes,” Colin muttered, then grabbed the hem of Joshua’s T-shirt and pulled it over his head.
“Well, you appear to be solving that problem.”
Colin tossed the T-shirt away, then wrapped both arms around his husband’s waist and dragged him on top of his nearly naked body. His hands slid down Joshua’s back and underneath the waistband of his sweatpants, shoving them down until he could grab two handfuls of his husband’s ample bottom. “Mm,” Colin moaned. “Now, this is more like it.” He gripped harder. “Mygod, you have a great ass!”
Joshua snickered. “You outta know.” He nuzzled against Colin’s neck, licking and nibbling, then squirming to slide his body against his husband’s naked skin. His fingers tugged on the waistband of Colin’s briefs. “These have to go,” he murmured, then smiled when Colin wriggled out of his underwear and threw them to the floor.
When he looked up, Colin’s eyes were fixed on his face. “You are so beautiful,” Colin whispered. His fingers moved up Joshua’s back, then wove through the tangled locks of his dark, curly hair. “So beautiful inside and out.”
He caressed Joshua’s face, moving his fingers in a gentle glide over the upswept angle of Joshua’s cheekbone, then shifted to the back of his neck and drew him close.
Joshua breathed out a moan. Soft lips moved against his. Colin's lips. His hand held Joshua’s face, and his mouth, as he pressed it against Joshua’s, was open, seeking with his tongue.
“Mm.” Joshua moaned, his lips parting under Colin's passionate kiss, his breath catching in his throat. He saw Colin's eyes, breathtakingly close, heavy lids half-closed. As he gazed, his gold-flecked eyes abruptly changed. They were slanted, warming under Joshua’s stare and shining into him. Colin’s kiss still flamed into Joshua’s mouth, soft but so demanding that Joshua whimpered.
Colin's fingers caressed his face, but his mouth never left Joshua’s—not for a moment. His lips moved over Joshua’s open mouth, inhaling, breathing Joshua into his body, feeding on his lips as though all the sustenance he needed to survive lived in Joshua’s kisses.
Joshua felt every inch of his body melt, burning with desire. The hard pulse of Colin’s arousal throbbed against his thigh, drawing a gasp from his throat. He wanted this hardness inside him, filling him, possessing him. Whimpering, he pulled away from Colin’s kiss and scrabbled on the bedside table until his fingers touched a smooth, plastic tube.
“No more teasing,” he croaked from a throat that suddenly felt dry as dust. He quickly opened the tube of lubricant and filled his hand with the cool, slippery substance.
“Isthatwhat I was doing?” Colin asked, his lips curving in a mischievous smile.
“You know damned well…” Joshua began, his hand fisting around Colin’s hard, male heat, drenching it in lubricant.
“I know it’s only teasing if what I do gets you hot,” Colin murmured. He grasped Joshua’s shoulders and drew him forward, arching his hips, while Joshua grasped Colin’s arousal, guiding it to the entrance to his body.
“Well, itmusthave been teasing then because I’m hot enough to turn us both to cinders.”
Colin arched again, and Joshua gasped, falling forward over his husband’s body. “Oh, god, Colin,wait! Wait!” His breath hitched in his chest, and his head was low. His fingers clenched around Colin’s pillow, moaning again and again.
“Did I hurt you?”
“No! My god, darling, no,” Joshua moaned, chest heaving. “When you’re first inside me, it just feels so fucking good! Ohh, god!” He hissed out a breath through clenched teeth. “Colin…Yedid, go slow. Make it last.”
Colin arched his body again and again. He tried to move slowly but was hampered by Joshua’s weight. “Baby,” he gasped out. “Switch with me, please.”
He scrambled out from under his husband and positioned Joshua beneath him. He propped Joshua’s legs over his shoulders and slowly entered his body again. “Oh god,” Colin breathed out. “Oh god, Josh!” He felt Joshua’s fingernails dig into his arms and bowed his head. “Breathe,” Colin whispered against Joshua’s lips. “Breathe, baby.”
He lay atop Joshua's naked body, his hands loosely wrapped around Joshua's forearms. He felt Joshua inhale, the slow rise and fall of his chest echoed by the slight opening of his mouth as it pressed against Colin's.
As he exhaled, Colin gasped, and a sharp, aching jolt of desire shot through his groin. The gasp pulled Joshua's breath into his mouth, and Colin felt his mind and body melt into a pool of molten longing. More than sexual desire, the feeling was one of complete and rapturous absorption into another.“Breath is life,” Colin thought. “His life inside me... part of me.”
He whimpered, leaning on his knees, thrusting then slowly withdrawing only to once again enter him, filling him in a slow, measured stroke that was calculated to bring Joshua to the very peak of passion only to leave him there, gasping for more. Colin's yearning expanded as he felt his hardness slide deep into the hot core of Joshua's body until he trembled, aching, on the edge of release, and he bit down hard on his lower lip in a desperate attempt to maintain control.
Joshua sparked his skin like a thousand lightning bolts. But more than that, he sparked Colin'smind. And at times like this, when their naked bodies were pressed together, and the desire was at its most frenzied, he felt them melt into each other in a fusion so complete that he lost all sense ofself. At this moment, he was nothing outside of what he became when they were one.
His breath caught in a sob as his body trembled on the brink of release, and he bit down again on his lip, using all his strength to stave it off, to hold this moment when he trembled on the threshold of passion. To hold it. To contain it. Torememberit.
He could see little through his tears. But he heard the harsh rush of Joshua's breath. He felt Joshua’s legs wrap around him and tighten, pulling him closer. He knew Joshua was close. Nearly there. Nearly ready. Colin could feel it. He could taste it. He was intensely aware of Joshua's every movement. Every sound he made, every whimper, was a language Colin understood on the deepest, most intimate levels. Even the taste of his skin sent a clear message coursing through Colin's veins.“Oh, yes! God, YES!” Colin thought in anguished desire. He yearned to bring his husband to a shattering release… to feel him pulse as ripples of ecstasy jolted him, leaving him shaken and trembling.
Colin eased back, looking into Joshua's eyes, locking their gaze as his hand dropped, grasped, stroked... stroked again... stroked harder... stroked faster as his thumb moved in a slow circle around the tip. He smiled as Joshua's eyes slowly closed, his body undulating, rippling under Colin's, arching toward him to take Colin even more deeply inside him.
Colin's head dipped. He leaned on one hand, inching lower until his mouth touched Joshua's ear, his body still rocking in a steady rhythm. “I love you,” he whispered. “Jesus, Josh, I love you so much!”
Joshua gasped and writhed beneath him, and Colin's lips quickly captured his mouth, kissing him with a fierce and urgent passion. His hand moved faster. Joshua was too close to stop now. Too close to slow down. His body was flushed with need, and Colin could see droplets of sweat dotting his forehead. He was crying out and whimpering, thrusting himself into Colin's hand, impaling himself on Colin's throbbing hardness. “Let me,” Colin whispered against his mouth.
