She gave me a stern look, reminding me so much of Mom. “Be careful.”
I sighed. “I am. Please trust me. He’s a good guy.”
“It’s not you I don’t trust, Vaughn,” she said. I just continued to look at her pleadingly until she folded her arms over her chest and took a deep breath. “I’ll try. Talk to you soon.”
13
Alex hadn’t been home when I came back from dinner with my sister. I’d checked in on Roxy, relieved to find she was asleep in the small kennel near his bed in the loft. I waited around downstairs in the clinic, trying to calm down after my argument with Bri. I didn’t want to believe this would be ending so soon. I wanted to hope, more than I ever had before, that we could find a way to turn this into something real. But the longer I waited for him, the more doubt began to settle in my heart. By the time I gave up and went back home, I was aching with sadness.
As I climbed into bed, I knew I wouldn’t be able to get to sleep. I had too many questions ping-ponging in my brain to let that happen. I reached for my tablet on the bedside table and opened the audiobook app and hit play before settling back into the pillow. Maybe a good romantic mystery would distract me enough that I wouldn’t have to worry about where Alex had gone in the dead of night or what our future held.
The narrator’s voice was soothing and had a bit of a rumble to it, making me think about the rough, sexy cadence of Alex’s voice. After a while, his face began to merge with the face of the main character’s in the story until all I saw was his blue eyes and blond hair acting out the scenes in the book. For some reason, I liked thinking about Alex in a suit, all suave and classy as he pieced-together clues of a crime. It wasn’t a look I suspected Alex did on a regular basis, but if I ever had the chance, I’d love to see him with a nice suit and tie.Or maybe just the tie and nothing else…
My mind eagerly followed the two main characters as they took a turn down the dirtier path. They were trapped in an elevator, during a storm, and decided that it was the perfect opportunity to let go of all that sexual tension they’d been building for the last three chapters. My heart pounded as the Alex-look-alike ripped at Royce’s shirt, licking a trail along his smooth chest. And when he sank to his knees in front of Royce, my entire body thrummed with energy. I knew exactly what that was going to feel like and would have done anything to have it happen again.
Without thinking too much about it, I tossed the sheets aside and kicked my pajama pants to the floor. I stroked myself as I pictured Alex doing all the dirty things to me like he was to Royce, and I had just started to buck my hips in tandem with the movements of my hand when Noel suddenly sprang from the bed on the floor and bolted down the hall through the open door, growling low. She hadn’t gotten very far before returning with a very happy Roxy close at her heels, hobbling along on three legs. They playfully bumped and nudged one another, rubbing noses into each other’s fur as they went to Noel’s bed.
“Sorry, she…”
Too confused by Roxy’s sudden appearance, I hadn’t even considered the fact that if Roxy was in the house, that meant Alex was too. My pulse skyrocketed when I saw him standing in the doorway, slightly silhouetted from the pale light of the hallway.
He swallowed hard, eyes zeroed in on my still hard dick. The audiobook was still playing, and I could have sworn it turned up a few notches somehow. The moans and dirty talk of the two characters were suddenly all either of us heard, and I was too mortified to even attempt to shut it off.
Alex grinned. “Maybe I would’ve come over sooner if I knew this is what you were doing.”
I wanted to laugh but couldn’t. “I was worried!” I said, a little defensively.
“Worried?”
“Yes! You weren’t home when I got back from dinner with Bri and with the rain picking up…” I sighed. “I didn’t like thinking about you out there alone.”
“Uh-huh. Sure looks like you wereworried,Doc,”Alex chimed as he leaned against the doorframe. “I went on a walk, but I got back a little while ago.”
“Oh.”
“Fuck me harder,”the guy on the audiobook moaned, making Alex’s grin spread even wider.
“I’ll let you get back to…notworrying,” he said, nodding at my hand, which was still covering my cock.
I scrambled for the tablet and shut it off before crossing the room and reaching for Alex. I could’ve sworn I heard a sigh of relief when I turned him around to kiss him. He slid an arm around me as he pulled me close, deepening the kiss, and I went up on my toes just to get closer to him. One hand slid down my back to my ass, giving it a firm squeeze as we made out. When he broke our kiss to move to my neck, I eagerly tilted my head to give him better access. The contrast of my nakedness against his fully clothed body was almost too much to handle. I needed more, so I fumbled with the hem of his shirt, desperate to feel his skin. In one quick move, Alex stepped back, yanking the material up over his head.
“I want to taste you again,” he pleaded. I would’ve read the shy note in his voice as a sign that maybe he wasn’t sure about this, but he was already closing a fist around my shaft. So maybe he just wasn’t used to asking for what he wanted.
“Then taste me. Fuck me. Whatever you want, it’s yours.”
“No, you fuck me. But I want you in my mouth first.”
Roxy growled low, making Alex pull away with a start. With one quick whistle, the dogs followed him to the door and he shut them out before returning to me. He knelt in front of me, wasting no time licking me up one side and down the other before opening his mouth to take me in.
I gasped as the head of my shaft slid down the back of his throat in one slow, smooth pass. I expected him to pull off, but he held himself there for several seconds before swallowing.
“Holy…ungh!” I cried. He slowly came off and bobbed up and down, working his magic just as he had the other night. When rolled my balls between his fingers, my legs nearly gave out. “You’re so good at this.”
He hummed around me, and my heart began even harder in my chest; I wanted Alex to slow down, to make this last, but at the same time, I wanted what he was offering.
He popped off, leaving me dizzy with pleasure and wild with lust. When he pulled me down to kiss me, I tasted myself on his tongue, and it only surged my desire forward.
“Still want me in you?” I panted, pushing him back onto the bed.
