“Not enough,” he breathed.
I gripped his arms, hurled my weight, and flipped him onto his back. Magically, my cock stayed inside him as his legs flew up to my shoulders. I adjusted, balanced myself, then drove deep inside him with all the force I could muster.
“Haru!”Over and over, harder and harder.
Faster and faster.
Esumi gripped my sides, neither of us caring for bruises or pain.
He guided me into him, willed me to move, demanded everything I had to offer.
So I gave it to him.
I felt him stretch.
Let his grunts and groans drive me.
Dug my nails into his skin as sensations wracked my whole being.
I didn’t want to come, didn’t want the moment to end. I wanted to live inside Esumi, filling him with my body, my heart, and my soul.
But tension built.
Pleasure raged.
Release swelled.
When I knew I could hold back no longer, I gripped his shaft and stroked as fast and hard as I could.
Esumi cried out.
I shoved harder.
He clenched my arms.
And everything I could ever possess spilled into him, marking him as mine.
Forever mine.
Chapter 6
Haru
Sleep refused to come.
I lay in the darkness, my hand drifting across Esumi’s exposed back, tracing lazy circles between his shoulder blades. His skin was warm beneath my fingertips, marked here and there by old scars from training and one real battle he never spoke about. His breathing had deepened and slowed, but I remained painfully awake, my mind refusing to quiet.
The sounds of night filtered through our window—crickets, the continual splash of our mysterious bath refilling itself, the soft chanting of monks at their midnight devotions.
There was such peace here.
No servants hovered at every doorway, no courtiers whispered behind painted fans, no mother arranged marriage meetings with eligible daughters of powerful families.
Here, it was only the temple, the training, and Esumi.
Gods, I loved it.
Even when my muscles screamed for relief, for a day without feeling the painful lessons of abokkenor endless weariness of eternal days of labor, this place brought me such . . . stillness.
