Nick stroked himself harder, feeling his balls tighten and then without a warning he was coming, fast and furious.He rode the uncontrollable shudders, and kept stroking himself, staying within the vortex of pleasure for as long as he could.
When he finally slumped back against the rumpled blankets on the hay bed, his chest was heaving and his skin was slick with perspiration yet again.
Man, he hadn’t come so fast and furious since he’d been a teenager.
He grinned and began cleaning himself up with one of the two wet washcloths he’d snuck out of Jenna’s ranch house in yet another plastic bag.He couldn’t wait to tell Axel.It would be the excuse he’d need to be punished again.
* * * * *
It was at the crack of dawn when Axel stepped out of the barn, leading a horse when Nick came up behind him, leading another horse.
The sunrise hit him like a blessing.It was too bright, too open, too free and for a moment he had to steady himself against the weight of it.He stopped to take in the view.
The rising sun painted the pasture in soft golds, and the crisp morning air carried the scent of damp earth and fresh hay.
The sunshine was already melting away the delicate strands of white mist and Axel could tell by the way the sun shone heat against his body that it was going to be another hot August day.
“Sure feels good to be outside those prison walls and see the sunrise again, eh,” Nick commented as he moved up beside Axel tugging along his horse.
Axel nodded, keeping quiet, sucking up the view.This was what freedom felt like.Birds chirping.Dragonflies zipping past them and everything else just quiet.
Nick’s footsteps fell into rhythm with his.It was the same way they had in the prison yard, in the corridors, in every place they’d learned to survive together.
“Good thing it was a quiet night,” Nick said softly.
Axel frowned and gazed over at him, instantly noticing Nick’s teasing smile.
“Quiet night?”Axel murmured.
There was a faint bruise on Nick’s neck where Axel had sucked just a little too hard during one of last night’s sexual escapades with the man.The sight sent a flicker of guilt and pride through him.It was a reminder of how close they’d been, and how close they still were.
Nick chuckled, low and rough, the sound sending a shot of warmth through Axel.
“I’m pretty sure I heard the barn’s loft filling with hot moans when I wasn’t even there,” Axel responded.He’d heard Nick masturbating after he’d left following their first sexual excursion.Had wanted to join him, but he’d been on duty keeping an eye on that road and the ranch house where Jenna had been sleeping.
Nick’s blue eyes sparkled.
“Hey, I had to entertain myself, just like you did.I heard you too when I was out and about.”
Axel’s lips twitched.Their banter slid easily between them, warm and familiar, softening the edges of the morning.
“Shut up, already.You enjoyed your punishments.Stealing butter and washcloths from Jenna.You are a bad boy.C’mon let’s get the horses out to the pasture so we can get breakfast.I worked up one hell of an appetite.”
He gave the reins a sharp tug, leading his horse forward.Heard Nick follow suit.
Axel exhaled slowly at the memory of Nick’s body beneath him.Trembling, wanting, needing.He’d reminded Nick good and hard last night that the two of them were good together.
And Nick had taken his punishments, had even begged him for them.He’d also heard Nick whisper Jenna’s name like a prayer between his gasps of arousal.The memory twisted something deep inside him.Maybe a tinge of jealousy, a lot of curiosity, longing.They were all tangled together in a way he didn’t dare examine too closely.It should have pissed him off that Nick was thinking of Jenna while he’d been fucking him now that they were out of prison.But he wasn’t upset.Instead, the idea of Nick wanting Jenna made his cock twitch in his jeans.
The two horses whinnied softly, their breath steaming in the cool air as they reached the pasture gate.Nick leaned over and unhooked the latch.His shoulder pressed against Axel’s shoulder, the heat of him seeping through the thin fabric of their shirts.Axel didn’t move, just enjoyed the touch of Nick.
“You’re thinking about Jenna aren’t you?Thinking about her curled up snug with that damned dog you brought back,”Axel teased.
Truth was, he had nothing against the dog.He just enjoyed taunting Nick.
Nick pulled open the latch on the gate and the metal creaked in protest.
“I’m thinking about you, Axel.You need to make sure you stay on Jenna’s good side.She was pretty upset and worried when you took off the way you did yesterday.You gotta realize, many years have passed.She may not be the same woman as when you guys were younger.Remember what Cyn and that guard said about the first seventy-two hours being our most dangerous of re-offending.You need to think before you act.You could have set off the ankle alarm had you not come to your senses before it went off.”
