“Maurice.You’ve practically dragged me to your room with promises of fucking, and now you are having doubts?”
He swallowed.“It would be remiss of me to risk your wellbeing for my own pleasure.”
“Noted.”Sebastian laid his hands on Maurice’s chest—two searing hot touch points—and pushed him back against the wall.His kiss was fresh, strong, unforgiving, and told Maurice that he need not have worried.This man wanted him as much as he wanted, and everything else was an excuse to avoid the unavoidable.Maurice had always thought he wouldn’t like being pushed around by a lover because he was a Duke and he was accustomed to being the one wielding power but there was something incredible about giving up a little bit of it.Only a little bit.He wanted to experience Sebastian’s weight on top of him, and the idea of being fucked instead of doing the fucking turned his blood to liquid fire.He hadn’t done it like that before; people wanted the Duke in bed and he was more than happy to oblige, but this was Sebastian.Sebastian saw him as a man, not as the Duke.
He gripped Sebastian’s shoulders and manhandled him towards the bed.The giant four-poster bed was his space alone.No one disturbed him here.He’d never invited anyone into this bed.Others, he’d been in plenty of other people’s bed but none of them mattered now, except he was glad to have some experience so he could bestow pleasure on Sebastian.Maurice’s heart hammered in his chest at the tussle of Sebastian’s tongue with his own, and the way his hands unbuttoned his jacket without a fumble.Sebastian’s methodical fingers combined with passionate kisses to remove the slight panic resulting from knowing he wanted Sebastian here in his ducal bed, and what that might mean.The past didn’t matter and neither did the future.He was here right now.
“Get naked.”He wrestled back control, loving how delicious it was that they were the same height and physical strengths.They were equal in everything bar class, and class didn’t matter in bed.
“Your Grace.”Sebastian’s eyes twinkled and his lips curled at the edges as he stepped away from their kiss and removed his clothing faster and more efficiently than any valet Maurice had ever known.“And you?Or should I ...ring for someone?”
Maurice was in heaven and hell as Sebastian teased him.He teased him with his naked flesh; all those glorious muscles toned from working outside all day, and he teased him with words that no one would dare say to a Duke.
“I am perfectly competent.”He set about proving it, glad that he hadn’t worn his tight Hessians as he did need a valet to assist in removing those boots which were handmade and moulded to his feet and calves.Dinner shoes were much easier to toe off.He took off his jacket, then picked up Sebastian’s jacket from the floor and rested them both over a chair.
“You are very slow at this.”Sebastian captured Maurice’s chin between his thumb and forefinger, kissed him lightly on the lips, then used those competent hands to assist Maurice in stripping off his clothes.Maurice ignored the jest because having Sebastian’s hands all over him stole his breath and his ability to think.Once naked, Maurice stepped forward to hold Sebastian, but his stable master had stepped backwards and assessed him with the same keen eye he used to run over the horses.
“Like what you see?”Maurice knew he was handsome.Many people commented on it, and some of them might even have been telling the truth, not merely complementing him because he was a Duke.
“I expected you to be less.”
“Less?”Desire was the only thing keeping Maurice here.He was not accustomed to being treated like this; like he was nobody and like Sebastian could decide his fate.It made his skin prickly, as if hot and cold winds were circulating around him in unusual patterns.He couldn’t decide if he liked it or merely just needed the humility to keep him from being an ass.
“You are very fit.”
Maurice preened a little; humility be damned.He prided himself on his physical fitness, unwilling to be dissolute like many of his peers who succumbed to drink and gluttony in their lives of excess.He would be worthy of the title, a strong warrior and leader like his ancestors before him.
“And your cock is rather lovely.”Sebastian’s gaze dropped.Heat engulfed him and he tried to command Sebastian to touch him, but the words stuck to his dry tongue.He willed himself to tell Sebastian to stroke him.
“I ...ahh.”
“Come here.”Sebastian closed the gap between them, making his command unnecessary.Who said come here and then did the moving?And then Sebastian reached down and held both their cocks together.Being the same height was perfection.Maurice’s eyes rolled back in his head, so he closed them.The sensation of Sebastian’s hand, their cocks held tight together, was overwhelming; and then Sebastian kissed him.It was almost too much, except it was entirely perfect.He placed his hands on Sebastian’s waist, finding his skin a little cool to the touch, and so soft compared to the roughness of his calloused hand on his cock.Maurice let himself be swept up in the kiss, matching the tangle of tongues with his own desperate need to taste Sebastian.It was just as he remembered from in Sebastian’s cottage with hints of crispy apple and rosehip tea.He slid his hands over Sebastian’s skin, exploring, as Sebastian began a gentle rhythm on their cocks.
“Damn it.”Sebastian spat in his hand, and then returned it to hold them both again.The surprisingly uncouth gesture had the perfect effect, allowing Sebastian to stroke them together much more readily.Maurice was so close.So close.He didn’t want to finish just yet, but he couldn’t say anything.He’d much rather use his mouth for kissing and anyway, there were no words to adequately describe what he wanted, needed, desired.He really needed to do something before he embarrassed himself.He grabbed Sebastian’s strong round backside, fingers digging into the muscles a bit with the intent to guide Sebastian to the bed, but Sebastian made a rough groan that permeated his chest and took him closer to paradise.Incredulous as it seemed, but Sebastian was about to destroy Maurice’s legendary control.Surely not?
Chapter 8
