“I know,” he said, rubbing his hand over my hair. “And I know your heart has been bruised every way imaginable. I’m just asking for the chance to put it all back together and keep it safe.”
My fucking eyes welled at his words, and a single drop of embarrassment slid down my face, unchecked. Michael wiped it away with his thumb, smiling lovingly at me.
“If I take this chance, promise you won’t break me.”
“I promise,” he whispered. “I love that you let me see this side of you. You’re the strongest person I know, babe. And I know you’re scared. But most chances worth taking are scary. You just need someone there to hold your hand, and stay by your side to hold you when the doubts start creeping in. And that person is me.”
I had no words, so I lowered my mouth to his, slipping my tongue along his lips, exploring every inch of him to show him what he meant to me.
Michael wrapped his right arm around my waist and held the back of my head with his left. Rolling us, he ended up on top of me, letting me feel the comforting weight of his body on mine.
I sighed into the kiss as my cock continued to harden. I needed more. And I needed him.
I pulled back to catch my breath. “I need to feel you inside me, baby. I need you to make me yours.”
Michael lowered his mouth back to mine for a sweet kiss before he replied. “There’s nothing I want more than to make you mine, sweetheart.”
Sitting up, we never took our eyes off one another as we silently undressed. I reached for the button on his jeans as he did the same to mine. He stood from the bed as I laid there, watching him peel his jeans from his body, exposing his beautifully naked, sculpted form to me.
He stroked his cock a couple times before reaching over the end of the bed to peel my jeans and boxer briefs away. Tossing them to the floor, he crawled back to me, his eyes never leaving mine.
My heart pounded, and my pulse sped, pounding at a beat that was close to disco in tempo. My hands reached for him as he lowered his naked body on top of me, aligning our hard, leaking shafts, and giving me the grounding weight he knew I needed.
“Michael,” I whispered as he trailed kisses down my jaw to my neck. My hips had a mind of their own and began to thrust up toward him. I was lightheaded from all my blood heading south.
“I’m negative, baby. Haven’t been with anyone in a long ass time, and I just had my physical.”
I nodded and smiled. “Had to have one for the insurance for the tour. And I haven’t been with anybody for a long ass time either.”
Michael smiled at my teasing, and stretched over to his drawer where he pulled out lube and a condom, then turned his gaze back to me.
“Just in case. If you want me to use this, I will.”
I shook my head. “No, I need to feel you skin to skin, chest to chest, nothing between us.”
He snapped the cap on the almost full bottle of premiere lube, then handed it to me. “Slick me up, darlin’.”
The Greek god hovering over me went into a plank as I put the cold lube in my hand to warm it up before applying it. He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes as I coated him, paying attention to the rim under the head. His shivers and tense muscles gave me the idea he loved this, but was riding the edge.
I stopped and put some on my fingers, then shifted to reach back to get myself ready. Michael’s eyes dilated as he watched, and when I stopped, he frowned.
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
God, this man.
“You won’t. I need the burn. Just go slow.”
He gazed at me as a myriad of emotions washed across his face. I reached up and touched his beard with my clean hand.
“I’m ready.”
Michael stared at me. “You’ll tell me if it’s too much?”
I smiled and nodded as he burrowed himself a little deeper into my heart.
Bringing his mouth to mine, he kissed me as he lined himself up, then pushed inside, achingly slowly. The warmth of his skin warmed me from the inside out as he inched his way into my body, listening for every gasp or change in breathing as he took me was more than I’d ever experienced.
When I moaned and sucked in a deeper breath as he grazed my prostate, he pulled back and looked into my eyes. “You okay, darlin’? Am I hurtin’ you?”
