“You good?” Reid asked, eyes searching.
“More than good,” Cody managed. “It’s your turn.”
“This isn’t about me.”
“It’s aboutus.” Cody reached between them, wrapping his hand around Reid’s cock and began to stroke. He started slowly then build in speed and intensity.
Reid’s control cracked. His eyes flashed gold, and he groaned, hips flexing into Cody’s touch. “Harder. Yeah, like that.”
They moved together, finding each other’s rhythm. Cody watched Reid’s face—his jaw tightening, the flush spreading across his chest, the gold bleeding through his eyes.
“Beautiful,” Cody whispered. “You’re so beautiful like this.”
Reid kissed him, messy and desperate. “Need you. Need to be inside you.”
“Yes. Please.”
Reid took his time preparing Cody. Patient, and thorough, making sure Cody was ready. By the time Reid finally pressed inside, Cody was begging him to hurry up.
The feeling was intense, overwhelming, and completely perfect. Reid moved slowly, giving Cody time to adjust to his wide girth, his hands gentle despite the tension that vibrated through him.
“Okay?” Reid gritted out.
“Yes! Move. Please Reid!”
Reid did, and it was like nothing he had ever experienced. The connection, the intimacy, the way Cody watched him like Reid was his everything. He couldn’t believe this man was his. As Reid fucked him harder and harder, the bond flared between them until Reid felt euphoric.
“Mine,” he growled, one hand sliding to cup the back of Cody’s neck.
Reid’s thrusts grew harder, more desperate.
“Close,” he gasped. “Cody, I’m—”
“Me too,” Cody replied. “Together. Come with me.”
Reid’s hand wrapped around Cody, and stroked him in time with his thrusts. Cody came with a cry, clenching around Reid’s cock.
Reid’s control shattered. He buried his face in Cody’s neck, his hips stuttering, and his teeth sank into the tender flesh of Cody’s neck.
The bite was sharp, claiming Cody all over again. He could feel Cody’s pleasure tangling with his own, could feel the bond strengthen. Their connection went deeper than physical—Reid sensed Cody’s joy, his terror, his overwhelming love, all of it flowing through their bond connection.
Reid came with a roar, the sound vibrating through both of them.
For a long moment afterward, they didn’t move.Couldn’tmove. Just breathed, two bodies so intertwined it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began.
Reid lifted his head slowly, and looked down at the man who had come to mean everything to him.
“I can feel your heartbeat,” Reid whispered, pressing his hand to his own chest. “Right here. Like it’s mine. Like our hearts are beating together.”
Cody’s hand covered Reid’s, and his eyes—those incredible blue-green eyes that had captured Reid the moment he’d first seen them—focused on his with laser intensity.
“I love you,” Cody said quietly.
The admission broke something wide open inside Reid. He leaned down and kissed Cody, a hard, claiming kiss, his tongue making itself at home in Cody’s mouth. He put every ounce of passion he possessed into the kiss and Cody returned it tenfold.
Reid made a rumbling sound of pure satisfaction as he gentled the kiss. He couldn’t believe he had once thought that he would never have a mate, or that he had never wanted one. Now Reid couldn’t imagine his life without Cody. He was so honored that this loving, beautiful, talented man belonged to him, and that he would forever belong to Cody. He would spend every day of his life making him feel safe and loved.
They laid together as the Nashville night turned quiet outside the windows, wrapped around each other, the bond thrumming between them with a rhythm that matched their breathing and Reid knew without a shadow of a doubt, that with Cody in his arms, he was home.
