“How are you feeling?” Tane said, taking a seat next to Jacob on the smart couch that ran underneath the floor to ceiling window with views out onto the dark streets outside.
“Tired,” Jacob replied, his eyelids drooping.
“Okay, I know I said we’d give you a bath,” Tane said. “But maybe that can wait until the morning. I think what you need is a nice sleep. I’ve got the guestroom on the first floor that you can sleep in. It’s got its own private bathroom too. You should be able to get some rest. How does that sound?”
Jacob nodded.
“Okay, finish off your milk and I’ll show you to your room,” Tane said, smiling for the first time in what felt like hours.
“Thank you,” Jacob said, a slight reddening in his cheeks. “This milk is… nice.”
Tane could sense that Jacob was a good kid beneath all the bravado and over exuberance. But that didn’t mean that he was about to give Jacob a free pass for his bad behavior. No, Tane could see that what Jacob needed was some firm guidance – the kind that only a real alpha could give.
But all of that could wait.
It was time to take the boy to bed and let him sleep it off.
Tomorrow would be a new day, and a much better time for Tane to see if he could convince Jacob that it was ineveryone’sbest interests for him to curb his enthusiasm for life just a bit.
In less than fifteen minutes, Jacob was snugly wrapped up in bed and Tane could even hear him snoring from down the corridor. It was cute, there was no denying it.
In fact, with so much pent up energy inside his body, Tane decided that what he needed was a nice, late-night bath.
Tane walked into his master suite and shut the door behind him. Before long, he was naked and easing his aching body into a bathtub full of hot water and relaxing bath salts.
“I’m getting too old for this game,” Tane said, noting how stiff his back felt and how deep the purple and green bruises on his body looked. “But… I love this fucking game too much to not give it my all.”
But for once, Tane’s mind wasn’t on hockey for long.
As the bath salts worked their magic, Tane felt his cock hardening as thoughts of Jacob flowed through his mind. Yes, Chain was a giant pain in the ass, but he was so damn sexy too.
Tane began to stroke his thick, long cock and it was rock-hard in a matter of seconds.
There was something about the mischief in Jacob’s ocean blue eyes that made Tane’s entire mind and body react. Due to Jacob storming out of the locker room earlier, Tane hadn’t seen him naked – but that wasn’t about to stop his imagination running wild with its own ideas.
A slender waist.
A small but strong butt.
Flexible, bendable legs that could…
“Oh, fuck,” Tane groaned, shooting a hot load over himself as he thrust his hips above the hot bath water.
Tane hadn’t intended on climaxing so quickly. But there was simply something about Jacob that was clearly incredibly stimulating to Tane. The boy was trouble, but he was all kinds of sexy.
What Tane needed to figure out now was precisely how he was going to handle his clear attraction to Jacob and not jeopardize either the team’s success or his own life if the Cardini family suspected something was going on between them.
“Looks like I’m all set for plenty of late night bathgasms…” Tane chuckled, seeing the funny side. “And now I think it’s time to haul my old ass to bed.”
Tane knew that when morning came, he would need to give Jacob a clear warning about his future conduct. But right now all he cared about was taking himself off to his emperor sized bed, popping a pain pill, and putting some rest and recuperation into his aching thirty-eight year old body.
Chapter 5
Jacob
Jacob woke up to the sound of an early morning removal truck parking up somewhere on the street outside. With its slow but punishingly loud bleeping noise, there was no hope for Jacob remain asleep.
“Urgh, my head,” Jacob said, pulling the duvet over his head and attempting to snuggle himself back to sleep.
