“Of course I have. I love you, James. I want to do the best I can to support you in every way I can.” More kisses, over my shoulder blades. “You smell amazing, all bed warmed and sunshine-y.”
I scoffed. “Such a line, Mr Evergreen.”
“It’s true,” he protested.
His mouth was now nibbling my biceps, a body part I’d not previously considered an erogenous zone, but I was rapidly changing my mind. “I want to lie down. See your face.”
We rearranged ourselves. I spent a few minutes running my hands over his chest and arms, stroking and caressing. I felt I was really seeing him properly for the first time. I burrowed my face in his chest. “Trace?”
“Yes?”
“Will you lose the glamour, please?”
He tensed.“If that’s really what you want.”
Muffled, I said, “I do.”
I moved away and watched as he transformed into the version of him I viewed as a stranger. Utter physical perfection,a man so ethereally beautiful he’d cause traffic accidents if he stepped outside looking this way. This was his true self, the one I’d fallen in love with, even though I hadn’t known it at the time.
“I don’t think you should be glamoured any more when you’re with us. It’s not fair on you.”Am I really ready to lose the man I thought I knew?I wasn’t sure, but I wanted to try. He’d spent too long trapped in a cage that didn’t fit him.
Trace’s eyes popped wide. “That’s a big change, sweetheart.”
I repeated my thoughts out loud. “If I trusted you as Trace the human, there shouldn’t be any difference. You’re still you.”
Cormack changed his appearance.
Shut up!!
“I want to try, with you as the man you truly are.” I managed a wobbly smile. “I should be so lucky to be in bed with such a stunner.”
He laughed. “I do love you so damned much.”
I sucked in another deep breath. “Then show me. Please.”
45
TRACE
The trustyou place in me.
I rolled until I was on top of James and bracketed his thighs with my knees. Cradling his head with one hand, I lowered myself towards him. He opened his mouth as soon as our lips connected. Hot and sweet, he tasted of tea and need. He moaned as I ran my tongue over his teeth, then gently sucked his tongue into my mouth, adding more suction as he arched up into my arms.
It took everything I had not to grind against him, but I held myself steady as our kisses ramped up a notch and James began to moan and writhe beneath me.
“More.” At least, I thought that was what he mumbled.
I pulled back to check. “You sure?”
“Oh, God, yes,” he whined. He hesitated, then his Adam’s apple bobbed before he confessed, “I’m so hard, I ache.” The confession, face to face, seemed to cost him a lot as I immediately sensed him withdrawing from me. I recaptured his attention by pulling gently on his hair until he looked at me.
“Do you definitely want me to help you with that?”Please say yes.
His face flushed and his gaze skittered about before he eyed me firmly. “Yeah.”
I kissed him again. “I can do that. Boxers on or off?” His cock was making a valiant attempt to escape from his form-fitting trunks.
“Off.” It was the merest whisper, but I could sense the amount it took for James to trust me.
