“Ready?”
“Fuck, yes.” Ward widened his hips and looked over his shoulder at Viper. “You say I’m hot, you should see the view I’m looking at right now, because dayum.” He didn’t think there would ever be anything as mind-blowingly sexy as Kelvin *Viper* Dare rolling a condom down his dick. “Oh fuck,” Ward hissed when Viper pushed into him. He bit down and forced himself to relax enough for his ass to take Viper’s cock all the way to the hilt. Viper’s fingers tightened almost painfully on his hips. “Ahhh.” Ward sighed and arched his neck as Viper snapped his hips forward. “Kel—Kelvin.”
“Yeah, baby?” Viper wrapped his hands around his chest, lifted his shoulders off the bed, and brought Ward to his knees.
“Oh fuck.” He whimpered as he settled in Viper’s lap, his head dropping back on his shoulder.
“Jesus, this feels fucking awesome,” Viper murmured against his ear. He ran his hands down Ward’s arms and linked their fingers together.
“Oh God.” Ward ground down on Viper’s lap, taking him deeper.
“You’re killing me.”
Ward groaned as he lifted up slightly and pushed himself back down. “Don’t let go.”
“Never. You’re mine now.” One hand wrapped around his waist, holding him in place. The other pinched and pulled at first one nipple and then the other.
It took a few minutes until they found a rhythm that drove them both to the brink of insanity. “Please,” Ward whispered. “Harder. Please. Fuck. More.”
“Kiss me.”
“Yes.” He turned his head and pressed their mouths together. Viper whimpered against his lips as the kiss became hot, wet, and sloppy when he shifted on his mate’s lap, adjusting the angle of his dick in his ass. “Right there. Christ, Kelvin, like that, yes. Just. Like. That.”
“Fucking love this.” Viper slid his palm down Ward’s stomach and wrapped his hand around his dick, giving a firm pull, quick and hard. He slid his palm over the long, thick, veined shaft, squeezing the head and twisting his wrist. “Are you close? You going to come for me?”
“Fuck yes, mate.” He gasped. His fingers tightened around Viper’s. “I need… more. Don’t stop.”
“Not stopping.”
The mate mark across his arm pulsed like molten silver, curling in intricate patterns all the way to his shoulder. But more than that… the light didn’t stop there. It bloomed across his ribs in delicate lines of ancient script, tendrils of luminous ink that hadn’t been there before.
His breath caught. “Oh, fuck.”
Viper’s thumb brushed over one of the glowing lines. “These weren’t here before.”
“No.” Ward clenched his ass hard and rocked his hips. “They weren’t.”
They moved together, slower and deeper, as Viper’s mouth found his, anchoring him when the hum of power swelled too strong beneath his ribs.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” Ward whispered into the kiss. “But it’s like I can feel everything.”
Viper banded one arm across his chest, holding him tight against him as he kissed him again, deep and long and grounding. “Then feel it with me. Give me everything.”
Their bodies rocked together in a rhythm as old as time, a language that required no words. Ward let go. He gave himself over to the moment, to the man wrapped around him and to the bond between them, until he wasn’t sure where he ended and Viper began.
A flare of light burst from their joined marks, sending pulses through the room like a heartbeat. Viper buried his face in the crook of Ward’s neck with a low groan.
“Jesus, Ward.”
“I know,” Ward gasped. “I know.”
They shattered together. The bond roared like a river breaking its banks, sweeping them both away. When it was over, they didn’t move. Viper’s breath was warm against his skin, his hands still trembling faintly where they rested against his sides.
Ward leaned his head back on Viper’s shoulder, kissed his cheek, and whispered, “Still think we can go back to pretending this is all some magical accident?”
Viper chuckled softly, but there was no humor in it. “No. Fuck no. Not after that.”
Ward winced as Viper eased him off his lap. He didn’t have the energy to object when Viper moved off the bed and returned a few minutes later to clean him up. When he was done, they lay in silence for a while, tangled in each other, the magic slowly dimming until only the marks on their skin remained, glowing faintly like blue embers as they completed their journey.
