Come Alive

by Madelynne Ellis

  He really prayed that she didn’t attempt to stop this, because Xane had him sizzling.

  Christ – this man – literally everything about him set his soul alight. From the way he moved to the way he kissed to the simple underlying taste of him – coffee and something else – Xane Geist got to him like no one else had ever done. He made him so needy that his whole body ached with longing, even as he was having his cock expertly wanked.

  Don’t stop him. Please don’t stop him.

  He copped a feel of Xane’s luscious arse, just in case she’d heard his thoughts and called time out just to spite him.

  Actually, looking at her, maybe they’d already jumped the biggest hurdle – getting her to say yes in the first place. He could feel her gaze, feel the heat in it. She wasn’t angry, and she looked more turned on than upset.

  He took that as permission to push things a bit further. Shirts and other clothing were cast off with rapid abandon. Then, yeah, they were down on the blanket wrestling over who was on top. That was another thing he liked about Xane: he was entirely flexible, and had zero hangups about what turned him on.

  Luthor worked a trail down Xane’s body, licking the sweat from the side of his throat. He sucked one of his silver nipple rings deep into his mouth. At the same time, he let one of his wandering hands settle over Xane’s beautifully rigid cock. Yes, he’d zoomed straight in on the dick. He was a man, so what? And it wasn’t like Xane hadn’t already had a good grope of his. In any case, with Dani sitting beside them there might be a time limit on his enjoyment, so it was best he made good use of the opportunity.

  He knew what he wanted to do next. Having logged the thought, Luthor traced a pathway down Xane’s chest and over his abs to his navel. He drew a ring around it, then peppered Xane’s shaft with tiny kisses. ‘Can I suck him, Dani?’

  It would probably have been more sensible not to enquire. Her response was a squeak.

  He rephrased. ‘Do you want to watch me suck him?’

  His mouth was already watering at the prospect, and his hands were in position. The pulse in Xane’s cock kept lifting it towards him, further ramping up his anticipation of licking its shiny tip.

  ‘I …’ She looked numbed, shell-shocked. Her skin was bleached, but her cheeks were rosy.

  Xane gave a desperate groan, and his hips lifted in a wordless plea. He turned his head towards his girlfriend, stretched out a hand and cupped her face.

  ‘Yes …’ She licked her dry lips. ‘I guess that would be OK.’

  It would not be OK, it’d be fucking awesome. The cocksucking part and the fact she’d be watching. ‘Thank you,’ he mouthed to her. A little politeness might help his case, when they reached the point where he and Xane progressed from foreplay to shagging one another’s brains out. The odds on that happening were looking much, much better than he’d ever hoped.

  First, though, he was going to savour the treat before him. He palmed Xane’s cock but directed his mouth to a spot lower down. He kissed Xane’s inner thighs, first one, then the other, before returning to his starting point to give the guy a crazy big hickie right where the skin was softest.

  Deep husky groans exploded from Xane’s throat like there was a beast inside him trying to fight its way out.

  He was in the sensitive zone, obviously.

  Next, Luthor danced his tongue over the fuzzy surface of Xane’s balls.

  ‘Jesus Christ!’ Xane spluttered his unofficial reward.

  This man was super-responsive. He liked that. A lot of guys didn’t seem to have nerve endings anywhere besides their dicks and their arseholes. He gave Xane’s nipple rings another pull, this time with his fingers, while he formed his mouth around the head of Xane’s cock. It was time. He needed to taste this baby.

  He let Xane push upwards off the mat and fill his mouth. He went in quick and deep, but drew back far more slowly, giving Luthor plenty of opportunity to put his tongue to work. Cocksucking was an art, and he’d had practice enough to know what felt good, where the no-go zones lay and what was right on the borderline. He also knew when it was time to chill with the fancy stuff and let the guy just hump his mouth until his jaw ached.

  ‘Someone’s had practice.’ Xane pressed a hand to the back of his neck, holding him in position.

  ‘Reckon I’ve got nothing on you and your tongue stud.’

  Xane stuck out his tongue to flash his adornment, which was one of many piercings. ‘I ain’t going to complain if you want to go for a matching look.’

  ‘Hm, I’ll get back to you on that.’ It sounded painful, and he had enough faith in his skills to believe he could manage without.

  Chapter 13

  Dani knew she was in desperate trouble when the clothes started coming off: Luthor’s T-shirt first, followed by Xane’s shirt. The latter sailed halfway down the hill towards the shore. Shoes were next, then Luthor’s gravity-defying shorts and Xane’s skinny jeans. They needed peeling off, which meant the two men were no longer standing, but stretched out across the mat, Luthor on top for the moment.

  Watching her boyfriend mucking around with another guy shouldn’t be holy hell hot, but it so damned was that it felt like a volcano was about to erupt inside her.

  She’d forgotten this was how it had been the last time too.

  That either made her a total screw-up or dangerously close to admitting something potentially life-changing.

  She’d honestly initiated this, expecting that by the time the guys had reached second base she’d be on the verge of tears and screaming for the whole thing to cease. Instead, she was watching her boyfriend arch his back as Luthor expertly sucked him, and she was remembering August’s room in Halmstad and the blissful expression on Xane’s face as Luthor had fucked him in the arse. She was anticipating seeing that look again.

  Her lover liked being penetrated.

  It wasn’t a revelation. She knew it. She’d known it since that first weekend together in Monte Carlo, when he’d had her do him with a little buzzy vibe, but it was still something she struggled to take on board. Xane’s enjoyment of anal sex as well as all his other foibles had the power to impact her life with all the force of a hydrogen bomb.

  She’d been subjected to a life inside a loony cult because her father had a predilection for being screwed in the arse. That wasn’t easy to get over. Even learning the truth – that he hadn’t left, rather her mother had forced him to leave – didn’t alter the fact that his desires and action in the first place were responsible for what followed.

  Her father ought to have been honest about who he was before she’d ever popped into existence, and her crazy mother ought not to have spent a decade lying to her.

  Xane at least was honest about his sexual preferences. He didn’t deliberately hide anything, and if she really paused to weigh up his partialities, they weren’t actually that bad – a bit of biting, a little light bondage, some exhibitionism, and hot gay sex. They could have been much, much worse. He hadn’t asked her to wee on him, or don a big fluffy animal suit and let him rub up against her, or suggested they experiment with cutting one another or asphyxiating one another. She shuddered at the thought.

  Accepting the idea of him having a male lover didn’t seem nearly so horrible in that context, and truthfully, seeing him with Luthor didn’t actually hurt as such. It was more that it made her uncomfortable because she didn’t know how to deal with the fact it turned her on.

  Damn him. Luthor turned her on.

  She’d told Luthor that she never ever wanted to go to bed with him. That there was no spark. It was an absolute lie.

  To combat the sickening feeling of guilt that welled up in her throat, she did the only sensible thing she could think of to combat it and reached out to Xane.

  Luthor saw her wordless plea first. Wariness instantly flooded his eyes. He didn’t relinquish his hold on Xane though, not even when she staked a claim by planting her hand in the centre of Xane’s chest.

  ‘Dani?’ Xane opened his eyes
and looked up at her somewhat glazed. His eyes had darkened to the hue of silver ash. ‘Are you OK?’

  She pressed a kiss to his brow, and then ran her index finger along the slant of his nose, over his lips to his chin.

  ‘You look super sexy. It makes it hard for me to keep my hands off.’

  In other words, she’d really like him to drive all thoughts of Luthor from her head.

  ‘You find this sexy?’

  ‘I find you sexy. Always do. It’s the way you move, your body. The way you groan. He’s got you so damned hard.’

  And he was making a mess of her beliefs.

  ‘That’s not just him, it’s you. You’re here. You’re allowing this.’

  ‘Does he make you feel good?’ That came out as more of a croak than she intended. Not to mention more loaded.

  ‘Dani?’ Xane’s lips sought hers and nibbled at the lower one. ‘He does, but so do you.’ Thank God he couldn’t see into her head to know what she was thinking. ‘Do you want to climb astride?’

  ‘Which bit?’

  ‘Sweetheart, you can sit on any bit of me you want.’

  ‘What about the bits that are already taken?’

  ‘You own me. You can recall whatever’s on temporary loan any time.’

  She grinned, not so secretly thrilled he was willing to push Luthor aside for her if she wished it.

  ‘Just say the words, Dani. You can steal me away and have me all to yourself.’

  Luthor groaned, clearly none too thrilled by the prospect. She watched him a moment. It wasn’t that she wanted to put an end to his fun, it was more that watching them had made her horny, and had raised issues she’d rather not address.

  ‘I need to borrow him for a bit,’ she said to Luthor. Maybe she’d give him back and maybe she wouldn’t.

  Luthor reluctantly moved aside.

  Xane pushed up onto his elbow. His dark hair spilled over his shoulders and chest and got caught around her fingers. Dani straddled him. There was a wicked look in his eyes, and his pierced eyebrow was raised into an arch.

  ‘No need to ask which bit of me you’re after then.’

  No, she guessed not. Thankfully, Xane accepted that good-naturedly, and didn’t get hung up on being objectified. She’d never forgotten their first encounter and his desperation not to be fondled like a piece of meat. These days, she was confident he knew she cared deeply about him. Sexual desire might be dictating her actions right now, but beneath that she loved him with every ounce of her being. Really, truly loved him.

  There was no space in her heart for Luthor.

  Dani braced one hand on Xane’s shoulder and reached between her legs with the other. His cock was slippery and fully hard thanks to Luthor’s efforts. Xane pulled her panties to one side and stroked the length of her split with his thumb. ‘Oh, sweetheart! You’re wet for me. You’re really fucking wet for me. Guide me in and let me give you what you need.’

  ‘Yes.’ The blunt head of his cock notched against her opening. He was slick with Luthor’s saliva and beads of precome. Signposting the way in wasn’t necessary. She rubbed against him like a cat in heat, until her clit was all needy and swollen, and the lips of her sex were plumped and flushed. Dani held his hands to her breasts as he entered her.

  She sank down slowly, savouring the moment as her nerves fluttered wildly and her muscles stretched to accommodate him. They fitted together perfectly.

  Xane made a moan like she was turning him inside out. He bucked her upwards, raising his hips off the blanket. ‘You feel so fucking wonderful. Yeah, squeeze me.’

  She fluttered her inner muscles around his shaft, holding onto him in the way she knew he liked.

  In the way she liked …

  He was still hers. He was so hers, and she wasn’t letting go.

  ‘Too right,’ he said as if he could see into her thoughts and knew exactly what she’d been thinking. ‘Wouldn’t ever want to give this up.’

  ‘Wanna see?’ she teased, taking hold of the hem of her skirt and inching it up her legs a little.

  ‘What do you think?’

  The answer was written in his eyes. They burned with silver fire. Xane loved seeing her naked. He liked to peel away her defensive layers one at a time until she was completely exposed. Then he liked to watch himself disappearing inside her cunt.

  That word still made her shiver. But it was a word he owned.

  ‘Show me.’

  The whisper of movement to her left caused her to turn her head. She’d almost forgotten they weren’t alone. Luthor was kneeling beside them, still gloriously naked.

  Not to mention impressively, massively hard too.

  Dani watched the head of his cock rise from the fist he’d made of his hand. He was wanking in time with the motion of her and Xane’s bodies, going at his cock so hard that the tendons in his forearm stood out.

  ‘Show him,’ Xane murmured.

  She hesitated over the notion of showing Luthor anything. She could lift her skirt so she didn’t reveal anything of her scars, but that still left the question of whether she wanted to expose her pussy to him.

  ‘Show him what I have and he doesn’t.’

  Xane moved his hand so that he was gripping her waist. ‘Lean back a little. We’re only going to show him enough to make him jealous.’

  Dani did as instructed, trusting Xane to hold her in position and keep her from falling. She inched up her hem, exposing first the V of muscle that edged Xane’s groin, then the dark hair around the base of his cock, and finally the juncture of their bodies.

  She watched him slide in and out of her as she rolled her hips.

  ‘Whoa!’ Luthor huffed.

  It didn’t sound as if the visuals were inspiring jealousy.

  ‘I’ve gotta see you two do this naked.’

  ‘No,’ both she and Xane said at once.

  It filled her with light.

  Xane understood her. He loved her and he understood her. Her man … her rock star, he knew where the lines were drawn and he respected that. Her heart swelled with additional love for him, and suddenly she realised that somehow they’d find a way to make this all right. If they just stuck by one another, believed and supported one another, it would come right in the end.

  ‘Cuddle,’ Xane demanded, urging her to come and lean right over him. The moment she did, his arms wrapped around her back and he rolled them over so that he was on top. His hands settled on her bottom, one on each cheek, and lifted her up, so that he pressed into her super-deep. ‘Gonna take you places and make you all mine, Dani girl.’

  ‘Yeah, what places?’ Her breath came out sharp against his ear. Being on top was fun, but there was something special about feeling the weight of him above her, holding her in place.

  ‘How about interstellar space? I don’t think I’ve propelled you that high yet.’

  She smooched his lips and the dimple on his chin. ‘Are you trying to show off?’

  ‘Wouldn’t want Luthor to think I don’t love you right.’

  ‘I don’t think Luthor’s worrying about me right now.’

  ‘Don’t you?’ He drew his teeth over his lip, which rotated the ring through it. ‘Maybe you’d like to see how very much on his mind you are?’

  She was fine looking at Xane and being held by Xane and being totally besotted by Xane, thank you. He rolled them over again anyway. This time Dani found herself on her side with Xane behind her. He raised her leg so that Luthor could still see everything.

  Luthor, whom it was now impossible to hide from, as he was stretched out alongside her, and his bliss-filled face smiled at her from less than a yard away. If she were so inclined, she could easily touch him, trace the ridges of his abs. He was stroking himself still, in a way that made it seem an almost ordinary thing to do if you happened upon a couple you knew making love.

  ‘Do you want to watch him come?’ Xane asked her.

  She didn’t have a ready answer to that. She both did and didn’t. Watching him cli
max would be so intimate, it would forge a link between them she wasn’t certain she wanted to make. On the other hand, it was near impossible to turn away from him.

  ‘He’s thinking how it would feel to be inside your cunt right now. How tightly you’d grip him and what noises you’d make.’

  ‘I’m sure he’s actually thinking about you.’

  Xane palmed her breasts again through the fabric of her dress. ‘You think? Look at the way he’s watching you.’ Xane’s breath burned the sensitive skin of her ear. ‘You’re driving him wild, Dani. He’s going to come the exact same moment you do.’

  ‘Don’t be silly.’

  ‘Look at his eyes. The eyes never lie. He’s fucking you right now inside his head.’

  She refused to accept that. ‘You’re the one he wants.’

  ‘If you touched him, I bet he’d shoot so hard you’d be at risk of getting wet.’

  ‘I’m not going to touch him. I only want you.’

  A purr rumbled inside Xane’s throat. ‘In which case, I think you’d better let me fuck him.’

  ‘Right now?’

  ‘With your cream all over me.’

  ‘You need to use a condom with him.’

  ‘I’m not going to do anything stupid, Dani. Nothing too stupid, anyway.’

  She might have pressed him over what he meant, but Xane reached down and put his thumb to her clit. Trapped between that pressure and the internal rubbing of his cock, the little organ flooded with blood.

  Dani mewled as her muscles spasmed. She tried not to look at Luthor, and to keep her eyes closed instead. They kept on fluttering open.

  ‘Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.’ They were repeating the same words. Xane was right. They were both on the brink, about to tumble over.