“You’re the—the gentlest person I’ve ever met,” he said. “But somehow that never comes across as weakness. I don’t know how you do that.”
“Uh . . . thanks?”
“You’re . . .” Levi swallowed. “You’re always kind and loving and thoughtful.”
“Wow, how much wine did you have with dinner?” Dominic said, grinning.
“I’m not drunk.”
“Your face is super flushed.”
“I . . .” Levi pressed a hand to his own cheek and realized Dominic was right, though it wasn’t because of the wine. “I’m just trying to—”
“Don’t get me wrong, I like you all cute and pink-cheeked. It’s pretty—”
“For God’s sake, you asshole, I’m trying to tell you I love you!”
Dominic fell silent, every hint of amusement wiped clean from his face. Levi rolled his eyes and looked away, his cheeks burning hotter.
Both of Dominic’s large hands cupped Levi’s face and turned him back. Dominic met his eyes with the most solemn expression Levi had ever seen on him.
“I love you too,” he said.
Levi drew a shaky breath. He knew that Dominic loved him—had known for a while—but hearing it said aloud made it a concrete reality.
Dominic just stood there, unmoving, his eyes searing into Levi’s. Levi’s knees weakened, and he took hold of Dominic’s waist to steady himself.
“Are you going to kiss me or what?” he whispered.
Dominic bent his head to close the distance between their mouths. It started out languid and romantic, a tender acknowledgment of the declaration they’d just exchanged. Dominic dropped his arms to encircle Levi’s waist; Levi arched against him with a sigh, enjoying the warm slide of Dominic’s lips against his.
Like most of their kisses, however, things quickly heated up. Dominic had a teasing, advance-and-retreat style of kissing that drove Levi insane and triggered all his aggressive instincts. It wasn’t long until he was winding his fingers through Dominic’s hair and tugging, biting at Dominic’s lower lip and forcefully deepening the kiss. Dominic retaliated by grabbing his ass, they both moaned, and their embrace spiraled in intensity from there.
Dominic shoved him up against the kitchen counter. When Levi grunted in discomfort, Dominic lifted him and sat him on the edge, which also put him at a better height for kissing. Levi wrapped his legs around Dominic’s waist without missing a beat and squeezed hard, rubbing their groins together.
They traded urgent kisses while they tore at each other’s clothes. Once Dominic had Levi’s shirt unbuttoned, he buried his face in the crook of Levi’s neck, mouthing and nipping at his skin. That put Dominic’s own well-muscled shoulder right in front of Levi’s mouth, so Levi took advantage and bit down hard. Delighting in Dominic’s needy groan, he yanked Dominic’s belt and pants open, thrust a hand inside, and gripped Dominic’s gloriously thick cock through his underwear.
“I’m going to make you scream,” Dominic growled, pushing his hips against Levi’s hand.
“Not here,” said Levi. This wouldn’t be the first or even the fifth time they’d had sex in the kitchen, but that wasn’t what he had in mind tonight. He gave Dominic’s cock one more squeeze and pulled his hand out of Dominic’s pants. “Bed.”
Dominic swept him right off the counter, and Levi yelped, locking his ankles at the small of Dominic’s back. He might be a lean man with a narrow frame, but he was almost six feet of pure muscle—not light by anyone’s definition of the term.
Dominic could hold him like he was a toddler.
“I didn’t mean carry me, you Neanderthal,” he said as Dominic kicked the bedroom door shut behind them to keep Rebel out.
“You love it.” Dominic tossed Levi onto the bed, then peeled off his unbuttoned shirt and the undershirt he wore beneath, putting his brawny, hairy chest and ripped abs on full display. “You think I don’t notice how much stuff like that turns you on?”
He got on the bed and climbed over Levi on all fours. Levi lay still, staring up at him and panting.
“And I know why,” Dominic said quietly. His eyes were warm as they raked Levi from head to foot. “It’s because you trust I’d never use that strength against you.”
Moving carefully, he lowered himself to blanket Levi’s entire body with his own. Levi moaned aloud at having all that weight pinning him down, then made a choked noise when Dominic’s erection rolled against his.
“You’re right. I’d only ever use it to protect you.” Dominic’s voice hoarsened. “To please you.”
Levi strained up and pulled him into a ferocious kiss. “Right now I want you to please me with that enormous dick,” he said when the kiss broke.
Dominic grinned.
They got rid of the rest of their clothing, and Dominic had three slick fingers deep in Levi’s ass in record time. It wasn’t his usual thorough preparation—he seemed more interested in finger-fucking Levi into incoherency than actually stretching him—but Levi wasn’t complaining. Those hands were magic.
Dominic brought him close to the edge with fingers alone, then took the pillow Levi had been using to muffle his screams and tucked it under Levi’s ass. He retrieved a condom from the nightstand and knelt between Levi’s spread legs.
Levi’s hand shot out and grabbed Dominic’s wrist. “You don’t have to use that.”
Dominic blinked. “What?”
“We . . .” Levi hadn’t thought this through before saying it, but it didn’t change anything. “We got tested together. Then we got retested. But we’ve never talked about the possibilities that opened for us.”
“And you think now is the best time?” Dominic glanced pointedly at where both their cocks were straining with arousal and dripping pre-come.
“No, it’s a stupid time to have it.” Levi released Dominic’s wrist. “But the tests were clear, we’re in a committed monogamous relationship, and I trust that you haven’t been with anyone else. We don’t have to use condoms if we don’t want to.” He wet his lips and added, “I don’t want you to.”
Dominic stared at him for a few seconds, his chest visibly rising and falling with his rapid breaths. “You want me to fuck you bareback?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ve never done that before,” Dominic said, a muscle jumping in his jaw.
“I know.” Levi smoothed his hands up Dominic’s thighs. “I want to have that with you, Dominic. I want to give that to you. But only if you want it too.”
“Of course I—” Dominic cut himself off and looked at the wrapped condom in his hand. “Okay. Yeah.”
He tossed the condom aside. Levi couldn’t help a reflexive squirm against the bed, anticipating what would come next.
Dominic poured a generous helping of lube onto his cock, gave himself a few strokes, and shifted forward, planting one hand on the bed beside Levi’s waist and using the other to line himself up. Levi pulled his knees to his chest.
“God,” Dominic said, his eyes fixed on Levi’s hole. “All right. Okay.”
He pushed just the head of his cock inside and froze, making a noise like he’d been gut-shot. After several endless seconds, he advanced a little farther, then a little bit more.
Levi let his eyes fall shut. They always had to go slow during the initial entry—dirty talk aside, Dominic’s cock truly was much larger than average in both length and girth. Levi loved that so much it was kind of embarrassing. He just . . . he craved that overwhelming stretch, that sensation of full, deep penetration. When Dominic was inside him, there was no room for anything else—painful self-doubt included.
He was strung tight with tension even in the best of moods, though, so it was sometimes difficult for Dominic to work his way inside. Still, things had gotten easier after months of taking Dominic’s cock on a regular basis, and right now Dominic was going much slower than he had even during their first time together.
Levi bucked up, trying to get Dominic deeper. Dominic grabbed his hips with both hands
and pinned them to the pillow.
“Levi,” Dominic said through gritted teeth. “Don’t move.”
“Then fuck me.” Levi opened his eyes to see that Dominic’s own eyes were glassy and his mouth half-open. “Please, come on, you know you don’t have to be so careful.”
“It’s not you I’m worried about.”
Levi tried not to move, he really did, but when Dominic was halfway inside he nudged against Levi’s prostate at just the right angle to make Levi’s whole body clench up in a powerful spasm of pleasure. Cursing a blue streak, Dominic abruptly pulled out and hunched over.
Levi propped himself up on his elbows and stared. Dominic was holding his balls tightly with one hand and biting his lower lip, sweat beading along his forehead.
“Did you almost come just now?” Levi said incredulously. In his experience, Dominic’s stamina was legendary; there were occasions on which he’d fucked Levi through two orgasms before coming himself.
“I know you’ve done this before, but was it ever from this side of things?” Dominic asked.
“No,” Levi said, stiffening. This was another thing they talked around but never about—the fact that Levi didn’t top—and he didn’t want to get into it now.
“Well, it feels different. Really different.” Dominic took a shuddering breath. “I used to mock guys who’d risk STDs and pregnancy just to fuck without a condom, but honestly, I get it now. Shit.”
After taking a beat to cool off, Dominic resumed his previous position and slid back inside. Levi caressed Dominic’s arms and shoulders, distracting himself from his frustration by watching Dominic’s face, which was screwed up in exquisite agony. By the time Dominic bottomed out, they were both panting.
“God, I can feel every inch of you,” Dominic said. He was supporting his weight on his forearms, his muscle-bound body crushing Levi into the bed and rubbing against Levi’s aching cock. “Like hot silk, and you’re so tight . . .”
He started rocking his hips. Levi moaned and mouthed at his chest, nuzzling the old gunshot scar from one of Dominic’s tours in Afghanistan. He slid both hands down to grip Dominic’s rock-hard ass and encourage him into a faster pace.
The sensation wasn’t much different for Levi, condom or no condom, but knowing Dominic was bare inside him intensified everything. Dominic grunted and groaned with every thrust, making way more noise than he usually did, and his body trembled everywhere it was pressed against Levi’s. Levi clenched down on him, just to overwhelm him a little more.
“Fuck, I’m sorry, I’m not gonna last,” Dominic gasped out.
“That’s okay.” Levi smacked the side of Dominic’s thigh. “Just don’t hold back.”
Dominic drove into him harder, his breathing labored. “Do you want me to—ungh—to pull out before I come?”
“What? No!”
“Won’t it be—ah, ah—uncomfortable for you?”
Levi grabbed the back of Dominic’s head and forced Dominic to look him in the eye. “You are going to come inside me,” he said, every word punched out of him as Dominic continued screwing him into the mattress. “Feel how deep inside you are right now? You’re going to pump me full of come, get me soaking wet and filthy with it, and then you’re going to look at the mess you made and know that you’re the only one who gets to do that to me.”
Dominic snapped his hips so powerfully that Levi cried out. “Yeah? You want that, baby?”
“Yeah.”
Closing his eyes, Dominic dropped his head and went for it, sprinting toward the finish line. Levi lay flushed and dizzy beneath him, only partly because Dominic’s considerable weight was compressing his chest. He fucking loved when Dominic got carried away during sex and just rutted on him like a lust-crazed animal. There was something about seeing his soft-hearted boyfriend so rough and aggressive that blew his mind every time.
Levi clung to Dominic, his legs wide and his body open, taking everything that Dominic gave him. He didn’t try to muffle his loud vocalizations. He knew how much Dominic enjoyed hearing them.
“I love you,” Dominic said between heaving breaths. “I love you so much, Levi, fuck—”
He shouted and strained forward, burying himself balls-deep in Levi’s ass. That was followed by several ragged, pained groans as his hips jerked frantically through his orgasm.
Though it was probably Levi’s imagination that he could feel Dominic pulsing and spurting inside him, that didn’t make it any less sexy. He arched his back and savored every moment until Dominic sagged on top of him, shaking from head to foot.
“Dominic,” Levi said. He needed to come, but he couldn’t get to his cock with Dominic’s body in the way. “Dominic!”
Murmuring an apology, Dominic heaved himself up onto his knees and made to pull out. Levi clamped down to stop him.
“You can stay inside,” he said when Dominic gave him a bewildered look. “Stay inside me as long as you can.”
Dominic nodded. His face was brick-red, his hair matted with sweat, and he gazed down at Levi like he’d never seen him before. Levi guided Dominic’s hand to his cock and moaned as Dominic started jerking him off just the way he liked it.
He was already close; this wouldn’t take long with all of Dominic’s focused attention on him. He kept one hand wrapped around Dominic’s on his erection, the other clutching Dominic’s bicep, and ground himself in circles on Dominic’s cock. The way Dominic was staring at him got him more and more worked up.
“Say it again,” he demanded.
“I love you,” Dominic said without hesitation.
Levi tipped his head back, his toes curling, and lasted a few more strokes before he let out a low-pitched cry and came. Dominic made an inhuman noise as Levi’s ass rippled around his softening cock, and that aroused Levi enough to coax forth one more pulse onto his drenched stomach.
After a few seconds to catch their breath, Dominic leaned down to kiss Levi hard on the mouth, and then pulled out. They both gasped.
Levi shuddered at the familiar feeling of come dripping from his hole. He lowered his feet to the bed but kept his knees bent and his legs spread so Dominic could see.
Dominic’s jaw dropped, his expression stunned like he’d just been slapped in the face. When he dazedly reached out a hand as if to touch, Levi caught it, sat up, and said, “Wait.”
He turned his back to Dominic and arranged himself on his elbows and knees, tilting his hips and lifting his ass in the air to display his creampie in the most explicit way he could. Then he flexed his hole so another stream of come trickled out.
“Holy fuck.” Dominic ran reverential hands up the backs of Levi’s thighs to his ass, squeezing and spreading the cheeks. “I can’t believe you let me come inside you.”
“Yeah, it was a huge sacrifice on my part.” Levi laughed as Dominic smacked his ass.
“C’mere.” Dominic turned Levi over and urged him to lie on his back again. He crouched over Levi’s legs on all fours and held Levi’s gaze as he slowly lowered himself down, only breaking eye contact when he lapped the come off Levi’s belly.
Levi’s breath caught. They didn’t use condoms when they had oral sex, but they’d always been careful not to come in each other’s mouths before. Now it was his turn to stare, struck speechless, while Dominic licked every trace of his come off his stomach. His chest swelled with emotions he didn’t even have names for.
Once Levi was thoroughly clean, Dominic crawled the rest of the way up his body and kissed his lips. “Now you’re inside me too.”
Dominic spent all of Saturday with Levi and his parents doing the usual touristy Las Vegas activities—gambling excluded, of course. They passed the morning at the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, stuffed themselves at Burger Bar for lunch, then headed Downtown to tour the Mob Museum and wander through the Fremont Street Experience before returning to the Strip for dinner at the Bellagio followed by a showing of Cirque du Soleil’s O.
Being on the Strip always made Dominic tense, beca
use the vivid reminders of gambling were inescapable in everything from the ubiquitous ads to the ambient conversations. But between the Abramses’ sincere and irrepressible enthusiasm for everything and Levi’s quieter affection, he managed to keep himself distracted.
Every time Levi touched him or leaned against him, memories of the night before surged back and left Dominic breathless. Levi loved him. They were in love. Dominic had never been in love before, and he didn’t want to let Levi out of his reach, much less out of his sight.
They stayed at his apartment that night. Dominic had to get up much earlier than he preferred on a Sunday morning, thanks to Desert Spring Methodist’s schedule.
Levi, an early riser by nature, was already up. He sat in the dining nook drinking coffee while browsing his tablet, Rebel beside him with her head on his thigh.
“Morning,” Dominic said, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
Levi glanced up. “Morning. There’s coffee in the French press, and I took Rebel for a walk.”
Circling around behind Levi’s chair, Dominic kissed the top of his head and reached down to scruff Rebel’s ears. “Thanks. Love you.”
Levi blushed, turning his face aside, and though Dominic didn’t have the best view, he knew Levi was rolling his eyes. “Are you going to say that every time we have any kind of verbal exchange now?” Levi asked.
“Yep,” said Dominic, and kissed him again before heading into the kitchen.
“You’re ridiculous.” Levi swiped his fingers over his tablet screen, a small half smile on his face. His cheeks were still pink. “I love you too.”
Dominic poured himself coffee from the French press Levi had bought him and added generous helpings of milk and sugar. “What are you reading?”
“There was a drive-by shooting on D Street last night.”
“Shit, really? Do you have to go in?”
Levi shook his head. “It went to one of the other Homicide squads. They’ll probably just kick it over to Gang Crimes anyway.”
Dominic whipped up a quick breakfast of eggs and toast, not arguing when Levi turned down his offer to make enough for two. Almost everyone close to Levi pressured him to eat more; he didn’t need that from Dominic as well.
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