More Than Ever (More Book 3)

by Sloan Parker

  We got the tent set up, and then I sat on the ground and reclined back on my elbows to examine the evening sky. It was dark, startlingly dark. No light pollution from city streetlights or outdoor artificial lighting fixtures that people typically installed to feel safe from their own neighbors. The sky was a dramatic dark blue near the treetops, then grew black above that, illuminating more stars than I’d ever seen before. Hell, we barely saw the stars at home.

  Richard came to me and took my hand. “Come with me. You too, Luke.”

  “Where are we going?” I asked as he helped me up and led me away from the tent.

  “You’ll see.” He stopped at the edge of the water. “Strip.”

  “What?” I glanced around.

  “No one’s out here. Get naked. We’re going skinny-dipping.”

  Luke grinned at Richard and immediately started peeling off his clothes.

  Richard laughed before he eyed me with curiosity. “You don’t want to?”

  “I’ve never done anything like this before.”

  “Me either.” He tilted his head at Luke. “And I’m guessing Mr. Speed Stripping over there hasn’t either.”

  Luke stood naked now. “Nope. Never.” He rubbed his palms together, then gestured to us, indicating we should get naked too. “Let’s go.”

  Richard and I got undressed, and we all stepped into the pool of water. A couple of inches below the surface the water was bracingly cold this time of year, but the chilly liquid moving over my heated flesh felt amazing. I dived under the surface and swam away from the shore. When I emerged near the center of the pool, I found Luke and Richard had done the same. It was shallow enough that we could stand on the bottom, our shoulders and heads above the surface.

  We swam and splashed around for a while.

  Then Luke floated on his back. “Shit. This is awesome. Who the hell knew there were this many stars out at night?”

  I floated too. The moon hung low in the sky, creating subtle beams of light that filtered down through a lattice of tree limbs to create soft swaths across the surface of the water. The waterfall’s foaming cascade glowed in the moonlight. I let my eyes fall shut, and the sounds of the forest seemed to rise up around us: the soothing flow of the waterfall, the hoot of an owl, the chirping of crickets, and the rustle of wind through the tree branches.

  I felt a hand settle at my lower back as if helping to hold me up so I wouldn’t sink into the water and disappear. I opened my eyes.

  Richard was standing over me. “Hey.”

  I smiled up at him. “Hey.”

  He lifted me up and into his arms.

  I thought he was going to kiss me, but instead he ran his wet hands over my shorn hair, then down the sides of my neck, over my shoulders, my back, my hips, my ass.

  Luke pressed in behind me and swept his hands across my chest while Richard reached around to my front. He cupped my cock and balls and massaged my flesh.

  “What are you doing?” I asked.

  “We’re helping you wash up.”

  “You are not. You’re teasing me.”

  “It’s not called teasing if Luke and I have every intention of following through.” Despite his words, he let go of me. “Let’s get dry and have something to eat.”

  Luke laughed as he and Richard headed for the shore.

  “See!” I called after them. “You were teasing me.”

  “And you loved every second of it,” Richard said over his shoulder.

  He was absolutely right.

  After we were dry and dressed in clean clothes, we got a fire going and all took a seat, Luke and I on a downed tree, Richard on the ground facing us. We ate a simple freeze-dried pasta dish that only required boiling water. As we were finishing up with dinner, an alert sounded from one of our phones inside our backpacks propped near the tent. We hadn’t had much of a signal for most of the day, and I thought all our phones were off, so it surprised me to hear the notification.

  Luke searched through his bag, then mine next. “It’s yours, Matthew.” He brought me my cell. Apparently I’d forgotten to shut it down the last time I checked the phone.

  I read the message. “It’s from Tomas. He wants to know how it’s going.” I sent the kid a reply. Haven’t found anything yet. Just getting started on more remote locations tomorrow. Not giving up.

  He texted back: Thanks. I owe you so much.

  No, you don’t. I want to help.

  We texted back and forth for a few more minutes. Tomas sent a photo of his pig and dog playing tag together. I told him I’d love to meet his animals, then made sure to add that my phone’s signal had been cutting in and out and that I’d keep him updated when I could. I also texted Kevin to let him know we were okay and to check on Trixie. They were spoiling her like crazy, and she was enjoying all the trips to the dog park.

  After the sky had grown darker, the three of us sat in the quiet for several minutes, the air filled with the scent of smoke from the campfire and the first signs of fireflies. It all reminded me of that night with my dad when he’d spoken about his father.

  Luke leaned into my side. “Thanks for bringing us out here. I know we’re not here for the view, but it’s hard not to be impressed. It’s so dang beautiful here. Peaceful.” He looked out over the water and sighed with contentment. “It’d be awesome to build a cabin right by this waterfall, live out here, and never leave.”

  “You’d really like that?”

  “Yeah.” Then that relaxed smile faded, and his forehead scrunched up. “Until we ran out of lube.”

  “We could go to a store once a week.”

  He laughed. “Sounds good.”

  I stared at him as he kept on taking in the view of the starry night sky above the waterfall. I was more in awe of him than the beautiful blanket of stars. He was so amazingly gorgeous, but also passionate and thoughtful and so full of life. My chest ached with the thought of what Richard had mentioned the other night, that Luke could’ve so easily walked away from us and we wouldn’t have gotten to see this side of him. He’d nearly sprinted out the door and never looked back that second night at the club.

  Without a word, Richard stood. He came to me and encouraged me to my feet. Wrapping his arms around my waist, he pulled me to him. “He’s pretty amazing, isn’t he?”

  “Yeah.” I held him in return. “Some days, I can’t believe he picked us.”

  “Me either. I was just thinking of that second night at the club.”

  “I was too.”

  He drew my lower body against his. “Remember when we sat there at that table by the stairs? I was trying to play it cool, but all I kept thinking was, Dear God, don’t let him walk away. I wanted you both like I’d never wanted anyone else. Ever.”

  “Me too. You know how the other day he said we wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t kept pushing us all together in the beginning?” He nodded, and I continued. “Really, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for him. He held our entire future in his hands that night.”

  “He did. Good thing he’s such a smart man.”

  I laughed. “More like, good thing he listened to his dick that night, instead of his brain. I told him the other day he’s at his best when he doesn’t think.”

  “God, that’s so true.”

  Luke snorted. “Why do you two always talk like I’m not in the room?”

  I reached down and patted the top of his head. “Oh, Luke, it’s time to use that brain of yours again. I know you computer tech geeks don’t get out much, but we’re not in a room. This is called the outdoors.”

  Richard buried his face in the crook of my neck and held me tighter as laughter poured out of both of us.

  “Lame much?” Luke stood and jabbed Richard in the side. “Why do you always encourage him like that?”

  Richard straightened and met my stare. “Because I love his laugh.”

  Luke nodded. “That is a pretty sweet sound.”

  “Let’s hear it some more.” Richard ducked down and grabb
ed hold of me around my hips, hefting me over his shoulder in a firefighter-style carry.

  “What are you doing?” I squealed.

  “You’ll see. Get a blanket, Luke.”

  Luke went to the tent. He came back with a sleeping bag. He barely had it spread out on the ground before Richard maneuvered us down onto it. He laid me out on my back and propped himself over me. Then he turned to Luke. “Tickle him.” Luke went to do as instructed, but Richard held up a hand to stop him. “With only your mouth.”

  Luke’s brows rose in anticipation. “I can do that.”

  Richard leaned on an elbow beside me, and Luke moved in on my other side. He raised my shirt, exposing the bare skin of my stomach. Bending forward, he brushed his lips along my flesh, sending goose bumps shooting across my skin. He hadn’t shaved since the morning before, and the rasp of stubble lightly sweeping my skin tickled. I squirmed under the teasing assault. He repeated the action again and again. Then he tongued around my navel, and I laughed more.

  The laughter died off the minute he started making his way south. My breathing kicked up a notch as he opened my jeans and pushed them and my underwear low so he could keep traveling down my body with his mouth. He stopped when he reached the hair above my cock. He blew a warm breath through the dark hair.

  That tickled more. I laughed again.

  “Nice,” Richard said as he continued to watch us. Then his hands were on me, raising my shirt higher over my torso. “Lift up.”

  I sat up, and he peeled my T-shirt over my head. After I was on my back again, Luke lowered my pants and underwear the rest of the way off my legs. He tossed them and my socks and boots aside, and then I was naked again right there outside, under the stars. I exhaled deeply as a wave of lust engulfed me.

  “He’s not laughing enough,” Luke said.

  “No, he’s not.” Richard stroked one hand across my pecs, then followed that movement with his lips and tongue, teasing one nipple, then the other. Luke went back to running his tongue over me, this time lightly brushing the tip of my cock. It was just enough pressure to bring my dick to life.

  I arched into their touches. “Oh God.”

  Luke groaned, a frustrated, playful sound. “We’re turning him on, not tickling him.”

  “Yeah, guess we are,” Richard said. “Time to change gears. I think he needs to be teased and turned on way more.”

  “Uh-huh,” Luke agreed.

  “More?” I whimpered. “Oh shit.”

  “Yep.” Richard sat up. He reached for Luke and brought him up so they were face-to-face. “Take off your shirt.”

  After they both shed their shirts, Richard grabbed Luke again and laid a mind-blowing kiss on him. They continued kissing wildly, passionately, Richard showing his love for Luke’s body the entire time. Luke plunged into the kiss with as much abandon as Richard. It was all so heady and erotic to see them like this outside, nothing but the dark sky and the canopy of trees and stars above. I reached for my erection and gave a squeeze, then a slow stroke.

  When the kiss ended, Richard spied me fondling myself. He shook his head. “Hands above your head. Don’t touch yourself again.”

  I followed his command as the two of them finished undressing each other.

  Then they were both naked, leaning over me again, their lips on me, kissing me, touching me everywhere. Two mouths. Four hands. It was intoxicating.

  Only, I wanted more.

  I wanted them to take me right there, have their way with me and make me cry out in uncontrollable bliss.

  Richard dropped a kiss on my right nipple, then tongued over and around it. His breath danced across my sensitive flesh as he spoke again. “On your hands and knees.”

  I could barely lift my head. “What?”

  He grinned. “Trust me. Get up on your knees.”

  I sat up, and he helped me flip over as he’d requested. I swayed back and forth under the unbelievable desire thundering throughout my body. Richard got on his back perpendicular to me and positioned his head at my groin. He grasped my cock, and without delay, he sucked the head into his mouth.

  “Yes! Fuck, yes!”

  It was hot as hell watching him take my dick into his mouth from underneath me. There was always something very powerful about seeing him suck me off in that way. It drove me crazy. Every single time. Made me desperate to thrust into him, watch him swallow me down, watch him take my release down his throat.

  Luke was behind me now. He spread my legs wide and swiped his fingertips over my hole, teasing, stroking, stoking my arousal higher. Then his hands left my body. When he touched me again, his fingers were wet with lube. He must’ve gotten the lubricant when he’d gone to the tent for the sleeping bag. He teasingly rubbed me again, his fingers slowly sliding over and around the entrance to my body. He gave me no more warning than that before he dipped a finger inside me.

  I groaned.

  Richard sucked harder.

  Luke thrust his finger in and out of my ass, going slow at first, then picking up speed, adding his mouth into the action.

  I hung my head and squeezed my eyes shut. This was pure heaven. One man thrusting and licking, the other sucking and tugging. So many sensations at once. I was on the edge in no time.

  “Fuck. I’m gonna—”

  Luke sat up in a rush. “Richard.” He sounded desperate.

  Richard let go of me. He must’ve seen what Luke hadn’t verbalized, maybe couldn’t verbalize. “You got it.” He moved out of the way, and they both helped me turn onto my back again.

  Luke frantically lay over me. There was nothing slow or careful about his movements. He thrust against me, wantonly rubbing his erection over mine, his arms flexing with each push and pull, each rocking movement forward and back.

  Richard lovingly laid a hand on the back of Luke’s head and watched us for a moment. Then he grabbed the lube and slathered his dick as he moved in behind Luke. In a series of swift moves, he buried himself in Luke’s ass. Luke dropped his head forward and groaned.

  Richard didn’t hold back. He fucked Luke in that signature piston-like style of his, driving Luke against my body, rubbing our dicks together in the most perfect slide of flesh on flesh. I moaned, loud and long, relishing the feel of both of them over me.

  But I wanted more.

  Someone else did too

  Luke lifted up over me onto his hands and knees, Richard moving with him.

  “I want you, Matthew.” Luke’s tone was so serious. So genuine. God, I loved him. With his hand on my face, he drew me to him and brought our mouths together, electric passion passing back and forth between us as the kiss went on and on. Then he lowered me back to the ground, exhaling a shaky breath as if the intensity of that kiss—or the desire racing through him—was too much, too overwhelming. “I’ve never wanted you more.”

  Richard handed Luke the lube. With a shaking hand, Luke wet his dick, then my ass. But one look at him and I knew the reaction wasn’t out of fear or uncertainty. He was so turned on, he was ready to burst.

  I held my legs up and open as he leaned over me again. He sank into me in the same smooth, rapid thrusts as Richard had done with him. No hesitation, no doubts. It was ecstasy.

  “Yes! Luke! Richard!”

  They both moved over me then. Grunting and thrusting, skin slapping against skin, we were all flying high on the building sensations. The scent of sex rose up around us, filling the night air with that primal blend of carnal need and sweaty male bodies grinding against each other.

  All I could do was take what they were giving me.

  And I loved it.

  Craved it.

  This was what we’d been missing.

  Lust. Passion. Desire. An uncontrollable rush.

  Strange that we’d found it in the middle of the forest.

  I should’ve known, though. It didn’t matter where we were. So long as we were all together.

  Luke’s body shook. “Oh, Jesus.” He groaned and started slamming into me harder. �
��Why the hell was I scared of this?”

  “I know,” I panted, overcome by the building sensations.

  I wanted to hold off until they came, but I wasn’t going to last much longer. That was okay. They were right there on the edge with me.

  Luke’s breath hitched. “Fuck.” The muscles of his abs jerked as his body went taut against me, his dick deep inside me. “Fucking hell. Matthew.” He shuddered and came, spilling every drop of his release inside me, and I squeezed around him, drawing out one last groan and jerk of his hips as he repeatedly clawed at the sleeping bag beside my left shoulder.

  With his breaths still coming in heavy pants and his dick still in my ass, he reached for my cock. He stroked me as Richard started in on his ass again.

  With that knowing hand on me, I completely lost it. I grabbed on to Luke’s upper arms, my entire body shaking throughout my orgasm, whimpers and cries surging out of me, the sounds so loud I had to have scared off all signs of wildlife. I barely registered the grunts from Richard as he came too, calling out Luke’s name, then mine.

  When I finally returned to myself, I lay on my back, Luke beside me, Richard on his other side. I stayed like that, watching the twinkling, mesmerizing stars in the night sky above the line of trees. Despite everything else, I felt free, alive in a way I hadn’t in a long while.

  I could barely lift my head. “That was… wow.”

  “Uh-huh,” Luke agreed.

  I couldn’t help but laugh. “We totally need to wash up again, and the water’s gonna be even colder now.”

  Luke chuckled with me, but then his voice was full of meaning when he said, “It was so worth it.”

  “It was.”

  He reached for my hand at my side and held it in his.

  After several deep breaths, Richard sat up and leaned over Luke, tugging me closer so we were all smooshed together. Then he sprawled out over Luke’s lower body and laid his head on my chest. He ran his warm fingers over my left pec, higher, along my collarbone, and then up the side of my neck and back down again. “Next time, it’s my turn to be inside you, Matthew. It’s been too damn long.”