Ways in the Guardian: A Menage Romance Book Collection

by Barbara Downey

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  “Goddamn this traffic,” Lenny said hooting impatiently as the lights turned green.

  He was running late for the party and wished that he had left home sooner. He had dropped by the barber shop to have his hair groomed, on his way home, and that is what had brought about all this delay. He had the feeling that Tony was probably wondering what had happened to him, but Lenny was sure that everything was going to be worth it. It had been such a long time since he had felt this good about himself and he had the feeling that everything was going to go as planned. Probably today he was going to finally tell Tony exactly what he felt about him, and if all went well, Tony would probably feel the same way too. Just the thought made his blood rush through his veins, his dick shifting around in his pants with excitement. His cell phone suddenly went off, startling him and he picked up the call without even bothering to check the caller ID.

  “Dude, where the hell are you, the party here is really rocking, and I even saw your guy a while ago?” Shawn said quickly into the phone, loud music banging in the background.

  “The traffic here is a bitch, but I'm on my way and should be there in a couple of minutes,” he said into the Bluetooth mouthpiece, his hands gripping the wheel tightly until his knuckles turned white.

  “Well, it just might be your loss if you don’t make it here. Dinner is just about to begin,” Shawn said, and from the mellowness of his voice and the tempo of the music playing in the background, Lenny could imagine just what he was missing.

  “I'll see you in a bit,” he said, hanging up and branching off into a side street, hoping that it would get him past the traffic faster.

  It was a deserted street that passed by some warehouses on one of those streets that he would never have dared to drive on at night due to gangsters, but tonight he felt the need to do so. If he had to risk his life so that he could be with the man that he had fallen in love with, then so be it. He was almost at the end of the lane when a group of men suddenly stepped onto the road, one of them wielding a pistol in his hand. His first instinct for him was to hit the reverse gear and speed the hell out of here with his head low, but instead Lenny defiantly drove up to the group and then lowered his window, the move even seeming to surprise the heavily tattooed men.

  “How can I help you, folks?” he said to them boldly, barely unable to believe his own balls.

  “We are the ones that ask the questions around here. Now, why don’t you step out of your truck and hand us everything that you got, including the keys to the truck?” a potbellied guy with the gun said to him.

  “I am sorry but I can't do that right now, I'm running late for an engagement, and that is the reason why I took this route,” he said to the man, trying to weigh them out just in case things got bad.

  He could see that the group had only one gun and that they were not as strong as he was. Lenny just hoped that he could remember the little kung fu that he had learned in school.

  “Listen here, we are the ones that set the rules on this road, this is our territory and not even the cops pass by here to dare us. I'm going to tell you this one more time, step out of the truck and hand us everything that you got,” the man said, lifting the gun to point it at Lenny.

  “Alright, no need for us to get all worked up. Point that thing away from me,” he said, acting scared as he pulled open his safety belt and then opened the door of the truck.

  As soon as he stepped onto the ground, he lurched at the potbellied guy so fast, grabbing the hand with the gun before knocking the guy and sending him sprawling onto the ground with a fractured wrist. The other guys backed away from Lenny when they saw how huge he was, and also because he now held the firearm.

  “Now, like I said, I have an engagement to attend to and neither you nor anyone is going to make me postpone it for whatever reason,” he said, kicking the guy on the ground hard in the balls as the man grunted in pain. “Is there anyone else that has an issue with that?”

  The five or so guys on the sidelines shook their heads, each one of them backing away from him slowly as they fearfully looked at their leader on the ground.

  “Perfect, I'm glad that we could reach an understanding,” Lenny said, stepping back into his truck, his adrenaline pumping furiously through his veins. He almost couldn’t believe what he had just done, being that it was risky and you could never know if the other guys also had hidden firearms.

  Lenny fired up his engine and drove off, stopping on a bridge a half mile away to toss the gun into the sea, before branching off onto the road. The ten-minute ride had just saved him almost three quarters of an hour in the jam and so the standoff was worth it. Within a few minutes, Lenny had brought the truck to a stop in the parking lot of the club. He checked himself in the rearview mirror, running his fingers through his dark spiked hair before stepping out of the truck. His adrenaline was still in full throttle as he made his way around the back of the club house so that he could enter through the beach door, where he wouldn’t cause so much attention as to his lateness.

  He was just about to go up the stairs onto the terrace when he spotted a familiar figure down by the water on the beach. Tony was seated all alone down by the beach with a bottle of liquor in one hand, and he looked like he was in a world of his own. Without wasting another moment, Lenny immediately turned around and began walking down the beach towards the lonely man. He approached him slowly from behind, hoping to surprise him. As he tiptoed behind him, he crouched down and then covered Tony's eyes with his hands, so that Tony could try and make a wild guess who he was.

  “Mike, will you stop this silly game and go back to the broad that you’re dicing,” Tony slurred, and Lenny realized that he was probably drunk. “I'm going home. I don’t think that Lenny is coming here tonight. He was probably just fooling me to get me out of his hair.”

  Lenny felt his heart skipping a beat as he wondered what to do next. “Are you really sure about that, Tony, because I don’t think that Lenny would do such a thing to you?”

  As Lenny released his hands from Tony's eyes, Tony slowly turned around, almost as if he could not believe what was actually happening. His eyes glittered from the alcohol but there was still that fire within them that Lenny liked so much. As Tony turned around to face Lenny completely, their faces barely inches from each other and Tony's male scent immediately going straight to Lenny's head, Tony set the bottle of whiskey onto the ground.

  “Lenny, I didn’t think that you were going to make it here. It has been almost an hour since we got here and you were nowhere to be seen,” he said, almost as if he was dreaming.

  “Yeah, the thing is that I had some stuff to take care of at home before coming here. What are you doing on the beach all alone, the rest of the people should be just about to eat, how about we go and join them?” Lenny almost couldn’t stop himself from reaching his lips down to Tony's and kissing those sexy full lips.

  “I guess I just got bored in there, but now that you're here, maybe we should go in for that dinner after all,” Tony said as Lenny stood up quickly, scared of what he might do if he continued being so close to Tony.

  As Tony tried to stand up, he staggered, almost falling onto the ground, but Lenny reached for him, grabbing him just in time to stop him as he pulled him upright. Once again their bodies came within inches of each other, touching lightly as Lenny's eyes shot to Tony's lips, trying to imagine what it would be like to kiss this hell of a sexy man.

  “I'm terribly sorry about that. I don’t really do alcohol a lot, but today it seems like I have had a little too much to drink,” he slurred as he struggled to straighten himself.

  “That’s fine, it happens all the time to me,” Lenny said, noting the way that Tony looked even sexier now that he was drunk. “Come on, I'll help you into the clubhouse, we don’t want to miss out on the delicious pepper steaks that they serve here. I'm sure that once you’ve eaten you will feel much better.”

  Lenny put his hands under Tony's arms and helped him walk to
ward the clubhouse. Just feeling Tony so close to him, his heat absorbing his own, was enough to set him on fire. It was hard for Lenny to stop the surge of emotions that coursed through his body, lighting his desire in ways that he had not thought possible. He felt his balls burning with fire, his dick starting to harden in his pants. He was just glad that he had worn some tight fitting briefs that stopped the erection from becoming too obvious.

  “I think that the terrace will do for now, we don’t want to go into the building and cause a stir,” Lenny said, helping Tony onto a seat by a table and then pulling one out for himself opposite Tony.

  “I don’t really give a fuck what anyone thinks of me, I mean, isn't this supposed to be a party?” Tony slurred as Lenny signaled for a waiter to come with the menu.

  “I think I prefer it here because we can also get to talk in private. Inside I think that there would be too many unnecessary interruptions,” Lenny wanted Tony all to himself even if it felt a little mean.

  There were things that he had been planning to tell Tony tonight, and he was just praying that he would have the guts to do so. Guts had the habit of disappearing just when you needed them the most. He went ahead and placed their order along with black coffee for Tony and a whiskey for himself. The coffee would make Tony a little soberer, and it also had the effect of turning on people. That would make Tony ripe for him if they were going to make love tonight, because that was the thing that Lenny was hoping for. The coffee and the whiskey arrived before the food, and as soon as the waiter had served them, he departed, leaving Lenny alone with Tony.

  “You should not drink such hard liquor when you have not stuffed your belly with steaks,” Lenny said, trying to steer a conversation.

  “I know, I just don’t know what came over me, one minute I was drowning champagne and the next I had a whole bottle of scotch,” Tony said, sipping on his coffee.

  “Yeah, I know that shit happens sometimes,” Lenny said, noting the way that Tony was eyeing him, almost as if he were trying to imagine how Lenny looked like without his clothes on.

  He took a sip of the whiskey, feeling the heat burning down his throat and into his belly. Something about the feeling and about all that he was feeling made his dick suddenly begin straining against his pants. He reached his hand under the table and adjusted his crotch so that he was a little more comfortable, the tip of the head poking through the waist of his pants. He could not remember the last time that he had felt so much lust within him, almost as if his whole body was on fire.

  Their meal soon arrived, and as usual, the pepper steak was delicious, stirring up the appetite within him. “How do you like the steak? This is the reason that I never tire of coming to this place, their food is simply delicious.”

  “I'm guessing that is why you choose to hold all your parties here, huh?” Tony said, feasting into his steak.

  “Something like that, and for American football players like us, the calories are very important,” Lenny said to Tony, still unable to believe that he actually had the hunk of a man seated right opposite him at the table.

  “Talking of football, maybe you could show me a couple of moves down on the beach as soon as the food settles in,” Tony said, eyeing Lenny with interest.

  “Sure thing, just as long as I won't be too smashed from the whiskey,” Lenny laughed, not sure if the glint he was seeing in Tony's eyes was actually a flame for him.

  They talked over various subjects over the meal, and Lenny found that he and Tony had a lot in common, apart for their love for football. They listened to the same music, loved the same food and even dreamed of one day going on vacation to the same places. Lenny felt almost as if it was fate that had brought them together, because it was hard for two people to get along so well on their first meeting.

  To Lenny it actually felt more like a date, or at least that was what he wanted to think of it as. After dinner, they did not go to join the rest in the club house, but continued sitting outside on the terrace. Tony seemed to have sobered up considerably and so he also began ordering whiskeys. It was almost an hour later that Lenny felt that the drink had gone to his head, telling Tony about the thugs that had tried to attack him on the way to the club.

  “That was quite a tale, I must say, and what would you want to risk your life like that for? What if that man could have shot and injured, or even killed you,” Tony said in shock, his eyes wide as his hand went to cover his mouth in a sexy looking way.

  “Well, there are some things that a man just must do. If I tell you that I'm going to be there, I'm not going to fail you. I came here because I had told you that I would meet you at the party,” Lenny said, reaching across the table for Tony's hands and squeezing them in his own.

  It was as if there was a rush of electricity through them both as their hands linked, sending a jolt all the way down to his dick and making it grow even harder and more erect. He felt as if his balls were on fire, the heat surging through all of his body and making him aware of every nerve within him.

  “Tony, there is something that you should know, you are a very hot guy and I was hoping that maybe you and I could try and work out something between us,” he said to Tony, not sure of how to frame his words. “Look, this is not something that I have no idea how to put, but-“

  Before he knew what was happening, he felt Tony's lips pressing against his as they began kissing. They first kissed lightly before Lenny lost control, sealing his lips onto Tony's tightly as they began kissing hungrily and deeply. He drove his tongue into Tony's mouth, letting it play against Tony's in an erotic dance. Tony put his hand around Lenny's neck, pulling him closer as their mouths pressed together even tighter. Lenny felt as if he was going to die for all of the arousal that he was feeling, not remembering ever having felt this way before. It was almost a minute before their lips reluctantly pulled away from each other. Lenny's eyes looked at the way that Tony's lips had swelled due to the kiss and he had to restrain himself from kissing Tony again.

  “Wo, that was one hell of a kiss, I have never felt anything like that before,” Lenny said, a soft blush covering Tony's cheeks as Tony looked at him.

  “And very natural too. How about we take that trip down to the beach,” Tony said, beginning to get up.

  “I think that is a fantastic idea,” Lenny said, although he would have preferred to take Tony to his home so that they could explore each other’s bodies.

  Lenny got up and the two men walked off the terrace. Lenny was glad that most of the people had gone in to the dance floor, because he did not know what they would think if they saw him with a hard on. They headed down the beach in silence with everyone to their own thoughts. Lenny wondered what Tony was thinking and as he looked at him through the corners of his eyes, he realized that Tony also had a huge hard on in his pants. He felt his heart skipping a beat on realizing that Tony was feeling just as aroused as he was, hopes of something ‘interesting’ happening between them now coming for alive.

  “You know what, I have an idea, let’s take a swim in the ocean. The weather is warm and good for a swim,” Tony said, suddenly pulling off his polo shirt and then going ahead to pull of his pants and boxers.

  Lenny was still standing there in surprise as he watched Tony sprinting to the water and diving into the water. Without wasting a moment, he stripped off his clothes and dashed towards the water after Tony. Things were turning out to be more interesting than he had thought. The water was still warm as he dived into the water and went swimming after Tony, who had stopped at a point where the water level reached his waist. He swam under the water, coming up right in front of Tony and his hand even brushing over Tony's hard cock as he went up. Lenny felt a jolt of lightening rippling through his body, and as he stood upright, he realized that once again they were both standing an inch away from each other.

  His heart skipped a beat when he felt Tony's dick brushing against his under the water. Tony put his hands around his neck and pressed himself into Lenny's body, their bodies making
tight contact as their lips sought each other. They began kissing passionately. Unable to contain himself, he found his hand moving down Tony's side and then pressing in between them. He brushed his hand over Tony's thickness, a shudder rippling through him, before he wrapped his fingers around the shaft and began jerking it up and down slowly. It was long and slender, and Lenny did not even want to imagine what it would feel like in his mouth among other places. Tony groaned into his mouth as he jerked the dick, his other hand going down to Tony's balls and massaging them in their sac.

  They kissed hungrily and Lenny had never kissed a man that was as responsive as Tony. Soft moans escaped into his mouth from Tony's, Tony tilting his head slightly so that their mouths could fit together perfectly. Tony pulled his hands away from around Lenny's neck and began running them over Lenny's chest, tracing out each and every muscle ridge. They finally found their way to Lenny's nipples and Tony pinched them with just the right amount of pressure to send a zing right to the very core of his sex. This time it was Lenny's turn to moan into Tony's mouth, pleasure rippling through every nerve within his body.

  Lenny was a much bigger and stronger guy that Tony, and without taking his lips away from Tony's, he reached for his legs and swept him off his feet, carrying him out of the water towards the beach. There was enough cover from the palm trees to give them some privacy as he set Tony down on a soft patch of sand, crouching next to him. He moved his head down to Tony's chest, his lips circling around one of the small nipples as Lenny began to suck on it. One of his hands in the meantime, jerked his dick up and down, and Lenny could swear that he could feel the manhood becoming harder with each stroke.

  “Oh fuck, that feels good, but I want you to suck me off,” Tony said, his hands trembling as they moved over to Lenny's head, pulling it off his nipple.

  “If only you knew for how long I have waited for something like this to happen. I never thought that it would actually ever come true, but I guess that I was wrong,” Lenny said, moving his head down lower to Tony's crotch and sniffing it in.