He sighed presently, hoisted Gabe over his shoulder, and flicked on a couple of lights as he headed down the corridor to the master bedroom. Gabe stirred when Joe lowered him to the bed. His lashes fluttered as Joe took off his shoes and socks.
Joe hesitated.
Might as well get him out of the jacket at least.
He leaned over Gabe and was peeling the suit off his shoulders when the latter blinked.
Gabe looked up at Joe fuzzily. His eyes darkened in the next moment.
“Cam,” he breathed in a voice full of need.
He grabbed Joe’s shirt, yanked him down, and kissed him.
Joe froze at the feel of Gabe’s lips against his.
Gabe’s grip loosened on Joe’s shirt. He let go and fell back on the bed, out cold again.
Joe slowly straightened.
There was a noise at the door.
He turned his head and met Cam’s shocked stare. Fury filled the gunmetal eyes he knew so well.
For Christ’s sake.
Chapter 8
“What the hell was—” Cam started in an incandescent tone, his heart pounding so violently at the sight he had just witnessed he thought it would leap out of his chest.
“You asshole,” Joe said between gritted teeth. “Where the fuck have you been?”
Cam blinked rapidly, stunned for a moment. He scowled in the next instant.
“That’s my fucking line!”
Joe raked a hand through his hair.
“No, it bloody well isn’t.” He sighed. “Let’s clear up this misunderstanding right now. What you just saw was your boyfriend violating my lips, thinking I was you. Which, let me tell you, pisses me off to no end.”
Cam stared, his pulse skittering in his veins. “What?”
“What’s going on with you two?” Joe said gruffly.
Cam dropped his garment bag on his travel case, his mind still reeling at what Joe had just told him. “What the hell do you mean?”
Joe put his hands on his hips and glared at Cam. “Gabe’s been a miserable bastard the whole time you’ve been away, but even I was shocked at the state he was in tonight. He thinks you’re breaking up with him.”
Cam felt blood drain from his face.
“What?” Pain twisted through him as he stared blindly at the man on the bed. “He said that?!”
Relief flashed across Joe’s face.
“So, you’re not breaking up with him?”
“No!” Cam said vehemently. “If—if anything, it’s the opposite—” He broke off, his eyes widening. “Oh, shit. The phone call.”
Joe frowned.
“What phone call?”
Cam glanced at him dazedly.
“I was on the phone with Gabe when I was riding to the airport,” he said hoarsely. “We got cut off just before my battery died. I told him we needed to talk.”
Joe cursed. “Jesus, Cam. No wonder he was so upset.”
Cam’s shoulders sagged. He raised trembling hands to his head, his fingers twisting in his hair at the agony Gabe had no doubt lived through tonight.
“You mean, he’s spent the last seven hours thinking—”
“Yes.” Joe’s expression grew sympathetic. “I don’t know what’s going on between you two, but I hate seeing you guys like this. You need to fix this, Cam.”
Cam hesitated before dipping his chin.
“I—I know.”
Joe studied him for a moment. “He loves you, Cam,” he finally said. “Wholeheartedly. Irrevocably.”
Cam shuddered and closed his eyes briefly, blood rushing in his ears at his best friend’s blunt words.
“I know,” he breathed.
Joe’s cell rang. He slipped it out of his pocket, glanced at the caller ID, and took the call.
“Hi. Yeah, I’m still at the apartment. Cam just got here.” Joe hesitated. “We were just talking things over.” He looked at Cam. “They’re gonna be fine. I’ll make my way back now.” Lines marred his brow. “Yeah, I know you’re waiting for me.” Joe’s frown deepened. “What do you mean, you’re sending me a picture?”
The phone dinged. Joe looked at the screen. His eyes flared.
“Is that my bow tie on his—” Joe brought the cell back sharply to his ear. “You little punk!” A slow smile curved his lips. “I’ll be right there. Do not move an inch!”
Joe ended the call and crossed the floor to Cam.
“Ethan told me something once.” He paused. “He said there was one way to make sure no one ever took him away from me. And that was to claim him as my own.”
Joe looked over at Gabe and placed a hand on Cam’s shoulder.
“Dare to be happy, Cam. Let go of your past and embrace the future before you.”
Cam squeezed his best friend’s fingers and swallowed hard, his vision blurring. The sound of the front door closing reached his ears seconds later.
Silence descended on the apartment.
Cam let out a shaky breath and made his way to the armchair opposite the bed. He sagged into it and watched the sleeping man on the sheets for a long time, angry with himself for having been so stubborn and guilt-ridden by the unnecessary pain he’d inflicted on his lover.
And also just a little bit resentful about that kiss.
Gabe stirred and blinked fuzzily. Curtains fluttered ahead of him. A hot breeze blew through the open window overlooking the terrace outside the bedroom and washed across his skin. He rolled onto his back, wondering why his head throbbed so much. Something tugged at his hands.
Gabe looked up and stiffened. A gray silk tie was wound tightly around his wrists, binding him to the sculptured bedpost in the middle of the leather and wood headboard.
Gabe’s pulse jumped when he registered his near nakedness. He was dressed only in his briefs. A familiar smell reached him in the next instant, dousing his rising trepidation. He knew this scent.
Gabe scanned the shadowy bedroom, a different kind of nervousness suddenly skittering through him. His breath caught when he saw the man sitting in the chair opposite the foot of the bed, elbows on his knees, chin resting on the backs of his folded hands.
Gabe shivered, transfixed by the intense light in the gunmetal eyes studying him unblinkingly.
“Cam?” he whispered, confusion flooding his mind.
Cam rose slowly from the chair, his stance predatory as he approached the bed. He was still dressed in his work suit, the dark material clinging to his solid thighs and broad shoulders.
Gabe felt his cock twitch at the sight of Cam’s commanding figure. He didn’t know what was going on right now, why he’d been stripped and tied to the bed, or even how he’d ended up here in the first place.
The last thing Gabe recalled was sitting on the couch in Joe’s old apartment above Saron, being comforted by Ethan.
Cam’s gaze skimmed Gabe’s body, his face inscrutable. Gabe bit his lower lip and squirmed under the laser stare. Despite the echoes of pain still coursing through his chest at the last words Cam had spoken to him, Gabe could not control his body’s reaction to Cam’s presence.
“About that conversation we had…” Cam said in a low voice, his eyes rising from Gabe’s swelling arousal.
Gabe stilled when Cam met his stare head on. A fresh bout of agony twisted through him. He blinked back tears, his nails digging into his palms.
“I think you seriously misunderstood something,” Cam continued, his gray gaze turning the color of a storm-swept sea.
Gabe’s heart leapt and started a wild beat in his veins. He blinked, not sure if he’d heard Cam right.
“We’re not breaking up.” Cam reached up and slowly undid the knot in his red silk tie. “I’m sorry if I made you think that. I truly am.”
Gabe inhaled shakily when he read the blazing truth in Cam’s dark eyes.
Thank you, God!
Puzzlement replaced relief in the next instant. Gabe hesitated.
“Um, Cam, why am I—”
“Tied to the bed?” Cam cock
ed an eyebrow. “Oh, that’s just the first part of your punishment.”
Gabe’s train of thought juddered to an abrupt halt.
“What?”
“For the kiss,” Cam said, his voice hardening for a second.
Gabe stared, bewildered.
“What kiss?”
Cam narrowed his eyes.
“The one I saw when I walked in here tonight. You kissing Joe. In our bed, no less.”
Gabe gasped. “What?! No way! I would never—”
Gabe stopped then, blood draining from his face. He thought he was dreaming earlier when he saw Cam hovering over him. He dimly recollected a pair of hard lips against his own. Gabe swallowed a groan.
Oh, shit.
“The guilty expression on your face tells me you remember what you did,” Cam said coolly. He wrapped the ends of his tie around his hands and tugged slowly.
Gabe’s mouth went dry, a shiver dancing down his spine as he focused on the taut red silk.
Fuck.
Chapter 9
They had played with light bondage during sex before and Gabe had loved it. The feeling of powerlessness that swept over Gabe at those times was equally matched by his complete trust in Cam and the knowledge that he would only receive mind-numbing pleasure at the hands of his lover. And having Cam dominate him so thoroughly while he fucked him had given Gabe some of the most intense orgasms he’d ever had.
Cam’s eyes flared, his widening pupils telling Gabe everything he needed to know about their current situation. His next words confirmed Gabe’s suspicion about the dirty fantasy he hoped this was.
“I think I need to remind you who you belong to, Gabe.”
Gabe stifled a whimper of excitement when Cam knelt on the bed and slowly peeled his briefs off his hips, his fingers raising tingles down Gabe’s legs as they grazed his bare skin. Cam grabbed Gabe’s knees next, pulling them up and tugging them apart, spreading his thighs open. The stormy gunmetal gaze swept Gabe from his head to his toes before pausing on the flushed head of Gabe’s erect cock.
“So, here’s what I’m gonna do.” Cam lowered his head and dropped a kiss on Gabe’s right knee. “I’m gonna use my mouth on you. And I’m not gonna stop until I’m ready. Even if you beg. Even if you scream. I’m gonna make you come over and over again before I take you. And, trust me, Gabe, when I take you, you’re gonna be fucking ready for it.”
Gabe’s hips flexed reflexively at the filthy image Cam had painted for him in his husky voice.
Cam leaned over him and brought his lips to Gabe’s left ear.
“One last thing,” he whispered hotly, his breath sending shivers racing down Gabe’s spine. “You’re not gonna see any of this coming.”
Gabe gasped when Cam gently placed the silk tie over his eyes and tied the ends around the back of his head, blindfolding him. Air shifted above him as Cam moved.
Silence descended on the room.
Gabe waited, his heart pounding so hard he wondered if Cam could hear it. He licked his lips nervously, ears straining for the slightest sound, the silk tie a red-stained darkness obliterating his vision.
Something soft landed on his face.
Gabe shivered when he recognized Cam’s touch. He stilled, his entire body focusing on the fingers stroking his skin. His heart twisted at the achingly tender way Cam explored his features, as if he were a blind man seeing him for the first time. Hope swelled inside Gabe’s chest, choking his breath.
“Cam,” he whispered shakily.
A hot mouth landed on his in the next moment, swallowing his gasp. Gabe moaned as Cam parted his lips and took over, urging his teeth apart, thrusting his tongue deep inside Gabe’s mouth, the heated wet flesh wrapping masterfully around Gabe’s own tongue.
Heat roared through Gabe at the torrid kiss. His cock twitched and his fingers bit into the silk tie binding him to the bed as Cam continued ravishing his mouth for a precious long moment, branding him, engraving his taste on Gabe’s tongue.
Cam took his lips off Gabe’s and moved to his left ear.
Gabe shuddered as he kissed, bit, and laved at the sensitive lobe.
Fingers skittered down his chest, featherlight yet scorching. Gabe moaned when Cam pinched and tugged at his hard nipples. Kisses landed on Gabe’s neck, Cam’s hair tickling the skin under Gabe’s chin as he nudged Gabe’s head back, exposing his throat for better access.
Pleasure stabbed through Gabe at the delicious assault. Cam knew all his weak spots and seemed intent on exploring them to their fullest tonight. Gabe swallowed a groan, not knowing whether to be elated or to cry at the sweet torture being inflicted on his aching body.
Gabe’s pleasure grew exponentially when Cam moved his clever lips and tongue from Gabe’s throat to his chest.
“Cam!”
Gabe’s cock throbbed as Cam took his left nipple in his mouth, his teeth grazing the sensitive, puckered flesh before tugging on it. He repeated the process with Gabe’s right nipple and started alternating between the two, his hands skimming lightly over Gabe’s chest.
Heat arrowed straight down to Gabe’s dick as Cam continued tormenting his nipples. Gabe threw his head back on the pillow and rolled his hips, teeth biting into his lower lip, unable to control his body’s thrusting motion.
Gabe moaned and gasped with every pull and suck of Cam’s mouth. A familiar tension soon tightened his balls and coiled at the base of his spine.
“Oh God!”
Gabe shouted out Cam’s name and stiffened, his back arching off the bed. His climax washed over him in violent shudders, his body convulsing and twisting on the sheets, his cock pumping hot cum onto his belly.
Gabe collapsed on the bed, heart hammering away against his ribs and shivers racing across his skin from his fierce orgasm. Fingers danced down his trembling thighs. They were followed by a torrid, wet tongue.
Gabe moaned as Cam touched and kissed his legs, finding the sensitive spots behind his knees and tormenting him until his cock throbbed and swelled again with fresh arousal.
There was a rustle next to his ears. Gabe felt a pillow slip under his ass, lifting his lower body off the mattress. His pulse stuttered when hard fingers curled around the backs of his knees, parting them wide before pushing them up, completely opening him.
Gabe shivered when a warm breath washed across the sensitive tip of his cock.
“Oh!”
Fire flashed through Gabe as his aching dick was swallowed inside a hot, wet mouth. Teeth teasingly grazed his shaft, running up and down his aching length for torturous seconds. Then, Cam wrapped his wicked tongue and lips around Gabe’s cock and went to town on him.
“Cam!”
Gabe cried out, nails digging into his palms at the electrifying pulses of pleasure bolting through him. His hips rolled off the pillow as he thrust up and fucked Cam’s eager mouth.
He came seconds later, his breath hitching in his throat as his entire body went rigid and his spine bowed off the mattress once more, his climax sending red light streaming across his consciousness while Cam continued sucking him.
Cam didn’t stop when Gabe sagged back down on the bed, his busy lips and tongue working Gabe’s dick until he was fully erect again, sending him over the edge once more.
Blood roared in Gabe’s ears when Cam finally let him go, the shudders of his third orgasm still coursing through him. Gabe’s ass twitched and his belly ached from the delicious tension, his mind foggy and his body limp with pleasure.
He felt the mattress dip and heard the slide of a drawer.
“Get on your knees, Gabe.”
Gabe trembled at Cam’s raspy command. He shifted up the bed, rolled, and closed his hands around the central bedpost. He rose up onto shaky knees and clung on for dear life.
The mattress dipped again behind him.
Hands closed on Gabe’s butt cheeks and parted them, exposing the hidden cleft running from the bottom of his spine to the base of his balls. Gabe tugged his lower lip between his teeth, k
nowing what was coming next and dying to experience it.
Chapter 10
“Oh, fuck!”
Gabe’s mouth opened on a guttural moan at the first flick of Cam’s tongue against the tight pucker of his hole. His hips flexed, his cock leaking pre-cum against his belly as Cam repeated the movement again and again.
Cam’s fingers dug into Gabe’s flesh, holding him in place while he kissed, licked, and sucked on Gabe’s opening, making him melt from the intense pleasure of being rimmed.
Tension slowly wound through the base of Gabe’s spine once more. His balls tightened, his orgasm building in delectable waves that had him bowing and arching like a cat. Cam continued rimming him with his wicked tongue, dipping the tip inside to tease and taste Gabe’s hidden passage.
“Cam!”
Sweat rolled down Gabe’s face as he climaxed savagely, cock twitching and pulsing out cum onto the bed, hips thrusting back against Cam’s mouth and relentless hands, toes curling on the sheets.
Gabe felt Cam move and heard a faint click through the rush of blood pounding in his ears. Then, Cam was behind him again.
Gabe shivered when he felt cool wetness glide against his sensitive hole. Cam gripped his left hip and probed him with his lubed fingers. Gabe bit his lip and relaxed his lower body, opening himself up to his lover.
Cam glided two fingers in to the hilt and grazed his sweet spot, sending flashes of light across Gabe’s inner vision and drawing a cry from his throat. Gabe’s nails bit into the wooden post as Cam thrust repeatedly into him, his hips jerking with each bolt of pleasure.
“Oh! Oh God!”
Gabe shuddered as Cam slipped the thumb of his other hand inside him, stretching him further while he continued driving his slick fingers right up against Gabe’s prostate.
Gabe’s orgasm hit him like a freight train. He gasped as he came again, his shaft throbbing painfully as he spurted his release. A whimper escaped Gabe’s lips when Cam continued fucking his pulsing, sensitive hole with his fingers.
“Cam! I—I can’t!” Gabe begged. “It’s too much!”
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