Page 92 of Charmed By Destiny

“Don’t you want to get to know me better?” Lucas asked coyly.

“Of course I do.”

“So, ask me something about myself.”

“Fine,” Richard said. Giving himself no time, he blurted out the first question that popped into his head. “How long after you were resurrected did you have sex?”

Lucas gaped at him. “What?”

“Hmm, well, I suppose that’s none of my business. Have you ever been with a woman? I tried once. We made out for an hour, then decided it wasn’t for us. We spent the rest of the evening talking about makeup and clothes.”

“Never been with a woman. If Foxe was flush with cash, women and men swarmed him. He’d wind up with the women, but I wasn’t attracted to them. I wanted to fuck the men, so I figured I was gay.”

Since the night Lucas had rimmed Richard, they’d regularly included ass play in their lovemaking. Richard’s delight in the mastery of Lucas’s mouth and hands had him reevaluating his refusal to ever consider intercourse again. Lucas was a conscientious lover who treated Richard like a king in bed. What would it be like to have Lucas inside him?

A shiver ran through Richard at the thought.

“Have you ever bottomed?” Richard asked.

Lucas shook his head. “No. Fucking wasn’t a huge thing for me. It happened, but mostly it was jackoff sessions or blowjobs.”

“You like those things.”

Richard’s belly did a delicious little flop as Lucas aimed a feral smile at him. “Yes, especially with you.”

“Bottoming again has occurred to me.”

“It’s not necessary to have anal, Dragonfly.”

“I know. It’s not like I think I have to. It’s an increasing want. The way you make me feel is addictive. I’m growing more curious about what it’d be like to have you inside me.”

Lucas scooted closer to Richard and rested his palms on Richard’s thighs. “I like that you’re thinking about it because that means you feel safe and comfortable enough around me to consider it. But that’s because it was your idea to try it in the first place. That time you met up with that asshole, you suggested it. Which means at one point, it interested you. You deserve to walk through life without dickheads ruining experiences for you. Fucking with the right person feels really damn good. I enjoy making you feel good.”

“You’re excellent at making me feel like I can literally conquer the fucking world if I want,” Richard replied, cupping Lucas’s jaw and kissing him.

“You do that for me. I don’t know how this is supposed to work, but I lost my heart to you. It’s yours if you want it.”

Richard swallowed the lump in his throat and smiled as the first tear slipped out of his eye. It was impossible to pinpoint the moment he’d gone from admiring Lucas’s beauty to wondering how he’d passed his days without his kind, caring presence in his life. Soulmates had terrified Richard because he hadn’t understood how he was supposed to be in a relationship. No one had been able to explain the process of falling in love to him. Richard hadn’t been able to appreciate what it was like to find a person who suited him perfectly.

On paper, his relationship with Lucas shouldn’t have worked. They’d come from different walks of life. Richard was a sorcerer who could raise the dead, and Lucas had been summoned by magic.

Yet none of that had mattered. The real sorcery was how easily Richard had been ensnared by his feelings for Lucas. Or perhaps it was the lack of terror Richard had experienced as he’d fallen for the inspirit.

Words were trivial, but they were all Richard had.

“I love you,” Richard whispered against Lucas’s crooked smile.

“I love you too.”

“This may be silly, but I suddenly have this impulse to thank you for taking our relationship seriously right from the start. You didn’t fully understand soulmates until you met my family, but you were my partner from that first night together.”

“Before that night, I thought if I could choose a soulmate, you’d be it. I’d pick you.”

“Thanks for taking that hotel key and meeting me in that room.”

“Thanks for having the courage to ask me to be with you.”

“It was messy, but I’m glad I did it,” Richard said, caressing Lucas’s cheek. “Best decision I ever made.”

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