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A little dazed, Aldric copied him.

“This”—Darrell indicated the truck, the drive-in—“isn’t working.”

That flush took over Aldric’s face again. He looked down. “What did I—?”

“No.” Darrell wouldn’t let him think for one second anything was wrong. “I mean this here, making out like teenagers. We went further than this last time, and that taste of you I got, when I sucked your cock? That wasn’t enough either.” He waited for Aldric to react, but Aldric remained quiet, his eyes as round as saucers.

“So…” Aldric whispered at last, his breath barely making it past his lips.

“So I want to take you home with me, so I can fuck you. Jesus, do I need that ass.” Darrell paused, watching that sexy flush wash an even darker pink over Aldric’s face, like the tide had come in. “Can’t wait any fucking longer to have you.” The way Aldric bit down on his lower lip told Darrell he might like filthy talk.Hmm. Something to put to the test…“You can say no.”

“No.” Aldric spoke before Darrell could clarify. “No, I mean I’m not saying no. I’m saying yes.”

His hectic pink blush had faded a little and his eyes were still huge, but the tiny smile on Aldric’s face was no longer quite as timid as it had been. In fact, curiosity and wickedness bracketed its edges, and Darrell’s dick stiffened in response.Fuck, he was gonna enjoy this.

Chapter Ten

Darrell lived on the Broadway Corridor, part of the Pearl District, so Aldric could almost feel he was going back to work. He didn’t know the area very well, sticking to the streets close to the store. The huge, sprawling multi-building complex where Darrell entered through a barrier and pulled into a covered parking space came as a surprise. The development was as big as a university campus, with breezy courtyards between buildings and spacious outdoor walkways connecting them. He didn’t quite know how he felt about it.

“You said there was a gym?” He tried to make conversation while they walked.

“And a couple of pools.” Darrell paused in his loping stride, as if going to change direction and take Aldric on a tour.

“No.” Aldric gathered all his courage and put a hand on Darrell’s arm. “I don’t want to see the complex. I’d rather see you.” His face was hot with a blush and his hands were on the verge of trembling, but that wasn’t going to stop him.

“Good.” Darrell grinned. “Because I’d ratherlickyou all over. I love how you taste. We’re here.”

There was no comparison between Aldric’s studio and Darrel’s apartment—well, the bit of it Aldric saw as Darrell nudged him into the bedroom.

“Race ya,” Darrell offered, pulling at his clothes. He was naked in seconds, and Aldric gulped, looking at his cock. It was thick as it hung semi-soft, and much thicker and longer as it grew erect.

“You really shouldn’t look at me like that.”

Darrell’s words had Aldric raising his gaze to his. “Like…?”

“Like you want me to undress you.” When Aldric said nothing, Darrell did just that. “And touch you.” Aldric’s body had the bare minimum of muscle definition, but Darrell traced a lot of them, leaving pebbled skin where his finger stroked. When Darrell reached one side of the vee muscle leading to Aldric’s groin, Aldric’s erect cock jumped. Pre-cum shone at the slit.

“I’ll get you off first, so I can take my time with you after.” Darrell didn’t make it sound like a chore—more like a treat. When he curled a hand around Aldric’s neck and pulled him in to kiss, it was as if Aldric were a candy he wanted to savor—and suck, taking up where he’d left off earlier, then making his way south.

His knees bent, as though he were about to fall to them, but he straightened, reversed direction and walked Aldric to the bed. When the backs of Aldric’s knees hit the frame, he crumpled onto the mattress behind him, and Darrell was on him in a flash. Between them, they got Aldric situated to Darrell’s satisfaction.

For the first time, Aldric felt Darrell’s dick against his skin, and he shuddered, both at the heat of arousal and the thought of that big cock inside him. Turned on and daunted, he bucked into Darrell’s hand.

“Someone’s eager,” Darrell commented. “Apart from me, that is. Gotta have a taste.” He bent low and laved the head of Aldric’s cock before taking it deep for a few heart-jolting seconds. When he pulled off, licking his lips, he glanced up at Aldric. “Your turn. Show me.”

Aldric wrapped a hand around his dick, a little uncertain.Show meprobably meantshow off for me, and he wasn’t sure he could. But when Darrell squeezed his fingers around Aldric’s, making the foreplay instantly more erotic, Aldric jacked his shaft and needy moans fell from his lips without further prompting. His thumb and Darrell’s rubbed over the head, spreading the pre-cum that was slick and shiny there.

When Darrell got a grip of his own dick, replicating the strokes they were both making on Aldric’s, Aldric lost it. “Shit!” he hissed. “I can’t—”

“Let yourself go,” Darrell commanded. “Keep your eyes on me.” He stopped working himself, as if to pay extra attention to Aldric, jacking him from root to tip, the pressure harder than Aldric usually liked on his own, but one he loved under Darrell’s hand.

He cried out, thrusting up one final time into the constriction they both made around his dick, and most of his muscles, as undefined as they were, clenched as he came, gushing over his chest. His release was longer than usual, the world whiting out all around him and Darrell still stroking him, prolonging matters.

“Stop,” Aldric whispered, hyper-sensitive, and Darrell stilled his hand, but left it around Aldric’s deflated shaft.

“Look at you.” Darrell swiped a finger through the cum cooling on Aldric’s flesh. “Your cum all over your chest and belly. And you are so fucking sexy when you come. Can’t wait to see what you look like taking my dick in that cute ass of yours.” He pumped himself, two long, easy strokes. “One thing’s for sure—I’m gonna get you even messier.” He paused, his forehead creasing. “What?”

“I didn’t say anything.” Aldric was amazed he got his voice working. His heart was thundering and his nerves zinging.This is it.

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