Page 49 of Artifacts

He turned, his hands against the glass of the cubicle and leaned forward slightly, but enough for Aldric to exclaim in surprise at the butt plug Darrell was wearing. Darrell could feel all the questions beating inside Aldric’s mind. Could Aldric pick the answers from Darrell’s…?

Yes, he’d been wearing the plug all afternoon and early evening, adding more lube as necessary.

Yes, it hit his prostate if he got the angle and position right.Jesus, just like the way Aldric was moving it in his tentative exploration.

Yes, he was preparing himself to take Aldric’s dick, and yes, it was making him horny.

Aldric whispered a question, and Darrell nodded, granting permission. A second later, Aldric’s fingers tickled around the flared base and pulled to ease the plug loose. Darrell teased Aldric a little, clenching his sphincter muscles to make Aldric work to free the toy. He peeped over his shoulder to see Aldric examining the bulbous black rubber with curiosity.

“You’ve used one,” Darrell reminded him.

“Not this size.” Aldric’s voice was almost lost under the cascading water.

The plug wasn’tthatbig. Darrell wanted to feel Aldric taking him and the effects of his penetration as long into tomorrow as they lasted. The toy was bigger, though, than the slim starter one he’d eased into Aldric the first time they’d had sex without condoms. Aldric had wanted to hold Darrell’s cum inside him as long as he could, so Darrell had inserted a butt plug after they’d fucked, and Aldric had slept with it in.

Darrell had pressed into it while curled around Aldric, being the big spoon, and the moan Aldric had given in his sleep when the tip pressed on his prostate was a sound Darrell would never forget. Now, he relished the slight looseness of his sphincter and smiled when Aldric unhooked the showerhead and sluiced his ass.

“Is there any point to that when you’ll be getting me dirty again?” Darrell wondered.

“‘Don’t wanna be tasting soap in a few, do I?’” Aldric said in a deeper, gruffer tone than his usual one.

“It’s like living with a goddamn parrot,” Darrell complained of Aldric’s mimicking him. Again. He switched off the water and opened the door for Aldric to exit. Outside, he twisted a towel into a strip and slapped it against the clothes hamper meaningfully, his eyes narrowed, and his mouth set into a thin line.

His fake threat and just-as-fake scowl worked, because with a squeal, Aldric fled, still patting himself dry. He’d gone to the bedroom. Darrell wrapped a towel around his waist and followed. He snagged a spare towel as he exited, because Aldric never rubbed his hair dry enough by Darrell’s standards, and today was no exception.

Aldric submitted to having his fluffy brown hair toweled and asked, “Are you stalling?”

“Not exactly. But, Aldric…”

“What?”

“Be gentle with me.” Standing close to Aldric, close enough to feel his breath on his skin, Darrell let Aldric see that while the words sounded flippant, in line with the humor that made up a big part of their relationship, the request was real. That Darrell stood before him, defenses down, vulnerable.

“Always,” Aldric promised, his voice catching. He patted the bed, and Darrell lay down for Aldric to follow and drop slow, sensual kisses on him, kisses so sweet and yet so scorching that they could only have come from Aldric.

Darrell stretched out under him, turning his head into Aldric’s hand where it rested in his hair and pushing into the warmth of Aldric’s fingers sliding from his hip to cup his ass.

He breathed out a half-giggle when Aldric nuzzled into his neck, then took a nip of his collarbone. Aldric pulled away to lean over to the nightstand for the lube.

“Okay?” Aldric murmured, perhaps not so much a question as in response to Darrell turning onto his stomach and curling his arms around his pillow.

He nodded, feeling Aldric’s body heat a second before Aldric nudged his thighs apart to kneel between them, his torso curved over Darrell’s back and shoulders. “I’ll go slowly,” he promised.

Darrell nodded again and breathed out at the touch of a wet finger at his hole. Aldric pushed it gradually inward, the firm probe hesitant and sensuous. And addictive—Darrell’s knees straightened under him so he could arch upward a little, giving Aldric more access. Within seconds, Aldric was past the first ring of muscle.

“Stay still,” he said, and Darrell, despite craving more, tried, except when he had to turn his face, still buried in the pillow, to one side so he could breathe his anticipation out, instead of pushing back onto Aldric’s hand to assuage it.

“I said I was taking this slowly,” Aldric whispered in his ear before he dipped lower, to kiss what little of Darrell’s face was visible and touchable. “This is amazing, how you feel, so tough and tender at the same time. Did you know I’ve been fantasizing about being inside you?”

It wasn’t what anyone would consider filthy, and certainly not the kind of dirty talk Darrell loosed during sex and got Aldric so goddam horny that he moaned where he lay, stroking his cock and cradling his balls, demanding Darrell take him,now. And Jesus, how Darrell loved seeing Aldric come undone like that.Love undoing him.But the fact that it was Aldric, with his bouncy brown hair and doe-like eyes, saying such a thing here, now—it had Darrell seeking out Aldric’s lips and pushing upward and backward, onto his hand.

But only for Aldric to use his body weight to hold him down to continue opening him up at his own pace. Darrell felt every millimeter of the second finger Aldric added, felt it in the increased pressure and stretch it brought. The hum of satisfaction Aldric gave resonated through his chest to Darrell, tickling his ear. Aldric twisting and turning his fingers had Darrell moaning—some of it in frustration.

“Give me more,” he urged with a shake of his hips. “Not like I haven’t taken anything in the ass before, remember?”

Aldric nipped Darrell’s ear, and the tiny bite sent tremors along Darrell’s skin. “This isn’t just about you. I’ll never have this first experience with you again. Not like this. So let me take my time and enjoy you.”

It might have come out as a plea if he hadn’t trailed his mouth around to that spot behind Darrell’s ear that drove him wild when Aldric bit it—as he was now, increasing the pressure until Darrell shivered. Aldric twisted the fingers he had buried inside him, stretching him further, then added a third.

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