Page 63 of Primal Urges

He had almost forgotten about the sleeping hunky man currently nestled in the comfort of his sheets.

“Caden! Fire!” Lucas screamed, hoping that his voice would be heard in the loft above the bathroom.

The bathroom was beginning to fill with smoke.

Panicking, he reached for a hand towel and quickly ran it under water. He placed the cloth over his mouth and nose and ran to open the bathroom window. At least that would let out some of the smoke.

Fear continued to flood in.

How was he going to escape? How was he going to get to Caden? Was this how his life came to an end? Burned alive in a barn death trap?

He needed to escape. He needed to save Caden.

Lucas reached for the doorknob once again and let out a yelp. The surface was scorching hot.

Shit! This was getting serious.

He began pounding on the door and screaming for Caden to wake up.

There was no way that he and Caden were going to die tonight in a fire.

What if Cade had passed out from the smoke? What if his bedroom was already on fire and Caden was being burned alive?

He needed to get out and rescue Cade. This was not how their story ended!

“Cade! Wake up! Fire!”

“Luc?” Caden’s muffled voice cried from somewhere behind the door. Coughing followed.

“Cade! I’m in here! The door’s stuck!”

A large thud against the door startled Lucas.

He took a step back, scared that perhaps Caden had passed out behind the door.

“Luc! Move away from the door!” Caden shouted.

Lucas took another step back.

The door trembled with each powerful bang against it. Eventually, the wood began to crack, and finally, the sharp edge of a silver axe sliced through the door, sending columns of smoke pouring in.

“Luc! This way!” Caden shouted as he pushed aside the broken planks of wood from the door and cleared a path for Lucas’s escape. “Give me your hand.”

Caden grabbed Lucas’s hand and scooped him up and over his shoulder, carrying him fireman-style out of the bathroom and past the blazing inferno that was quickly consuming the loft and the hallway to the bathroom.

The rescue was both terrifying and a major turn-on.

Clinging to the broad shoulders of the man carrying him as if he weighed nothing was like every wet dream he had had since his balls descended.

Watching the fire around them destroy everything in its path was horrifying.

“It’s okay, I’ve got you,” Caden huffed out in the most reassuring voice he had ever heard.

Clinging to his hero’s naked torso, Lucas felt relief as they exited the barn.

Once they were clear and safe, Caden placed Lucas back on the ground. They turned and watched in horror as the barn before them was consumed by the fiery blaze.

The fire was large, and the heat was intense.

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