Page 17 of Cassian

His eyes widened, taking Blake in. He hadsucha fucking nice body. Cass had always known, of course, but he hadn’t had blanket permission to ogle before. He took advantage of it now, drinking in his fill, stroking his palms along Blake’s broad shoulders, his muscled arms. “I can’t believe I get to touch this.”

Blake pressed a surprisingly chaste kiss to his lips. “Touch all you like.”

“And you—we’re gonna…?” Cass looked pleadingly at him, hoping he didn’t have to finish his own sentence.

A familiar teasing glint lit up Blake’s green eyes. “Oh, I don’t know. Because see, I’ve kind of poured my heart out a bit, and all you’ve told me is that you’re horny for my body.”

“It’s areallynice body though.”

Blake slid down enough that his head was level with Cass’s chest, his hands doing their own exploration of Cass’s bare skin. “So is this one.”

“I’m not—”

“Hush, baby. You’re so pretty. You’re the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen. I could do amazing, unspeakable things to this body.”

Cass was nodding with possibly the greatest enthusiasm of his life. “Yes. Do those. Unspeakable things. Let’s.”

Blake tilted his head up to meet Cass’s eyes, and he was still teasing, wasn’t he? “But you never answered my question, did you, Cass? Do you like me?” He rubbed a thumb over Cass’s nipple, smirking at Cass’s gasp. “Huh, baby? Do you like me too? Tell me. Don’t leave a guy hanging.”

Cass narrowed his eyes. He had absolutely no doubt Blake knew—even if he hadn’t figured it out before this trip—what a massive crush Cass had been harboring. “You’re being a jerk, you know. You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do this. You’re so fuckinghot. All the time. Walking around looking hot and acting sweet and…ugh!” He threw his hands up, covering his face.

His body started shaking shortly after, and he realized Blake was laughing, his face pressed against Cass’s belly.

“Not funny,” Cass muttered through his hands.

Blake lifted his head, smirking at him. “It would only be unfunny if I didn’t feel the same way.”

“You didn’t though.”

“I just didn’t realize it,” Blake said, nuzzling his head against Cass’s stomach. “I’m not very smart.”

Cass moved his hands from his face, frowning down at him. “You’re plenty smart.”

“Eh.” Blake shrugged, popping up onto his knees. “Luckily you’re smart enough for the both of us.” He started wrestling with Cass’s pants, unbuttoning them and pulling them off his legs. “And we’re gonna need those smarts.”

“Planning a naked study sesh, are you?”

Blake paused a moment, pants still in hand. “Something to think about,” he said, seemingly to himself. And then to Cass, “We’re gonna need those smarts because I have no fucking idea what I’m doing, and we want your first time to be good, don’t we?”

Cass rose onto his elbows. “You can’t just stick it in.”

“I knowthatmuch.” Blake rolled his eyes, as if he hadn’t just told Cass he was completely clueless. “Did you pack lube, knowing you’d be trying to seduce creepy hotel dudes this vacation?”

“It’s in my bag,” Cass said, refusing to be embarrassed, no matter how hot his cheeks felt.

Blake just cocked a brow and hopped off the bed, returning with lube and condoms. Vampires couldn’t give or get STIs, Danny had whispered to Cass as he was leaving, as some sort of last piece of vampire godfather sage wisdom. But Cass didn’t have the courage to bring that up yet, not when Blake was looking kind of adorably determined, setting the lube and a seriously ambitious stack of condoms next to it.

“You get naked too,” Cass ordered, poking at Blake’s pants with his foot.

“Is that part of the process?” But Blake obliged, removing his joggers and underwear and flinging them onto the floor, to meet all their other clothes.

But God, he had a nice cock. It figured he’d be blessed in every way. Cass couldn’t even be bitter about it anymore though. Not when Blake washisnow.

That new presence in him rumbled happily. It liked that thought.

Blake peered down at Cass’s naked form doubtfully, his hard cock bobbing at his stomach. “So I need to prep you, right? Should I turn you on your belly?”

Cass bit at his lip, holding back a smile. It was kind of cute that, even as the virgin, he was the one with more knowledge of how to go about banging each other’s brains out. “No, we can do it like this. OrIcould just—”

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