Page 58 of Revelry

“Can we get me something stronger? Right about now I could really use something stronger.”

“I didn’t know you played that way, Red, but sure.” Levi grins. “Hey Leif, you got a little something for me, brother?”

“Yeah man, I got powder and morphine—tablet form, so it’s kinda shit.”

“Wait, you’re dealing here?” I ask.

Leif frowns. “So?”

“You’re in a foreign country. What if you get caught?”

“Then I guess I’ll be extending my stay.” He shrugs. “Why? Are you thinking of squealing to the cops?”

I glare at him. “Would I be buying off you if I was?”

“Dude, just give us the powder,” Levi says. “I got a feeling Red can argue for days.”

Levi pulls a few notes from his wallet and hands them to Leif, who in turn gives him the blow.

I feel a stab of uncertainty, and then Levi slides his hand into mine and I’m pulled into an unused sitting room. He runs a hand over the polished marble to clear it of dust and then he carefully taps the powder out onto the flat surface, cutting it up with his bankcard and divvying it up into straight little lines. Levi dips his finger into the snow-white powder and brings it to my lips. I’m taken aback by the gesture, but I don’t move out of reach when he pushes his finger into my mouth and slides it over my teeth and gums. His grin makes my stomach do butterflies before I lock that shit down and snatch the rolled up note from his hand. I gather my hair in my hand and slip it over my shoulder and out of the way, and then I lower my head to the marble and glance up at Levi. He watches me closely, all the while with this predatory expression on his face.

I raise a brow at him, then bring the rolled up bill to my nose, snorting up a line. I sniff. My head sings as the drug rushes through my sinuses. Levi steps closer, wrapping a hand around my waist. His mouth moves nearer to mine, and I jerk back. “Whoa there, Vlad.”

“You have a little dust under your nose.”

I lift my hand to wipe it away but he leans forward and his tongue darts out, licking away the powder collected on my upper lip.

I watch him do a line and then I flop down on the plush leather couch as my world begins to spin at double speed. Levi laughs and slouches down beside me. “You know, when you pull the stick out from your arse, you’re actually kinda cool, Red.”

“Well when you …” I peter off, lost instead in the cadence of my voice. I sound like I’m on helium. “Nope, not even then. You’re not even cool then, ’cause you’re still just another guy in a band who relies on his pretty face and his big dick to make a name for himself. Coop and Zed, they work for it. But you …” I poke at his chest and he clasps my hand within his. “You, mister, are just a player with a massive cock.”

“Massive, huh?”

“Don’t presend …” I shake my head. “Pre-tend you don’t know it’s big. You can see that thing from space. It has its own zip cose … zip code. Is your mouth dry? My mouth is really dry. And why the fuck am I wrapped up in a blanket?”

“Josh gave it to you.”

“Who the fuck is Josh?” I question, standing up and gliding over to the table. I do another line and hand the rolled up notes to Levi.

“Josh Holme,” he replies.

“I met Josh Holme?”

“We’re at his house, babe.” He leads me over to the couch and pulls me down into his lap.

“Don’t call me babe. I don’t like you, Leroy.” I poke at his chest, but my limbs feel like wet noodles. I slump against his warm body. His warm, rigid body. His warm, rigid, and really fucking hot body. “I don’t like you, but I totally want to have sex with you right now.”

“You do, huh?” he asks, rubbing circles on my back and sliding his hands up my spine to grasp the nape of my neck.

“Yeah.”

“Fuck, Red. I been wanting to bend over that sweet arse and fuck you for weeks now.”

I snuggle in, kissing his neck and delighting in the feel of his coarse stubble against my lips. “I think your giant cock might break me.”

“It’s not gonna break you.”

“Well that’s easy for you to say. You’re not the one who might spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair because all your lady parts fall out when you stand up after having that monster of a thing inside you.”

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