Page 28 of No Reservations

It wasn’t my favorite thing to do, but my boss had known me since my modelling days and knew I could manage all the smiling and product demonstrations.

Cole stayed in the background when he needed to and walked by my side the rest of the time. As often as I could, I’d grab his hand and pull him from place to place. We got a few dark looks from the hunting and fishing crowd, but most people didn’t blink twice at seeing my arm around another man. No one appeared to recognize him, and I watched the tension in his shoulders dissipate more and more as the evening went on.

“Of course you didn’t embarrass me.” I sat beside him, wrapped my arms around his middle, and dragged him flat onto the mattress. My leg slid over his and my hands started to roam automatically. “You were probably bored out of your mind.”

He turned on his side and snuggled tighter into the circle of my arms. “No more than you were at the music industry events, I’m sure.” He smiled when I shook my head. “I’m sure there’ll be times when we both have to suck it up to support each other in the future. That’s how it is, right?” As if his mind just registered his words, his brows drew together, and his smile tipped toward a frown. Was he still so unsure about us?

“In the future, huh?” I couldn’t let him regret those words, and I erased the final inch of space between us as I pressed my mouth to his. “Cole, do you mean it?”

The grumbling moan I felt when my lips worked their way over his jaw to press against his throat punctuated his next words. “I mean it, Matty. I want to make this real.”

I didn’t want to pull away from his skin or loosen my octopus grip on his body, but I had to see his eyes for this. Emotion swamped me as I saw every one of my feelings reflected on his face. “This is real. Let’s take a shower.”

Before he could react, I lunged off the bed and tore the company t-shirt over my head. “Come on, Cole. Let’s wash all the travel and work grime off.”

In less than five minutes, we stood naked in the small bathroom with the steam from the shower billowing around us. “Wish I could have upgraded the hotel room, too,” Cole grumbled as I took his hand and pulled him under the spray.

He had tried, but with the convention in town and the summer vacation season in full swing, the room reserved by my employer was the only option. It had a queen-sized bed, a shower just big enough for two men to stand very close to each other, and a view of the parking lot. Still, it was enough for us.

“What would we do with a bigger shower or bed? Do you really want more distance between us?” I lathered Cole’s hair with his favorite brand of shampoo, working my fingers against his scalp in the most relaxing massage I could give.

His hands smoothed my body wash over my shoulders and down my chest and back, scrubbing through the smattering of chest hair and the thicker trail that led the way to where I really wanted his touch. Somehow, we both got clean enough with all the dirty sounds and touches taking place in the shower.

He tipped his head back to rinse the foam out of his hair, and I took advantage of the view to get my lips on his neck again.I sucked and nibbled on the sensitive skin until he moaned and clutched at my back to pull our bodies closer. “Matty,” he murmured, his breath coming faster as I explored his shoulder and collar bone with my lips and tongue. “More.”

I couldn’t touch Cole enough, and I didn’t know where I wanted to place my hands next. Instead of thinking about it, I let instinct take over, listening to his sounds and feeling his reactions to know the best spots to focus on.

His tight brown nipples were rubbed and pinched until he cried out and humped my thigh thrust between his. I gripped his ass cheeks and pulled him tighter against me, loving the slick stroke of his hard length next to mine. My fingers reached farther to tease down his crack and finally to touch and stroke the furled hole that I wanted to sink into so badly I could hardly think.

“Please.” Cole’s breath blew across my ear, sending another shiver of want down my spine. “Matty, please. Will you?”

I felt him swallow and his spine tense up one second before I pulled back to meet his gaze. “Will I what, baby?”

“Will you fuck me? Please. I want to feel you inside me.”

Chapter 16

Cole

The sheets weren’t as soft as the ones at home or even those at the Halcyon Inn’s cabin. The green bedspread was an abomination. It ended up on the floor along with the towels we’d quickly dried our hair with before falling onto the mattress entwined in each other’s arms. Hot, thrumming want poured through my body, soothing every ounce of tension, and relaxing every knot of worry.

This was real. Matty was real, and I would do absolutely everything I could to keep him by my side. Insidious thoughts of the distance between Los Angeles and New York snuck into the back of my mind, but I latched onto his lips again and refocused. We’d find a way. Somehow, we’d figure out how to be togetheralways. I breathed in the scents of lemon and vetiver and the warm something that was him alone.

I couldn’t get enough of his kisses, but his mouth wasn’t the only thing I wanted. The idea of a blowjob filled my mind next, and I writhed in the circle of his thick arms.Soon,I told myself. Soon I’d feel his soft lips around my cock. Soon I’d taste his most private places and learn everything there was to know about this amazing man.

But not yet. “Matty, please.” I hardly recognized the pleading voice that stuttered out of my throat on harsh breaths. My fingers wrapped around his cock, and he jerked against me. I swallowed his cry. “Tell me you have supplies. I didn’t… I couldn’t even hope.”

He pulled back with a grin before kissing the tip of my nose and rolling off the bed. It was such a ridiculous, adorable, Matty thing to do. I hardly had time to miss him before he returned to tuck himself around my body again. He waved a condom and bottle of lube before setting them on the nightstand.

His fingers encircled me and traced a long, lazy stroke from base to tip. The pressure was perfect, the pace slow enough to frustrate me. “How do you want me, Cole?” Matthew leaned back from where his lips and tongue toyed with my nipple and met my eyes. “Do you usually bottom?”

Fear that it would be a deal breaker washed through me, but he didn’t seem hesitant about taking the lead. “No. I haven’t in a long time.”

Before I could finish what I was going to say, Matthew cut in. “It’s been a long time for me, too. I’m vers, so I’m fine with anything.” He shifted away from where he rubbed his steely length against my hip and reached for the lube. “I could—”

“Matty.” I shoved my hand between us and grasped his long, hard cock in my fist. “I want this in me. I want you to fuck me so hard I’ll feel you until we can see each other again.”

I’d never heard him make a noise like the one that issued from his throat then, but I sure hoped I could again in the future. All the questions and concerns about how we’d do this long-distance thing vanished in a wave of lust as he wrapped his fingers around my thigh, spread my legs wide, and slicked his fingers before kissing me once more.

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