Page 49 of Hellfire & Tinsel
“Kassel, please… I want you…” He gasped, head thrashing against his pillow, thighs squeezing him.
“Settle down, Beau,” Kassel said.
“No.” He shook his head, feeling more tears gathering, spiraling and unable to stop. “I don’t wanna settle, I just want you. I need you. Please.”
“You have me,” Kassel said. “But we need to talk first.”
“Why?”
“You’re not quite yourself right now, and it’s my fault,” Kassel said.
“You’re right. It is your fault,” he said in a voice that sounded nothing like him. “Sexy demon.”
He grabbed for Kassel, sliding his hands from his shoulders down to the base of his tail, but before he could really touch, Kassel was off him and sitting at the edge of the bed.
Beau sprang up into a sitting position, bereft and dizzy. He had to brace a hand between his legs to balance, the other reaching out and pleading. “Come back.”
He glanced down his body to see what had suddenly changed. Why Kassel had been so reverent one moment and then distant the next. That train of thought screeched to a halt when he noticed the iridescent lavender fluid on his trembling stomach.
He reached out and ran a finger through it, coating it in a pearly shine.
“It’s what’s making you so desperate for me,” Kassel said.
Beau snapped his head up to meet his gaze. He felt shame and confusion pool in the pit of his stomach. “I’m sorry,” he whispered.
A clawed hand wrapped around his ankle and Beau shook even from that. “Don’t be sorry. I like that you want me.”
“But you wanted to stop…” Beau started, but Kassel shook his head, running his hands over him and making the pearly shine disappear from his skin.
The moment it was gone, the desperate ache in Beau’s stomach started to dissipate. He still wanted Kassel, was still hard for him, but the despair wasn’t there anymore. He didn’t feel like he’d burn to ash if Kassel didn’t touch him.
“Remnants of olden days,” Kassel said, large hands encompassing the span of his waist easily. “We affect human virgins like this.”
“Really?” Beau squeaked, allowing himself to be tugged closer again, happy to go.
“Just because they’re sacrificed to us doesn’t mean it has to be unpleasant for them,” Kassel said. “Our… fluids make them experience pleasure like never before.”
“Oh…” Beau said. He was truly a well of clever retorts. “But you got rid of it.”
“I removed its influence,” Kassel agreed, stroking over the small of his back. “I don’t want you to do something you don’t really want.”
Beau stared, eyes wide and incredulous before he broke out into breathless, relieved giggles.
“Beau?” Kassel asked.
Beau shook his head, uncoiling his body and crawling the remaining distance between them. He shyly hooked a leg over Kassel’s thighs, awkwardly sitting too far back before Kassel helped him out and nudged him closer. Beau flushed but heldhis place, not letting his inhibitions send him running for the blankets again.
“You think that’s what made me want you?” Beau asked.
He didn’t wait for an answer. Instead, he tipped forward, rolling his hips gently into Kassel’s again.
He watched Kassel’s eyes darken, not breaking their stare even though it made him squirm.
He felt the second precum oozed again, shiny and sticky and coating them both. The frenzy picked up again, getting its hooks into him and spreading into his bloodstream. The storm raged like it had never stopped.
But he knew his mind.
“I've wanted you since the moment you appeared,” Beau moaned, head tipping back. “I don’t know… I don’t really know how to make you feel good but… I want to.”
