Page 21 of A Layperry's Heart
I squeeze his wrist. “Gendry,” I say slowly, needing him to understand. “You did nothing wrong. I promise.”
“Then why have you been pulling away?”
I let out a sigh. Now it’s my turn to apologize. “I’ve been an ass,” I tell him. “I got freaked out by my feelings and thinking about the future so I started to pull into myself instead of talking to you about it. I just keep thinking that at the end of all this, someone is going to get hurt.”
Gendry moves his hands, placing them on my shoulders. He looks down at me, his big gray eyes soft yet concerned.
“You are holding yourself back to protect your heart?”
I bite my bottom lip and nod my head.
“I promise to do everything in my power to protect your heart, Aldo.” Gendry takes a steadying breath but it comes out shaky. “Even if that means keeping my distance.”
My heart shatters at the thought. That’s not what I want. That’s the furthest thing from what I really want. Despite the way I’ve done my best to pull away, it seems my heart has found its home already and I refuse to deny myself this. Gendry and I fit together in a way that doesn’t even make sense to my head but somehow makes my heart sing.
I place my hands on top of his before slowly moving them up his arms. Gendry visibly shivers, his skin breaking out in goose pimples as I touch him. He sucks in a sharp breath as my fingers dance over his throat and stop at his cheeks, holding his face between my palms.
“Don’t go,” I whisper, cursing the way my voice shakes. “Gendry, please don’t keep your distance. I want to be with you for as long as I can. I don’t know what we’ll do when it’s time for you to go back home.” I shake my head. “My heart is telling me that you’re it for me and I know it’s really soon to be saying that, but it’s the truth.”
Gendry’s eyes are wide with wonder as I speak, the sides of his lips curling up slightly with a smile. “Hearing these words have made me happier than I thought possible,” he says before reaching down and grabbing the back of my thighs, lifting me up into his arms.
A surprised noise leaves my lips and I quickly wrap my legs around his middle, holding on as he spins me. I can’t help but chuckle as he holds me. My cock is very interested in the fact that Gendry can manhandle me with such ease.
“I promise to care for your heart. I do not hold my feelings back. In all my years alive, I have never once felt feelings like this stir within me. You are different and special and everything I didn’t know to hope for in amatron.”
“What’s amatron?”
Gendry buries his face against my throat and I can’t tell if it’s an alien thing where he’s trying to sniff me or if he’s embarrassed by the question. He runs his nose over my skin and my cock fills with blood at the sensation. Fuck, I hope he doesn’t mind my dick poking him in the stomach like this.
“Where I am from, we have a trial to show we are worthy to take on a partner. We perform for everyone to see and in our Ancestor’s honor. Amatronis our life mate.”
My fingers tighten against Gendry’s shoulders. “Life mate?”
“Yes. I’m sorry if that is too much to say.”
“No, no. It’s okay.” I grab him by the hair, pulling him away from my throat so that I can properly see his face. “It’s okay, Gendry. I might not understand everything that means, but that doesn’t matter. I understand what our hearts want and I’m tired of denying them.”
“What are you saying, Aldo?”
I lean down and kiss Gendry’s lips. He makes a noise that radiates from his chest before he’s kissing me back. His enthusiasm takes my breath away and my heart practically pounds a tattoo against the inside of my ribs. Gendry’s hands tighten against my ass, pleasure soaring through me. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt more horny in my entire life, need courses through me like a raging fire and I know my own hand won’t be enough to calm this heat. The only thing that’ll sate me is finally giving myself over to Gendry.
“I’m saying,” I breathe against Gendry’s lips, panting from the intense kiss. “I’m saying that you should take me to my bedroom.”
Chapter Eight
Gendry
“I’msayingthatyoushould take me to my bedroom.”
My mind whites out. I stand there, completely frozen, trying to understand the words that Aldo has just murmured against my lips which are still tingling from our kiss. I am on cloud nine and I can barely believe that Aldo is in my arms, telling me that his heart longs for me the same way mine longs for him.
“What?”
Aldo grins. “I said, take me to my bedroom, big guy. I need you and I need younow.”
I blink. Then blink again. Finally, my brain seems to catch up to what Aldo is saying and suddenly, I’m moving. I take off in the direction that I think his bedroom is. Aldo starts chuckling, holding on to my shoulder tight as I walk.
My body is warm all over and I crave to feel Aldo’s body against my own with no barriers between us. I want him in the most intimate way two people can be together. I want to feel him inside of me.
