I peck her lips one more time before pulling her back into a hug.
Maybe I finally found somewhere to stay.
“Tivooooon,”Tyler groans when I wake him up for the third time. “I’m alive.”
“Yes, but I need to make sure. Protocol–”
Tyler rolls over to fully face me, trying not to wake Gavin. “Listen, big man, I’m fine. I know the protocol. Gavin set the alarm on his phone to do the normal checks. You need to go find Ari.”
“Aryeh? Why?”
“Because he takes this shit to heart. Jason is with Keon and Kira, so you have Ari all to yourself.”
With a nod, I slip back out of the room, but hesitate outside the door. I consider just going outside, but decide that I do need to check on Aryeh. I make my way to his room and hear the shower running when I open the door. Running through my options quickly, I decide that it’s now or never for me to be there for him like he needs me to be. I slide into the bathroom, undress quickly, take a deep breath, and pull the curtain back. Aryeh doesn’t react, so I’m pretty sure he thinks it’s one of the other guys. His hands are braced on the wall with his head hanging down, letting the water run down his gorgeous body. I slide my hand around his waist, and it’s not until he feels the calluses that he looks over his shoulder. His eyes are haunted, and I know Tyler hit the nail on the head.
“What are you doing?” he rasps, and I pull him from the water so his back is plastered to my chest.
“Being here for you.” I kiss the side of his neck and lay my chin on his shoulder. “I know what it feels like when one of your team gets hurt.”
Aryeh is stiff as a board until he finally relaxes with a sigh. “It just keeps fucking happening, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I want these assholes dead. All of them.”
“We’re getting closer,” I soothe, running my hand soothingly over his abs. They tense under my fingers, but he doesn’t pull away.
“Not close enough.” Aryeh moves his hips, making my hand slide lower. “Make me fucking forget, Tivon.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. I keep thinking about that fucking kiss since it happened. You promised you could help my mind settle. Please do it.”
I let my hand drift slowly down until it grazes his cock. It jumps from my touch, and Aryeh sucks in a breath. “I like the way you say please.”
“Fuck,” Aryeh croaks when I wrap my hand around him and stroke roughly.
“How far do you want this to go?”
“However far you want it to.”
“Good answer.” Good boy is right on the tip of my tongue, but I don’t think Aryeh is ready for that. He’ll know soon enough that he’s my Good boy. I start jerking him slowly with a tight grip, listening to every groan and gasp that he makes. His ass is grinding against my cock, and it’s driving me crazy.
“I want to see and touch you, too.”
I reach down and massage his balls. “Is that right? Fuck, you’re gorgeous.”
“Please, Tivon?”
I reach past him and turn the water off. Jerking the shower curtain back, I grab the towel from the rack and start drying him off. Once that’s done, I give myself a quick once over and grab his hand before leading him to the bed. “Crawl up and lay on your back.”
Aryeh hesitates because that puts him in a vulnerable position, but eventually does as I say. My eyes are glued to his tight ass until he flops over on his back, and I see his naked form fully for the first time. I walk toward the bed, and his eyes are tracking everything that he can see. My chest puffs out when I see his pupils dilate, letting me know he likes what he sees. I get onto my knees on the bed and gently pull his thighs apart so I can get between them. His breathing speeds up, and his eyes shoot to my cock.
“That’s never going to fit,” he says, and I laugh.
I stroke myself a few times for his benefit before moving so I can brace my arms beside his head. “It will. It just takes some good prep. That can be the best part.” I let my cock slide against his, and he hisses out a breath. “I just need you to let go.”
“Let go? I’m naked, on my back, with you on top of me. How much further can I let go?”
I lean down until my mouth is at his ear. “The fact that the first words out of your mouth weren’t ‘yes, Sir’ tells me all I need to know. I won’t take this any further until I know you’ll get what you need out of this.”
“How the fuck do you know what I need?”There it is. I need to get to the bottom of this. He’s not using sex against me to get what he wants. He’ll learn that pretty fast.