Aidan’s heart twisted, irretrievably in love with this man. It’d been a long time since he’d had anything quicker than a wham-bam with someone, and never had he felt emotionally connected like this before.
He could lie there all night and do that to him, but when Jeff started begging for release, Aidan knew he needed his turn and soon. When he brought him over, Jeff’s whole body tensed, his greedy, hungry cry tightening Aidan’s need as he stayed with his lover until every last hot drop was out. He worked his way up Jeff’s body. Jeff trembled, gasping, finally opening his eyes to look at Aidan.
“How was that?” Aidan asked.
Jeff stared at him for a moment, then grabbed him and rolled on top of him, kissing him hard. “God, that was fantastic!” he finally gasped when he let Aidan push him up for air. “That was… That was amazing!”
Jeff finished removing his slacks and briefs and peeled off his socks. Then he dove for Aidan’s waistband.
Aidan laughed and stopped him. “Hold on. Just a sec.” He kicked off his shoes and socks and laid back on the bed. “Okay.”
Jeff fell on him. Aidan gave himself over to the sensation of having a lover ready and willing to bring him pleasure for the sheer joy of it, not because it was polite reciprocity. Jeff eagerly licked and kissed Aidan’s chest, working lower, fumbling, anxious to rid Aidan of his slacks.
When Jeff discovered Aidan had gone commando, he happily groaned. The feel of Jeff’s hot mouth around his cock nearly finished Aidan right then.
Aidan touched his shoulder. “Slow, man, or you’ll get a quick surprise.”
“That’s what I’m hoping for. I want to do this all night.” He met Aidan’s gaze. “I want to do this for eternity. I want you to make me your soul mate, Aidan. I want to be with you forever. Please.”
Aidan nodded. “I know, sugar. I want that, too. I just want to make sure you understand the whole picture before agreeing to this gig.”
Jeff’s lips wrapped around Aidan’s cock again. Aidan was sure his eyes must have rolled back in his head as Jeff eagerly devoured him. He couldn’t hold it back if he tried. Jeff’s desire and determination more than made up for his lack of experience this first time.
Aidan’s hand tightened on the back of Jeff’s head. “Get ready,” he hoarsely grunted, closing his eyes as his climax hit. It rolled through him, faster and stronger than…ever, truth be told. And he’d had a lot of experience in that regard.
Aidan’s very soul felt pulled, stretched, increasing the pleasure he experienced, like it would last forever.
Jeff moaned, hungry and ready. After a few minutes Aidan had to gently pull him off. “Okay,” Aidan gasped. “Okay.”
Jeff curled up next to him, tight against his side, his arm draped over Aidan’s chest. “How was that?”
Aidan weakly nodded and kissed Jeff’s forehead, holding him, able to relax now that their initial frantic, frenetic first encounter was out of the way and they’d sated their immediate urge. “That was great, sugar,” he whispered. His pulse pounded in his ears, or was that the sound of Jeff’s heartbeat? Did it even matter? He’d never felt like this before with anyone.
The second time around they were both slower to move from their post-climactic embrace, sated and happy and more than a little drunk from the emotion.
Aidan lifted his head and looked at the clock. It’d only been an hour. He kissed the top of Jeff’s head. “How about you and me have a snooze and then see what happens, and we can call in late tomorrow morning?”
“Mmm hmm,” Jeff sleepily mumbled, contentedly clinging to Aidan’s side.
Aidan smiled and pulled the sheet over them and fell asleep feeling Jeff’s slow, steady breath against his flesh, almost like it was part of his own soul.
* * * *
A little after midnight, Aidan was pleasantly awakened by the feel of Jeff’s mouth on his cock. Aidan suspected this was round three.
“That’s so good, sugar.”
Jeff lifted his head. “You finally awake up there?”
“I’m awake down there, too, now.”
“Took you long enough.” Jeff drew another deep, hungry moan from Aidan as he went down on him.
“Slow down. We’re not in a hurry.”
“Am I doing it right?”
“Oh you’re doing it just fine, but if you want to do something else you need to let me save a little energy.”
Jeff crawled up Aidan’s body again and kissed him, their flesh hot against each other. “I want to do that.” Aidan could feel Jeff did, he was rock hard. “I want to do everything with you.”
Aidan rolled him onto his back and kissed him. “Let me go get something. You stay right there.” He reluctantly quit kissing Jeff and padded, naked, to the bathroom. He grabbed a couple of towels, wet a washcloth, found the bottle of lube. In bed he nudged Jeff out of the way as he laid out the towels, then kissed him again.
“You wanna bottom or top?” Jeff’s confused look both amused Aidan and warmed him. This was a man who’d never experienced anything like this before, and he got to be the one to teach him. “You wanna just lay back and enjoy it for now?”
Jeff eagerly nodded. Damn, he was so cute.
“Come here, sugar,” Aidan said, his voice husky. “On your back.”
Jeff lay down on the towels, his blue eyes locked on Aidan’s. Aidan wanted to watch Jeff’s face this very first time. He nudged Jeff’s legs into position and slipped a pillow under his hips, then carefully lubed his fingers. When he gently worked one into Jeff, the man threw his head back and moaned.
“You okay?” Aidan asked.
“Yeah!”
“You tell me to stop if—”
“Don’t stop!”
Aidan smiled and reached between Jeff’s legs, stroking him with his free hand as he slowly worked another lubed finger into Jeff’s virgin rim. When a low moan escaped Jeff’s sweet lips, Aidan slowed his hand and slipped a third finger inside him.
“Yesss!”
“You like that?”
“Yeah!”
He removed his hand from Jeff’s stiff shaft and applied lube to himself. He withdrew his fingers and slowly pressed his throbbing head against Jeff’s rim. “Just relax,” Aidan softly said before carefully pushing in. “Breathe, buddy.” He waited, allowing Jeff time to get used to it. “Let me know when it’s okay.”
Jeff nodded, his hands on Aidan’s arms, clutching him tightly.
Aidan felt him wiggling around, settling, then after a few moments trying to thrust against him and take him deeper. “Okay?” Aidan asked.
Jeff nodded. “Yeah!” Aidan took his time, carefully easing himself inside his lover, gasping when he filled him.
He leaned forward a little and wrapped his arms around Jeff’s hard thighs, one hand slowly stroking his shaft again. “You ready for me to fuck you, baby?”
“Yeah!” He opened his eyes and met Aidan’s gaze.
He wanted to take it slow. Thank the gods they’d blown a little tension earlier or he’d never make it past three strokes. There was no denying this man had his heart. He could do this to him every night for eternity with no trouble at all.
Wanting to get Jeff over first, Aidan kept his strokes long and slow, making it last for both of them. Jeff looked gorgeous, panting and breathless and trying to work his hips with Aidan’s thrusts. Aidan felt him getting close and tried to time it as best he could.
Jeff gasped, and just before he came he whispered, “I love you, Aid.” Aidan felt his lover’s release as his own slammed home. With two more stokes he finished, carefully lowering Jeff’s legs and relaxing on him, kissing him, nuzzling his throat.
“I love you too, sugar.”
Jeff wrapped his arms around Aidan and sobbed. “That was so good!”
“Please tell me those are happy tears.”
“Heck yeah!”
Aidan finally untangled himself from Jeff and wiped them both off with the wash cloth. Then he curled around him and tightly s
pooned along his back with Jeff’s head resting on his arm. Jeff’s shorter frame was a perfect fit for Aidan’s body.
“Let’s sleep in, sugar,” Aidan murmured, already drifting again. “I’ll call us in, we’ll take the day off.”
“Okay.” Jeff hugged Aidan’s arms tightly around him. “That sounds real good.”
* * * *
Jeff was still asleep the next morning when Aidan slipped out of bed and called Purson to tell him they wouldn’t be in, to make sure the office would get opened on time.
“Why not? What are you two doing?”
Aidan tried to sound threatening but he was in too good a mood. Looking through his bedroom door he watched Jeff, still asleep in his bed. His heart fluttered in a strange way he wasn’t used to feeling.
A good way.
“None of your business.”
Purson laughed. “Dude, if you two are getting laid, just say so. No shame in it. About fucking time you grew a set and claimed him. Watching you two making moony eyes at each other every day was getting pretty damn old. Congratulations, by the way.”
“I haven’t claimed him yet, and what the two of us are or aren’t doing isn’t any of your fucking business.”
Purson laughed again. “Um, yeah. Suuurrre. Okay. Riiight. Whatever you say. Give the new missus my love.”
He reddened and hung up on Purs. Damn ballbuster anyway.
It didn’t dampen his mood. After using the bathroom, Aidan eagerly slipped back in bed with Jeff. When he did, in his sleep Jeff automatically snuggled against Aidan, his firm ass—yes, it was a nice one, Kal got that right—pressing perfectly against Aidan’s quickly inflating cock.
When was the last time he’d slept with someone like this, not counting his platonic cuddle with Kal when the wraith still possessed her?
Too long to remember. Might as well be never.
Jeff smelled good, too. A clear, musky scent, slightly tangy. Mixed with their sweat and sex from last night it was dang near intoxicating. Aidan felt like he couldn’t keep his hands off him.
Aidan hated to wake Jeff because he looked so comfortable, but he couldn’t resist running his tongue along his lover’s shoulder, tasting him. He wrapped an arm around Jeff’s waist and his hand slipped beneath the sheet, finding Jeff already stiff.
It was Aidan’s hungry groan that finally awoke Jeff. Aidan felt him stretch, rubbing even more comfortably against his now-throbbing member. He tipped his head back to look at Aidan.
“Good morning.” Jeff’s sleep-husky voice stirred Aidan’s soul. Aidan wanted to wake up next to this man every morning.
“Morning.” He kissed him, closing his eyes and enjoying how Jeff’s cock throbbed in his hand as his tongue gently parted the seam of his lips.
Jeff rolled over, grinding against Aidan. “Did you arrange for us to miss work?”
“Yeah, sugar. We’re good.” He kissed him. “You’re officially sleeping with the boss now. I think we can arrange special perks.”
Jeff laughed.
They made love again before they showered. Aidan cooked Jeff breakfast and they spent the morning talking, watching TV and holding each other.
Aidan wouldn’t deny it felt right, more right than anything he’d ever felt before. He felt a little guilty that they weren’t in the office while Will and Kal were gone, but Purs and Gery could handle things or call him if they needed him. Dammit, all the times he’d covered for Purson being late or out because of getting some pussy, it was damn sure time for him to repay the favor.
* * * *
They cuddled in bed together after lunch. Jeff even loved the way Aidan smelled, like they were made to be together. Secure in his lover’s arms, he felt okay broaching the subject.
“I don’t understand why Bera is so determined to get pregnant.”
“No one does.”
It was what Aidan didn’t say that clued Jeff in. “Meaning Ryan doesn’t know? That’s why you’re all so nervous, isn’t it?”
“She showed up at the office after Kal and Will first got together, looking for a little confab with Kal. Ryan doesn’t trust Bera. He’s not omniscient. No one is, despite commonly held beliefs.” He stroked Jeff’s arm. “I don’t have to be a mind reader to know that her sudden disappearing act after she tagged you wigged Ryan out in a big way.”
“And it means whatever her reasons, they’re probably not good.”
“Exactly. Two plus two will never equal seven in this realm.”
“I’ll admit I didn’t pay a lot of attention in the office yesterday to what you told me about her,” Jeff admitted.
“What?”
“I was a little distracted.” Jeff’s hand drifted south, his fingers brushing against the front of Aidan’s shorts.
“Oooh, I’m being objectified. I think I like that.”
“Yeah?”
Aidan smiled. “Yeah.” He brought Jeff’s hand to his lips and kissed it.
“Why doesn’t she go after an unsuspecting archdemon? You said there’s more of you guys.”
“Don’t know. Maybe she has. Ryan hasn’t found anyone who will admit to it if she did. She seems to have a particular thing for me, Ryan, and Will. All we know is she wants to get knocked up, and I guess she needs an archdemon to do it because of her whacked-out bloodline.”
Later that afternoon, Aidan was drifting to sleep when he heard a familiar tapping in his brain. He wanted to ignore it, then realized maybe it would be best he took care of business sooner than later.
Especially considering how Ryan had stepped up to the plate for him with Jeff.
He sighed. Sitting up, he leaned over and kissed Jeff.
“What’s wrong?” Jeff mumbled.
“Nothing, sugar. I need to take care of some official business. I’ll be right back.” He pulled on shorts and a T-shirt before appearing in Ryan’s Atlanta living room.
Four other archdemons were gathered there besides Ryan, men Aidan had met before but didn’t know very well. The sight immediately drove all grogginess from his system.
“What’s wrong?” Aidan asked.
“Calm down,” Ryan said. “I wanted you to be a part of this.”
“Do I need to get Jeff?’
“Do you honestly think I’d allow you to leave him behind if he was in immediate danger?”
“Immediate?”
“Aidan, please. Sit.”
He finally did.
Ryan nodded to a large man with ebony skin, muscles that looked like they were carved from rock, and a smooth, shaved head. Tosko.
When Tosko spoke, Aidan realized the man’s thickly accented words weren’t in English. “We have not been able to track Bera’s current whereabouts. Or her method of leaving Earth, if that is what she has done.”
Aidan rolled his eyes and stared at Ryan. “You called me here for that? You could have texted me.”
“Keep listening.”
“We located her mother’s family,” Tosko said. “We found a cousin. Bera told her she had figured out how to secure a full position within The Firm.”
“What?” Aidan turned on Ryan. “You told me she couldn’t because she’s half Tanuki.”
Ryan nodded. “There are loopholes. They’re not public knowledge, obviously, but she found one. She needs a line heir. As the mother, and because of who her father is, she would then automatically be guaranteed a secure position regardless of anyone’s feelings on the matter.”
“A line…” Ryan’s meaning sank home. “That’s why you, me, or Will?” Aidan asked.
“Apparently. At first I didn’t know exactly why she’d focused on the three of us. Now, it’s rather obvious.” He sat and stretched his long legs out in front of him. “None of my living siblings are eligible to produce line heirs. However, the three of us are bound as soul brothers. That makes you and Will proxy line heirs regardless of genetics.”
“Wait. How long have you known this?”
“That she wanted one of the three of us? For a little whi
le. I didn’t know why, at first.”
“Why the home didn’t you tell me?” Aidan slumped on the couch. “Fuck. That explains why she was so hot to trot over Will all those years.”
“Assumedly so.”
“Why isn’t Will here to hear this?”
“He’s indisposed with Kal. I’ll fill him in later.”
Son of a bitch, the bastard did still have a heart. “Can’t you kick Bera out of The Firm and end this before she gets pregnant?”
“I would. If I could locate her.” He studied his hands.
“Okay, so what is her angle? She’s not exactly mom of the year material. If she’d just keep her head down and her nose clean, she wouldn’t have worry about getting kicked out.”
“Again, I don’t know. What she hopes to achieve beyond securing permanent status in The Firm isn’t something we’ve been able to discover.” His face darkened. “I assure you, when we find her I will be asking that very question.”
Aidan eyed the other archdemons. They were physically big, beefy. In terms of powers, not as strong as Will, or even as powerful as himself. He knew from reputation they were vicious fighters, Enforcers Ryan employed on an as-needed basis to quickly quell threats to Earth that required a sword rather than diplomacy.
He suppressed a shudder as he repressed his memories of his past. Those were definitely days he didn’t want to think about. The dark and crazy days.
“What do you need from me?” Aidan asked Ryan.
“Keep Jeff close to you. I’ve arranged extra measures to help keep him safe, but nothing he needs to concern himself about. I would prefer you don’t worry him. His talisman will help you keep tabs on him, as it were, until I have time to re-evaluate giving him an amulet. I expect you to protect him in the meantime.”
Aidan straightened in his seat. “You damn well know I will!”
“I have no doubts about your abilities,” Ryan calmly assured him. “I simply meant you are best positioned to watch over him.”
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