They lay in a tangle of limbs, chests heaving, too spent for speech.
Eventually, Fort raised his head from Griff’s chest. “Winner takes all?”
The tumbler’s fingers moved in his hair. “Yes, and then I get to fuck your virgin ass.”
Fort raised an ironic brow, but he was shaking so hard, he knew Griff wouldn’t be deceived. “No tumbling for another month, wasn’t that what Tril said?”
Griff swore under his breath, but he nodded.
“Right. I won’t risk it, not until it’s time. But when it is…” He bared his teeth and got a fierce, blood-heating grin in return. “I’ll tie you down, make you scream.”
Griff made a face at him. “Sure, strongman. If you can.”
Fort let that one go. The fingers moving rhythmically back and forth over his scalp were making his eyelids droop. His thoughts all muffled and ponderous, he floated off somewhere warm and soft and dark, his cheek pillowed on the muscled plane of Griff’s chest. From very far away, he heard the tumbler’s voice, slow and thoughtful. “This is going to work.” A hard knee nudged his thigh. “Isn’t it?”
“Uh-huh.” He was too comfortable to move, too content, too complete.
I give you joy, child.
About the Author
When Denise Rossetti was very young, she had an aunt who would tell her the most wonderful fairy stories—all completely original. Denise grew up, as little girls do, but the love of stories has never left her. It was only when she dared herself to write down the secret sagas in her head, that life become really interesting!
Denise remains an incurable romantic. She loves happy endings, heart-stopping adventure and the eventual triumph of good over evil. All hail the guys in the white hats, she says. Unless the ones wearing black are more...um...intriguing?
She lives in a comfortable, messy old house in the Australian suburbs with her darling husband of more-years-than-she-cares-to-remember. And yes, she knows how lucky she is. She has one of everything that matters—one husband, one son, one daughter, one dog, one cat and, thank heavens, one cleaning lady. Denise is small and noisy and dreadfully uncoordinated and tends to wave her hands around a lot, which can be unfortunate if the tale she's telling happens to have explosions in it!
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Ellora’s Cavemen: Seasons of Seduction I anthology
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