by Mardi Ballou
“Remember what you did to that chocolate penis at the party?” Gabe’s choice of words to break the silence startled Jade out of her reverie. He was gazing at her with his dreamy bedroom eyes and tracing the outline of her lips with his index finger. For a moment, she considered pulling away from him. She’d have preferred to talk out the tension between them before they thought about making love. On the other hand, sex usually helped them work out any kinks.
Jade smirked. “You mean biting down hard? You want me to?”
Gabe cocked an eyebrow. “How about we start slow? I nibble on you.”
Before she could answer, he took her in his arms and hugged her. Pleased to realize how aroused he was, Jade savored the feel of Gabe’s erection as it pressed against her belly. She loved how their bodies melded together, how excited she got at the feel of his cock hard against the softness of her belly.
He parted her lips with his kiss. Gabe insinuated his tongue into her mouth, and, in moments, she responded with her tongue and teeth, tasting him as he tasted her. Jade stroked Gabe’s clean-shaven scalp, loving the way his smooth skin felt to her fingertips.
“Baby, I’ve wanted to be with you all night,” Gabe moaned.
Jade loved Gabe’s passion—for her, for everything they were and everything they did together. In so many delightful ways, Gabe was her bigger-than-life hero.
Now, though she’d joked about the way she’d eaten the candy penis, she wanted to take his hard cock in her mouth, to complete what she’d started with her earlier performance. While she ran her tongue over his lips, she unbuttoned his cotton shirt and began to run a trail of kisses down his smooth, hard-muscled chest. She wanted to pause at his tight brown nipples so she could tease them with little love bites, but that would wait. For now, she couldn’t wait to get her lips around his big stiff cock. Judging from his grip on her, he was in even more of a hurry than she.
Her hands raced down his hot body faster than her lips, and she dropped to her knees before him. She knew he adored having her in that position. Unbuckle his belt, open the button, unzip the fly. The erotic sound of the metal tab sliding down the teeth always turned her on.
For just a moment, she couldn’t have said why, she imagined Alex Rapsos was in the room with them, watching them, slowly pulling down his own zipper. Her heartbeat sped up. She quickly shook her head to lose the disturbingly potent image. Forcing her thoughts to move elsewhere, she imagined making a CD of zippers opening—not just one or two but those of many men letting their cocks spring out of their flies in an erotic chorus.
Gabe was holding her face, massaging her cheeks with his fingertips as he made enthusiastic noises—not quite full moans or groans—to encourage her along. His pants were down somewhere on the floor. Today he’d worn tight black briefs, which he helped her slide down his strong, well-shaped legs. With her eager fingers, she traced a path down his chest and his abdomen to his cock, so gratifyingly hard just for her. In moments, her lips followed the path her fingers had laid.
Though Gabe’s equal in every area of their lives, both in work and play, Jade found a pleasure she’d be hard put to explain in kneeling before him to give him a blowjob. Her inner submissive coming out, or something. For a moment, she gazed at his fully aroused manhood. In contrast with Gabe’s smoothness everywhere else, thick dark hair grew freely around his dick and balls.
And then, even more than the chocolate treat earlier, she had to get her lips around him. With the first touch of her mouth on the sensitive head, Gabe gasped and moved. Jade could feel the tension coiled within him, and she thrilled at knowing that she and only she was about to unleash his waiting power.
Jade opened her mouth to Gabe to take him fully into her. Lord, his musky maleness was so delicious, more sensuously satisfying than even the finest chocolate. With one hand she cupped his balls, with the other his high, tight ass, and she began to play.
Gabe now had his hands in her hair, holding her head close to him. Jade licked the thick vein that ran the length of Gabe’s cock and had a momentary vampiric fantasy. Randy as she felt, she had to remember not to go too wild nipping Gabe’s sensitive skin. She wanted to have some fun, not put him out of commission. Sucking Gabe’s cock was one of her favorite kinds of foreplay. After he came, she’d be drenched and ready to jump his bones. Luckily, Gabe recovered fast.
Jade savored the heft of Gabe’s balls in her palm so much she took a momentary detour and licked them. She stole a peek up at Gabe’s face and glommed onto his ecstatic expression. He had his big beautiful whiskey-brown eyes closed. A joyous smile turned up his full sensuous lips. She removed her lips from his balls and encircled the glans with her lips. Slowly, he thrust his hips back and forth, totally focused on sliding his cock in and out of her mouth.
Knowing how much he loved her to do so, she fingered his butt crack, lingering over the small hole. Once, in a moment of the closest intimacy, Gabe had confided his curiosity about anal play. For his birthday a week afterward, she’d gotten him a vibrator as a gag gift. When they’d subsequently tried it out, she lubed him generously. Though he’d really gotten into it that first time, afterward he’d rejected any repeats—and even refused to talk about his feelings. It was okay for him to decide he didn’t want to repeat something they’d tried. Variety spiced their lovemaking, so there was no need to insist on repeating anything either of them rejected. But she felt uncomfortable about him shutting down any communication about it. Why didn’t he want to share his feelings about this mutual experience? Also, she wished to see more of the openness and spirit of playfulness Gabe had allowed her to sample that one time.
But she left those thoughts aside for the intensity of the moment. Jade loved how easy it was to feel Gabe’s growing excitement when she sucked him. Not that she was an objective observer, which her drenched panties proved, but her focus on Gabe’s cock raised her awareness of him. When her tongue touched certain places, his cock reacted strongly. She knew the skin there was rich with nerve endings—knowledge confirmed when everywhere she touched, kissed, nibbled, tongued, blew on gave Gabe pleasure. Most of the time, he didn’t hesitate to let her know how she affected him.
“Oh, carissima.” He used the affectionate name when he felt himself on the verge of coming. Gabe would never come in her mouth without letting her know—asking if it was okay with her this time around.
“I want to swallow your cum.”
“Thank God,” he murmured. He grew tighter, harder, bigger, and he began to piston his hips faster. “Carissima, you’re amazing…” His words broke off into an unintelligible babble as his climax intensified.
Jade sucked harder. And she got her reward. With a keening shout, Gabe let it all go, spurting his cum energetically into Jade’s waiting mouth. She savored every drop.
Much better than custard.
By the time Gabe subsided, she was so turned on she didn’t think she’d be able to walk a straight line. Fortunately, she didn’t have to. Gabe scooped her up in his strong arms and raced to their bedroom for round two.
* * * * *
“I can’t understand how this happened.” Maura shook her head.
Far from sharing her distress, Alex was delighted that he’d—supposedly at random—drawn the same card as the deliciously sexy Jade. The coincidence of the Tarot cards confirmed for Alex that he’d indeed identified the correct partners for his mission. Unfortunately, he couldn’t let anyone know the true nature of his reason for being here. He counted on being able to use the skills and talents of his contacts to advance the cause. “But don’t you see? This is a sign the heavens bless my upcoming project. The only thing that would be better is if Gabe had also received the card. Unfortunately, it appears we have no way of knowing which card he drew.”
Maura fluttered her eyelashes and nervously patted Alex’s arm. “You’re being so sweet and understanding. But the way I set things up, everyone was supposed to get a different card. I can’t understand the duplication.”
; Alex wished he could figure out a way to keep her from stressing, but Maura seemed to be highly talented at everything she did, stressing included. “Seriously, Maura, I’m so thrilled with how things have turned out that I promise to dedicate the first book the three of us write together to you.”
That unfurrowed Maura’s brow for the moment. “You really are a sweetheart. I hope things work out for you and Jade and Gabe. They’re good people, just like you. You should all be at the top of every bestseller list.”
“From your mouth to the gods’ ears.” Tonight things hadn’t worked out exactly as Alex had expected and needed. He should have gone home with Jade and Gabe, or at least not have parted from them without a solid sense they would be open to him and his message. But throughout his initiation period, he’d had to learn to be flexible, to adjust to new situations and make the most of every opportunity and challenge. He knew he would succeed at fulfilling the expectations of his mission, though the exact means for how this would happen still weren’t clear.
Pessimism and rigid thinking weren’t the way of the initiates or members of his order. Like his role models, he preferred to view all that happened through an optimistic lens—even Jade and Gabe’s initial rejection. Drawing the Three of Pentacles, the same card as Jade, was icing on that particular cake, an unanticipated flourish that revealed the fine touch of his fellow mages. He smiled, picturing Demetrios or their elder Ioannis performing some long-distance card manipulation. When he’d completed his initiation and taken his rightful place in the Order, he’d have to thank whoever was responsible.
Maura, busy with her hosting duties, left him to fend for himself, which suited Alex just fine. He figured he’d go home relatively early to review his computer files and prepare for the morning’s conversation with his new companions. The fulfillment of his mission depended on his success in promoting this relationship. Failure simply wasn’t an option.
At last he’d found the perfect way to reveal his order’s secret knowledge about mythology and the ways of the ancients to a wide audience. When he discovered Jade and Gabe’s books, a gut-level wave of recognition had slammed into him with the force of Eros’ fiercest arrow. Alex had quickly devoured all their books, coming away resolved that he’d found the key to his destiny. When the time had come to present his ideas about his mission, he’d gone to Ioannis and the other mages with the outline of a plan. They had approved and sent him off with hearty good wishes. Now all Alex had to do was convince the two of them to take him into their partnership—totally, so there would be no division between their work and their lives. Tonight he’d sensed that Jade could easily be an ally. The current of attraction between them sparked easily to life.
As for the hot-blooded Gabe, he’d be a tougher nut to crack. No surprise there. But if he’d met with no resistance, Alex realized, the ultimate triumph would be less sweet. And he, for one, planned to savor the sweetest of victories—just as Dionysus, the founder of his fellowship, celebrated the joys of wine and sex and all the pleasures mortal life offered.
* * * * *
Roses and cinnamon scented the air of their bedroom. Though Jade wanted to light some candles to enhance the fragrance of romance, Gabe had to make love at that moment. No more delays, please God. “Forget lighting the candles. Right now I want to light you up.”
She grinned sexily. “You’ve got my attention.”
“I want your everything.” He lowered her to their bed, tore off what little remained of his clothing and helped her out of what she still wore.
Though he’d just come buckets, his cock was already back at half-mast. As soon as he got next to his lady, he’d be good to go again. He lived by the principle that satisfaction was a two-way street. He was one orgasm ahead of Jade for tonight, and he wanted to even that score.
Her beautiful big breasts calling out to be suckled, Jade opened her arms to him. Much as he couldn’t wait to touch her, he wanted to feast his eyes first. She was so amazingly beautiful, it made his cock throb just to look at her. Beautiful face, perfect body—she looked as if a master artist at the peak of his talent had sculpted her. High, firm breasts with raspberry-pink nipples that begged for his mouth. Slim and curved in the right proportions with her tiny waist and generous hips, an ass made for pinching and long, luscious legs she’d encircle him with. Her curly black bush, neatly trimmed, framed her pussy and invited him to play.
Where should he kiss her first? He wanted to be all over her, starting with the full sexy lips of her beautiful mouth. But then he also had to satisfy his Jade hunger, kissing, tasting, licking, nibbling everywhere. Jade, never a passive participant, let him know with her hands, with little and gradually louder sounds, with the movements of her body that he understood so well, exactly what she wanted. God, he loved her responsiveness, the eagerness with which she gave as well as she took.
With his lips clamped on one nipple and his fingers playing with the other, Gabe tried to take in all the sensations flooding him. Her scent, her taste. The feel of her hands on his head, his face. The sweet murmurings that told him how into him she was.
But that bush called him, loud and clear. He wanted to sniff her, lick her, make her crazy with his tongue and his fingers, the prelude to their complete intimate joining. Leaving a trail of hot, wet kisses, Gabe quickly made his way down to her feminine core. Jade’s thighs lay open in invitation. Her musky pink folds glistened in the room’s soft light, and Gabe looked for just a moment before kissing her “hello”.
Jade groaned. Though she still had her hands on his scalp, she loosened her touch for a moment and her head turned from side to side. “Oh, baby, you are so incredibly beautiful,” he whispered, blowing puffs of air at her clit and her folds.
She shivered, and a languid smile lit up her face. He buried his face in her hot, wet pussy and began to feast. With his tongue and his fingers, he played with her sweet sexiness, moving with her as she slowly rotated her hips and steered him to where she wanted him.
“Mmm,” she murmured. Now she tightened her hold on his head and became more demanding. Wet and wild and totally expressive in ways that turned him on and on. Her grip on him grew even tighter, and, with a thrill, he realized she was going to come very soon. Usually she required more action than this before she reached orgasm. She must have been exceptionally excited tonight.
Not that she was often slow to excitement. But tonight there seemed to be a special edge, an extra quality—almost a frenzy to her level of arousal. Gabe inhaled her extra excitement and let it warm him. But then he let his mind wander over what could have turned her on like this—and he snagged at the notion of Alex Rapsos horning his simpering mug into their love scene.
Shit. Gabe did not want to give a thought to the aggressive Greek at this moment, not when his lady was about to come. He focused on encouraging Jade to go with her release, to take everything she needed to get her where they both wanted her to be. “Oh, yes, baby, yes.”
With a shriek and a shudder, Jade came in wave after wave. He let himself enjoy the sheer pleasure of her climax. Also, now they were even, one orgasm each. They could start the rest of the night with a clear slate.
When he moved back up so he and Jade were face-to-face, Gabe savored the intimacy of their post-orgasm cuddling. He petted Jade, hugged her, stroked her side the way he knew made her crazy. But his cock throbbed in demand for more attention than pressing and rubbing their bodies together could provide.
“Looks like someone wants to be in on the fun.” Jade appreciatively fingered Gabe’s erection.
“Yeah,” he rasped. “You ready to play some more?”
Jade smiled smugly, rolled him onto his back and straddled him, one thigh on either side of his hips. For several moments, she rocked against his thighs and just stared at his cock, proudly erect and ready for action. The way his penis basked in being the focus of her stare, they sometimes jokingly called it Signor Prosciutto. Still, much as Signor P thrived on visual appreciation, he wanted more now.
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“I’m in the mood for a ride,” Jade whispered. “You think I need to put out my thumb to hitchhike?”
Gabe thrust his ass up so his cock brushed her lower belly. “Where you going? Ah, get on. I’ll take you wherever you say.”
With a chuckle, Jade lowered herself onto his erection. The first contact sizzled. Gabe’s balls contracted, and he felt his cock expand to fill her hot, tight sheath. Geez, did it get any better than this? He wanted to stay just where he was, filling her with his cock, his hands on the firm cheeks of her ass.
“This is what I call a first-class ride,” Jade exulted.
“This is what I call a first-class ass,” he panted.
She reached to squeeze his balls as she moved slowly up and down and around, caressing his cock in a hundred places. Gabe loved looking up to see the rapt expression on her face and the way Jade’s breasts swayed with each movement she made.
“What’s the speed limit on this road, partner?” Jade asked in a mock-Western voice.
“Slow,” he whispered, extending the word and licking his lips. “Curves ahead.”
She giggled, which jiggled his cock and made his holding back from release a teeth-clenching challenge. “Stop!” he ordered.
She provocatively raised a brow and gripped his cock harder.
He bit his lips and tried to remember Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. For a moment, this angle worked. “Oh, love, you’re just too much. Now unless you want me to drop you off at the side of the road before you reach your destination, you need to listen when I say ‘stop’.”
She mock-pouted. Just to be sure she didn’t regard his words as harsh, he massaged her round ass and lower back with his fingers as he spoke. Not that he seriously expected her to ever think he’d be harsh with her.
“Ooh, baby,” she cooed, “I think my destination’s in sight.” With those words, she deepened their erotic embrace at the same time that she began to move faster, harder, tighter.
