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“I’m not going to make it easy,” Aiden whispers in defeat. “To love me.”

“The best things in life are never easy,” Liam says with an easy shrug. “I’ll fight for you. I’vebeenfighting for you.”

Aiden grabs Liam’s face in his hands and kisses him with all the longing he’s built up over the years. He lets his love bleed into the kiss. He gives Liam all his love as their lips slide together. Liam picks him up in one motion without breakingtheir frenzied kiss. Aiden’s heart feels so full, like it might beat right out of his chest as Liam carries him up the stairs.

Liam lays him down gently on the bed and tenderly starts to undress him. The moon casts an eerie glow in through the windows, making Liam look like he’s glowing from moonlight himself.

Maybe Liam was put on this earth just to love Aiden.

Once Aiden’s naked, Liam wiggles out of his gym shorts, climbing onto the bed to lay on top of Aiden. He reaches up, tangles their fingers together, kissing Aiden so soft, sweet, and slow that it almost brings tears to Aiden’s eyes. Distantly, he realizes he’s trembling, which must be why Liam tangles their fingers together. Liam’s hands are a lifeline.

“Let me make love to you,” Liam begs, eyes intense and bright. “Let me show you.”

Aiden nods, too choked with emotion to speak. Liam kisses him, licks into his mouth, before pressing open mouthed kisses across his face, his neck, across his chest. The room spins a little as Liam presses kisses down his chest. A low moan escapes him when Liam sucks a bruise into the crease of his thigh. Liam sits up a little, tugging Aiden’s arm up, pressing a reverent kiss to the tattoo.

“I love you.”

“I think you’re okay too,” Aiden teases, because he can’t not tease.

Liam snorts. “Just okay?”

“Above average?”

Liam laughs, a grin splitting his face. “I’ll take it.”

Liam leans over to grab the lube off the table, when he comes back he lowers himself slowly against Aiden again, pressing him deeper into the bed. Leaning on his forearms, Liam runs his fingers gently through Aiden’s hair, smiling softlyas he does. Aiden closes his eyes against the onslaught of emotions at Liam’s undivided attention.

Now they’ve said the words, now that they’ve admitted this is what it is, it’s easy to see the emotion etched plainly across Liam’s face. Has it been there the entire time, but he just purposefully ignored it? How did he miss this? The way Liam’s face lights up when he looks at him?

Fingers slip inside him, slick into his heat, forcing Aiden to tilt his head back at the feel.

“Get inside me already,” Aiden demands, voice strained with arousal.

Liam chuckles darkly. “Okay, okay.”

Liam rolls them over so they face one another on the bed, one of Aiden’s legs tossed over his arm, the other underneath him, and then Liam slowly slides inside him. No condom. Nothing between them. It feels so right. He feels so whole. He can feel Liam moving inside of him, their bodies pressed together, hands holding one another, their eyes staring into each other. The position is so intimate, Aiden feels raw, taken apart. But Liam is going to put him back together. For the first time there’s comfort in that knowledge.

“Is this okay?” Liam asks as he draws Aiden close to kiss him, sliding somehow even deeper into Aiden’s heat. They both shiver. “Are you okay?”

“I love you,” Aiden says before he can stop himself.

“I love you,” Liam echoes.

Liam makes love to him, slow, gentle glides of his cock until they’re both panting at the torture of the pace. Aiden untangles their hands to tangle his fingers in Liam’s hair, just to hold on, so that he can watch the pleasure fall across Liam’s face. He loves watching Liam when he’s lost in it, when he’s lost in enjoying Aiden’s body. Liam trails fingers down his sweat slicked back, fingers gently touching where they’re joined.

“Can I come inside you?”

Aiden groans loudly. The sound echoes around the silent bedroom. “Please.”

“I’m going to be a part of you forever now,” Liam whispers against Aiden’s trembling lips. “Inside you where no one else has ever been or will ever be. You’re mine, only ever just mine.”

Aiden tightens his fingers in Liam’s hair until Liam is gasping, his pace stuttering inside Aiden. Their mouths move together, more sharing breath than kissing. Liam’s pace quickens, seeking his own orgasm. The pleasure is so exquisite, it’s like nothing he’s ever felt before. Each thrust sends Liam’s cock dragging along his prostate, sending little strikes of lightning racing down his spine, making his toes curl against Liam’s calves.

A warmth builds in his belly and in his chest. He’s going to comeandhe’s in love. He’s safe. Liamloveshim. Liam grips the meat of his ass tightly, pistoning inside him at a rapid pace.

All thoughts leave his brain when Liam lets out a low moan just before white hot heat floods inside him. Liam continues to flex his hips, small little thrusts, until his breathing slows. They kiss lazily as Liam comes down from his orgasm.

He pulls out, immediately sliding down to take Aiden’s cock in his mouth. A strangled cry escapes Aiden. He tangles his fingers in Liam’s hair just to give himself something to hold onto. Fingers slide back inside him, pushing Liam’s come back inside. That simple action punches the orgasm out of him in a flash of blinding white heat.

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