Page 66 of Blood and Bone

Eoghan nodded, losing his smile a moment later.

“What is it?”

Eoghan looked away before glancing back. “What Gael told me about him and his family bothers me more than I care to think about. I can’t even imagine how it feels to have to leave your home—in their case, the ocean—and know that because of something completely preventable, they can never go back again.”

“I guess that means their race will eventually become extinct?” Ari asked. He knew he sounded naive about this sort of thing but what did he know about shifters?

Eoghan frowned, nodding slowly. “I hope they’ll find a place in the ocean where human waste isn’t a pollutant but who knows where that is. Certainly, not near any coastline and certainly not around here. There are islands of human garbage floating everywhere. All you have to do is go to YouTube to see horrific sights and it’s utterly preventable.” He lifted his cup and drained the last of his coffee before looking at Ari. The sadness in his eyes had been replaced with an entirely different emotion which was now evident in his smoldering gaze. He dragged his eyes away from Ari’s as he grabbed the check folder, flipping it open before slipping cash inside for the tip and then nodding at him. “I don’t want to talk or think about this anymore.”

Ari sent him a tiny smirk. “Do you have a different idea in mind?”

“You could say that, yeah.” He abruptly stood. “Get your ass out of that booth and follow me.”

Ari did as he was told, watching Eoghan’s ass as he walked away. He was pretty sure whatever Eoghan had in mind had nothing to do with weird ass shifters or swimming pools and he was one hundred percent on board with that. Besides, they had time to kill since they still hadn’t heard a peep from the dragons.

Assholes.

Ari was anxious to get Eoghan naked and by the time they got back to the room, he was ready to blow off steam. He trapped his lover against the door, grinding against him as Eoghan attempted to work the key card, laughing at his enthusiasm. When he finally got the door open, they crashed into the room, barely getting the door shut before Ari yanked Eoghan into his arms and trapped him against his long body, kissing him silly. He loved the way Eoghan responded to him when he was the aggressor, kissing him back with unequaled fervor.

Ari backed him up until he had him at the side of the bed and then pushed him back until he fell on it. He stared at him as he climbed out of his clothes, focused on the sight of Eoghan’s sexy, pale skin as he shed his own clothes, piece by piece. When they were both naked, Eoghan pulled back the bedding and sat down, smiling up at him as he took his rigid cock in hand. Ari stared, enthralled at the sight of him slowly stroking it. He took hold of his own shaft and groaned as Eoghan smiled up at him and crooked a finger.

“Come closer, Ari. I want to suck you.”

Ari walked over and stood close to Eoghan who looked up at him. His eyes sparkled in the low lighting from the lamp. Ashe looked down into his pale orbs, he grabbed his rigid cock and gave it a few pumps. Eoghan glanced down at it before pushing Ari’s hand aside and taking its place.

Ari groaned, sliding his fingers into his lover’s soft, black hair with one hand and cupped his jaw with the other as Eoghan went down on him. He loved feeling his lover’s mouth work when he did this. Eoghan sucked the head of his cock into his mouth, working it with his tongue and the roof of his mouth. The move always made Ari crazy with lust, needing him to go just a little deeper, take just a little more. They’d danced this dance many times and Eoghan did just as he needed, sucking him deeper and harder as Ari rocked his hips. The feeling of Eoghan’s hot, wet mouth around him, made him lose his mind. But it was the way he hummed around his dick, like a master cocksucker, pumping the part of his shaft he couldn’t get into his mouth with his hand, that made Ari feel the first tingles of an approaching climax. He tugged at the hair in his hand, making Eoghan look up at him.

“You’re gonna make me come too soon, Eoghan.” He took a step back and Eoghan let go, rolling to his back.

“Come and fuck me then,” he said, gazing up at him with a sensually, dark look.

Ari was almost certain he saw fire blazing in his eyes. He shot him a quick grin before snatching the lube and condoms from his bag. When he returned, Eoghan was reclining back on pillows with his cock in hand again, stroking it slowly. “God, you look beautiful when you do that,” he said. “One of these days, I’m going to sit in a corner while you jack off. I think that would be so hot.”

Eoghan sped his strokes. “Like this?”

“Fuck, Eoghan.” Ari dropped the lube and condoms on the bed and then crawled onto it, not stopping until he was straddling Eoghan and leaning over to kiss him. Eoghanembraced him, pulling him down. Ari let him, loving the way it felt when he stretched out over him, covering Eoghan’s slighter frame.

His man was everything he wanted in a lover and a companion; beautiful, smart, loving, and oh so perfect for him in bed. It felt like they were made for each other, perfectly matched. Ari had all kinds of images of their lives together. Moving in together some day, raising Bear, maybe getting a dog, growing old with each other, and living out their entire lives with the person meant only for them. He really was in love with this man.

Ari kissed him soundly, growing harder and harder as they ground their cocks together. He rolled off Eoghan and then went down on him, sucking his leaking cock into his mouth. He loved the way he tasted. Even this part of him was perfect. His scent, the length and girth of his dick, the loose skin nearest his balls, the way the spongy orbs tasted when he took each into his mouth. Ari figured staying here and giving this man head all day would be perfect if he hadn’t wanted to be inside his body even more. When Eoghan moaned and released a spurt of precome, he swallowed it and then pulled off. If he kept it up, he knew Eoghan was going to come way too soon.

“How do you want me?” Eoghan asked. The lust in his gaze was unmistakable.

“Get onto your knees. I want your ass in the air,” Ari said. He watched Eoghan smile and then do as he asked, rolling to his hands and knees, before dropping his head to rest it on his crossed arms. Ari quickly tore open the condom and rolled it on, adding lube to his shaft before squirting more onto his fingers and then moving in between Eoghan’s legs, nudging them wider, doing his best to ignore the horrific furrowed werewolf scar on his back. As he pressed his fingers intoEoghan’s body, he felt him visibly relax. Ari held one hip in his hand while he worked him open, making sure that he was relaxed as he took first one, then two, and then three fingers easily.

“Get inside, Ari!” Eoghan gasped.

Ari wasn’t one to argue. He pulled his fingers out and then guided his cock until it was pressing up against his entrance. He pushed until the head popped inside and then waited for Eoghan to adjust before pressing in deeper. The second Eoghan pushed back on him, he advanced, rocking in and out until he was fully seated.

“God, Ari,” Eoghan whispered.

Ari leaned over his back. “You’re so fucking hot inside, baby.”

“Just fuck me,” Eoghan gasped. “I don’t want it easy. I need to be fucked.”

Ari had a feeling this was his man’s way of satisfying the part of him that needed reassurance that Ari was alive and well. He’d felt that several times and on this job, he had a feeling that was going to be a reoccurring theme. The danger made him want to know that Eoghan was safe and he decided he was sure as hell going to honor that same need in Eoghan.

He tightened his fingers on Eoghan’s hips and began thrusting in and out of his body, sinking deep only to pull back and then sink deep again and again, over and over. Eoghan gasped in rhythm with Ari’s pounding. Those sexy little gasping noises made him crazy. He knew he wasn’t going to last long. He eased out of his body and then flipped Eoghan until they were face to face. Eoghan stared up at him, holding his knees wide as Ari soundlessly moved in close and slid back inside. He wanted to be eye to eye with him when he finally came and cursed the fact that he was wearing a condom. He was determined to have one last test and then show it toEoghan so they could dispose of the latex barrier once and for all. He’d never barebacked with a lover but that didn’t mean it hadn’t been a dream of his.

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