Page 43 of Last Resort

Erik shivered as water dripped from his hair, soaking the neckline of his T-shirt. Ben stood closer, lending some body heat.

“Alrighty. I’ll take pictures and get out of your way,” Williams said. “The write-up will be on the chief’s desk in the morning. Just in case, be careful and keep an eye out for anything strange.”

Williams snapped photos and gave a jaunty wave as they closed the door behind him. Erik re-armed the security system, and he and Ben retrieved their guns before returning upstairs.

By now the bathwater was cold, and the mood was broken.

“Rain check?” he asked as he locked the apartment door.

“Let’s get dried off and make out on the couch,” Ben suggested. “I’m too wired to try to sleep, and a break-in is an effective cockblocker.”

Erik made hot chocolate, and they huddled together on the couch, watching a show on the secrets of Egyptian pyramids that they had seen before. Ben put an arm around Erik’s shoulders, and Erik leaned in.

“Thanks for having my back,” Erik said quietly.

Ben chuckled. “Did you think I was going to just stay in the tub while you faced the burglar by yourself?”

“No. But I felt better knowing you were behind me,” Erik said.

“I had plans to be behind you all along, but it didn’t exactly work out the way I fantasized.”

Erik tilted his head up. “You fantasized about tonight?”

Ben took a drink of hot chocolate. “Sure. I think about you all the time. Breaks up the workday.”

“Beats watching porn at the office.”

“My aunt and uncle still own the place and have access to the computer system. So just—no,” Ben said with a shudder. “But dirty thoughts don’t leave a trace.”

“Oh yeah?”

Ben set his drink and Erik’s on the end table. “See, I was going to run a nice hot bath, make it smell real good, and get you all worked up in the tub.”

“Go on.”

“Even made sure I didn’t overfill it—like that one time,” Ben said, and Erik couldn’t help chuckling at the memory of sloshing water on the floor during an early escapade.

“Then I was going to open you up and have us both nice and hard and pull you back to sit on my cock,” Ben growled. “Take it slow until you were begging to come.”

As he talked, Ben’s hand fell between Erik’s legs, stroking him through his sweatpants.

“Yeah?”

Ben slipped his hand down Erik’s pants a moment before Erik reached for Ben’s cock. Erik shifted so the angle made it easier for them to touch.

“Yeah. Just like that,” Ben said in a breathy voice as they stroked and pumped.

Erik felt the heat build and blossom, and then he spilled over Ben’s fist. Ben followed him seconds later, and they leaned on each other, sticky and sated.

“Not quite the big seduction I had planned, but definitely takes the edge off.” Ben pressed a kiss to the side of Erik’s head.

“I’d say we both ended up happy.” Erik felt warm and relaxed, a big change from the tension of earlier in the evening. “Was it good enough to fantasize about tomorrow?”

Ben laughed, a low, sexy rumble. “Oh, yeah.”

Erik pulled his T-shirt off and used it to clean them up. “Come on. Let’s go to bed. I’m done with today.”

Later, when they lay tangled together, Erik couldn’t sleep. Although no harm came of the attempted break-in, he still felt violated by an intrusion into his safe place.

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